Never once have I specifically stated that any article was my own,and thank you for pointing me out.This world needs one more B.S. site to whine about his/her own insecurities. Nobody was posting on this site,so I took some initiative to post a little humor.If you can’t appreciate that,then why oh why have you waited this long to post anything at all,not to mention blast me oversomething that I posted. If you want to turn this into a flame war,then I am out of here,otherwise post something intelligent and we’ll all get on with our lives!!!!

In the meantime..Take care

I have enjoyed using this website for a number of reasons, mostly because as the website states in its mission statement, that you can get on your soapbox about any topic that is important to you. YOUR OWN SOAPBOX. How is cutting and pasting someone else’s web content, and passing it off as their own considered YOUR OWN SOAPBOX and original? Wouldn’t that qualify as someone else’s soapbox? Hmmm, this is worth exploring for a moment. I believe that in today’s society where anyone is able to access tons of information at any given moment on the internet it would be extremely easy to cut and paste. However, to actually come up with your own ideas and opinions and get on your own soapbox about something, well, that would take time and energy. For example, take our friend indieradiochattanooga. S/he decided to cut and paste an article from http://www.scribd.com/doc/26896/SUING-FOR-TOO-MUCH-SEX and pass it off as his/her own thoughts. What’s wrong with this you might ask? Nothing, unless you actually have your own ideas and opinions to share with interested readers. Then you might look at this action as extremely lame and pointless. For, if a reader wanted to look at that article, wouldn’t they just look it up on the original website? I believe so. I didn’t really want to read it, and then was forced to comment on it so that there would be some original content attached to his/her posting. I am interested in this indie’s thoughts and ideas, not someone else’s. So indie, please use some originality in your postings, so that us interested readers could explore what you really think about the world at large, not regurgitate someone else ’s opinions.

God bless America: land of the free, home of the brave – and litigators. I sue, you sue, we all sue – and the sillier the cause, the better. Frivolous lawsuits are the stuff of television shows like Philly and Boston Public. But that’s fiction, right? You think.

A woman in Florida has sued her employers for developing carpal tunnel syndrome – also known as repetitive motion injury – in both hands. Why should this make news? It’s a common occupational hazard for data entry operators and others who spend all day typing on a keyboard. Right, except the lady in question is no data entry operator and she didn’t get her tendons in a twist from too much typing. She got it from too much masturbating.

The woman, who lives in Fort Lauderdale, is a phone sexline operator. Her job description requires her to masturbate regularly – up to seven times a day - while indulging her clients’ sexual fantasies. The ambidextrous female used one hand to answer the phone and the other to give herself an orgasm during the verbal foreplay. It’s all about customer satisfaction. Isn’t that what they teach you at management school?

The phone sex lady has filed for worker’s compensation from Florida’s Department of Labor and Employment Security. She has claimed weekly benefits of $267 and also asked to be reimbursed $30,000 for medical bills reimbursement, after a neurosurgeon operated on her hand to relieve the pain. Hey lady! You forgot to collect damages for mental trauma.

Now that’s what I call private enterprise at its finest. It’s no wonder that the USA is the leader of the free world.

·        Large, loft apartments In New York City are plentiful and affordable, even if the tenants are unemployed.
·        One of a pair of twins is Evil.
·        Should you decide to defuse a bomb, don’t worry about which wire to cut. You will always choose the right one.
·        It doesn’t matter if you are greatly outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts. Your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one… dancing around in a threatening manner until you have dispatched their predecessors.
·        When you turn out the light to go to bed, every thing in your bedroom will still be clearly visible but slightly blue.
·        Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their enemies using complex machinery involving fused, deadly gasses, laser, buzz saws and hungry sharks, all of which will give their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.
·        It is easy to land a plane, provided that there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.
·        The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place. No one will ever think to look for you there, and you can travel to any other part of the building without difficulty.
·        You’re very likely to survive any battle in a war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.
·        A man will show no pain while taking the most horrific beating, but will wince when a woman tried to clean his wounds.
·        If someone says, “I’ll be right back,” they won’t.
·        Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary to turn the steering wheel from time to time.
·   Police departments give their Officers personality tests to make sure each is assigned a partner who is their total opposite

Does anyone know why us women pay money for people to torture our feet? I have a few theories, but have not come to any conclusions as of yet.

Let me explain, I was recently a bridesmaid in a wedding and decided to participate in the long-held tradition of pre-wedding pampering with the rest of the bridal party. I envisioned sparkly feet and loads of relaxation. However, I ended up with a large wound on the side of my foot where my pedicurist was over-zealous with the pumice stone and scraped away perfectly good skin. In fact, skin that I needed, since the following day I was to wear cute bridesmaid shoes with straps that crossed over the offending wound. So, there I was going to the drug store at the last minute to get band-aids that were sheer so that no one would see the band-aid peeking out from my strap and ruin the aforementioned “sparkly feet” vision I still had hope for in the wedding pictures.

Of course, not wanting to raise a stink and ruin the pampering day for the bride, I not only paid full price, but tipped as well! I tipped someone for rubbing my skin off and giving me a wound!?! What’s wrong with me? As a woman, have I grown accustomed to pain for the price of beauty? Or, as I suspect, do weddings make people do things they wouldn’t normally do?? Hmmm…does anyone out there have any theories?

Ok, I hardly write about celebrities, but this one is wearing on my nerves. I can pretty much summarize my aggravation in a couple of words, what is the deal with Paris Hilton? Right now you can tune into any news station and watch “Breaking News” about her being returned back to jail, and the shock of how they can treat a celebrity like that. You can hear people at your local Starbucks discussing her over their lattes. Heck, I even heard two customers give a rental car employee the latest gossip of her as they waited to be handed keys to their rented SUV.

First of all, what classifies her as a celebrity? What is her talent? Is she an award winning actress? Is she a great super model? Has she helped the needy children of the world? No, she has not. What is her career field? Socialite? Is that a career? Can you claim that on your taxes? I don’t remember Socialite being offered as a college major. Oh, I am sorry, she is a hotel heiress to the Hilton Hotel empire. Well I guess that classifies you as someone of great notoriety and intelligence that everyone turns to for inspiration on how they themselves can help better this world. Give me a break.

I am sure there is more important news to cover. I don’t care what outfit she had on when she had to appear in court. Does anyone care that I have on a cotton t-shirt and shorts? I sure hope not. This seems like a sad media obsession. Oh wait, I guess I am contributing to this obsession as well.

KillerStartups.com posted a great review of WordSoap. You can read the article here. Thank you Siri, and the whole KillerStartups team.

Please welcome hikariyuki and Butch to the WordSoap team.  They are some of the first WordSoap members to participate in our Alpha testing.  I look forward to reading their articles shortly.  If you are interested in joining, please don’t forget to sign up.

I was just checking out the stats, and WordSoap has experienced a huge growth in visitors these past few days. Keep them coming, and please don’t forget to tell your friends. Remember, you too can be part of the WordSoap team by requesting a WordSoap account.

Now lets create some content!

I am sure most of you have had great experiences using Amazon to buy everything from books to video games. Perhaps some of you have had the occasional lost shipment, package sent to the wrong address, etc, etc. But how many of you loyal Amazon customers out there have had the privilege of having two failed delivery attempts of Amazon merchandise in a row?

What do I mean by failed deliveries?

Imagine ordering a package on Amazon in March, inputting the correct mailing address, and finding out through Amazon’s Track Packages system, that your long awaited shipment has been statused as a “Insufficient Address, Return to Sender”. No attempt to redeliver the package a second time. It is going right back to Amazon.

Of course I voiced my opinion to Amazon’s Customer Service Representatives. They explained to me that according to their company policy, returned shipments are not resent out, and they will have to refund my purchase. This policy alone was hard for me to accept, but I had no choice according to Amazon, and had to RE-ORDER the items if I wanted to receive them again. Re-order items that I did not want to return in the first place?? The representative was so kind as to give me credit towards the cost of shipping for my second item, which I gladly accepted as well as their kind apologies for their mistake.

I went ahead and placed another order for the same items in April, and patiently waited for my shipment to arrive in the scheduled 3 business days. On the expected delivery day, I logged onto Amazon and clicked Track Packages for my shipment. Guess what? To my surprise, the item was once again statused as “Insufficient Address, Return to Sender”. Same address, same carrier. Thinking this might have been a problem with the shipping company, I contacted them. They explained to me over the phone, that the only reason that the shipment would be placed in this status, is that the shipper (Amazon) incorrectly labeled the item. Once again, I contacted Amazon Customer Service, and explained to them what the shipper told me and asked them to look into how they are labelling their items for shipment from their Delaware warehouse, which they stated that is where the items were coming from. Once again, Amazon acted like they were sorry for their mistake, gave me another coupon so I can upgrade to next day shipping when I placed my order on my second refunded purchase.

The package arrived on the third attempt, but it took a different delivery address, and a different shipping company to have it arrive. Something is seriously going on with Amazon. I have never before had a issue with their service before, and have even received shipments before to the same address with no problems at all. Amazon, please fix your company before it is too late.