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Why do things like this keep happening to me? I was in Walmart today, I only had to pick up 2 things and I was in a rush. There was talk of snow in the news (which we didn’t get) so many people were in Walmart stocking up. I went to pay for my items and of coarse they were about 4 cashiers short of sufficiently supporting the rush. I look and there was one express lane that only had 1 person in line. I push my cart (yea one of the items was pretty big) over to the lane and got behind the guy in the line.

The guy in front of me looked to be about 30, had clearly more than the 10 items that the express lane called for. I figured this should still be quick, then I notice that he hadnt even put any of his items on the conveyor belt.

I looked to make sure the lane was open….It was

I looked to make sure the cashier was ready….He was

What was the hold up? I started to think maybe the cashier just turned on the light and was getting ready, or maybe they were waiting on a price check. Nope, the cashier was waiting, the line was open, the only hold up with this man with his 20 or so items. I waited a second, looked around, then looked at the guy. This bozo is standing in line smiling like a goofball sending text messages on his phone. I though, this silly mutha- then I stopped, cause I don’t usually curse, not even to myself. I asked him…

"Excuse me sir, are you in line?"

He doesn’t look up, sitting there smiling and pecking away at his phone like a pre-teen girl. By this time Im getting frustrated. I lean over, so that maybe I can catch his eye and said a little louder

"Excuse me, are you waiting for something?"

Figuring if he wants to chat, he could at least let me go since I only have 2 items. He still never look up. Finally, I said in a loud voice that he just could not ignore

"YO!!! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING ON!!! YO, AYE… YOU’RE HOLDING THE LINE UP, ARE YOU WAITING ON SOMETHING?"

He stopped smiling and looked at me, I said again…

"Are you gonna buy that stuff? Whats up?"

He put his hands on his cart, like he was going to push it, then I see this lady that looks like it could’ve been his mother rushing to the cart with a bottle of hand lotion.

Now thats some Bull-Ish!!!

I loaned out my electric griddle. Yea I have an electric griddle, I love cooking breakfast on it. Eggs, bacon, that tasty maple sausage…

I want my griddle back!!!

The other morning I awake with thoughts of maple sausage cooked on my electric griddle. I decided I’m going to go get my griddle and cook me some maple sausage. I don’t care if it is 5 A.M. Expecting to wake that freeloading bugger up, I rang his doorbell about 3 or 4 times, followed by a few bangs with my fist like the police. He quickly opened the door and let me in. He looked pretty tired. Not like I just woke him, but like he hasn’t been to sleep.

Before I can ask him about my griddle, I asked whats wrong with you, why aren’t you sleep. Before I can finish questioning him, I noticed something. I take in a deep whiff and noticed a familiar smell.

You’re cooking maple sausage on my Griddle? I asked. He said its a long story….

The night before, he was out with friends. Hangin out at Walmart, buying toothpaste and Ramen noodles, you know, the essentials of life. He got a couple cases of Coors lite for the week, and headed out to their respective cars. He stopped to get gas and there were a few girls in a minivan that just left a local club and were really drunk and flirty.

He picked one and had a nice little conversation that lead back to his house and you can guess the next step.

Afterwards, he had what he considered to be the "closing chat" with the young lady and the evening was over, they both go home to their own beds and sleep off the shame. But something didn’t happen the way he expected.

She didn’t leave!!!

He was up all night, He couldn’t sleep cause he wanted her to leave, and she was snoring like pitbull. He was nice, figured he’d let her get an hour or 2 then try the "closing chat" bit again and she’d go home.

Needless to say, I am at his house, it is about 6 A.M and she is in the kitchen cooking maple sausage on my griddle. This story makes me want to give every lady out there this little message. If you are the type that occasionally engage in  trampy  promiscuous er Spontaneous activities such as this…

You don’t stay, unless you are asked to stay!!!

You don’t ask him if its ok. You don’t assume that since you had such a good time he wants you to stay. You don’t assume he wants you to stay at all. what you can assume is he wants you to go home. it has no bearing on how much fun you guys had, or how well the evening went, HE WANTS YOU TO GO HOME. Have your "closing chat", say bye and hop into your car and go to your place of residence.

If he wants you to stay, he will ask. Dont make him kick you out, or let you stay and avoid you from then on. cause that is what will happen.

This award was hard to pick, Both really earned recognition and instead of leaving one out, they will share this award. So who is most likely to be playin us for sucka’s in 2007? First of all, did you try to buy a Nintento Wii this year? couldn’t find one huh? Why is it a full year later, you still cannot walk into a store and buy a Nintendo Wii!!!

This is Insane!!!

Nintendo is playin us for Sucka’s

Stall us out, don’t make enough Wii’s and the demand will always be there. "People always want what they cant have, so lets play them fool’s" is what I imagine is being said behind the scenes over there at the Nintendo offices. The sad thing is, we are falling for it. I could care less about Nintendo gaming or waving my arms around to play games but I want a Wii cause I cant find one.

Google is playin us for Sucka’s

Nintendo is just 1 half of this years award, Who else deserves recognition for most likely to be playin us for sucka’s in 2007? Well a few months ago, there was some beat downs being dealt  around the web. Andy beard got his ass beat, Paula Neal Mooney got her ass beat, Jonzee.com got his ass beat. Websites and blogs we’re catching beat downs by none other than those Google Bastards. Our beloved Google gave us a taste of their evil dictatorship by dropping Page Rank’s, Search engine ranking, and everything else to websites that were using something other than Adsense to make their money. This is a quote from what someone told me they overheard at Google.

Those mindless bloggers think they are going to use our page rank system to make money, and bypass the use of adwords or adsense? Thats taking money from us!!! Do they know who they are @*!&ing with?  Release the hounds!!! Erase them completely if you have too!!! let them know we mean business

Can you believe that? Sounds a little crazy to me, but thats what someone told me they over heard so it must be true right? True or not, Google was acting like that "spoiled child that wants to be the boss of everyones toys" and earned without a doubt the half of this years award.

There has been a lot of product introductions in 2007. The Eee PC, Amazons Kindle, the Eye-Fi wireless SD card. Some of these products were good, some came and went, but none were more overhyped and overrated than this years winner of Bull-ish.com’s Most Overrated product of 2007. Rumors of the iPhone had actually been around for a few years but at the end of 2006 there were some concrete evidence that the iPhone was indeed coming. In January Apple finally announce the product and the whole web went wild. a couple months later and the iPhone was released and for months on end it has been one of the hottest, most talked about product.

So why is the iPhone the most overrated product of 2007

2 reasons.

• It was too expensive.

• It is a crippled device.

Why do I say its crippled? First let me say the iPhone is not a bad device, it is a good device. its just overrated. There are a lot of things done right with the iPhone, such as the large screen, the multi-touch technology. The browser and the email client. Beyond that, theres pretty much nothing else to the phone. The phone doesn’t even have any games for Christ sakes. When was the last time a cell phone shipped with no games at all, an no way to purchase them. And why cant I send or receive picture messages?

As it stands today, the iPhone is barely a smartphone, most other devices that fit into the smartphone category can do a lot more. Hopefully, Apple will update the phone to add more features, it is definetly capable of doing a lot more, its just crippled. If you hack your iPhone, you can do tons of stuff with it, but then you risk having it bricked by Apple.

In a few days we will be ringing in the new year. This year has been a trip. Today I want to introduce you to my version of year end awards, Bull-ish style. The first award on this list is for the most embarrassing moment of 2007. 

Maxim is a popular mens magazine that usually have list like Hollywood’s 100 sexiest women etc. This year they did something a little different. They published a list named "5 unsexiest women alive". Yes I did say unsexiest. Boy did they hit the nail on the head with their number one choice. Sara Jessica parker. It seems like they found the worse possible picture of her to associate with her spot at the top.

Sarah Jessica Parker taking the number one spot in Maxim’s 5 unsexiest women alive list isn’t what won most embarrassing moment of 2007. Just imagine how embarrassed Mathew Broderick, her husband and former Ferris Bueller star was to read about this. He has to hear it from his friends, reporters asking him about it everywhere he goes. Id imagine the first time he was asked about it, he probably looked a little like this…

Even though this isn’t really an award to be proud of, Sarah Jessica parker doesn’t seem to mind it that much, when asked about it in an interview she responded ‘I never thought I was sexy". I bet Mathew isn’t taking it as lightly

Sony’s marketing has sure got everyone blinded.

The Power of the PS3!!!

PS3 has a few more Horses than the 360!!!

The Cell Processor!!! RSX!!!

Its all Bull-ish. Who knows which system is more powerful other than the developers? And they arent going to tell us the truth. All we know is that we dont know what the hell a cell processor is. I can create something no one understands and say its better than everything else. And that is what Sony is doing with the PS3. They have the cell processor, no one knows what it is or what it does. Hell, people are still saying it has 7 cores verses the 360’s 3 cores. THEY ARE NOT CORES!!!!. There is one 3.2 ghz core in the PS3’s cell chip. And that may not even be true cause noone knows what the hell a cell processor is.

And the RSX chip… Can we say overclocked Geforce 7800?

NO WE CANT CAUSE NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE HELL A RSX IS!!

Even though it is just an overclocked Geforce 7800. What you all dont know is that the ATI GPU in the 360 and the RSX chip in the PS3 are about as equal as 2 video cards can get. Dont let Nvidia’s current dominance in PC video cards fool you. It was only about 2 years ago that ATI had the best video cards. Any difference you will see between the PS3 and the 360 right now are all developer differences, not hardware capability differences. Forget what you heard, neither the Xbox 360 nor the PS3 has been pushed to its limits. Most of the games this generation has been built with the 360 as lead skew, and pretty much has only used a single thread, which the 360 has 2 threads per core. Yea the other threads act as helper threads and sometimes are used to handle things like decompression etc but as far as actual game processing, I dont think there is a game yet to use more than 2 threads, with most so far just using 1. The PS3 is no different, there are 7 SPE controllers that are similiar to threads, but more specialized and the only game that actually utilize them correctly is Unreal Tournament 3. and that game doesnt even fully utilize all of the PS3’s power. Actually there may be a few more games that use it correctly  but thats not the point. The point is  the claim that the PS3 is the most powerful is really only a claim. And thats Bull-ish.