Thadsboner Posted June 1, 2004 Posted June 1, 2004 you know what i HATE! that fucking LOW CARB/HIGH PROTIEN CRAP. what the fuck is up with that atkins shit? if your a FATASS, dont eat as much, cant get more simple than that. you cant put on pounds you dont eat. let your body live on its reserves for a few days (or months depending on how many trips it takes you to haul ass) and it will come of quickley. Im sure this has been mentioned here before but i was to busy eating a bunless burger and butter to read the previous pages. Quote
Double_E Posted June 2, 2004 Posted June 2, 2004 Bellevue crosswalks... just started a new job over there recently, and therefore am reluctantly getting to know the customs of that exotic, faraway land. Â So check this out: unless you push the damn crosswalk-button when you want to cross the street, you DON'T get the walk signal (at a time when you normally would have in Seattle et.al.)! ...I'm saying, when the cars "going your direction" have a green, and the opposite direction does NOT have the turn arrow, you don't get the walk signal unless you had pushed the button before your direction went green. WTF?!?! (and when that happened to me, this one time, the moron drivers turning right blasted right by me, didn't even think about letting me cross since I didn't have the signal.) Â --Double_E, who loves his car to death but still believes in pedestrian-fuckin-rights-goddamit!!! Quote
klenke Posted June 2, 2004 Author Posted June 2, 2004 So far I see most people are peeved with traffic asshats and the asinine things they do. No surprise here. Â What I want to hear about are those little things that annoy the crap out of us. Â Here are another two: Â 7. Plastic Shower Curtains: why in the #$@*& can't these curtain manufacturers reinforce the holes at the top enough so that the weight and wear and tear don't eventually pull the rings (usually the end rings) through the plastic? Maybe they make them like this on purpose as an orchestrated plan to get us to buy more shower curtains. Â 8. What in the $%#@ was the Microsoft programmer on the day he/she decided to make Control-Y the shortcut for the repeat function in Word? I mean, a shortcut is supposed to be an easier alternative to the pull-down route at the top of the screen--especially for something like the repeat function where rapid utilization of said function is commonplace. Yet, look at Control and Y on your keyboard. Can the two keys be farther away from each other? Can it be any more awkward to type? Quote
Double_E Posted June 2, 2004 Posted June 2, 2004 7. Plastic Shower Curtains: why in the #$@*& can't these curtain manufacturers reinforce the holes at the top enough so that the weight and wear and tear don't eventually pull the rings (usually the end rings) through the plastic? Maybe they make them like this on purpose as an orchestrated plan to get us to buy more shower curtains. Â gonna let you in on a little secret here, my good fellow bachelor: Target, Kmart, and your local "dollar store" aren't the only stores that sell shower curtains ya know!! it IS possible to get quality ones that don't tear like that ... or so I hear. Quote
Bronco Posted June 2, 2004 Posted June 2, 2004 1. Commie liberal moonbats. Â That's pretty much it. Quote
Dustin_B Posted June 2, 2004 Posted June 2, 2004 Voters so disconnected with reality that even though they hate littering will vote for Bush. "Mercury! It's what's for dinner!"  Whatever, Dubya is environmental and shit, he uses solar cells on his ranch house in Crawford, Texas. Quote
dryad Posted June 2, 2004 Posted June 2, 2004 In an ordinary shoe store in Prague I saw some street shoes styled to look like rock shoes. I don't want to be mainstream, dammit!!!! I always thought that the great thing about being a climber is that everyone else thinks you're a maladjusted freak. Quote
ken4ord Posted June 2, 2004 Posted June 2, 2004 Aw shit here it goes, my list.  1. People that can't drive right main offense driving slow in the left lane and not using the car pool lane in rush even though they can.  2. Government  3. War  4. People that mame, kill, injure, rape, or physically harm or emotionally scar another person, they so suck.  5. People who posion the air I breathe with too much perfume or cologne.  6. Micro-managers.  7. Stale draft beer.  8. Herb being illegal.  9. Borders.  10. Larry da Tools  11. Malls  12. Commercials of all sorts, pop-ups, billboards, tv, radio, magazines.  13. 5 day work weeks  14. Country Western, Opera, and Musicals, everything else I can deal with.  Well that is about it, not too much bugs me. Quote
Bronco Posted June 2, 2004 Posted June 2, 2004 2. People who premise a comment by saying "Now I'm not trying to (fill in the blank)...BUT," and then they go ahead and do what they just said they weren't trying to do. Quote
greenfork Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 3.) People who don't hold the elevator  people who expect others to hold the elevator. you didn't get to the elevator in time. fucking wait and inconvenience yourself, instead of delaying everyone else. another elevator will come.  just like drivers who realize they are in the wrong lane and come to a full stop, waiting to change into another lane. message to you: you made the mistake. you are in the wrong lane. deal with it and keep going and find a place to turn around, instead of making everyone else wait.  and you people in that lane the guy is trying to get to. he's got his flashers on. be nice and let him in!!! Quote
greenfork Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 therefore am reluctantly getting to know the customs of that exotic, faraway land. So check this out: unless you push the damn crosswalk-button when you want to cross the street, you DON'T get the walk signal (at a time when you normally would have in Seattle et.al.)!  you just figured that one out? what did you think the button is for? not sure where you come from, but i would say that's normal operation... if you get an automatic walk signal like downtown seattle, then there wouldn't be a button.  another peeve: people who don't understand how "push to walk" buttons work, and keep pressing them over and over, wondering why the walk signal doesn't appear immediately. congratulations for demonstrating your stupidity. Quote
olyclimber Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 People that start peeve threads! Â People that steal other peoples peeves! Quote
klenke Posted June 3, 2004 Author Posted June 3, 2004 2. People who premise a comment by saying "Now I'm not trying to (fill in the blank)...BUT," and then they go ahead and do what they just said they weren't trying to do. People who know that parrhesia is the word that describes this kind of speech. Â For MisterE: people who complain about people who complain. Â For Greenfork: I saw somewhere recently that quite a few of those walk buttons don't work, that they're merely placebos. Quote
snugtop Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 Today I sat for a half an hour in traffic behind someone with a George Bush bumper sticker. That peeved me. Quote
Double_E Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 therefore am reluctantly getting to know the customs of that exotic, faraway land. So check this out: unless you push the damn crosswalk-button when you want to cross the street, you DON'T get the walk signal (at a time when you normally would have in Seattle et.al.)!  you just figured that one out? what did you think the button is for? not sure where you come from, but i would say that's normal operation... if you get an automatic walk signal like downtown seattle, then there wouldn't be a button. in Seattle and most other cities and towns (of all sizes) around the US I've been to, the "Push To Walk" button is for one thing and one thing only: to make it so you get the walk sign ...... and the drivers waiting to go the same directin as you get green green light ...... SOONER.  in them other places, even if you never push the button it, you still get yer walk sign when the drivers get the green... not so in Bellevue.  not sure i'm familiar with this "automatic walk signal" youre referring to which some Seattle intersections have. controlled by motion detectors, are they? Quote
greenfork Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 Â no, i just meant that there are no buttons to push, instead there is always a walking signal when its green, since there is so much pedestrian traffic... Quote
Beck Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 what peeves me is pulling up to certain intersections on a bike and waiting for the light to give you the green. The metal mass of a bike isn't enough to trigger the pavement sensors, so you can wait interminably for a car to show up to turn the light green. This often is the case where low key streets intersect arterials. Makes me want to run the light... what also peeves me off is tickets while riding a bike go agains your driving record... that sucks! Â I'm also pissed off at don't walk signs for pedestrians. I'm walking, i don't give a rats ass anymore.... if there are no cars, I'm crossing. I'm peeved to let cars right of way interfere with my right of way, there's something not right in this day and age with patiently waiting for the walk sign. Â Oh, and grocery prices, and gas prices, and the administrations deft mishandling of energy, environmental, fiscal, and foreign policy, that all peeves me off too! Quote
badvoodoo Posted June 3, 2004 Posted June 3, 2004 Since when did photographs start being called "photogs"? "Photos" was just a little too short? You felt weird having it end with a verb? WTF? Quote
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