The Bad Rant

Don't say I didn't warn you.

I hate everything that is made partially or entirely of cheap plastic (Except little plastic toys from Japan that make noises, those are awesome!).

It’s unavoidable, every time I see something made out of plastic I tell to myself “It’s going to break in the hands of the poor sap who’s going to buy it.” or “It’s probably already broken and they put a box over it just to hide what they did.” and in some few cases “Fuck it, there’s nothing else but plastic models of that item and I need to buy one.” but in most cases I just go with “FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU…” thank god for inner monologues, very useful when you need to go shopping.

I wanted some automatic drip coffee makers that would be entirely made out of stainless steel, chrome plated or something similar but, since we’re probably not in the future yet, I had to settle for a cheap plastic machine instead. I payed over $60 for it too because a high price obviously means high quality and also because it was the cheapest one in the store I was in. I love the smell of frugality in the morning.

I bet that by now you predicted that something went wrong with my new coffee machine and now you’re feeling the urge to laugh at me in the comment section and probably suggest me to buy a stove top percolator instead or something similar. Well…

And now you are probably thinking to say something in the line of “That was not Very original of you.” with a little touch of sarcasm. I got this for you…

Sorry, got a little bit carried away here.

From the moment I set eyes on it, I knew it was going to break despite the fact that the only clue I had was the plastic that was used to create it; The cheap kind of plastic. What I didn’t know was “how” and “when” this marvel would give up on me… so I shamefully purchased the device against my will (There was a time when I could live without coffee… good days).

Presenting the Black & Decker DCM3200B.

It was working fine for 6 months straight making it the best coffee maker I have ever purchased so far! Today, it’s suffering from urinary incontinence and releases some of it’s liquids while brewing my coffee. I know what you’re thinking but I won’t do it… Seriously guys, I can’t put a diaper on my coffee machine since there are risks of overheating now. If it starts crapping coffee beans on my kitchen counter I will just get rid of it… just don’t tell our robot overlord after he’s done enslaving the human race.

I don’t think that winning the lottery will change my situation since the people making those products are making way more money when we just need to go buy the same things over and over again.

So I bought a new cell phone yesterday. Was supposed to cost me 250$ but instead it almost cost me 400$ because I took the kit with the fake leather case and the 256 MB memory card… long story short I almost payed 50$ in taxes and im still wondering where the money go?

This phone had some serious review on the internet but I have to say, probably because i’m easily disapointed, that this phone is far from perfect.

My old mobile phone was perfect ( Beside the fact that it’s dead after 6 years of service ). No blinding screen, good battery that could last over 6 hours, easy access to the dial up buttons and decent size. It was a practical phone and I miss it already.

Of course, it would be odd to buy a cell phone like this today because the newer phones offer so much more… like games… music… ringtones… pictures and videos…

All the cell phone games suck. I had one free game with my cell phone and I was bored playing with that 3D feed the snake game exactly 60 seconds after I started playing it. So I purchased some other games… most of them dont even have music while you play. Why can’t they do games like Bible fight, Grow RPG, Winterbells or Python?

http://www.adultswim.com/games/biblefight/

http://www.eyezmaze.com/eyezblog_en/blog/2005/07/grow_rpg.html#monster

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/bells.htm

http://www.markfennell.com/flash/snake/

( Sure, they can’t do games exactly like those but they can make good games instead of those abomination. )

My cell phone provider, Telus, is great when it comes to making calls… but their online web browsing is “Fucking dog shit” ( Pardon my James Rolfeness ). I tried to purchase a song to test the device and I can’t even find the songs I love when I enter the name of the song in the search engine. All they have is a list of preselected songs that I never heard of or dont want to listen to.

Ringtones are annoying. Need I say more?

Pictures and videos are great, probably the only real reason why I went for a mobile phone like this instead of some older model. You can easily take pictures and make videos with these new handheld… but you need proper lightning or else your pictures and videos wont even be viewable… and even with a good light source everything just look grainy. If you buy a cell phone thinking that it will replace all your cameras and fulfill all your visual needs… yeah, you’re wrong.

Actually I do like this phone… because I can impress everyone around me with some trivial stuff.

By the way, it’s raining in shanghai.

Edit: Not even 1 year after I purchased this cell phone and it’s the second time it breaks. I try to turn it on but the loading screen just never load… No, I never dropped it, never mistreated it and I even tried making peace with it ( Downloaded the cell phone game “Frogger Evolution” and had a blast going through all the 8 levels ) but this is the last draw for me.