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A few things I'd like to get off my chest.
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<li>Critics are worthless
So, M. Night Shyamalan just released a new movie, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Happening_%282008_film%29">The Happening</a>, and in true form, the critics are taking a crap all over it. It's comical how they're scrambling all over themselves to write the most witty jabs against it. I've seen a lot of comparisons to the Lady in the Water, which is somehow considered to be the worst movie ever made. You know what? I like Lady in the Water. We have it in our collection. I think it's a cool story and well told.
All that these negative reviews tell me is that everybody is pissy because The Happening is apparently not a magical mind-bender like the Sixth Sense was. Well, boo-freaking-hoo. Go see Sex and the City if you're so desperate for proletariate entertainment.
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<li>Every time you gun your Hummer a tree cries
I don't get it. I have a small, light car with a turbo in it, but somehow I can never keep up with anybody at a stoplight. Why is it that 95% of the population feels the uncontrollable urge to gun their engines when the light turns green? Do you have any idea how inefficient that is? How much gas you're flushing through that V8? And for what? So you can get to the next red light 5 seconds before me?
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<li>Close, but you're way off
Look at <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.54407,-111.980424&spn=0.024394,0.037594&t=p&z=15">this</a>. It's a roundabout. Or rather, it was a roundabout, until someone in their infinite wisdom decided to put stop signs in on the side roads. Congratulations! You've turned an efficient roundabout effectively into a two-way stop. Now, instead of smoothly merging traffic into a constant flow, you've turned the whole thing into an awkward traffic problem. I used to use it all the time, but now I avoid it because it's just stupid and irritating.
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