Category: Annoyances

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Hmm. 20,000 per month?

That kind of money goes a loooooonnnnngg way anywhere, but in Florida, Dang!

An article in the New York Post reports a Mother of 3 in Florida has been banned from picking up her kids from school pickup area. The ban is over a sticker for the Mom’s OnlyFans account on the back windows or her car. (Hey you Gotta advertise!) She is allowed to park across the street, collect her children, then walk everyone back across the street to her vehicle.

The school in question is a Christian School, can you see where there might be a problem?

Skimming further in the article I noticed a couple of things and these are what stopped me from just moving on to the next insanity.

The Mom’s account makes $20,000 a month.
The Mom only has sex with her Husband on camera. They don’t do any swapping or 3 somes. 
The couple films in a studio. The implication is the studio is at a location different from the family residence so the children aren’t exposed to the production of pornography. (I’ve often wondered how “God Fearing Christians” made babies when the entire family lived in a one room cabin. Mom & Dad had to get busy somewhere…)

As I was thinking about it, I was struck by this line of reasoning.

Mom & Dad Employed – Check
Mom, Dad, Children all live together, A Nuclear Family – Check
Mom & Dad’s business isolated from the home – Check
Mom & Dad are in a monogamous relationship – Check
Nobody is being exploited against their will – Check

Isn’t that exactly what the Religious Right wants? Just asking… The school itself is a private school, they’re gladly taking the tuition money that’s earned from Mom & Dad having sex with each other on camera.

There is one school of thought that says Mary, you know, the prostitute, financed the ministry of Jesus himself with earnings she’d saved from doing “business”.  It seems a little hypocritical of the school to take the money from these parents, then ignore Mary’s integral part in the story of Jesus. In this case they’re just broadcasting from their marriage bed.

I think the real problem is this.

The Mom is kinda hot. After 3 kids, she’s a total MILF.

There’s another parent Lexy Thomas, who is a TikTok influencer trying to get the Cline children tossed out of the Christian school. 

She claims that the school administrators did nothing about the decal. I’d say forcing the Clines to park across the street is about all they could do. The school is private property and they’ve said the Clines may not drive their vehicle on school property.

Even so, the TikTok Scold is pushing to have the Cline children removed entirely from the school.

Isn’t there another teaching in the Bible? Something like, let not the sins of the father be visited upon his children? Apparently, TikTok Lexy missed that particular bible study class.

The Clines say they’ve been upfront and above board about what they do and how they earn a living.

One student was apparently suspended for attempting to access the OnlyFans site on his phone while at school. This has provided fodder for the TicTok mother to keep making an issue about the Clines.

To be honest, the boy could have gotten in trouble for trying to access any porn site. The kid probably just saw the OnlyFans decal and typed it into his phone. I’ve done that with site names rolling by on cars. I think you can just take a picture of the sign with an iPhone and it will open it automatically. So I highly doubt the boy in question was “Suddenly and Shockingly” exposed to pornography.

The paywall alone should have stopped him.

The problem is an old one and it’s not about sex, or morals, or “The Children”. 

The problem is jealousy.

The photo to the right is purported to be Lexy Thomas. She’s a plain jane, and why the heck should she be the only person not having any fun? 

Sex is sacred, and only to be engaged in to make a baby. Otherwise the jaws of life are required to open her legs, Right? Ever notice how puritanical women always claim to be the victim and surprised, when their Man finds other pleasurable company, because they stopped putting out.

This photo appears to be from her TikTok account. If you’re going to be an “Influencer” why the hell didn’t you at least put some effort into your profile picture? Come on lady. 

Lets see… 

Hot 35 year old blond bombshell with a great rack making money screwing her husband on camera (pictured above)

OR

This ————————————————>

Survey says,

Bombshell!

There was a line in the article that caught my attention.

Several parents began to take note of the sticker during pickup and drop-off at the religious school, and word began to spread about Cline’s vocation.

‘Several Parents’ a.k.a. other mothers, a.k.a. vindictive gossips.

I was reminded of Loretta Lynn’s Harper Valley P.T.A.

Update:  02/12/2024 The children have been kicked out of the school.

So the nasty busybodies got their way and I’m sure they’re feeling super righteous about themselves. 

It would be really funny if the Porn Parents turned around and purchased the school. I’d probably laugh myself right into a stroke.

For the moment, The Harper Valley P.T.A. won. I have faith that Karma is a stone bitch and something will happen to the busybodies.

I think it would be really interesting to know how many Only Fans accounts tracked back to the oh so righteous parents whose children are still attending the school. 

After all, if a man has to rely on his hand because he can’t rent “The Jaws Of Life” to open his shrew busybody of a wifes legs he’s gonna need some interesting stimulation.

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Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! Claudine Gay played the race card!

We all knew she would.

I’m surprised she didn’t start her editorial with “I was raised a poor black child…” From The Jerk – 1979 Steve Martin

No Claudine! You’ve missed the point and all the other so called journalists and pundits have missed the point too.

No one gives a rancid fuck about your race.

Folks are PISSED OFF that you got a free fucking ride, you stole other people’s material and ideas, oh, and you’re in violation of Harvards policies regarding plagiarism.

In other words dipshit, you’re incapable of being an example to the students of Harvard because you failed to live by the policies you’re enforcing. You know… like the rest of the elites that many Americans are coming to loathe.

So I’m going to borrow from Elon Musk, “GO FUCK YOURSELF!” Se how that works Claudine? That’s called attribution. In this case I didn’t really have to reference Elon Musk because he didn’t originate the saying, I chose to give him credit because he’s the most recent famous person to say it publicly and out loud.

By the way you piece of shit. You and people like you have totally fucked everyone else who worked hard for their degrees and Phd’s. You’ve made higher education practically worthless and I can’t wait to hear that you’ve been fired because the colleges you work at can’t afford to keep your sorry asses. Maybe then we’ll get back to actual education.

I sincerely hope that Claudine Gay has her Phd REVOKED. It should be. Her Doctorate was issued on false pretenses. In fact, the other Phd’s who supposedly reviewed her doctoral thesis should perhaps have to defend their Doctorates as well. Clearly they failed in due diligence which calls into question their qualifications.

Let me make this perfectly clear. Claudine Gay was not forced to resign her position as Harvard President over the color of her skin, she was forced to resign due to the content of her character.

Yeah, I paraphrased Dr. Martin Luther King. I hope I did that right, after all I’m just an uneducated redneck from a flyover state.

If I can grasp the concept, even if I don’t attribute exactly correctly, then surely someone who went to college on scholarships for years can be expected to get it right.

Otherwise, her spending all that time “a schoolin” was a waste of money.

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I must be getting old, or people are just more insane.

I’ve recently come to the conclusion that I don’t want to live someplace where pot is legal.

I really don’t like the smell. Here in the neighborhood there’s a number of folks who smoke it all the dang time and even with their houses closed up for the winter, I can still smell the stuff.

That’s bad enough but it’s rather like someone smoking cigarettes or drinking in their own home, it’s their deal and who am I to judge.

Recently, I’ve noticed that I can’t go anywhere anymore without smelling pot. Sitting in traffic at a stop light, in parking lots, and near office buildings.

I can’t help but notice that some of these places I couldn’t light up a Marlboro, but someone smoking pot is oakey dokey.

Unlike cigarettes pot is an intoxicant. Pot is more like alcohol, but people are smoking pot while driving just like we old farts used to smoke cigarettes. This concerns me, and I think might be one of the reasons that driving in California has gotten so damn bad. More people than ever before are essentially drunk driving.

Sitting in traffic with my windows down, I’m getting hotboxed too. Why should I have to keep my windows up and the A/C running because you guys want to smoke pot in traffic? Furthermore why can’t I go back to smoking Marlboros?

Oh Right… Smoking cigarettes is bad for you, but smoking pot is healthy. So the effects of second hand pot smoke aren’t bad? How about second hand intoxication? What about the children riding with mommy and daddy smoking pot in the car?

Today people gasp in shock and horror when they realize people in my generation were trapped in cars with our parents smoking cigarettes. But there’s no similar outrage with pot? Talk about a double standard!

Is it any surprise that jobs aren’t getting done well?  How many fast food orders have you had screwed up? How many places have you been shopping only to find there is no organization to the merchandise?

I’ve been noticing it. I’d been pondering it until I was sitting at a traffic light with three cars around me reeking of pot.

Then watching these folks drive and thinking they were drunk, everything clicked in my head.

They were in fact intoxicated. They shouldn’t have been driving. This was midday on a weekday, I couldn’t help but wonder where these people worked.

Then I thought about the quality of the work they’d be doing.

These are the same people who are appalled that in addition to my having an ashtray on my desk at work, I’d sometimes have a beer at lunch then go back to work. At the time, I was a bench technician and my workstation had a soldering iron. The rosin in the solder was probably worse for me than my Marlboro smoldering in the ashtray.

Please notice, I said “A Beer” not a six pack.

The funny thing is that a joint might fuck you up. A single beer probably won’t impair you at all. These days, your company will say you’re not allowed to have a beer at lunch under threat of immediate termination. But they’ll say nothing about that “Medicinal” joint at lunch.

I’ve got another datapoint to work with when it comes to moving. The list is growing…

Four Seasons but with only decorative snow. I’m over 2 – 10 feet of snow falling in one storm. I like the fall change of leaves and gentle snowfall with accumulation that doesn’t last too long.
No State tax.
No Legalized Pot
Low Auto Registration, $500 a year to register a car? Really?
Generally homogeneous demographics, I’m over “Diversity”. California making me feel like I should speak Spanish instead of English has burned through my diversity quota.
Low Property Taxes.
Good Law Enforcement.
Strong constitutional beliefs. In other words no monkey shines with The Constitution when some activist group gets all mouthy about how they think we should live. I am totally over  being told that I have to live my life to spare someone else’s feelings.
I might be content with someplace that looks a lot like Mayberry. That might be a little too boring, but I’d be willing to give it a try for a while.

As an aside,

Trying to find out about Marlboros is stupidly difficult. Finding pictures of the logo and various boxes is more or less easy but there are a bunch of new packages so since I was a Marlboro smoker I was curious. MY GOD!!! I never did get to just identifying what these new packages were. They want your to register, and then answer a bunch of legal shit, then agree to be on their mailing list, then verify your age, then make sure that you’re in a country where they can send you information.

FUCK!!!!

On the other hand, I can tell you anything at all about pot.

The one thing I was able to determine is that California charges an excise tax of $2.87 on every pack of smokes and that the feds charge $1.01. so $3.88 of every pack of smokes is excise taxes which doesn’t include the sales tax in whatever county you’re in. It looks like California s charging 22% on pot.

Obviously since pot is still illegal on a federal level there isn’t any federal tax on pot. California is making a killing!

Not being able to just look something up annoys the shit out of me. This registration and age and double secret handshake crap is simply designed to make people not want to ask questions.

Asking about cigarettes doesn’t mean you’re going to start smoking. It means that you had a question. It’s not technically censorship but it’s damn close. Apparently Phillip Morris makes e-cigs but they’re only in Europe and therefore the web sites redirect you to a page saying “NO NO NO YOU NAUGHTY PERSON” you’re not allowed to see this. Which is censorship…

VPNs with servers in Europe make that a nothing barrier. Nothing aside from annoyance and reminding us that surprise! We’re not actually free.

I don’t recall voting for any censorship on the internet at all, so why is it there?

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I absolutely HATE my Apple TV now! Thanks Apple!

I honestly haven’t been thrilled with Apple TV+. The content is sometimes interesting. Navigating Apple TV+ has always been, uhhh annoying. The most recent updates have made it so annoying that I’m tempted to not even bother trying to use it.

The most egregious example is the dross they’ve pushed upon those of us with actual Apple TVs.

The Apple TV app on apple devices sucks too, but not quite enough to make me super pissed off. For at least the last year the Apple TV app randomly pulled up the spanish titles and covers of movies that I’d purchased.

Before you ask, yes my system settings are all ENGLISH… Oh and the movies in question were produced in America. I could see it if the movie was a foreign film and the title and cover art were indicative of the country of origin.

The AppleTV+ app on the Apple TV is beyond frustrating. I’m finding that just trying to navigate the app to MY Library, I’m inadvertently starting some movie that Apple’s produced in which I have ZERO interest. This perhaps is attributable to my not having the latest and greatest Apple TV. They’ve changed the remote control since I purchased my model.

All I know is that I had no trouble using the previous iteration of the User Interface and since the change. Not only am I unable to easily navigate, I’m frustrated by trying, to the point that I’m yelling at the fucking device. Shortly after that I’ll power it down via the menu if I can get there OR by pulling the power which ever is easier.

Major FAIL APPLE! If I could roll the software back to something that worked on my Apple TV, I would!

It’s frustrated me enough that I wonder about cancelling Apple TV+ and Dumping the Apple TV devices entirely. My PlayStation can access my movies and shows and play them in surround sound just as easily as the Apple TV.

Don’t get me wrong. I’ve been trying to adapt to the POS software Apple shoved out. It’s not getting better, and I’m not figuring out the U.I. So I’m not turning on my Apple TV as frequently. Situations like these always lead me to wonder if I actually need a device that I’m not using or that is not a pleasure to use. I mean why keep something that pisses me of in trying to use it?

The PlayStation 5 works WAYYYY better anyway. Since I’m not now and never have been interested in Apple Arcade losing the Apple TV device wouldn’t cause a hiccup.

I know it sounds like I’m over reacting. I’m pretty patient with software but in this particular instance it really seems as if the Apple Software folks are trying to over complicate what should be a simple thing.

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I’m really starting to question the Smart house…

Way back when Nest produced their first thermostats I bought one. Our contractor installed thermostat was the cheapest piece of shit they could install, and honestly it didn’t fucking work.

We’d set the temp, the Thermostat was say it heated the house but a normal thermometer told us that the house was colder than when we’d started.

In the winter this presented a problem for the instruments (Harps, Guitars,) anything with strings. The people weren’t exactly happy either!

So at some point I got pissed and plunked down $300 for a Nest learning thermostat. In the beginning it was great and I highly recommended a unit to anyone and everyone. Then fucking Google bought Nest.

At first there didn’t seem to be too much of a problem. My programming of the thermostat held true and the unit adjusted to our changing schedules. It did what it was supposed to do and for a good 10 years the house was warm when we got home. I know the system was working the way I’d intended because if I was home sick with a cold or whatever, I’d have to override the thermostat during the day. I also saw the difference in the Gas bill in Winter and the A/C bill in summer.

Google got ever more invasive. Google wants to deprecate the Nest application login and force you to make a Google account. I’ve moved as far away from Google as possible and don’t even have gmail accounts anymore. That means I’m resisting.

Every time I log into the Nest Application or the Nest Website. Google has a shit fit! “Don’t you want to create a Google log in? Don’t you want to enable 90 factor log in security? “ On and on and on…

NO! I don’t want any of your shit Google! Just let me get to the actual control part of the damn application!

Lately, my thermostat is being reprogrammed without my consent.

62°F at night is too damn cold! Even with blankets and flannel sheets, I’m not sleeping well. I do sleep soundly if I’m in my sleeping bag that’s rated to 0°F. I shouldn’t have to sleep in a sleeping bag… IN MY OWN FUCKING HOUSE!

During the day if I’m home the temp is set to 66°F in the winter. That’s still a bit too cold but I’m willing to put up with it because I live in terror of the damn natural gas bill. Southern California Gas royally fucked everyone last year. Of course their executives still got their bonuses for incompetence. That’s another story!

I have specifically told the Nest Thermostat that I don’t want it learning. I don’t want it making adjustments, I want it to maintain my set temps within the schedule I’ve created and I want it to go to the lower temps when it figures out I’m not home.

Dirt Fucking Simple!

But… Somewhere, deep in the bowels of Google, some little Indian programmer fuck is deciding via programming that I don’t know what I’m doing and they know better what I need.

Every time they send a software update my schedule gets “Fine Tuned”. It used to be that having your temps set to 68° F or lower was considered worthy of a little environment leaf. Now the leaf doesn’t show up until you dial the temp down to 65°F. Nighttime temps of 63°F used to be “efficient” and worthy of the leaf. Now it’s 62°F.  The Nest “Fine Tuning” routine “adjusts” whatever your schedule is, to having the leaf indicator on.

If you scheduled 68°F during the evening… “Well you’re a moron! Let Google set your temp for you. There 65°F aren’t you happy? Gee sorry about that asthmatic child developing pneumonia. We’re about saving the environment, a little collateral damage is acceptable.“

I don’t care about the leafs, I care about not having my hands turn blue, or shivering in my bed all night.

Were I not thinking about selling this house and moving, I’d be shopping for a new thermostat. I have reprogrammed my schedule according to my needs 4 times in the past 3 months. If you see a little yellow/gold gear with a leaf at the bottom of your Nest thermostat display, guess what? You’ve been fine tuned! 

“We hope you like being cold living above the snowline. You’re welcome! Sincerely Google.“

My problem is this. I bought the fucking machine, I installed the fucking machine, I expect the fucking machine to obey my wishes, not the wishes of some asshole I’ve never met who doesn’t live my life, who has decided that they’re my better!

I may start shopping for a new thermostat anyway. I’d go for one of the really old units with a mercury switch and piece of coiled metal that reacted to temperature. Unfortunately, you can’t get mercury switches anymore. 

Mercury is bad dontchaknow even if it’s sealed in a glass ampule that never, or only rarely sees the light of day.

There are some old school thermostats like that in houses in this little town. Those scary dangerous mercury ampules have been in service for 70 years firing up heaters and haven’t hurt anyone yet.

This bullshit with the thermostat has made me seriously start rethinking the smart house concept entirely.

So long as the devices in my home are controlled only by me we got no problem and I like the convenience. But when they start disobeying, or someone remotely overrides my settings we got a serious problem.

That’s why after the house burned, we didn’t sign up for Edisons Power Savings thing again. The A/C Compressor of the old house, Edison could kill remotely.  We were going to drop out of that program. The house burning down simply spared us the annoyance.

That previous summer, Edison shut down the A/C while we were at work several days in a row. The interior temps of the house exceeded 100° F and caused $50-$60 worth of harp strings to snap each day. It also caused a meltdown on a RAID array that contained all our data. The RAID array did a thermal shutdown but the damage was already done. (It was a shitty manufacturer and while it was supposed to shut down prior to damage, it didn’t.)

At the time I remember wondering how it could be better for the grid, to have all the home A/C compressors in Southern California running at the same time for 2 or 3 hours.  That’s what it took to bring the temps in everyone’s homes down to something livable again after work. It wasn’t good for the grid. But it was great for the Electric company executives who were making more money than ever, and bitching about the strain on the electrical grid to justify rate increases to the PUC.

When / If I move. I’m going to be considering very carefully how smart I make things. 

While I like having the lights come on when I get home, I could do that with a motion detector. I like having lights come on at a particular time, but I could do that with a timer. I like being able to turn the lights off at night with a word, but I could do that with The Clapper .

Do I really need the maintenance headache of smart lightbulbs, ceiling fans, thermostats, and security cameras?

Thinking about it, I had most of this back in the ‘80s. 

It was done with the BSR X-10 system. And I had one!

Nobody could screw with the BSR unit via the internet. (The internet existed but wasn’t offered to the Public yet.) If someone was messing around with your lights and things it was an accident. They’d set their box to the same base code as yours and it was easily handled.

I suppose it’s another case of the old way is the best way.

Just how smart does my house need to be to make me happy?

The answer to that question may be, “My house needs a lobotomy.”