Haterator - Things I Hate!

Lazy Car Designers -
The only thing that can drag down a car faster than a poorly placed spoiler is a visible exhaust pipe/muffler. Take a look at a new Chevy Blazer from the backend. It looks like the designers totally forgot about a muffler. So they just tacked one on. No hiding under the bumpers....hell why even paint the damn thing. The Honda Pilot is another truck with a visible muffler/tail pipe. I understand that its probably a design sacrifice in order to make room for a full size spare...but thats no excuse. It can drag down a perfectly good looking vehicle.

ER the show -
For christ sakes how long can a show be dragged out. The show has had every plot line imaginable, its been thru at least a bakers dozen cast incantations, and its dragged down thursday night TV for the better part of its 14 year run. ER has sucked for roughly a decade, put down the paddles and just let it die, please.

The quote in the picture from NBC's own website sums it up best: notice that it doesn't say "awarded most emmys" nope sadly it says "nominated for the most emmys". Go to sleep my sweet child...go to sleep.

Wind -
Maybe if I were a sailor or a wind farmer I would have a different bead on wind, but as it stands; all wind really does is make me cold. Wind blows around leaves that you just raked, it makes driving a little precarious and it messes with your hair.

Wind blows the neighbors screen door open and shut "Thwap....thwap!" and it makes it seem colder than it really is. Today while filling up my car with gas, wind almost put a dent in my door. I just barely caught it before it smashed into the pump. Wind why must you blow?

Spoilers - Unless you have a honest to goodness race car, you don't need a spoiler. Never ever ever is there a reasonable excuse for putting one on a pickup truck, never. They look trashy, and probably do much worse aerodynamically for most cars. Ladies and gentlemen its time to stop the spoiler abuse. I can sit by idly no more. I am going to stop this rampant aesthetic blight on the automotive society, one hoopty at a time.

Fish Tanks - I just don't get them, they're noisy, they need to be cleaned regulary and they make your home smell....well fishy. I had a friend that had some large "Oscars" it was mildly amusing to watch them hunt. You'd drop in a poor unwitting goldfish and basically all you see is a blur, an a large fish exhaling the scales of a smaller fish. Fish tanks are wierd....probably have a less than positive reaction to them also because theyre always associated with waiting rooms. Go to the dentist-see fish, go to the doctor- see fish, go to get your car worked on freakin fish again. Damn I hate fish tanks.

Pontiacs- Pontiac was once a great brand; at once it signified youth, speed, and excitement. Unfortunately after the Smokey and The Bandit Firebird...the brand veered left into Grand Am territory. Now all the brand represents is brand extensions, wasted advertising dollars and plastic cladding. At what point does the General cut his losses and just have Chevys and Caddies.

The Mall of America- Once is enough folks, once. If your not from the Twin Cities then by all means go out on a weekend and battle the masses. If you live here, get in and get out as fast as possible; and preferably on a weekday night.

image courtesy of tednmiki via flickr
The Letter "I" - I is the bully of the alphabet. I wasn't content enough with its own sound it had to encroach upon both Y and E. I am going to start a grass roots effort to give Y and E back all the phoenetics that they rightly deserve. Someone needs to stand up to that bully of a letter, damnit!

Hangovers - Man who unleashed the fiery goblins inside of my brain, and why o why are they crawling in every nook and cranny and stabbing my grey matter with dull toothpicks. Getting older sucks, in my youth I could go out and raise hell with the best of em. No four beers and I wake up with a splitting head ache. How can a substance that creates such a horrendous after effect be so popular? Hookin up with chicks is the only valid excuse that I can think of; but already being married, I can't even use that one?

Construction - the office park where I work is remodeling the office next to us. They are gutting the entire place. All day long from 7 am to 5 pm I have to deal with the beeping sound of a machine backing up, mixed with the hooting and hollering of some bandana wearing fella. For two weeks now; grinding metal, hammering and the occasional "thats what I'm talking bout!" of a satisfied construction worker. At first it was somewhat amusing and a change of environment...but for shitsakes its been two weeks, I don't know how much more of this crap I can take?

image courtesy of 4everthirtysomething via flickr

Rain - I hate rain, it's been raining for at least 7 weeks now, and I need some sunshine to reboot my system. My vitamin d intake is dangerously low...my coffee intake;scary.

Ford Ranger Pickup Trucks - This is the most boring vehicle on the road today. Its blah squared, its design is tired, the performance stinks, even its wheels are ugly.

Its too small to really tow or haul anything substantial. Most likely it's driven by some lame-oh with a hoodie and a white hat. Once American manufacturers owned the pickup truck market, slowly though Toyota and the other imports began to chip away at their market share. At some point the big three basically threw in the towel, I contend that point was in fact; the current model Ford Ranger. The Ford Ranger was the big threes sacrificial lamb to Japan. But guess what the japanese weren't appeased...they kept pushing forward and now have their sites on the full size truck market.

Why even make this truck, it must sell well for carting around small items in third world countries?