General Bitchfest

[Bozz10mm]

Why can't I buy beer at Walmart on Sunday mornings. That's when it is the least crowded and I enjoy going when the aisles aren't full of fat ladies and old men. But, no beer for you!

 

[Mexican_Hippie]

Alcohol is bad, M'kay.


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You're just a RINO, lol

 

[Rebel]

Why can't I buy beer at Walmart on Sunday mornings. That's when it is the least crowded and I enjoy going when the aisles aren't full of fat ladies and old men. But, no beer for you!

Huh? Yesterday I bought a 6-pack of Shiner Bock from the grocery store.

 

[Texasgordo]

Huh? Yesterday I bought a 6-pack of Shiner Bock from the grocery store.

You have to wait until noon to buy beer.

 

[Odiferous]

That's a part of why I no longer work in an office and now work with sewage. Believe it or not, human excrement is preferable to the office work I used to do.

Somehow I can't argue with this ^^

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

TexasBrandon,

"You don't think that it might just be a major part of someone's life"

No, I'm not brain washed into thinking the time, effort, money spent to pull off an amateur drama/play is not only a silly waste, it's not anything major in anyone's life. Weddings are as common as mold in the grout of your shower floor.

Look at it this way - Let's say you've been married for fifty years before you and your beloved crash into a gasoline truck and you all go up in a massive, fiery explosion.

What percentage of time did that preposterous farce called a wedding last?

Comparatively speaking, a pico second.

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

Shotgun Jeremy,

"Well why do we get excited about anything and spend money at all???"

You said that in a falsetto voice with both hands on your hips while waggling your head didn't you?

I can see it.

You really think that highly of gag, cough, choke, weddings?

Guess, I touched a nerve...

Weddings are for narcissistic, I want to be "queen for a day" girls masquerading as women.

Here's my offering for weddings - hawk, lean way back and spit a mighty loogie way off into the distance.

 

[A.Texas.Yankee]

Why can't I buy beer at Walmart on Sunday mornings. That's when it is the least crowded and I enjoy going when the aisles aren't full of fat ladies and old men. But, no beer for you!

Apparently you can't buy it beforehand 12 on Sundays... Although there are certain places that do (thinking they clerks just don't know you can't) and I never knew it until I attempted Walmart and Costco.

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[Bozz10mm]

I think they are watching me too. When I walk down the beverage aisle, they always announce "Attention Walmart shoppers. Beer and wine can not be sold before noon on Sunday."

 

[OldGringo]

Why can't I buy beer at Walmart on Sunday mornings. That's when it is the least crowded and I enjoy going when the aisles aren't full of fat ladies and old men. But, no beer for you!

HEY!!! Cool it with the old men comment. I resemble that remark!

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

While waiting my turn in line for a couple of minutes at the Walmart deli counter, out of the blue, this lump of a woman starts telling the counter women what she wants.

I stared at the interloper for two heartbeats while she looked off in the distance, then I said: (feeling childish, but damn it...) "I could've sworn I was ahead of you."

She promptly replied, "you were."

I replied, "but no longer?"

She clammed up.

Whereupon, the deli worker, who I'd bought from many times in the past, looked at me, ignoring the line cutting broad, asked what I wanted.

If you let people run over you they will, even innocent looking old bats.

 

[benenglish]

Weddings are for narcissistic, I want to be "queen for a day" girls masquerading as women.

Overstatement.

I spent years as a wedding photographer; I know whereof I speak.

I fully understand that what you say is sometimes true. Well, OK, it's usually true. But brides fall all over the spectrum. There are plenty who view the wedding as a solemn but public proclamation of undying love. Essentially, they treat it as a ceremony and a party where they formally tell everyone who they're going to spend the rest of their life with. That's a perfectly good reason to have a little ceremony and throw a party, as good a reason as any other.

Two other things I learned as a wedding photographer:

• It's easy to tell by the way they handle their wedding arrangements which women are going to be loving wives and which are going to make their men regret the day they were born.
• Something always goes wrong. No perfectly-specified and timed wedding plan ever survives the day of the event. Brides need to be prepared to roll with the punches, adapt, and don't let it get 'em down.

ETA: I will join you in decrying narcissistic spectacle when it comes to the recent craze for over-the-top proposals.

Many men lack self-confidence and are jealous that the bride gets all the attention at the wedding so they try to turn the proposal into an elaborate event centered on themselves. Youtube has many videos of men proposing via set-ups (complete with actors, dancers, musicians, etc.) that cost three times what a reasonable wedding should cost.

I won't spit on brides for wanting a huge wedding; society has built some expectations into them, even if those expectations are not logical. But guys who put on a Broadway show entitled "Look At Me!" just to satiate their vanity when all they really need to do is take a knee and ask a question? I hold them in complete contempt.

 

[TexasBrandon]

TexasBrandon,

"You don't think that it might just be a major part of someone's life"

No, I'm not brain washed into thinking the time, effort, money spent to pull off an amateur drama/play is not only a silly waste, it's not anything major in anyone's life. Weddings are as common as mold in the grout of your shower floor.

Look at it this way - Let's say you've been married for fifty years before you and your beloved crash into a gasoline truck and you all go up in a massive, fiery explosion.

What percentage of time did that preposterous farce called a wedding last?

Comparatively speaking, a pico second.

Well it was a major event in my life to be married, both the time I was at the Justice of the Peace and when the ceremony kicked off. It's not about money, it's about a memory of the joining of two people.

Whoever said a wedding had to be expensive? Mine wasn't, it was a joining of two people with a small group of people and then a celebration afterwards. If you view weddings in the manner that you do fine, but don't throw everyone into one big category. Have you or are you currently married?

Do you also view birthdays, your child's recitals, and holidays in the same manner? A complete waste of time, effort and money? Sorry but that is one viewpoint I can't support. If you have a bridezilla that wants 20 grand dumped into a wedding her way, that's a bit of a different story, but some of us got married for love not control, attention, and stage time.

 

[Rebel]

Temporarily not having a corporate card and getting this phone call:

"Yeah, we need you in Dallas tomorrow night through Friday. You'll be staying at the Mariott across from the race track."

That hotel isn't even that nice.

 

[Edwarethered]

Temporarily not having a corporate card and getting this phone call:

"Yeah, we need you in Dallas tomorrow night through Friday. You'll be staying at the Mariott across from the race track."

That hotel isn't even that nice.

Is that one of those hotels in Dallas that's on that road with all the porn stores? That road cracks me up. Wish i could remember what it was called.

 

[Bozz10mm]

HEY!!! Cool it with the old men comment. I resemble that remark!

LOL, after I wrote that I thought, "Hey wait a minute....I am an old man".

 

[Davetex]

Is that one of those hotels in Dallas that's on that road with all the porn stores? That road cracks me up. Wish i could remember what it was called.

Harry Hines?

 

[Vaquero]

Harry Hines?

LMAO!

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

benenglish,

I salute you Sir!

What a great post you provided!

Your perspective on guys wanting to "upstage" the bride is as comical and dismaying as the entire farce itself.

TexasBrandon,

You are obviously an old softy and I say that in a kind way.

I am an old, sometimes snarling, curmudgeon with a huge distaste for anything remotely ceremonial.

To me, most of the time, ceremony is complete bull shit.

It's generally all pretend and dilettantish show that makes me want yell "Set me free, Set me free" and run, not walk, away as fast as I can, which today is at a glacial pace...

 

[Moonpie]

The prior posts about weddings made me laugh.

I'd say about 90% of the marriages I've seen that were begun with a "fancy" wedding/reception didn't end in Happily Ever After.
Seems the fancier the wedding, the shorter the marriage lasted.
The folks who went to the Justice of the Peace and had a few folks present are still together.
I don't know....... maybe its because they wanted to be together instead of trying to impress people?