me- hot dog buns that fall apart
telemarketers
spam
obnoxious cell phone users
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me- hot dog buns that fall apart
telemarketers
spam
obnoxious cell phone users
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whiners
10lbs of ego in a 5lb bag
spam
people who drive slow in the left hand lane
people who think the way I am is more worth changing than the way they are.
(edit to correct typo)
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finger print smudges on the shared computer at work
leaving my car window down when it rains
mean people
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The propogation of ignorance
Anti-intellectuallism
Humans that prey on other humans
Professional athletes that go on strike (can't seem to make ends meet on a million buck a year)
Organizations that market stuff they know is dangerous and/or addictive to children (oops, that's already covered under humans preying on humans)
Politics as usual (covered 2 or 3 times above)
War (also covered multiple times above)
The sorry state of our educational system
Mosquitos the size of small birds
Given a little time and creative license, I can link these all together; except for maybe the mosquitos. For them, I blame god.
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The self-importance of the talking heads on those Sunday morning "news" programs
The perpetual mediocrity of my local professional sports teams
That girl down the street when I was in high school who wouldn't go out with me on a date (it was 25 years ago, but it bugged me at the time).
The guy in the cube next to me who desperately needs to take an antihistimine but refuses to and instead sniffles and sneezes all day.
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You might want to cut they poor guy some slack. It is possible, if he's like me, that he can't take enough antihistimines to supress all the pollen that bothers him. This time of year I live on a steady diet of scrip antihists and still blow my way through two boxes of Puff's a week.Originally Posted by jfribrg
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Spam
Spiders
People who troll politics into non political discussions
Luddites
Being single
Contact lenses falling off my fingers
Self-appointed attitudes
Needles, knives, and other sharp, pointy objects
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Taxpayer funded sports stadiums for teams owned by billionaires.
Politicians. All of them.
Pointy-haired management.
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.
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Anybody who uses the phrase "But the fact is..."
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"irregardless" whenever it's used, and "literally" used metaphorically.
I once heard a radio commercial for a local cell phone provider that said, "Our latest promotion has had customers literally coming out of the woodwork." I just though, I'd pay to see that!
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Right, that literally drives me up the wall!"irregardless" whenever it's used, and "literally" used metaphorically.
I once heard a radio commercial for a local cell phone provider that said, "Our latest promotion has had customers literally coming out of the woodwork." I just though, I'd pay to see that!
And here's another: "News" sources that can't be bothered to check facts before they report them. Becoming more and more prevalent.
And one more: Abuse of the apostrophe. Seems like hardly anyone gets them right, usually inserting them wrongly into plurals. Or as they would say, plural's.
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.
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Those must have been awfully small cell phones to be useful to termites..."irregardless" whenever it's used, and "literally" used metaphorically.
I once heard a radio commercial for a local cell phone provider that said, "Our latest promotion has had customers literally coming out of the woodwork." I just though, I'd pay to see that!
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-Round hot dog rolls that often rotate onto their side, spilling the toppings. Whatever happened to square-bottomed hot dog rolls? They were common in Connecticut when I was a kid.
-Telemarketers. I just don't answer the phone and let the machine sort 'em out.
-Televangelists. 'nuff said.
-Network TV, prime time, news shows that think what they're doing is as important as the news, cops/lawyers/doctors/situation comedy/"reality"/etc. shows. What Newton Minnow said back in 1961 still applies today.
-Drivers who ride your rear bumper when you're going 5 MPH over the speed limit.
-People who can't go anywhere without constantly talking on their cell phones. I wonder with whom they constantly talked before they were given their little toys?
-People who take up two parking places with one vehicle.
-Movie goers who need constant explosions, car chases, sex, and violence in order to maintain their attention. Character development? What's that?
-Pop-up ads during those few TV shows I actually watch.
-Channel logos in the lower right hand corner (and sometimes in other corners too) that won't go away and seem to be constantly getting bigger. Trio TV is the worst, with a big, obnoxious red logo that takes up about 1/8 of the screen. Watched that channel for about 5 minutes and then quit it permanently.
-TV ads that consist of people staring at you.
-TV ads that are constant speed-ups/slow-downs/quick cuts/flashing. Some of us might actually be interested in information about the product rather than the agency's attempts to create a "mood". Plus for epileptics and migraneurs, the flashing means either a switch to another channel or looking away from the TV.
-People who pick up something in the frozen food section, and then decide they don't want it and leave it...in the canned foods section.
-"New, improved" products that fail to mention what's new and has been improved. Usually on closer examination, the amount of product has gone down, and the price has gone up.
-Workers who expend minimum effort, are sullen and uncooperative, "extend" their breaks (especially smokers), constantly complain about working conditions, and then expect juicy raises when it's review time.
-Individuals who are ignorant and proud of it.
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rude smokers
that series of awful, awful David Spade commercials wherein it's implied that it's the poor, working schlubs that do phone service work rather than the companies themselves that are at fault
that idiot who called me up yesterday wanting me to help his campaign to "clean up" television
TNT's and Spike's enormous, moving, noise-making ads during shows
the fact that it took my boyfriend six weeks to replace one cable on his computer (which is why I've been gone so long)
"creation science"
the fact that I probably can't get a ride to Orting this weekend to see my friends
moon hoax people
ice bullet people
the fact that it took me three days to weed through six weeks' worth of new threads over at the MythBusters board, literally hundreds of which were repeats of pre-existing threads. (and that is literal--one forum had added over fifty pages of threads.)
people who think bad spelling and grammar are cute
my boyfriend's mother, most of the time
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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"
"You can't erase icing."
"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"
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Premeds.
People who deliberately say my name incorrectly after I correct them.
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I have a French name (my real name) and currently, I live in the Netherlands. Somehow, I can identify with your comment :roll:
(though in many cases, they continue to say it incorrectly without noticing it themselves, or correct themselves after saying it wrong again)
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People who can't follow directions.
People who ask for directions than refuse to follow them.
People who get lost and blame the person next to them for their failure to follow directions.
People who spread lies about other people.
Roaches.
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Telemarketers - these days I just say "Could you hold for a minute?" and when they say yes I place the phone on the coffee table and get back to what I was doing. Had one guy on for 23 minutes before he finally hung up. I figure it's not costing me any money and at least they aren't bothering anyone else if I've got them tied up!
Junk mail - I always ensure that I post their "relied paid" envelopes. If they are going to fill up my mailbox they are at least going to pay the price of an extra postage stamp!
Spam - enough said
Smokers who think that they have rights. If I lit a fire under their bedroom window they'd complain quick enough.
People who won't take responsibility for their lives.
People who don't know the difference between "there", "their" and "they're".
Musicians who don't know the difference between a major 7th, a minor 7th and a dominant 7th.
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How about keyboard, etc., players who think there are only two keys: C Major and A Minor?
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=D>
And the ones who use the "transpose" function on their keyboard so that every song "plays" in the C position regardless of key!
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People who drive with a cell phone in one hand and a cigarette or lipstick in the other.
Spyware
Spam
Thug Rap and the clothes that go with it.
People who believe in these wild conspiracies, like the moon hoax or the secret NASA transmissions, even though for their theories to work, well established laws of physics must be broken.
The people who support our local school district's proposal to build a 25 million dollar, 12,000 seat football stadium. Even for TX that's a lot.
Several politicians, who I won't name to keep this thread from becoming political.
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*GASP* I have a French name too!!!have a French name (my real name) and currently, I live in the Netherlands. Somehow, I can identify with your comment
(though in many cases, they continue to say it incorrectly without noticing it themselves, or correct themselves after saying it wrong again)
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You should have heard how Yvette Mimieux's name was butchered by Americans back in the early 1960s! :roll:*GASP* I have a French name too!!!have a French name (my real name) and currently, I live in the Netherlands. Somehow, I can identify with your comment
(though in many cases, they continue to say it incorrectly without noticing it themselves, or correct themselves after saying it wrong again)
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sherdog forum members relating everything to the illuninati.
woowoos and conspiracy theorists who scare people.
The KND (I hate how much my little brother likes them, they are not good role models for kids :x ).
Spam ( I always get lots of it).
The price of college books (they are really expensive).
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Getting caught up in a Soap Opera. #-o
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One word: Processes.
Perfectly normal word, I don't mind it per se. But for some insane reason, managers have taken to elongating the last syllable to Processees. This drives me up the wall at the moment.
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Well, you can't grow the business into a lean profit center empowered for the 21st century without shifting the paradigm through the processees required to take it to the next level, you know...
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You forgot to mention achieving synergy while creating a win-win that produces actionables that sustain our market position.Well, you can't grow the business into a lean profit center empowered for the 21st century without shifting the paradigm through the processees required to take it to the next level, you know...
Yes, I know people that actually talk like that, and the scary part is that they don't even realize that they're talking like that. That is one thing that bugs me to no end.
Another thing that bugs me is that EVERYONE thinks they can do graphic design. Marketing people, account managers, editors, salespeople, they all think that they know something about design and typography, when most of them haven't even taken one design course in their lives. People won't tell auto mechanics how to do their jobs, or electricians how to do theirs, but they will happily tell a graphic designer, "I think you should use the font Tahoma in this project." Really. I went to college for four years to learn my skill and have ten years of experience in the field. How long did you go to school for design? None? That's what I thought. :roll:
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I get the same feeling when overpaid, executive idiots decide to drop by and tell me, a 30-year professional in quality control, engineering, and assurance, that "Quality is everyone's responsibility."You forgot to mention achieving synergy while creating a win-win that produces actionables that sustain our market position.Well, you can't grow the business into a lean profit center empowered for the 21st century without shifting the paradigm through the processees required to take it to the next level, you know...
Yes, I know people that actually talk like that, and the scary part is that they don't even realize that they're talking like that. That is one thing that bugs me to no end.
Another thing that bugs me is that EVERYONE thinks they can do graphic design. Marketing people, account managers, editors, salespeople, they all think that they know something about design and typography, when most of them haven't even taken one design course in their lives. People won't tell auto mechanics how to do their jobs, or electricians how to do theirs, but they will happily tell a graphic designer, "I think you should use the font Tahoma in this project." Really. I went to college for four years to learn my skill and have ten years of experience in the field. How long did you go to school for design? None? That's what I thought. :roll:
They get upset when I point out that such dilutions lead to trouble, and, based on years of experience by ISO, the various armed forces, aerospace industries, and others where product quality is often a matter of life or death, that quality is, of course, expected of everyone, that it is everyone's objective, must be part of their training, job skills, and work culture and environment, and something that they are held accountable for, but that the ultimate responsibility lies with the folks who are charged with seeing that quality is achieved and maintained, i.e., us. Everyone contributes, but the buck has to stop somewhere.
To paraphrase a popular saying, "When everyone has responsibility, no one is responsible."
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What bugs me? Almost everything in life.
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