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Polar Electro straps and wrist bands are cheap trash

RF — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:24:01 +0000

The T31 transmitter on my Polar Electro has broken at one end and is now unwearable. After dutifully trolling the internet for this cheap trash POS, it is apparently a common problem, not only for the heart transmitter, but also for their cheap trash POS watch bands.

Rather than pay prime replacement rate for a Polar Electro T31 cheap trash POS, I have decided to fix this cheap trash POS Polar Electro T31 myself.

Good luck getting me to ever purchase another cheap POS manufactured by Polar Electro.

Should you ever need to replace the battery in this thing, there are plenty of videos covering instructions on how to replace the transmitter battery. It’s a heck of a lot cheaper than paying for a new heart transmitter, considering the battery is only a couple of bucks.

Highway robbery

RF — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:33:44 +0000

How many times have you been hit up by a lying, cheating, stealing, change-grabbing gas-bar attendant when you’re on the road? Some of them are trying to stick their hand in your pocket while they make a show of giving you the change. Yeah, I’m fed up too.

I stop here on the bike for fuel on a regular basis. It's just outside of Moosomin. I always have to pay attention to my change before taking my hand off of the counter - especially if one woman in particular is behind the counter. If I don't, guess what?

TSA humps love to do shit like this

RF — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:58:02 +0000

Ninety-five-year-old women with soiled diapers beware!

… security personnel then came out and told her they would need for her mother to remove her Depends diaper because it was soiled and was impeding their search. –by Lauren Sage Reinlie, newshearald.com

“TSA cannot exempt any group from screening because we know from intelligence that there are terrorists out there that would then exploit that vulnerability”. –Sari Koshetz, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration, Miami

Let’s see now, when, exactly was the last time that some 95-year-old wearing a diaper tried to blow up an airplane? Oh, no. Saints preserve us. It was a Muslim who tried to blow up an airplane while wearing his reinforced boxers. Has anyone told the TSA?

I know you’ll all feel safer knowing that some of the ~~finest, most understanding, intelligent, alert and aware~~ stupidest humps are employed by the dumb-asses at the TSA.

Continuing TSA stupidity

RF — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:18:42 +0000

Tell me why, dummies:

Mechanics are not screened. Caterers are not screened. Cabin cleaners are not screened. Baggage loaders and apron workers are not screened. They are subject to fingerprinting, a 10-year criminal background investigation and cross-checking against terror watch lists, but they receive only occasional, random on-the-job checks. Many employees say they have gone years without ever once being screened. –The future of airport security by Patrick Smith, salon.com

You won’t find this in the Alberta media

RF — Thu, 26 May 2011 17:03:16 +0000

Cables sent from the U.S. embassy in Ottawa in 2003 and 2008 show that Alberta politicians offered to export power to the United States using excess electricity generated by oil sands facilities. –thetyee.ca, Wikileaks Shines Light on Alberta’s $16-Billion Electricity Scandal, by Andrew Nikiforuk

Are you looking for information on the Alberta government’s draconian Bill 50 and why it was passed? Are you fed up with the answers given by lying political hacks of the Alberta government?

What’s Bill 50, you ask?

That bill took away the public’s needs assessment hearings and shifted all decision making to the back-room of Alberta’s provincial cabinet. –thetyee.ca

You can read all about it at thetyee.ca.