@Ginger, does the game my daughter plays on webkinz where they throw flying chickens at her and then she hits them with a baseball bat over a fence to get points count as work? God, I hope so because I want that chicken batting job so bad. I definitely do not want the job where I have to throw cream pies at the scary clowns on webkinz because... well, because clowns are just so freaking scary it's not worth the kinz cash.

@danny, keep looking. You can find them. I wanted one thing for Christmas - a pair of size 12 Heely's. I snuck out and bought myself a pair a few days before Christmas. Come to find out on Christmas morning, my wife and kids actually listened to what I wanted this year and they also got me a pair. I now have two pairs of size 12. You can do it. Keep looking.

How about "Comeback Kid"? Can you really be a "comeback kid" when we're on the first primary of the year? If you were supposed to lose in the beginning of the day but you actually won, it needs a little more to be a comeback. You're probably just an underdog that won.

Strike that... I'm pissed off at your EX-girlfriend.

I'm pissed off at your girlfriend and I don't even know her.

@osu fan, why doesn't Ohio State play a full schedule? If I were a team, I'd try to follow Ohio State's plan for dominance and avoid joining a real conference with a conference championship game, too. Playing less games than everybody else sounds like a great idea to me. It just makes more sense to me that you would have a way better shot at winning a national championship if your conference was terrible (like Ohio State) and you played less games than everybody else (like Ohio State) and you quit playing before Thanksgiving so you could rest up (like Ohio State).

The thing that really pisses me off is when I dial a number on my iPhone and put the phone up to my ear, the first dial ring is the perfect volume. After the first dial ring, the sound noticeably drops off - almost in half. If the volume is right on the first dial ring, why not the rest of the call?

Why in the world did you pay $500 for leopard? I just it got it for $72 from a college bookstore. Are you saying you loaded leopard and then wanted to return it? If so, that's pretty bold.

I'm glad that everyone is having such great success banging the crap out of their Canon and rubbing the success in my face with a "thanks". My SD1000 still won't open.

Hi, I hope I'm asking this in the right forum? I've been searching for an answer to this problem for 5 days, and hopefully someone here knows the solution.

Helloimamac, you might have won. The newest video on the Apple site that demos OS X Leopard does not have wet grass as the default background. It's some starry cosmos looking thing. The demo mentions other various backgrounds you might pick but does not show the wet grass background during the movie. I guess we will have to wait a little longer, but you might have pulled it off and got the wet grass thrown out.

OK, Frank... I read your other complaint about the NBC Notre Dame football contract and now this one. If I didn't know better, I would say Notre Dame is growing on you. I'm almost ready to call you a subway alumnus. In your closet fandom, maybe you ought to consider filing a legitimate complaint about Notre Dame football. I'll point you in the right direction with "My Biggest Complaint About Charlie Weis Getting Paid 20 Million Dollars To Win One Game..." or a potential variant on the theme "My Biggest Complaint About Charlie Weis Winning With Ty Willingham's Players And Losing With His Own Recruits". Oh and maybe perhaps the best idea yet, "My Biggest Complaint About The World Coming To An End Because Navy Finally Beat Notre Dame After 44 Years." OK, so you might be a little early on the last one. But do you see what I'm talking about? See where I'm going with this? You need to put your new found hobby and closet love for The Irish to work more productively.

I live at the beach. Corona has no idea how hard it is to get a beer on the beach. That might be another complaint all on it's own, but taking things the way they are... you would probably need one of Corona's secluded island spots to pull it off as open and notoriously as presented. You would have a better shot at hooking up with the hot beer chicks in bikinis on other beer ads like those ads make you think you will than you would sitting peacefully on the beach in a chair with a Corona with waves lapping against your feet.

The bicep armbands aren't as bad as Allen Iverson's burn victim sleeve thing.

I can't understand why they pick songs that are so sleepy. Everyone in the place is gettin jacked on a frap with 5 shots. Are the songs supposed to be downloaded and played later on at night when your buzz is dead?

Them: "Hi. Welcome to CiCi's!" Me: "Hi. Clean the place up instead of yelling at me."

Don't forget no slow motion. The original shows were MADE, as DBlock points out, by the sound but the accompanying slow motion shots of jumping over a fence or jumping off a building went hand in hand. The new bionic woman is opposite in every way. No sound and no slow-mo. In fact everything is sped up. Ground breaking cinematic effects idea - someone's running fast speed the film up. It's like the bionic Charlie Chaplan.

Why would I ever want to press 4 to send a fax? The option thing has caused me to give up on voicemail altogether. I quit leaving messages and I don't listen to mine. People who know me will text me with something important and if I miss their call, I have their number in my missed call list. That's good enough for me. Haven't missed anything earth shattering yet.

Funny you should mention the distressed/torn clothing fad. This is one of about 30 complaints I have stored in my phone that I just haven't found the time to write. If anyone wants to hit it, have at it. You're right - lots of people fell for it!

dw17 said

"Back in 1985, prior to the NBC contract, ABC or CBS did just that, they left and “uncompetitive” game against Penn State (I clearly remember Jim Nantz saying that) to go to another game."

I think the words were "competitively out of hand". I remember them because I watched the game you're talking about against Penn State. "Competitively out of hand" has become a long running joke in my family of Notre Dame fans. We don't have a "slaughter rule" or "mercy rule" in our family, things just get "competitively out of hand".

The flip side is that so many people actually hate Notre Dame, they're probably loving watching every minute of this disasterous season!

What about how they keep your points even when you want to kill the card? Most companies will only let you cash in points to a certain minimum level like say 1,250. You can't go below that ever. In essence, the credit card company keeps your minimum points balance which could othewise be redeemed for cash. Just one more way they get you coming and going.

I'm not trying to beat this to death, but I was watching a game today and my 6 year old daughter walks in the room and says, "Are they going to take that thing off the top of the screen? It's running across the guy's faces." That's my girl. For the record, ESPN and ABC seem to be the worst offenders. Their top scorebar headers cut off a good 10% of the top of the screen.

Maybe your barber got stuck over at that deli shop with crappy service! (btw - love the James Brown piece you just did on your site)

You're exactly right about this. I saw this coming when they started taking plastic at fast food places. Discouraging cash transactions means one thing - more money from interest rates for banks. Banks don't make a dime off of your cash transaction. If they can make the cash user look like an idiot, which is exactly what they do in the commerical you describe, the banks have a lot better shot at (pardon the pun) cashing in.

I like the bar too, but not across the top of the screen. The bar at the bottom works perfectly fine and doesn't screw up my viewing. I get just as much info at the bottom of the screen and there is much less to see at the bottom than the top of the screen. It's much less annoying to have the score bar block the feet of the players or the near sideline which I can't see anyway because the camera angle forces one team to always block it, than it is to have the bar cut across the heads of the players and action that can occur on the far sideline which is unobstructed in the natural camera viewing angle of a game.

I love this - thanks! I love being able to see the posts and comments from everyone on my friends list easier.

You're right on with this, Robby. I too remember watching games as a kid and hearing the likes of Keith Jackson say, "Chevrolet is proud to donate $1,000 to the general scholarship fund for... ". The amount hasn't changed since I can remember. $1,000 is a token sum for the blurb when you consider the 100's of thousands of dollars most schools get for the broadcast of the games. The networks have every right to do what they want with the advertising, after all they are spitting big bucks back to the schools which is probably used for much more than the $1,000 from the "general scholarship fund". But you're exactly right that the token amount has become a joke. Either increase the amount or dump the joke altogether. $1,000 in today's college bucks is probably 3 books.

@dw17, cool to know your an alum, as a subway alum, I'm surprised nobody's complained about the pitiful performance of the Irish offense this season. As to game times, I've often thought the West Coast has it made for football watching all around. Sunday NFL games start at 1:00 ET(notice, 'ET' not 'EST'... yes, I learned from your other post, thanks for the advice!). That means left coasters wake up on a Sunday and start watching games at 10:00 AM. College games start at 12:00 in the East, so folks out West can stat watching football instead of cartoons on Saturdays. South Bend has always been different with their time anyway. At this point, I don't care what time the games start. I just wish they could get more than 10 yards of offense.

This is a perfect example of why I am addicted to this site. I do this. I didn't even realize this before you pointed it out like so many ot the other things I've read here at My Biggest Complaint. Thanks for pointing this out. I am now officially on "ET - Eastern Time".

Although this is a complete bummer, I don't think it has much to do with Apple. They never claim to have indestructible laptops. I'm curious as to whether your daughter had checked her laptop or carried it on. I never check my macbook pro when I fly. If your daughter carried her laptop on with her and she's saying the force of the landing cracked the screen, that must have been one helluva landing.