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• Commented on Call This Radio Shack Salesman On His Crap, And He'll Call Security On You
  Makes sense to me. If I saw a man enter a shack with two little kids, I'd probably call the police too....
• Commented on What It Costs To Whore Out Celebrities On Twitter
  "I guess Wilford Brimley is a whore" Brimley knows what he did and should fess up. It's the right thing to do....
• Commented on FDA Warns Makers Of Alcoholic Energy Drinks
  Oh, poor Moonshot. After seeing Beer Wars (http://beerwarsmovie.com/) and knowing the distributor from various Boston-area brew fests, that's pretty much the final nail in a long moldering coffin....
• Commented on Comcast "Upgrades" Signal, Drives Loyal Customer To DirecTV
  I'm starting to get a bit fed up with Comcast as well. Our Comcast TiVo box is starting to not record programs "for an unknown reason" with a disturbing regularity. This does not go over well with my wife. We...
• Commented on Microsoft Explains Why Its Xbox Live Price Hike Is Good, And Good For You
  Could be worse. They could start charging for access to game fixing patches. Fallout New Vegas would get MS a kajillion dollars all on its own!...
• Commented on Is Olde English Truly The Worst Beer?
  I am surprised Bud Light Chelada is only #9. That stuff was a clamato nightmare. I bet a friend 5 bucks he couldn't finish a bottle and he just handed the fin over without even opening it, it just looked...
• Commented on 455,000 Ryobi Drills Recalled For Potential Fire Hazard
  Is there a good contact email for a Ryobi exec out there? I have a Ryobi miter saw whose guard got caught in the blade and sort of exploded two over two months ago. It's been at the repair shop...
• Commented on Boy Develops "Toasted Skin Syndrome" From Laptop
  Minecraft is a hell of a drug....
• Commented on Without Receipts, Some Are Losing Money When They Return Recalled Similac
  "Food for the baby" is not something you can necessarily wait for. Besides, many stores have not yet been restocked with the new, beetle-free Similac....
• Commented on Vote Here For Worst Ad In America 2010!
  Mr. Opportunity needs a good long soak in The Dip....
• Commented on Announcing Consumerist's First Annual Worst Ad In America Awards
  There's that Verizon ad that seems to magically turn all the volumes up to 11 to blare out some churning chiptune song. I can't dive fast enough for the remote when it comes on....
• Commented on Would You Let A Station Attendant Hold On To Your License While You Pump Gas?
  At my library, we only take student ID cards. Under no circumstances do I let my student employees hold driver's licenses or credit cards, despite the number of people who try to offer them up as alternate collateral. I mean,...
• Commented on Are Retailers Suddenly Burying You In E-Mail?
  Borders has been going bugnutz with spam lately. I used to not mind because at least the emails would contain a coupon, but now its just "here's some new authors for a genre you have never bought in our store!"...
• Commented on Times Of London Erects Pay Wall, Locks Out Most Of Its Readership
  Holy crap, for the first time in months I was able to download The Bugle straight to my iPhone without any "server not configured properly" or "this cannot be played on this iPhone" messages! Happy day! ...and of course, they're...
• Commented on College Library Parodies Old Spice Commercials To Coax Students From Dorm Rooms
  Awesome. I shared it with my library colleagues. Of course, now I have to worry about someone wanting to do the same thing, only with a 20$ budget......
• Commented on Best Buy Wouldn't Exchange My Broken Xbox Because It Was Saving Stock For Sales Event
  If he got a refund, would he then have been hit by a restocking fee?...
• Commented on When Is It OK To Use The Handicap Restroom?
  Remember, if you get caught using the disabled toilet, be sure to blame it all on the red bearded man....
• Commented on Old Spice Hits New Low, Sponsors "Swagger" Stat In Madden NFL Game
  After each game, they need to have an Around the Horn mini-game inspired by good ole Simon....
• Commented on Class Action Brewing For iPhone 4 "Death Grip" Issue?
  Sure, I can see that. I mean, I've yet to have a problem with my new iphone 4, but all these news stories of borked antennas are certainly detracting from my enjoyment of the device. I mean, I bought the...
• Commented on How To Tell If You Should Give Up Your Seat On Public Transportation
  Totally. My wife is in week 30 and had to sit on the floor of the commuter rail this week because nobody would give up a seat. By the time people noticed she was so embarrassed that she ended up...
• Commented on Discounts For Foursquare Mayors Causing Headaches For Starbucks?
  Ideally, the promotion would be "Show the counter staff you checked in and get 50 cents off our Drink of the Week!" The Mayor clause is a huge headache, even when you don't have an employee checking in. To be...
• Commented on I Preordered Mario But GameStop Told Me My Princess Is In Another Cancel
  Back when the 360 came out, I was burned by the whole "whoops, we made promises we couldn't keep" GameStop pre-order fiasco. I paid in full three months before the system's release and they still didn't have one for me...
• Commented on If Taco Bell Accidentally Gives You $2K Instead Of Burritos, Give It Back
  This is why you need to draw the dollar signs on the bag....
• Commented on Why Did Starbucks Write "Big Dick" On My Drink Cup?
  Oh man, I'd hate to see what's written on your coffee cup....
• Commented on Amazon Cuts Penguin Hardcovers To $9.99 In Fight Over E-book Pricing
  I was waiting for the new Dresden Files book to be made available on the Kindle. They took too long, so instead I pirated it - from my local library. You know your model is messed up when onskool interlibrary...
• Commented on Competing Breakfast Nook Owners Spit Upon, Punch Each Other
  Nuts to that - Red's in Salem!...
• Commented on Competing Breakfast Nook Owners Spit Upon, Punch Each Other
  Team Kelly's All the Way! Who need squabbling owners when you have staff straight out of Diner Waitress Stereotype Academy?...
• Commented on Red Cross Is Out For My Blood
  "Red Cross is as obsessive as Edward Cullen when it comes to making sure he keeps up his donation schedule" Nam: You're impossibly persistent. And everywhere. Your calls are... constant, and really early. Your volunteers are pests. And sometimes you...
• Commented on Travel Insurance Won't Cover Newly Insured Trips Foiled By Icelandic Volcano Ash
  I bought the travel insurance when I booked a package tour for myself and my then-girlfriend back in September of 2001. I had no problems collecting on it when 9/11 extended our time in Dublin by 5 days. Heck, the...
• Commented on Now You Get To Pay To Be Advertised To As You Play Games
  Have we all seen the new Old Spice ads, as directed by Tim & Eric of Awesome Show fame? http://www.youtube.com/user/oldspice?v=3tI4CbCniBI (And yes, that is President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho!)...