You ever hold a door open for someone, and they don’t say “thank you”? Jesus that pisses me off. Well, it turn out that the people who don’t say “thank you” are malevolent sociopaths.
A man faces assault charges after allegedly striking another man with a golf club in an argument over manners. Police told the Cape Cod Times that a 50-year-old man leaving a gas station in town on Monday morning held the door open for a 38-year-old man.
Police said the 38-year-old man did not thank the other man, who responded by uttering a sarcastic “thank you.”
The two men got into an argument before the 38-year-old went to his car to get a golf club, which he allegedly used to strike the victim several times in the stomach and legs.
Whoa, someone from Massachusetts is an asshole? No way. I wonder what his favorite baseball team is?
(thanks to Christmas Ape for the tip)
Ashton Kutcher is making a football movie called Traded, a soon-to-be huge piece of shit. From some Hollywood trade paper:
Ashton Kutcher is looking to tackle a football comedy for Paramount Pictures.
Thesp is in final negotiations to star in the sports-themed pic “Traded,” which had been developed at DreamWorks but became the property of Par following DreamWorks’ exit in the fall.
Storycenters on a superstar NFL quarterback and a 12-year-old middle school geek who magically trade bodies, then quickly learn valuable lessons about humility and courage.
Humility and courage. I bet Ashton could get quite a lesson in those virtues from a 12-year-old. And his girlfriend is old! That’s hilarious. He’s a total douchebag that probably snorted meth out of the ass of that dog in that picture. Other than that he’s a great guy.
UPDATE: FilmDrunk did a post on this earlier in the day, with a banner image that’s worth seeing.
[via Sports Pros(e)]
PETA literally does nothing all day but send crackpot letters to organizations in the hope that some wire service makes a story about it, and one recent letter was crazy enough to garner the attention which PETA so desperately craves. Specifically, the organization has asked that Palm Beach Atlantic University — and no, I’ve never heard of it, either — change its teams’ names from Sailfish to Sea Kittens. Why? Because they’re assholes. Duh.
In a letter sent Wednesday to PBAU President Dr. David Clark, PETA urged the school to change its mascot from the Sailfish to Sea Kitten “to reflect the gentle nature of its current marine namesake.” The suggested name change is meant to promote empathy for fish and other marine animals, PETA said in a news release.
“If Sailfish became Sea Kitten and everyone in town started calling fish sea kittens, fewer of these gentle animals would be violently killed for food, painfully hooked for sport or cruelly confined to aquariums,” said PETA’s “Save the Sea Kittens” campaign coordinator Ashley Byrne.
Yeah, and maybe if you called my “fist” a “love tenderizer” your face won’t hurt so bad after I beat the shit out of you for needlessly raising my blood pressure. That’s fried food’s job!
(via SbB)
Future home of asshole fans
Despite being richer than pharaohs, the Yankees have saddled the city of New York with more than twice as much money as the city agreed to chip in for the new Yankee Stadium.
Skyrocketing expenses at the new Yankee Stadium will saddle taxpayers with a $325 million bill - more than twice the amount the city approved in 2006.
City Controller William Thompson blamed either “incompetence” or “blatant attempts to mislead the public” for poor initial estimates of costs for demolishing the old stadium, replacing some parks and street improvements. The original price tag was $129 million.
“Costs don’t go up that dramatically in that period of time,” he said. “Either someone did that intentionally or it is the worst job of management that I have ever seen.”
The Yankees are saying that the revenues the city get back will more than blah blah blah. That’s what I get out of articles that talk about politics at the city level. I see “comptroller” and my eyes start to glaze over. The thing to take away from this story is the answer to the question, “Should I hate the Yankees?” And the answer is “only if you love America.”
Baseball’s winter meetings weren’t all about blockbuster trades and big-name free agents. MLB executives also decided to shoot down a proposal that would have increased minor leaguers’ daily food stipend from $20 a day to $25 a day.
The increase was approved unanimously by all 30 minor league directors and all 30 big-league general managers in two separate meetings this year, but it was deemed too costly and subsequently shot down by MLB, which posted a $6 billion surplus in 2007.
The increase might have cost each club somewhere in the range of $25,000, a microscopic sum in the multibillion dollar industry that MLB has become. Multiplied by 30, that places the total cost of the increase somewhere in the range of $750,000.
According to one of the two team officials, MLB cited national economic concerns for depriving the minor leaguers of the increase.
And good for MLB! Times are tough for everyone, and $20 is more than enough feed yourself every day when you’re constantly on the road and eating on the go. Why, if memory serves, I believe that Subway has a special that offers “Five. Five-dollar. Five-dollar footlonnnnnnnnngs.” An ad that catchy has to be a good deal!
Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga has spent the better part of the last two decades screwing over whichever Florida sports teams he could get his hands on, but now he’s finally ready to minimize his tightfisted mismanagement by selling most of his share of the team to partial owner John Ross.
But Wayne has to hurry! The billionaire who luxuriates in the accumulated wealth from Blockbuster and Waste Management might have to pay more taxes if those mean ol’ Democrats take over!
Huizenga said Sunday no date has been set for selling up to 45 percent more of the team to Stephen Ross, but the presidential election is among the issues weighing on his decision.
That’s because a Barack Obama administration is expected to mean higher capital-gains taxes. “He wants to double the capital gains tax, or almost double it,” Huizenga said. “I’d rather give it to charity than to him.”
Yes, because everyone knows that the sitting America president KEEPS all the taxes we pay. “I’d rather give my money away than see it go towards health care or public schools!” Yeah, he’s quite the philanthropist. He even donated money to a private prep school! He’s basically like Mother Teresa… Mother Teresa was a vampire, right?
