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From the “The Left Hand Truly Has No Idea What The Right Hand Is Doing!” Dept:
Harrowing Tales of Customer Service

From the “The Left Hand Truly Has No Idea What The Right Hand Is Doing!” Dept:

What should have been a trivial fix to a problem that Equifax should never have created in the first place but did due to their *EPIC* stupidity and poor programming practises ended up showing that Equifax has thoroughly earned the reputation of being the dumbest and worst credit bureau we're forced to deal with!

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19 May 2025
From the “Beware of Qatari Royals Bearing Gifts!” Dept:
The Rampaging Moderate

From the “Beware of Qatari Royals Bearing Gifts!” Dept:

If I wasn't allowed to offer an EPA employee a $15 lunch after mending their computers for ethics reasons, there's no way in hell President Trump should be allowed to accept a "gift" from the government of Qatar of a Boeing 747-8i Intercontinental "Palace in the Sky" massively upgraded at taxpayer expense that he couldn't possibly be allowed to fly as an Air Force One and would eventually end up as his personal property once his term ends. Some "gifts" like this one from a not-so-friendly regime should be flatly refused...just ask the Trojans what happened when they forgot that rule!

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12 May 2025
From the “You Wouldn’t Like Me When I’m Angry!” Dept:
Doing the News

From the “You Wouldn’t Like Me When I’m Angry!” Dept:

You may not always see a mother's protective instinct come out to play but only a fool would think that they're not going to see it when they're messing with her cubs as one unfortunate nurse at Womack Army Hospital found out!

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11 May 2025
From the “Should We Or Should We Not Follow The Advice Of The Galactically Stupid?” Dept:
Harrowing Tales of Customer Service

From the “Should We Or Should We Not Follow The Advice Of The Galactically Stupid?” Dept:

In an industry known for breathtaking stupidity and complete lack of any idea of security, Equifax is arguably the worst of the three major credit bureaus and frankly has been for decades well before that infamous data breach they facilitated through sheer incompetence in 2017!

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06 May 2025
From the “Trying To Be Strong…” Dept:
Harrowing Tales of Customer Service

From the “Trying To Be Strong…” Dept:

Jóvá teszem! In Magyar, it means "I will make it right!" And that's the reason why I rang up Capital One to try to give them a fair chance that we might both cleanse the way from last night's unpleasantness and have a happier ending to the story...

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29 Apr 2025
From the “Capital One’s Fraud Department Most Certainly Is!” Dept:
Harrowing Tales of Customer Service

From the “Capital One’s Fraud Department Most Certainly Is!” Dept:

Who knew that an unsolicited credit card arriving in the post would lead to an evening of utter misery dealing with a bank's so-called Fraud Department and the three major credit bureaus? Anyone who has been paying attention to just how easily subverted the credit reporting system is aided and abetted by banks that are absolutely hopeless at detecting actual fraud they're not committing themselves!

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29 Apr 2025
From the “Riposa in pace, Papa Francesco!” Dept:
Doing the News

From the “Riposa in pace, Papa Francesco!” Dept:

Pope Francis leaves behind a legacy of caring for the poor and forgotten as well as the climate much like his namesake St Francis of Assisi. But I suspect it will be his humble and plain-spoken ways and deft pastoral touch that will be the defining legacy of his papacy.

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23 Apr 2025
From the “How Is This *NOT* Man Overboard?” Dept:
The Rampaging Moderate

From the “How Is This *NOT* Man Overboard?” Dept:

Secretary of Defence Loose Lips is at it again posting military operational plans on Signal. But at least he didn't have a journalist seeing those details...this time, it was his wife who I'm pretty sure has less of a security clearance than the Pentagon janitors. It's man overboard and he clearly needs to go but it seems clear his boss has other ideas... :(

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21 Apr 2025
From the “Mission Accomplished: He Certainly Removed All Doubt!” Dept:
The Rampaging Moderate

From the “Mission Accomplished: He Certainly Removed All Doubt!” Dept:

The Secretary of Defence tries to defend the indefensible and fails miserably! There's no way a SecDef that no defence minister in the world can ever trust again can stay in the job after a scandal in which not only actionable intelligence of a sensitive nature was compromised, it was done in the most silly and stupid way which just beggars belief. Any junior officer or official would have already been cashiered out of the service...it's time for the "warfighter's SecDef" to actually do the honourable thing for once and resign for the good of the service.

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27 Mar 2025
From the “If That’s Their Idea of Operational Security…” Dept:
The Rampaging Moderate

From the “If That’s Their Idea of Operational Security…” Dept:

Get ready for another rendition of that dance we all know as "The Potomac Two-Step". Cabinet officials discussed classified military operations details on a commercial and insecure platform called Signal and willfully violated OPSEC (operational security) if not the Espionage Act in the process...and that was before the National Security Advisor added a journalist to the chat. This is *WHY* we need people who know what they're doing minding our national security... :(

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25 Mar 2025
From the “Idiocracy Was Not Supposed To Be A Documentary!” Dept:
The Rampaging Moderate

From the “Idiocracy Was Not Supposed To Be A Documentary!” Dept:

The Uhmerican House of Representin's "budget blueprint" tells you all you need know about how stupid they think the American people are. The truly sad thing is that their view of the electorate's stupidity is probably more optimistic than it ought to be which will allow them to get away with complete dereliction of their duty to protect America's most vulnerable citizens... :(

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05 Mar 2025
From the “There’s A *HUGE* Reason Superman Is A Timeless Hero!” Dept:
The Rampaging Moderate

From the “There’s A *HUGE* Reason Superman Is A Timeless Hero!” Dept:

Last Friday, the American people and the world were witnesses to the most unabashedly savage political hit job ever seen in the Oval Office when President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was ambushed by VP Vance and President Trump. In so doing, they proved themselves to be disgraceful and weak cowards who have sold every shred of honour of this country and are perfectly content to do Vladimir Putin's dirty work in destroying the most successful alliance this world has ever seen.

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04 Mar 2025
From the “For Brown Nosing: Ten. For Brains: Zero!” Dept:
The Rampaging Moderate

From the “For Brown Nosing: Ten. For Brains: Zero!” Dept:

President Trump's hiring criteria for senior positions seems to boil down to one essential skill: how well can they stick their nose up the bum of the boss? You'd think the Senate who is supposed to use the "advise and consent" prerogatives in the Constitution would weed out the worst and most unqualified of them but you'd be utterly wrong. "Abdicate and cower", more like... :(

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25 Feb 2025
From the “Dar Roberts Would Have A Field Day With This One…” Dept:
The Rampaging Moderate

From the “Dar Roberts Would Have A Field Day With This One…” Dept:

President Musk through the Office of Personnel Management pulled one of his old HR tricks out of the bag of stupid management practices when he sent a "justify your existence in five bullet points" EMAIL to the entire Federal civil service. Stupidity this blatant and contemptible really deserves only one possible answer...

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23 Feb 2025
From the “Department of Defence Proves S R Hadden Right Yet Again…” Dept:
Doing the News

From the “Department of Defence Proves S R Hadden Right Yet Again…” Dept:

So I guess the good news is that I don't have to deal with the awkwardness of telling somewhere where I was born which was Fort Bragg NC. But did the taxpayers really need to take it in the shorts to the tune of at least $50M to rename Fort Bragg to Fort Meh and back again?!?

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11 Feb 2025
From the “Seemed More Like The Super Bowel!” Dept:
Doing the News

From the “Seemed More Like The Super Bowel!” Dept:

Can we *FINALLY* put to rest the tired notion that the NFL is rigging games in favour of the Chiefs? *THAT* had to be the most incompetent job of rigging the game in their favour I'd ever seen! Fair dinkum and congratulations to the Eagles for executing their game plan to perfection!

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10 Feb 2025
From the “You Know, You Could Actually Say No!” Dept:
The Rampaging Moderate

From the “You Know, You Could Actually Say No!” Dept:

Senator Tillis seemed to be taking the Senate's duty under Article II Section 2 of the Constitution very seriously when it came to the nomination of Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defence until...he didn't. This shouldn't be a surprise when there is a clear record of flip-flopping on defending the prerogatives of Congress versus the Executive Branch. Advice and consent doesn't mean blindly accepting every fool and sycophant offered in nomination. You can actually show a measure of courage and say *NO*...and you really need to start doing it much more often when dealing with nominees who are being put up for office by toddlers!

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08 Feb 2025
From the “How About Respecting The Fact That It’s Actually *MY* Driveway!” Dept:
Harrowing Tales of Customer Service / People I Can Do Without!

From the “How About Respecting The Fact That It’s Actually *MY* Driveway!” Dept:

The First Amendment says I've no choice in whether random people turn up on my doorstep to sell me things. But it does not mean I have to accept you parking your truck in my driveway without leave and then being disrespected on my own doorstep... :(

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15 Jan 2025
From the “Brak Would Totally Love This Easy Dinner!” Dept:
What's For Dinner?

From the “Brak Would Totally Love This Easy Dinner!” Dept:

Brak likes pork. So does pretty much everyone who is willing to do all of five minutes of carving up a boneless pork loin to get two pork roasts and quite a few pork chops for far cheaper than letting the grocer ream you for doing the exact thing! :)

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11 Jan 2025
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