Shit that annoys you...

Madman • Feb 5, 2007 9:18 pm
Cold weather... with NO relief in site.

People that spell "ALOT" as one word.

McDonalds... yuk

Mike Tyson

Michael Jackson
Trilby • Feb 5, 2007 9:28 pm
plumbing

a car that won't start

PEOPLE WHO DO NOT CHANGE THE TP ROLL!

Quizno's

commericials

People who say "irregardless" and "eXspecially"
DucksNuts • Feb 5, 2007 9:54 pm
Alot of stuff shits me today :)
Cloud • Feb 5, 2007 9:59 pm
clerks who ask, "Did you find everything okay?" without any intention of helping you out if you say no.
rigcranop • Feb 5, 2007 10:03 pm
Lazy co-workers.
Assholes driving little imports WAY too fast.
Lack of common courtesy.
Ibby • Feb 5, 2007 10:13 pm
People. All of you motherfuckers.
Urbane Guerrilla • Feb 5, 2007 10:24 pm
Especially the incestuous ones, I suppose.

That and writers who can't distinguish one homonym from another... verbally, they've wrought rot.
monster • Feb 5, 2007 10:45 pm
I find the shit that dangles because of some inadvertently ingested hair particularly annoying.
Trilby • Feb 5, 2007 10:57 pm
Urbane Guerrilla;313180 wrote:
That and writers who can't distinguish one homonym from another... verbally, they've wrought rot.


You are Mr. Language Person!
Hoof Hearted • Feb 5, 2007 11:13 pm
Diarrhea...because you can never get away from the bathroom!
Crimson Ghost • Feb 6, 2007 2:10 am
1. Those kamikaze perfume women in the stores.
"You spray me with that, and I'm punching you in the tit."

2. People who wait until their groceries are completely scanned and bagged and THEN decide to whip out the checkbook. And to add insult to injury, they say "Oh, I was going to pay by check anyway. I just wanted to know how much. Who do I make the check out to?"
HEY COCKSUCKER!!! You knew you were paying by check, so fill the fucking thing out BEFORE you get to the register! And who to make it out to? The El Segundo Wine and Liqueur Exchange? Nooooo. ShopRite, you shitwit.

3. Assholes who take 10 minutes to decide what to get a McDonalds.
The menu is the same as it was yesterday. Decide already.
"I'll have the lobster bisque, a blackened catfish fillet sandwich, and a Rum & Coke."

4. There is a price on the item. That is the price.
"Excuse me, the price tag says $10. Is that the price?"
"Whadda think, toots?"

5. "Hey, your phone line was busy. Were you using it?"
"No, asshole. Tarzan needed something to swing from..."

6. "Excuse me, are you on line for the ATM?"
"No ma'am, I'm just waiting here for the stimulating conversation."

7. ATM service fees. ATM means Ass-To-Mouth.
They shove their dicks in your ass, and then force you to clean the shit covered dick with your tongue and expect you to smile for the chance.

8. Women who wear the skimpiest clothes possible, and then call you a pervert when you look. If you didn't want people to look, then why draw attention to yourself?

9. Poseur goth shitheads. "Oh. life is so horrid, I must wear black and be a miserable self-centered ass." Go ahead, ya schmuck. You want to off yourself, feel free to do so. All you're doing is keeping me employed.

10. Smug salesmen. "I'm sorry sir, we don't have that shirt in your size. These are more for slimmer fit people." Fuck you, asshole. I'm not the one working a minimum-wage paying slow death.
DucksNuts • Feb 6, 2007 3:10 am
Crimson Ghost;313226 wrote:
1. Those kamikaze perfume women in the stores.
"You spray me with that, and I'm punching you in the tit."


hahaha, that caught me by surprise
Aliantha • Feb 6, 2007 6:16 am
When people leave skid marks on my freshly cleaned toilet.

Shitheads who drive slowly in the passing lane.

Shaving whiskers in my bathroom basin.

Stink farts in bed.

People who behave as if they're superior to others.

some fuckwits online.
rkzenrage • Feb 6, 2007 10:18 am
Right now, people who, in a discussion, refuse to clearly answer a direct question.
If you don't know, "I don't know" is an answer. So is, "I was wrong". I say both all the time... it is cathartic.
What people tend to so these days is the equivalent of "look over here!", makes them look crazy.
Sheldonrs • Feb 6, 2007 10:38 am
"Carnys..you know, circus folk." ;-)


And my annoyance du jour... People who think I want to hear their phone conversation on the bus to work. If the person can't hear you then wait until you get off the fucking bus to talk. I REALLY don't care to know what your "friend" did last night under the influence of whatever narcotic they had.
glatt • Feb 6, 2007 10:51 am
Having a shirt with a stiff tag in the neck. It's scratchy.
Elspode • Feb 6, 2007 10:54 am
Going to a Target/WalMart that has thirty checkout aisles, five of which are actually open.
Shawnee123 • Feb 6, 2007 11:10 am
People who get off by being mean, insensitive, pompous, unyielding...ok, in general...people.

Today's unnecessary product packaging (have you bought a curling iron lately?) :)

People who say "anyways."

Who said lazy coworkers? I second that.

The idea that life must be violent, we must live guarded and afraid to be human (yeah, I know that is just the way it is...it just annoys me.)
rkzenrage • Feb 6, 2007 11:21 am
Yeah, "anyways", "proactive" and, the big one "irregardless". Use that last one and be forever an idiot in my eyes.
Spexxvet • Feb 6, 2007 11:49 am
People who go shopping within a half-hour of store closing. The employees have a life, they'd like to close at the posted closing time, not wait another half-hour until you've decided which package of ground beef you want.

People who think laws and rules don't apply to them. That includes waiting in line, stopping at stop signs, demanding service during lunch, etc.
rkzenrage • Feb 6, 2007 12:04 pm
Also goes for walking into a restaurant a half-hour before closing with a large party.
Cloud • Feb 6, 2007 1:02 pm
people who don't park parallel between parking spaces; or take up 2 parking spaces
Cloud • Feb 6, 2007 1:40 pm
credit card offers and other shitemail that say "Please do not discard" on the envelope. What am I supposed to do, wallpaper my bathroom with it?
Kitsune • Feb 6, 2007 1:45 pm
Inappropriate use or lack of apostrophe's.
Cloud • Feb 6, 2007 1:51 pm
is that sarcasm, Ms. Kitsune?
monster • Feb 6, 2007 3:11 pm
glatt;313293 wrote:
Having a shirt with a stiff tag in the neck. It's scratchy.


scissors.
Phil • Feb 6, 2007 3:21 pm
people who spell SIGHT as SITE.

people who say OF instead of HAVE.
glatt • Feb 6, 2007 3:21 pm
Getting a small stone or a piece of mulch in your shoe. Especially if the pebble has sharp corners.
Clodfobble • Feb 6, 2007 3:30 pm
Remodeling contractors who don't freaking show up when they say they will.:angry:
Pie • Feb 6, 2007 3:45 pm
Raytheon.
Phil • Feb 6, 2007 3:46 pm
that little stick of toenail that digs in to the toe next to it.
Spexxvet • Feb 6, 2007 4:24 pm
Phil;313374 wrote:
people who spell SIGHT as SITE.
...

People who spell CITE as SITE.
Spexxvet • Feb 6, 2007 4:25 pm
People who that because you have opinions that differ from theirs, you are stupid, afraid, wrong, or mentally difficient in some other way.
Aliantha • Feb 6, 2007 7:42 pm
I'm with you on that one Spex!
Kingswood • Feb 6, 2007 7:59 pm
Idiots on the road who speed up out of my blind spot, cut me off in traffic, then make a turn 100 metres later. Totally pointless.

Bank fees.

Companies that prostitute all your confidential, personal details to whomever they choose for their own profit. Even more annoying is when they don't tell you who they gave your details to because it's confidential.

Shit that takes half a roll to wipe clean.

The prime minister. He must have a diamond doorknob and millions of minions that can only say "pretty, pretty, shiny, shiny".
lumberjim • Feb 6, 2007 8:25 pm
this
Lucy • Feb 6, 2007 8:46 pm
Damn you all to hell, lumberjim. How long will it take for that little ditty to leave my brain???
Kitsune • Feb 6, 2007 8:57 pm
Chevy Tahoe chassises with penis compensation package add on.
SteveDallas • Feb 6, 2007 9:16 pm
Justin Timberlake.

I know, it's petty of me... but let's just look at who this guy has hooked up with:
[LIST]
[*]Britney Spears
[*]Alyssa Milano
[*]Cameron Diaz
[*]Jessica Biel
[*]Scarlett Johansson
[/LIST]
lumberjim • Feb 6, 2007 10:46 pm
he has redeemed all affronts with this, however:
[youtube]1dmVU08zVpA[/youtube]
LabRat • Feb 7, 2007 9:41 am
SteveDallas;313441 wrote:
Justin Timberlake.

I know, it's petty of me... but let's just look at who this guy has hooked up with:



But, look who he hasn't: [SIZE="1"](that I know of)[/SIZE]

*Brianna
*Sundae Girl
*Wolf
*Jinx
*Me

:D
Sundae • Feb 7, 2007 10:00 am
Justin did try to hook up with me, but I was doing an inventory of my health & beauty shelf.

What annoys me? Stupid people mainly. Specifically today, stupid old women in the health food shop:

SOW#1 - They say it's going to snow tomorrow you know
SOW#2 - Oh you are a ray of sunshine, what do you want to say that for?
SOW#1 - No, they said it on the telly, going to snow tomorrow
SOW#2 - Better make sure you've stocked up then
SOW#1 - Oh yes, that's what I've come in for - sugar and prunes. My canister is nearly full but I thought if it's going to snow I better stock up. But they've run out!
SOW#2 - Run out?
SOW#1 - Of prunes dear, they've run out. Probably because it's been on the telly that it's going to snow.

Argh.
glatt • Feb 7, 2007 10:48 am
Sundae Girl;313540 wrote:
SOW#1 - Oh yes, that's what I've come in for - sugar and prunes. My canister is nearly full but I thought if it's going to snow I better stock up. But they've run out!
SOW#2 - Run out?
SOW#1 - Of prunes dear, they've run out. Probably because it's been on the telly that it's going to snow.

Argh.


:lol: I always run out to stock up on prunes when it's going to snow.
Cloud • Feb 7, 2007 11:19 am
LOL! maybe it's a better idea to stock up on toilet paper!
skysidhe • Feb 7, 2007 11:52 am
funny you should ask. Re: shit that annoys me. I just found a pic that sums it up quite nicely.

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Spexxvet • Feb 7, 2007 12:06 pm
People who stop a microwave before it's done, and don't reset the time. You look to see what time it is, and the clock says 0:45
Cloud • Feb 7, 2007 12:33 pm
--People who enjoy arguing for argument's sake; and

--People whose primary argument on all subjects is, "The Bible says . . . "
Sheldonrs • Feb 7, 2007 12:41 pm
Cloud;313585 wrote:
--People who enjoy arguing for argument's sake; and

--People whose primary argument on all subjects is, "The Bible says . . . "


Amen!
Shawnee123 • Feb 7, 2007 1:00 pm
OMG am I the only person on earth who thinks Justin Timberlake is creepy and not even bordering on attractive. He looks like the kind of guy who would hang out in this bar uptown that attracts some questionable humans. I mean, I question that they're human.

And Sheldon, you're too funny.

Yes, Justin Timberlake tops my list of annoyances. Brought sexy back my ass. :)
Elspode • Feb 7, 2007 1:17 pm
SteveDallas;313441 wrote:
Justin Timberlake.

I know, it's petty of me... but let's just look at who this guy has hooked up with:
[LIST]
[*]Britney Spears
[*]Alyssa Milano
[*]Cameron Diaz
[*]Jessica Biel
[*]Scarlett Johansson
[/LIST]


I would do all of those women...but I would put tape over Britney's mouth.
Sheldonrs • Feb 7, 2007 1:38 pm
Elspode;313604 wrote:
I would do all of those women...but I would put tape over Britney's mouth.



I've seen the pics. Those are not the lips you need to worry about! lol!!
xoxoxoBruce • Feb 7, 2007 2:23 pm
Shawnee123;313593 wrote:
OMG am I the only person on earth who thinks Justin Timberlake is creepy and not even bordering on attractive. He looks like the kind of guy who would hang out in this bar uptown that attracts some questionable humans. I mean, I question that they're human.

He's a low rent lounge lizard. The Bill Murry, SNL, roadhouse singer.:zzz:
Shawnee123 • Feb 7, 2007 2:29 pm
xoxoxoBruce;313628 wrote:
He's a low rent lounge lizard. The Bill Murry, SNL, roadhouse singer.:zzz:


LOL..."Star wars, if we could bar wars, please let these star wars....stay."
BigV • Feb 7, 2007 2:30 pm
Pie;313381 wrote:
Raytheon.

You find bugging annoying?
BigV • Feb 7, 2007 2:32 pm
Kingswood;313419 wrote:
--snip--

Bank fees.

--snip--
Please. Get your ass to the local credit union immediately. Any credit union. Here in the upper left hand corner, the membership rules are extremely lax. You can find one, and "pay yourself" those fees.
SteveDallas • Feb 7, 2007 3:51 pm
Spexxvet;313385 wrote:
People who spell CITE as SITE.

I missed this one! One time somebody wrote to me that something I had written in an email was "inciteful." My first thought was, oh, brother. My second thought was, hey, maybe it should be a real word. "The mayor's speech was so inciteful that the crowd rioted."
xoxoxoBruce • Feb 7, 2007 7:46 pm
BigV;313633 wrote:
Please. Get your ass to the local credit union immediately. Any credit union. Here in the upper left hand corner, the membership rules are extremely lax. You can find one, and "pay yourself" those fees.


My credit union requires, (which is the legal requirement) that you live, work or pray in this county. Walk in and pray for an account.

I have noticed, however, the credit unions with new laws and expanded territory, are starting to act more like banks than they used to. :(
Cloud • Feb 7, 2007 8:47 pm
hard to use online tv listing pages
bluecuracao • Feb 7, 2007 8:59 pm
- Dry contact lenses
- Drivers who think the red light means 'floor it'
- Sub-freezing temperatures with no snow
- Sidewalk pissers :greenface
Kingswood • Feb 7, 2007 9:01 pm
BigV;313633 wrote:
Please. Get your ass to the local credit union immediately. Any credit union. Here in the upper left hand corner, the membership rules are extremely lax. You can find one, and "pay yourself" those fees.

I did - a long time ago.

The trouble is, once banks started charging fees, many other places started doing the same. Including some credit unions.

And the most annoying thing is that you can't charge the banks fees when THEY stuff up. Oh would I love to slap the bank a $40 fee every time they make a mistake like depositing the cheque in the wrong account!

The fee schedule I would like to see:
Bank deposits cheque in wrong account ... $40 (if details were correct on deposit slip)
Cheque bounces because bank deposited cheque in wrong account ... $100 (if details were correct on deposit slip)
Document handling fee for promotional brochures received in mail ... $5 per page ($10 minimum)
Bank places your information on a mailing list ... $30 listing fee
Bank sells your personal information to a third party ... $10 disclosure fee

I think Americans have a good term for what bank fees are like - "nickled and dimed".
DucksNuts • Feb 7, 2007 9:19 pm
:dedhorse: Attention Whores that dont know when to give up and Image
Kitsune • Feb 7, 2007 9:24 pm
People that stand on the toilet instead of sit. Shoe prints on the seat, missed targets, etc.

(If this is not an issue at your workplace, then you must not work for a telecom company that employs lots of H1Bs. Lucky you.)
Cloud • Feb 7, 2007 9:25 pm
sqatting on the toilet is much better for elimination. but standing? that's just messy
Perry Winkle • Feb 7, 2007 9:42 pm
Office Gossips

People that can't figure out I don't want to talk to them.

The people at the gym who are out to hurt themselves or someone else and the people who do exercises in a way that will offer no benefit whatsoever and the people that give absolutely incorrect fitness advice. Oh, lets not forget the fucker that monopolizes the only 40-degree incline leg-press machine for a god-damned hour. Also, the ass-munches that don't understand the concept of letting people "work-in" sets while they rest.

Another gym-related gripe: the old chicks with very obvious fake breasts that wear very tight, revealing clothing--I don't need to see the scar from your cesarean section. I'm glad they're proud of their bodies. But bitch, unless you want me to show you my scars and stretch marks, put some god-damned clothes on.
DucksNuts • Feb 7, 2007 11:14 pm
muahahah grumpy much today Grant????
Cloud • Feb 7, 2007 11:23 pm
I could make sour remarks about ageism and preoccupation with personal appearance . . .

but I won't.

Because I'm the new girl.

Signed,

an Old Chick
Kingswood • Feb 8, 2007 12:02 am
Kitsune;313778 wrote:
People that stand on the toilet instead of sit. Shoe prints on the seat, missed targets, etc.

Male or female? #1 or #2?

On second thoughts, don't answer. The mental imagery I'm getting is really gross no matter how you combine those. Eww.

If you do find the identity of the perpetrator, call him or her "Bomber". :D
zippyt • Feb 8, 2007 12:05 am
salesmen that WAAAAAAAY over sell for the application , I have to figuer out this complicated stuff, and dumb it down to do the job with out cornfusing every body !!!!!!!

Tech support geeks that don't know SHIT !!!!!!!

Customers that don't take ANY care of their equipment !!!!
"what do you meen the printer doesn't work , we just ran over it with a fork lift !!"

Can you tell I have had a bad few days ??
Crimson Ghost • Feb 8, 2007 3:00 am
Salespeople who don't have the slightest bit of common sense.
If I walk into a store with headphones on, and the music is loud enough to hear it five feet away, why ask me a question?
My usual response is, "Do you see the headphones? Do you hear the music? It means that not only can't I hear you, I don't want to hear you. Now, be a good little asswipe, toddle off and play in traffic."
Aliantha • Feb 8, 2007 4:00 am
I'd like to make a comment on behalf of all the other salespeople here.

Not all of us are stupid, even if we do work in retail.

Thankyou for your time.
Kitsune • Feb 8, 2007 8:47 am
Kingswood;313827 wrote:
Male or female? #1 or #2?

On second thoughts, don't answer. The mental imagery I'm getting is really gross no matter how you combine those. Eww.


Too late! Male and both functions.

Kingswood;313827 wrote:
If you do find the identity of the perpetrator, call him or her "Bomber". :D


When the bombing target had been missed, it was usually evident by the janitor's cursing alone. Just in case, we made sure to let everyone know that the "Chinese embassy had been hit, again".
Sheldonrs • Feb 8, 2007 9:11 am
Sales people who are overly friendly on the phone when they call my office and then just hang up when I tell them we are a non-profit org.

Do they really think something called "Communities In Schools" is a fortune 500 company?!!!
Shawnee123 • Feb 8, 2007 10:48 am
People who say "people that" instead of "people who" or any other combination such as "a girl that..." instead of "a girl who..."

People are whos and things are thats.:p :rolleyes: :3eye:
LabRat • Feb 8, 2007 10:53 am
Day-O

Day ay ay -O

Daylight come and me wanna go home...
LabRat • Feb 8, 2007 10:54 am
whoops, wrong thread.
how'd that happen?
Shawnee123 • Feb 8, 2007 10:59 am
LabRat;313951 wrote:
whoops, wrong thread.
how'd that happen?


LMAO...:)
Kitsune • Feb 8, 2007 11:03 am
People who use "how are you?" as a greeting and then act confused when you answer their question.
SteveDallas • Feb 8, 2007 11:07 am
"How you doin'?"

"How you doin'?"

"How you doin'?"

"How you doin'?"

"How you doin'?"
Dagney • Feb 8, 2007 11:21 am
"How YOU doin'?" (sorry, couldn't resist, been watching too much of Friends lately)
Sundae • Feb 8, 2007 11:26 am
Kitsune;313962 wrote:
People who use "how are you?" as a greeting and then act confused when you answer their question.

Do they? I must bug the hell out of them then, I've always answered it as a genuine question!

Today I am mostly being annoyed by my own lunch. Or my own inability to make it, I'm not sure.

I tried to make myself California style sushi rolls today. No, I didn't need to look up a how-to site, it was obvious how to make them! Bamboo mat to roll them on? No, of course I didn't need one - I'd do it at my desk!

I had hoped that once I'd gone to the trouble of cooking the rice - 20 mins, opening the tuna & mixing with horseradish (no wasabi in town) - 5 mins, and then assembling - 5 mins, I'd be popping perfect little rounds into my mouth as I carried on working.

OH NO. Sushi wanted to play unwinding games...
So I ended up shovelling it in with a fork and chasing stray grains all over my desk like an anteater...
I might as well have eaten it all separately, would have been less time & effort.

I don't like it when my food misbehaves. Like when crackers & crispbreads snap in my hands and shed their precious cargo on my desk, or pizza topping slides off in one go and flaps burningly on my chin, or soup gives me hiccups. I feel it breaks some fundemental contract.
Pie • Feb 8, 2007 12:09 pm
BigV;313632 wrote:
You find bugging annoying?


Ignoring emails and phone calls. If they'd bug my calls, at least I'd know they were listening!
glatt • Feb 8, 2007 12:26 pm
That reminds me. Hopeful vendors who call me to sell me crap I don't want and then expect me to pick up the phone and talk to them. Or return their voice mail. Or e-mail. Please take a hint. I have never returned your call. I won't be buying anything from you. Stop wasting your time and my time.
SteveDallas • Feb 8, 2007 12:38 pm
I've said before, I pre-screen my calls with caller ID. It's beyond me why they keep it up--maybe they get paid per phone call. I can give you the names of three or four companies that just keep calling and calling at least once or twice a month in spite of the fact that I never answer and never return their calls. I've never been a sales droid, but I always thought part of the required tool set was knowing when you have a cold lead so you don't waste time on a hopeless situation.


The one time I did, against my better judgement, talk to somebody who came by selling something I needed to buy, it ended up ugly. (short version: me: "I need A and B." him: "Pshaw. Why would you want that? Nobody does that. That's silly. [wait 1 week] Hey, are you going to buy it?" "No." "Oh, OK, can I ask why not?" "Because you don't want to do A and B." "OH OH NO NO WAIT I changed my mind!!! We'll do it!")
Shawnee123 • Feb 8, 2007 12:42 pm
Now, that reminds me of one:

Coca-Cola Corporation and their "reward" points program. But that's another thread I will start some day, if they continue to refuse to answer my questions more like humans and less like robots.

Big corporations are the anti-christ.
Cloud • Feb 8, 2007 2:03 pm
stories on news sites that are only in video format.
Pie • Feb 8, 2007 2:35 pm
Cloud;314022 wrote:
stories on news sites that are only in video format.
Doubled and redoubled! And in spades!
Phil • Feb 8, 2007 2:53 pm
teenagers.
Shawnee123 • Feb 8, 2007 3:02 pm
Phil;314036 wrote:
teenagers.


I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids.
Griff • Feb 8, 2007 3:53 pm
Misogynistic guys who are willing to start an argument with Pete, but won't bring it when I'm there.
LabRat • Feb 8, 2007 3:56 pm
Posts that use words that I have to look up to understand.



:)
busterb • Feb 8, 2007 4:02 pm
Me To.



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Madman • Feb 8, 2007 4:30 pm
Wal-Mart greeters that neither smile nor "greet."

Isn't that what they get paid to do? "Welcome to WalMart, hello, kiss my ass" something, anything!
Sheldonrs • Feb 8, 2007 4:58 pm
And at this moment, I am annoyed that the death of Anna Nicole Smith is the big news story everywhere I go.
Shawnee123 • Feb 8, 2007 5:32 pm
Madman;314059 wrote:
Wal-Mart greeters that neither smile nor "greet."

Isn't that what they get paid to do? "Welcome to WalMart, hello, kiss my ass" something, anything!
I KNOW...they have big old sign on their vests that say "how may I help you" but if you walk around looking lost they don't ask if they can help you!

Sheldonrs;314068 wrote:
And at this moment, I am annoyed that the death of Anna Nicole Smith is the big news story everywhere I go.


I was going to reply that I was so sick of seeing her on everything about the baby and stuff, then reread your post that she is dead. Strange strange situations surrounding that girl and her life.
Trilby • Feb 8, 2007 5:38 pm
Sundae Girl;313981 wrote:
I don't like it when my food misbehaves. Like when crackers & crispbreads snap in my hands and shed their precious cargo on my desk, or pizza topping slides off in one go and flaps burningly on my chin, or soup gives me hiccups. I feel it breaks some fundemental contract.


I disapprove of misbehaving foodstuffs as well. Where can one go to get a nice, polite slice of pizza?


:D
bluecuracao • Feb 8, 2007 6:57 pm
Aliantha;313866 wrote:
I'd like to make a comment on behalf of all the other salespeople here.

Not all of us are stupid, even if we do work in retail.

Thankyou for your time.


Reminds me of another one: Customers who conduct an entire transaction with a retail salesperson, while talking on a cell phone or with loud headphones on. :p Sure, we are more than happy to take your money...but we are not vending machines!
Kingswood • Feb 8, 2007 7:31 pm
Sheldonrs;314068 wrote:
And at this moment, I am annoyed that the death of Anna Nicole Smith is the big news story everywhere I go.

What annoys me about that is how several news sites say that she was "found dead" in the hotel room, and then in the first paragraph or two the story reveals that he was really found unconscious in the hotel room and later died.

It bugs me when reputable news organizations screw up like this.
Aliantha • Feb 8, 2007 8:29 pm
bluecuracao;314109 wrote:
Reminds me of another one: Customers who conduct an entire transaction with a retail salesperson, while talking on a cell phone or with loud headphones on. :p Sure, we are more than happy to take your money...but we are not vending machines!


I don't serve those customers. Just give the next person in line a nod.

My defense? If they're on the phone, how're they going to conduct a speedy transaction with their hands full? ;)
MonkeyPaw • Feb 8, 2007 8:31 pm
Madman;313164 wrote:
Cold weather... with NO relief in site.

People that spell "ALOT" as one word.

McDonalds... yuk

Mike Tyson

Michael Jackson


you
Madman • Feb 8, 2007 8:39 pm
MonkeyPaw;314138 wrote:
you


You too! <finger>
monster • Feb 8, 2007 9:21 pm
bluecuracao;314109 wrote:
Reminds me of another one: Customers who conduct an entire transaction with a retail salesperson, while talking on a cell phone or with loud headphones on. :p Sure, we are more than happy to take your money...but we are not vending machines!



Year before last I had a trick-or-treater who was on her cellphone the whole time and just opened her pillowcase for me to drop the goodies in. I refused to give her candy and she got all huffy and said "but it's my sister!" Oh, that's OK then. :rolleyes: (I refused one smoking too, but other than that I give them all candy -even the adults not in costume. If you're that desperate for candy, have at it....)
Urbane Guerrilla • Feb 9, 2007 2:21 am
Hey! Rotate that finger!

I have not yet summoned up the nerve to offer the adults accompanying trick-or-treaters either disposable razors or candy in a razor blade box.
monster • Feb 9, 2007 10:53 am
Urbane Guerrilla;314216 wrote:
Hey! Rotate that finger!

I have not yet summoned up the nerve to offer the adults accompanying trick-or-treaters either disposable razors or candy in a razor blade box.


I'm thinking about handing out cards for my dentist this year :D
Sundae • Feb 9, 2007 11:48 am
:rant:
Warning - this is very detailed and very petty

REALLY annoying me today is some people's attitude toward admin staff. They seem to think "and other other duties that may be required blahblahblah" on our contracts mean we can be dicked around in a way they would never think of with staff on the same grade as themselves.

Case in point.

When our new CEO decided to move into the office with the best view in the building (previously occupied by my Manager) he decreed that the furniture in the lobby on this floor should also go.

My department had a long, low cabinet which was in the lobby because there was no room for it in the open plan office. There is another grumble about moving the team into a space which will only fit the people and not the paperwork but I'll leave it out. This was a smart piece of furniture in exactly the same bland design as the round table and chairs that were allowed to remain. It also gave people somewhere to sort the printing/ photocopying from the machine opposite.

So, a very useful piece of furniture, and one that I only heard would be moved on the Friday because I was working late. I stuck my nose in, put my case and actually thought I'd won.

Nope.

Came in Monday, cabinet gone.

After about an hour I tracked down the person responsible for the move, who grumpily informed me that he'd been just about to call me (yeah right). My cabinet was on the 2nd floor (I work on the 6th). Broken. Dropped by the movers and now the sliding door was jammed shut. All my material had been stacked in the storage area behind Reception.

I was pretty mad at this, but decided in the bigger scheme of things I'd probably best just let it go. He was supposed to be contacting the movers for damages and in the mean time would look at it himself to see if it was something he could remedy. Two emails from me regarding the cabinet went unanswered.

FFward to today - I get a phone call from Reception. The office manager wants the storage area to be used only for stationery and not to be a dumping ground for various departments' miscellany. I am now tasked with finding somewhere to store my material - it has been suggested to me that if I clear out the cupboard on this floor (which was already full when we moved here because we were the last department to move) I might be able to fit it all in. :right:

Why am I expected to waste my time on this problem caused solely by other people?
Why should I have to find space? I had a perfectly good space before.
Why should I have to load up 2 trolleys worth of material and haul it round the building?

Exacerbating this is the fact I've already moved the boxes of leaflets we brought with us from the other building 3 times. Once because they were stacked around our desks and a member of another team wanted to hot-desk in our space (we are currently understaffed so have more space than people). They were then stacked against the wall but apprently the new CEO didn't want any boxes on the floor when he moved up. Then the storage area I co-opted was turned into a "quiet/ prayer room" (which is never used).

Just because I'm not a pharmacist or a technician doesn't mean I'm a bloody serf. I may work with paper but that doesn't mean I need to be the one to move it around.

I'm also sick & tired of having people come to me and say in a blase fashion, "Oh the copier has run out of paper..." or "I think the printer is jammed...." What? Oh sorry I forgot that I graduated from the Hewlett Packard Academy and are therefore more qualified than you to get toner down my top or fill up the paper drawer.

Stuck up, short sighted, grade-ist arseholes.
I will feast on their egg heads the day the revolution comes.

:rant:
rkzenrage • Feb 9, 2007 4:07 pm
Cloud;313585 wrote:
--People who enjoy arguing for argument's sake; and

--People whose primary argument on all subjects is, "The Bible says . . . "


This never bothered me because I know that nothing this person says has any value. They just saved me a lot of time.

People who choose not to listen. If I said it and you heard it, you have no excuse not to act on it.
Cloud • Feb 9, 2007 8:08 pm
People who play music in their vehicles VERY VERY LOUD waiting in line at the bank or drive in.
Urbane Guerrilla • Feb 10, 2007 3:54 am
Very very loud and through rattly speakers. Always makes that expensive, powerful sound system sound cheap'n'cheesy, whether you're playing that dumbass hip hop "music" or not.
Pie • Feb 11, 2007 12:01 am
rkzenrage;314365 wrote:
This never bothered me because I know that nothing this person says has any value. They just saved me a lot of time.

What do you do if you're related to them? :(
Cloud • Feb 11, 2007 1:20 pm
Bookstores who make a big display of the latest book in a series . . . but fail to restock the earlier books you haven't read
xoxoxoBruce • Feb 11, 2007 3:44 pm
Pie;314673 wrote:
What do you do if you're related to them? :(


You can't choose who you're related to, but you have absolute power over who you associate with. ;)
Madman • Feb 12, 2007 8:46 am
People that "suck up" to the boss and get away with little or no production.

Bosses that fall for it.
Phil • Feb 12, 2007 9:08 am
Madman;314924 wrote:
People that "suck up" to the boss and get away with little or no production.

Bosses that fall for it.


and promote the shits!
am i bitter? no ... i left!.:D
Spexxvet • Feb 12, 2007 9:26 am
People who refuse to answer a question posted on a forum because their answer would weaken their position.
Perry Winkle • Feb 12, 2007 10:37 am
Knowing what I need to do to be content but not being able to make myself do it.

Laundry-list job postings.
Shawnee123 • Feb 12, 2007 1:19 pm
This job. This job. And..this job.

But mostly this job.
SteveDallas • Feb 12, 2007 1:55 pm
grant;314961 wrote:
Laundry-list job postings.

"Managerial" jobs that "require" a specific list of techie skills five miles long.
Shawnee123 • Feb 12, 2007 1:57 pm
Stupid, drawn out staff meetings...which I have to go to right now. All hail the queen of the staff meeting. :cool:
Trilby • Feb 12, 2007 2:22 pm
Spexxvet;314943 wrote:
People who refuse to answer a question posted on a forum because their answer would weaken their position.


Hark! The muse speaks of Hippikos and all his ilk! Beware! Beware!
missaminus • Feb 13, 2007 12:20 am
People that appear to be orchestrating takeovers of third world countries via ATM machine- hurry the heck up!

People who wear clothes that are incredibly unflattering for their body type- "Just because it comes in your size, honey, doesn't mean you should wear it!"

People who say "like" every other word (my daughter)

People who get on a crowded elevator with last night's party still on their breath- gag!

Sales reps calling with Indian accents (obviously from Mumbai) claiming to be John Smith or Dave Jones

spit on the sidewalk

people who wear too much perfume/cologne

young ladies who come to work with their "tramp stamp" showing

the alarm clock at 5 a.m.

the 10 lbs I can't seem to get off my lard ass
wolf • Feb 13, 2007 3:18 am
Kingswood;314117 wrote:
What annoys me about that is how several news sites say that she was "found dead" in the hotel room, and then in the first paragraph or two the story reveals that he was really found unconscious in the hotel room and later died.

It bugs me when reputable news organizations screw up like this.


With her, it was probably really hard to tell the difference.

As for my own list ... I don't think that the entire internet has sufficient server space.
DucksNuts • Feb 13, 2007 3:40 am
Me!
Phil • Feb 13, 2007 1:35 pm
shithead drivers who think they own the road!
rkzenrage • Feb 14, 2007 3:57 pm
Pie;314673 wrote:
What do you do if you're related to them? :(


I don't care if I'm related to people. I've never understood the idea that being related to me gives someone special rights to be an asshole to me. My "family" are those who are there for me, respect me & allow me to respect them... I choose them and they choose me. Few of them are related to me.
If someone is not polite to me I treat them exactly the same regardless of their blood status. I did not speak to my parents for years. Their choice.
Phil;315408 wrote:
shithead drivers who think they own the road!

Well, don't we?
Phil • Feb 14, 2007 4:31 pm
rkzenrage;315742 wrote:
Well, don't we?


err ... nope! :p
doesnt it bug you when some spotty little oink who's just passed his test cuts you up and causes you to brake?
rkzenrage • Feb 14, 2007 4:38 pm
Not really... I'm a very patient driver. What confuses me is how my patience bothers those riding with me, and it does.
Cloud • Feb 14, 2007 5:40 pm
apparently quite a lot of things bother us folks. :)
Kitsune • Feb 14, 2007 7:06 pm
Cloud;315790 wrote:
apparently quite a lot of things bother us folks. :)


People that state the obvious. ;)
rkzenrage • Feb 14, 2007 7:19 pm
No really, I am very patient and it drives people nuts. I don't drive any longer, but it was most evident then. Insurance tests show that drivers that speed don't arrive any faster than those that do the speed limit (they just tear-up their cars quicker, get into more accidents, and get to the next red light/stop sign before you do so you can waive at them when you get there). On a 70 mile trip on the interstate, speeding ten over gets you there five to seven min. earlier... just not worth it. Getting a ticket takes longer than that.
I do the speed limit, let drivers in, let people pass me, get out of the way from the fast lane when others pull-up behind me, don't park illegally, etc. Never had a ticket of any kind.
It drove my father INSANE. When I asked him why he acted like he did not hear me.
Even with my day-to-day I am very patient, waiting in lines, for food or other service, anything really.
Stuff is going to happen or come when it happens or comes. Getting weird about it will not change anything... makes no sense to me.
What makes less sense is getting weird about me being calm about it.
Sundae • Feb 15, 2007 8:52 am
rkzenrage;315819 wrote:
I do the speed limit, let drivers in, let people pass me, get out of the way from the fast lane when others pull-up behind me, don't park illegally, etc. Never had a ticket of any kind...
Even with my day-to-day I am very patient, waiting in lines, for food or other service, anything really.
Stuff is going to happen or come when it happens or comes. Getting weird about it will not change anything... makes no sense to me.

I am exactly the same when it comes to driving. I did get 2 parking tickets but they were legal parking spaces where I didn't move my car in time - an error on my part rather than leaving the car somewhere it shouldn't be. I've never had anyone comment on my driving style, but I think that's because they know they'll get a lecture if they do.

Oddly I am totally the opposite when walking. I can't bear people walking slowly in front of me when there is no way of passing, stopping abruptly in front of me or stepping out of shop doorways without looking so I have to spring sideways rather than collide with them. My sense of anger and frustration is way out of proportion for the actual delay. The crime of Being In My WAY is practically a hanging offence in my mind.

I'm about to go out for my lunchtime walk and I just know there will be at least 3 occasions where I want to shout and/ or wallop someone.

I can only assume this is what road-rage drivers feel. It's not how much sooner you arrive, it's being able to move at your own pace. Walking quickly doesn't break the law or kill you though.
monster • Feb 15, 2007 9:06 am
Phil;315765 wrote:
err ... nope! :p
doesnt it bug you when some spotty little oink who's just passed his test cuts you up and causes you to brake?



Everyone drives like that here. Apart from rkzenrage, who causes most of the accidents by refusing to drive at the prevailing traffic speed and by being the only car who stops when the lights change to red (everyone else stops for green to avoid those in the other direction who are running the red)

;)
Phil • Feb 15, 2007 12:16 pm
monster;315975 wrote:
Everyone drives like that here. Apart from rkzenrage, who causes most of the accidents by refusing to drive at the prevailing traffic speed and by being the only car who stops when the lights change to red (everyone else stops for green to avoid those in the other direction who are running the red)

;)



i drive very much like RK and SG, which is why i get annoyed at people who drive without consideration for others.
monster • Feb 15, 2007 1:25 pm
Phil;316074 wrote:
i drive very much like RK and SG, which is why i get annoyed at people who drive without consideration for others.


I'm half and half -I drove like that in the UK, here the bad habits are rubbing off. Plus they don't have speed cameras and red light cameras -they actually have to catch you! :lol:

I remember in the UK being explicitly taught that when you pull into traffic, make sure the gap is big enough that you won't cause the next car to slow down. -For your safety as well as as courtesy to them. Especially when joining motorways where you should use the slip road to accelerate to the speed of the traffic before you join. And don't pull off the hard shoulder until you're almost at the traffic speed and -again- the gap is big enough.

I think an awful lot of people here missed class that day. It scares me the way people will happily put into a small gap in 70mph traffic from being stationary on the hard shoulder. Or into 40mph traffic from their sideroad when the next car is 20 feet away. :eek: And there are more gaps to be had in this part of the world -the traffic is nothing like in Birmingham (UK). Rather a few seconds late than permanently late, imo. (but I'm damned if I'm going to stop for that orange light.... ;))
Madman • Feb 15, 2007 3:53 pm
Liars... Especially when they're not very good at it. :eyebrow:

Even worse... When they are related to you. :mad:
fargon • Feb 15, 2007 4:45 pm
Idiot A$$ liberals, who don't believe that conservatives have feelings too.
A$$ wipe bosses that think that democrats are the most wonderful people on Earth, and dock your pay to support their cause.
A$$ Hat people who forbid you to say things like "Murdersikle" in their presence, but will insult your father in the same breath.:smack:
Sheldonrs • Feb 15, 2007 4:49 pm
fargon;316147 wrote:
Idiot A$$ liberals, who don't believe that conservatives have feelings too.
A$$ wipe bosses that think that democrats are the most wonderful people on Earth, and dock your pay to support their cause.
A$$ Hat people who forbid you to say things like "Murdersikle" in their presence, but will insult your father in the same breath.:smack:


What's a "Murdersikle"?
Clodfobble • Feb 15, 2007 5:29 pm
I'm pretty sure it's "motorcycle" with an editorial nod towards the danger of riding one.
Sheldonrs • Feb 15, 2007 6:05 pm
Clodfobble;316154 wrote:
I'm pretty sure it's "motorcycle" with an editorial nod towards the danger of riding one.


Thanks. :-)
Phil • Feb 16, 2007 11:22 am
monster;316099 wrote:
I'm half and half -I drove like that in the UK, here the bad habits are rubbing off. Plus they don't have speed cameras and red light cameras -they actually have to catch you! :lol:

I remember in the UK being explicitly taught that when you pull into traffic, make sure the gap is big enough that you won't cause the next car to slow down. -For your safety as well as as courtesy to them. Especially when joining motorways where you should use the slip road to accelerate to the speed of the traffic before you join. And don't pull off the hard shoulder until you're almost at the traffic speed and -again- the gap is big enough.

I think an awful lot of people here missed class that day. It scares me the way people will happily put into a small gap in 70mph traffic from being stationary on the hard shoulder. Or into 40mph traffic from their sideroad when the next car is 20 feet away. :eek: And there are more gaps to be had in this part of the world -the traffic is nothing like in Birmingham (UK). Rather a few seconds late than permanently late, imo. (but I'm damned if I'm going to stop for that orange light.... ;))


my stepfather was American and during his short time here in Wales, he was astounded at the idea of a ROUNDABOUT, and of course, our small roads.
monster • Feb 16, 2007 12:26 pm
Phil;316332 wrote:
my stepfather was American and during his short time here in Wales, he was astounded at the idea of a ROUNDABOUT, and of course, our small roads.


Roundabouts are the new thing here. They're putting them in left, right and centre. Problem is drivers are using them left, right and centre. There are public meetings to explain them, but to little avail. So then they put stop signs at all the entries. :rolleyes:
Sundae • Feb 16, 2007 12:49 pm
Send everyone to Milton Keynes aka Roundabout City. My ex used to get travel sick when we went to the cinema there, purely from the motion of navigating so many roundabouts. It was great for learning to drive though....

Back to the OT
Today it is people who are annoying me.
As usual the white noise that they let out of their mouths.

I was warm this morning. I admit it wasn't a warm day, but I was walking faster than usual. So I took off my cape and finished the journey to work in my 3/4 length sleeved top. Only to be asked by someone who had seen me, "Aren't you cold?"
"Yes, I am cold. I'm freezing. I'm punishing myself so that God doesn't have to kill any more kittens."

This floor isn't well populated. The staff who haven't left/ been redeployed often work out of the office. At least twice a day we get the comment, "Oh isn't it quiet here today! It's like the Marie Celeste! Where is everyone?" Being in a bit of a mean mood today I gave the last person to ask a rundown of exactly where each desk's inhabitant was (or wasn't). I think I'll just make a sign for next time:
[INDENT]Yes it's empty up here.
No it's not like the Marie Celeste.
Are you saying I smell of fish?[/INDENT]
Shawnee123 • Feb 16, 2007 12:57 pm
Today, I annoy me!:thepain:
Griff • Feb 16, 2007 12:59 pm
Shawnee123;316360 wrote:
Today, I annoy me!:thepain:


I'm getting on my last nerve as well.
Shawnee123 • Feb 16, 2007 1:04 pm
Yeah, it's pretty hard to just walk away from yourself!
fargon • Feb 16, 2007 1:23 pm
Yes it is a motor cycle, it is old American slang. The Idiot in question is so afraid people will think that he is not politically correct, that I am not allowed to speak in public.
BTW; I quit this morning.
DanaC • Feb 16, 2007 1:43 pm
Shit fargon, your (ex) boss sounds like a complete wanker.
DanaC • Feb 16, 2007 2:16 pm
Oh, and right now I am the most annoying person on the planet.
Sheldonrs • Feb 16, 2007 2:18 pm
fargon;316377 wrote:
Yes it is a motor cycle, it is old American slang. The Idiot in question is so afraid people will think that he is not politically correct, that I am not allowed to speak in public.
BTW; I quit this morning.



Good for you Fargon! Sanity is something you can't buy.


People that are annoying me today:

Anti-smoking nazis. I was having my morning break this morning and went outside to have a cig. I was standing by the curb already when some women came walking by. One of them comments to her friend loud enough for the next town to hear that "Jeez! Cigarettes make me sick!"
I gave her my standard response just as loud: "Yeah, well they're KILLING me but you don't hear ME bitching about it!"

I got the standard "fuck you!" response. :-)
DanaC • Feb 16, 2007 2:26 pm
Never have understood that attitude. I have battled with the evil weed for more years than I care to name, have given up for years and months at a time (am currently back on the nicoteine lozenges: 14 days today and counting), but even when I was a year in to quitting, I would never have taken that attitude. Cool retort btw:)
xoxoxoBruce • Feb 17, 2007 2:56 am
monster;316351 wrote:
Roundabouts are the new thing here. They're putting them in left, right and centre. Problem is drivers are using them left, right and centre. There are public meetings to explain them, but to little avail. So then they put stop signs at all the entries. :rolleyes:


You mean they are actually building them in Michigan? :eek: Everywhere else they are ripping them out.
Perry Winkle • Feb 17, 2007 6:18 am
xoxoxoBruce;316508 wrote:
You mean they are actually building them in Michigan? :eek: Everywhere else they are ripping them out.


They're building them in upstate NY too.
Dagney • Feb 17, 2007 7:57 am
They're planning on putting a bunch in here in Raleigh as well. And the idea is not being taken well.
Phil • Feb 17, 2007 8:18 am
speaking of nazis, i cant abide food nazis. up their ass people preaching about what food we should eat, what we shouldnt, what we should feed our children. fuck off! all that fruit and veg youre buying to prolong a life that already lasts too long has been irradiated, treated and sprayed and fuck knows what else. kids are going without food at school because Jamie Oliver decided he had the answer to unruly kids, i.e., their eating habits. so waht?! just eat what you like, what the body craves, and tell these nazis to mind their own fuckin business.
Griff • Feb 17, 2007 8:36 am
Another kind of food nazi. The kind that could starve a country.
xoxoxoBruce • Feb 17, 2007 10:46 am
That sucks, Griff. The more troubled their economy becomes the more he will rail against the US in a typical diversionary tactic. :(
Clodfobble • Feb 17, 2007 11:34 am
Phil wrote:
just eat what you like, what the body craves, and tell these nazis to mind their own fuckin business.


No problem. As long as insurance stops covering Type II Diabetes.

As for roundabouts, they caught on as a hip thing in Austin a few years back, but they were installed in all the wrong places--small residential intersections where they literally amount to nothing more than an obstruction in the middle of the road that you have to swerve around. They've been slowly taking them out.
SteveDallas • Feb 17, 2007 11:39 am
I guess I've never understood the supposed point of them anyway. (Much like New Jersey's jug-handles.)
Phil • Feb 17, 2007 12:02 pm
Clodfobble;316538 wrote:
No problem. As long as insurance stops covering Type II Diabetes.

As for roundabouts, they caught on as a hip thing in Austin a few years back, but they were installed in all the wrong places--small residential intersections where they literally amount to nothing more than an obstruction in the middle of the road that you have to swerve around. They've been slowly taking them out.


i bless the national health service. ;)
Crimson Ghost • Feb 17, 2007 12:17 pm
SteveDallas;316540 wrote:
I guess I've never understood the supposed point of them anyway. (Much like New Jersey's jug-handles.)


Jughandles, the Little Ferry Circle, the old 4/17 interchange...



New Jersey has the most nuclear waste sites.
California has the most lawyers in America.
Why?
New Jersey has first pick.
fargon • Feb 17, 2007 12:26 pm
The Farking VA.
Give me 100% disability or let me go back to work.
monster • Feb 17, 2007 4:05 pm
Clodfobble;316538 wrote:

As for roundabouts, they caught on as a hip thing in Austin a few years back, but they were installed in all the wrong places--small residential intersections where they literally amount to nothing more than an obstruction in the middle of the road that you have to swerve around. They've been slowly taking them out.


That's exactly where they're putting them in here :rolleyes: Still it keeps the locals busy -planting flowers in the middle for the teenagers tio drive over, and going to meetings about getting instructions posted, stop signs installed, roundabouts removed.....

There also seems to be a fad at new high schools for building a ring road around them, with a roundabout at every parking lot entrance point and every exit point. It's a bit Hotel California-ish becasue on the way in, you just head for the building, but on the way out.......
rkzenrage • Feb 18, 2007 1:34 am
I spend a lot of time in the hospital and in Dr.s offices and have been in the hospital a lot lately.
When you are in the damn hospital two things really suck about it.

You can't leave.
You really don't want to piss-off the people keeping you alive/caring for you, depending on your trip.

Same goes for the Dr's. office to a smaller degree.

Every time I'm in the hospital and often in the hospital I get preached at and I'm fucking sick of it. These hospitals get state funding, there has to be a separation of Church and State issue here.
No I do not want to "pray about it". If I thought that a god intervened in people's lives he/she/they/it would have done this to me to begin with and they can suck my dick for a month.
On the same note, nor do I think "the lord loves me", if it does, I could give two shits. (given, if I thought there was one)
They, sometimes, believe it or not, ask me "if I've found Jesus?", I usually give some half answer that they always take as affirmation because it is what they want to hear.
This is not nurses alone, Dr.s & techs do this all the time, it's f***ing crazy.
Do your job people.
A person's spirituality is personal and none of anyone's damn business.
The crazy thing is that I don't have anything put on my chart, so they know I'm not a Christian, or I would have had them put it there.
They see someone in horrible pain, dealing with the stuff I deal with and they want to chat about religion, recruiting?
The quickest way I can think of to turn someone off of it... this from me who has studied it for over twenty years. Sick, just sick.
I'm not talking once a trip, I'm talking daily, several times.
Dr. visits are not so often, but it comes up with fair regularity.
The message of Christ is dead.
bluecuracao • Feb 18, 2007 2:41 am
That sucks, rkzenrage.

Is there any way possible you can see humor in their crap?

"I didn't have to find Jesus, he hog-tied me and dragged me over to you all"

(You still cut quite a handsome figure, by the way ;))
Perry Winkle • Feb 18, 2007 9:32 am
I found Jesus, he was mowing my lawn.

The "Today Show" annoys the living shit out of me.
Phil • Feb 18, 2007 11:05 am
rkzenrage;316735 wrote:
I spend a lot of time in the hospital and in Dr.s offices and have been in the hospital a lot lately.
When you are in the damn hospital two things really suck about it.

You can't leave.
You really don't want to piss-off the people keeping you alive/caring for you, depending on your trip.

Same goes for the Dr's. office to a smaller degree.

Every time I'm in the hospital and often in the hospital I get preached at and I'm fucking sick of it. These hospitals get state funding, there has to be a separation of Church and State issue here.
No I do not want to "pray about it". If I thought that a god intervened in people's lives he/she/they/it would have done this to me to begin with and they can suck my dick for a month.
On the same note, nor do I think "the lord loves me", if it does, I could give two shits. (given, if I thought there was one)
They, sometimes, believe it or not, ask me "if I've found Jesus?", I usually give some half answer that they always take as affirmation because it is what they want to hear.
This is not nurses alone, Dr.s & techs do this all the time, it's f***ing crazy.
Do your job people.
A person's spirituality is personal and none of anyone's damn business.
The crazy thing is that I don't have anything put on my chart, so they know I'm not a Christian, or I would have had them put it there.
They see someone in horrible pain, dealing with the stuff I deal with and they want to chat about religion, recruiting?
The quickest way I can think of to turn someone off of it... this from me who has studied it for over twenty years. Sick, just sick.
I'm not talking once a trip, I'm talking daily, several times.
Dr. visits are not so often, but it comes up with fair regularity.
The message of Christ is dead.


Amen.
Sorry you have to deal with this crap. Tell them youre an Alchemist.
Dagney • Feb 18, 2007 11:32 am
When they ask you if you have found Jesus, you can always tell them you weren't looking for him, you didn't lose him, because you didn't have him last.

That should deter 'em.
DanaC • Feb 18, 2007 1:07 pm
rk that must really piss you off. I can only imagine how frustrating that must be. Doesn't happen much over here (I don't think) because most of our Christian culture isn't evangelical in nature (it's more tea and scones and village fete, with a bit of fire and brimstone to keep it interesting). Though, that's changing. Congregations to traditional C of E is falling, but take up rate on newer evangelical groups is growing quite fast.

I do wonder though, and this is not in any way to deny how annoying it must be....and far be it from me to defend the happyclappers, but maybe they're not so much trying to recruit, as to offer the thing that they truly believe will bring some kind of comfort to a person they know to be suffering pain and distress. Doesn't in any way mitigate the fact that they are breaching what should be a strong divide (religion and state), but it may mitigate their motives a little. I think they're wrong....but they may just be trying to do their best for you in terms they understand.
rkzenrage • Feb 18, 2007 5:10 pm
I would if it were not so constant and if I were not in a position of having to be in their care and at their mercy.
There is a reason we fill out the religion section of the paperwork upon checking-in.
Even if it were just once a trip or so... it is not.
xoxoxoBruce • Feb 18, 2007 5:34 pm
You screwed up leaving religion blank. You're in Terri Shivo land, blank means Christian by default. Put down the Temple of Lucky Charms, or something, if you don't want to enter Buddhist as a religion.

I think Dana is on the money about them offering comfort rather than recruiting. I also think if you told them they would stop without affecting their professionalism.:2cents:
rkzenrage • Feb 18, 2007 5:52 pm
They often get insulted and sometimes it affects their performance.
Otherwise there would not be a problem.
You have to understand, evangelicals and baptists from the south don't work like regular christians. I have been in a church when we were told that "God loves Us more than Them". They think that non-christians are less and are not worthy of being treated with equal politeness. I grew-up here, I know of what I speak.
When I put Buddhist they become more aggressive.
Cloud • Feb 18, 2007 6:27 pm
this kind of stuff drives me bat-shit crazy! as well as very fearful of where this country has been, is, and is heading! and I'm sorry you have to put up with it.

It's probably best if you tell them, politely but firmly, that you prefer not to discuss religion. Explain that their overtures are causing you stress. Ask them to put that on your chart and spread the word.
xoxoxoBruce • Feb 18, 2007 6:59 pm
Hey, the obvious solution is to convince them you are the savior ... the second coming.
Make 'em bow and wash your feet under threat of a smite. :angel:
rkzenrage • Feb 18, 2007 7:37 pm
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Perry Winkle • Feb 18, 2007 8:24 pm
there's something on that guy's thigh, but i can't quite see what it is...a prune?
monster • Feb 18, 2007 8:41 pm
Perhaps you could wear a dog-collar or a kippah? Or tack up an inspirational poster that says something like "The most Powerful Prayer is Private. Go quietly to speak with God" Or some other such mush which might make them assume you have deep faith and at the same time leave you alone about it.
monster • Feb 18, 2007 8:43 pm
grant;316837 wrote:
there's something on that guy's thigh, but i can't quite see what it is...a prune?


Perhaps his awe at being touched by the noodly appendage caused a brief loss of bowel control?
Urbane Guerrilla • Feb 20, 2007 4:38 am
Brianna;315049 wrote:
Hark! The muse speaks of Hippikos and all his ilk! Beware! Beware!


...His flashing eyes?
His floating hair?
[Did he fall in the sacred river again?]
Weave a circle 'round him thrice
[You'd better. You need three skeins for a braid.]
And close your eyes with holy dread
[Batman!]
For he on honeydew hath fed,
[Melons! Melons!]
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Urbane Guerrilla • Feb 20, 2007 4:41 am
It's his very own little meatball.

I see the FSM is still about.
Urbane Guerrilla • Feb 20, 2007 4:50 am
Sheldonrs;316148 wrote:
What's a "Murdersikle"?


Unless it's a falcata or a shotel. ;)
Cloud • Feb 20, 2007 10:46 am
when you go to put on that new garment you just bought . . . and the electronic tag is still on, meaning you have to go BACK to the damn store!
Shawnee123 • Feb 20, 2007 1:18 pm
Cloud;317141 wrote:
when you go to put on that new garment you just bought . . . and the electronic tag is still on, meaning you have to go BACK to the damn store!


I have a shirt they didn't take the electronic tag off and I haven't taken it back out of sheer forgetfulness. That was about 2 years and two moves ago! Too late now. Is there any other way to remove those tags?
Sundae • Feb 20, 2007 1:22 pm
Shawnee123;317173 wrote:
I have a shirt they didn't take the electronic tag off and I haven't taken it back out of sheer forgetfulness. That was about 2 years and two moves ago! Too late now. Is there any other way to remove those tags?

Go into a store that uses them and ask them pretty please. Look honest, otherwise they might just call Security anyway.
Shawnee123 • Feb 20, 2007 1:29 pm
Sundae Girl;317176 wrote:
Go into a store that uses them and ask them pretty please. Look honest, otherwise they might just call Security anyway.



That's what I'm afraid of:

Rent-a-cop: Ma'am, where'd you get this shirt?

Me: I bought it a few years ago.

RAC: Suuuuuuuuuurrrre, do you have a receipt?

Me: Uh, no, I've moved twice since then, I could barely find the shirt.

RAC: You're coming with us to the station. Crime Scene Investigation will get to the bottom of this

Music swells, camera pans to my panic-stricken face, then to RAC's smug look of justice...annnnnnnnndddd...we're out.
Sundae • Feb 20, 2007 1:43 pm
Shawnee123;317177 wrote:
That's what I'm afraid of:
RAC: You're coming with us to the station. Crime Scene Investigation will get to the bottom of this

If you were in Miami I'd say go for it. You'd get to be interrogated by Horatio :yum:
Kitsune • Feb 20, 2007 1:43 pm
Sundae Girl;317176 wrote:
Go into a store that uses them and ask them pretty please. Look honest, otherwise they might just call Security anyway.


Any problem can be solved with a Dremel.
Sundae • Feb 20, 2007 1:47 pm
Kitsune;317185 wrote:
Any problem can be solved with a Dremel.

I found that really interesting (well written & illustrated)

I had a slight problem with this though:
The most questionable part of the design is that the glass breaks into small slivers which could easily stick the wearer. If this had happened to me I would have sued the store.

You wear an item of clothing you know still has the security tag attached to it, rather than return it to the store... What ground do you have for suing them when the tag breaks?
rkzenrage • Feb 20, 2007 3:18 pm
Part of my Dremel set-up. I've posted some of my work previously.
There are a few of those attachment boxes.
A great site!
Awesome prices & you can get stuff you cannot get in the US or in most retail stores, even specialty stores.
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monster • Feb 20, 2007 11:12 pm
Sundae Girl;317186 wrote:
I found that really interesting (well written & illustrated)

I had a slight problem with this though:

You wear an item of clothing you know still has the security tag attached to it, rather than return it to the store... What ground do you have for suing them when the tag breaks?


They attached it to the garment. They failed to remove it when the garment became yours. Your removal of something they deliberately placed in your clothing that shouldn't have been there caused injury. Your fault for putting it there and failing to remove it. This is America. In some places here you can be held responsible for a death if someone drinks alcohol you serve them then they drive home and kill someone. Even if you tried to stop them driving. It's all about insurance and blame. Take cover, it's headed your way.....

Bitter? No, sadly. I might be willing to kill for a decent pint of bitter ;)

Shawnee, why not call them, explain (truthfully) and ask them if they'd be willing to do it? Then yoiu have an "authorization" for rent-a-cop.
Cloud • Feb 20, 2007 11:21 pm
so I took my garment back (an hour round trip). They were pretty nice about it, apologized, and refunded me 30% of the purchase price. More than paid for my gas (but not my time)
Kitsune • Feb 20, 2007 11:29 pm
Cloud;317321 wrote:
More than paid for my gas (but not my time)


It also didn't compensate you for the fun you lost by not getting to remove the tag with a Dremel. Oh, well.
monster • Feb 20, 2007 11:32 pm
Cloud;317321 wrote:
so I took my garment back (an hour round trip). They were pretty nice about it, apologized, and refunded me 30% of the purchase price. More than paid for my gas (but not my time)


Sorry I didn't get to this in time or realize that it might've helped but....

Most systems are compatible -there might have been a store much closer to you who could have done it -if it's inconvenient/time-consuming to go back, it's always worth phoning the store first and asking if there is an easier solution. or just explaining the problem to the nearest store with a similar system and asking if they can help. If you have the receipt, you should be good.
Cloud • Feb 20, 2007 11:37 pm
oh that's all right--I still have some shopping to do for my trip. And they probably needed to know so that person can be more careful, anyway.

and I don't have a Dremel!

I know, I know. I'm depraved.

er . . . that's not right, is it?

:)
rkzenrage • Feb 20, 2007 11:40 pm
Weeellllll....
monster • Feb 21, 2007 12:17 am
Cloud;317329 wrote:
oh that's all right--I still have some shopping to do for my trip. And they probably needed to know so that person can be more careful, anyway.

and I don't have a Dremel!

I know, I know. I'm depraved.

er . . . that's not right, is it?

:)


i'm just worried about your puppies......
Cloud • Feb 21, 2007 12:40 am
poopies!
Cloud • Feb 21, 2007 1:50 pm
not that this is an annoyance, exactly, more like a Wow!

There was a TRACTOR driving along a main road the other day, at 15 miles an hour (in a 50-mph zone), in the DARK, with NO lights. Not even a reflector. Dangerous as hell!
Madman • Feb 21, 2007 3:57 pm
rkzenrage;317211 wrote:

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That picture annoys me... it's too... too... busy! :p
Kitsune • Feb 21, 2007 3:59 pm
It annoys me because the set isn't mine!
SquadRat1 • Feb 21, 2007 4:38 pm
Kitsune;317496 wrote:
It annoys me because the set isn't mine!


Ditto that!!
Kitsune • Feb 21, 2007 5:46 pm
Hey, SquadRat. Welcome and stuff.
Sheldonrs • Feb 21, 2007 6:12 pm
People who don't ride their bikes in the street.

Today's twit:

I was on my lunch break today and was just walking around near my office building at a slow pace.
Some jerk on his bike is speeding up behind me but couldn't get by fast enough and he yells at me "There's a reason they make the sidewalks so wide asshole!!"

So I yelled back "there's also a reason they call it a sideWALK!!!"
No response other than a dirty look and head shake.

Got a smile from the lady walking the other way.
Cloud • Feb 21, 2007 6:17 pm
People who ride bikes in the street.

Cities which don't provide adequate bike lanes.
Sheldonrs • Feb 21, 2007 6:25 pm
Cloud;317513 wrote:
People who ride bikes in the street.

Cities which don't provide adequate bike lanes.


Move to AZ. We have bike lanes everywhere.
DanaC • Feb 21, 2007 6:28 pm
This is America. In some places here you can be held responsible for a death if someone drinks alcohol you serve them then they drive home and kill someone. Even if you tried to stop them driving.


Seriously? That's totally bizarre
Perry Winkle • Feb 21, 2007 8:05 pm
A few people are having a conversation and drawing historical analogies, but they've got their dates all fucked up, and I can't keep myself from correcting them. I am a huge douche-bag.

When I'm in a bar with people, and stay at the edge of the group because I don't know what to say, and since I don't know what to say I don't have the confidence to get involved in the conversation.

Mega-f'ing annoying.
DucksNuts • Feb 21, 2007 8:07 pm
Sundae Girl;317184 wrote:
If you were in Miami I'd say go for it. You'd get to be interrogated by Horatio :yum:



Ohhh yeah, I lurrrrve David Caruso!!
Cloud • Feb 21, 2007 9:42 pm
people who take up ALL the frickin' washers and dryers in the laundry at one time, leaving none for other people.

:(
bluecuracao • Feb 21, 2007 9:58 pm
Putting on a light jacket before leaving the house, because it's so nice out for the first time in weeks, then freezing my ass off when I leave work, because the temperature's dropped 30 degrees after the sun went down.
monster • Feb 22, 2007 12:37 pm
The fact that they are still building McMansions by the hundreds when so many people are struggling to sell their houses.
Sheldonrs • Feb 22, 2007 12:50 pm
The light rail construction going on by my office! They keep moving the traffic lanes AND the sidewalks we can use every day!

I feel like I'm at Hogwarts, where the stairs keep changing position.
Shawnee123 • Feb 22, 2007 2:34 pm
No one I know correctly pronounces the acronym for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. FAFSA. Faff-suh.

I hear "fassa" a lot from people of suspect intelligence, but what really bothers me is my coworkers. A lot of these people have master's degrees. So why can't they see that it is NOT "fass-fuh." It drives me crazy, I guess because that isn't the order the letters are in. I think if you look at the acronym once you should be able to pronounce it.

Anyway, it's stupid but it annoys the shit out of me.
Phil • Feb 22, 2007 2:47 pm
know - alls.
Shawnee123 • Feb 22, 2007 2:54 pm
ass - hats.
rkzenrage • Feb 22, 2007 4:04 pm
A discussion from another thread made me think... not so much telemarketers, but that it is not illegal, one.
Second, people that bitch about having to talk to them. What I cannot figure out is why they don't just hang up!!!!!:eek: :worried:

rkzenrage;317721 wrote:
I used to work on the phone... you people have NO IDEA.

Why don't people just hang-up on telemarketers? If you don't like them, don't like talking to them, just hang-up... it hurts my damn head!
My Dad: "Who was that?"
Me" "Telemarketer"
"You didn't say anything, you just hung-up"
"Yeah? I don't like talking to telemarketers, don't think it should be legal. Got nothing to say."
"But, but... you just hung-up"
"...aaannnnd?"
"I could never do that"

Then I have a tiny aneurysm.




rkzenrage;317762 wrote:
You know who is REALLY at fault and who pisses me off A LOT... anyone who buys from telemarketers.
They are BAD PEOPLE!!!!!!
I may have to rethink my position on the existence of evil and bad people now.
I am serious about telemarketing being illegal, also, I am on every no-call list out there.
Worked for a while, about two months ago I started getting them again... something I should know?

Another thing, I don't talk to machines, no I will not "hold for your important message".
I really pissed-off a medical business with that recently.
"We have been trying to get in touch with you for six months".
I told them I have not heard from them at all. She said that I have been hanging up on them, so I told her that I hang-up on any calls that come-up with all zeros, private on my caller ID (they don't get to leave messages if they are too sleazy and hide) and I hang-up on machines. If you want to talk to me, you will call me.
For some reason she took it personally... makes no sense to me. I was very polite the whole time & did not use the word sleazy, just meant it.
Cloud • Feb 22, 2007 4:26 pm
I feel the same way. Treat them like obscene phone callers, and hang up. Or if you want to be polite, say, "Sorry, I'm not interested" over whatever spiel they're spieling, and hang up, without giving them a chance to interject.

I think people are slaves to their phones. Why do you HAVE to answer? I rarely answer my phone, unless I know it's one of my children.
DanaC • Feb 22, 2007 7:10 pm
anyone who buys from telemarketers.
They are BAD PEOPLE!!!!!!


No they're not. The people who employ them may be....but the ones making the calls are just people trying to earn a wage and feed their families. Telemarketing requires no qualifications, no experience etc....it's a job you can get if you can't get any other job. I know, because I have done that job. I never just hang up, but I don't buy either. I say to them straight away (sometimes interrupting their spiel) "I am not interested, don't waste your time on me, call someone who might give you a sale".

What annoys me? People who call telemarketers evil. They're just people earning a wage.
jinx • Feb 22, 2007 7:39 pm
I worked as a telemarketer, selling foreign lottery tickets. I didn't stay long because it definitely was evil work.
I don't answer my home phone unless I know who it is and I feel like talking to them... which is almost never.
Griff • Feb 22, 2007 8:44 pm
grant;317538 wrote:
A few people are having a conversation and drawing historical analogies, but they've got their dates all fucked up, and I can't keep myself from correcting them. I am a huge douche-bag.

But you are are correct douche bag and that makes all the difference. Call them on it...every time.
Shawnee123 • Feb 23, 2007 3:31 pm
Saturday Night Live

[SIZE="2"]Butler: Lord and Lady Doucebag!

Lord Salisbury: Well, well, well.. I was just asking Lord Sandwich, "Where the devil are those Douchebags?"

Lady Doucebag: Well, it has been impossible to get him out of his workshop! He has been working day and night.

Lord Salisbury: You, Douchebag? Well, I wasn't aware you dabbled in that sort of thing. What in heaven's name are you working on?

Lord Doucebag: Well, I would be happy to tell you.. but perhaps after you have finished eating.

Lord Salisbury: Well, here is Chambers right now. Would you like something to eat?

Lord Doucebag: We're not too hungry right now - just a plate of raw vegetables.

Lord Salisbury: Would you like some dresing with that?

Lady Doucebag: Just some vinegar and water, thank you.

Earl of Sandwich: Douchebag, how are you? I haven't seen you in the House of Lords in ages! Don't tell me for the first time in memory we are going to have a House of Parliament without a Douchebag?

Lord Doucebag: My dear Sandwich, Parliament has always had its share of Douchebags, and it always will.

Lord Salisbury: Spoken like a true Douchebag. I have often heard the King speak of your family.. [ to Earl of Sandwich ] ..and of yours, as well: "Give me a Sandwich and a Douchebag, and there is nothing I cannot do."

Earl of Sandwich: Hear, hear!

Lord Salisbury: So, tell me, Douchebag.. when are you going to show us that invention of yours?

Earl of Sandwich: Yes, Douchebag, just what kind of an invention are you sitting on?

Lord Doucebag: Well, it's a long story. Why don't we go out to the garden, and I'll explain it to you.

Earl of Sandwich: Tell me - did Lady Douchebag help you in the project?

Lord Doucebag: Help? Why.. she was the inspiration!

[ they exit to the garden to discuss the wondrous invention ]

[/SIZE]
Perry Winkle • Feb 23, 2007 6:28 pm
HR departments and management that take 6 months to figure out who they want to hire. I'd settle for a "signs point to yes" or a "not fucking likely, jack-ass."
Perry Winkle • Feb 23, 2007 8:01 pm
When people say, "Damn, you're a big guy. No offense."

I mean, I am a big guy, so unless you're calling me fat I'm not going to be offended. But when you add that "no offense" part, it seems to me that you were thinking something offensive when you said it.
Kagen4o4 • Feb 23, 2007 8:36 pm
when people say obvious but pronounce it oDvious
Aliantha • Feb 24, 2007 5:26 am
I don't know anyone who says odvious although it made me laugh when i saw it. I'm sure there are some people that say it. lol
glatt • Feb 24, 2007 2:57 pm
When you go to the grocery store and plain white tortillas are on your list. The wall of tortillas has every conceivable kind of tortilla: tomato basil, garlic, spinach and onion, pomegranate, etc. etc. but no plain white. When will those damn trendy wraps fall out of fashion?
Kitsune • Feb 24, 2007 5:40 pm
Quotation marks used where underlining or italics was intended.
elSicomoro • Feb 24, 2007 6:53 pm
The laundromat that April and I go to lets you dry for free. I'm not sure how the timers work on them, but the dryers seem to cut out if they get to a certain temperature, rather than having a countdown timer. Sometimes they'll go for over an hour...other times, a couple of minutes. Fucking irritating as all hell.
rkzenrage • Feb 24, 2007 7:16 pm
Friend or person who's home I am in: Would you like something to drink?
Me: No thanks, I'm not thirsty.
We have root beer
No thanks
We have wine
No thanks
Bottled water
No thanks
It's cold
No thank you, I'm fine
It's no trouble
Really, I had something on the way
I really don't mind, I'm going to have some
...sure... I'd love some
Kagen4o4 • Feb 24, 2007 11:29 pm
you can end it at the start by saying.
"not at the moment but i'll grab it or let you know when im thirsty, thanks"
elSicomoro • Feb 24, 2007 11:34 pm
I'd just take what's offered, then promptly throw it at them. Then beat the shit out of them and say, "Look fucker! I told you I didn't want anything! Next time, listen, you fucknut!" Then I'd calmly sit down and pretend nothing had happened.
Spexxvet • Feb 25, 2007 11:59 am
Just got back from grocery shopping. I hate when people block the whol fucking aisle as if nobody needs to get by, like they're the only person in the store. I just push their cart out of the way with my cart - if they look at me, I say excuse me.
rkzenrage • Feb 25, 2007 8:53 pm
Tell me I'm not the only one that happens to?
Must be a Southern thing.
Yeah, the "Center Isle discussion" drives me nuts too, especially since I'm in a wheelchair and cannot always go around them in any way.
You really don't wanna' hear my list of wheelchair gripes.
Clodfobble • Feb 25, 2007 10:05 pm
rkzenrage wrote:
Tell me I'm not the only one that happens to?


(Don't ask me why I remember this) Miss Manners actually had a column once on this very subject, and her take was that by refusing a drink you were basically forbidding your host from being a good host, and that in fact the proper course of action was to agree that a glass of water would be perfect, and just not drink it if you weren't thirsty.

I expect your take on this will be that it is a politeness "game" and therefore you won't play it, but IMHO it would certainly save everyone time if you just graciously accepted a glass of water, and there would be no harm done.
lumberjim • Feb 26, 2007 12:55 am
sycamore;318195 wrote:
I'd just take what's offered, then promptly throw it at them. Then beat the shit out of them and say, "Look fucker! I told you I didn't want anything! Next time, listen, you fucknut!" Then I'd calmly sit down and pretend nothing had happened.


and then you'd self fellate while the crowd goes wild, we know. you're cool.
rkzenrage • Feb 26, 2007 2:23 am
What saves them time is to keep them from having to fetch the damn water in the first place, as well as a long drawn out conversation by being clear about not being thirsty when they ask, by saying "no thank you, I'm ok" or something similar.
Why the F***ING HELL would I lie about being thirsty?!
elSicomoro • Feb 26, 2007 7:16 am
lumberjim;318347 wrote:
and then you'd self fellate while the crowd goes wild, we know. you're cool.


Nah...you save that for when you're finally alone.
xoxoxoBruce • Feb 26, 2007 7:42 am
Clodfobble;318342 wrote:
(Don't ask me why I remember this) Miss Manners actually had a column once on this very subject, and her take was that by refusing a drink you were basically forbidding your host from being a good host, and that in fact the proper course of action was to agree that a glass of water would be perfect, and just not drink it if you weren't thirsty.
If they offer something and I say, "No, nothing, thanks". I said "no" to what was offered, I said "nothing" which covers alternate offers, and thanked them for the hospitality. Shouldn't that end it? :confused:
Spexxvet • Feb 26, 2007 9:11 am
As Muad'Dib said "accepting a gift honors the giver"
xoxoxoBruce • Feb 26, 2007 10:27 am
It also places a debt on the recipient. :(
Sundae • Feb 26, 2007 10:56 am
Sheldonrs;317512 wrote:
I was on my lunch break today and was just walking around near my office building at a slow pace.
Some jerk on his bike is speeding up behind me but couldn't get by fast enough and he yells at me "There's a reason they make the sidewalks so wide asshole!!"

So I yelled back "there's also a reason they call it a sideWALK!!!"
No response other than a dirty look and head shake.

You're lucky - relatively speaking. I stepped back at the bus stop and stepped into the path of a pavement cyclist. He was apologetic at first, then as I remonstrated that he should be on the road he decided to lecture me on the fact that Blair and Bush were bombing his country (I'm not sure whether he was Iraqi or Afghani - it was a while ago). To add insult to injury, while I was engaged with him my bus went sailing past and there wasn't another one for 30 mins.

It seems really funny now - that you can use anything to excuse the lesser crime of riding on the pavement - but at the time it shocked the hell out of me. I walked home so I could control my bottom lip which had gone all wobbly as soon as I was shouted at.

Today's annoyance was Treats That You Regret
I went to McDonalds for lunch as a special treat. I've had a rotten few days and decided the occasional gobful of fattening food is hardly going to kill me.

Not long after I ordered and sat down, the staff started asking customers to leave immediately after they had finished their food, and prevented anyone else from coming in.

It obviously wasn't a high risk situation, but for McDs to close its doors at lunchtime it had to be something they were taking seriously.

I felt highly conspicuous as more people left and the staff's glances focused more and more on me, so I really bolted my food. I then spent a miserable hour or so back at my desk while huge unchewed mouthfuls of all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a seame seed bun played havoc with my acid reflux :angry:
SquadRat1 • Feb 26, 2007 3:19 pm
1) Ignorant liberals (not all)
2) the whole EMO/punk thing...
3) People that say country music sucks (hard to believe since its the number radio format)
4) people that park/sit in their car in fire lanes regardless of signs
5) people that drive and talk on the cell phone while driving
6) people that claim they are held back because of race...explain to me all the people that are successful in a said race.

lots more but I'll stop now
Shawnee123 • Feb 26, 2007 3:23 pm
I'll take "people WHO can't use proper grammar but WHO call other people ignorant because they disagree politically" for $100, Alex.
Griff • Feb 26, 2007 3:27 pm
SquadRat1;318453 wrote:

3) People that say country music sucks (hard to believe since its the number radio format)


popularity does not imply quality

I'm a huge country music fan, but they don't play country music on country music stations anymore. What they play is pop music with bad accents and hats. hmmmm... apparently that is shit that annoys me.
btw: welcome to the cellar:)
Spexxvet • Feb 26, 2007 3:30 pm
SquadRat1;318453 wrote:
1) Ignorant liberals (not all)
...
3) People that say country music sucks (hard to believe since its the number radio format)
...6) people that claim they are held back because of race...explain to me all the people that are successful in a said race.

lots more but I'll stop now


7) hillbilly ingnorant conservative repubican can't-think-for-themselves yahoos. ;)
SquadRat1 • Feb 26, 2007 3:52 pm
Griff;318459 wrote:
popularity does not imply quality

I'm a huge country music fan, but they don't play country music on country music stations anymore. What they play is pop music with bad accents and hats. hmmmm... apparently that is shit that annoys me.
btw: welcome to the cellar:)


I agree.....thats why I listen to CD's....Hank, Chris Ledoux...you get the picture...
SquadRat1 • Feb 26, 2007 3:59 pm
Spexxvet;318460 wrote:
7) hillbilly ingnorant conservative repubican can't-think-for-themselves yahoos. ;)


And that is why you would fall into #1, I said NOT ALL!!!!
I know and work with some very "good" liberals. These are the ones that do not feel the need to bash the republican/conservative side because its "trendy". They do not force their agenda on anyone. And further more what about the liberal entertainers that bemoan the "fat cat" republicans? If that "isn't the pot calling the kettle black" I do not know what is! They also fall into #1.
glatt • Feb 26, 2007 4:04 pm
So you don't like ignorant liberals, do you like ignorant conservatives? Have you ever met one?
Sundae • Feb 26, 2007 4:05 pm
People who come out swinging when they join a new forum....

I know and work with some very "good" liberals. These are the ones that do not feel the need to bash the republican/conservative side because its "trendy". They do not force their agenda on anyone.


There are some "good" republican/ conservatives on this site. They don't start off by making accusations and calling names.

But hey, I'm a liberal and therefore I welcome you anway. If I had a beard I'd be stroking it.
fargon • Feb 26, 2007 4:10 pm
What pisses me off is the FUCKING VA, a bunch of lying cocksuckers.
I am rated 50% and am totally unemployable, the only thing they tell me is it is not my job, and it is not their job to find anything out.
The Government is a bunch of A$$holes!!!
SquadRat1 • Feb 26, 2007 4:29 pm
glatt;318472 wrote:
So you don't like ignorant liberals, do you like ignorant conservatives? Have you ever met one?


Yes I have.....
SquadRat1 • Feb 26, 2007 4:33 pm
Seems the ones who are berating me, fall into that ignorant catergory. And just because I "look" new to the forums, perhaps I have been here since the beginning but changed my name?
Sundae • Feb 26, 2007 4:38 pm
Whatever, old-timer.
I don't think I'm ignorant so I guess we'll agree to differ.
Happy Monkey • Feb 26, 2007 4:43 pm
SquadRat1;318481 wrote:
Seems the ones who are berating me, fall into that ignorant catergory.
Swing and a miss...
Shawnee123 • Feb 26, 2007 4:43 pm
SquadRat1;318468 wrote:
These are the ones that do not feel the need to bash the republican/conservative side because its "trendy". ...
If that "isn't the pot calling the kettle black" I do not know what is! They also fall into #1.


SquadRat1;318481 wrote:
Seems the ones who are berating me, fall into that ignorant catergory. And just because I "look" new to the forums, perhaps I have been here since the beginning but changed my name?


YOU are the one who came in calling liberals idiots (you saying "not all" is irrelevant.) Then you say you're talking about the ones who do not feel the need to "bash" but you began the bashing the second you sent that post.

So now that you offended some liberal people (most of whom would not dream of starting a post by saying "ignorant conservatives" especially when the thread was not a politically polarizing one) and you can't understand that anyone should be offended...then go on to say those offended must be ignorant.

Talk about the pot calling the kettle ignorant.

New or not new, you act like a nube straight out of junior college. :rolleyes:
Kitsune • Feb 26, 2007 4:50 pm
SquadRat1;318453 wrote:

1) Ignorant liberals (not all)
3) People that say country music sucks (hard to believe since its the number radio format)
6) people that claim they are held back because of race...explain to me all the people that are successful in a said race.


You have interesting bumper stickers on your pickup, don't you?
SteveDallas • Feb 26, 2007 4:54 pm
I don't mean to pick on you SquadRat1 (1?? Does this mean there are others ready to follow??) . . . but I have to ask, because I'm fascinated by how people discern their different music preferences.

You say that country music doesn't suck. As evidence, you cite the popularity of country music radio stations.

Another poster then claims that the music played on "country music radio" is not actually country music. You then agree with this statement.

So do you agree (or not) that what they do play on "country music radio" sucks?
SquadRat1 • Feb 26, 2007 5:17 pm
Where did I say liberal idiots? I never did. The post was things that annoy me. Ignorant liberals do. Ignorant means to be "unaware".

There are many many many AWARE liberals. Clinton (both), Carter, Howard Dean, Obama, (do I need to keep going?)

Unaware? any of the droves of celebrities that talk of the poor but bank their MILLIONS every week. Rosie, Kanye West, etc...
14 year old CHILDREN that feel the war is wrong because a OLDER person tells them it is. Not formulating the thought on their own.

I could go on forever on more "ignorancy" but I'll stop here....
SquadRat1 • Feb 26, 2007 5:21 pm
SteveDallas;318488 wrote:
I don't mean to pick on you SquadRat1 (1?? Does this mean there are others ready to follow??) . . . but I have to ask, because I'm fascinated by how people discern their different music preferences.

You say that country music doesn't suck. As evidence, you cite the popularity of country music radio stations.

Another poster then claims that the music played on "country music radio" is not actually country music. You then agree with this statement.

So do you agree (or not) that what they do play on "country music radio" sucks?


Some does without a doubt. But when people say "it sucks", makes no sense. I feel some hip hop and rap sucks, but it still sells millions and there is some I like and will listen too (Talib Kwali to point out one).
Sheldonrs • Feb 26, 2007 5:22 pm
SquadRat1;318492 wrote:
Where did I say liberal idiots? I never did. The post was things that annoy me. Ignorant liberals do. Ignorant means to be "unaware".

There are many many many AWARE liberals. Clinton (both), Carter, Howard Dean, Obama, (do I need to keep going?)

Unaware? any of the droves of celebrities that talk of the poor but bank their MILLIONS every week. Rosie, Kanye West, etc...
14 year old CHILDREN that feel the war is wrong because a OLDER person tells them it is. Not formulating the thought on their own.

I could go on forever on more "ignorancy" but I'll stop here....



Actually, like her or not, Rosie O. has given away millions to good causes, mostly to benefit kids. She actually gave away more last year than Donald T.
rkzenrage • Feb 26, 2007 8:25 pm
Games... any games.
Kitsune • Feb 27, 2007 9:54 am
SquadRat1;318493 wrote:
Some does without a doubt. But when people say "it sucks", makes no sense. I feel some hip hop and rap sucks, but it still sells millions and there is some I like and will listen too (Talib Kwali to point out one).


So... it doesn't make any sense when people say music sucks, but you feel some hip hop and rap sucks, yet you still like and listen to some of it--

What?
Phil • Feb 27, 2007 12:35 pm
country music. ;-)
Shawnee123 • Feb 28, 2007 1:08 pm
Posts that won't go away :worried:
Cloud • Feb 28, 2007 1:39 pm
websites that won't let you leave. :(
Flint • Feb 28, 2007 1:47 pm
Songs that get stuck in your head. Several times over the last few weeks I've been hearing "God is watching us from a distance" and to a lesser degree "God is an awesome God" - don't ask me why!
Shawnee123 • Feb 28, 2007 1:50 pm
Ha! That song "God is watching us from a distance" I always think: why? he doesn't want to get too close?

Thanks, though, it has now replaced Joyride which was in my head earlier. :eek:
Madman • Feb 28, 2007 2:02 pm
Rap... almost always... actually more than almost always... Come to think of it, I don't recall any Rap music I have ever liked. I made a decision... All Rap music annoys me...

Dolly Partons voice after two consecutive songs... <fingernails scratching on chalkboard> :eek:
wolf • Feb 28, 2007 2:04 pm
Juvenile bullshit
Flint • Feb 28, 2007 2:06 pm
wolf;318983 wrote:
Juvenile bullshit

Hey, you even followed the convenient link I provided! :::ahem::: You're welcome.
Kitsune • Feb 28, 2007 2:24 pm
Flint;318971 wrote:
Songs that get stuck in your head. Several times over the last few weeks I've been hearing "God is watching us from a distance" and to a lesser degree "God is an awesome God" - don't ask me why!


Could be worse. This song hasn't aired on television for years and it still annoys me.
wolf • Feb 28, 2007 2:38 pm
I never heard that before. Tinfoil helmet must prevent it from entering my brain, though, since I'm not experiencing any negative effects.
Trilby • Feb 28, 2007 2:46 pm
Kitsune;318994 wrote:
Could be worse. This song hasn't aired on television for years and it still annoys me.


I watched it--but I still wanted to punch those kids.
Kingswood • Feb 28, 2007 10:47 pm
Madman;318981 wrote:
Rap... almost always... actually more than almost always... Come to think of it, I don't recall any Rap music I have ever liked. I made a decision... All Rap music annoys me...

Rap is 3/4 crap ... and the other 1/4 is just as bad
xoxoxoBruce • Feb 28, 2007 11:49 pm
Cloud;318968 wrote:
websites that won't let you leave. :(


I'll take a shot that may be way off target, but are you talking about sites that won't let you back button out? If so, and you're using IE, the little black arrowhead next to the backbutton will let you escape by clicking on the site you want from the list that pops up.

If you're talking about something else, then sorry, nevermind. :blush:
Sundae • Mar 1, 2007 7:35 am
I may have mentioned this before, but it's a genuine cri de coeur so please forgive me.

Marks & Spencers. Old people. Lunchtime.

They move so slowly, they can't walk and talk at the same time so will stop right in front of you if asked a question by their other half, they block the aisles while treating the place as a social club, they have no peripheral vision and are not respecters of personal space. Every time I have had a trolley or a shopping bag pressing against the back of my legs in a queue it has been an old person.

I go into the 5 till Basket Only queue now. Old people don't tend to use this because 1) they need trolleys to keep them upright and 2) they can't deal the fact the person at the front has to keep an eye on which is the next till free - they always have to be summoned by the cashier shouting, "Who's next please!" three or four times and it flusters them. Goodness knows why, the same system is in place in the Post Office and they spend half their lives there.

They get up at 05.30 in the morning, so why on earth are they in town between 12.00-14.00 when the rest of us are trying to grab a sandwich and a drink? Why can't they go there first thing when the rest of us are safely at our desks nursing our first coffee? Let them buy their tins of stewing steak and bags of oranges then.

Small shops and newsagents, especially in villages, often have signs saying, "Two schoolchilden at a time only" because kids with their big schoolbags, loud voices and low spending power just clog the shops up and annoy normal people. Also the less schoolkids in shops at a time, the less likely one will be to slip a Mars Bar up their sleeve. I understood this as a schoolchild, and certainly have no problem with it now I'm older.

I just think M&S should apply the same restrictions to old people.

Please note I also believe students should receive lessons in supermarket shopping when they first come to University - I am equal opportunity intolerant.
Griff • Mar 1, 2007 9:56 am
Web sites which you have to use for classes that that are always down. Yes, I am calling you out livetext.
Shawnee123 • Mar 1, 2007 10:09 am
Sundae Girl;319165 wrote:
They get up at 05.30 in the morning, so why on earth are they in town between 12.00-14.00 when the rest of us are trying to grab a sandwich and a drink? Why can't they go there first thing when the rest of us are safely at our desks nursing our first coffee? Let them buy their tins of stewing steak and bags of oranges then.

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I've had this same beef for years. My brother once mentioned trying to get a quick fast food run in (at places where only a half an hour is allotted for lunch) and there is grandma and grandpa with grandchildren Tyler, Taylor, and Skyler (complete with bowl haircuts and hair tails) trying to decide if it's Taylor or Tyler who likes barbeque sauce. Also, they should stay out of the banks. I've said it before...they have all freaking day! :3eye:
Cloud • Mar 1, 2007 10:12 am
and I suppose when we get too old to chew, you'll just throw us out in the snow to starve, too. :(

Ageism is a particularly insidious and ironic form of hatred, because someday, if you're lucky, you'll get there, too.
Trilby • Mar 1, 2007 10:14 am
When I was a teenager I waitressed at this pancake place. I had many peeves about customers but my two pet peeves were: parents asking a two year old child what he wanted to eat whilst I had 4-5 tables waiting for me and people asking me "how big" the silver dollar pancakes were. I always said they were about as big as "a buck and a half" and then just stared at them.
Shawnee123 • Mar 1, 2007 10:16 am
and I suppose when we get too old to chew, you'll just throw us out in the snow to starve, too.

Ageism is a particularly insidious and ironic form of hatred, because someday, if you're lucky, you'll get there, too.
Not fair...I live in an old people community. I help them out. I love old people and their grandchildren. My beef was more of a timing thing than due to their age.

You're jumping to conclusions about which you know nothing. :right: There's where most of MY hatred goes.

Also, if you can't fathom a little tongue in cheek dark humor perhaps you need to find the Staircase to Joy and Light forum rather than the Cellar. It gets dark down here.
Sheldonrs • Mar 1, 2007 10:31 am
Inconsiderate assholes on the bus. There is a guy who gets on the same bus I take after work. He gets on a few stops after me.
He has cerebral palsey and uses 2 canes and has a great deal of trouble getting on the bus. It is easier for him to sit in the first seat so if I am already there, I get up and let him have it.
The other day I did this and some old, ignorant bitch speaking Cantonese as loudly as possible to her husband who was sitting a few seats back yells to him and points to the seat I just stood up from for the guy with the canes. I look at the bitch and point to the guy getting on the bus. She ignores me and her husband and his 5 shopping bags take the seat. All I could do was shrug an apology to the man and shake my head at the old lady staring at me with a smile on her face now. I mouthed the words "stupid bitch" and walked down to the back of the bus.
Common courtesy is supposed to be common no matter what language you speak.
Sundae • Mar 1, 2007 10:33 am
Cloud;319202 wrote:
Ageism is a particularly insidious and ironic form of hatred, because someday, if you're lucky, you'll get there, too.

I'm not ageist. People who get in my way annoy the shit out of me:
A couple of months ago it was the new intake of University students treating the supermarket like a theme park while I was tryingto shop
When I lived in London it was the tourists who stood right in the entrance to Tube stations to chat and get their maps out
Sometimes it will be people who illegally park on the pavement while I am trying to get by with bags of shopping

I've never behaved in any of the ways above, so I doubt I'll start when I get old.
Flint • Mar 1, 2007 10:47 am
Sundae Girl;319210 wrote:
I've never behaved in any of the ways above, so I doubt I'll start when I get old.
I've always thought that old age instills one with a hearty sense of "not giving a shit, because what difference does it make"?
rkzenrage • Mar 1, 2007 2:35 pm
There are a lot of people who feel the same way about the disabled because we "hold them up".
The world is not set to your pace.
Flint • Mar 1, 2007 2:39 pm
rkzenrage;319299 wrote:
The world is not set to your pace.
This is best evidenced in traffic. No matter how aggressively you ride my rear bumper, it won't affect what's in front of me.
rkzenrage • Mar 1, 2007 2:41 pm
Exactly... as I stated before... the closer you get to me, the slower I'm going to go.
elSicomoro • Mar 1, 2007 2:53 pm
You all annoy me today...you fuckers!

Time for my meds...
Sundae • Mar 1, 2007 2:59 pm
This is less to do with my pace and more to do with behaviour and respect.

I have peripheral vision (mirrors if I am driving).
As a pedestrian I don't stop so suddenly that someone walks into the back of me or has to make a bizarre sideways jerk to avoid doing so - in the same way I wouldn't in a car.

Of course I don't expect other people to move at the same pace as me - I just prefer them to have some awareness of what is happening around them.

If decided to stop suddenly in a car (we're talking non-emergency situation) I would check my mirrors beforehand. All I want is for people to have a similar consideration when shopping.

Don't step back to look at something without seeing if anyone is approaching.
Don't stand with your two friends for a chat in the middle of an aisle.
Don't stop suddenly in a crowded shop where there will obviously be people right behind you.
I was taught this as a child as a matter of respect. Although my parents are 60+ now (and Dad with a cane and a replacement knee) it still applies to them as well as me.

And re tailgating - I could say the same about the people who press their shopping trolleys against my legs in queues (all have been OAPs, hence my original rant). I can't step forward any more without encroaching on the personal space of the person in front - so don't think pressing up against me is going to help - it's just damn rude.

My issue is with people who don't show me the same consideration I show them. If is was simply about people who didn't move quickly enough I'd be shoving them out of my path. I don't care if someone is a spotty teen, an OAP or in a motorised wheelchair - if they contravene my "rules of the road" it annoys the shit out of me. I do nothing about it apart from the occasional fart (have searced - perhaps I didn't post that here) and this thread.
Shawnee123 • Mar 1, 2007 3:02 pm
Sundae Girl;319311 wrote:
Of course I don't expect other people to move at the same pace as me - I just prefer them to have some awareness of what is happening around them.

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Which is what I was saying, also.

What happens is that the people who don't give a fuck that other people inhabit the earth can grow into old people who don't give a fuck that other people inhabit the earth (and I could carry this further but if my previous statements were misconstrued I can only imagine what would transpire if I elaborated.)

Can we put away our tissues now? :cool:
barefoot serpent • Mar 1, 2007 4:41 pm
Shawnee123;319313 wrote:
Can we put away our tissues now? :cool:


No! there's that GD split-V stream that happens after getting frisky.:blush:
King • Mar 3, 2007 6:59 am
People on buses with prams. I know you have to get your kid somewhere, but a pram barely fits up the aisle to begin with, never mind when there are already more people on the bus than there should be.
xoxoxoBruce • Mar 3, 2007 7:39 pm
barefoot serpent;319368 wrote:
No! there's that GD split-V stream that happens after getting frisky.:blush:
That's such a pain in the ass. I usually sit down for the first pee after getting frisky, to avoid the mess. :angel:
Perry Winkle • Mar 3, 2007 8:22 pm
xoxoxoBruce;319887 wrote:
That's such a pain in the ass. I usually sit down for the first pee after getting frisky, to avoid the mess. :angel:


Have you tried giving it the Presta valve treatment?
xoxoxoBruce • Mar 3, 2007 9:04 pm
If I were to get frisky with anyone but Rosy Palm, there might be considerable objection, from the attacked, that the attackee is unsuitably equipped.
After all
The small diameter of the Presta valve requires a smaller hole....
:o
Perry Winkle • Mar 3, 2007 10:28 pm
Fuck, social "games." I like movies like Swingers as much as the next guy, but I never took them as a guidebook.
Griff • Mar 5, 2007 7:27 am
snowmobiles