When you need to rant...

He might be buying it from someone else (EDIT: Yep, I was right)

But I agree with you. I guess crazy fans will pay anything for a piece of their favorite star or something. Now, when it comes to book signings and stuff, I kinda understand if they make you buy the book there, since the bookstore is the one thats making the money...but if its a picture with someones name scribbled on it, WHY? To pay for the cost of the paper its printed on?

I had to hold my tongue. Well in this case my Typing.

In this instance I was actually there when the Movie Star signed it for this person so I know its legit.

Well they've kinda been forced to. There's too many fans getting these autographs and selling them on Ebay, ruining it for the rest of us. Plus the type of working actors who go to conventions are not rich, they're taking time out of their lives to leave their families and travel to appearances, I don't mind if they get something out of it. It's just reality.

It does discourage getting harassed on the street as well. It kinda stinks when someone charges you for something. Luckily I've never been in that situation because I never really tried. The only Autographs I've gotten were free, and mainly voice actors. Unless you count purchase of a book... then I have to add Carol Spinney and Marc Brown.

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There is, at this very instant, a middleaged guy sitting next to me in the library WHISPERING ALOUD while he reads the paper.

Seriously, dude? You have to sit there wsspssuhsspuhssspr for over an hour? And it doesn't occur to you you may be disturbing other people with the nasty glares I keep giving you?

Obliviousness. That's what ticks me off. Not so much the weird habit as the utter lack of perception of ANYONE ELSE so many Americans seem to exhibit on a daily basis.

Gawd I hate humans...
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I'm adding something new to the rant. I'm sure someone will be in agreement here. But you know what I hate? Video games that think running/walking means painfully repetitive button mashing. ababababababababababababababa.... that HURTS no matter what controller you're using. I HATE repetitive fast button mashing. That's not fun. That destroys fingers.

What kind of video games are you playing that requires you to alternate buttons to move?

Or do you mean games where to fight you just mash buttons?

In my opinion those whom sell Autographs on ebay are not fans in the slightest, I find the whole idea abhorent.

Three weeks today I'll be going up to London for a Convention and the Actress Gillian (X-Files) Anderson will be attending, at one point she signed X-Files memoribilia UNTIL the filthy dealers shoved these Autographs on ebay and then Gillian stopped signing X-Files and so US the TRUE FANS those who watched X-Files religiously couldn't get Gillian to sign any X-Files Memoribilia.

Two years ago I met William (Cigarette Smoking Man) B Davis, and Cary Elwes and I knew that there would be no chance of me ever getting Gillian to sign my X-Files DVD Boxset so I didnt even ask William or Cary to sign it, then last year I met Robert Patrick and again I deliberately didnt have him sign it.

And then in February a BIG GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT for the convention we go to was revealed, Gillian Anderson this saw many, many people absolutely go nuts and we then knew that our faved X-Files collection would be signed, last week I was approached by the Independent over this and asked my views (seeing that this was on Twitter I was surprised and didnt quite believe he was a proper journalist) until I was sent the link:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/p...-autograph-7831942.html?origin=internalSearch

Yes, I know that £45 is quite excessive but this would be well worth it for me.

The only thing that the journalist didn't keep in the article was how, "Its BECAUSE of dealers that I'm HAVING to fork out £45 in the first place."

You haven't played one of those old NES/SNES/Game Boy games where they have various different "sports" or some racing challenge that requires you to have to mash buttons over and over (There's at least 2 Tiny Toons games like that, one for Genesis and one for Game Boy)? They're usually the ones you have to keep mashing the ababababababababab buttons over and over. I HATE that.

Can't say I have...

Here's a rant I have with the movie Major Payne...

So at one point in the movie, Payne attempts to tell Tiger a bedtime story, an altered version of The Little Engine that Could, basing his version of his own past battle experiences aboard a train, while Miss Walburn listens in on the story... the story basically sheds light on why Payne is basically the homicidal maniac that he is throughout the movie (spoiler alert, while engaged in battle, his friend is nearly killed when his bottom half is blown off by the enemy). Finally, Miss Walburn interrupts the story, and says she'd like to talk to him about it over dinner... but when they have dinner, she doesn't even really talk about it, she just commends for almost doing a nice thing for Tiger, and asks him if there's anything he enjoys that doesn't involve war. I mean really? And her character is also supposed to be the school guidance councelor, you'd think she'd at least try to reach him by asking something along the lines of, "Are you trying to avenge your friend or something?" I mean, it leaves such an open gap in the movie... it's pretty obvious when you listen to the story, but still, it seems like Miss Walburn would address it to Payne to get to the root of his military bent.

Vegetarians. While I completely respect anyone's decision to give up meat for whatever reason (health, moral, religious, etc.) I've run into a number of people over the years who have taken on a pious, self-righteous, holier than-thou attitude towards meat-eaters. Or have tried to put me on a guilt trip just because I enjoy my steaks and ribs.
It might be trendy lately to go veggie, but try to remember, folks. Trends are fast, evolution is slow. Man by design is a carnivore, and we need our proteins, and you ain't gonna get that from lettuce!
Now 'scuse me, I got a grill to fire up and a London broil with my name on it!

Sometimes people can get a little personal when it comes to eating. I remember a vegetarian acquaintance in high school actually throwing food at a friend of mine because she mentioned eating veal.

Well, if it makes you guys feel any better, vegetarians tend to die sooner from improper dieting... I mean look at Marty Feldman, he was a vegetarian, so to make up for lack of protein, he ate a LOT of eggs, which you have to cook in butter, which has lots of cholestoral, which unfortunately contributed to his death.

technically, if you go by the shape of our teeth, we are not carnivores. Our molars are designed for grinding food. True carnivores do not have flat molars, but more serrated teeth that help with shredding raw meat

Yeah, but we're not supposed to eat raw meat, as the bacteria can be lethal, which is why we cook our meat to kill the bacteria.

Not really. If you were raised on a raw meat diet, you would eventually become pretty immune to the bacteria. Its highly ill advised, but there are some nutjobs out there who live on a raw meat diet. In fact, their bodies become so used to the bacteria, that cooked meat will make them sick.

Just from teeth structure alone, we would be considered herbivores or omnivores, depending on what scientist you ask.

Plus from what I understand, vegetarians, by virtue of their diet, tend to have more gas.

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Vegetarianism is actually a great deal healthier for you; most proteins and amino acids can be derived from plant sources, and adding a little dairy or egg or fish to that rounds it out nicely. Red meat is the WORST thing you can eat, and it's ridiculously easy to overeat it -- we actually only "need" a couple of ounces every great once in a while, and even that's subjective.

That said, about once every couple of months I crave a steak, and fix one. We have evolved to be omnivores, so a little of everything in moderation is fine. But yeah...Americans in particular do eat waaaayyy too much meat.

I do respect folks who choose not to eat animals, but I get irritated too at the self-righteous ones. Especially the vegans who insist that keeping chickens for their (unfertilized!) eggs is a crime. No...ripping off their beaks and shoving them in tiny cages their whole lives is a crime, but why object to happy birds scratching in an outdoor yard and roosting in comfy straw at night, laying eggs because they see a handsome rooster around? (Really, that IS all the stimulation a hen needs.) What's wrong, in that case, with eating those eggs? Or that milk, from free-ranging cows? That part I don't get. I don't see using the products from well-treated animals as cruel, even if you don't eat the animal itself.
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