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Parking near intersections in NSW

Parking near intersections in NSW

By tigtog on September 4, 2012

10 metres, you irresponsible gits.
Yes, this is a crotchety rant while wearing my curmudgeon pants.

Posted in law & order | Tagged curmudgeon time, public spaces, rant, safety | 9 Responses

Hating Optusnet with the burning fury of a thousand suns

Hating Optusnet with the burning fury of a thousand suns

By tigtog on September 1, 2011

FIX MY INTERNET YOU USELESS BASTARDS. (posted using my portable wifi from another carrier, which only works with my netbook, which I now may have to use for the whole day UNTIL YOU FIX MY BROADBAND) Related posts: The blazing FAIL of a thousand suns Tech Tip: is your domestic WiFi secured? Data roaming bill [...]

Posted in crisis | Tagged rant | 3 Responses

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Dear young person who was possibly looking after somebody else’s dogs

By tigtog on November 26, 2010

Dogs and small children should enter cars from the pavement/kerb side, not the busy road side.

Posted in Life | Tagged pets, rant, safety | 6 Responses

Jerks and those who do not challenge them

Jerks and those who do not challenge them

By tigtog on October 27, 2010

Clueless quote of the day via Blaghag, blogging on why women don’t come to atheist meetings after a conversation that ended with this:

“What? It’s not harassment since we’re not in a workplace.”

Posted in ethics & philosophy, gender & feminism, relationships | Tagged arsehats, harassment, rant, WTF were they thinking? | 7 Responses

Thought for the day from Feynman

By tigtog on June 2, 2009

I was just reminded of this and am about to add it to the HAT quote file: “I can live with doubts and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong…I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in [...]

Posted in culture wars, education, ethics & philosophy, skepticism | Tagged peeves, rant | 7 Responses

Sam de Brito to Women– FEMINISM: UR DOIN IT RONG (but don’t worry, you just need a man to set you straight).

By Beppie on April 28, 2009

Seriously. So, apparently all the men of Australia deserve cookies, becuase they all inevitably become feminists (every last one of them!) when they have daughters (of course, it would be ridiculous to suggest that a man support women’s rights just because it’s the right thing to do). But women of Australia: no biscuit! After all, [...]

Posted in arts & entertainment, Culture, gender & feminism, social justice, Sociology | Tagged rant, SMH | 32 Responses

Quick Hit: She’s a WOMAN

By Beppie on February 19, 2009

[Everything is under the fold; trigger warnings apply] Related posts: Quick Hit: Do not adjust your sets Quick Hit: Maybe it’s her fault for having a shower? A quick question Quick link: Hitting girls, forcing sex ‘not a big deal’: boys survey. Quick hit: Rape sorcery in far north Queensland

Posted in Culture, gender & feminism, language, media, violence | Tagged exploitation, misogyny, peeves, rant, rape, violence against women | 3 Responses

SF Sunday: success by stealth?

By tigtog on October 26, 2008

The best rant on io9 this week: If geek stuff is so hip, then why are two of the season’s biggest scifi hits, CBS show Eleventh Hour and bestselling Neal Stephenson novel Anathem, adamantly classified as Not Scifi? Because nerd culture will never be pop culture. That’s why Borders slashed its scifi section. And it’s [...]

| Tagged books & writing, peeves, rant, star trek | 13 Responses

Fun with blogs and Christian Kerr, who doesn’t understand them

By tigtog on August 22, 2008

Christian Kerr was never my favourite Crikey! contributor back in the day, so I wasn’t especially aware of his opinion on many issues due to mostly skipping his byline (basically I avoided anything by him that was not straight political reporting), but apparently he was never much impressed with blogging even when that was essentially [...]

Posted in culture wars, ethics & philosophy, media, technology | Tagged blogging, cyberbullying, freedom of speech, rant | 7 Responses

“The Open-Source Boob Project”

By Lauredhel on April 23, 2008

This is just a post full of shameless feminist fangirling about machineplay on LJ. You may have heard by now about the Heinlein-lovin’ dude who thinks he invented objectification and groping at Penguicon, and who stormed out of his con into the world to spread the word. theferret’s original post is here. Edit 24 Apr [...]

Posted in gender & feminism, violence | Tagged breasts, objectification, peeves, rant | 28 Responses

The disability insurance merry-go-round

By Lauredhel on January 3, 2008

So. Disability insurance forms. Why oh why did the bureaucrats get away with omitting the obvious item: a big-arse checkbox at the top of the six pages of paper, saying: “Is everything EXACTLY THE FUCKING SAME as it was 28 days ago? Y/N” But no. I must be forcibly reminded at least once a month [...]

| Tagged CFS, disability, insurance, peeves, rant | 14 Responses

Best rant

By tigtog on February 17, 2006

…on education standards/expectations so far this year. Related posts: My rant on The Hunger Games Advice please: dealing with NSW Dept of Education re a student with disabilities Shirky’s “Rant About Women” Obamamedia rant du jour Righteous Rant of the Month

Posted in education | Tagged rant

Vale Poco

By tigtog on February 16, 2006

I’ll miss you, furry purry friend. More on Poco’s end. Related posts: Vale Jacob F. Baldwin 1951-2010 Vale Michael Jackson Sunday Hoyden: Vale Bea Arthur PoCo A PoCo: Fifty Two Acts of Political Correctness Vale F.U.

Posted in relationships | Tagged grief, in memoriam, pets, rant

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