Officially disguised as a Canadian
A lot of things bug me (we all have issues, I guess), but when someone who runs a business like TurboCASH gets defensive and rude when I threaten legal action after my numerous requests to be removed from a mailing list go unanswered, this is the last straw.
The second crowd who can't seem to understand unsubscription requests is Sahara Computers. As in my previous incident with TurboCASH, I was receiving four copies of all their sales news. This is usually about ten emails a week, on average, including a price list exceeding 500KB. So, when the price list is sent out, I get over 1.5MB of spam.
I purchased a domain recently (in May 2008) that had just expired, and immediately started receiving emails from various newsletters that the previous owner had subscribed to. That was fine. I was able to find unsubscribe options in most cases, and was successful in all those cases. Except for two.
The country has been going on the last two days about an 18 year old boy who killed another boy at school with a sword, and then attacked two gardeners. The original reports described the boy as being dressed in a balaclava, with his face smeared in black paint. Details emerged later in the day about how the boy blamed Satan for his actions, and was dressed like the drummer in a band called Slipknot. He was also high on drugs at the time.
That's me, too quiet … on the issue of Jon Qwelane's article this last Sunday equating homosexuality with bestiality. He must be fired by his newspaper, fined by the Human Rights Commission, and banned from writing in public media. He is no better than the Mugabe he praises, or Hitler before him.
We went to this place on Sunday morning for M's birthday breakfast, and it sucks. The food arrived for some people, and not for others, and when the rest came, it was cold. The waiter was a first prize idiot, and the manager (who looked about 12 years old) useless. When I wanted to pay, they took seven attempts of processing my card before deciding that it wouldn't go through. To crown it off, there were flies around the food.
November's Tomcruise of the month is Lindiwe Mngomezulu, for giving her 17-hour-old baby to a stranger in a taxi while she went to buy shoes in a Pep store.
Minister of Science and Technology Mosibudi Mangena complained today how blacks aren’t running the South African economy, forgetting completely that we’re supposed to be colour-blind here, in the “rainbow nation”. Screw him and his government.
Health24: Even though it’s been criticised as “medically and scientifically unwarranted,” the US FDA will continue its policy of banning gay men for life from donating blood. Disgusting article. Disgusting Americans. ptooie
I often rant about the state of driving on South African roads, as regular readers know.