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bishop · Jul 29, 2006, 01:19 am

heh.. back in newark, nj, there'd always be shit on the street, sidewalk, whatever... the horseback police would never clean up after their horses.. that shit would bake wherever it landed in the swealtering summer heat..

not that i stepped in any of it, but the humid air definitely infected me with some airborne shit molecules and stench.... nothing like getting blasted with a nice humid, horseshit stinking breeze..

Scribbler1 · Jul 29, 2006, 02:12 am

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OK scrib & underbear, but how often are turds on the parking lot?

And (depending on where you are, if you are in the goddammed south you are going to see this more often) how often are you going to see soda?

I don't know about parking lots but I stepped in a human turd next to a fence in Chester, PA.

I'd prefer soda any time.

phoenix_fire · Jul 29, 2006, 02:38 am

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And people calling me "luv". Its deliberately diminuative and disrespectful.

*cough*Zhavric*cough*...

Yeah. I hate that one too.

phoenix_fire · Jul 29, 2006, 02:59 am

-people who drive worse than I do (I can't really say anything to the bad drivers that still drive better than me :) )

-my upstairs neighbor who calls the police on me for the hell of it (supposedly noise violations...when there's absolutely nothing on in the apt.) and posts polite little notes on my door about how she's been spying on me and disapproves of this or that that I do in my own home

-gum on the underside of every single desk at my school

-spam spam spam spam SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM

-people who don't leave voice messages

-people who don't call back and never answer their phones

-self-promotion: I don't do it and I always seem to get left behind by people who do

-people who come to Target and say "well at Wal-Mart..."

-kids who think it's funny to scan their own stuff at the checkout

-"Can I give you exact change...in pennies?"

-bad parents with evil kids

-dating

-door dings

-people who block (multiple) handicapped spots

-people who toss their nasty garbage on store shelves.

-very white guys who try to use rapper lingo. ugh. I'm sorry but I will not call a guy with a crew cut and A&F clothes "B-diddy"

I could go on. In fact, I probably will.

Mia · Jul 29, 2006, 05:29 am

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*cough*Zhavric*cough*...

Yeah. I hate that one too.

Oh, it's cute coming from a friend, though!

Critter · Jul 29, 2006, 06:03 am

Or a British person.

phoenix_fire · Jul 29, 2006, 06:36 am

Oooooh. I've got one:

-people who refer to themselves in the third person. Phoenix hates people who refer to themselves in the third person.

**Chris** · Jul 29, 2006, 11:38 am

Um, that would be Zealot (good riddens) :)

"Why are you all afraid of the zealot?" :)

CoffeeSaint · Jul 29, 2006, 01:05 pm

People who walk their dogs without a leash.

People who claim they aren't racist, then tell racist jokes -- and when you point out that the joke is racist, they say, "Yeah, but it's funny."

People who mow their lawns every other day, especially early in the morning.

Using the word "impact" as a verb.

Using "4" instead of "for," or "2" instead of "to"

"lol," especially when it is used to begin a response in a debate.

"Guns don't kill people, people kill people."

Lee Childs. He's an author. He writes thrillers. He uses periods. Lots of periods. It's like someone told him. That short sentences increase the drama. But nobody told him. That you need to use some long sentences. So there is a contrast. The whole book. Reads like this.

Cats who crap on my lawn.

People who theme their children's names. (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, or Jenny, Johnny, Jimmy, and Jackie.) Though I think it would be funny if they went with Donner, Blitzen, Comet . . .

People who change the spelling of a name: Brittany, Britney, Brittani, Bryttani . . .

Being called a hippie because I have long hair and liberal political ideas.

People who comment loudly on bad smells, especially farts.

The idea that living life to the fullest HAS to include risking it in stupid ways, like bungee jumping.

People who say that smokers are disgusting. I smoke. I don't smoke around other people. If you think that people blowing smoke in your face is disgusting, then say that.

People who think seeing others in honest pain (Like America's Funniest Home Videos, which ought to just be called "Taking It In The Nuts.") is funny.

Drunk people.

Stoners who think they have found the answers to life, the universe, and everything inside a bong, and that the solution to any individual's problems is that they should chill out and get high.

People who don't read.

Nono · Jul 29, 2006, 04:09 pm

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And I can't stand people who use the term "ironical".

I condemn this too, irregardless.

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People who don't leave voice messages.

I often don't leave messages because I find the sudden interposition of a machine intimidating. I don't want to talk to an effing machine, so I hang up. If the call's important, I'll try later. And those are the same grounds one which I myself don't have an answering machine.

Here's a pet peeve of mine: Companies (this is a North American specialty) that, having fired most of their operators as a means of maximizing their effing profits, put a recorded voice on that tells you the following lie: "Your call is important to us."

Yesterday I phoned a place in NYC that assured me that its operators were all engaged (yeah, bullshit) and that if I left a message they'd call me back within -- wait for this -- two business days. I resisted the temptation to leave a message instructing them to fuck right off. Admirable self-control on my part, I'd say.

bishop · Jul 29, 2006, 04:52 pm

same here.. i hate it when people leave voice messages and i don't like leaving them myself.

my peeve is escalator etiquette... two sides to the escalator, the left and right.. lazy turds who just stand the entire way up stand on the right, people who aren't lazy turds walk up the escalator on the left.. whenever people disobey this rule, i always make sure i make them uncomfortable so that they move - and it usually works.

CoffeeSaint · Jul 29, 2006, 09:26 pm

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my peeve is escalator etiquette... two sides to the escalator, the left and right.. lazy turds who just stand the entire way up stand on the right, people who aren't lazy turds walk up the escalator on the left.. whenever people disobey this rule, i always make sure i make them uncomfortable so that they move - and it usually works.

Why would you move on an escalator? The whole idea of the thing is the stairs move, so you don't have to. How big a hurry are you in to get to the food court?
Unless you're talking airport escalators -- those I can understand, if you've got a flight to catch. But otherwise, how much time do you save by walking up the moving stairs?

bishop · Jul 29, 2006, 09:36 pm

seconds saved by walking on the escalator can make the difference between catching your subway, or waiting 5-8 minutes for the next one... or making your bus, or waiting 20-30 minutes for the next one..

for those people who want to waste their time by being lazy and standing on the escalator, that's fine - just as long as they follow escalator etiquette, because not everyone feels like wasting their time on an escalator.

**Chris** · Jul 30, 2006, 12:42 am

heh...

Must be talking about Alewife Station eh Bish?

Scribbler1 · Jul 30, 2006, 01:19 am

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Why would you move on an escalator? The whole idea of the thing is the stairs move, so you don't have to. How big a hurry are you in to get to the food court?

Evidently some people ARE in a great hurry. Correct me if I'm wrong but the London Underground escalators are "right side stand, left side run like hell" and there are even signs posted to that effect.

**Chris** · Jul 30, 2006, 01:38 am

another pet peeve I have just realized is people on an internet forum, sign their posts like I will demonstrate at the end of this post.

I mean come on... your username and / or avatar identifying you are enclosed in a frame that your post is in. Why do you feel the need to sign it everytime?

-Chris

JohnMK · Jul 30, 2006, 01:45 am

Chief pet peeve:

My incontinence of will. I don't pretend (often) to have power over others. My incontinence of will is the single most disabling and heretofore incurable pet peeve. It is the root of all the others, as in general I only worry, largely, about things that I have a good degree of control over.

JohnMK · Jul 30, 2006, 01:47 am

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another pet peeve I have just realized is people on an internet forum, sign their posts like I will demonstrate at the end of this post.

I mean come on... your username and / or avatar identifying you are enclosed in a frame that your post is in. Why do you feel the need to sign it everytime?

-Chris

I would imagine it occurs out of habit -- and failing that, then out of OCD. Sometimes I will sign my name at the end of a post of more than usual importance as a gesture of formality -- depending on the context this can be a good idea.

bishop · Jul 30, 2006, 02:21 am

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heh...

Must be talking about Alewife Station eh Bish?

alewife's definitely the worst... all the surburban bitches for the most part.. every now and then i encounter one of them, walking up the mile-high escalator at porter.

in nyc, there's a chance you'll get trampled doing shit like that.. although EVERYONE walks up the escalators there.

life must be really slow in oregon for people to waste their lives, lazily waiting to get to the top of the escalator.

**Chris** · Jul 30, 2006, 02:36 am

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another pet peeve I have just realized is people on an internet forum, sign their posts like I will demonstrate at the end of this post.

I mean come on... your username and / or avatar identifying you are enclosed in a frame that your post is in. Why do you feel the need to sign it everytime?

-Chris

I would imagine it occurs out of habit -- and failing that, then out of OCD. Sometimes I will sign my name at the end of a post of more than usual importance as a gesture of formality -- depending on the context this can be a good idea.

Well yeah, but I always sign my emails, I never sign my forum posts.

I can distinguish between the two, I just said it was annoying.

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heh...

Must be talking about Alewife Station eh Bish?

alewife's definitely the worst... all the surburban bitches for the most part.. every now and then i encounter one of them, walking up the mile-high escalator at porter.

in nyc, there's a chance you'll get trampled doing shit like that.. although EVERYONE walks up the escalators there.

life must be really slow in oregon for people to waste their lives, lazily waiting to get to the top of the escalator.

Yeah I remember the long escalators there at alewife. Especially bad if you parked on an upper level.
Lets put this into perspective, in an airport, when you have moving walkways, you wouldn't just stand there - unless you were a lazy bastard right?

Thats why they have markings on the moving walkway that say

Walk|Stand

Am I right?

Jul 29, 2006, 01:19 am	#81 (permalink) (top)
bishop moderat-e/o-r Location: boston Posts: 11,184	heh.. back in newark, nj, there'd always be shit on the street, sidewalk, whatever... the horseback police would never clean up after their horses.. that shit would bake wherever it landed in the swealtering summer heat.. not that i stepped in any of it, but the humid air definitely infected me with some airborne shit molecules and stench.... nothing like getting blasted with a nice humid, horseshit stinking breeze.. hope for america... http://www.ronpaul2008.com/

Jul 29, 2006, 02:59 am	#84 (permalink) (top)
phoenix_fire Paladin Location: Narnia Posts: 4,277	-people who drive worse than I do (I can't really say anything to the bad drivers that still drive better than me :) ) -my upstairs neighbor who calls the police on me for the hell of it (supposedly noise violations...when there's absolutely nothing on in the apt.) and posts polite little notes on my door about how she's been spying on me and disapproves of this or that that I do in my own home -gum on the underside of every single desk at my school -spam spam spam spam SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM -people who don't leave voice messages -people who don't call back and never answer their phones -self-promotion: I don't do it and I always seem to get left behind by people who do -people who come to Target and say "well at Wal-Mart..." -kids who think it's funny to scan their own stuff at the checkout -"Can I give you exact change...in pennies?" -bad parents with evil kids -dating -door dings -people who block (multiple) handicapped spots -people who toss their nasty garbage on store shelves. -very white guys who try to use rapper lingo. ugh. I'm sorry but I will not call a guy with a crew cut and A&F clothes "B-diddy" I could go on. In fact, I probably will. Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. -- Song 8:6

Jul 29, 2006, 06:03 am	#86 (permalink) (top)
Critter Bullets & Bracelets Location: Northwest Ohio Posts: 658	Or a British person. Making people go, "WTF?!?!?" since 1979.

Jul 29, 2006, 06:36 am	#87 (permalink) (top)
phoenix_fire Paladin Location: Narnia Posts: 4,277	Oooooh. I've got one: -people who refer to themselves in the third person. Phoenix hates people who refer to themselves in the third person. Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. -- Song 8:6

Jul 29, 2006, 11:38 am	#88 (permalink) (top)
Chris Gamma-ray burst Location: Nashville Posts: 6,376	Um, that would be Zealot (good riddens) :) "Why are you all afraid of the zealot?" :) I voted against the theocratic psychopaths Shared

Jul 29, 2006, 01:05 pm	#89 (permalink) (top)
CoffeeSaint Moral Turnip Location: Oregon, US Posts: 2,283	People who walk their dogs without a leash. People who claim they aren't racist, then tell racist jokes -- and when you point out that the joke is racist, they say, "Yeah, but it's funny." People who mow their lawns every other day, especially early in the morning. Using the word "impact" as a verb. Using "4" instead of "for," or "2" instead of "to" "lol," especially when it is used to begin a response in a debate. "Guns don't kill people, people kill people." Lee Childs. He's an author. He writes thrillers. He uses periods. Lots of periods. It's like someone told him. That short sentences increase the drama. But nobody told him. That you need to use some long sentences. So there is a contrast. The whole book. Reads like this. Cats who crap on my lawn. People who theme their children's names. (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, or Jenny, Johnny, Jimmy, and Jackie.) Though I think it would be funny if they went with Donner, Blitzen, Comet . . . People who change the spelling of a name: Brittany, Britney, Brittani, Bryttani . . . Being called a hippie because I have long hair and liberal political ideas. People who comment loudly on bad smells, especially farts. The idea that living life to the fullest HAS to include risking it in stupid ways, like bungee jumping. People who say that smokers are disgusting. I smoke. I don't smoke around other people. If you think that people blowing smoke in your face is disgusting, then say that. People who think seeing others in honest pain (Like America's Funniest Home Videos, which ought to just be called "Taking It In The Nuts.") is funny. Drunk people. Stoners who think they have found the answers to life, the universe, and everything inside a bong, and that the solution to any individual's problems is that they should chill out and get high. People who don't read. "Would you like some pie, Dr. Stark?" "Science is my pie. Curiosity, my sweet tooth. Knowledge is my candy."

Jul 29, 2006, 04:52 pm	#91 (permalink) (top)
bishop moderat-e/o-r Location: boston Posts: 11,184	same here.. i hate it when people leave voice messages and i don't like leaving them myself. my peeve is escalator etiquette... two sides to the escalator, the left and right.. lazy turds who just stand the entire way up stand on the right, people who aren't lazy turds walk up the escalator on the left.. whenever people disobey this rule, i always make sure i make them uncomfortable so that they move - and it usually works. hope for america... http://www.ronpaul2008.com/

Jul 29, 2006, 09:36 pm	#93 (permalink) (top)
bishop moderat-e/o-r Location: boston Posts: 11,184	seconds saved by walking on the escalator can make the difference between catching your subway, or waiting 5-8 minutes for the next one... or making your bus, or waiting 20-30 minutes for the next one.. for those people who want to waste their time by being lazy and standing on the escalator, that's fine - just as long as they follow escalator etiquette, because not everyone feels like wasting their time on an escalator. hope for america... http://www.ronpaul2008.com/

Jul 30, 2006, 12:42 am	#94 (permalink) (top)
Chris Gamma-ray burst Location: Nashville Posts: 6,376	heh... Must be talking about Alewife Station eh Bish? I voted against the theocratic psychopaths Shared

Jul 30, 2006, 01:38 am	#96 (permalink) (top)
Chris Gamma-ray burst Location: Nashville Posts: 6,376	another pet peeve I have just realized is people on an internet forum, sign their posts like I will demonstrate at the end of this post. I mean come on... your username and / or avatar identifying you are enclosed in a frame that your post is in. Why do you feel the need to sign it everytime? -Chris I voted against the theocratic psychopaths Shared

Jul 30, 2006, 01:45 am	#97 (permalink) (top)
JohnMK Laissez-Faire Location: Seattle Posts: 539	Chief pet peeve: My incontinence of will. I don't pretend (often) to have power over others. My incontinence of will is the single most disabling and heretofore incurable pet peeve. It is the root of all the others, as in general I only worry, largely, about things that I have a good degree of control over.