One big beef we're sick of: Daylight Saving Time! To heck with DST! The cows that live near our dumpy little shack in Kearny Mesa think it's 5am (6am Daylight Time) when we go out to milk our beloved Bessie and she wakes up grumpy and kicks us off our milking stools!
Early rising drivers deprived of one hour of sleep and driving at 6am are just as lethal as drunk drivers as sleepless drivers are once again fighting darkness as Daylight Saving Time screws things for them again as the sun rises at 6:30am instead of 5:30am. We (except for David Tanny who gets up around the time Price is Right starts) enjoyed having the sun shining brightly at 6am once Equimas and Spring rolled in as the rays from the rising sun gives us (except Tanny who's more into slaying vampires or something like it in the moonlight) more energy to wake up and take on the day. The winter months are horrible as the sun rises as late as 7am and it's bitterly cold and dark at 6am. April 7 is just as bad as January 7 with no sun at 6am.
Another thing wrong with daylight time...the kids don't want to come home until 9pm once the twilight rays have faded into darkness. We can't get the kids to go to sleep when the sun is still shining; it's even worse for the parents of kids in the northern areas where the sun sets later as you go North until you reach a point of latitude and time where it doesn't set at all during Spring-Summer and Summer-Spring.
Here's the solution we've all been needing...
For those of highter latitude, during the winter months, stats such as Oregon, Idaho, and Montana to name a few can adopt Double Night Saving Time so that the clocks are set back two hours behind their normal time zones as those areas have nine hours of daylight; of course, that means that the sun will set at 3pm in many places up there.
During the Summer months, the clock can be set forth up to three hours so that the sun always rises before 6am no matter where they live. That means a checkerboard arrangement of time zones each with their own daylight/nighttime saving time periods, putting the nation in a state of confusion, but so what? We're all getting more night time in the afternoon and evening anyway!
One group that disagrees with us are the nighttime techno clubbers, who want the sun to rise as late as 9am so
they can club in electronic groove warehouses longer with triple Daylight Saving Time! Ugh! Who wants to see
the sun stay up until Midnight in the summer!
What's My Beef: Commercials With People Chewing With Mouths Open!
What's with all these commercials where we see people eating with their mouths wide open allowing the viewer
to see the food mix in with the saliva as we hear the tsks and smacks while people are chewing food on television?
All this does is to make me lose my appetite. How gross! This is mainstream TV, not South Park!
The worst offender of all...Carls Jr. "Don't bother me, I'm eating," says the announcer as we see people eating like barbarian pigs with no sense of manners whatsoever. So why are they bothering us with rude people acting gross on nationwide television, making themselves look like undeseriables.
I'll never eat at Carl's Jr. again, or buy any products that show people eating on television ads.
What's My Beef: Easter too CUTE!
Easter, the most serious day in the Christian calendar marking the commeration that "He IS Risen!", is annoying
enough as the holiday can't decide what day to celebrate it on.
Why is the day not on a stationary date like Christmas is? We don't celebrate Christmas between December 25 and February 1 or whatever. Why is Easter on a floating manner? Why can't they celebrate it on the second Sunday in April at least, or better yet, pick a day like April 9th and declare it Easter every year!
Even more annoying is the cuteness factor that is stressed in Target and other stores. Why all the baby chicks
and ducks? Why all the pastel colors? Why the emphasis for candy brought by a bunny rabbit?
This isn't Miami Vice! Where's the symbols for Easter such as the empty
tomb, the cross, and Jesus triumphing over death? Those are the symbols of Easter. Easter is not Halloween II.
What's My Beef: Movie Tie-Ins To Fast Food Restaurants!
We're on a roll. The latest in a string of fast food tie-ins with overrated movies involves Burger King selling
toys based on a movie "Ice Age." Seriously, if Burger King didn't suck so much as a restaurant, they wouldn't need
to bait the kids with cheap and stupid movie toys in order to get their parents to take then there in the first
place.
And while we're at Burger King, why is the Chicken Whopper priced well over $1 higher than the Beef Whopper? Why can't they raise the price of beef and lower the price of chicken so that they're priced the same! Sounds fair to me.
Why not do fast food tie-ins with TV shows? How about 7 Eleven selling Slurpee cups with the comedians from "Whose Line Is It Anyway" featured on the plastic cups? How about a Mocha Slurpee with Colin Mocherie on the cup? Drew Carey on the Coke Slurpee? Ryan Stiles with Raspberry? Wayne Brady with Blueberry?
McDonald's could do Happy Meals based on TV series such as Friends since it's on early enough for the kids to watch the show that's clearly out of their age range anyway.
Finally, for a higher class, The Sizzler could introduce dishes based on the names of the network news anchors.
How about Tom Browkay Sirloin Steak? Dan Rather Rotissere Chicken? Peter Jennings Prime Ribs? Include with each
news anchor a meal a free copy of the New York Times!
What's My Beef: Let's Abolish the Spork!
While we're at restaurants, we see some of those stupid little things that are supposed to act like a short fork
or a poorly-scooping spoon. They are called sporks. I hate them! I see them at Taco Hell and other places.
I want a fork that will work right as it stabs right through the meat, not a spork that doesn't stab the food lightly.
The sporks don't do a good enough job as the regular spoons do with soup. I hate getting stabbed with those
stupid sporks when I'm trying to eat the soup. Ouch!
What's My Beef: We Need Universal E-Mail Addresses!
And finally, isn't it about time that someone created a universal e-mail address?
You move to another ISP. You lose your crappy AOL e-mail account. Your ISP goes bust. You lose your e-mail
address. It's one way that crappy online services such as AOL and MSN have over you when you establish your
e-mail address with one of their domains, and if you want to keep it, you can't move to another ISP, so you're
stuck with the crappy online service provider in order for your friends to be able to find you.
Some private e-mail service providers such as Bigfoot and others have come by where you can have your friends find you no matter what you use for an ISP or OSP. In fact, I'd like to see static e-mail accounts where people are restricted to the account they are paying for such as AOL be banned from handling e-mail as they are using it to keep people from migrating to better services such as a real Internet Service Provider. People should use their paying e-mail address only when communicating between themselves and their service provider and not with their friends. That way, if they lose their AOL account, their friends can still find them with a universal e-mail address.
A universal e-mail address puts an end to dependence on ones Internet or Online Service Provider. AOL and MSN should start telling their new subscribers to get a universal e-mail address where the address is portable and can be moved from one ISP to another or to one e-mail provider. They may need to pay to rent a domain such as myname@email.com (or whatever the universal e-mail domain would be) but they would, for one thing, put an end to other people abusing their name with other services such as a spammer using walmart@aol.com or walmart@yahoo.com. Trademarked names would be reserved and assigned to their proper owners.
It's about time for universal e-mail addresses. Let's put an end to anybody@aol.com as a public e-mail address as they're not portable anyway.
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