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So here's your chance to rant about your pet peeves. Here are some of mine...

Words that shouldn't be words but are so misused by people in everday conversation that they become words...for example
irregardless
preventative

People, particularly people in positions of political and/or miliary power who pronounce nuclear as nucular.

People (generally older women) who board a closed capsule with wings after having bathed themselves in obnoxious, sinus-burning fragrances.

You have ruffles on your panties?

People who put you down for being a sci-fi fan or trekkie - while being totally absorbed and removed from reality in their favourite professional sport (which they only ever watch, not play).

People who give you lip but can't take it if you let them taste their own medicine.

Neo-Liberals. Not in the present day, US vernacular sense but rather in the sense of Adam Smith, no hold barred capitalism and whatnot.

Militant non-smokers, preferrably ex-smokers, who fake coughing and do everything in their power to get smokers irritated with their holier-than-thou attitude.

People who exercise and eat healthy and give you shit because you don't.

People who are arrogant.

People who are bigoted.

People that think there are only two types of people in the world : People who think there are only two types in the world, and people who know better.....

... "WHATEVER"!!!

Whooooaaaah, that freaks me out, makes my toenails roll up every time I hear it

TV-Ads for ringtones.
Fancy ringtones that sound like artificial pop-music (if I ever get a phone that can play whatever I like, it'll be the annoying, bone chilling, hair raising bell ringing of a classic bakelite phone).

Artificial, mass-produced pop music.

People who let the mass media decide for them what to wear, eat, drink, say, buy....people who follow trends in general.

Trends, in general.

99.99% of television.

The mass media.

Ads in websites that have sound that cannot be turned off.

The "Live to work." attitude that everybody is trying to shove down my throat.

Politicians. The whole damn lot of 'em.

rhinoviper wrote:So here's your chance to rant about your pet peeves. Here are some of mine...

Words that shouldn't be words but are so misused by people in everday conversation that they become words...for example
irregardless
preventative

People, particularly people in positions of political and/or miliary power who pronounce nuclear as nucular.

People (generally older women) who board a closed capsule with wings after having bathed themselves in obnoxious, sinus-burning fragrances.

Like the word Billet in referring to a fininshed piece of metal in MC circles.........

DerGolgo, you forgot the TV ads for phone sex lines, repeated at least 3 times in every ad block. Makes my TV look like the inbox of my Mozilla Thunderfart mailer.

Dominatrix: "RUF! ... whip ... MICH! ... whip ... AN!!! ... whip"

or even better the gayline: "LOVE FROM BEHIND"

How to do so just by using a telephone escapes me.

Luckily there are some ads for the more mature of us:

"Women over 50 are waiting for your call ... now!"

What worries me most is the fact that I am able to recall that shit

badi wrote:DerGolgo, you forgot the TV ads for phone sex lines, repeated at least 3 times in every ad block. Makes my TV look like the inbox of my Mozilla Thunderfart mailer.

Dominatrix: "RUF! ... whip ... MICH! ... whip ... AN!!! ... whip"

or even better the gayline: "LOVE FROM BEHIND"

How to do so just by using a telephone escapes me.

Luckily there are some ads for the more mature of us:

"Women over 50 are waiting for your call ... now!"

What worries me most is the fact that I am able to recall that shit

Ah, yes, Sozialhilfeporno (Welfare Porn).......true, true.

Or how about those fucking membership cards all kinds of supermarkets, fuel stations and shopping centres are trying to push on you......in exchange for letting the company know all about your comsumption and spending habits, allowing them to create a huge database with all information about you, turning yourself into a man of glass....you get 2% off of herbal tea and feminine hygiene products. Collect 10.000.000 bonus points and get a free pen.
Whenever the cashier in the supermarket asks me "Haben sie eine Rewe Karte?" I get that urge to make with the bludgeoning.......

Collect 10.000.000 bonus points and get a free pen.

Yah, but that seems to be a german problem. Here in SA it actually makes sense to get some of those cards. For example we got the platinum cards from our favorite cinema, they set up a dedicated box for card holders so that we don't have to stand in line to purchase tickets. Also we save a little with every ticket we buy and get to see every 10th movie for free. Since we're going to the movies quite often we happend to see 2 free movies in the last year.
Or our local garden center: Huge savings! Sometimes they even send out SMS to registered customers, like today I could save 50% on mulch and selected plants if I show the SMS at the cashiers. It's only a small enterprise (2 branches in the whole of Cape Town) so I don't think they have a mighty data base.
Also a big chain of drugstores grants us rather big savings (5% I guess) every time we show our customer's card at the check-out. Okay, so now they now what's our favorite brand of shampoo - that doesn't bother me at all.

badi wrote: Okay, so now they now what's our favorite brand of shampoo - that doesn't bother me at all.

Oh, they know a lot more than that. They know your work hours. They know how many people live in your household, including their ages and genders.
They know your income. They know about your chronic or occasional health problems.
They, of course, don't know it as fact - but by correlating your data with market research results, they get a +90% accuracy on predicting that data. And now, just think that, say, that drugstore chain were to be bought out by a finance group that also owns the guys you have healthcare insurance with, or your bank. Suddenly, these guys know a whole lot about your spending habits or health issues or whatnot.
Now they can refine their predictions since they suddenly can correlate them with your financial records.
Next day, somebody finds out that one ingredient in your favourite shampoo is a possible carcinogenic. And the premiums for your health insurance go up. Or they refuse additional cover.
Or the bank analyses your spending habits. They find that you occasionaly buy a product that is a little expensive for your income.
And, bang, they refuse you an extension of your overdraft.
Not because you actually couldn't pay them back, but because you are a risk for having unpredictable upwards fluctuations in your spending habits.
This whole data mining business is dangerous.

People that ride $50K custom choppers that are 2 years old with less then 1500 miles on them and tell me that I am not a true biker...

Oh, they know a lot more than that. They know your work hours.

Sorry, I'm not working.

They know how many people live in your household, including their ages and genders.
They know your income. They know about your chronic or occasional health problems.

I wonder how they know. See, we went into the shop and by checking out the cashier asked us if we want to have the club card. We said okay, why not and we got ours. That's it. I guess they don't even know our names, just a number. We didn't receive a single spam mail from them, that's always a sure sign.

And now, just think that, say, that drugstore chain were to be bought out by a finance group that also owns the guys you have healthcare insurance with,

... what, a bank owns the Techniker Krankenkasse? Man, we still keep our public health care memberships! And they're paying quite well! Here in SA we go only with the 6 weeks overseas health insurance which comes with our credit cards. For the rest of the time we just hope for the best

Or the bank analyses your spending habits. They find that you occasionaly buy a product that is a little expensive for your income.
And, bang, they refuse you an extension of your overdraft.

First, I don't think that an african drugstore works closely with the german postbank. And we certainly don't worry about our african bank account, overdrafts are pretty much unknown here.

This whole data mining business is dangerous.

There's not much to mine with us, missus badi and me are living an alternative way of life, always travelling lightly, not leaving much to mine for behind us. We are almost always broke and simply not important for the big business guys.

I guess the SA business people are only trying to bond their customers to their shops with these cards. Live and let live I say.

Okay.......I thought you meant you got one of these little chip cards like Rewe is pushing on people that goes through the scanner every time you give it to the checkout guy.....okay, so forget what I said.

PEOPLE THAT MAKE EMPTY PROMISES REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY MAKE ME AN ANGRY SEETHING MONSTER!!!

Ok, I will stop yelling now.
Should I be angry that I have been stood up twice by the same person? Or should I just let it go?
Well, I have in a sense. I told him to go f*ck himself. But I am still mad about it....
Well, I am starting to get over it...
Anyway.

this i gotta see...what was that word????irregaurdlesss.....check to see the ruffle ...nope hmmmm maybe im doing this wrong damn

Ohh since I'm going through bike withdrawls right now this should be fun...
*Not being able to get my bike to run, but fixxing my buddys car really quick
*Just about everything about my workplace
*People who don't ride saying shit about my bike
*People who are like "why don't you buy a new one" they have no fuckn idea why I ride or put myself through this headache
*When a really hot girl that I'm diggin tells me I'm a heartless, evil person that enjoys watching animals suffer, all because I thought it was funny when a deer ran into the SIDE of the car I was driving... then says she can't talk to people like that...
*Yuppies, RUB's, and all of those other people like that
*When I am subjuct to peoples powertrips, yes I know you were picked on in high school, lets grow the fuck up now...


Well thats my rant, thanks I feel a bit better now... FBR

ohh ohh!

with you on the 'irregardless' thing.

the misuse of 'me' and 'i'

when people say 'i seen' ehhhh... makes my skin crawl.

or, when people make things plural/possessive (not sure which since it's all sorts of wront anyway!) that aren't. Such as "i'm going down to Safeways" or "i'll find it somewheres" EW EW EW. irritating. (is this an e. coast thing? i never noticed it until I moved here)

fake, schmoozy people. It's as though they think we can't see through their plastic exterior. blech.

self-righteous entitled people

ummm and the person on the subway today who squished into me so that I wasn't able to drink my coffee. fucker.

xx

That women can get away with making insulting and humiliating statements about people with whose appearance or behaviour they disagree, even though it's none of their business, while a man making equal remarks would get anything from a verbal to a physical (and well deserved) lashing.
But then again, in my circles, insulting a woman is as sexist and unacceptable as hitting her (which is, IMHO, a sick, twisted and evil thing to do).

Oh yea.
I have one thing to add...
People who gossip. Hate that. It is soooo grade school...
And also people who feel like they need to butt into my business as if they know me and actually can relate to me...
That's another one that gets me...
So, how are yous peoples doing today?
JUST KIDDING!!!!

trying to firgure out how to haul a 750/4 engine from denver to pittsburgh on my scoot ,,,,but otherwise im doing great

Lemon in tequillia

Goose, my EX when she worked for wally world and would get one of those in a rush people that are like you describe, being belittleing instead of patient...she would randomly pick and item and make it not scan and have to call for a price check Ever get a price check at wally world?

people who get pissed off for no good reason.

My mom hates people asking to look in her bag when she is leaving a store, now granted y moms almost 50 but... FFS mom just open the bag and let them have a quick peek! dont make a fucking scene about something that happens EVERY SINGLE TIME WE GO IN THERE!

Also.. Ive been working the door on a little reigonal club for the last few weeks and they have a "No I.D = No Entry" policy, now they have members cards, and i ask EVERYBODY to see them, even if i know your a member, even if i saw you the previous two nights in a row, IM GONNA ASK, YOU FUCKING KNOW IT, WHY DONT YOU JUST GET IT OUT INSTEAD OF BITCHING THAT I ASK EVERY TIME!

Muppet wrote: self-righteous entitled people

ummm and the person on the subway today who squished into me so that I wasn't able to drink my coffee. fucker.

People who think they have the right to stand on a packed subway and spill coffee all over me.

The misuse of the word "so" to express quantity: as in, "We had SO much fun."

"Whatever." It's dismissive, and I don't appreciate being dismissed.

People who spout party-line rhetoric, but have no understanding of what they really feel or think.

The infield fly rule, why overly complicate a simple game.

High-school students who think Harley's are the coolest bike ever, yet have never ridden or worked on a bike, because Jessie James says so.

When she cums and I don't. Damnit, I've just worked my ass off, a little reciprication would be appreciated.

Not being financially able to contribute to NPR. I feel like I'm ripping them off when I listen.

People who believe what they see on the local newscast is always true.

People who are ignorant and o.k. with that.

Not having ridden since May! Goddamnit, I want my bike back....o.k., breathe.

I'm sure I'll think of more later.

When she cums and I don't. Damnit, I've just worked my ass off, a little reciprication would be appreciated.

Well. I can appreciate that one. That usually happens to me in a vice versa type of case.
I have thought this on occasion, but it is kinda a power trip in a way to know that you just made that person completely incapacitated, and they couldn't do the same to you!

People who believe what they see on the local newscast is always true.
People who are ignorant and o.k. with that..

It has been my experience that people might not necessarily buy what the media is feeding us, they would just rather believe it cuz they really don't want to think for themsleves cuz thats just too damned painful.
Which lead me into the whole 'ignorance is bliss thing'. I know personally that I was far happier and contented a person before I was exposed to 'the truth' (cue the X-Files theme).
Thus, professor, I can certainly understand why there are some poeple that are happy to remain inside their ignorant bubble...

Yep. Still haven't gotten my paycheck that was due to me last Friday. While we on the topic of shit that really pisses us off; there's another one that has definitely caused me to think homicdal thoughts!
Good day, I said good day, Sir!

buying a house that I cant live in

buying a yukon that I wont drive...not that I would drive one anyway

The lemon this came up in PA... good times...