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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Andy on August 17, 2008, 09:55:01 PM
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I hate it when celebrities have awesome opportunities to do something great and then douche it all up.
example: Zooey Deschanel is on sound opinions this week describing her record with M Ward.
"It was a totally organic experience. You know, it was "of the moment", just totally organic. And we only used "real" things so that we could keep it "of the moment". We recorded everything on tape, except for the stuff I recorded on protools. But we didn't tether ourselves."
Also, M. Ward was the ONLY person she would have recorded this album with, allegedly. They just happened to get paired up on another project.
What the fuck. How about "It was great. I was lucky to get to work with this guy. I'm really lucky that I had the opportunity"
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I just had to buy a new laptop b/c the old one was shitting the bed, and I put my $ into a Toshiba Satellite, sight unseen. Well the genuises who designed this thing gave is a cool "Fusion Finish" which is all black and shiny. problem being: after using it for more than 5 minutes, it becomes absolutely covered in fingerprints and not only looks disgusting, but the keys become kind of gross to touch. My boss has an HP that has the same sort of finish on it. don't they do fucking focus groups for these things?
Also, Twitter. I don't give a shit what you are having for lunch, "friend".
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My work Macbook has the same finish. Makes me feel like a greasy slob all day long.
Andy, it's crazy you started this thread because I was driving around and "California Dreamin'"
came on the radio and I was thinking how much I hated that song, and that I hated it so much that I was going to start a new "stuff you hate" thread on the fot board just to express that.
yeah, so anyway: "California Dreaming" is so annoying and it sucks!!
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The raccoons have taken over the sewers in my neighborhood. Scary little fuckers. Not so little, actually.
After midnight they all crawl out of the sewers and try to take over the whole neighborhood. They are horrifying and evil. Look, I like animals as much as the next guy. I like doggies and kitties. There's some awesome friendly cats in my neighborhood. But these raccoons ... I'll be riding my bike home from one of the Oakland bars, and all of a sudden those guys are jumping out of the sewers and staring up at me with their beady little eyes. They're gonna take me out one day. It's only a matter of time.
And the other night they were waging some kind of raccoon gang war outside my apartment building. It went on for hours. I think they were fighting over the ownership of the garbage cans belonging to my building. Some of the most demonic screeching I've ever heard.
Fuck these fucking raccoons!
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there's a family of gypsies in my neighborhood. they just hang out on the corner all day, asking if they can have change or do body work on my car. but it's like fuck it dude, i like the dents and shit on my car. way more than i like supporting gypsy economies. i feel like they're always looking down on me and shit. but it's like, if you gypsies are so great, then how come it took you so long to develop a written language?
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there's a family of gypsies in my neighborhood. they just hang out on the corner all day, asking if they can have change or do body work on my car. but it's like fuck it dude, i like the dents and shit on my car. way more than i like supporting gypsy economies. i feel like they're always looking down on me and shit. but it's like, if you gypsies are so great, then how come it took you so long to develop a written language?
(http://secretunicornsforum.com/forum/images/smilies/kidsthesedays.jpg)
Right now I really despise a colleague. I do nights, four-on/four-off. The other guy in the rotation (who I never ever see) thinks we are some kind of nightshift brotherhood and calls me at 3am to talk about nothing, usually him lying about 'bending over' the woman who did our training or to spout vaguely homophobic bile about a colleague. I felt pretty crappy on Saturday morning and texted him to see if he would cover my shift. My one text received 16 separate replies, one of which was sent seven times. Here are some highlights:
- u dont need sleep u go 2 work 4 that
- what do u need sleep 4! u fukd my sleep by conacting me! (x7)
- if u eva contact me again outside of work i promise u a stenna stairlift wont make things easy 4u.
- U are a class A WANKER. 2 even contact me
His latest trick is to sign me up for some ridiculous porn text service, but my phone is so crappy that I can't receive pictures but I'm getting billed to receive this smut (and for the cancellation text in return). Thank little baby Jesus I have handed my notice in before this guy gets too attached.
I don't usually participate in hate threads; I'm a lover not a hater. But this fella...ew beuy.
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Raad_Man.
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but it's like, if you gypsies are so great, then how come it took you so long to develop a written language?
You always know how to surprise me, Raad_Man.
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The raccoons have taken over the sewers in my neighborhood. Scary little fuckers. Not so little, actually.
After midnight they all crawl out of the sewers and try to take over the whole neighborhood. They are horrifying and evil. Look, I like animals as much as the next guy. I like doggies and kitties. There's some awesome friendly cats in my neighborhood. But these raccoons ... I'll be riding my bike home from one of the Oakland bars, and all of a sudden those guys are jumping out of the sewers and staring up at me with their beady little eyes. They're gonna take me out one day. It's only a matter of time.
And the other night they were waging some kind of raccoon gang war outside my apartment building. It went on for hours. I think they were fighting over the ownership of the garbage cans belonging to my building. Some of the most demonic screeching I've ever heard.
Fuck these fucking raccoons!
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Maybe this will help, then again...maybe not.
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Raad_Man.
I have to admit that I love Raad_Man a little.
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How could you not?
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Sarah.
JG.
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Uh-oh. Is it the racist humor, or the cock rock?
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What humor?
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I hate that so many American acquaintances have started conspicuously using British-isms recently:
-"Cheers"
-"Mucking about"
-"When I was at university..."
-"Brilliant"
-"shite"
-"a proper _____"
-"colour"
-"arse"
-"get a pint"
-"dodgy"
Is it okay to slap these people?
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-"When I was at university..."
What would a true American say instead of this? (Just curious - we say some of that stuff in Canada, and that one in particular seems like a totally normal thing to say.)
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I hate that so many American acquaintances have started conspicuously using British-isms recently:
-"Cheers"
-"Mucking about"
-"When I was at university..."
-"Brilliant"
-"shite"
-"a proper _____"
-"colour"
-"arse"
-"get a pint"
-"dodgy"
Is it okay to slap these people?
Yes, they need to be beat down with a pillowcase full of soda cans.
The worst is when, after taking a semester abroad, one of these dunces comes back and refers to their apartment as a "flat".
Admittedly, I will occasionally change the spelling of flavor and color to include the letter u, but that is because I am a poseur Canadiophile, not an Anglophile. Makes me feel all sophisticated-like.
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-"When I was at university..."
What would a true American say instead of this? (Just curious - we say some of that stuff in Canada, and that one in particular seems like a totally normal thing to say.)
"When I was in college"
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and that one in particular seems like a totally normal thing to say.)
It is normal to say - in Canada!
one of these dunces comes back and refers to their apartment as a "flat".
Exxxxxxactly. It's American insecurity over lack of identity/culture. Or just plain pretension.
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Gotcha. Never realized it was a Britishism.
In Canada, colleges are vocational schools, but I ought to be familiar with your usage of "college" from my viewings of many hilarious movies.
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Anyone who says "whilst" or "whinge" or "arse" can get fucked.
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I say "whinge" and use various other Britishisms (none from cutout's list, however). In my defense, I've been doing so for almost forty years. Preadolescent affectations are among the hardest to kick, I find. (I also taught myself to raise one eyebrow back then, and it's a tic over which I no longer have any control.)
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Using "fancy" as a verb falls into this category, too.
But I use the word "chav" sometimes because it fills a lexical hole. Sorry, everyone.
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The guy who says "arse" is the same guy that smokes a pipe. He usually has terrible, horrible, no good, very bad facial hair and talks about libertarianism at parties.
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Uh-oh. Is it the racist humor, or the cock rock?
what's racist about not liking the obnoxious gypsy family in my neighborhood? it's not like i think they should be killed or not have equal rights or anything. i just think they're a bunch of jerks. i'm the one who has to live with them. they make a ton of noise and leave shit all over their yard. even if they were non-gypsies, they'd still be a bunch of assholes. it's like, what the fuck. i would be allowed to dislike them if they were white and doing the same shit, but since they're gypsies i have to think they're great neighbors? fuck a big bunch of that shit.
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Uh-oh. Is it the racist humor, or the cock rock?
what's racist about not liking the obnoxious gypsy family in my neighborhood?
It's your emphasis of the "gypsy" part rather than the "obnoxious" part.
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I have to admit that I love Raad_Man a little.
think maybe i do too.
i hope he calls into the show soon, though he'll need to tone down the toilet talk big time.
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MyNetwork, the "network" that jumped it to fill the slots opened by the WB/UPN merger.
They're a joke to begin with, started off with some primetime soap scheme that failed and then dived in to bed with First Look Entertainment, purveyor of the worst movies you've never heard of.
Then they bring us the Flavor Flav sitcom, which is maybe one of the most racist things I've ever seen, and makes me wonder what Chuck D thinks about Ice Cube and Flav now whenever "Burn Hollywood Burn" comes up in his iTunes on shuffle.
And finally the other night flipping around, I saw they have the balls to actually advertise and run some obscure awards show from 2007. wtf?
f you MyNetwork.
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Anyone who modifies a motor vehicle to make it louder.
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people who buy into the whole "east fresh/eat healthy" scam at subway.
thanks a bunch, jared (asshole.)
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people who buy into the whole "east fresh/eat healthy" scam at subway.
thanks a bunch, jared (asshole.)
MAN i hate jared. subway is "celebrating 10 years of jared" this year. IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON!!
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There are children out there being raised on Jared who have no idea what the fuck this creepy-looking cocky nerd has to do with preservative-heavy sandwiches. He is now totally rich and his sole achievement in life is managing to dovetail corporate sponsorship and getting-to-a-human-being-level-weight-wise. Woe to the morbidly obese person attempting to lose weight in a manner which doesn't incorporate a food franchise. Jared, I hate you so much!!
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Raad_Man.
and this is why you were my secret FOTchan crush.
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Tropical Storm Fay.
What a meteorological douchebag.
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Good call on Jared. I mean, ten years?!?! What makes this guy so damn special? If you're going to stick around so long, at least put on a costume.
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my prospects for the future
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my prospects for the future
dont be so gloomy, dave...you wise, old sage.
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Secret's "Five reasons to stay fresh" commercial. Especially the part where she hails a cab, then tells the driver "Never mind."
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why would anyone give a shit about jared, much less hate the guy. he's just some dork who got some money for losing weight. what the fuck is hate worthy about that?
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I hate my laziness.
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Secret's "Five reasons to stay fresh" commercial. Especially the part where she hails a cab, then tells the driver "Never mind."
YES!!!! YES!!!
oh you high-fived some dude you don't know! you're so fun and hip and crazy!
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people who buy into the whole "east fresh/eat healthy" scam at subway.
thanks a bunch, jared (asshole.)
MAN i hate jared. subway is "celebrating 10 years of jared" this year. IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON!!
Jared, I hate you so much!!
Good call on Jared. I mean, ten years?!?! What makes this guy so damn special? If you're going to stick around so long, at least put on a costume.
I heard that Jared was born into a family of gypsies ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cQj2fTBrT4
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Wait, gypsies aren't white?
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i didn't say i hate gypsies, dumbasses. i said i hate the specific family of asshole gypsies that live next door to me because they make noise, constantly solicit me for money or work, and make a mess in the neighborhood.
and no, gypsies aren't white. they're ethinc romani. a nomadic people who've faced a lot of hardships. it used to be legal for people in england to kill gypsies. that shit ain't cool. even though i think my neighborhood gypsies are fucking assholes, i don't want them to be murdered.
but whatever. believe what you want if it makes you feel better than stupid ignorant redneck me.
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Raad_Man hates black people?
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A former colleague of mine lived in the same college dorm with Jared, and apparently his pornography collection was staggering.
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You wouldn't hate gypsies if you've seen Kusturica's "Black Cat, White Cat"
(http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb127/susannahlaura/black-cat-white-cat_4.jpg)
Oh, the craziness!
I hate people who are over-zealous landscapers. God forbid your hedges look like actual bushes instead of a giant block that happens to be made out of leaves. My neighborhood is never quiet for more than five minutes before someone brings out a weed whacker, electric hedge trimmer or leaf blower. Just leave it alone, please.
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i worked at a movie theater when i lived in new york, and we showed a movie about gypsies. tons of gypsies came to see it, and the vaaaaast majority of them tried to steal or bribe me to let them steal. or they'd try and sneak into the theater, or tell lies about having sick kids and shit. twice we had to call the cops to break up gypsy fights in the theater. no shit.
they've got some problems. but i don't think shit'll get better until they start to open their weird gyspy world up a little and treat non-gypsyies with some respect too. stop seeing everything as gypsy vs. rest of the world. stealing and fighting isn't right, even if your'e doing it to people who are of a different religion and race and shit.
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do you work at Jim's Deli in North Kingston, RI?
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i can't tell if you're trying to make fun of me or something.
i live in hollywood california. i had to move out here to become a rock star and/or a movie writer.
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they've got some problems. but i don't think shit'll get better until they start to open their weird gyspy world up a little and treat non-gypsyies with some respect too. stop seeing everything as gypsy vs. rest of the world.
Yeah, it definitely sucks when people aren't able to see past their own narrow worldview; it's like, come on guys, you have to stop believing that a certain group of people all act the same way, even if that belief is based on some kind of personal experience. Change doesn't happen until people start treating other people with respect and an open mind.
So I totally get what you're saying about gypsies being thieving, fighting weirdos.
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Also, on a completely separate note: I hate hate hate hate hate hate it when people whistle something that is not a real song, just some kind of rambling non-tune they've made up. These people also tend to be the people who whistle really loudly all the time.
A guy I know just mimics and repeats sounds. Like if you're stirring something and your spoon hits the side of the glass and makes a little *ding* noise he will whistle that exact sound. ALL THE TIME. Argh.
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i can't tell if you're trying to make fun of me or something.
i live in hollywood california. i had to move out here to become a rock star and/or a movie writer.
I can't wait to see your first movie. I will be able to tell all my friends "I knew him when he was just a scary maniac; now he's a highly paid scary maniac."
Joe Eszterhas?
John Milius?
Ulli Lommel?
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why would anyone give a shit about jared, much less hate the guy. he's just some dork who got some money for losing weight. what the fuck is hate worthy about that?
because it's garbage food filled with additives and other stuff that will kill you - and people who don't know any better (a.k.a. - people who's entire diets revolve around fast food) are duped into thinking this is their healthiest alternative. a guy who got as fat as he did eating similar crap should have more of a conscience about hawking such junk.
EDIT: and i say this as a (somewhat) fat guy. i, however, did it the right way: with healthy food and inactivity (and double helpings of both!)
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thieving, fighting weirdos.
you, madam, just named my band. much thanks.
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i can't tell if you're trying to make fun of me or something.
i live in hollywood california. i had to move out here to become a rock star and/or a movie writer.
I can't wait to see your first movie. I will be able to tell all my friends "I knew him when he was just a scary maniac; now he's a highly paid scary maniac."
you already missed my frist movie. it was on tv last year. but you can get it on dvd at blockbuster i think...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjT_6AuMZh4
i should have four on next year. roger daltry is going to be in one of them. i'm super fucking excited about htat, but there's no way in hell they'll fly me to bulgaria or whereever-the-fuck just to party with him. that's gay, but at least i'll be able to say that both pete townshend and i know what it's like to write materiel for roger daltry to perform.
the rock band's first ep is comin gout in the next couple of weeks. i'll post a link when it's done.
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I respect Raad_Man as an O.G. FOT, and so I will try and explain my Jared hatred.
Jared year 1 through 3: Adorable!
Jared year 4 through 6: So Subway, you're still going with this guy? haven't figured out any other new angles? You'd think he'd feel a little bad about the whole thing by now, I mean it's not like most of those sandwiches are really healthy. I mean they're healthy when compared to six bags of cheetos and a 2 liter of Dr. Pepper, but that's not saying much.
Jared year 7 through 10: Oh my God, look at this smug son of a bitch. For God's sake, have you no shame? You're well past the point of being able to graciously bow out of the spotlight. The hook is around your oversized pants, trying desperately to pull you offstage but you will. not. budge. Please remove yourself from my field of vision, my pop culture lexicon, my LIFE... FOREVAH~!
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I will state quite openly, if Subway would pay me that kind of money, they could feature me in videos doing any number of humiliating things, and I would sign up in a second. All HE has to do is hold up that tent and claim that it's a pair of pants he used to wear. You'll turn down free money? I will believe it when I see it.
He's supposedly a genuinely nice guy. Hate him all you want, but you're going to burn up all your energy leaving more deservingly despicable people hate-free.
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or things you hate. like people who cut you off no matter how many times you try to get away from them.
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He's supposedly a genuinely nice guy. Hate him all you want, but you're going to burn up all your energy leaving more deservingly despicable people hate-free.
i understand what you mean dave. i don't really hate jared - i'm just very anti-fast food.
here's where i get a little shrill: lack of supermarkets and fresh food in areas where diet-related disease is high is a big problem in my town (and others too, i'll bet.) i just don't like the idea that he's helping them pass this off as some kind of health regimen. as always, i'll gladly shoot the messenger.
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before he lost the weight, wasn't jared supposed to be a real creep? like he lived above a subway restaurant and rented pornos out from his own personal collection? it seems like I read it here, so theres a good chance its a lie.
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::) I don't really hate Jared. Everyone knows the only person I really hate is Shepard Fairey.
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I have to buy a car. We haven't had a car payment for years and I don't really want a car, but I really do need one. So I have to spend thousands of dollars on some machine that's ugly (because eff if I'm going to pay extra [supposing I could afford to pay extra] for something I don't want) and that's only going to cost more money to own. How will I afford make up now?
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I have to buy a car. We haven't had a car payment for years and I don't really want a car, but I really do need one. So I have to spend thousands of dollars on some machine that's ugly (because eff if I'm going to pay extra [supposing I could afford to pay extra] for something I don't want) and that's only going to cost more money to own. How will I afford make up now?
I hear you Julie, I'm in a similar position. My old car keeps crapping out and it's all I've got to get me to work and it's ruining my stupid life. Car culture is insane.
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My job is evil. Some clown called me at home b/c a website was down. He had shut down the server so it did not work. Nice one. He pushed the on button at my urging and all was well again. Computers need electricity. You don't need to be Nikola Tesla to figure this out. He could have googled it instead of waking me up. Nice one.
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Is it okay to slap these people?
-"Cheers" - no
-"Mucking about" - no
-"When I was at university..." - yes
-"Brilliant" - no
-"shite" - no
-"a proper _____" - yes
-"colour" - yes
-"arse" - no
-"get a pint" - no
-"dodgy" -no
yes = slap them
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Burn, Hollywood, Burn NEVER comes up in Chuck D's iTunes shuffle.
MyNetwork, the "network" that jumped it to fill the slots opened by the WB/UPN merger.
They're a joke to begin with, started off with some primetime soap scheme that failed and then dived in to bed with First Look Entertainment, purveyor of the worst movies you've never heard of.
Then they bring us the Flavor Flav sitcom, which is maybe one of the most racist things I've ever seen, and makes me wonder what Chuck D thinks about Ice Cube and Flav now whenever "Burn Hollywood Burn" comes up in his iTunes on shuffle.
And finally the other night flipping around, I saw they have the balls to actually advertise and run some obscure awards show from 2007. wtf?
f you MyNetwork.
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Raad_Man.
and this is why you were my secret FOTchan crush.
Man, he was mine too, and now he hates me. Can't I love Martin, Raad_Man, AND the Romany people? I'm like a sensual Santa!!
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f1/TheSensualSanta.jpg)
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Jared from Subway is the most famous person to have (almost) the same last name as me. That's always been a bit of a disappointment.
Other things I hate?
Condescending dental hygienists. It was one thing when I was 14 and they acted like I was 6, but now that I'm (it's a pediatric dentist but apparently a lot of people just keep going well into adulthood) older and they're still acting like I'm 6 it's a lot more annoying. Weirdly, I heard them talking to an actual small child and they didn't even make an effort to speak to him in an age-appropriate way.
Spam text messages. I get them constantly, and though they can occasionally be amusing (all-time favorites [apologies for the terlet talk]: ""Did you see the shock on my friend's face when he saw my magic rod in my pants?" "More howls than you can shake a shiver at..." "My girlfriend gagged when she put my dick in her mouth, it was simply too long!") getting messages at 4 AM that then beep all night isn't my idea of fun. If Verizon's own website actually worked, it wouldn't be an issue- I think the completely ineffective "block all messages sent from email" option is just there to taunt me.
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Mosquito bites can go fuck themselves!
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whatever happened to that 'my friends call me Johnny Subway' dude? I was pretty sure that movie wouldn't have a happy ending, thank you Subway for sparing us the details.
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before he lost the weight, wasn't jared supposed to be a real creep? like he lived above a subway restaurant and rented pornos out from his own personal collection? it seems like I read it here, so theres a good chance its a lie.
There are apartments above the famous Subway in Bloomington, IN, where Jared dropped hundreds of pounds.
Beyond that, I can't confirm or deny.
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I have to buy a car. We haven't had a car payment for years and I don't really want a car, but I really do need one. So I have to spend thousands of dollars on some machine that's ugly (because eff if I'm going to pay extra [supposing I could afford to pay extra] for something I don't want) and that's only going to cost more money to own. How will I afford make up now?
I hear you Julie, I'm in a similar position. My old car keeps crapping out and it's all I've got to get me to work and it's ruining my stupid life. Car culture is insane.
Yeah! I've gone out of my way to live near my job and I can walk everywhere. Why do things have to move and cause trouble?
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Raad_Man.
and this is why you were my secret FOTchan crush.
Man, he was mine too, and now he hates me. Can't I love Martin, Raad_Man, AND the Romany people? I'm like a sensual Santa!!
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f1/TheSensualSanta.jpg)
Yikes! Sensual Santa creeped me out years ago and I can't even walk on the same side of the street as a santa clause now.
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Mosquito bites can go fuck themselves!
And so can chigger bites and poison ivy! Fuck itchy rashes that come from nature!
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Subway has tried to lose Jared in the past, but every time they would try ad campaigns without Jared, their sales would drop. So now they're resigned to having Jared forever.
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before he lost the weight, wasn't jared supposed to be a real creep? like he lived above a subway restaurant and rented pornos out from his own personal collection? it seems like I read it here, so theres a good chance its a lie.
There are apartments above the famous Subway in Bloomington, IN, where Jared dropped hundreds of pounds.
Beyond that, I can't confirm or deny.
I thought Jared had to walk really far to get to Subway. Are you saying he just had to walk down the stairs? That's lame. I mean, besides not being comfortable with his super fatness, which is an attitude I can not endorse at all. I hate stupid Jared and his skinnier than thou attitude.
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What I hate about Jared is his stupid fake smile. The South Park episode with him really nailed the creepy smile.
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Mosquito bites can go fuck themselves!
The problem with that suggestion is that you might ultimately end up with even more mosquito bites ...
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before he lost the weight, wasn't jared supposed to be a real creep? like he lived above a subway restaurant and rented pornos out from his own personal collection? it seems like I read it here, so theres a good chance its a lie.
The arrival of Jared on the American landscape was the inspiration for 1999's smashout hit American Beauty!
It's true.
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before he lost the weight, wasn't jared supposed to be a real creep? like he lived above a subway restaurant and rented pornos out from his own personal collection? it seems like I read it here, so theres a good chance its a lie.
The arrival of Jared on the American landscape was the inspiration for 1999's smashout hit American Beauty!
It's true.
??? Can you explain this ???
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Maybe it was a Subway's bag?
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I gotta admit, Jared > Kevin Spacey.
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KS did a good job as Mel Profit, though. I bet Jared wouldn't have done so well.
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Jared, at his morbidly obese, porn-renting low point, would've made a pretty special Keyser Soze.
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KS did a good job as Mel Profit, though. I bet Jared wouldn't have done so well.
Yeah, but he probably would have made a better K-PAX.
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I gotta admit, Jared > Kevin Spacey.
One of my friends worked as a PA on 'Recount' and told some great "getting hit on by Spacey" stories.
...and showed us the texts he got from Lester Burnham.
Good times.
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Mosquito bites can go fuck themselves!
The problem with that suggestion is that you might ultimately end up with even more mosquito bites ...
Noted. Good point, sir.
My legs are covered in them. This is hell.
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One of my friends worked as a PA on 'Recount' scuba instructor in Hawaii and told some great "getting hit on by Spacey" stories
Hey, my friend too! I guess Spacey just has a thing for people on staff?
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I gotta admit, Jared > Kevin Spacey.
Jared from Subway turned into Kevin Spacey???
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I gotta admit, Jared > Kevin Spacey.
Jared from Subway turned into Kevin Spacey???
that's exactly what he's saying, JG.
shet uuup.
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No, obviously Jared turned into Kevin Spacey. ">" is an arrow, duh.
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The arrival of Jared on the American landscape was the inspiration for 1999's smashout hit American Beauty!
It's true.
??? Can you explain this ???
Honestly Dave, I really didn't think the concept through. Just blurted it out and off to bed for the night! ;D
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No, obviously Jared turned into Kevin Spacey. ">" is an arrow, duh.
Jared is > Kevin Spacey.
Jared is greater than or equal to Kevin Spacey.
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Maybe the ">" indicated that Kevin Spacey and Jared have been cast in the Hughes Brothers' upcoming Pac-Man movie, as the titular video game icon and a human power pellet, respectively.
Then again, maybe we'll never know what he meant.
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I just researched that whole Jared Leto weight thing and saw a page where it's a bunch of pictures Terry Richardson took of him gaining weight in his underpants and then losing the weight again in his underpants and it occured to me that every time he wanted a grainy, washed-out photo of himself in his underpants he had to call up Terry Richardson. That was probably like 22 Terry Richardson appointments. It also occured to me that this boob couldn't even do gimmicky method acting without somehow having to make it "sexy". Meanwhile there are a zillion overweight character actors out there getting nothing. So now Jared Leto has replaced Jared from Subway as Guy I Hate.
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I just researched that whole Jared Leto weight thing and saw a page where it's a bunch of pictures Terry Richardson took of him gaining weight in his underpants and then losing the weight again in his underpants and it occured to me that every time he wanted a grainy, washed-out photo of himself in his underpants he had to call up Terry Richardson. That was probably like 22 Terry Richardson appointments. It also occured to me that this boob couldn't even do gimmicky method acting without somehow having to make it "sexy". Meanwhile there are a zillion overweight character actors out there getting nothing. So now Jared Leto has replaced Jared from Subway as Guy I Hate.
And he was so conscious of SACRIFICE IN THE NAME OF ART that he had to painstakingly document every step of the process, so that he'd have a bunch of JPEGs he could send off to journalists when the inevitable "Can you believe he did this!?" stories start popping up.
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22 Terry Richardson appointments.
Wow.
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Loud, clangy, frantic typers really get on my nerves if I have to spend hours and hours on end next to them. That shit is like the stress-level equivalent of second hand smoke.
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i forgot, Terry Richardson is on my Stuff You Hate list.
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i forgot, Terry Richardson is on my Stuff You Hate list.
I got angry on my birthday this year because that FWD was eating lunch at the restaurant I was at with my special lady friend and every time I turned my head slightly to the right I saw the face of that pre-vert. Booo.
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People who wear flipflops to work and don't know how to walk without constantly making that annoying SMACK SMACK SMACK sound.
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Jokes/references:
-"jazz hands"
-"internets" & "interweb"
-"bitches", ala Dave Chappelle ala Rick James
-"good times, good times"
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I'm getting sick of "Really? You're (doing such-and-such)? Really?"
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me too
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Jokes/references:
-"jazz hands"
-"internets" & "interweb"
-"bitches", ala Dave Chappelle ala Rick James
-"good times, good times"
-pirates
-ninjas
-the animosity betwixt said parties
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Plus robots, and most especially doing The Robot.
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Cutout is hitting home runs in this thread. "Jazz hands" and "interwebs"... UGH!
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Jokes/references:
-"jazz hands"
-"internets" & "interweb"
-"bitches", ala Dave Chappelle ala Rick James
-"good times, good times"
"pimp my ______", and all other hipster usages of the word "pimp".
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Jokes/references:
-"jazz hands"
-"internets" & "interweb"
-"bitches", ala Dave Chappelle ala Rick James
-"good times, good times"
"pimp my ______", and all other hipster usages of the word "pimp".
wait
Xzibit is a hipster??
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"pimp my ______", and all other hipster usages of the word "pimp".
Yes. Afro wigs, pimps n' hos parties, Blaxploitation-inspired stuff, 1970s imagery in general. Bleh.
Or when white people do Snoop Dogg-speak ("izzle dizzle shizzle") or J-Lo names ("D-Ho, T-Mo") or raise-the-roof gestures in nerdy detached "I'm down but I'm also a dork" manner.
Or just mentioning the word "Kwanzaa" and expecting laughs.
Or pointing out that Dick Clark never ages and expecting laughs.
Or noting that MTV doesn't even play videos anymore.
I'll stop.
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Dick Clark sure as hell does age. Those jokes worked in the 80's maybe.
I hate the search results for 'family guy impressions' on youTube. That was on the Scharpling/Wurster blog and I had to verify the hatefulness. That is the lame Ed Sullivan of the 00s.
Also I hate:
anybody holding a cellphone to their ear in an oncoming car
email
people that cut-n-paste talking points from the left or right without giving it that individualized personal touch
all social networking sites including LinkedIn, yeah sure we're gonna do lunch
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"Man up." Enough already.
"Shit the bed." (Sorry, Bobo.)
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http://www.thehousebunny.com
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Jokes/references:
-"jazz hands"
-"internets" & "interweb"
-"bitches", ala Dave Chappelle ala Rick James
-"good times, good times"
-pirates
-ninjas
-the animosity betwixt said parties
also: monkeys... no more, please. Grow the fuck up.
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also: monkeys... no more, please. Grow the fuck up.
No, I refuse. Gorillas, too.
Go to the Bronx Zoo and see the Congo exhibit. It is amazing.
http://www.congogorillaforest.com/congoresidents
I have enthusiasm for few things, but primates are among them and will always be. And the word orangutan is funny, no matter how you pronounce it.
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the movie i can take or leave, but the title: RockNRolla
...i'll leave.
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People who are scared of clowns and need to remind you when anything resembling clown culture is mentioned.
http://www.youtube.com/v/dHKotCnjYow&hl=en&fs=1
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People who are scared of clowns and need to remind you when anything resembling clown culture is mentioned.
Related: "raped my childhood" (sorry if it's been mentioned)
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also: monkeys... no more, please. Grow the fuck up.
No, I refuse. Gorillas, too.
Go to the Bronx Zoo and see the Congo exhibit. It is amazing.
http://www.congogorillaforest.com/congoresidents
I have enthusiasm for few things, but primates are among them and will always be. And the word orangutan is funny, no matter how you pronounce it.
I'm with you, Senor. Primates rule.
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also: monkeys... no more, please. Grow the fuck up.
No, I refuse. Gorillas, too.
Go to the Bronx Zoo and see the Congo exhibit. It is amazing.
http://www.congogorillaforest.com/congoresidents
I have enthusiasm for few things, but primates are among them and will always be. And the word orangutan is funny, no matter how you pronounce it.
I'm with you, Senor. Primates rule.
Thirded.
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I hate athletes being called by their initials or even worse by their first initial and the first syllable of their last name. I saw Deron Williams called D-Will in an ESPN article today. Ugh. Sports players used to have great nicknames and now they all are ARod or AP or LT. Thanks ESPN.
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People who are scared of clowns and need to remind you when anything resembling clown culture is mentioned.
Related: "raped my childhood" (sorry if it's been mentioned)
Most of the time it's about stuff that didn't even have much integrity in the first place. Transformers and GI Joe weren't raped, they put out. The harlots.
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I hate athletes being called by their initials or even worse by their first initial and the first syllable of their last name. I saw Deron Williams called D-Will in an ESPN article today. Ugh. Sports players used to have great nicknames and now they all are ARod or AP or LT. Thanks ESPN.
Well, OK, but doesn't T-Scharp sound pretty sweet?
No?
J-Grote rhymes with zygote. Somebody alert Bob Dylan.
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People who are scared of clowns and need to remind you when anything resembling clown culture is mentioned.
Related: "raped my childhood" (sorry if it's been mentioned)
Most of the time it's about stuff that didn't even have much integrity in the first place. Transformers and GI Joe weren't raped, they put out. The harlots.
Exactly. Scooby Doo, the Brady Bunch ... why do people idealize garbage from their childhood? You can't desecrate something that stunk to begin with.
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People who are scared of clowns and need to remind you when anything resembling clown culture is mentioned.
Related: "raped my childhood" (sorry if it's been mentioned)
Most of the time it's about stuff that didn't even have much integrity in the first place. Transformers and GI Joe weren't raped, they put out. The harlots.
Exactly. Scooby Doo, the Brady Bunch ... why do people idealize garbage from their childhood? You can't desecrate something that stunk to begin with.
And for a more recent generation...Saved by the Bell and Full House.
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also: monkeys... no more, please. Grow the fuck up.
No, I refuse. Gorillas, too.
Go to the Bronx Zoo and see the Congo exhibit. It is amazing.
http://www.congogorillaforest.com/congoresidents
I have enthusiasm for few things, but primates are among them and will always be. And the word orangutan is funny, no matter how you pronounce it.
I'm with you, Senor. Primates rule.
I'm a gibbon man myself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaAFWyN7A4U
(sorry, no embedding)
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People who are scared of clowns and need to remind you when anything resembling clown culture is mentioned.
Related: "raped my childhood" (sorry if it's been mentioned)
Most of the time it's about stuff that didn't even have much integrity in the first place. Transformers and GI Joe weren't raped, they put out. The harlots.
Exactly. Scooby Doo, the Brady Bunch ... why do people idealize garbage from their childhood? You can't desecrate something that stunk to begin with.
And for a more recent generation...Saved by the Bell and Full House.
i fucking LOVE full house. i've got autographed head shots from danny, jesse, joey, dj and michelle. i autographed them myself. but everybody just assumes they're real because of the nice frames.
i wrote this short story about full house, but it was rejected from the jodie sweetin fan site for being too controversial. but they are assholes who publish doug fowler's gay ass fan fiction that only assholes like.
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People who are scared of clowns and need to remind you when anything resembling clown culture is mentioned.
Related: "raped my childhood" (sorry if it's been mentioned)
Most of the time it's about stuff that didn't even have much integrity in the first place. Transformers and GI Joe weren't raped, they put out. The harlots.
Exactly. Scooby Doo, the Brady Bunch ... why do people idealize garbage from their childhood? You can't desecrate something that stunk to begin with.
And for a more recent generation...Saved by the Bell and Full House.
i fucking LOVE full house. i've got autographed head shots from danny, jesse, joey, dj and michelle. i autographed them myself. but everybody just assumes they're real because of the nice frames.
i wrote this short story about full house, but it was rejected from the jodie sweetin fan site for being too controversial. but they are assholes who publish doug fowler's gay ass fan fiction that only assholes like.
I'd like to read this short story.
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"Man up." Enough already.
"Shit the bed." (Sorry, Bobo.)
wow. I didn't realize that I even used that phrase that often. I guess both of my top terms to describe something being broken are both feces-based (the other being "crapped out"). Paging Dr. Freud!
added to my list:
amirite?!
ALSO: I will continue to use C.Mo as my sometimes email signature. I like it, and have been using it for years. SOME people are just jealous that their names can't be J.Lo-ized, I guess.
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I hate athletes being called by their initials or even worse by their first initial and the first syllable of their last name. I saw Deron Williams called D-Will in an ESPN article today. Ugh. Sports players used to have great nicknames and now they all are ARod or AP or LT. Thanks ESPN.
I agree with this. Old-timey sports nicknames (particularly baseball) are right up there with gangster nicknames in terms of hilarity.
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Yeah, even if you watch the 3rd through final original Planet of the Apes movies, you won't bemoan what Tim Burton did to the franchise at all, because it could never be more hoaky and stupid than the third or fourth Planet of the Apes movies.
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d-from? Doesn't exactly ring, eh? M-Nes.....M-Do.....C-Jack.....A-Breck.....K-Freed
You're right. A moratorium is called for, though I do sort of like C-pijj.
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also: monkeys... no more, please. Grow the fuck up.
No, I refuse. Gorillas, too.
Go to the Bronx Zoo and see the Congo exhibit. It is amazing.
http://www.congogorillaforest.com/congoresidents
I have enthusiasm for few things, but primates are among them and will always be. And the word orangutan is funny, no matter how you pronounce it.
I'm with you, Senor. Primates rule.
I'm a gibbon man myself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaAFWyN7A4U
(sorry, no embedding)
*sigh* just like Rollins: I walk alone
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In addition to mosquito bites, I really hate sweet pickles. They're the food of the devil.
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I hate that my boss, who tends to be a micromanager, is suddenly all into feng shui. No. You do not need a plant in your career corner, you need to stop being a control freak.
Sweet pickles are the only kind I like! Now olives, on the other hand...
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I hate dill. I think it's the worst herb ever.
I know this is a controversial statement, but someone had to make it.
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Sweet pickles are the only kind I like! Now olives, on the other hand...
Did you ever have the misfortune of eating a green olive stuffed with blue cheese? It's like a vomit-bomb in your mouth.
Emma, you just blew my mind.
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No, that is definitely something I would stay away from. And I'm from Buffalo NY, where blue cheese is considered a complement to everything.
I don't like dill either, now that I think about it. But I really hate mushrooms.
(Erika, I lived in Baltimore for a couple of years (MICA) and I miss it terribly! I wish I had been on here when everyone was watching The Wire.)
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I hate athletes being called by their initials or even worse by their first initial and the first syllable of their last name. I saw Deron Williams called D-Will in an ESPN article today. Ugh. Sports players used to have great nicknames and now they all are ARod or AP or LT. Thanks ESPN.
I agree with this. Old-timey sports nicknames (particularly baseball) are right up there with gangster nicknames in terms of hilarity.
The two best:
Bob "Death To Flying Things" Ferguson
Hugh "Losing Pitcher" Mulcahy
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dill pickles=delicious
dill on carrots=the opposite of delicious
i also dislike the crippling dependence that is placed on: GPS, wikipedia, and cell phones
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i also dislike the crippling dependence that is placed on: GPS, wikipedia, and cell phones
What's weird about these things is you were fine without them, and then they were introduced into your life and you're immediately helpless without them.
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Uh-oh. Is it the racist humor, or the cock rock?
what's racist about not liking the obnoxious gypsy family in my neighborhood?
It's your emphasis of the "gypsy" part rather than the "obnoxious" part.
Obviously murdering them like in England is evil and wrong, but whats the difference between hating gypsies and hating Portland street trash? At least street trash hasn't been living that lifestyle for 3,000 years.
Anyone who modifies a motor vehicle to make it louder.
The worst!
Other things on my stuff I hate list:
-people who used to work in the food service industry who try to lay a guilt trip on you after you leave a 15-17% tip. I also don't get paid much and I am tipping the customary amount. There are a million good causes in the world to give extra support to. Waiters are not on that list. The people cooking the food are making less than them.
-Donald Trump buying Ed McMahon's house. That guy burned through $220 million that he was incredibly over-paid for by ferrying himself around in private jets and all kinds of wasteful, ostentatious lifestyle choices. Then the media felt sorry for him because he squandered his entire fortune. Now he is being rewarded for his terrible decisions by Donald Trump. He should have to sell his mansion and live the rest of his life in a normal persons house.
-and relatedly, Housing costs and housing markets. Not only do I hate it that I may never be able to buy a house, I also hate it that my parents (and their generation), many of whom based their retirement on their house are now screwed. It seems like everyone is the loser in this thing.
mine are all money related. i've been a little preoccupied with it, i guess.
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What's weird about these things is you were fine without them, and then they were introduced into your life and you're immediately helpless without them.
Calculators did the same thing to people's arithmetical abilities. Remember, Dave?
Also, I could, if I wanted, refer to myself as S.StO.
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What's weird about these things is you were fine without them, and then they were introduced into your life and you're immediately helpless without them.
Calculators did the same thing to people's arithmetical abilities. Remember, Dave?
Also, I could, if I wanted, refer to myself as S.StO.
i threw calculators on there (for that very reason), then deleted it. ive also come across a number of adults lately who dont know how to tell time unless it's digital.
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God, I'm glad I'm a recluse.
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-people who used to work in the food service industry who try to lay a guilt trip on you after you leave a 15-17% tip. I also don't get paid much and I am tipping the customary amount. There are a million good causes in the world to give extra support to. Waiters are not on that list. The people cooking the food are making less than them.
Agreed. (I also tip in that range.)
Having said that, I'm guilty of lecturing friends at the movies who leave their popcorn bags, etc., on the floor and say "Oh, it's their job to clean that up." It'd also be their job to clean up after someone who crapped on the floor; that's not a reason to do it.
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The "internet as a substitute for remembering stuff or real research" and "gps as a substitute for knowing how to read a map/look around" thing bugs me, but cell phones sure make it easier to meet up with people and schedule stuff, especially from out of town. I don't think that the whole "expect me at your door between 1pm and 5pm sometime tomorrow" thing is to be missed. I'd rather just call when I'm 30 mins away. I sometimes text the lady when we're separated in Target or Costco. Good stuff. Cell phones. Check them out.
I tip like Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack.
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true...but prior to the internet people still referred to books, periodicals, archives, and people just as frequently when needed.
i suppose my cell phone dependency hatred comes from people feeling completely helpless without one, which is insane. having said that, i text S.O.S. signals in Target myself when i'm lost.
GUILTY.
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"Man up." Enough already.
"Shit the bed." (Sorry, Bobo.)
wow. I didn't realize that I even used that phrase that often. I guess both of my top terms to describe something being broken are both feces-based (the other being "crapped out"). Paging Dr. Freud!
added to my list:
amirite?!
ALSO: I will continue to use C.Mo as my sometimes email signature. I like it, and have been using it for years. SOME people are just jealous that their names can't be J.Lo-ized, I guess.
I actually only read you using it once, but didn't want to seem like I was calling you out. In fact, it's just because Tom Cruise says it in Tropic Thunder.
If it makes you feel better, I had no idea that "Jazz hands," "Internets," and "Good times, good times" were played out, especially considering that my experience with each of those has been limited to choreography/rehearsal, Andy Breckman, and my friend Young Jean commenting on a skinhead bar in Ljubljana in 2006, in that order.
Back on topic: f you, walnuts. How are you get in the way of my almonds, cashews, and peanuts. You might want to consider some line of work other than nut.
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i text S.O.S. signals in Target to myself when i'm lost.
Fixed
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personally I couldn't live without my phone and while I know that some would say that it's a weakness, I believe that anything that can be used to get stuff out of my head (like appt's and birthdays) just frees up more of my mental capacity for use searching out dirtier and more depraved pornography on the internet.
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In addition to mosquito bites, I really hate sweet pickles. They're the food of the devil.
I've recently discovered cornichons. That is to say, I've recently discovered that they suck. I was at a sandwich place in San Francisco, and the plate I got had a couple of dainty little cornichons as a garnish. I tried one ... yuck.
The literal translation for cornichon is "shitty little French pickle".
Also, I just looked up pickles on Wikipedia, and the entry there says that there is a delicacy known as Kool-Aid pickles, or "Koolickles". That is wrong, wrong, wrong. (Come back Disco Fries, all is forgiven).
Furthermore, Wikipedia claims that pickles can be classified as ambient food (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_food). What does Brian Eno have to say about this?
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also: monkeys... no more, please. Grow the fuck up.
No, I refuse. Gorillas, too.
Go to the Bronx Zoo and see the Congo exhibit. It is amazing.
http://www.congogorillaforest.com/congoresidents
I have enthusiasm for few things, but primates are among them and will always be. And the word orangutan is funny, no matter how you pronounce it.
I'm with you, Senor. Primates rule.
I'm a gibbon man myself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaAFWyN7A4U
(sorry, no embedding)
*sigh* just like Rollins: I walk alone
I have to add that chimps-in-clothes humor is just a notch above fart jokes on the brow level scale.
Take your Lancelot Link VHS tapes to the hate pit.
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I have to add that chimps-in-clothes humor is just a notch above fart jokes on the brow level scale.
Take your Lancelot Link VHS tapes to the hate pit.
That one hit close to home.
But I like them more because they're awesome, not just for humor.
I'll be keeping my Babe: Pig in the City DVD, thank you.
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Emma, you just blew my mind.
I know, right?
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The first time I got a car with a remote door opener, within a week I was trying to open my apartment with it.
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hot chicks who don't want to fuck me.
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What's weird about these things is you were fine without them, and then they were introduced into your life and you're immediately helpless without them.
Calculators did the same thing to people's arithmetical abilities. Remember, Dave?
Also, I could, if I wanted, refer to myself as S.StO.
I hate calculators! They make people stoopid.
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More proof of the awesomeness of primates:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080826/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_monkeys_giving
hot chicks who don't want to fuck me.
I can't imagine why a woman wouldn't want to hump such an elegant and refined person.
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Two hipsterish American friends just this week used the word 'nicked', aka, stolen. One of them has previously asked the question, "What are you on about?"
Where does it end?
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Getting stuck in an elevator for three hours.
The timeline went something like this:
5 min.: Realize we are stuck
10 min.: Realize the "alarm" button in the elevator is connected to a bell that does not even really ring that loud. No intercom. No cell phones. Just this little bell.
11 min.: Realize no one except us is supposed to be in the building today.
12 min. - 2.5 hours: Ring ring ring ring ring.
2 hours 40 minutes: Ring ring ring ring not having a panic attack ring.
3 hours: My new favourite people come and rescue us.
3 hours 5 minutes: "Guess we should really get something done about that alarm button, huh? Ha ha ha ha ha ha," say my new favourite people. Suppress rage.
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Here's one that's even more important:
Hey comedians. You're funny. We get it. Can you please turn the audience down a little in the mix on your CD's?
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Here's one that's even more important:
Hey comedians. You're funny. We get it. Can you please turn the audience down a little in the mix on your CD's?
It'd be really cool if they edited the audience out. Make us work out where to laugh.
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Here's one that's even more important:
Hey comedians. You're funny. We get it. Can you please turn the audience down a little in the mix on your CD's?
Yeah, what is this, a KISS Live Album?
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Here's one that's even more important:
Hey comedians. You're funny. We get it. Can you please turn the audience down a little in the mix on your CD's?
Yeah, what is this, a KISS Live Album?
Yeah, what is this, a Philly Boy Roy debate appearance?
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fuck you healthcare spending account. I have $700 in you right now and for some reason you'll reimburse me for sunscreen or taxi fare, but not for a new Sonicare toothbrush? My old one died. I'm sad. It's a healthcare item. REIMBURSE ME!!!!!!
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First-world problems. Serious business.
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Fuck you, sleeveless fleeces.
Nothing says "I like the Counting Crows, trust funds, and fly fishing with my old Sigma Nu brothers" louder than a sleeveless fleece.
(That being said, I caught myself wanting to buy one last week)
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I'm getting in line: I hate LA traffic.
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First-world problems. Serious business.
Seriously, having any sort of medical insurance would piss me right the fuck off.
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First-world problems. Serious business.
More like a sub-first world problem... Most of the rest of the first world has socialized medicine and doesn't have to worry about flex healthcare spending accounts.
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Hey, if I put my money in a flex account, I'd want to be able to spend it on dental stuff too.
Insurance is dumb.
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The idea of insurance covering a fancy-dancy toothbrush inspired my comment, not the mere fact that Josh has health insurance.
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technically it's not insurance. it's money set aside, tax free, for use on items not covered by your insurance (such as copays, medical items, etc..)
also, you guys are getting way too serious about this shit.
also, I just need a fancy toothbrush. if it was able to dance, that would be great, but it's not a requirement.
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The idea of insurance covering a fancy-dancy toothbrush inspired my comment, not the mere fact that Josh has health insurance.
Please don't drag my good name into the boring sections of the board.
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I don't know what I hate more, Geraldo's hurricane coverage or myself for continuing to watch it.
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Guys, have you heard about that totally boring thing that happened? It was totally all Josh. I hear he even has opinions about insurance and toothbrushes and stuff.
Also, I heard he thinks he has a good name.
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I was so bored I couldn't remember the name of the person whining about not being able to get a piece of luxurious dental hygiene gear. Boo hoo. Use a fucking twig. (Damn, I need to get back to FOTchan.)
(Sorry, Josh.)
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clearly a twig would be an ineffective tool for cleaning teeth.
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Shows what you know, brat. No sense (http://www.helium.com/items/304106-methods-of-cleaning-teeth-in-different-parts-of-the-world) of tradition (http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/wordpress/index.php/archives/2007/06/25/african-twig-toothbrush-offers-day-long-dental-carec/). Shameful.
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Can't go wrong with miswak!
(http://carpetblog.typepad.com/carpetblogger/images/2007/04/19/miswak1.jpg)
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Right Now, Sammy is Driving Too Fast.
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where are miswak trees? can i find one in my upstate ny backyard?
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NJ Transit. And the Rutgers Bus System, while Im at it. F you both sideways.
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I missed a few pages. Could someone please fill me in?
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It's been 2+ years since Ted Stevens commented about internet "tubes" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes) and not a day goes by when some tech guy doesn't reference it sarcastically, on blogs and in person.
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There's something in here about Sarah Palin, Alaska politicians, and getting your tubes tied. Let's get cracking, Leno staffers!
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There's something in here about Sarah Palin, Alaska politicians, and getting your tubes tied. Let's get cracking, Leno staffers!
I am going to get my tubes tied because i am afraid I would severely disappoint my offspring. Then i'm going to freeze myself to death, just like in the movies. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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true...but prior to the internet people still referred to books, periodicals, archives, and people just as frequently when needed.
My guess is people probably did not refer to print resources as frequently as they do Wikipedia. So it's possible (possible) that we are more informed now.
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When I think about it, I read a ton and didn't really watch TV or anything as a child. So it's logical to think that I would be reading more if it wasn't for the internet. But I think I would still be way less informed about the world in general- both in terms of things like music and comedy and in terms of world events and "real" knowledge.
Mostly I'm just angry at anyone who writes an article about how stupid kids today are. Sorry we didn't purposely ignore all technology developed in the last 50 years in order to perfectly replicate your own experience, which is of course the ideal.
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NJ Transit. And the Rutgers Bus System, while Im at it. F you both sideways.
I will always hold dear to my heart the hold music from NJ Transit circa 1990. After being forced to listen to it for blocks of 15-20 minutes, I could not help but fall under it's hypnotic beauty.
with a casio-esque drum pattern played beneath, a male voice would speak/sing the following line:
"Enjaaaaaaaaay Tran-sit......Workin......New Jersey On the Move...."
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NJ Transit. And the Rutgers Bus System, while Im at it. F you both sideways.
The EE is the worst.
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Holy s-hit Bobo, I totally forgot about that stupid hold music until just now. Did you have to live the carless life in NJ in the early 90s too? I wound up in some pretty hairy situations, as evidently they have a policy of hiring the meanest people in the entire state to drive the buses, and then they route them all through the most dangerous neighborhoods they can find. But oh yes do I remember sitting on that phone waiting to find out when my last train or bus or whatever was. Hey, maybe I was the reason you were on hold, or vice versa!
And yes, Dan, I was 25 minutes late to the first class of the semester on Douglass because the EE goes to like Piscataway or some shit and no one saw fit to tell the faculty that it had been rerouted (though, to be fair, I haven't taught on Douglass since 2005). I should just walk.
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NJ Transit. And the Rutgers Bus System, while Im at it. F you both sideways.
I will always hold dear to my heart the hold music from NJ Transit circa 1990. After being forced to listen to it for blocks of 15-20 minutes, I could not help but fall under it's hypnotic beauty.
with a casio-esque drum pattern played beneath, a male voice would speak/sing the following line:
"Enjaaaaaaaaay Tran-sit......Workin......New Jersey On the Move...."
I used to like when the train went through Secaucus. The conductor always said: "SEEEEE....CAWWW-KUSS!!!" Do they still do that, or is it all automated voices now?
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The conductors (or as I like to call them, Da Kunduktaz) still talk. But didn't they just build that station in like 2002?
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I'm sure. The last time I rode NJ transit was in 2003, so that makes sense. Sorry, I didn't intend for my comment to seem like I was reminiscing 'bout the old days. I was just having fond memories of six years ago.
But if you want to talk about my older days with NJ Transit: I can remember being stuck for 3 hours in a snowstorm on a train with my grandma. (it must have been '88 or '89), and crying because we missed most of "A Christmas Spectacular!" I can also remember sitting in gum on the train once.
Fonder memory: When I was a teenager, my friends and I would always go to New York via by NJ Transit bus in a big group. My only good memories of high school revolve around those weekend NYC daytrips. As much as it sucked, that bus was a godsend. It was like 2 bucks to ride down to the city and pretend we were cool. We would sit on the curb and wait. Sitting on the curb was really deliberate--- we probably thought it made us look dangerous or something. I'm sure we just looked like obnoxious NJ teenagers.
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FOT ADD
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NJ Transit. And the Rutgers Bus System, while Im at it. F you both sideways.
I will always hold dear to my heart the hold music from NJ Transit circa 1990. After being forced to listen to it for blocks of 15-20 minutes, I could not help but fall under it's hypnotic beauty.
with a casio-esque drum pattern played beneath, a male voice would speak/sing the following line:
"Enjaaaaaaaaay Tran-sit......Workin......New Jersey On the Move...."
I used to like when the train went through Secaucus. The conductor always said: "SEEEEE....CAWWW-KUSS!!!" Do they still do that, or is it all automated voices now?
Sadly it's now animated, Beth. My personal favorite was "Perth Amboy, Gateway to Staten Island!".
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My grandpa & great uncle once swam from Perth Amboy to Staten Island. True story.
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My grandpa & great uncle once swam from Perth Amboy to Staten Island. True story.
They must have wanted to go to Sedutto's really badly.
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Really, Stan? They must save the fancy robots for the coastline train. The NE Corridor keeps it real. Hey Andy, instead of complaining, why not regale us with some tales of the Oklahoma City bus system?
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I wasn't complaining.
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Time
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I wasn't complaining.
Dammit, so much for my strategy in eliciting a lid-blower post on Oklahoma buses.
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Time
The relentless force that marches on with no regard to your hopes and dreams, forcing you forward, always forward, with no regard for your wants or needs or dreams or hopes? Or the magazine?
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I hate my lack of memory for people's names. Everyone should have a sign floating above their head with their name, if/how we know each other, and a link to add them as a Facebook friend (my main name-learning device) for the first month or two of college.
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Time
The relentless force that marches on with no regard to your hopes and dreams, forcing you forward, always forward, with no regard for your wants or needs or dreams or hopes? Or the magazine?
Yes
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Facebook friend (my main name-learning device)
Wow, I just realized Facebook would've made socializing in college waaay easier if it was around in my day. Well, maybe replace "socializing" with "talking shit about people I didn't know" and replace "easier" with "more accurate".
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Facebook friend (my main name-learning device)
Wow, I just realized Facebook would've made socializing in college waaay easier if it was around in my day. Well, maybe replace "socializing" with "talking shit about people I didn't know" and replace "easier" with "more accurate".
I never saw much of a use for it before, but it really has helped. Maybe we're just a generation too scared to just call each other (though phone numbers are being exchanged left and right as well), but it's acceptable to add as a "friend" someone you casually know well enough to know their full name, eliminating the awkwardness of asking for someone's contact information. Plus I've been using it to look up the names of people I should remember but don't.
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Fuck you, UPS! I tried so so hard to get home before 5 because the slip you left yesterday told me you would be here to deliver my cell phone AFTER 5 and then I come home and you've left another note that's all "you have to come pick it up from us at our ridiculous location a million miles away from you." And then I check your website and it says you tried to deliver the thing at 3 THIS AFTERNOON? That is not even CLOSE to being "after 5." I told everyone I would have my cell phone before I left town for five days, UPS, and so you have let not only me but all my friends and relatives down. I hope you're happy.
Arrrrrrrrrrgh.
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"you have to come pick it up from us at our ridiculous location a million miles away from you."
Exactly! I hate that!
About two weeks ago, I had to send a bunch of old video tapes (about 70 of them) to my business partner in Stockholm. There was no easy way to do this, but after weighing my options, I eventually packed them in a big cardboard box, taped it up properly, and lugged it out of my apartment. Since I don't have a car, I had to haul it by myself to the post office. Needless to say, the minute I went outside it started pouring down. At the post office, they refused to accept the box, since it weighed one pound more than the maximum weight (40 lbs). Soaked and exhausted, I pleaded. "Oh no", they said, "we just can't". "But feel free to haul it over to our ridiculous special shipping location in the dubious industrial parts of town, a million miles away from you." Happy ending: I took a cab, they gladly accepted the box, and it arrived safely. Still, I was fuming for the rest of that day.
(I suppose this could go in the "little things" topic aswell.)
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Fuck you, UPS! I tried so so hard to get home before 5 because the slip you left yesterday told me you would be here to deliver my cell phone AFTER 5 and then I come home and you've left another note that's all "you have to come pick it up from us at our ridiculous location a million miles away from you." And then I check your website and it says you tried to deliver the thing at 3 THIS AFTERNOON? That is not even CLOSE to being "after 5." I told everyone I would have my cell phone before I left town for five days, UPS, and so you have let not only me but all my friends and relatives down. I hope you're happy.
Arrrrrrrrrrgh.
I am totally with you on this. But I also love that at first it reads like you're threatening to fuck someone up.
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i think mike birbiglia has a bit on this. or todd barry.
(maybe i should come back when ive done my research.)
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I hate co-workers who come over and laugh about jobs that we are working not working out.
"I knew this was totally fucked from the start!"
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Fuck fevers.
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Except for Dengue Fever!
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Oh well yeah, Dengue Fever totally rocks.
It's the low-grade sort that makes every bone in my body hurt... those fevers can fuck off.
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Oh well yeah, Dengue Fever totally rocks.
It's the low-grade sort that makes every bone in my body hurt... those fevers can fuck off.
Sounds like you got that Philly Fever!
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The United States Customs and Immigration Service.
How does "within 3 years" become "not in five years and counting", you fucks?
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Evite I just received:
You are invited to End of Summer [catering company where I work] BBQ & Kickball Extravaganza!!!
Time to celebrate all the hard work we put in for the summer! Chill and reminisce with all the wonderful employees at [catering company]. Totally cool and rockin' kickball game! Front of the House VS. back of the House. BRING IT!!
Burgers & Dogs provided to grill. Feel free to bring something to share: sides, salads, desserts, frisbees, instruments, ect. Alcohol not provided. You may bring only beer and wine.
Hope to see you all there :)
Basically a nightmare situation: hanging out with coworkers, playing a totally cool and rockin' kickball game.
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When you suggest a change at work and your bosses dig it and put it in place but don't enforce it and all the people in your team continue doing things the old way because they are too stubborn to change and then whinge about the same things that this change is a solution too. And then your bosses still don't force them to change and think maybe it wasn't such a good idea. (see "No more living nightmare" thread in to see the repercussions of this hate)
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Evite I just received:
You are invited to End of Summer [catering company where I work] BBQ & Kickball Extravaganza!!!
Time to celebrate all the hard work we put in for the summer! Chill and reminisce with all the wonderful employees at [catering company]. Totally cool and rockin' kickball game! Front of the House VS. back of the House. BRING IT!!
Burgers & Dogs provided to grill. Feel free to bring something to share: sides, salads, desserts, frisbees, instruments, ect. Alcohol not provided. You may bring only beer and wine.
Hope to see you all there :)
Basically a nightmare situation: hanging out with coworkers, playing a totally cool and rockin' kickball game.
As far as work stuff goes, it doesn't sound THAT bad, actually.
But I work with genuinely fun people so maybe I'm spoiled. I also like free food. (suprise!)
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When you suggest a change at work and your bosses dig it and put it in place but don't enforce it and all the people in your team continue doing things the old way because they are too stubborn to change and then whinge about the same things that this change is a solution too. And then your bosses still don't force them to change and think maybe it wasn't such a good idea. (see "No more living nightmare" thread in to see the repercussions of this hate)
i didnt know we worked at the same place, pinky. let's grab lunch some time.
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Not for long remember. We better make it soon
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Evite I just received:
You are invited to End of Summer [catering company where I work] BBQ & Kickball Extravaganza!!!
Time to celebrate all the hard work we put in for the summer! Chill and reminisce with all the wonderful employees at [catering company]. Totally cool and rockin' kickball game! Front of the House VS. back of the House. BRING IT!!
Burgers & Dogs provided to grill. Feel free to bring something to share: sides, salads, desserts, frisbees, instruments, ect. Alcohol not provided. You may bring only beer and wine.
Hope to see you all there :)
Basically a nightmare situation: hanging out with coworkers, playing a totally cool and rockin' kickball game.
That does sound bad, but maybe this is worse: my company is still planning a summer "outing"... for the summer of 2007.
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Don't work outings usually equal a paid day away from the office where you get to eat and possibly get drunk?
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in my experience they equate to a saturday lost, lots of kids running around, and food i can't eat (it turns into a non-veggie-friendly barbeque, every time). also, people talking about work and domestic lives.
now, office christmas parties are another story.
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you guys should go to work in construction. every company event turns into a drunkfest.
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you guys should go to work in construction. every company event turns into a drunkfest.
Same thing in publishing.
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As far as work stuff goes, it doesn't sound THAT bad, actually.
But I work with genuinely fun people so maybe I'm spoiled. I also like free food. (suprise!)
Yeah, I don't really like most of the people I work with. They are nice people, but not people I want to be friends with. I guess I'm just a party pooper.
If I wanted to hang out with work friends, I would invite them out, or to a party I was throwing. A party thrown by the company is lame because it means seeing a bunch of people I don't particularly like. Thankfully it's an optional event.
Plus: kickball! That was the main reason I posted it here.
you guys should go to work in construction. every company event turns into a drunkfest.
You should work in catering. Every workday turns into a drunkfest.
There's a reason we're only allowed to bring beer and wine to the party.
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last year at our golf tournament we had a VP get so drunk that he drove his company truck into a tree on the golf course as he was attempting to make his way out of the parking lot.
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also, work events are a lot more fun if you just resign yourself to becoming an asshole to anyone that you don't really care about personally. Then you don't have to be an asshole to them, but the option is there if you get pissy or just bored.
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I agree that if they're on Saturdays, that's complete bullshit.
Since I spend 80% of my life with these people, I try to have some fun with them if I can...
Plus, YAY FOR FREE STUFF!
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you guys should go to work in construction. every company event turns into a drunkfest.
Same thing in publishing.
And teaching America's children.
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you guys should go to work in construction. every company event turns into a drunkfest.
Fixed!
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Anyone who says "whilst" or "whinge" or "arse" can get fucked.
I say whilst all the time just to get people like you all wound up.
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I don't know who to hate, but I made a point not to pack ANY shampoo/conditioner/soap/toothpaste/etc. (because of the 3 oz. rule) for my trip to memphis today.
but, I had a four oz. bottle with only two oz. in it.
long story short, I had to throw it away. it was 4:37 in the morning.
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Use of the word "grownup" in heated political discussion. This may be used by people of any political stripe. e.g. "It's time for you repugs to take a time out, and let the grownups clean up your mess."
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I hate when you sublet your wonderful, spacious, tidy apartment to some art curator creep for a month while you're out of town, and prep it with towels and linen, clear out space in the closets for the creep's clothes, provide helpful instructions about the apartment and the neighborhood, invite him to use anything he wants in the cupboards and fridge, explain how he use the DVD/TV, just generally act like the perfect host - and then have him complain about just about everything immediately upon arrival: the bed is not big enough (his girlfriend will apparently also stay there for a week), there's not enough space in the closet, why was he only given one set of keys, why haven't you stowed away every single thing you own so he doesn't have to rest his precious eyes on the THINGS YOU OWN IN YOUR APARTMENT.
Also, the guy is from New York, and is in my town to work on some low-budget art project. What kind of primadonna is this? What kind of castle does he live in in the City to have the balls to complain about my seriously fantastic abode? I'm this close to asking him to just get out.
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Curators are the worst.
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Curators are the worst.
My wife is an assistant curator. She has to assist the worst!
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Oh yeah. I would like to add to this thread:
Russian Dressing
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I hate when you sublet your wonderful, spacious, tidy apartment to some art curator creep for a month while you're out of town, and prep it with towels and linen, clear out space in the closets for the creep's clothes, provide helpful instructions about the apartment and the neighborhood, invite him to use anything he wants in the cupboards and fridge, explain how he use the DVD/TV, just generally act like the perfect host - and then have him complain about just about everything immediately upon arrival: the bed is not big enough (his girlfriend will apparently also stay there for a week), there's not enough space in the closet, why was he only given one set of keys, why haven't you stowed away every single thing you own so he doesn't have to rest his precious eyes on the THINGS YOU OWN IN YOUR APARTMENT.
Also, the guy is from New York, and is in my town to work on some low-budget art project. What kind of primadonna is this? What kind of castle does he live in in the City to have the balls to complain about my seriously fantastic abode? I'm this close to asking him to just get out.
halfway through i was *this close* to asking him to get out for you.
p.s. so, is he kicked out yet?
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Bleu cheese.
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p.s. so, is he kicked out yet?
He's not out. Yet anyway. Since my last message to the Swedish people who works with him I haven't heard a thing. The other day, they sent me a new email complaining about... my shoes, which I hadn't "stowed away properly". My reply went something like this: "Fine, go ahead and make a new set of keys, toss out the old bed and put in a new one, do whatever you need to keep him happy - as long as you put everything back the way they were before by the time I get back. But seriously, how much stuff does he actually have? Does he really think there's not enough room in the apartment? And isn't it enough that I stowe away my 'excess stuff' in a closet? Stowing it in the attic sounds like complete overkill."
Newsflash: someone is actually living in that apartment that you're renting for a mere four weeks.
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Fuck the unapologetic valet guys who lost my car keys this weekend.
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Being tricked into thinking a word is a hyper-link when it's not.
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Sorry. I was once encouraged not to use italics or bolding in my sentences.
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Curators are the worst.
My wife is an assistant curator. She has to assist the worst!
WHAT?! Without curators, how is one to know what is good?! What do you suggest, that people "look at things for themselves"?
On that note (I know this has been covered before) using "curate" as a verb for everything. This musician has "curated" a line-up of performers. I'm waiting for it to get to "the cheese master has curated a wonderful plate for you".
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Sorry. I was once encouraged not to use italics or bolding in my sentences.
I was just kidding.
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Fuck the unapologetic valet guys who lost my car keys this weekend.
There's valet parking in baltimore?
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Yeah. Just never use it at a restaurant called "Louisiana"
Because they're big jerks.
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Curators are the worst.
My wife is an assistant curator. She has to assist the worst!
WHAT?! Without curators, how is one to know what is good?! What do you suggest, that people "look at things for themselves"?
On that note (I know this has been covered before) using "curate" as a verb for everything. This musician has "curated" a line-up of performers. I'm waiting for it to get to "the cheese master has curated a wonderful plate for you".
I've already been to the fancy pants Fred Siegel store in Hollywood where there was a "curated" grouping of CD's for sale; basically it was White People by Handsome Boy Modeling School and some shit by Cat Power. Man, this would be a good moment for Laurie to chime in.
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So I curate my animals' meals every day?
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So I curate my animals' meals every day?
As do I; on the rare occasion that I forget to feed them, I am choosing to reexamine the meaning of "food" especially in the status quo. How can "food" be relevant to our modern world? etc. etc.
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So I curate my animals' meals every day?
You could probably sell the food you make for your animals as "Artisan Meals".
I once drank Artisan water that sort of tasted like someone had melted a lifesaver into it. Is flavoring water a craft now?
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It's more like if you went to the Pet Food store and they only carried Fancy Feast with tertiary colored labels. That and like one bag of esoteric Meow Mix or something.
(http://www.petfooddirect.com/store/images/prod/3013654_lg.jpg)(http://www.nycpet.com/Images/products/Large/fancy%20feast.jpg)
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Oh yeah, but so I really fucking hate it when people receive my "I don't want to talk to you, I don't want to help you with your bullshit problem, leave me alone so I can do my real job" body language as an occasion to say something like "I need to bring you a plate of cookes!" or "You look like you could need a hug!"
I don't have a case of the Mondays, you jerk. I specifically hate you, not necessarily my job.
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Oh yeah, but so I really fucking hate it when people receive my "I don't want to talk to you, I don't want to help you with your bullshit problem, leave me alone so I can do my real job" body language as an occasion to say something like "I need to bring you a plate of cookes!" or "You look like you could need a hug!"
I don't have a case of the Mondays, you jerk. I specifically hate you, not necessarily my job.
Amen brother! They bring you cookies though? I get crapped on regularly with no cookie interval. It could be worse.
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A double eff you:
Eff you local natural gas bastards. Raise the prices anytime it rains, not to mention the recent 10% hike in prices overall, only to see all your asshole employees in my neighborhood (all over the city really) in their company vehicles idling all day.
Same goes for the port authority buses here. Pittsburgh has one of the most expensive transit systems I have ever seen for how shoddy it is, and they've had a ton of funding issues the last few years which lead to a recent large hike in fares and reduced coverage. Yet anytime I see some bus not in service, be it some guy just having lunch or simply taking a break, the bus is on.
Turn off your fucking cars, trucks and buses when you're not driving, since I'm paying for that gas it seems fully by the gallon now. Assholes.
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No one brings me cookies. They just talk about it, hypothetically. Like we live in Mayberry and them bringing me cookies is going to somehow make all the wretched internecine politics of this institution evaporate.
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ClayMates.
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Same goes for the port authority buses here. Pittsburgh has one of the most expensive transit systems I have ever seen for how shoddy it is, and they've had a ton of funding issues the last few years which lead to a recent large hike in fares and reduced coverage. Yet anytime I see some bus not in service, be it some guy just having lunch or simply taking a break, the bus is on.
Yeah, but you have those inclined planes!!
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ClayMates.
...and Webkins. Those bastards are bleeding me dry.
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Yeah, but you have those inclined planes!!
Ah, what would we do without those outhouses on tracks?
You mock my hate Jason, oh you mock it so.
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Yeah you can't even catch a cab in Pittsburgh. It's near impossible. I only lived in places where the T/Lightrail reached because I couldn't stand the cabs and buses there...
Also: Have I mentioned how much I despise presidential elections?
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I'm still totally obsessed with those inclined planes, or funiculars (cf. Laurie's and my discussion on them, like, a year ago) or whatever you want to call them.
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Having to listen to/watch my cats kill a mouse. This is happening in the next room as I type.
I know they're doing me a favor it's a natural instinct circle of life thing and all that, but boy, can't they just get it over with? It's when I see the poor little mouse body tossed into the air for the 20th time that my heart breaks a little. I've saved a couple of them and put them outside which is totally silly, but I feel bad for the little dudes.
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It's even worse with birds, don't you find?
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They've fortunately never been able to catch a bird before it flew away. But I'm imagining this scenario, and yes, it must be worse.
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I'm cutting my month in Stockholm a couple of days short because of a wedding party I'm attending in my hometown of Malmö. So I'm leaving tomorrow morning instead of mid-next week, which has annoyed my colleagues somewhat, but I've explained that I just can't not attend the wedding - it's two friends of mine who are getting hitched, and tons of friends from all over the country are converging for the big dinner/party. So tonight, five minutes to midnight, I get a text message from the bride. The party's off! Supposedly, both the bride and groom are down and out with the flu. So yeah, all you who are already there and have paid a fortune on plane tickets and fancy dresses and took time off from work etc - sorry! So frustrating and confusing; I don't exactly call bullshit, but seriously, if you cancel your own wedding party you better be close to dying from that flu.
So, uh, I suppose I hate when shit like that happens.
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Fucking Rosh Hashanah is the same night I was going to see Big Dipper. How is it possible that the only two major commitments I have are at the same time?
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big, giant, foreign objects in the middle of the road (yes, i hit it) causing you to miss ALL of friday nite GONERFEST.
p.s. and the guy who was smoking at the gas pump last nite.
Baron: "hey! do me a favor...show some respect and put that out."
Idiot: "what?"
Baron: "put it out, you idiot!"
Idiot: [smashes cigarette on ground] "oh yeah, i know, i know."
Baron: [under breath] "yeah, you know."
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Respect for gasoline and its ignitable tendencies?
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When people use LOL at the end of every (frequent) facebook status update:
(blank) needs to go to the store. LOL!!
(blank) got a haircut today. LOL!
(blank) is having fun. LOL!!!
(blank) just drank some coffee. LOL!!!
And on and on.
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Facebook updates.
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When people use LOL at the end of every (frequent) facebook status update:
(blank) needs to go to the store. LOL!!
(blank) got a haircut today. LOL!
(blank) is having fun. LOL!!!
(blank) just drank some coffee. LOL!!!
And on and on.
As per the terms of the living will, the respirator will be turned off after 72 hours. LOL!!!
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Respect for gasoline and its ignitable tendencies?
noooo, Sarah. respect for my life, cancer mom's life, and people who are just getting gas on a monday nite.
indirectly, this would mean yes (for gasoline and its ignitable tendencies). you're right.
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You'll be interested to know that I stopped by my currently sublet apartment this weekend to pick up some mail, and the place looked like a carwash. No broken furniture or anything*, but the curator creep's stuff was violently spread out across the entire apartment. It was just insane. Like someone placed all his belongings in the middle of the apartment and threw a handgrenade at it.
I don't care that much, as long as everything's in order when I get back. Somehow I doubt it. But then it's war. Right now I'm taking the Zen approach.
*) though he had broken a coffee cup which was part of an insanely expensive, and more or less irreplacable, Rörstrand set that I inherited from my grandma. That made me furious. (I know, I probably should've hid it somewhere - but jesus, the creep is still an adult, not a five-year-old.)
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that's a real shame, Martin.
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You should say something like "How about you curate what teeth you wanna keep?" and when he goes "What??" you punch him in the mouth.
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I hate it when people have computer/copier/fax/whatever problems and they try to blame the piece of equipment. I understand that it's frustrating when you can't figure something out, but generally computers don't "have a mind of their own". It's that you're doing something wrong. If it continues to not do what you want, it's because you keep doing something wrong. It doesn't help to get mad at the machine.
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I hate it when people have computer/copier/fax/whatever problems and they try to blame the piece of equipment. I understand that it's frustrating when you can't figure something out, but generally computers don't "have a mind of their own". It's that you're doing something wrong. If it continues to not do what you want, it's because you keep doing something wrong. It doesn't help to get mad at the machine.
This is only mostly true. Computers do manifest spontaneous problems sometimes. Our eyetracking computer just started bluescreening about 5 minutes ago for no obvious reason.
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yes, but if the fax machine keeps giving you an "error: cannot connect", it's a billion times more likely that you're dialing the number wrong (the actual problem) then it is that thefax machine is doing something wrong (perceived problem).
I'm not saying equipment never fails, I'm saying that it's more consistent and reliable than humans, generally speaking.
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I'm not saying equipment never fails, I'm saying that it's more consistent and reliable than humans, generally speaking.
Of course, hence the need for WarGames.
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FUCK PEOPLE WHO MICROMANAGE YOU SO THEY CAN "UNDERSTAND" YOUR PROCESSES. OBSERVING LEADS TO UNDERSTANDING. MEDDLING WITH AND QUESTIONING EVERYTHING I DO IS COMPLETE BULLSHIT AND IT WILL MOST DEFINITELY LEAD TO ME FREAKING THE FUCK OUT.
Which is what is happening. Right now.
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FUCK PEOPLE WHO MICROMANAGE YOU SO THEY CAN "UNDERSTAND" YOUR PROCESSES. OBSERVING LEADS TO UNDERSTANDING. MEDDLING WITH AND QUESTIONING EVERYTHING I DO IS COMPLETE BULLSHIT AND IT WILL MOST DEFINITELY LEAD TO ME FREAKING THE FUCK OUT.
Which is what is happening. Right now.
It's good you did that in all caps, so they could read it.
Actually my main problem now is new ppl 'observing' which is another way of saying 'getting me to do stuff', but failing to accumulate any understanding of ANYTHING, even accidentally. Pfft. People, they vex me.
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I hate micromanagers! I had one at my last job and even though she knew a lot about what she knew, she didn't know crap about what I knew. I should have been a good compliment to her skills, but I was not allowed to be. She wouldn't even tell me what she wanted me to do, but instead would tell me to do one part of some project at a time so that I would do it the way she wanted me to do it. I never got to use any of my skills and I started to doubt that I had skills! I've been at my new job for a little over a year. I have a great boss now and I actually miss him when he isn't here.
The thing I could never understand is why someone would hire you if they thought you couldn't do a good job.
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Fucking internet trolls, especially when I take the bait, like an idiot. The backstory is too stupid to get into, but if you're curious, some of the drama is up at mcclernan dot com slash mcclernan. I strongly encourage Raad_Man to get involved.
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Fucking internet trolls, especially when I take the bait, like an idiot. The backstory is too stupid to get into, but if you're curious, some of the drama is up at mcclernan dot com slash mcclernan. I strongly encourage Raad_Man to get involved.
Whoa, I didn't realize you were a theatre establishment insider.
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Whoa, I didn't realize you were a theatre establishment insider.
That's me! I choose to wield my shadowy power by playing Beckett radio plays on WFMU.
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polkout.com
This guy is the PhillyD of webcomics. (Some of these may be NSFW.)
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Postponing an eye appointment for a month until I have money to pay for it and then having to wait 3 weeks because my vision is so poor my right eye contact is on backorder and finally going to try them on today only to find out that they don't fit properly so it'll be another week before the new ones arrive.
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Hmmm why don't you have backup glasses? They're super cheap these days.
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Fuck, you Bennington College student center, for keeping the radio tuned to the crappiest station in the world. Not only is the music bad, but the signal sucks, so it's bad AND static-y. While we're at it, fuck you, boyfriend, for taking my headphones with you on tour. Now I can't properly drown this out.
Okay, I'm not really saying fuck you to my boyfriend. I love him. My irritation is minimal in regard to the headphones. Just keeping in the spirit of the thread.
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Hmmm why don't you have backup glasses? They're super cheap these days.
Oh I do have glasses but they're pretty old and I get a headache if I wear them all day. I can still wear my old contacts but it's getting to the point where they're starting to get a little irritating.
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Quick update/closure since you're dying to know: I returned to my apartment today, and the curator creep had actually cleaned up after himself. No trash, no stuff left behind. But he's a jerk alright - the cracked coffee cup has mysteriously disappeared. Trying to get away. I'm considering treating the cup as a casualty of war, and be thankful he didn't burn the place down.
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Martin I hope your situation improves.... your home is your castle! Storm the castle!
I hate that they're making 15% cuts across the board at my company. 7 of my favorite co-workers and friends got the axe on Wednesday. My boyfriend (who also works here but in a different division) just lost his position and was moved to another one. But at least he's getting a paycheck. 4 people were cut from his division.
I want to cry and then punch someone. This is horrible. Hopefully they finish making the cuts across the 8 or so divisions today. I just want it to be over.
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Update: we're up to 27 people cut in all. THIS SUCKS. It's like a bomb going off.
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That's awful, Erika. Hope you're not on the line.
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I hate that so many American acquaintances have started conspicuously using British-isms recently:
-"Cheers"
-"Mucking about"
-"When I was at university..."
-"Brilliant"
-"shite"
-"a proper _____"
-"colour"
-"arse"
-"get a pint"
-"dodgy"
Is it okay to slap these people?
Absolutely!
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Erika - that totally sucks! How big is the company you work for?
I'm at a small business (14 total) and all the departments heads had to take a 10% salary cut in July, so that takes me back to what I was making 4 years ago, which totally sucks, but at least we're not going through staff cuts.
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Thanks. It's a few hundred people but each division is close-knit. Ours was 40 people before this so we lost around 1 in 6... and right now it doesn't help that my boyfriend and I work for the same company. I'm terrified, even though we've both been told we're safe.
I am told I'm "indispensable" I just hope that's true.
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Indispensable is good! I'll think good thoughts for you.
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I hate micromanagers! I had one at my last job and even though she knew a lot about what she knew, she didn't know crap about what I knew. I should have been a good compliment to her skills, but I was not allowed to be. She wouldn't even tell me what she wanted me to do, but instead would tell me to do one part of some project at a time so that I would do it the way she wanted me to do it. I never got to use any of my skills and I started to doubt that I had skills!
yes! this just happened to me. except it was a man. i have a new, better job now.
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Fuck, you Bennington College student center, for keeping the radio tuned to the crappiest station in the world. Not only is the music bad, but the signal sucks, so it's bad AND static-y. While we're at it, fuck you, boyfriend, for taking my headphones with you on tour. Now I can't properly drown this out.
Okay, I'm not really saying fuck you to my boyfriend. I love him. My irritation is minimal in regard to the headphones. Just keeping in the spirit of the thread.
As much as Bennington costs they should be broadcasting music algorithmically tuned to your tastes directly to the hearing centers of yr brain.
That sux.
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-Female bloggers who refer coyly to their new boyfriend as "the Boy"
-Bright orange rubber Crocs™ worn by professionals (ex: paramedics)
-Those weird flags old people display in front of their house that aren't the flag of any country but have stuff like maple leaves or kitties emblazoned on them
-Step-parents who bloviate endlessly at every dinner, holiday, birthday about right-wing talking points du jour, but quickly condemn any responses as "too preachy" (I say this out of dread for this year's Thanksgiving)
-Anyone over 18 who says FTW ('For the Win')
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I love FTW!
But agree, the idea of dying in a car crash and the last thing I see is some grown dude's orange crocs is appalling.
-Female bloggers who refer coyly to their new boyfriend as "the Boy"
-Bright orange rubber Crocs™ worn by professionals (ex: paramedics)
-Those weird flags old people display in front of their house that aren't the flag of any country but have stuff like maple leaves or kitties emblazoned on them
-Step-parents who bloviate endlessly at every dinner, holiday, birthday about right-wing talking points du jour, but quickly condemn any responses as "too preachy" (I say this out of dread for this year's Thanksgiving)
-Anyone over 18 who says FTW ('For the Win')
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All this time I thought FTW stood for Fuck The World.
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I thought it was a sloppy WTF only backwards
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All this time I thought FTW stood for Fuck The World.
me too.
oh, remember the innocent days, when SFW was a shitty "Generation X" movie that nobody saw?
(http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/amg/pop_albums/3/6/v/d36904de2v8.jpg)
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aw I love/hate njtransit.
HATE:
1) My nachos last night were sans black olives even though it was listed as a topping on the menu.
2) Whenever anyone (and everyone since I hear it so frequently) says: "Oh I'm OCD" or "Yeah that is my OCD acting up." Just because you like to be organized and not a sloppy beast does not mean you have been diagnosed with a cognitive disorder.
3) GIANT'S STADIUM!
I went to a RedBull game last night and we were sent back to the car twice before being let in. The first time my brother had to walk back because he was not allowed in with small messenger bag, even though I could bring in a big bag. They wouldn't even check his bag, just said "Men can't bring in bags." I asked to speak to a manager and got in some ludicrous argument about gender discrimination in which he broke it down for me that "women carry their personal things in their bags and men use their pockets." I was like, "okay, but c'mon guy, don't you think that is unfair?" and he would not answer me. etc. etc. My cogent arguments were in vain!
Then they found my metal water bottle when they checked my bag a 2nd time (although they missed it the first). Okay so i dumped out the water and still was not allowed to bring it in, as I might "throw it at someone." I explained to them it was probably 3oz empty and my keys were much heavier. No avail, back to the car again, 20 minutes late for match...
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-njtransit rail/secaucus junction
-the entire meadlowlands sporting complex (esp. xanadu)
-tucker bounds
-tucker max
-max payne
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City of L.A. for raising the prices by 400% and changing the rules in the city lot next to my building and not announcing it other than changing the signs in an extremely subtle manner, so that I get two fucking tickets for parking there on a Sunday. The lots used to be free on Sunday and now they're a dollar an hour from like 7 am 'til 9pm. And fuck you buzzcutted meter-man for giving me two fucking tickets, you dumb friendly neighborhood nazi. One for not paying the meter and one for being parked for over two hours. Nice extortion racket, you bankrupt-ass city in a bankrupt-ass state.
P.S.--I realize it's still not as bad as New York.
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-njtransit rail/secaucus junction
Because the train needs to stop and start someplace where nobody gets on or off.
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Dear Developers,
If you could please test your shitty code before you tell me it's ready for me to use, I would appreciate it. You'd think after the 5th time you sent it to me you'd hold onto it for a second and test it. Because it's so obviously not working.
Am I your guinea pig? NO. Stop wasting my time.
Rawr.
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im not a technician, i work for technicians. but even as a non-technician, i understand that describing equipment you need serviced as, "broken" or "not working", is hardly sufficient for what you're expecting.
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My coworker!
She drives me mad & when she's annoyed she P O U N D S on her keyboard.
**for the record: I don't hate, I'm just not a fan.
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Hey kids! When I said "there is no way to write this paper without going to the library and doing some research," I didn't mean, "just spend 15 minutes googling stuff." And also, when I'm giving you the names of authors you should read, I'm helping you! And one student whom I strongly suspect to be a suicide girl: no, it does not count as a textual reference if you mention Playboy magazine somewhere in your paper.
And, finally, I don't actually hate you for any of the above. I only hate you if you don't listen to any of it and then get mad at me when you fail.
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Hey kids! When I said "there is no way to write this paper without going to the library and doing some research," I didn't mean, "just spend 15 minutes googling stuff."
You could do like law professors do, and just say a bunch of stuff that you assume is true, add in a footnote that says "cite," and then have your RA fill it in by running a bunch of Westlaw and Google Books keyword searches.
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Sneezing fits while nursing a cracked rib. So godamned painful.
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Hey kids! When I said "there is no way to write this paper without going to the library and doing some research," I didn't mean, "just spend 15 minutes googling stuff."
You could do like law professors do, and just say a bunch of stuff that you assume is true, add in a footnote that says "cite," and then have your RA fill it in by running a bunch of Westlaw and Google Books keyword searches.
That's what my students need -- RAs. Except the stuff some of them assume is true can be kind of insane to begin with (I should point out that the majority of them are perfectly intelligent, or at least passable -- just a few doozies).
Also, a question for the college students among the FOT -- do you all start papers with "in today's society..." or is that just Rutgers?
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Right now I am hating my cats. How hard can it be for three overweight felines to coexist without bloodshed? I don't understand all the drama and growling.
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Also, a question for the college students among the FOT -- do you all start papers with "in today's society..." or is that just Rutgers?
When I was in college I relied on "Webster's dictionary defines....".
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Ew bouy. Although I try to have one marginal note per page, and when I see that one, it's like, one down! Because I circle it and I write, "don't cite the dictionary."
But wait, this is totally fucking boring. I also hate the Rutgers A/V department for giving me two separate broken DVD/TV setups, so I couldn't finish screening Children of Men.
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http://www.dbu.edu/uwc/Workshops/How%20to%20Write%20the%20Worst%20Paper%20Ever.ppt
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I hate my sister's next-door neighbor. Last December she shut up her house, turned the heat off, and went to live with a friend. No big deal, except she left her dog behind. She'd pop in for, literally, three minutes every other day or so to feed him. My sister and I shamed her into returning home, but we feared for the dog's future. The neighbor began letting him outside less and less and stopped altogether at least six months ago. And three days ago we learned that she was planning to have him killed. My sister has been scrambling to find the means to thwart her, and this afternoon we'll find out if she has succeeded. It's going to be a tense day.
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you should just kill her.
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i have to agree with Andy on this one.
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If I were a better person, I would. But I'm not brave enough to risk prison for Puppet. I suck.
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I'm sorry you have to deal with that. What a horrible situation... that would make me nuts having someone like that next door.
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Print up flyers with her face on them. Caption: DOG KILLER. Some brief text explaining what she did. Paper the town.
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i change my answer. i find sarah's sister's neighbor very unappealing.
and what yesno said.
NOTE: in case there is any confusion, i agree with what yesno said.
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This town is small enough that a few well-placed words will do the trick; no need for flyers. In fact, the threat of public exposure is the weapon being used to get Martha's neighbor to do the right thing. She has a high opinion of herself and wants very much for other people to have the same, and between us my sister and I have informed enough people of her plans that, if she follows through with them, she will face universal disapproval. Plus the vet has been warned that she's planning to bring a healthy animal in for euthanasia and is going to refuse to do the procedure. If that happens, likely she'll finally cave and give the dog to this couple that's dying to take him in. We should find out for sure in a few hours. Breath is bated and fingers are crossed.
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Why on earth would she euthanize an animal rather than give him to people who are ready to care for him? Just for the pleasure of doing evil? Man oh man...
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It's the classic "I don't want you, but I don't want anyone else to have you, either" stance.
Come to think of it, this street seems to be bad for animals. When the people who live two doors up from me died on 9/11, their handyman had their dog put to sleep, despite the fact that any number of people would have taken him in, claiming that the wife of the couple would have wanted the dog to "join her in heaven."
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It's the classic "I don't want you, but I don't want anyone else to have you, either" stance.
Come to think of it, this street seems to be bad for animals. When the people who live two doors up from me died on 9/11, their handyman had their dog put to sleep, despite the fact that any number of people would have taken him in, claiming that the wife of the couple would have wanted the dog to "join her in heaven."
What an idiot. That's the kind of person that would end up in Jonestown.
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You'll be relieved to learn that it's 99 44/100 percent certain that the dog is safe. The neighbor showed up for the euthanizing appointment at 2 (the vet had been warned that she was bringing in a healthy dog for which a home was available and that she's a loon). My sister was on the phone with the front-desk person (the vet's daffy wife) when the neighbor arrived, and she overheard her ask the neighbor, "Is this for the euthanasia?" to which the neighbor responded, "Well, thing's may have changed"--already good news. Later, the wacky receptionist called a friend of mine to report that Puppet had received a clean bill of health (the neighbor had been insisting he was dying). Some while after that, someone else called the neighbor to find out what had happened, and she said she'd dropped the dog off at his new home and that when she left he had already curled up contentedly by the fire. We won't be absolutely convinced that all is really well until the dog's new person confirms it, but the signs are good.
So there's a happy ending. Now if only the neighbor would move away.
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Good to hear, Sarah.
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**raises roof**
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whew. i had no doubt the vet wouldnt let anything happen to the dog. but that lady....
all im asking is she spend five minutes with Spike. that's long enough to rid the world of one cretin, right?
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This is trivial compared to Sarah's, but I'd like to add my landlord to this list. Specifically, his decision to start "winterizing" my apartment when it's already 22-30 degrees where I live.
Two week ago he took my storm door off to paint my front door, not only has he not put the door back up, but he also used an electric sander to remove the previous layers of paint (which translated into a fine layer of dust covering all my electronics). He also decided to stain the front door, which caused my whole apartment to be overrun with noxious fumes, and its too cold to open the windows to properly ventilate.
To top it off, 4 days ago he drilled an 8" X 4" hole to install a mail slot, but hasn't actually installed the mail slot. So I have a gaping hole in my front door, no storm door, and it's freaking cold here.
I feel better, thank you for listening.
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Blech, I think Sarah's neighbor just ruined my morning.
Good job on saving the dog though.
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To top it off, 4 days ago he drilled an 8" X 4" hole to install a mail slot, but hasn't actually installed the mail slot. So I have a gaping hole in my front door, no storm door, and it's freaking cold here.
what?! what happened to the season: people killing their dogs, landlords cutting holes in people's doors....
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Ho ho ho!
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To top it off, 4 days ago he drilled an 8" X 4" hole to install a mail slot, but hasn't actually installed the mail slot. So I have a gaping hole in my front door, no storm door, and it's freaking cold here.
what?! what happened to the season: people killing their dogs, landlords cutting holes in people's doors....
Apparently, tis the season to be incredible assholes.
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Hey kids! When I said "there is no way to write this paper without going to the library and doing some research," I didn't mean, "just spend 15 minutes googling stuff."
You could do like law professors do, and just say a bunch of stuff that you assume is true, add in a footnote that says "cite," and then have your RA fill it in by running a bunch of Westlaw and Google Books keyword searches.
That's what my students need -- RAs. Except the stuff some of them assume is true can be kind of insane to begin with (I should point out that the majority of them are perfectly intelligent, or at least passable -- just a few doozies).
Also, a question for the college students among the FOT -- do you all start papers with "in today's society..." or is that just Rutgers?
Down here, all papers generally reference NASCAR in the first sentence, and "NASCAR" will frequently be the only word with more than one syllable.
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Tenspeed, when I woke to the season's first storm and saw the snow that had drifted into my entryway from under the door, I thought of you. I hope your idiotic landlord as rendered you weather worthy once again.
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Down here, all papers generally reference NASCAR in the first sentence, and "NASCAR" will frequently be the only word with more than one syllable.
Well, math is totally different.
Andy, I can't read that PowerPoint thing because I use a cracked copy of MS Office, but I think I might distribute it anyway.
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Tenspeed, when I woke to the season's first storm and saw the snow that had drifted into my entryway from under the door, I thought of you. I hope your idiotic landlord as rendered you weather worthy once again.
I like that, "weather worthy once again," I think I'll use that on the next voicemail I leave him.
I finally broke down and called him last night. He told me it's his wife that does the "cosmetic" improvements, and that he's just a "maintenance kind of guy". He said he would get back to me with a "timetable" on when I can expect the storm-door to be up again.
I don't think he knows who he is dealing with! I'm known throughout the tri-state area for my passive aggressiveness. In fact, I'm on my way to Home Depot right now to buy a giant ugly tarp, I'm going to duct tape a nasty chunk of it over my front door. He lives across the street. I think he'll get the message.
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I don't think he knows who he is dealing with! I'm known throughout the tri-state area for my passive aggressiveness. In fact, I'm on my way to Home Depot right now to buy a giant ugly tarp, I'm going to duct tape a nasty chunk of it over my front door. He lives across the street. I think he'll get the message.
If you really feel like going for the Passive Aggressive gold, paint a sign in big sloppy letters that says "Sorry 4 the Mess" and plant it in the ground next to your tarp. Your landlord is a jerk!
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or "Happy Thanksgiving"...giving the appearance of harmless holiday decorations might work even better on a passive scale.
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Fuck you, apartment neighbors who carry on every other night like they're the goddamned studio audience from Married With Children. See what you did, making me turn up this Harvey Milk record really loud just so I wouldn't have to listen to your kookaburra call contest? Dickwranglers.
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any laptop with the ability to instantly select any link/button i leave the cursor on for more than 3 seconds. thanks for ruining any blog/email/bulletin/facebook update i might be writing.
now im in a sour mood. i need a hero.
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any laptop with the ability to instantly select any link/button i leave the cursor on for more than 3 seconds. thanks for ruining any blog/email/bulletin/facebook update i might be writing.
now im in a sour mood. i need a hero.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dtUXvtJHsI[/youtube]
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Showing up at the big Film Quiz at the Stockholm Film Festival, five minutes before it starts, signing up our team just as the first questions are announced, scrambling to get to our seats, frantically catching up, MURDERING the other teams, outclassing everybody, placing #1 out of 40 teams entered - only to be disqualified due to a technicality.
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what!
explain.
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We were three people in our team. We were only supposed to be two. When we entered and wrote down our names (all three), the people in charge said it was totally fine. But I guess not when you're WINNING.
Up for grabs were a bunch of DVDs, free passes for the next year's festival, etc etc. Pretty good stuff actually.
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weak.
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Last night, Andy asked for an update on my neighbor's dog but fled the chat before I could answer. So, for him and anyone else who's interested, here's the scoop: A few days after Puppet was successfully ensconced in his new home, he collapsed a couple of times and seemed generally unwell. Whisked to the vet, he was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and deemed too sick to medicate. In the following days, however, he has seemed ever haler and happier, so his new people are planning to take him back to the vet to see if he can now tolerate the Lasix and Digoxin that would mitigate his condition. The hope is that he might get at least a few months of enjoyment out of his hugely improved lot. Fingers are crossed.
Changing the subject, tenspeed, has your landlord done right by you yet?
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he was going to die of a broken heart. I'll bet the drugs work miracles when he gets attached to the new owners.
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My thinking, too, Andy. Beastos lose the will to live when they're miserable. (Thus you better adopt Cancerface.)
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Changing the subject, tenspeed, has your landlord done right by you yet?
You know, I think that question is best answered with a scene from Right at Your Door, the apocalyptic thriller starring Rory Cochrane.
(http://www.puremovies.co.uk/847e4922-CN-039-05_05A.jpg)
In all seriousness, I was out of town the last 8 days and just got home late last night. I fled before I could try for Joe's "Passive Aggressive Gold," so I wasn't expecting much progress. During the cab ride home I couldn't help but image a vestibule taken over by Mother Nature's earthly delights; perhaps even a squirrel family had moved into the second bedroom. It wasn't that dire, but still no door.
So, it's time to move onto Plan B.
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i forgot, Terry Richardson is on my Stuff You Hate list.
I got angry on my birthday this year because that FWD was eating lunch at the restaurant I was at with my special lady friend and every time I turned my head slightly to the right I saw the face of that pre-vert. Booo.
NOOOOOOOOO!!!!
(http://www.terryrichardson.com/tbone%20obama%202.jpg)
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fuck you Quantitative Methods class. Take home final that theoritically should take "about 4 hours": I've been to every class and tried to pay attention, but half of this shit seems like I've never seen it before. Also, if the Business College has to go get an economics teacher to teach their quantitative methods class, that should tell you how important they really think it is, right? I mean, if it was critical that I knew this shit wouldn't it be important enough to have a full time business professor teaching it?
This is a test that will take me 24+ hours to do and I still will not be sure that I'm correct. I hate this.
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fuck you Quantitative Methods class. Take home final that theoritically should take "about 4 hours": I've been to every class and tried to pay attention, but half of this shit seems like I've never seen it before. Also, if the Business College has to go get an economics teacher to teach their quantitative methods class, that should tell you how important they really think it is, right? I mean, if it was critical that I knew this shit wouldn't it be important enough to have a full time business professor teaching it?
This is a test that will take me 24+ hours to do and I still will not be sure that I'm correct. I hate this.
Google didn't come through? I thought just about everything was on Google.
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Quantitative Methods? Seems awfully nondescript. Are you also taking Things That Are Academic?
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it's basically "how to interpret the shit that we taught you to do in Business Stats."
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Andy, I think you've mentioned this before but what are you in school for? You are one of the minority of FOTs that appears to have gainful employment already.
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Andy, I think you've mentioned this before but what are you in school for? You are one of the minority of FOTs that appears to have gainful employment already.
If I cared about anything I would resent that.
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Working on my MBA at night. I will probably eventually go back and teach, and getting an MBA allows me to use it for work now and then in the future get a teaching gig while I'm working on my construction masters. It's a new field and they are kind of hard up for prof's, so with my work history and MBA I shouldn't have a problem getting someone to hire me even though I don't have the masters in the field that I would be teaching (and plus, construction programs are just focused business programs anyway.)
What a boring, boring life I live.
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Bet I've got you beat, bucko.
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Andy, at least you're involved in the actual productive activities of the world. My life will eternally consist in transforming some kinds of pieces of paper into other kinds of pieces of paper.
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oh, roller skates, why do you hate me.
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I've been putting up with that stupid term Rockstar in all its permutations for a few years now, and am now calling for it to finally end.
Rockstar Energy Drink, Rockstar Games, "Party Like a Rockstar", Rock of Love, ads for Rockstar Programmers wanted...
this item on Digg just pushed me over the edge:
(http://kickthebobo.com/likearockstar.jpg)
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I fart like a rockstar. Don't hate.
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Pig Champion?
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I fart like a rockstar. Don't hate.
Lasers and smoke-machines rockstar, or wammy bar rockstar?
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I fart like a rockstar. Don't hate.
T-t-t-t-totally dude!
(The Shop Boyz/Soulja Boy State Fair shows are going to be hi-larious in 20 years.)
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How about "Oooze like a rockstar" or "Fester like a rockstar". Kills a little of the mystique.
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No words.
(http://www.avclub.com/content/files/images/baconnaise.jpg)
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I fart like a rockstar. Don't hate.
Lasers and smoke-machines rockstar, or wammy bar rockstar?
Wammy bar. Totally. I throw up the rock-hand every time I cut one.
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Albums reissues. All of them. You found some B-sides? Outtakes? Great. Put out a B-sides album. Don't make me re-buy a bunch of shit I already have.
Pavement, are your ears burning?
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Albums reissues. All of them. You found some B-sides? Outtakes? Great. Put out a B-sides album. Don't make me re-buy a bunch of shit I already have.
Pavement, are your ears burning?
oh man, that bugs me. let's reissue this album, throw some lost takes from the vault on hidden tracks, and sell it again! ugh. ask me how many different versions of ONE album i have because of this.
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Albums reissues. All of them. You found some B-sides? Outtakes? Great. Put out a B-sides album. Don't make me re-buy a bunch of shit I already have.
Pavement, are your ears burning?
oh man, that bugs me. let's reissue this album, throw some lost takes from the vault on hidden tracks, and sell it again! ugh. ask me how many different versions of ONE album i have because of this.
Isn't that what the internet is for?
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Albums reissues. All of them. You found some B-sides? Outtakes? Great. Put out a B-sides album. Don't make me re-buy a bunch of shit I already have.
Pavement, are your ears burning?
oh man, that bugs me. let's reissue this album, throw some lost takes from the vault on hidden tracks, and sell it again! ugh. ask me how many different versions of ONE album i have because of this.
Isn't that what the internet is for?
yes. which is why it didnt take too long for me to just soulseek what i was missing. as Tom's says, "I paid my dues...over and over again."
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I'm okay with the concept. It helps differentiate reissues from the originals.
The only instances where I've had more than one copy/version of an album at the same time has usually been a mistake. I do often buy reissues of albums I previously owned, however. Getting a little something extra in that instance is alright, though often I feel the added material detracts from the album overall more than helps.
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Yeah - adding 30 minutes of leftovers on the end of a great album is annoying. I'm one of a dying breed who still puts on CDs and listens from the start to the end, and there are very few artists that can hold up for 75 minutes. I know I can just hit "Stop" when the album proper ends, but I never do.
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OF COURSE I simply steal the extra tracks if possible. It's still a pain in the ass, though. And it's usually not even possible to just find specifically what you are looking for.
And the problem with just paying iTunes or whatever a buck a song is that usually the extras aren't that hot. This is why they weren't put out in the first place. But if you're crazy like me you want *everything*.
Bonus stuff is great if it's an album you never owned before, I guess. But I like albums to be set in stone. With the exception for stupid stuff like tracks omitted from the American version or something; those ought to be re-released as intended.
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Is it really that much of a pain in the ass? Really?
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Bonus stuff is great if it's an album you never owned before, I guess.
Yeah, I've bought all the Pavement reissues because I never owned them before. There's a handful of worthwhile bonus tracks that make it to the iPod, but 90% of them I just listen to once on the CD and that's where they stay.
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Is it really that much of a pain in the ass? Really?
Yes.
It's a pain in the ass to even keep track of new albums by people I like. I'd rather pay someone to do it for me.
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Is it really that much of a pain in the ass? Really?
Yes.
It's a pain in the ass to even keep track of new albums by people I like. I'd rather pay someone to do it for me.
Are you interviewing?
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fuck you "Really?". I am starting to hate that declaration.
also, fuck you cheap red wine. why do you always make my muscles and joints so sore after I drink you?
also, fuck you kittens. you're so cute and adorable.
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fuck you "Really?". I am starting to hate that declaration.
I'm with you on that one.
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I fart like a rockstar. Don't hate.
T-t-t-t-totally dude!
(The Shop Boyz/Soulja Boy State Fair shows are going to be hi-larious in 20 years.)
Hey, maybe in 30 years, PBS will air hiphop acts like the Soulja Boy guys during fundraising week, like the Doo Wop reunion shows they have now. That will be something to look forward to. 3-6 Mafia, Dem Franchize Boyz, etc.
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Cake Request for 3-Year-Old Hitler Namesake Denied (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2008/12/16/us/AP-ODD-Hitler-Cake.html?_r=1)
The Campbells' other two children also have unusual names: JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell turns 2 in a few months and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell will be 1 in April.
Heath Campbell said he named his son after Adolf Hitler because he liked the name and because ''no one else in the world would have that name.'' He sounded surprised by all the controversy the dispute had generated.
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Oh look, an MMA fighter kills his wife in a murder-suicide (http://sports.espn.go.com/extra/mma/news/story?id=3777344).
EDIT: I realized that this post made it look like I was claiming all MMA fighters are animals but I should've added the context that I enjoy MMA; I just hate when someone does something stupid like this that makes it easy to paint all fighters as bad people. One of my best friends trains with some local fighters and, for the most part, they are good guys. Sure, there are plenty of meatheads (as there are in any sport) but it's not really fair to lump them all together.
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How do you kill yrself with MMA?
Oh look, an MMA fighter kills his wife in a murder-suicide (http://sports.espn.go.com/extra/mma/news/story?id=3777344).
EDIT: I realized that this post made it look like I was claiming all MMA fighters are animals but I should've added the context that I enjoy MMA; I just hate when someone does something stupid like this that makes it easy to paint all fighters as bad people. One of my best friends trains with some local fighters and, for the most part, they are good guys. Sure, there are plenty of meatheads (as there are in any sport) but it's not really fair to lump them all together.
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these questions: http://www.slate.com/id/2206835/?GT1=38001
oh, these questions!
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these questions: http://www.slate.com/id/2206835/?GT1=38001
oh, these questions!
Not only do I not hate these, I almost think they call for a new thread where people can field some of them. I'd like to see answers to:
Why do women like soup? Is it for perceived health benefits?
If one gets a personal e-mail from a very famous or important person, such as the president, or the queen of England, or the Pope, or Paul McCartney, can that e-mail have monetary value? I guess not. It's just an electronic transmission on a screen. There's no original. There's no way to buy or sell it. Seems a shame tho.
Why do all of the deli guys and food cart guys call me "Boss"?
I would leave it up to the answering FOT whether they want to assume the questioner was Springsteen.
I live in Washington, D.C., and we have very long escalators coming out of the Metro. If I grabbed the handrail when I first step onto the escalator and did not let go until I was at the top, my body would be almost prostrate across the steps. As I go higher on the escalator, I have to readjust the hand that is grabbing the rubber handrail. Why can't the companies that make escalators sync the steps and the handrails so that they go the same speed?
Notice the change from "if I grabbed" to "as I go" and "I have to" partway through the question. This is not a hypothetical situation.
If you were on a boat, what signs do sharks give if they are hungry and will attack versus if they just want to swim around the boat?
I'd like to think this one was written by someone on a boat who was hoping for a quick response.
I have been accused of assault in Ohio. The woman fell over a box in the hall backward, and my brother opened the door, saw her lying there, and started hitting me. I got him down and held him down. It was all over a fight concerning my niece. What do you think will happen?
This is the best. The scenario and the open-ended nature of the question itself. I really need some kind of closure on this. Possibly, this could be answered in Choose Your Own Adventure format.
How can personal coaches justify coaching athletes who are much better than they ever were? If they know so much about how to win, why aren't they competing?
Submitted by Terrell Owens.
Can an average person not in politics get a pardon from the president of the United States? (Possession of forged instrument, October of 1989.)
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I live in Washington, D.C., and we have very long escalators coming out of the Metro. If I grabbed the handrail when I first step onto the escalator and did not let go until I was at the top, my body would be almost prostrate across the steps. As I go higher on the escalator, I have to readjust the hand that is grabbing the rubber handrail. Why can't the companies that make escalators sync the steps and the handrails so that they go the same speed?
I can confirm this is supremely annoying. I don't like to readjust my hand anywhere that doesn't involve pleasures of the flesh, which is why my office looks like something from a Cronenberg film.
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in hindsight, i realize i should have specified what i hate: that they can only pick ONE to answer!
however, like Wes, i was truly hoping some FOT would take this under their wings (especially the assault scenario and "forged instruments"). or that they become questions on Match Wits with Mike.
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I have been accused of assault in Ohio. The woman fell over a box in the hall backward, and my brother opened the door, saw her lying there, and started hitting me. I got him down and held him down. It was all over a fight concerning my niece. What do you think will happen?
This is the best. The scenario and the open-ended nature of the question itself. I really need some kind of closure on this. Possibly, this could be answered in Choose Your Own Adventure format.
This one is almost Rock-N-Roll-Dreams'll-esque in its interplay of characters.
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The forged-instruments one is easy, though, the answer being yes. I am, however, curious what instruments were forged, how, and why.
I liked this one:
During this weekend's football playoff game in Green Bay, the temperature at kickoff was 0 degrees, and by the end of the game was -4 degrees. When players get injured in such weather, do they bother putting ice on the injury? Wouldn't that warm up the injury to 32 degrees?
Also this one, which I picture being posed by a young Spike:
Is the stomach normally full of air like a balloon, or is it squeezed flat by the other organs, like a balloon with no air that spreads open as food and water come in? Are the other organs squeezed and compressed like a squeezed sponge, or are they like a sponge not being squeezed? What about the intestines? Are they squeezed flat normally, or are they open like one of those long balloons that magicians make animals out of? I'm trying to get a picture in my mind what the inside of the body normally looks like.
Other favorites:
Please explain the method of formation and origin of black holes. Are they located at the Bermuda Triangle area and why there?
I live in Chicago, where taxi drivers are constantly talking on their phones. To whom are they talking?
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The term "foodie". Seriously, the next jerk to use that stupid word is gonna get some doggie poopy in their facie.
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I had a job interview recently (not bragging). In the waiting room, I heard the receptionist calling people back for second interviews, as I was waiting for my first.
Ugh.
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The term "foodie". Seriously, the next jerk to use that stupid word is gonna get some doggie poopy in their facie.
Ha Ha
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I hate the goddamn rats in the alley behind my house.
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i hate the creeps who take the inside seat on a city bus and use the outside one as a resting place for their bags - literally forcing you to beg them for the privelage of sitting down after a hard night on the job.
i hate that creep alex jones.
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we live up the street from a couple of buffalo wing purveyors and i cannot express the level of hatred i feel for those buffalo wing fans who feel compelled to whore the sidewalk up with discarded chicken bones.
a, because it's littering. i mean, what happened to civic pride?
and b, because our dog spots them before we do, and usually manages to swallow them before we can urge her not to. this resulted in a $500+ emergency vet bill ...
oh, hate.
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I actually mentioned guys who litter chicken wings in a play once, Scot. An apocalypse has happened and the character talks about how he used to hate those guys, but he finds a stash of discarded wings with meat still on them. Let's hope it doesn't come true!
I hate my stompy fuckin' upstairs neighbor.
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is it possible for me to lay eyes on that play?
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Sure, PM me and I'll email you a .pdf. It's getting published in '09, though.
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i hate the creeps who take the inside seat on a city bus and use the outside one as a resting place for their bags - literally forcing you to beg them for the privelage of sitting down after a hard night on the job.
On a similar note, I hate the creeps that sit down next to you in an aisle seat and then don't move to their own empty aisle seat when the bus becomes less crowded. I also hate it when you need to get off at your stop, and the doorknob sitting next to you in the aisle seat doesn't actually stand up, but simply swivels so their legs are in the aisle and you have to kind of scooch by them just to get out. Fine, get a face full of my ass, then.
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Not only do I not hate these, I almost think they call for a new thread where people can field some of them. I'd like to see answers to:
Why do women like soup? Is it for perceived health benefits?
Because you can drink soup and most women are too lazy to use a spoon.
If one gets a personal e-mail from a very famous or important person, such as the president, or the queen of England, or the Pope, or Paul McCartney, can that e-mail have monetary value? I guess not. It's just an electronic transmission on a screen. There's no original. There's no way to buy or sell it. Seems a shame tho.
You could charge people to come over and look at your screen.
Why do all of the deli guys and food cart guys call me "Boss"?
I would leave it up to the answering FOT whether they want to assume the questioner was Springsteen.
Because you're the boss of the sandwich / food cart. You tell them what to put in it.
I live in Washington, D.C., and we have very long escalators coming out of the Metro. If I grabbed the handrail when I first step onto the escalator and did not let go until I was at the top, my body would be almost prostrate across the steps. As I go higher on the escalator, I have to readjust the hand that is grabbing the rubber handrail. Why can't the companies that make escalators sync the steps and the handrails so that they go the same speed?
Two different companies make the escalator. One company just makes the hand rail and another makes the steps. Due to lack of standards and lack of interoperability sometimes they don't work at all (this is why you sometimes have to walk up/down a stalled one)
If you were on a boat, what signs do sharks give if they are hungry and will attack versus if they just want to swim around the boat?
If the shark is going to attack, you'll hear the Jaws music.
How can personal coaches justify coaching athletes who are much better than they ever were? If they know so much about how to win, why aren't they competing?
Because knowing is half the battle. That's why they invented teamwork.
Can an average person not in politics get a pardon from the president of the United States? (Possession of forged instrument, October of 1989.)
Please pardon my corny replies.
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When album credits refer to vocals as "Vox".
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when you tell people you're vegetarian and they ask, "so do you eat chicken?" or "what about fish...do you eat fish?"
or even better, "well then, what kind of meat do you eat?" and the cherry on top, "oh, so does that mean you dont drink milk or eat cheese?"
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the only follow up question to "I'm a vegetarian" should be "What's your problem?"
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The thing is, I've met plenty of soi-disant vegetarians who eat fish, so asking about that doesn't seem unreasonable. I also don't see why the dairy question is out of line. Especially if someone is trying to figure out how to feed you.
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oddly, not ONE person who has discussed this with me was ever trying to feed me. it will usually come up because i'll order something at a restaurant and i'm the jerk making all the substitutions, or i'm the wrench thrown in the gears when everyone wants to head to a steakhouse.
and im usually asked if i eat chicken before they ask about fish, so i answer, "i don't eat ANY meat." im not Hitler about it; i like meat, im not against killing animals, and i miss sushi...im just confused why it becomes a twenty minute explanation- that's the part i hate, not that they asked me.
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Ah, gotcha. I didn't get the context because I can't imagine bothering to quiz someone who says, "I'm a vegetarian." It doesn't seem like it should be anything remarkable these days, you know?
Do you get the "Well, do you wear leather shoes" bit, too?
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yeah, leather and wool.
and youre right, it shouldnt be news but somewhow it still is.
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People usually give me shit about my silk shirts and coonskin cap.
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Also, you should try telling people that you don't drink sometimes. Some people just won't let it fucking die.
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Also, you should try telling people that you don't drink sometimes. Some people just won't let it fucking die.
no kidding. i drink, but its severely moderate. ive had more beer bought for me than ive ever bought for myself; it creates a real stir when im in a bar drinking water.
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Likewise, when I'm around people who are smoking pot, they usually have a really hard time accepting it when I politely decline to partake. In fact, this holds true in almost any situation where people are consuming a thing that one doesn't want to consume. (I've had people try to make me agree to eat smoked fish even after I've explained it makes me queasy.) And it goes way beyond this, when you come down to it. Look how outraged fans can become when faced with someone who doesn't share the same enthusiasm. What it amounts to is that people generally don't like it when anyone doesn't agree with them, be it about food, drink, music, books, politics, or religion. It's that basic streak of douchery (or diquishness, if you prefer) that resides within us all and that we all must struggle to overcome.
And that's my simple-minded Christmas message. Ho ho ho!
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"Our pride is more offended by attacks on our taste than on our opinions."
-Le Rochefoucauld
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Et disant seulement qu'on n'aime pas telle ou telle chose est aperçu comme une attaque.
edit: Modified to correct my oh-so-rusty French. Which I only used because of the fancy quotin'.
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It's pretty easy for me to turn down pot (shut up, it happens). "I'm Swedish, I'll just stick to this vodka bottle."
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I thought you guys smoked fish?
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I don't know how Northern/Eastern Europeans or Mad Men-era America or anyone can manage to drink so much hard liquor. I suppose it's a wonderful gift.
Et disant seulement qu'on n'aime pas tel ou tel chose est aperçu comme une attaque.
Or, as I always say,
(http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff17/tucmuc/Shayri/Sha_005.gif)
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F you new blog@newsarama - special double-F's for J. Caleb Mozzocco and Sarah Jaffe (yes I know, "Who?") for being especially awful.
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I thought you guys smoked fish? (http://www.instantrimshot.com)
Fixed!
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hey espn.com: did it ever occur to you that when I'm frequenting you for bowl score updates, I might not want to have streaming video with loud audio automatically start every time?
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This scenario -
http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/67717296/design-critique
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It's pretty easy for me to turn down pot (shut up, it happens). "I'm Swedish, I'll just stick to this vodka bottle."
Right on. Ditto brotha.
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This: http://zachbraffquotes.com/top.php
I guess number three was pretty funny back when it was a Zach Galifianakis joke, but the rest of them me wanna throw things.
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But they exist to further the cause of making people hate Zach Braff. I guess you don't support that goal?
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This: http://zachbraffquotes.com/top.php
I guess number three was pretty funny back when it was a Zach Galifianakis joke, but the rest of them me wanna throw things.
I just found out last night that this waste of space was born in South Orange and went to high school in Maplewood. I think I have to move now.
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hey espn.com: did it ever occur to you that when I'm frequenting you for bowl score updates, I might not want to have streaming video with loud audio automatically start every time?
I completely agree with this. What the hell?
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A friend once brought this up to me, so I can't take full credit even though I wholeheartedly agree: when an actor names a place as a character in a film. i.e. Brad Pitt saying that New Orleans was a character in Benjamin Button or Sarah Jessica Parker saying that NYC was a character in Sex in the City. Please.
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Iggy Pop in a TV commercial for: http://www.swiftcover.com/. Just check out that index page.
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he looks awful for a 41 year old.
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Iggy Pop looks like a human Charley Horse.
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A friend once brought this up to me, so I can't take full credit even though I wholeheartedly agree: when an actor names a place as a character in a film. i.e. Brad Pitt saying that New Orleans was a character in Benjamin Button or Sarah Jessica Parker saying that NYC was a character in Sex in the City. Please.
To be fair, though, Tokyo was a character in the Godzilla films.
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The guy who runs Egotastic.
Okay, so, I think you're really going to like these Zhang Ziyi topless bikini pictures. Firstly because it's Zhang Ziyi topless, and second, because her Israeli multi-millionaire boyfriend, Aviv Nevo has his face buried in her ass! Man, I knew Jew loved there Chinese food, but this is taking it to a whole new level.
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Also, you should try telling people that you don't drink sometimes. Some people just won't let it fucking die.
Try doing that at a 6-hour bachelor party filled with drunk, revved up meatheads, and nothing non-alcoholic to drink but SoBe Energy. It's a guaranteed month ruiner.
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Mikael Håfström
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Mikael Håfström
Why? Other than because he makes bland films.
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Slush.
and drivers who splash it on me on my way to work.
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I hate when water heaters decide to stop working. I also hate lukewarm baths.
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Mikael Håfström
Why? Other than because he makes bland films.
Work-related
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As a Swede, I find that intriguing. (Never met the man myself.)
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I've always wondered something. Is it possible that vodka affects people of Scandinavian descent (or northern/eastern Europeans) differently than other people? Or possible that vodka affects said people differently than other forms of alcohol?
When I drink vodka, I feel good. Really good. I don't get that feeling with other types of alcohol. I don't drink very much actually, but the feeling I get from vodka is so good that if I had the alcoholic gene, I bet I would have a problem.
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do people of Scandinavian descent recognize that Tito's Vodka is the best of all vodkas?
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Richard Batista takes the cake (one of many at least). The idea behind the press releases lately are bad enough, but then seeing this press conference, ugh.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/ny-likidn145998190jan14,0,906076.story
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At first I thought that said Richard Batista tastes like cake. And I was thinking tasting like cake isn't such a bad thing after all.
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F. you, small-town jocks, for jeering at the severely deformed guy who walked past you on the street. You think he didn't realize he was weird looking? You think he hasn't had enough problems in his life?
And f. me for being too scared of getting my ass kicked to bawl them out.
This bummed me out for days.
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ive had that post-chickened out guilt- its awful.
not to mention, im mentally bombarded with a million different i could/should have handled the situation varying from being polite, confident, a real stand up citizen to step on your glasses, pull your hair, kick you in the back kind of thug.
i feel for you, Bryan.
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On a much more frivolous and selfish note, I hate reaching into my pocket for my handkerchief and encountering instead a small, cold, clammy, squishy something (it turned out to be a bit of raw chicken [I made cat food today]).
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On a much more frivolous and selfish note, I hate reaching into my pocket for my handkerchief and encountering instead a small, cold, clammy, squishy something (it turned out to be a bit of raw chicken [I made cat food today]).
Maybe this is a sign of being a total slob but sometimes when I eat hand food that tends to disintegrate or fall apart (like Chipotle burritos) sometimes I wind up with tiny bits of food up my sleeve, and then when I finish eating and stand up food bits fall out of my sleeves. It makes me feel like king of all schlubs.
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Maybe this is a sign of being a total slob but sometimes when I eat hand food that tends to disintegrate or fall apart (like Chipotle burritos) sometimes I wind up with tiny bits of food up my sleeve, and then when I finish eating and stand up food bits fall out of my sleeves. It makes me feel like king of all schlubs.
No one above 5 is a messier eater than I am. I just can't get it right.
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Maybe this is a sign of being a total slob but sometimes when I eat hand food that tends to disintegrate or fall apart (like Chipotle burritos) sometimes I wind up with tiny bits of food up my sleeve, and then when I finish eating and stand up food bits fall out of my sleeves. It makes me feel like king of all schlubs.
No one above 5 is a messier eater than I am. I just can't get it right.
Just wait until you get old. My son once pointed out that there was egg on my face. Literally.
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Maybe this is a sign of being a total slob but sometimes when I eat hand food that tends to disintegrate or fall apart (like Chipotle burritos) sometimes I wind up with tiny bits of food up my sleeve, and then when I finish eating and stand up food bits fall out of my sleeves. It makes me feel like king of all schlubs.
No one above 5 is a messier eater than I am. I just can't get it right.
Just wait until you get old. My son once pointed out that there was egg on my face. Literally.
my experience has found that guys cant keep food off their face/sleeves/lap and the ladies can have a hard time keeping food from falling on their...well, you know...the whole area below the collar of their shirt.
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Power Outages.
Its -20 C here in Toronto.
The power went off in my neighborhood at 10pm last night and wont be up and running for 24 hours or so.
FUCK YOU ELECTRIC SYSTEM!
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The power going off when it's really cold is one of my big anxieties. How on earth are you keeping warm?
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here's a tip: just move your weber kettle indoors.
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(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/TECH/01/16/ces.luxury.turntable/art.turntable.jpg)
"Why would anyone want four arms on their record player? Different pickup cartridges produce different types of sound, and some audiophiles like to match their record players' arms to different genres of music without going through the hassle of swapping cartridges." (http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/16/ces.luxury.turntable/index.html)
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I heard beatjuggling on that thing SUCKS.
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Power Outages.
Its -20 C here in Toronto.
The power went off in my neighborhood at 10pm last night and wont be up and running for 24 hours or so.
FUCK YOU ELECTRIC SYSTEM!
Agreed!
Last night I slept in three sweaters, slippers and socks under a blanket and a duvet and i was still fucking FREEZING. Gross.
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I heard beatjuggling on that thing SUCKS.
I imagine DJ Shadow staring at that thing with a knitted brow and just slowly shaking his head. And then he calls over Cut Chemist to come look at it and they both just glare at it, occasionally muttering "you have got to be kidding me."
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Power Outages.
Its -20 C here in Toronto.
The power went off in my neighborhood at 10pm last night and wont be up and running for 24 hours or so.
FUCK YOU ELECTRIC SYSTEM!
Agreed!
Last night I slept in three sweaters, slippers and socks under a blanket and a duvet and i was still fucking FREEZING. Gross.
I went home at lunch and my power was back on. This is good news, I have a 7 months pregnant wife and my dog had surgery yesterday!
I took the streetcar from the East end to Landsdowne on Dundas street. The only traffic lights that seemed to be out were on Ossington.
I can remove this foolish looking polar fleece sweater!
Thank god the power was on at work.
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microwave burritos.
i never eat you, but when i do i remember why i dont:
*paper towels stick to you
*you make a mess on both ends, then get crusty
*one end of you is hard as a rock
*there is no perfect time to heat you, you stubborn no-good
*by the time i can take a bite into you without burning my mouth, the tortilla is gross
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I went home at lunch and my power was back on. This is good news, I have a 7 months pregnant wife and my dog had surgery yesterday!
I'm so so glad your power's back on! That is ridiculously terrible timing.
We still don't have ours, but that's fine - i'm at a friend's house. i'm mostly worried about the cat. he was super pissed when i left him at home this morning.
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I heard beatjuggling on that thing SUCKS.
I imagine DJ Shadow staring at that thing with a knitted brow and just slowly shaking his head. And then he calls over Cut Chemist to come look at it and they both just glare at it, occasionally muttering "you have got to be kidding me."
I'm 90% sure that's exactly how it went.
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I'm very glad your power is back on, Jeremy, and, emma, I'm very sorry yours isn't.
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I'm very glad your power is back on, Jeremy, and, emma, I'm very sorry yours isn't.
Thanks, I topped my great day staying three hours late at work.
F-you work!
It will be nice to get home to my hopefully warming house.
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When comedians like Dennis Miller punctuate every joke with "...and uh............" . I guess it's supposed to allow a little segueway/pause between jokes so the audience can recover from the hilarity.
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the window between perfect hot drink temperature and now youre too cold to drink is much too small- f*** you.
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the window between perfect hot drink temperature and now youre too cold to drink is much too small- f*** you.
Just ask Raad_man, hot drinks are gay.
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oh, dave.
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Contributing editor of Scientific American Gary Stix can suck my dick.
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non-codeine cough syrups can go screw.
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My co-worker constantly says "whatnot" and "all that good stuff" while describing fairly complicated stuff, which doesn't help clarify anything, in fact it kind of muddles things. I guess it doesn't qualify as hate but c'mon, learn some words.
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"whatnot" and "all that good stuff" might as well be "uuuuuuuh". they're just time wasters and crutches used so that their brain can catch up with their mouth.
a guy I work with constantly says "this, that and the other".
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i say "blah, blah, blah" to talk my brain through fast forwarding what i need to skip in a story. it makes me grind my teeth when i do that; i dont know where i got it from.
...f*** me?
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The city of St. Paul has decided that they want to test out some new snowplowing techniques they developed based on R&D they gathered while watching children play in sandboxes. Removing this negligible amount of remaining snow in the parking lanes involves an industrial grader, two Bobcats and a dump truck. At 5 AM. This is on a street bordered by two residential apartment buildings. This is apparently a half-hour-long process. Great Job!
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The city of St. Paul has decided that they want to test out some new snowplowing techniques they developed based on R&D they gathered while watching children play in sandboxes. Removing this negligible amount of remaining snow in the parking lanes involves an industrial grader, two Bobcats and a dump truck. At 5 AM. This is on a street bordered by two residential apartment buildings. This is apparently a half-hour-long process. Great Job!
they must live next to the landscaping guys that mow the complex i live in at 5 a.m., every morning.
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are there no noise ordinances where you two live? At least with the snowplowing it could be seen as a matter of public safety.
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well, ive wondered about more than one thing with the landscaping:
1) the fact that it happens every day. can you mow grass every day? in the dark?
2) its a different landscaping company every week.
3) leaf blowing...except there are no trees with leaves here so what is he blowing?
besides the noise. ill be back in memphis in a few months so i put up with it.
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well, ive wondered about more than one thing with the landscaping:
1) the fact that it happens every day. can you mow grass every day? in the dark?
2) its a different landscaping company every week.
3) leaf blowing...except there are no trees with leaves here so what is he blowing?
besides the noise. ill be back in memphis in a few months so i put up with it.
Clearly the government is either spying on you or your neighbors. Keep an eye out for the little earpieces.
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i used to hate liberals but now i think i'm becoming one. oh god help me.
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The Ra'ad Man drama takes a new turn!
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The Ra'ad Man drama takes a new turn!
I forsee a long journey of self-discovery after which we will see a new and improved (and liberal?) Raadman.
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Stay gold, Raad_Man, stay gold.
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When Marketing uses "youth" jargon.
From a document released by our Marketing department today:
"By intelligently “mashing up” the content and transactional capabilities of multiple enterprise and web services..."
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"By intelligently “mashing up” the content and transactional capabilities of multiple enterprise and web services..."
Uhg. That is awful.
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But it made Marketing sound so hep!
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I hate that so many American acquaintances have started conspicuously using British-isms recently:
-"Cheers"
-"Mucking about"
-"When I was at university..."
-"Brilliant"
-"shite"
-"a proper _____"
-"colour"
-"arse"
-"get a pint"
-"dodgy"
Is it okay to slap these people?
I think it's okay, depending on what British-isms they use. The more obscure and the more a consequence of being really into British TV, the more I think it deserves a pass. Also, the less it's done with a fake accent, the better.
I like to say:
-- "Well" instead of "Very"
-- "Rubbish"
Thoughts?
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I always say "gaol" and "colour." I use the American spellings, though.
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i use, "...yeah?" instead of "...right?" as confirmation. maybe i deserve a slap.
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I just remembered that I also have used Nathan Barley-isms like, "Keep it foolish," and "well jackson," in a fashion that's too casual.
Let's all agree we deserve slaps.
Anglophile Americans: What's our problem!?
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the tv show Lost
the more I think about it the more I hate it, but after watching 4 (20-some episode) seasons I cannot bring myself to stop watching it now...
at least with Entourage it's bad in a semi-fun way. Lost just makes me angry. I'm gonna ride this thing to the end and hate every second of it.
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thats the spirit.
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Amoeba Music in LA doesn't have any dad-gummed thing by the DC Snipers. Not a ding dang thing. No LPs. No CD's. No 7 inchers. Hell, I couldn't even find the MP3 section in that circus tent.
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Fuck the fact that my car is stuck on the ice with a flat tire. That is some shitty luck.
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i hate baby clothes.
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Amoeba Music in LA doesn't have any dad-gummed thing by the DC Snipers. Not a ding dang thing. No LPs. No CD's. No 7 inchers. Hell, I couldn't even find the MP3 section in that circus tent.
i looked for a lot of stuff while i was there last weekend with no luck. but they had plenty of overpriced crap i would never buy. FOUR copies of a def leopard LP anyone?
PS its still my idea of heaven though: an enormous record store with people who ignore me and get in my way whenever i want to look for something. yet still, i walk out with my arms full of bags.
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i looked for a lot of stuff while i was there last weekend with no luck. but they had plenty of overpriced crap i would never buy. FOUR copies of a def leopard LP anyone?
It's Def Leppard - show some respect. Their drummer only has one arm.
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i looked for a lot of stuff while i was there last weekend with no luck. but they had plenty of overpriced crap i would never buy. FOUR copies of a def leopard leppard LP anyone?
It's Def Leppard - show some respect. Their drummer only has one arm.
sorry, Martin, no sympathy from me. he'd have two arms if they melted all their albums sitting in dusty second hand bins and turned the melted by-product into a vinyl appendage.
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boosh!
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i hate baby clothes.
But they're so cute! As a result of being smaller than regular clothes!
I don't understand you.
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i hate baby clothes.
But they're so cute! As a result of being smaller than regular clothes!
I don't understand you.
it is my job as receiving clerk to log, price, and ticket them. i've been doing it for almost 5 years.
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References to cougars and bro-mances. It's amazing how quickly these things go from being amusing -> never wanting to hear them again. I blame the internet.
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References to cougars and bro-mances. It's amazing how quickly these things go from being amusing -> never wanting to hear them again. I blame the internet.
And "MILF". God, I hate that term.
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Yeah, the turnaround time these days that it takes for an expression to go from hilarious neologism to cheesy cliche is now about 4 days. There's something depressing about it. (I know I'm just repeating cutout, but I feel like it needs to be emphasized.)
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That's what SHE said!
Am I right? Eh????
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The term, "Wow. Just wow."
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"That is all."
No. It isn't.
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Fuck you, two Wall Street guys on the elevator today, who gave each other a fist bump and talked about going to "Crooklyn" after work.
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Fuck you, two Wall Street guys on the elevator today, who gave each other a fist bump and talked about going to "Crooklyn" after work.
Hate it too, but loved reading about it. I can just see them in front of me. Thanks, Jon! :)
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Fuck you, two Wall Street guys on the elevator today, who gave each other a fist bump and talked about going to "Crooklyn" after work.
That's how I read it anyway....
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References to cougars and bro-mances. It's amazing how quickly these things go from being amusing -> never wanting to hear them again. I blame the internet.
ive hated this term since its conception. i was watching tvland yesterday and unfortunately they have a bachelorette-esque reality show called, "the cougar", encouarging this woman's belief that if older guys can date younger women...blah blah bleh.
who cares, youre still trash, lady.
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What's worse is that everyone who references stuff like "cougar" does it with the smug vibe of "Yup, I just launched this phrase myself"
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Stevia, Splenda, NutraSweet, aspartame, malitol, and the fuckers who decide it's ok to include such horrible ingredients in baked goods and then NOT TELL YOUR CO-WORKERS WHEN YOU OFFER THEM AN ENTICING COOKIE.
It is possible to hate a chocolate chip cookie, my friends. I can assure you of this.
*gag me*
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Fuck you, two Wall Street guys on the elevator today, who gave each other a fist bump and talked about going to "Crooklyn" after work.
That's how I read it anyway....
Since you got a big plastic head you appear to have gotten smarter.
At least, more credible.
Heh!?
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When you accidentally find yourself walking beside a stranger, and you adjust your walking speed to either pass or fall behind them and they match your speed. That bugs me.
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My god, I could write a (very repetitive) book about sidewalk etiquette. I get furious at people who do not cede an inch of space on the sidewalk when we're walking past one another... what is this, reservoir dogs?
This is the kind of thing that will kill me, eventually.
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My god, I could write a (very repetitive) book about sidewalk etiquette.
DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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When you accidentally find yourself walking beside a stranger, and you adjust your walking speed to either pass or fall behind them and they match your speed. That bugs me.
Yes. I think they're the same people who drive five miles under the speed limit when you can't pass, then speed up once you hit the passing lane.
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My god, I could write a (very repetitive) book about sidewalk etiquette.
DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't think you could get a whole book out of sidewalk etiquette. (The topic of my only successful Best Show call.) You'd need a chapter on escalator etiquette, too.
And what about door-holding etiquette? Probably a separate book.
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My god, I could write a (very repetitive) book about sidewalk etiquette.
DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't think you could get a whole book out of sidewalk etiquette. (The topic of my only successful Best Show call.) You'd need a chapter on escalator etiquette, too.
And what about door-holding etiquette? Probably a separate book.
make a when-youre-out-in-public etiquette book and kill twenty birds with one stone.
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My god, I could write a (very repetitive) book about sidewalk etiquette.
DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't think you could get a whole book out of sidewalk etiquette. (The topic of my only successful Best Show call.) You'd need a chapter on escalator etiquette, too.
And what about door-holding etiquette? Probably a separate book.
make a when-youre-out-in-public etiquette book and kill twenty birds with one stone.
No one would be able to lift it
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I just stay home.
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Today I Googled a girl I knew from college because I'd heard she'd become a successful singer. I was reading her website and the Atlas Shrugged-quantity of bio text which she definitely wrote herself when I found info on the new album. Apparently it's recommended for:
"...fans of: My Bloody Valentine, Augustus Pablo, Wilco, Os Mutantes, Carpenters, dälek, Spacemen 3, Stereolab, Beach Boys, Neil Young, Cheap Trick, Mamas and the Papas, Jon Brion, Slowdive, Jeff Buckley, Bjork, Tom Petty, Cocteau Twins, Mojave 3, Mazzy Star, Gram Parsons, Elliott Smith, Velvet Underground, The Beachwood Sparks, Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, Leonard Cohen, Burt Bacharach, Sly & Robbie, Roberta Flack, Ride, Syd Barrett, The Beatles, Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline, Simon and Garfunkel, Loretta Lynn, John Lennon, Iris Dement, Cat Power, Aimee Mann, Crooked Fingers, Bob Dylan, The Byrds, and Love..."
Was it Barry Dworkin who once tried to give credibility to his band by comparing it to all these music giants, or was that another Wurster character?
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I know Corey Harris said that Mother 13's influences were (something like) Led Zeppelin, the Stones, Nirvana, Pixies... and then he played their single.
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Today I Googled a girl I knew from college because I'd heard she'd become a successful singer. I was reading her website and the Atlas Shrugged-quantity of bio text which she definitely wrote herself when I found info on the new album. Apparently it's recommended for:
"...fans of: My Bloody Valentine, Augustus Pablo, Wilco, Os Mutantes, Carpenters, dälek, Spacemen 3, Stereolab, Beach Boys, Neil Young, Cheap Trick, Mamas and the Papas, Jon Brion, Slowdive, Jeff Buckley, Bjork, Tom Petty, Cocteau Twins, Mojave 3, Mazzy Star, Gram Parsons, Elliott Smith, Velvet Underground, The Beachwood Sparks, Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, Leonard Cohen, Burt Bacharach, Sly & Robbie, Roberta Flack, Ride, Syd Barrett, The Beatles, Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline, Simon and Garfunkel, Loretta Lynn, John Lennon, Iris Dement, Cat Power, Aimee Mann, Crooked Fingers, Bob Dylan, The Byrds, and Love..."
I've been looking for a dälek/Carpenters/Johnny Cash hybrid for a long time. Link?
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Fuck you, whoever gave me the flu.
Unless you are someone I know and am friends with, in which case I will take that down a notch to "Why would you come to school/work/a party with the flu?" Whine whine whine.
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Fuck you, client from England who keeps calling my cellphone at 4AM. You do know how time-zones work, right? And that it's Saturday? And that I'm drunk?
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F you madison wisconsin, you are not as hip and cool as you think you are, you just make things expensive. Transplants, spoiled college kids, rich guys. Milwaukee should secede from Wisconsin.
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F you madison wisconsin, you are not as hip and cool as you think you are, you just make things expensive. Transplants, spoiled college kids, rich guys. Milwaukee should secede from Wisconsin.
Yeah, Madison Wisconsin. Don't get a big head about the gopher thing you did that created the world wide gopher and stuff, and made the gopher guys billionaires instead of those farm boys from IL who worte Netscape.
Oh, that's right, none of that happened.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
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Apparently it's recommended for:
"...fans of: My Bloody Valentine, Augustus Pablo, Wilco, Os Mutantes, Carpenters, dälek, Spacemen 3, Stereolab, Beach Boys, Neil Young, Cheap Trick, Mamas and the Papas, Jon Brion, Slowdive, Jeff Buckley, Bjork, Tom Petty, Cocteau Twins, Mojave 3, Mazzy Star, Gram Parsons, Elliott Smith, Velvet Underground, The Beachwood Sparks, Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, Leonard Cohen, Burt Bacharach, Sly & Robbie, Roberta Flack, Ride, Syd Barrett, The Beatles, Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline, Simon and Garfunkel, Loretta Lynn, John Lennon, Iris Dement, Cat Power, Aimee Mann, Crooked Fingers, Bob Dylan, The Byrds, and Love..."
unfortunately, with the 'for fans of...' net, it's usually not true. the music in phoenix is not pretty. people with a hit-or-miss catalog of good music can make not so good or very radio-friendly pop/rock.
or worse.
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F you madison wisconsin, you are not as hip and cool as you think you are, you just make things expensive. Transplants, spoiled college kids, rich guys. Milwaukee should secede from Wisconsin.
What's the matter, you don't like bluegrass? Or Vespas? Or coastie girls who are still, inexplicably, rocking the Ugg boots/North Face jacket combo in 2009?
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F you madison wisconsin, you are not as hip and cool as you think you are, you just make things expensive. Transplants, spoiled college kids, rich guys. Milwaukee should secede from Wisconsin.
What's the matter, you don't like bluegrass? Or Vespas? Or coastie girls who are still, inexplicably, rocking the Ugg boots/North Face jacket combo in 2009?
I want to know how every college town has the same kinds of people. It's not like there's a TV channel for them or something.
Similarly, I guess, it's weird that everyone at every elementary school sings the same playground songs.
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F you madison wisconsin, you are not as hip and cool as you think you are, you just make things expensive. Transplants, spoiled college kids, rich guys. Milwaukee should secede from Wisconsin.
What's the matter, you don't like bluegrass? Or Vespas? Or coastie girls who are still, inexplicably, rocking the Ugg boots/North Face jacket combo in 2009?
I want to know how every college town has the same kinds of people. It's not like there's a TV channel for them or something.
Similarly, I guess, it's weird that everyone at every elementary school sings the same playground songs.
You sang "Karo, come down the sausage tree" too? I thought that was a Tennessee thing.
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Fuck you, P. Diddy, for this misogynistic garbage.
(http://amythibodeau.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/unforgivable_woman.jpg)
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I'm not impressed by your antics, Guy Who Climbs Trees at Parties.
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Fuck you, P. Diddy, for this misogynistic garbage.
(http://amythibodeau.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/unforgivable_woman.jpg)
That is fucking appalling.
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-"crackberry"
-"I remember a time when MTV still played videos....Hey-ooooooh!"
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I love my grandmother, but I hate it when she greets me with "Whaddya know?" (an old country saying)
I never have any idea how to respond to that, so I usually just end up saying "good" which makes no sense.
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Fuck you, work aquaintences who make me feel awkward about not inviting them to my wedding. Is that really fucking necessary??
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Two very petty ones:
Fuck you, well-off middleclass couple friends on Facebook, whose only status updates consists of how incredibly lucky you are with your lives, how splendid everything is, how amazing that new couch looks in the living room, how the weekend were all about you and your succesful lifestyle.
Fuck you, John Waters, for, after entertaining us for almost two hours with your one man show, slipping out the back and not engaging your incredibly dedicated fans and our stupid questions and requests like we all hoped you would (and a bonus fuck you to my friends in Gothenburg who texted me the night before to tell me that they were hanging out with Mr Waters all night in a bar, thereby raising my expectations for my own encounter).
(Go ahead and judge.)
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(Go ahead and judge.)
Well I CAN'T now...
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Fuck you, well-off middleclass couple friends on Facebook, whose only status updates consists of how incredibly lucky you are with your lives, how splendid everything is, how amazing that new couch looks in the living room, how the weekend were all about you and your succesful lifestyle.
Sorry about that, Martin.
Also, f you, collaborators, for coming up with a harebrained, unworkable scheme, having no idea how the writing process works, not listening to any of my concerns, not paying me enough for what you're asking for, and insinuating that it's somehow my fault that we haven't reached the insanely unrealistic goal that I told you we were never going to reach anyway.
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Fuck you, work aquaintences who make me feel awkward about not inviting them to my wedding. Is that really fucking necessary??
hold up. invitations have already gone out? I think mine got lost in the mail. can you just send me an e-vite?
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Where do you live, again? North Dakota or something?
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you're probably right. my covered wagon couldn't make the trip.
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I hate it when people write "mmmkay?" as the kicker to some request or opinion. I think they're just thinking "oh hey South Park is funny" without realizing it makes them look like the smarmiest twerps alive.
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Fuck you, Bangor Hydro Electric Company, for having overbilled me $11-12/month for almost thirteen years and concluding that you only have to reimburse me for six years' worth of the gouging.
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Fuck you, work aquaintences who make me feel awkward about not inviting them to my wedding. Is that really fucking necessary??
You mean I'm NOT invited?
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I hate it when people write "mmmkay?" as the kicker to some request or opinion. I think they're just thinking "oh hey South Park is funny" without realizing it makes them look like the smarmiest twerps alive.
Mmmkay?
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I hate it when people write "mmmkay?" as the kicker to some request or opinion. I think they're just thinking "oh hey South Park is funny" without realizing it makes them look like the smarmiest twerps alive.
Mmmkay?
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwl RIGHTY then
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Fuck you, work aquaintences who make me feel awkward about not inviting them to my wedding. Is that really fucking necessary??
You mean I'm NOT invited?
No. But you'll be there. IN OUR HEARTS.
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I'll be there in person, invited or not.
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I cut Facebook friends like that out of my friends list like cancer, yo.
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Joy Division. I'd rather get my wisdom teeth pulled with rusty dental equipment than be forced to listen to another of their songs.
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No offense, but reading this thread has made me hate nearly everyone in it. Including myself.
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kill yourself
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kill yourself
Someone could use some cheering up.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ[/youtube]
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Andy sounds perfectly cheerful to me.
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kill yourself
:'(
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I hate when people mope. Mopey people. Ok, so something happened that made you a little sad. So mope for a few days. But after a few days of moping, it's time to move on and quit pulling the sympathy card.
I am talking about little things, not "my grandma died" things. Like "My hairdryer has been dead for the last 3 days." and "The boy I like likes someone else better than me."
Waaaa. Babies.
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I hate when people mope. Mopey people. Ok, so something happened that made you a little sad. So mope for a few days. But after a few days of moping, it's time to move on and quit pulling the sympathy card.
I am talking about little things, not "my grandma died" things. Like "My hairdryer has been dead for the last 3 days." and "The boy I like likes someone else better than me."
Waaaa. Babies.
I hope I don't sound mopey, but sometimes it does seem like the universe is always working against my favor. I guess everybody feels like that, though.
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I hate when people mope. Mopey people. Ok, so something happened that made you a little sad. So mope for a few days. But after a few days of moping, it's time to move on and quit pulling the sympathy card.
I am talking about little things, not "my grandma died" things. Like "My hairdryer has been dead for the last 3 days." and "The boy I like likes someone else better than me."
Waaaa. Babies.
how old are you?
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I hate when people mope. Mopey people. Ok, so something happened that made you a little sad. So mope for a few days. But after a few days of moping, it's time to move on and quit pulling the sympathy card.
I am talking about little things, not "my grandma died" things. Like "My hairdryer has been dead for the last 3 days." and "The boy I like likes someone else better than me."
Waaaa. Babies.
how old are you?
At the prime age when unnecessary moping takes place. I mean, there are people fighting for their lives, their jobs, their families, etc. and my friends get really blue when their boyfriend forgets to call.
I might sound unsympathetic, but I am very compassionate, which is why I need to vent every now and then about it.
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Fuck you Frangry and Andy on "Shut up Weirdo" for your "How Gay is That" topic today.
Weak sauce.
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I'll regret asking, but: what was it like? The title probably says it all.
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While we're on the topic: Shut Up, Weirdo has a show about "bailouts."
For fucks sake, give me a break with that stuff. It's bad enough I have half of the newspaper comic strips and most of the commercials on tv making "bailout jokes."
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I'll regret asking, but: what was it like? The title probably says it all.
I have never listened to their show before but Kick The Bobo said (via twitter) that Spike was currently calling in. I switched it on to hear him but he had already hung up. Then I caught what the topic was. I couldn't believe it. It was the most juvenile tripe I have ever heard. Imagine the most stuck-up bitchy girl from your highschool junior high (that everyone pretended to like but really despised) had a radio show where she and her guy friend - who she only hangs out with because he gives her loads of attention and will never be as popular as her - would take calls from people asking if something was gay or not. Some of the items that listeners called in about included NASCAR, Cosplay, Marvin Gaye, and guys who wear pink shirts. "Oh, that's TOTALLY gay," or "Oh, that's cool," were common responses from Frangry and Andy. It was child-like snarking at it's worst. Frangry also went off on a tangent about she felt "weird" about people who don't drink.
Weak. Weak and disgusting. This from the show billed as "WFMU's civilized call-in show." WFMU deserves better than this. I say it again: Fuck you Frangry and Andy for an hour of the worst radio I have ever heard. Fuck the both of you.
...and they do archive their shows if you really want to know what it was like.
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SUW is like the offspring of Ken & Andy
it's kinda cute when u think about it like that.
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I'll regret asking, but: what was it like? The title probably says it all.
I have never listened to their show before but Kick The Bobo said (via twitter) that Spike was currently calling in. I switched it on to hear him but he had already hung up. Then I caught what the topic was. I couldn't believe it. It was the most juvenile tripe I have ever heard. Imagine the most stuck-up bitchy girl from your highschool junior high (that everyone pretended to like but really despised) had a radio show where she and her guy friend - who she only hangs out with because he gives her loads of attention and will never be as popular as her - would take calls from people asking if something was gay or not. Some of the items that listeners called in about included NASCAR, Cosplay, Marvin Gaye, and guys who wear pink shirts. "Oh, that's TOTALLY gay," or "Oh, that's cool," were common responses from Frangry and Andy. It was child-like snarking at it's worst. Frangry also went off on a tangent about she felt "weird" about people who don't drink.
Weak. Weak and disgusting. This from the show billed as "WFMU's civilized call-in show." WFMU deserves better than this. I say it again: Fuck you Frangry and Andy for an hour of the worst radio I have ever heard. Fuck the both of you.
...and they do archive their shows if you really want to know what it was like.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new polemicist. Welcome!
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I'll regret asking, but: what was it like? The title probably says it all.
I have never listened to their show before but Kick The Bobo said (via twitter) that Spike was currently calling in. I switched it on to hear him but he had already hung up. Then I caught what the topic was. I couldn't believe it. It was the most juvenile tripe I have ever heard. Imagine the most stuck-up bitchy girl from your highschool junior high (that everyone pretended to like but really despised) had a radio show where she and her guy friend - who she only hangs out with because he gives her loads of attention and will never be as popular as her - would take calls from people asking if something was gay or not. Some of the items that listeners called in about included NASCAR, Cosplay, Marvin Gaye, and guys who wear pink shirts. "Oh, that's TOTALLY gay," or "Oh, that's cool," were common responses from Frangry and Andy. It was child-like snarking at it's worst. Frangry also went off on a tangent about she felt "weird" about people who don't drink.
Weak. Weak and disgusting. This from the show billed as "WFMU's civilized call-in show." WFMU deserves better than this. I say it again: Fuck you Frangry and Andy for an hour of the worst radio I have ever heard. Fuck the both of you.
...and they do archive their shows if you really want to know what it was like.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new polemicist. Welcome!
Thanks! It's threads like these that allow me put down the axe once in a while. Now...where's my beanie and Speedo?!
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There isn't nearly enough anger in this thread.
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People who need people
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People who need people
They are the most annoyingest of people.
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There isn't nearly enough anger in this thread.
We can type in all caps if you want.
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Also,
Dear kids at the Model UN who ate all the lunch food and watched me work without even offering to help:
Fuck you.
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Was it their job?
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Yes. Jerks.
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Also,
Dear kids at the Model UN :
Fuck you.
fixed.
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I know this has no place here, but I want to say
Whenever I see a white cat anywhere, on tv or otherwise, I immediately think "Andy."
It's strange when FOT come up in every day instances for no particular reasons.
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I would prefer not to need this thread today but so be it. Fuck you parents of the eleven year old girl you brought to the psychologically harmful Crank 2: High Voltage starring Jason Stratham and Amy Smart that The A.V. Club inexplicably gave an A. The mom half-heartedly covered her daughter's ears when someone cursed but didn't react at all to the character getting a gun forced in his butt I'm sorry to report.
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Also,
Dear kids at the Model UN :
Fuck you.
fixed.
As someone who was in the Model UN in high school, I take offense to that. We were trying to solve the world's problems. What the hell were you doing?
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Also,
Dear kids at the Model UN :
Fuck you.
fixed.
What's wrong with the Model UN...?
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Also,
Dear kids at the Model UN :
Fuck you.
fixed.
What's wrong with the Model UN...?
They were jerks to Emma. 'Nuff said.
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Andy's the model John Bolton.
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(http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/JohnBolton_01.jpg)
Andy is the walrus.
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Fuck you, shitty insurance company. My cellphone got stolen last weekend, and I heard back from my insurance company today about what (if any) money I would get from my insurance. Sure, cellphones get lost and stolen and broken all the time, but I figured I might aswell see if I could get anything out of it (my cell provider will probably give me a new phone with some sort of payment plan). The phone is worth about $190 (new), so that's how much I asked for. So they got back to me today (pretty fast moving, to their credit), and informed me that they would be happy to buy me a new phone (for $190) as long as I pay... $190 for excess damage (is that what it's called in English? The fee you have to pay when you claim something, like your "part" of the claim). So pay $190, get $190. I told them that sounded like a joke, and that I would get a new phone via my provider instead. I mean come on. Fuck you.
(I'm all worked up and confused, it's a lousy Monday, so I don't even know if I'm making any sense here. Forgive me.)
EDIT: I sound like such a crybaby. It's not the end of the world or anything. Just stupid. I'll live.
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Also,
Dear kids at the Model UN :
Fuck you.
fixed.
As someone who was in the Model UN in high school, I take offense to that. We were trying to solve the world's problems. What the hell were you doing?
Are you being serious? Did you get picked on a lot in school? Plus, what g-stampgirl said!
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Are you being serious?
No. That was feigned outrage. The kids at the Model UN were some of the most pompous people I have ever encountered. I had no use for it.
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This guy, and the other Bill Hicks clones on youtube. I can't believe he's like five years old than me.
(http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/9/9a/Tj6.jpg)
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Are you being serious?
No. That was feigned outrage. The kids at the Model UN were some of the most pompous people I have ever encountered. I had no use for it.
I couldn't tell, my sarcasm detector is rusty.
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fuck this shitty mood i've been in recently. i dont know if i'm in a funk because i'm about to turn 30, but everything has been feeling wrong lately even though nothing is.
fuck it.
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Why, you're just a pup, Andy. I had no idea.
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Kids. What's the matter with kids today?*
*repeat as necessary...
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Northerners
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Northerners
And so began Civil War 2.
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Northerners
Yeah! Suck it, Eskimos!
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fuck this shitty mood i've been in recently. i dont know if i'm in a funk because i'm about to turn 30, but everything has been feeling wrong lately even though nothing is.
fuck it.
Are you absolutely sure?
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Fuck SYMS closing. It's a store where I can get discounted clothing in petite sizes to fit my short little frame. And, my fiance buys all his suits there. It's my favorite place to shop, and of course it's closing now. I'm so pissed! *first world problems*
Also, fuck my brother for complaining about renting a tux to be a groomsman in our wedding. Kid makes twice as much money as I do. (This thread might be full of my bridezilla bitching by November.)
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Will they at least have a sale, Erika?
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fuck this shitty mood i've been in recently. i dont know if i'm in a funk because i'm about to turn 30, but everything has been feeling wrong lately even though nothing is.
fuck it.
Try 50, you asshat.
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fuck this shitty mood i've been in recently. i dont know if i'm in a funk because i'm about to turn 30, but everything has been feeling wrong lately even though nothing is.
fuck it.
Try 50, you asshat.
I hope I don't
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Will they at least have a sale, Erika?
I'm sure. We're on our way tonight.
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I heard everything good is gone already.
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Could be clinical depression, Andy. It can happen! But it's treatable.
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Joe the Motherfucking Plumber. (http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/mayweb-only/118-13.0.html?start=1)
I've had some friends that are actually homosexual. And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn't have them anywhere near my children.
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I've never wished death on anyone, nor have I ever worshiped any higher power...but I prayed to god that Joe would be hit by a stray bullet during his "war corresponding."
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I just laugh at him now. He's a sideshow unto himself.
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this headline (http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/07/ent.cher.alarm/index.html)
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Are you kidding? That's the best headline CNN has ever come up with.
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Joe the Motherfucking Plumber. (http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/mayweb-only/118-13.0.html?start=1)
I've had some friends that are actually homosexual. And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn't have them anywhere near my children.
I heard he 'left' the Republican Party, which, to be fair, is like when Michael Richards 'left' show business.
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People who chew all loud with their mouths open.
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People who say "woo!" whenever a band plays their favorite song at a concert.
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But how do you feel about "yay"?
Know what I hate? ANTS IN MY DISHWASHER. I think they're living behind it and I can't get it out to check. And, it's not our house so I don't want to spend a whole bunch of money trying to get rid of the fuckers.
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No what I hate? CATS! They suck!
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But how do you feel about "yay"?
Know what I hate? ANTS IN MY DISHWASHER. I think they're living behind it and I can't get it out to check. And, it's not our house so I don't want to spend a whole bunch of money trying to get rid of the fuckers.
If you have ants in your dishwasher, you should just start learning their names, because they are going to continue living there long after you have moved on.
Can a vegan kill ants?
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But how do you feel about "yay"?
Know what I hate? ANTS IN MY DISHWASHER. I think they're living behind it and I can't get it out to check. And, it's not our house so I don't want to spend a whole bunch of money trying to get rid of the fuckers.
If you have ants in your dishwasher, you should just start learning their names, because they are going to continue living there long after you have moved on.
Can a vegan kill ants?
Cinnamon will get rid of your ants. They hate it.
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But how do you feel about "yay"?
I don't think anybody ever says "yay." It's almost always "woo."
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Also, I don't really care for animals that aren't cats.
It's like, "Ok, you're an animal. You're wild. I GET it."
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[Miss California Carrie] Prejean, who stated in her pageant contract she had never appeared nude or semi-nude, has meanwhile been formally offered a million dollars by adult film studio Vivid to "star" in one of their films.
I am not really a hardline anti-porn guy, but fuck you porn industry, for consistently offering every prominent attractive woman large sums of money to appear in a hardcore video. That is incredibly tubular.
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You don't think it shows pluck?
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On the part of the porn industry? No, I think it shows that they regard all women as potential whores. Which shouldn't be surprising, I guess, but it still bums me out.
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Most men and women, in varying circumstances, are potential whores.
I hate that I'm never sure whether or not I'm using commas properly. (I don't want to know, really. But I still hate it.)
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Most men and women, in varying circumstances, are potential whores.
This is very true. One need look no further than reality television. We'll whore ourselves out for anything. And we'll also gladly watch people whoring themselves out. The porn industry has always been ahead of the curve in that respect. So why would anyone be surprised that they would offer money to an attractive woman?
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People who make cynical, whiny statements starting with an ironic "Remember kids!"
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The constant references to '1984' on the internet. Yes I know it's one of the great books of the 20th century. Yes I know it's becoming increasingly more relevant. Still though, people need to shut up and realise that it doesn't add anything to a conversation about police brutality or political corruption.
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"Kids" when referring to any group of adults.
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Remember kids, we're all going to turn into animals in 1984!
Snoochie boochies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
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The Kars for Kids [sic] radio ad. Not sure if this is heard everywhere, but it plays very often in the NY area. It's awfulness cannot be properly expressed in verbal form, but I want to harm whoever made this ad very, very badly.
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(in best singing voice)
1-877-KARS-FOR-KIDS. K-A-R-S-F-O-R-K-I-D-S. 1-877-KARS-FOR-KIDS. Donate your car today!
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I hate the paranormal bullshit show they have on after Intervention.
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I hate the paranormal bullshit show they have on after Intervention.
It looks so incredibly awful. How can they make a show that is a total, 100% lie?
Oh, buffcoat, you're so naive.
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(in best annoying little kid singing voice followed by creepily deep singing voice)
1-877-KARS-FOR-KIDS. K-A-R-S-F-O-R-K-I-D-S. 1-877-KARS-FOR-KIDS. Donate your car today!
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Ha! Kars4Kids is a scam (allegedly).
http://cbs2chicago.com/investigations/Kars.4.Kids.2.331585.html (http://cbs2chicago.com/investigations/Kars.4.Kids.2.331585.html)
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http://thecrepesofwrath.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/samoas-bars/
F you, that recipe. False hope giver!
I just made some (sans choco-bottoms because it seemed overkill and I was being lazy)...
(http://erechoveraker.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/homemadesamoas.jpg)
really they're nothing like Samoa's at all. I added a tablespoon+ of lemon juice to the cookie dough to spice it up, but in the end I'm not sure why they don't just tell you to get one of those pre-made sugar cookie packs from the grocery store and spread that out. Not to mention the cookies themselves are just way too thick, I'd cut the cookie recipe by 1/4th at least. Further, way too much caramel (cut it down to like 8 ounces, instead of 12) and anytime anyone tells you to use chocolate chips for anything other than in chocolate chip cookies, you punch them right in their face where they stand.
In the end, not horrible to eat because I mean, it's chocolate and caramels and junk, but not even close to a Samoa. This has me all fired up though to do a sheet shortbread cookie and try my modifications to get it right - I THINK I CAN CRACK THE CODE!
tl;dr nomnom cookies not taste like girl scouts but fatty gon' eat nem anyways.
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On the part of the porn industry? No . . .
I think it's just more proof of the eternally optimistic, sunshiny attitude that characterizes the porn industry. Sure, like buffcoat, it's naive, but it's that kind of never-say-die approach to life's challenges that made this country what it is today.
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I stand corrected, Sarah.
Kudos, porn industry!
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Ha! Kars4Kids is a scam (allegedly).
http://cbs2chicago.com/investigations/Kars.4.Kids.2.331585.html (http://cbs2chicago.com/investigations/Kars.4.Kids.2.331585.html)
I figured it had to be. The commercial is suspiciously unspecific in how donating your car can help kids. Also, there's like a million different similar groups doing the same thing, which leads me to believe that there's something fishy about the whole thing.
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http://thecrepesofwrath.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/samoas-bars/
F you, that recipe. False hope giver!
I just made some (sans choco-bottoms because it seemed overkill and I was being lazy)...
(http://erechoveraker.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/homemadesamoas.jpg)
really they're nothing like Samoa's at all. I added a tablespoon+ of lemon juice to the cookie dough to spice it up, but in the end I'm not sure why they don't just tell you to get one of those pre-made sugar cookie packs from the grocery store and spread that out. Not to mention the cookies themselves are just way too thick, I'd cut the cookie recipe by 1/4th at least. Further, way too much caramel (cut it down to like 8 ounces, instead of 12) and anytime anyone tells you to use chocolate chips for anything other than in chocolate chip cookies, you punch them right in their face where they stand.
In the end, not horrible to eat because I mean, it's chocolate and caramels and junk, but not even close to a Samoa. This has me all fired up though to do a sheet shortbread cookie and try my modifications to get it right - I THINK I CAN CRACK THE CODE!
tl;dr nomnom cookies not taste like girl scouts but fatty gon' eat nem anyways.
whatever makes you sick, send my way. or if you have any of those delicious bars you made last time lynig around. delicious!
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I just had to buy a new laptop b/c the old one was shitting the bed, and I put my $ into a Toshiba Satellite, sight unseen. Well the genuises who designed this thing gave is a cool "Fusion Finish" which is all black and shiny. problem being: after using it for more than 5 minutes, it becomes absolutely covered in fingerprints and not only looks disgusting, but the keys become kind of gross to touch. My boss has an HP that has the same sort of finish on it. don't they do fucking focus groups for these things?
Also, Twitter. I don't give a shit what you are having for lunch, "friend".
You don't even FOLLOW davefromknoxvil
But you wish you did
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whatever makes you sick, send my way. or if you have any of those delicious bars you made last time lynig around. delicious!
I'll send some of the modified batch when I do that.
You liked my cobbled granola bars? Awww, thanks! I had some leftover and got pretty sick of them, thought they was too sweet, but glad you dug em!
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(in best annoying little kid singing voice followed by creepily deep singing voice)
1-877-KARS-FOR-KIDS. K-A-R-S-F-O-R-K-I-D-S. 1-877-KARS-FOR-KIDS. Donate your car today!
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The second voice is horrifying. The guy sounds like a goat.
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Tomorrow: Oprah's Comedy Hour (http://www.oprah.com/dated/oprahshow/oprahshow-20090506-comedy-hour) featuring Dane Cook, George Lopez and Mo'Nique
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Tomorrow: Oprah's Comedy Hour (http://www.oprah.com/dated/oprahshow/oprahshow-20090506-comedy-hour) featuring Dane Cook, George Lopez and Mo'Nique
It's the comedy equivalent of the Yalta Conference.
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The comic strip Non Sequitur.
This thing made a bailout joke every day for like three months.
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CNBC. The whole network. A bunch of charlatans they are.
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To say nothing of CBN.
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Although G.I. Joe was before my time and I have no nostalgia for it, I hate the trailer for the new movie. I thought G.I. Joes were supposed to be soldiers, not flying Iron Man robots. So why even bother naming it G.I. Joe?
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I hate those contrived "Aha" moments in movies where the writers are hitting you over the head with hints about a character.
Case in point, McCoy in the new Star Trek, describing an ex-wife:
"She left me with nothin' but my bones!"
Get it?! It's the (awkwardly inserted) origin of his nickname!
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Overused smarmy nicknames for people/things (found a lot on the Huffington Post comment section), like:
AmeriKKKa
Eurabia
John McSame
RePUGS
Micro$oft
Church of $cientology
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Overused smarmy nicknames for people/things (found a lot on the Huffington Post comment section), like:
AmeriKKKa
Eurabia
John McSame
RePUGS
Don't forget Libtard, Demonrat, and RINO, all of which are used extensively on Free Republic.
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Overused smarmy nicknames for people/things (found a lot on the Huffington Post comment section), like:
AmeriKKKa
Eurabia
John McSame
RePUGS
Micro$oft
Church of $cientology
Yeah, that stuff just reminds me of like an awful Maureen Dowd column. Huffington Post might have the worst commenters on the internet, even worse than YouTube. I remember watching a video on HuffPo of something like Joaquin Phoenix's Letterman appearance. I scrolled down to look at comments and people would insert anti-Bush rants for no reason. They'd say "No wonder he's going mad, we had Bush in the White House for 8 years!" and then they'd get positive comments from other people.
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It's exactly like Tom was saying: I agree with a lot of the Huffington post guys, but I just HATE the way they say things.
I was reading an article about polar bear hunting. I agree 100% that it's wrong, but it just steams me to see the comment section. "Humans are the most vilest of animals, not like the noble polar bear, etc etc" It's just that horrible whining.
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Huffington Post might have the worst commenters on the internet, even worse than YouTube.
That is impossible. The comments section of YouTube is a breeding ground for some of the worst that humanity has to offer. There are some real troglodytes there. But Huffington Post is really bad.
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I dunno, the Huffpo commenters are a mix of the worst AICN type talkbacker with a touch of the mutanity that is a Newsarama fanboy poster to boot. It's amazing how easy it is to troll people over there too, not a single one of them has the slightest bit of a sense of humor, let alone any idea what irony means.
Youtube comment threads generally start off with insults, devolve to curses, maybe some no u r type internets, and then come the racial slurs. That's all pretty standard and expected, especially considering how many video results you get by typing "gets kicked in the" there. Huffington's is supposed to be a little more, what though? High brow, learned? Although they do let that dude from Wings try to tell us all how it's supposed to be, so maybe I'm totally misreading that place.
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"She left me with nothin' but my bones!"
Get it?! It's the (awkwardly inserted) origin of his nickname!
I thought "Bones" was a shortened form of "sawbones," i.e. old-timey slang for a surgeon.
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I was just going to say that, Bryan. And I suspect we are right. Bu I suppose it's possible the makers of the new Star Trek movie are unfamiliar with the term and so made up this idiotic explanation.
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And if they don't use money in Star Trek, I don't see why you'd be forced to join Starfleet after a divorce.
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I dunno, the Huffpo commenters are a mix of the worst AICN type talkbacker with a touch of the mutanity that is a Newsarama fanboy poster to boot. It's amazing how easy it is to troll people over there too, not a single one of them has the slightest bit of a sense of humor, let alone any idea what irony means.
Youtube comment threads generally start off with insults, devolve to curses, maybe some no u r type internets, and then come the racial slurs. That's all pretty standard and expected, especially considering how many video results you get by typing "gets kicked in the" there. Huffington's is supposed to be a little more, what though? High brow, learned? Although they do let that dude from Wings try to tell us all how it's supposed to be, so maybe I'm totally misreading that place.
I think the explanation for this is pretty simple: your average man on the street SHOULDN'T be heard from.
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I think the explanation for this is pretty simple: your average man on the street SHOULDN'T be heard from.
Elitist.
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I hate SNORING SNORING SNORING.
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I hate those contrived "Aha" moments in movies where the writers are hitting you over the head with hints about a character.
Case in point, McCoy in the new Star Trek, describing an ex-wife:
"She left me with nothin' but my bones!"
Get it?! It's the (awkwardly inserted) origin of his nickname!
What's even worse are the "hey, that's a real person!" moments in biopics, like in Ray when Quincy Jones says "My name is Quincy Jones"
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I rather like snoring other than my own. My father was a champion snorer, so I associate the sound with the snugness of childhood. And the snoring of dogs and cats is one of the sweet things of life.
I do hate it when a particularly loud snort emanating from my own nose yanks me awake, though.
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The snoring of a man who has been drinking beer and smokes a pack - 2 packs a day is no fun. NO FUN I TELL YOU.
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I used to live with such a man, erika. The sleep apnea bothered me far more than the snoring.
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I think the explanation for this is pretty simple: your average man on the street SHOULDN'T be heard from.
Elitist.
You have no idea.
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CAN EVERYONE AT MY SCHOOL STOP TALKING ABOUT PROM NOW PLEASE THANKS OKAY
(I am sorry I am in this thread so much. I am just cranky!)
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Listening to Jesse Thorn interview Jello Biafra only to hear that Jello speaks in that comic font Tom and the gang were joking about last night. A seminal influence===a total goofball.
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Listening to Jesse Thorn interview Jello Biafra only to hear that Jello speaks in that comic font Tom and the gang were joking about last night. A seminal influence===a total goofball.
Right?? I would have been so much more interested in what he was saying if it didn't sound like he was auditioning for a show on Nick, Jr. I'd never heard him before. I guess I should have known he was crazy, but for some reason, it was a real surprise.
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Ha! the worst case of that was that Kaufman biopic Jim Carrey was in, Man On The Moon.
When they had him doing his 'Taxi' stuff, it was all the original cast, only now they are all 90 and have various drug and substance induced problems with their fine motor skills. Additionally, they used the most contemptible of film forms, the montage. Pure dreck.
I hate those contrived "Aha" moments in movies where the writers are hitting you over the head with hints about a character.
Case in point, McCoy in the new Star Trek, describing an ex-wife:
"She left me with nothin' but my bones!"
Get it?! It's the (awkwardly inserted) origin of his nickname!
What's even worse are the "hey, that's a real person!" moments in biopics, like in Ray when Quincy Jones says "My name is Quincy Jones"
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That phase a lot of people go through when they're fourteen and they first discover "classic rock"...and then go on about how no one else their age appreciates the classics and how any music made after December 31, 1989 is awful.
I was there.
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Political talk radio, in my humble opinion, is mostly worthless drivel. It's mostly inflammatory rhetoric and is almost entirely devoid of reasonable and civilized discourse.
Yet, I can't stop listening to it.
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That phase a lot of people go through when they're fourteen and they first discover "classic rock"...and then go on about how no one else their age appreciates the classics and how any music made after December 31, 1989 is awful.
I was there.
Wow I'm only 30 and this post makes me feel old. What year were you born? (Why are the 80's considered classic rock?)
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I hate those contrived "Aha" moments in movies where the writers are hitting you over the head with hints about a character.
Case in point, McCoy in the new Star Trek, describing an ex-wife:
"She left me with nothin' but my bones!"
Get it?! It's the (awkwardly inserted) origin of his nickname!
To tie this into the Lost thread, there was that episode where they decided they needed to explain why Desmond calls everyone "brutha" all the time. It was because...he was briefly a monk! What? Come on. Desmond calling everybody brutha all the time doesn't need an explanation, he calls everyone brutha all the time because he's a Magic Scottish Guy and that's what Magic Scottish Guys call people. I swear, Lost, sometimes I wish you were a person so I could fight you.
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That phase a lot of people go through when they're fourteen and they first discover "classic rock"...and then go on about how no one else their age appreciates the classics and how any music made after December 31, 1989 is awful.
I was there.
Wow I'm only 30 and this post makes me feel old. What year were you born? (Why are the 80's considered classic rock?)
When I was in high school, the coolness expiration date for music was December 31, 1979. Anything immediately after that would have been considered New-Wave pansy music. Toward the end, some people did grudgingly admit to liking U2 and REM.
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It's just the idea of calling that "classic rock" that strikes me as so wrong.
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It's just the idea of calling that "classic rock" that strikes me as so wrong.
I was horrified to discover that Classic Rock Radio Stations now play stuff that debuted when I was in middle school (Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, etc.). That made me feel real old real fast.
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I hate when people on the internet say "I feel old."
Just kidding. Kind of.
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Is it better to say it in person?
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No, it's always annoying but I just hear it more on forums.
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No, it's always annoying but I just hear it more on forums.
I hope you turn into Tor Hershmann someday.
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Low. Blow.
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Yet not unjust.
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No, it's always annoying but I just hear it more on forums.
I hope you turn into Tor Hershmann someday.
I think he has to bite you for that to happen.
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I'm full of hate, but I'm not an anti-natalist (that's the only part of his ideology I can gather from that awful blog).
What's his deal?
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Industrial music. Because it sucks.
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No, it's always annoying but I just hear it more on forums.
I hope you turn into Tor Hershmann someday.
I think he has to bite you for that to happen.
http://instantrimshot.com
Pidgeon, his deal is probably pretty much what you think it is. Though I'd like to see one of those politics grids with "anti-natalist" on it.
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Industrial music. Because it sucks.
Didn't it die and stuff?
I like Coil but I don't know if they're necessarily industrial...
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I know of Coil. But I've never actually listened to them before. I'm talking about 70's and 80's industrial bands like Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, and Einsturzende Neubauten. I know that the music has redeeming value for a lot of people. I just don't like it. Not only is too atonal for me, but it also seems like its pretentious for the sake of being pretentious.
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There's a commercial for a local mattress store, where a woman says she cant sleep because of all the bad things she heard on the news. She lists off everything, with the commercial wanting you to lose sleep too so you'll buy their mattress. It's the same deal with a radio commercial I heard today, with the guy saying "gas prices are creeping back uuuuuuuuuup."
I hate that.
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The Bachelor woman who is now on Dancing with the Stars. You know, the check who glued sequins to her tramp stamp so it would match her dress.
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Xenophobe.
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Xenophobe.
Y'know, I don't have foreigners. I'm just terrified of meeting one because I feel like I'm representing my entire nation. One time I drove a Honduran guy around the mall parking lot to find his car, and I felt like a doofus afterwards because I kept saying "mile."
But, by definition, I am a xenophobe.
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Mile? Like as in "I drove a mile?" or what?
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Yeah, anything like that that's exclusively American.
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Shoot, I was just making a bad pun inspired by the "check" typo.
And you know what I hate? I hate that Dogmo is dead. Fuck you, death.
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Yeah. Fuck the fact that animals are better than people but they don't get to live as long as most of them.
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Yeah. Fuck the fact that animals are better than people.
Am I the only one here who really does not care for animals at all? I hate hearing people say things like this.
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Yeah. Fuck the fact that animals are better than people.
Am I the only one here who really does not care for animals at all? I hate hearing people say things like this.
This makes me feel so old!
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Yeah. Fuck the fact that animals are better than people.
Am I the only one here who really does not care for animals at all? I hate hearing people say things like this.
Honestly, Pidgeon, you're kind of a little shit. (Case in point.)
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I DON'T though. I feel nothing towards animals.
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Yeah. Fuck the fact that animals are better than people.
Am I the only one here who really does not care for animals at all? I hate hearing people say things like this.
You hate a lot of stuff, and it's giving me a new thing to hate.
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I DON'T though. I feel nothing towards animals.
Is that supposed to change my opinion?
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No, I'm just trying to justify mine in a forum full of vegetarians.
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Are you really that simple? WE ARE NOT ALL VEGETARIANS. Some of us have pets. You know, personal relationships with four-legged creatures. It's madness, I know.
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I don't understand why you're getting so worked up. I just said that I don't get it, you can believe whatever you want.
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People who say they don't care for animals at all are missing out on one of the great therapeutic joys in life AND are at the top of my fuck you list.
I am not a vegetarian and I am a dog owner, for what it's worth.
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I can't buy into a general "animals are better than people", but I can honestly say I love my dog. Pepper, if you're wondering.
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Pets aren't devious, or malevolent, or uncaring like quite a few people I have encountered over the years. On the contrary, pets are loyal and affectionate. This is why I appreciate animals.
I don't know if animals are better than people. I do think, however, that animals treat people better than people treat other people.
Just my thoughts.
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I don't understand why you're getting so worked up. I just said that I don't get it, you can believe whatever you want.
However you feel about animals, less than 24hrs after Dogmo died is not an especially good time to be going off about it on the forum.
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"Good times, good times" - it's the catchphrase that refuses to die.
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Similarly: "It's all good!"
>:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
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Times when it is appropriate to block traffic to wait for a parking space: ZERO. IT IS NEVER APPROPRIATE TO DO THAT.
I don't fucking care if it means you're not going to be able to park at all. I don't care if it means you're going to be late to something. Boo-fucking-hoo. It better be life or death, you selfish little shit.
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Pets aren't devious, or malevolent, or uncaring like quite a few people I have encountered over the years. On the contrary, pets are loyal and affectionate. This is why I appreciate animals.
I don't know if animals are better than people. I do think, however, that animals treat people better than people treat other people.
Just my thoughts.
Maybe it's the people with "George Carlin/Bill Hicks views of the world" that annoy me (not saying that you're one, don't get the wrong idea), but I've always been pretty indifferent to animals.
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Maybe it's the people with "George Carlin/Bill Hicks views of the world" that annoy me (not saying that you're one, don't get the wrong idea), but I've always been pretty indifferent to animals.
Yup. We got it. You don't need to bring it up a fifth time.
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Jeez, touchy subject 8)
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I hate it when the sad excuse for the Baltimore Sun's Sunday paper doesn't include my precious coupons. Bastards!
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I hate it when the sad excuse for the Baltimore Sun's Sunday paper doesn't include my precious coupons. Bastards!
Clearly this should be the first story arc of the Wire "webisode" sequels.
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Fuck you, guy who made "$70" zombie movie that got invited to Cannes. (http://news.softpedia.com/news/Colin-70-Zombie-Movie-Takes-Cannes-Festival-by-Storm-111866.shtml)
I'm sure it's an awful movie, but it didn't cost $70, it cost THOUSANDS, you just got young actors and Craigslist strangers to donate their time and equipment so that you could be known as the $70 filmmaker. People like you make it near impossible for about any non-union film person to ever get paid for anything. What, you didn't even feed them? Did they all have to bring sandwiches? I mean it's one thing to say, "hey I made a movie on the cheap and conned actors into thinking it would help their career", but to do that and say "Yes, the whole thing only cost me 70 bucks" is just throwing dirt in the face of the people whose talent you've already exploited for free.
You suck and zombie movies suck and you're ruining independent film from the bottom.
Enjoy your fifteen minutes, cuz next year I'm gonna make a 70 dollar movie about fucking your mom.
(For that project, by the way, I still need a steadicam operator, two grips, and an entire post-production staff. No pay, but GREAT exposure!)
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Ugh, I'm zombie-d out.
The only thing worse than watching a zombie movie is hearing your friends talk about zombies.
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fuck you back speakers of my '97 honda.
how am i supposed to ignore the crackle you inherited overnite when im listening to my jams? (because why would i want to spend the money to buy NEW speakers?? youre old.)
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I'm angry at numbers.
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Those TV spots for movies that have the audience reactions.
I saw one for Star Trek with a girl saying "Everyone's so attractive! Ha ha ha!"
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Those TV spots for movies that have the audience reactions.
I saw one for Star Trek with a girl saying "Everyone's so attractive! Ha ha ha!"
That sounds awesome.
You guys should hate less things. Go have sex.
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Those TV spots for movies that have the audience reactions.
I saw one for Star Trek with a girl saying "Everyone's so attractive! Ha ha ha!"
That sounds awesome.
You guys should hate less things. Go have sex.
Basement dweller, sorry.
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I'm angry at numbers.
There's, like, too many of them.
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I hate stomach viruses.
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Any at-bat during the course of a baseball game that lasts more than 10 pitches.
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fuck you, people in London. Why do you have to act like I'm the one with the accent, when it's all of you that have the funny accents? Go fuck your mothers.
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fuck you, people in London. Why do you have to act like I'm the one with the accent, when it's all of you that have the funny accents? Go fuck your mothers.
Make fun of their teeth.
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Fuck you, guy who made "$70" zombie movie that got invited to Cannes. (http://news.softpedia.com/news/Colin-70-Zombie-Movie-Takes-Cannes-Festival-by-Storm-111866.shtml)
I'm sure it's an awful movie, but it didn't cost $70, it cost THOUSANDS, you just got young actors and Craigslist strangers to donate their time and equipment so that you could be known as the $70 filmmaker. People like you make it near impossible for about any non-union film person to ever get paid for anything. What, you didn't even feed them? Did they all have to bring sandwiches? I mean it's one thing to say, "hey I made a movie on the cheap and conned actors into thinking it would help their career", but to do that and say "Yes, the whole thing only cost me 70 bucks" is just throwing dirt in the face of the people whose talent you've already exploited for free.
You suck and zombie movies suck and you're ruining independent film from the bottom.
Enjoy your fifteen minutes, cuz next year I'm gonna make a 70 dollar movie about fucking your mom.
(For that project, by the way, I still need a steadicam operator, two grips, and an entire post-production staff. No pay, but GREAT exposure!)
This reminds me of Robert Rodriguez and his famous claim that he made El Mariachi for like nothing - which was clearly a fabrication, and he played up that story like nobody's business (even wrote a book about it, iirc). Joe Queenan took on that challenge (with disastrous and funny results) in his book The Unkindest Cut.
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This reminds me of Robert Rodriguez and his famous claim that he made El Mariachi for like nothing - which was clearly a fabrication, and he played up that story like nobody's business (even wrote a book about it, iirc). Joe Queenan took on that challenge (with disastrous and funny results) in his book The Unkindest Cut.
Didn't he claim that he funded it with money he made by donating blood? Or was that someone else?
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I'm sure that was part of it.
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This reminds me of Robert Rodriguez and his famous claim that he made El Mariachi for like nothing - which was clearly a fabrication, and he played up that story like nobody's business (even wrote a book about it, iirc). Joe Queenan took on that challenge (with disastrous and funny results) in his book The Unkindest Cut.
Didn't he claim that he funded it with money he made by donating blood? Or was that someone else?
Yes, he claimed to fund it with money he made by donating somebody else's blood.
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you get money for donating blood?
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I guess it would be "selling" rather than "donating".
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Plasma.
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Plasma.
And that's not all.
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i thought it was being a human guinea pig. no kidding.
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Should anyone over the age of 22 say rad? I heard a frat boy say it today. Like punk rock it seems like rad could be put out to pasture.
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Should anyone over twenty-two be a frat boy?
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nobody should be a frat boy, unfortunately many carry on the behavior throughout their entire lives, especially here in the southern states.
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Some of them even get to be president, twice.
/laziest Leno-level Bush joke ever, sorry
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I hate the corporate goons who run my place of employment.
They took away 5 days of my vacation time "for this year only", now they are forcing me to take 7 days off by the end of June leaving me -13 vacation days.
Also, if I quit I owe them the money for those vacation days.
Time to brush off that resume.
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Henry Rollins and all manners of his "spoken word" material.
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Lefty relievers who can't even get out lefty hitters.
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Do you hate Aaron Heilman yet? You will in due time.
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Henry Rollins and all manners of his "spoken word" material.
He needs to stop thinking about it, and stop doing it.
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Do you hate Aaron Heilman yet? You will in due time.
I hated him the minute they made the trade. So far he's proven me right. Even his 5.49 ERA is deceptively low because he lets just about every inherited runner score. I'm pretty much at the point that when the starter comes out of the game, I stop watching because it's only going to make me mad.
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500 Internal Server Error
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The douchey IT infrastructure manager's douchey blog, which his douchey LinkedIn profile links to. I'm surprised he hasn't broken his arm patting himself on the back.
Oh, also: delusional corporate 'leadership camp' types in general.
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"It's not rocket science."
Don't ever say that to me when I tell you I don't understand your fucking PHP code. I AM NOT A PROGRAMMER.
...and everything is Rocket Science when you don't know how to do it.
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Dinosaur Jr
What is there to like about this whiny over-trebley buzzing? I have tried and tried and tried to like it, but I can't even appreciate it.
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Dinosaur Jr
What is there to like about this whiny over-trebley buzzing? I have tried and tried and tried to like it, but I can't even appreciate it.
Throw Pavement in there, too, for slightly different but similar enough reasons.
If I had a dollar for every time someone had said, "You'd really like Pavement," I'd have, like maybe 12 dollars.
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I like both Dinosaur Jr. and Pavement. Although, I do think both bands are overrated to a certain degree.
There are several bands/artists that I "don't get":
Big Black
Rapeman
Shellac
Joy Division
Lou Reed
Nico
Spacemen 3
My Bloody Valentine
The Dream Syndicate
The Jesus Lizard
Sebadoh
The Birthday Party
While I am a fan of The Velvet Underground, I despise the VU & Nico. What an overrated, unlistenable piece of trash that is.
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Dinosaur Jr
What is there to like about this whiny over-trebley buzzing? I have tried and tried and tried to like it, but I can't even appreciate it.
NOYOUDIDN'T!
Haven't you ever masturbated like three times before you even got out of bed then gotten really baked then tried to remedy your cottonmouth with a skunked beer, then microwaved a burrito but forgot to take the plastic wrap off and then eat it anyway and then stared at the static on t.v. for an hour and a half? What I'm trying to say is, did you spend a lot of time depressed and alone between the ages of 16 and 20? Of course you did! Why don't you like this band?
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I like every band mentioned in the above posts!
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I like every band mentioned in the above posts!
Scratch The Jesus Lizard and The Birthday Party, both of those bands are pretty good. But I stand by the rest of my list.
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I like every band mentioned in the above posts!
Scratch The Jesus Lizard and The Birthday Party, both of those bands are pretty good. But I stand by the rest of my list.
Plenty of them are arguable. It's not like I'm the biggest Dream Syndicate or Nico fan, though I like their stuff enough. But do you really not like Transformer? Songs about F*cking?
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I prefer Lou Reed's work with the VU over his solo output. Transformer sounds dated to me. In fact, some of the songs on Transformer were done better on those mid 80's Velvets outtake albums. I'll take Rock n' Roll Animal and Take No Prisoners over Transformer. The rest of his catalog doesn't do anything for me.
As I see it, the problem with Big Black is twofold. First, everything from the music to the lyrics sounds contrived. Secondly, if it's abrasiveness and unpleasant aesthetics they're going for, they fail miserably on both counts. I've heard old free jazz records from the 1960's that are far more abrasive and unpleasant sounding than anything Big Black ever recorded. Some people say they like Big Black because they offer a unique insight into the ethos of Middle America. For me, it seems like Steve Albini is just trying to piss people off. I'm just not impressed by them. They're boring.
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Well, I've heard plenty of grindcore albums that are more abrasive and unpleasant than Big Black. I actually think that Big Black is kind of catchy.
You're write on the relative rating of Lou Reed's output (though I think Berlin is pretty good), I guess he's just done enough good stuff to earn a free pass from me. It is kind of stupid that Lou Reed is this legend and John Cale is known mostly to music types, even though John Cale's solo output is overall better in my opinion.
I'm just not that picky musically. I mean, I have my favorites (http://www.friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,2730.msg46515.html#msg46515), but I'm always the guy who defends this band or that.
Horseraces.
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Well, I've heard plenty of grindcore albums that are more abrasive and unpleasant than Big Black. I actually think that Big Black is kind of catchy.
You're write on the relative rating of Lou Reed's output (though I think Berlin is pretty good), I guess he's just done enough good stuff to earn a free pass from me. It is kind of stupid that Lou Reed is this legend and John Cale is known mostly to music types, even though John Cale's solo output is overall better in my opinion.
I'm just not that picky musically. I mean, I have my favorites (http://www.friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,2730.msg46515.html#msg46515), but I'm always the guy who defends this band or that.
Horseraces.
Agree 100% on John Cale. Those albums he did with Island Records in the mid 70's are all great. Regarding Big Black, I think Steve Albini is more a turnoff for me than the music is. I do agree that some Big Black stuff is catchy (e.g. Racer-X, a few songs from Atomizer). I just think that, much like Throbbing Gristle, the work of Big Black has more shock value than actual entertainment value.
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Efficiency, efficiency they say.
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Htf did I write "write"?
A friend just saw throbbing gristle and they were apparently great. More a continuation of Coil than anything. Coil being one of my top 5 bands.
Btw writing this from the nosebleeds at Coors Field.
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Dinosaur Junior? Give me a break! Maybe if you take idiot pills for breakfast you will enjoy them. There are worse things, but just because they are better than Miley Cyrus doesn't mean their good.
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never heard a note of music by him, but I can tell you I LOVE Rapeman.
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Dinosaur Junior? Give me a break! Maybe if you take idiot pills for breakfast you will enjoy them. There are worse things, but just because they are better than Miley Cyrus doesn't mean their good.
Go Rapeman yourself.
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Aside from a couple albums from the 80s, I don't care if I never hear R.E.M. again.
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I stopped listening to R.E.M. after the first four albums, which were all very good.
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R.E.M. is much more good than bad all the way through Up!, which is ok. After that you can skip it, but that's a pretty damn good run.
I smell revisionism, and I don't like it.
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There are several bands/artists that I "don't get":
Big Black
Rapeman
Shellac
Joy Division
Lou Reed
Nico
Spacemen 3
My Bloody Valentine
The Dream Syndicate
The Jesus Lizard
Sebadoh
The Birthday Party
While I am a fan of The Velvet Underground, I despise the VU & Nico. What an overrated, unlistenable piece of trash that is.
Maybe I just don't like music but every band on this I have never wanted to listen to (not that I mind when it's on). I like Lou Reed's "Take No Prisoners" because of the banter.
I had a brief fling w/ Sebadoh but that was only one album.
Great list.
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I'm adding Wavves to that list too. Another lousy band peddled by Pitchfork, a la Tapes n' Tapes, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, etc.
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Maybe its already over for them, but I really hated that band "Vampire Weekend".
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R.E.M. is much more good than bad all the way through Up!, which is ok. After that you can skip it, but that's a pretty damn good run.
I smell revisionism, and I don't like it.
I admit to some revisionist tendencies. At some point I will probably convince myself I was a rave kid instead of a quasi-punk.
Still, after a while Michael Stipe's voice makes my ears bleed. He's no Freddie Mercury.
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I'm adding Wavves to that list too. Another lousy band peddled by Pitchfork, a la Tapes n' Tapes, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, etc.
An auxiliary to that: people who, upon hearing that I write for Pitchfork, think that I have some big-deal stake in Wavves or Grizzly Bear or whoever. I have to emphasize that I mostly just review hip hop and dance records and that unless Madlib or Basement Jaxx produce the next Fleet Foxes record it's not really my turf.
On another f. this thing that I hate note: video games that make you do inane, tedious shit that has nothing to do with the primary point of the game just so you can unlock everything. I'm playing Yakuza 2 right now and though the vast majority of the game's content can be accessed through a steady repertoire of beating the crap out of lowlifes, there's some secret bosses you can only fight if you do a bunch of tangential side missions, one of which involves going to a driving range and trying to hit a bunch of moving targets with golf balls. Ugh.
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I'm adding Wavves to that list too. Another lousy band peddled by Pitchfork, a la Tapes n' Tapes, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, etc.
There's a particular kind of band that has an interesting sound that doesn't last. Either it's really catchy or it reminds you of some kind of past style or something. I've fallen for it before. I remember thinking that Endtroducing was good. *shudder*. I was also tricked by Clap Your Hands because they had like 2 catchy, 80s-style songs that reminded me of 120 Minutes pre-Nirvana. Also mashups, which bore the piss out of me now.
Anyway, Pitchfork falls for this kind of band each and every time. I think the difficulty of music reviewing is that it's the albums that don't necessarily blow your mind the first listen that end up having the most staying power.
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I support my man Buffcoat with regards to REM, and I too liked Up.
R.E.M. is much more good than bad all the way through Up!, which is ok. After that you can skip it, but that's a pretty damn good run.
I smell revisionism, and I don't like it.
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I hate my apartment neighbors, who tend to be noisy and obnoxious without technically doing anything wrong. They're not carrying on at all hours of the night or blasting their stereo or anything, but they like to have frequent, really loud conversations with lots of inane, hooting laughter. I can't exactly pound on their door and ask them to stop having fun, so it's kind of a no-win situation.
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I can't believe you guys don't like Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah! They are just about my favorite band. I know they are very unattractive, but they sound nice.
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I can't believe you guys don't like Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah! They are just about my favorite band. I know they are very unattractive, but they sound nice.
They have a stupid name. It just doesn't roll off the tongue like say, Grizzly Bear, Blitzen Trapper, or Fleet Foxes.
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I remember thinking that Endtroducing was good. *shudder*.
Is there consensus nowadays that that was a bad album? I still like it a lot.
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I remember thinking that Endtroducing was good. *shudder*.
Is there consensus nowadays that that was a bad album? I still like it a lot.
My wife was mocking the 'the music's coming thru me' track the other day, but I still like it overall myself.
'The Outsider' though: Ew boy. It was like a whole album of that LL Cool J song 'Farmer's Blvd'.
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I hate my apartment neighbors, who tend to be noisy and obnoxious without technically doing anything wrong. They're not carrying on at all hours of the night or blasting their stereo or anything, but they like to have frequent, really loud conversations with lots of inane, hooting laughter. I can't exactly pound on their door and ask them to stop having fun, so it's kind of a no-win situation.
Do it!
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I currently hate being an English major with absolutely zero to say about the book I'm supposed to be writing a paper about (I took a summer class). The paper is due tomorrow.
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I hate the hateful. Some of the stuff being said about Dr. Tiller's shooting on Twitter is loathsome. So much for 'pro life'.
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anyone who tells me the AZ heat isnt tough because its a "dry heat"; stick your head in the oven or in front of your hair dryer on high heat, then talk to me.
no kidding.
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humidity does make heat worse. 115 and humid would kill someone.
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humidity does make heat worse. 115 and humid would kill someone.
True. I've experienced 110 with low humidity in Vegas and 100 with high humidity in NC. Trust me when I say that both are bad, but the humidity makes it so appalling that you want to shoot the sun AND the air.
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ive been in heavy humidity, having lived in the south (and hoping to return). all im saying is, miserable is miserable.
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Cheney says no link between Hussein and 9/11 (http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/01/cheney.speech/index.html)
Wait, whuuuut?
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Cheney says no link between Hussein and 9/11 (http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/01/cheney.speech/index.html)
Wait, whuuuut?
I'm shocked. :o
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I currently hate being an English major with absolutely zero to say about the book I'm supposed to be writing a paper about (I took a summer class). The paper is due tomorrow.
I hope the book isn't Eats, Shoots & Leaves!
(That one's for you, Sarah.)
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humidity does make heat worse. 115 and humid would kill someone.
True. I've experienced 110 with low humidity in Vegas and 100 with high humidity in NC. Trust me when I say that both are bad, but the humidity makes it so appalling that you want to shoot the sun AND the air.
The cold is better. It aint no opinion, it's a fact! Hot sucks.
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The cold is better. It aint no opinion, it's a fact! Hot sucks.
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That seems to be a rather sweeping statement.
I immediately thought of several exceptions.
Coffee was one of them.
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In most instances, I believe that hot food is better than cold food.
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I've been a cold weather man my whole life. It seems like one can adapt to cold by adding or removing layers. There's no adapting to hot...there's only discomfort or escape into air conditioning.
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The cold is better. It aint no opinion, it's a fact! Hot sucks.
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That seems to be a rather sweeping statement.
I immediately thought of several exceptions.
Coffee was one of them.
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You are wrong about coffee. I am sorry. And your little friend TRG is wrong about hot food. I am right. I am always right. Do not argue.
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The cold is better. It aint no opinion, it's a fact! Hot sucks.
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You are wrong about coffee. I am sorry. And your little friend TRG is wrong about hot food. I am right. I am always right. Do not argue.
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I'd tried to be polite..... but Julie you've put me on the spot.
Definitive argument finisher:
How do you prefer your lovemaking ????????????????????????????????
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humidity does make heat worse. 115 and humid would kill someone.
True. I've experienced 110 with low humidity in Vegas and 100 with high humidity in NC. Trust me when I say that both are bad, but the humidity makes it so appalling that you want to shoot the sun AND the air.
The cold is better. It aint no opinion, it's a fact! Hot sucks.
true dat. why arent we roommates....
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You are wrong about coffee. I am sorry. And your little friend TRG is wrong about hot food. I am right. I am always right. Do not argue.
I have been humbled. How could I have been such a fool?
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Music snobs. The hell with them.
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The fact that whenever I go to the movie theater, I get this weird sense of dread...like my life is ending soon, or something. I have no idea why I get this way.
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I get that feeling at Best Buy.
The fact that whenever I go to the movie theater, I get this weird sense of dread...like my life is ending soon, or something. I have no idea why I get this way.
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Definitive argument finisher:
How do you prefer your lovemaking ????????????????????????????????
Wow, FoNPR, I thought you were a little weird and creepy, but I misjudged you!
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humidity does make heat worse. 115 and humid would kill someone.
True. I've experienced 110 with low humidity in Vegas and 100 with high humidity in NC. Trust me when I say that both are bad, but the humidity makes it so appalling that you want to shoot the sun AND the air.
The cold is better. It aint no opinion, it's a fact! Hot sucks.
true dat. why arent we roommates....
It's all of the miles. Maybe in Memphis? I would eat pigs if I could be your roommate!
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The fact that whenever I go to the movie theater, I get this weird sense of dread...like my life is ending soon, or something. I have no idea why I get this way.
i feel this dread as well. i dont know how yours pans out, but during the movie, for one reason or another, im brought back to the realization that im in a movie theatre and for all i know chaos has ensued outside and im none the wiser. my last thought is, i died watching paul blart, mall cop.
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I think that's partly my reason, but it also has something to do with a ton of strangers watching the same thing. I can't really explain that well what I mean.
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I hate when people come into the library and say "You know, you should really control the kids in here."
Um excuse me? That's where THE PARENTS come in. This ain't a daycare, SIR.
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seems like it is, though.
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I think . . . it also has something to do with a ton of strangers watching the same thing. I can't really explain that well what I mean.
I get it.
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humidity does make heat worse. 115 and humid would kill someone.
True. I've experienced 110 with low humidity in Vegas and 100 with high humidity in NC. Trust me when I say that both are bad, but the humidity makes it so appalling that you want to shoot the sun AND the air.
The cold is better. It aint no opinion, it's a fact! Hot sucks.
true dat. why arent we roommates....
It's all of the miles. Maybe in Memphis? I would eat pigs if I could be your roommate!
Pigs is delicious.
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Especially happy pigs killed politely.
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Only happy to die pigs!
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I don't know if I only eat pigs who are glad to shuffle off this mortal coil. But at least I mostly limit myself to eating those whose final torment is as brief and painless as possible.
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Leaving my TV on and waking up to Rexella Van Impe.
So, so creepy.
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Pidgeon, you post a lot on this thread. Maybe you should go listen to more ABBA or eat icecream or do whatever makes you happy instead of hating so much.
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Yeah, sometimes I feel like I have so many pet peeves and annoyances that soon I'll be completely incapable of functioning in society.
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Leaving my TV on and waking up to Rexella Van Impe.
So, so creepy.
Here, they run Jack Van Impe at 11:30 on Sunday nights. Imagine going to work on Monday morning after having watched that.
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They were talking about the Illuminati/New World Order the other night, and they were asking for donations to...stop it, I guess? I don't know, I was half asleep but that's what they were making it sound like.
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There was a televangelist named Mike Murdock that was on at 1:30 last night asking for money. He talked about all the gifts that people give him. He especially likes luggage trailers and custom-tailored suits.
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I hate when people come into the library and say "You know, you should really control the kids in here."
Um excuse me? That's where THE PARENTS come in. This ain't a daycare, SIR.
Our library has a special soundproof room the kids play in. That's why it's the #2 library serving 40,000-60,000 people (some library in IL is #1).
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I hate when people come into the library and say "You know, you should really control the kids in here."
Um excuse me? That's where THE PARENTS come in. This ain't a daycare, SIR.
Our library has a special soundproof room the kids play in. That's why it's the #2 library serving 40,000-60,000 people (some library in IL is #1).
NICE! We need a soundproof room for some of our adult patrons, as well. I don't like being yelled at.
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I hate when people come into the library and say "You know, you should really control the kids in here."
Um excuse me? That's where THE PARENTS come in. This ain't a daycare, SIR.
Our library has a special soundproof room the kids play in. That's why it's the #2 library serving 40,000-60,000 people (some library in IL is #1).
Is that the big library on Kirkwood? I love that place. Got a great deal on some mint-condition classical records there last summer.
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I hate when people come into the library and say "You know, you should really control the kids in here."
Um excuse me? That's where THE PARENTS come in. This ain't a daycare, SIR.
are you a library employee?
i'm one. and from what i can tell so far, summer has transformed my branch into a daycare. also, what are parents?
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Back in my day, when the uptight spinster librarian gave us the hairy eyeball, we got quiet! Kids these days have no respect!
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The same. It's a great library, my daughter and I love it. (But I don't let the kid run wild in there. The worst she does is roll her eyes if she thinks I'm taking too long finding a book).
It also has an awesome graphic novel section now. Somebody there really knows their stuff.
What brought you to Bloomington, BTW?
I hate when people come into the library and say "You know, you should really control the kids in here."
Um excuse me? That's where THE PARENTS come in. This ain't a daycare, SIR.
Our library has a special soundproof room the kids play in. That's why it's the #2 library serving 40,000-60,000 people (some library in IL is #1).
Is that the big library on Kirkwood? I love that place. Got a great deal on some mint-condition classical records there last summer.
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I go to Bloomington at least once a year -- my wife and her whole family are IU alumni, and her parents have a condo there that used to belong to older relatives who died many years ago. I love it there. I frequently fantasize about buying it from them and trying to get a tenure-track job at IU, but I'm trapped in the NYC career vortex for now. I did have a play up at the Bloomington Playwrights' Project in 2004, though -- that was really fun.
One of my favorite bookstores in the world is Caveat Emptor. My wife wrote about it here:
http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=7880
Wow, how did I wind up being so enthusiastic about stuff on the f. you thread?
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Is that the big library on Kirkwood? I love that place. Got a great deal on some mint-condition classical records there last summer.
Whoa, your library SELLS things? Benjamin Franklin would be rolling over in his grave, if he hadn't discovered that potion that could keep him alive indefinitely.
Unless by "got a deal" you mean STOLE, in which case Franklin approves mightily.
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Yeah, I think we're ruining the thread. If you get another play at the Bloomington Playwright's Project, or are otherwise in town, let me know, maybe we can have an FOT meet-up.
I will check out the write-up.
Also: I really hate those 'Payday Lending' places, and 'Cash4Gold'. Trying to get back to the hate here.
I go to Bloomington at least once a year -- my wife and her whole family are IU alumni, and her parents have a condo there that used to belong to older relatives who died many years ago. I love it there. I frequently fantasize about buying it from them and trying to get a tenure-track job at IU, but I'm trapped in the NYC career vortex for now. I did have a play up at the Bloomington Playwrights' Project in 2004, though -- that was really fun.
One of my favorite bookstores in the world is Caveat Emptor. My wife wrote about it here:
http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=7880
Wow, how did I wind up being so enthusiastic about stuff on the f. you thread?
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I go to Bloomington at least once a year -- my wife and her whole family are IU alumni, and her parents have a condo there that used to belong to older relatives who died many years ago. I love it there. I frequently fantasize about buying it from them and trying to get a tenure-track job at IU, but I'm trapped in the NYC career vortex for now. I did have a play up at the Bloomington Playwrights' Project in 2004, though -- that was really fun.
One of my favorite bookstores in the world is Caveat Emptor. My wife wrote about it here:
http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=7880
Wow, how did I wind up being so enthusiastic about stuff on the f. you thread?
Jason, is your wife a friend of Maud's? Mine too, coincidentally.
On topic, I recently learned how much I hate Philly D. A colleague I respect sent me a "you gotta check this out!" email last week and sure enough it was a link to PhillyD's YouTube archive. Just painful.
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I go to Bloomington at least once a year -- my wife and her whole family are IU alumni, and her parents have a condo there that used to belong to older relatives who died many years ago. I love it there. I frequently fantasize about buying it from them and trying to get a tenure-track job at IU, but I'm trapped in the NYC career vortex for now. I did have a play up at the Bloomington Playwrights' Project in 2004, though -- that was really fun.
One of my favorite bookstores in the world is Caveat Emptor. My wife wrote about it here:
http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=7880
Wow, how did I wind up being so enthusiastic about stuff on the f. you thread?
Jason, is your wife a friend of Maud's? Mine too, coincidentally.
On topic, I recently learned how much I hate Philly D. A colleague I respect sent me a "you gotta check this out!" email last week and sure enough it was a link to PhillyD's YouTube archive. Just painful.
It is funny though to see all the edits and wonder how many hours he had to yammer on to yield a couple minutes of 'material'.
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I noticed that about the quick cuts. Forget waterboarding, let's get the uncut footage down to Camp X-Ray.
Also, that same colleage linked to this on his blog today -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C1AelRuy3Y
A really religious guy with an ode to rockstars of the blog world. Magic starts at 2:40.
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I noticed that about the quick cuts. Forget waterboarding, let's get the uncut footage down to Camp X-Ray.
Also, that same colleage linked to this on his blog today -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C1AelRuy3Y
A really religious guy with an ode to rockstars of the blog world. Magic starts at 2:40.
I took some psych courses in college, so I'm totally qualified to diagnose almost anyone. But the "why" of this completely escapes me. Plus, why is it 6 minutes?
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I hate when people come into the library and say "You know, you should really control the kids in here."
Um excuse me? That's where THE PARENTS come in. This ain't a daycare, SIR.
are you a library employee?
i'm one. and from what i can tell so far, summer has transformed my branch into a daycare. also, what are parents?
Yesh I am a library employee...as much as I love the Summer Reading Program (which is to say alot), it also gives us hell on many levels.
On another note, I hate that old ska dance, the "skank". It just looks weird.
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I hate the website collegehumor.com
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http://twitter.com/ROCKWITHBECK/status/2155424282
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I hate the website collegehumor.com
I'm with you 100%. They're the Maxim of the internet.
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On that note, I hate any ska made outside of the 60s and outside of Jamaica.
Except of course, for the ska-influenced track on the classic Rush album 'Moving Pictures' (and the Specials' 1st album).
I hate when people come into the library and say "You know, you should really control the kids in here."
Um excuse me? That's where THE PARENTS come in. This ain't a daycare, SIR.
are you a library employee?
i'm one. and from what i can tell so far, summer has transformed my branch into a daycare. also, what are parents?
Yesh I am a library employee...as much as I love the Summer Reading Program (which is to say alot), it also gives us hell on many levels.
On another note, I hate that old ska dance, the "skank". It just looks weird.
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I hate the website collegehumor.com
I'm with you 100%. They're the Maxim of the internet.
Thirded. Also, I hate the phrase, "just saying."
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I hate the website collegehumor.com
I'm with you 100%. They're the Maxim of the internet.
Thirded. Also, I hate the phrase, "just saying."
What about "just sayin'?"
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I hate the website collegehumor.com
I'm with you 100%. They're the Maxim of the internet.
Thirded. Also, I hate the phrase, "just saying."
What about "just sayin'?"
That too.
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Yeah, cutout, she is, though I've never met her. Do you live in NY?
And, just to keep the thread going:
http://twitter.com/ROCKWITHBECK/status/2155424282
Jesus, this moron is like if PhillyD went right-wing, and started tweeting instead of YouTubing. I can't look away.
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Yeah, cutout, she is, though I've never met her. Do you live in NY?
And, just to keep the thread going:
http://twitter.com/ROCKWITHBECK/status/2155424282
Jesus, this moron is like if PhillyD went right-wing, and started tweeting instead of YouTubing. I can't look away.
Not yet - I was the guy posting about NY apartments last month. Should be up there by Aug 1. Finding some really great deals in the Loisaida neighborhood near E River Park!
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What about "just sayin'?"
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I know you did this on purpose, but I'll bite.
The second set of quotation marks go before the question mark.
Give me back my goat, now that you got it.
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No they don't, Freddy.
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I'll bite, too: yes, they do (although they should be referred to as "closing quotation marks," not "the second set of quotation marks," which would imply two sets of paired opening and closing marks).
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You such a "smarty".
Thanks
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You such a "smarty".
Thanks
I'd replace smarty with something else, but it wouldn't fit in this family-friendly environment.
I want to see the specific MLA rule on this one.
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"You" such a "smarty."
Fredericks channeling Larry de Perv dehr.
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All I have on hand is Chicago. Will that do? If so, I refer you to section 6.9: "Question marks . . . follow closing quotation marks unless a question mark or an exclamation point belongs with the quoted matter [i.e., is part of the quotation]."
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let's say, hypothetically, that yesterday i was the epitamy of misanthrope. that is to say, more than usual.
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All I have on hand is Chicago. Will that do? If so, I refer you to section 6.9: "Question marks . . . follow closing quotation marks unless a question mark or an exclamation point belongs with the quoted matter [i.e., is part of the quotation]."
I will accept it.
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All I have on hand is Chicago. Will that do? If so, I refer you to section 6.9: "Question marks . . . follow closing quotation marks unless a question mark or an exclamation point belongs with the quoted matter [i.e., is part of the quotation]."
I will accept it.
Phew.
Also, while I'm on a roll, it's "epitome."
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Zach Braff.
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When my cat has little worms on her fur.
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When my cat has little worms on her fur.
Can you post in the pic thread? Cos a gruesome part of me wants to see this.
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When my cat has little worms on her fur.
Are they little tapeworm sections? One of my cats frequently sports those.
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AT&T Wireless.
Go shit in your hat, AT&T Wireless.
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sharing a cubicle with someone.
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Navy commercials.
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Any music that falls into the genre known as "post-rock".
And while I'm at it, could someone please explain to me what's so great about Slint? The rock cognoscenti always talk up the album Spiderland. Personally, I find it to be quite tedious to listen to. What is it that I'm missing about this band?
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Sandals in the workplace. Some women can pull it off. No men can. Keep your toes to yourself.
Sports sandals in any context.
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Sandals in the workplace. Some women can pull it off. No men can. Keep your toes to yourself.
Sports sandals in any context.
on that same note, people who walk around with the office barefoot or in their socks. if youre going to take your shoes off, keep it underneath your desk. yeesh.
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Sandals in the workplace. Some women can pull it off. No men can. Keep your toes to yourself.
Sports sandals in any context.
on that same note, people who walk around with the office barefoot or in their socks. if youre going to take your shoes off, keep it underneath your desk. yeesh.
I disallowed flip-flops for this very reason. No flip-flops for you!
Stupid Generation Y.
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Oh, you antifoot people would have hated to work with me: I took off my shoes at every opportunity back when I worked in the real world. (Still do, of course.)
I am perpetually mystified by the aversion so many FOT have to the sight of feet. Why do people care?
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I don't, Sarah.
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At the pool, or the beach I have no problem with it. At work, it's inappropriate. There is such a thing as situational context.
Unless you want to say that nothing's inappropriate, in which case I say get ready for the deluge.
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You and I seem to be in the minority, Martin.
And, buffcoat, there may be, but I don't think the context of work demands imprisoned feet.
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You and I seem to be in the minority, Martin.
And, buffcoat, there may be, but I don't think the context of work demands imprisoned feet.
Suffer, drones!
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Unlike the author I have no problem with girl feet if they are well-maintained.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/giles_coren/article6440468.ece
Worst of all are those preposterous action sandals in which men's gnarly white hoofs are strapped on to a black foam float with so many cross straps and bits of Velcro that it's basically a ventilated rambling boot - the ultimate Guardian reader's summer shoe. I saw Ranulph Fiennes advertising them once and, having previously rather admired the man, decided that henceforth I would regard every toe taken from him by frostbite as a blow struck for decency and good taste.
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I mainly have an aversion to feet because mine are so ugly. It's simple shame and self-hatred!
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And while I'm at it, could someone please explain to me what's so great about Slint? The rock cognoscenti always talk up the album Spiderland. Personally, I find it to be quite tedious to listen to. What is it that I'm missing about this band?
Yeah, I was super into that album as a young'un but when I revisited it more recently I was puzzled as to why. Now it seems kind of... sophomoric. I guess it hit a self-dramatizing goth nerve that, as an indie-rocker, I didn't want to admit I had.
Still, I've liked and respected most of the other stuff the various members have been involved in (including King Kong).
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Unlike the author I have no problem with girl feet if they are well-maintained.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/giles_coren/article6440468.ece
Worst of all are those preposterous action sandals in which men's gnarly white hoofs are strapped on to a black foam float with so many cross straps and bits of Velcro that it's basically a ventilated rambling boot - the ultimate Guardian reader's summer shoe. I saw Ranulph Fiennes advertising them once and, having previously rather admired the man, decided that henceforth I would regard every toe taken from him by frostbite as a blow struck for decency and good taste.
Yes/No I miss your lips and men's feet never bothered me before I read this thread.
I hate this thread
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When my cat has little worms on her fur.
Are they little tapeworm sections? One of my cats frequently sports those.
Tiny white things. This is killah cat. There's a pile of animal skulls on the porch.
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I like the post-rock. 'TNT' by Tortoise is a favorite album. I also have been known to listen to dub and what was at one time called ambient, so it kind of fits into that continuum.
As for Slint, I ignored them in the 90s because their fans were so annoying to me. Having revisited, I do like Spiderland. That Dave Pajo is alright with me. I can see why people might not dig it though, the vocals are kind of hard to take at times (the spoken word poetry and what not).
Any music that falls into the genre known as "post-rock".
And while I'm at it, could someone please explain to me what's so great about Slint? The rock cognoscenti always talk up the album Spiderland. Personally, I find it to be quite tedious to listen to. What is it that I'm missing about this band?
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Yeah, those are tapeworm sections. I once almost ate one--thought it was a stray bit of noodle that I'd missed. One of the more disgusting moments of my life.
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Yeah, those are tapeworm sections. I once almost ate one--thought it was a stray bit of noodle that I'd missed. One of the more disgusting moments of my life.
Nasty! I won't eat them.
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Wise decision.
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Someone told me that when you have a tapeworm living inside you, you get ravenously hungry.
Now, whenever I get ravenously hungry,
I wonder if I have a tapeworm in my stomach.
I hate that.
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Someone told me that when you have a tapeworm living inside you, you get ravenously hungry.
Now, whenever I get ravenously hungry,
I wonder if I have a tapeworm in my stomach.
I hate that.
Lucky you if you do.
Tape worms are a quick and easy weight-loss method.
Wait???
What thread is this???
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I love post-rock, I hate tapeworms.
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Oddly enough, the tapeworms don't bother my cat (who at this moment is coiling around my ankles nipping my calves, brat that he is). He has them during the summer, when he's doing a lot of killing, but he never loses weight or seems to suffer from them. I guess we weak modern humans have lost the capacity to accommodate this particular parasite.
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Someone told me that when you have a tapeworm living inside you, you get ravenously hungry.
Now, whenever I get ravenously hungry,
I wonder if I have a tapeworm in my stomach.
I hate that.
Lucky you if you do.
Tape worms are a quick and easy weight-loss method.
Wait???
What thread is this???
take it to the fitness thread, fredericks.
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How can my neighbor leave her alarm going when she's not home at least four days a week?
I've done it before--especially since I have a primitive alarm clock without "AM/PM" technology--but jesus fucking christ. How can you not make the necessary corrections to resolve this?
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I can't help it: I loathe Sarah Palin and wish her ill. Not physical harm; just ignominy, humiliation, and disgrace.
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I can't help it: I loathe Sarah Palin and wish her ill. Not physical harm; just ignominy, humiliation, and disgrace.
im with you on this, sarah. i cant help it; it's like trying to explain why i dont like peas.
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or capitalization
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or capitalization
Zung!
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or capitalization
or proper punctuation.
im lazy.
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One of the reasons I hate Sarah Palin is her offenses against language. And sense. Hearing her is bad enough; try reading transcripts of her speeches. It is then that you will really grasp what insane, incoherent, rambling, empty abominations they are. That they nevertheless make some people cheer depresses and frightens me.
I want her to be caught in flagrante doing something not even her latahs will be able to forgive.
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Other than my wife, people who touch me when they talk to me. Unhand me.
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Other than my wife, people who touch me when they talk to me. Unhand me.
Agreed, Jon... that is so weird.
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I do that sometimes. It always startles me. I'm mostly not a physical kind of gal, yet in the heat of conversation I may put a hand on my interlocutor's shoulder or forearm. Or punch lightly. I don't like it when people do that to me and I hate it when I do it myself, but it seems to be an almost involuntary gesture.
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You guys would hate me.
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would?
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Douché
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I'm on fire.
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God I hate it when my douche catches fire. Fucking douche.
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fuck you lady at the doctor's office who wouldnt open the door at 6:29 a.m., watching me stand outside until 6:30 a.m. rolled around.
you couldn't cut me a break? i didn't ask to be here!
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Leave my man Tito alone.
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Having to buy tickets through LiveNation. Their site is worse than Ticketmaster.
But I must see Patton.
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When my roommate decides to play solo tambourine.
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When my roommate decides to play solo tambourine.
That sounds cute!
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When my roommate decides to play solo tambourine.
That sounds cute!
I don't think cute is exactly the word I would use to describe 20 minutes of offbeat tambourine playing. But practice makes perfect, I guess. All the great tambourinists had to start somewhere.
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Does he at least practice to good music? Or is no music involved?
When my roommate decides to play solo tambourine.
That sounds cute!
I don't think cute is exactly the word I would use to describe 20 minutes of offbeat tambourine playing. But practice makes perfect, I guess. All the great tambourinists had to start somewhere.
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It is without music. He is playing tambourine alone. In his room. For reasons I will never be able to fathom.
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It is without music. He is playing tambourine alone. In his room. For reasons I will never be able to fathom.
Oh Lord. Like Ed Grimley, only without the backing music.
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It is without music. He is playing tambourine alone. In his room. For reasons I will never be able to fathom.
Maybe I'm suggestiong the obvious, but have you considered the possibility that your roommate is Davy Jones? And if your first reaction to this is "Of course it's not Davy Jones, I'd recognize Davy Jones," have you considered the possibility that your roommate is Davy Jones wearing a really good fake moustache?
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When my roommate decides to play solo tambourine.
Do you hate that he plays the solo tambourine or just that he makes a decision?
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It is without music. He is playing tambourine alone. In his room. For reasons I will never be able to fathom.
Do you "listen while [he] play-play-play-play-play-play-play-plays... [his] Green tambourine"?
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back to the topic:
people.
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on topic: me. I stayed up all night working on something I needed to finish like today. Got to bed at 8 am. Set the alarm to noon, cause I still had stuff to do (didn't finish the thing). But APPARENTLY my body was tired or something, because I turned the alarm off at noon and slept for another FOUR hours, essentially killing the "office hours" part of the day, when people with normal jobs are available. I'm so in the flesh about this.
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What does 'so in the flesh' mean? Is it some religious thing?
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http://www.srwu.net/index/2005/08/willie_ames_is_.html
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http://www.srwu.net/index/2005/08/willie_ames_is_.html
Thanks, I wondered what that was about.
I hate the word 'passion' with a passion.
It's too misused by the motivational speaker types.
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It is without music. He is playing tambourine alone. In his room. For reasons I will never be able to fathom.
Maybe I'm suggestiong the obvious, but have you considered the possibility that your roommate is Davy Jones? And if your first reaction to this is "Of course it's not Davy Jones, I'd recognize Davy Jones," have you considered the possibility that your roommate is Davy Jones wearing a really good fake moustache?
Some days I consider the possibility that everyone is just Davy Jones wearing a really good fake moustache.
It's the only way the world makes sense.
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Honestly, I despise the fact that my fiance still does not have his drivers license. There it is.
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Honestly, I despise the fact that my fiance still does not have his drivers license. There it is.
I dated a girl who did not drive, which would have been okay if we didn't live in Los Angeles. The fact that I had to drive her everywhere was not nearly as problematic at the fact that I drove her everywhere but to work. We're not together anymore, if I wanted to support someone and drive them around I'd have a child.
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I don't drive and have never had a license.
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It would be almost impossible to live in the Triangle and not drive, unless you were willing to stick to one neighborhood - and only the very poorest neighborhoods have all necessities within easy walking distance.
The suburbs are for drivers.
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"I hate it when you're sleeping over at a friend's house and that said friend's mom has to drive you home in the morning." - 12 year old Andy from Atlanta
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I don't drive and have never had a license.
Do you like to take roadtrips, though?
I have to drive 7 hours on my own to NC next week because we're going to the beach with his friends and he can't help me do it.
It's aggravating in our particular situation.
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"I hate it when you're sleeping over at a friend's house and that said friend's mom has to drive you home in the morning." - 12 year old Andy from Atlanta
But isn't it better than the walk of shame?
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Do you like to take roadtrips, though?
I like to take no trips.
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I regularly take trips to my refrigerator and to the grocery store for more items to put in my refrigerator.
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back to the topic of the thread:
this woman I have a crush on is getting married, and it turns out that the guy she's marrying can't even drive.
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NO WAY!!! Coincidence!
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or is it?
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:o
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I woke up deaf this morning, which is not great, so I thought I would call a friend who is a doctor and ask them what they thought.
But I can't.
Because I'm deaf.
So I have to rely on internet symptom sites which tell me I probably have throat cancer or syphilis. I hate internet doctors.
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The Internet thinks everything is syphilis.
I woke up deaf this morning, which is not great, so I thought I would call a friend who is a doctor and ask them what they thought.
But I can't.
Because I'm deaf.
So I have to rely on internet symptom sites which tell me I probably have throat cancer or syphilis. I hate internet doctors.
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currently i hate when people say "not so much"
i have no rational explanation for why this bugs me so much
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I woke up deaf this morning, which is not great, so I thought I would call a friend who is a doctor and ask them what they thought.
But I can't.
Because I'm deaf.
So I have to rely on internet symptom sites which tell me I probably have throat cancer or syphilis. I hate internet doctors.
Well, shit. I hope you get better.
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I think maybe you should see a doctor face to face, feller.
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Yeah, are you still deaf, DrCam? Like completely? Please update. Hope you're OK.
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currently i hate when people say "not so much"
i have no rational explanation for why this bugs me so much
Me? Not so much.
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Yeah, are you still deaf, DrCam? Like completely? Please update. Hope you're OK.
Waking up deaf sounds scary and unnerving. One time I lost all the hearing in one ear (which is a problem considering I already am hearing-impaired and wear hearing aids) and went to the doctor. I'd rather not go into detail because it's kinda gruesome, but in the end they couldn't figure out what happened and eventually my hearing came back.
On topic, I hate when adults whine about about something "not being fair." Where is your dignity?
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I consulted with a physician compadre via text message, and he diagnosed me as having blocked eustachian tubes, then prescribed sniffing salt water up my nose.
It was very messy, but it did the trick.
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I hate finding out that good friends are getting divorced. This happens more and more often these days.
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currently i hate when people say "not so much"
i have no rational explanation for why this bugs me so much
Settle down, Hitler. :D
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currently i hate when people say "not so much"
i have no rational explanation for why this bugs me so much
I hate when people say prolly instead of probably which is an overused cop out answer to a yes or no question anyway. The only similarity to your gripe is I know a guy who uses both.
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currently i hate when people say "not so much"
i have no rational explanation for why this bugs me so much
I hate when people say prolly instead of probably which is an overused cop out answer to a yes or no question anyway. The only similarity to your gripe is I know a guy who uses both.
Prolly most people hate that.
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I thought "prolly" was a text-message word.
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Use of the term "button-down" to refer generically to a shirt that is buttoned rather than a shirt with a button-down collar.
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What? I have never heard of that. How idiotic.
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How do you feel about the term "hoodie"?
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Sarah, I think you have been in isolation from society since the sad rise of "office casual," which I blame for the loss of certain vocabulary terms. The metaphorical term "shoe leather" is also being lost as many men no longer own any shoes with leather soles, causing them to associate the term with uppers.
How do you feel about the term "hoodie"?
It seems like a well-needed short version of "hooded sweatshirt." I think there is some confusion as to whether it's restricted to the zipperless variety, however. Hoodies seem to be controversial in Britain for some reason.
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Blame synecdoche, yesno. It's just so darn easy to scapegoat garments instead of what's inside them. After all, they can't fight back.
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Blame synecdoche, yesno.
I always do, you flamingos.
My main objection to Office Casual Culture is not that people choose to wear clothes that I personally don't like or that people want to be comfortable--those things are fine. It's the blurring of the distinction between "work" and "fun" that I think is bad, because it inevitably leads to Blackberry slavery and related ills.
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I wear jeans to work and work at a company with at least 500 employees. It's work + fun and it's pretty fantastic.
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I wear jeans to work and work at a company with at least 500 employees. It's work + fun and it's pretty fantastic.
Nothing is more fun than wearing jeans! HANG TEN BROSEPH
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I just hate the "since work is fun, surely you'll welcome all this extra unpaid work" mentality I've encountered before.
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Yeah yeah yeah well we can bring dogs to work too! And there's free beer once a month! And no working late! And I can listen to whatever offensive comedy I want to! And you shut up now!
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I wonder why we have trouble competing in the global marketplace?
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We have offices in Europe, South Africa and Australia, sucka.
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South Africa and Australia might as well be Europe, so just say "We have offices in Europe."
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We have offices in Europe, too.
I'm allowed to be naked at work, but only while changing/showering in the fitness center.
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Why do I get annoyed by photos of people smiling at parties holding Solo cups in their hands? Am I insane?
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When people say, "Holy (long unfunny phrase), Batman!"
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I hate that I can't make the FOT gathering. If I would have had a few months notice I might have pulled it off.
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My toilet backed up and the hardware store only has bad, unhelpful plungers. My roomate is out of town. And I think I am sick. Today sucks it.
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I hate working in post production. Could anything go right ever?
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I hate working in post production. Could anything go right ever?
Shit, try working in a rental house. I'm basically expected to know absolutely everything about 15 different kinds of of cameras and every conceivable piece of production gear, but I get paid dogshit and am treated like a PA on a Klaus Kinski set.
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Being a prisoner of my karaoke success. C'mon, I want to do a song besides 'Staying Alive' already. I'm so much more than the 'Staying Alive' guy.
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I don't listen to too much rap, but when I do, I definitely don't want to hear some DJ trying to make a name for himself by vandalizing the track by shouting over it.
Aziz Ansari did a hilarious parody (http://azizisbored.tumblr.com/post/177389632/jay-z-feat-aziz-ansari-and-kanye-west-hate-dj) of this really weird phenomenon.
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Use of the term "button-down" to refer generically to a shirt that is buttoned rather than a shirt with a button-down collar.
The first time I heard this, it caused a fight between me and my girlfriend at the time. Since then, I've heard it so often that I'd come to assume that I was wrong. I feel so vindicated!
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Use of the term "button-down" to refer generically to a shirt that is buttoned rather than a shirt with a button-down collar.
The first time I heard this, it caused a fight between me and my girlfriend at the time. Since then, I've heard it so often that I'd come to assume that I was wrong. I feel so vindicated!
It's also odd to me that "button-down" is a synonym for (to quote the New Oxford American) "conservative or unimaginative." As seen on the wonderful series of Bob Newhart albums. But how did that come to be? Button-down collars originate in sports and are still considered somewhat informal. I mean, you wouldn't wear one to a coronation or your daughter's wedding.
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They originated in sports? I didn't know that. Neither did I know that they're still considered more informal than their non-button-down brethren.
It's not for nothing that I posted "Fuck fashion. Fuck trends" on the original FOTchan.
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They originated in sports? I didn't know that. Neither did I know that they're still considered more informal than their non-button-down brethren.
It's not for nothing that I posted "Fuck fashion. Fuck trends" on the original FOTchan.
Fashion is fascism. Lester Bangs
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Well, even the normal business suit arose as an informal alternative to morning dress and frock coats. And the tailcoat arose as a better horse-riding technology. The history of clothes is generally something starting out as casual/country/sporting/informal wear and gradually becoming seen as more and more formal. Sweatpants and basketball shorts are the endgame.
But yes, the canned story is that polo (or rugby) players were seen in England with custom shirts with button-down collars to prevent flapping. These were then brought to the US by Brooks Brothers as "polo shirts" (which term is now used to refer to what were once called "tennis shirts"). The Brooks Brothers association made it a WASPy kind of thing, which is I guess where the metaphorical sense comes from.
I think that a button-down collar is fine for most job interviews or day-to-day wear in an office, especially today, but that kind of collar would be out of place in some formal situations. I'd say it's the shirt equivalent of wearing a blazer instead of a matched suit jacket. Men's shoes are also of varying levels of "formality" with wingtips with a lot of brogueing and loafers on the informal end, for instance.
Meanwhile as I write this I'm wearing a fluorescent blue t shirt I bought at a craft store, ill-fitting khakis and flithy checkered slip-on Vans. But I like to be informed.
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They originated in sports? I didn't know that. Neither did I know that they're still considered more informal than their non-button-down brethren.
It's not for nothing that I posted "Fuck fashion. Fuck trends" on the original FOTchan.
Fashion is fascism. Lester Bangs
I don't like "fashion" but I do like "style," which I define as looking generically 20th century. More Duke of Windsor than Helmut Lang.
I would like to arrange things such that I live in the world of Brideshead Revisited, but with less gay Catholic drunk sadness.
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It's not for nothing that I posted "Fuck fashion. Fuck trends" on the original FOTchan.
I can't believe that you admit to being involved with those animals.
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Well, even the normal business suit arose as an informal alternative to morning dress and frock coats. And the tailcoat arose as a better horse-riding technology. The history of clothes is generally something starting out as casual/country/sporting/informal wear and gradually becoming seen as more and more formal. Sweatpants and basketball shorts are the endgame.
But yes, the canned story is that polo (or rugby) players were seen in England with custom shirts with button-down collars to prevent flapping. These were then brought to the US by Brooks Brothers as "polo shirts" (which term is now used to refer to what were once called "tennis shirts"). The Brooks Brothers association made it a WASPy kind of thing, which is I guess where the metaphorical sense comes from.
I think that a button-down collar is fine for most job interviews or day-to-day wear in an office, especially today, but that kind of collar would be out of place in some formal situations. I'd say it's the shirt equivalent of wearing a blazer instead of a matched suit jacket. Men's shoes are also of varying levels of "formality" with wingtips with a lot of brogueing and loafers on the informal end, for instance.
Meanwhile as I write this I'm wearing a fluorescent blue t shirt I bought at a craft store, ill-fitting khakis and flithy checkered slip-on Vans. But I like to be informed.
Fashion IS fascism.
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Why isn't it spelled Fascion, then?
Well, even the normal business suit arose as an informal alternative to morning dress and frock coats. And the tailcoat arose as a better horse-riding technology. The history of clothes is generally something starting out as casual/country/sporting/informal wear and gradually becoming seen as more and more formal. Sweatpants and basketball shorts are the endgame.
But yes, the canned story is that polo (or rugby) players were seen in England with custom shirts with button-down collars to prevent flapping. These were then brought to the US by Brooks Brothers as "polo shirts" (which term is now used to refer to what were once called "tennis shirts"). The Brooks Brothers association made it a WASPy kind of thing, which is I guess where the metaphorical sense comes from.
I think that a button-down collar is fine for most job interviews or day-to-day wear in an office, especially today, but that kind of collar would be out of place in some formal situations. I'd say it's the shirt equivalent of wearing a blazer instead of a matched suit jacket. Men's shoes are also of varying levels of "formality" with wingtips with a lot of brogueing and loafers on the informal end, for instance.
Meanwhile as I write this I'm wearing a fluorescent blue t shirt I bought at a craft store, ill-fitting khakis and flithy checkered slip-on Vans. But I like to be informed.
Fashion IS fascism.
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I hate people who sign up to receive emails from my company and then report us as Spam. If you don't like it then unsubscribe! We make it so easy for you. Just click the linky link and press the confirm button. And then don't RE-subscribe just to do it all over again! Fucking moron customers.
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I hate people who sign up to receive emails from my company and then report us as Spam. If you don't like it then unsubscribe! We make it so easy for you. Just click the linky link and press the confirm button. And then don't RE-subscribe just to do it all over again! Fucking moron customers.
I'll fight you on this, because so many companies make it too easy to "sign up" for email without realizing it. You didn't uncheck the little button on the button of page three? Your fault, then. Fuck that. I've never reported anything other than to my own spam filters, which are my business, or sometimes I just bounce the email back.
Plus, there are some companies that seem unable to honor unsubscribe requests (SURELY he'll want to know about something of THIS importance), and actual spammers who use "unsubscribe" links only as a way to verify that an email address is real so that they can send it more spam.
I'm not saying you guys do that. I'm sure you make people actively and intelligently opt in to stuff. And when there is something I have signed up for, or at least a company I'm somewhat friendly about, I'll do the unsubscribe link. But this is the perspective of people who are bombarded with nonstop bullshit email.
And hey, how about companies that say "click here to unsubscribe" and then make you log in with your "account"?
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Those aren't companies that do that, those are spammers. They're doing something illegal. We are not. It's part of my job to make sure that we're not, and I do that. When you subscribe, you know you're subscribing. It's clear. So no need to fight me on it, really.
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But how are people to know, ahead of time, that you're in the minority of good guys? Especially when even the good guys bend the rules so often?
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Oh, and you know what I hate? Auto Tune the News. It's just not funny. It was funny once, like a whopee cushion.
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ha ha whoopee cushion man those never get old
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ha ha whoopee cushion man those never get old
Nice to have you back Mr. Davidson
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Oh, and you know what I hate? Auto Tune the News. It's just not funny. It was funny once, like a whopee cushion.
Wow, just after I praised you so effusively about your Juggalo knock. Ah, well.
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ha ha whoopee cushion man those never get old
You're darn right, Deve Stavidson.
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Oh, and you know what I hate? Auto Tune the News. It's just not funny. It was funny once, like a whopee cushion.
Wow, just after I praised you so effusively about your Juggalo knock. Ah, well.
Ah, I was just grumpy and tired when I wrote that. I just didn't like the Auto Tune the News with T Pain. And I don't like these internet elitists who are shoving it down my throat.
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I hate people who sign up to receive emails from my company and then report us as Spam. If you don't like it then unsubscribe! We make it so easy for you. Just click the linky link and press the confirm button. And then don't RE-subscribe just to do it all over again! Fucking moron customers.
I'll fight you on this, because so many companies make it too easy to "sign up" for email without realizing it. You didn't uncheck the little button on the button of page three? Your fault, then. Fuck that. I've never reported anything other than to my own spam filters, which are my business, or sometimes I just bounce the email back.
Plus, there are some companies that seem unable to honor unsubscribe requests (SURELY he'll want to know about something of THIS importance), and actual spammers who use "unsubscribe" links only as a way to verify that an email address is real so that they can send it more spam.
I'm not saying you guys do that. I'm sure you make people actively and intelligently opt in to stuff. And when there is something I have signed up for, or at least a company I'm somewhat friendly about, I'll do the unsubscribe link. But this is the perspective of people who are bombarded with nonstop bullshit email.
And hey, how about companies that say "click here to unsubscribe" and then make you log in with your "account"?
Yes and yes!
I did some end of summer cleaning of email subscriptions (along with a fresh install of XP) and noticed that some companies just keep sending emails after you unsubscribe. But in this age where the president is sending me thrice daily emails about Ted Kennedy, I suppose anything is possible.
Erika, what happens at the other end if I mark an email "as spam?" Do they get bounced back to their sender? I thought that just made it so the emails just automatically trashed??
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Oh!
And I hate... hmmm....
Old folks who yell at me for biking on the sidewalk (I don't know if this stems from some local tradition of strict adherence to laws or what). Sometimes, I like to take it easy and not risk my life in the speedy, sometimes life-threatening lanes of Helsinki traffic... I, and hundreds like me, occasionally (and probably ilicitly) bike on the sidewalk. Not if it's crowded, mind you, only when there are little to no pedestrians around. Invariably there is always some grouch shaking his cane at me - scolding my insubordination.
Perhaps he would have had a happier life if he had not spent so much time waiting for the little red man to change to a little green man at the crosswalks? (another weird habit here -- jaywalking is somewhat of a new phenomenon here, even when the roads are empty).
They just like their laws, I guess.
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Adding one to the "fuck newsletters" chorus.
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Adding one to the "fuck newsletters" chorus.
I am a web designer and when a client asks me to add a newsletter feature to their site I say no problem. But then I ask them how many newsletters they themselves subscribe to and the answer is usually zero.
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Adding one to the "fuck newsletters" chorus.
I am a web designer and when a client asks me to add a newsletter feature to their site I say no problem. But then I ask them how many newsletters they themselves subscribe to and the answer is usually zero.
The thing is there are emails I want to get from companies. Like NewsGator, recently saying "We are turning off NewsGator syncing and moving to Google Reader. You need to update all your programs and set up Google Reader."
Or, "Your bill is late. Pay your bill, you coward."
That shit's helpful. But some companies need to understand that the big project they've been working on for months doesn't interest most people in the least, just like they're probably not interested that I just landed the Jenkins account.
Sorry Erika. Not talking about you guys, and I'm sure you're more like NewsGator than the Bad Guys.
This student-run used bookstore used to email the entire law school each time their hours changed, which was weekly. My friends and I would re-forward these emails to each other with an "fyi." Oh, laffs.
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It's not for nothing that I posted "Fuck fashion. Fuck trends" on the original FOTchan.
I can't believe that you admit to being involved with those animals.
They're my animals, and I love them all.
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Skinny white friends who sing the blues.
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Jerks who don't turn down the volume on their laptops in public spaces, like this jerk right next to me on this train. Doesn't play any music, but all those Windows sounds are turned up to the MAX. Really, guy?
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I hate getting shit, even though I know I'm in the right.
Yesterday I was sitting in the park, a public place, with my girlfriend when this guy comes over and sits down fairly close to us. Next thing we know, he's playing guitar and singing folk songs. My girlfriend notices me tense up and says, "Don't say anything to him. Let's move to another spot."
So I go over to the guy and ask him nicely to please stop playing. He gives me a confused/angry look and continues playing. Then I notice my girlfriend ride away on her bike. Now she won't take my calls.
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Afraid I'm going to have to side with the guitar player on this one. That being said, that seems like a pretty strong response from your girlfriend.
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I would need to know how fm defines "ask[ing] him nicely to please stop playing" before I'd be willing to say anything about the girlfriend's behavior.
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Sarah, I went over to him and said, "Excuse me, could you not play right here?" and he said, "Sorry, it's a free society, dude". So I said, "Well, actually, it's a community and we're all respectful of each other in public places, you're being intrusive". Then he said something like, "No I'm not, I'm adding to the environment through the self expression of my music". That's as far as I got when I noticed my girlfriend was gone.
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You keep misspelling ex-girlfriend.
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fricking acoustic guitar playing, folk singing in public square troubadors. There's a place for this sort of thing. It's called your basement apartments.
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I really, really like the image of you standing there, watching her pedal slowly away. If I were a director, this would be a scene in my movie.
Thanks, FM!
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There's no public square in my basement apartment.
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I mean no disrespect at all, FM, these are just some random comments I have about your situation.
Even if you are in the right about free speech (?), I mean, your girlfriend did tell you you guys should just sit somewhere else, which is not an unreasonable suggestion. If you had to "get up" from where you were to tell him to play somewhere else, it would have been just as easy to get up and move to a slightly farther place to sit and talk with your girlfriend. I'm sure you're aware that she's angry about you not listening, not about the pros-cons of public music-making. Is not listening to her a frequent point of contention between the two of you?
More-on-thread-topic: I hate doing homework?
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I finally got in touch with her. Apparently I'm easily distracted by things going on around me when she's trying to talk to me. Does some bearded college student strumming his guitar into my ear make me an easily distracted person?
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You sound perfectly reasonable to me.
Sincerely,
Bernie Goetz
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My boss.
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You sound perfectly reasonable to me.
Sincerely,
Bernie Goetz
Very nice, Dave.
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my co-worker who has been my officemate for 3 years, and interviewed me when I was hired, was fired this morning. He has a 12 week old baby at home and had no indication this was coming. i hate this. f. you, whoever.
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whomever
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Everything, lately.
I gotta snap out of it.
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Out of habit, I just turned and talked to his empty desk. THIS SUCKS ASS.
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Erika, why was he fired?
I wish I had a job. :'(
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I'm not really sure. I have the feeling his position is going to be absorbed by other people here or they're going to hire someone cheaper.
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When you catch the eye of a busker and they play their guitar at you and you can't escape.
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But when the band plays "Hail to the Chief" they point the cannon at you.
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People who have absolutely no clue about anything, yet have strong opinions (and power to enforce them) about everything. (In this case, people = editors.)
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In my experience the more passionate and outspoken you are about a topic, the less likely you know about all aspects of it.
Editors do seem like dicks.
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Potential employers who think because I've been doing something the past few years, that's all I'll ever be able to do or want to do. Why would I be looking for a job in that case?
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Lots of reasons
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I saw a perennial favorite of mine today, the old "Not responsible for broken windows" sign on a gravel truck. It's a sign I would have on my gravel truck if I were a gravel truck driver, in that it makes sure cars stay back--cars should stay about a car length per 10 mph behind any vehicle.
That said, I once had my windshield chipped by gravel from a gravel truck, and I was many many car lengths behind this fucking gravel truck. More than the usual safe distance. This gravel truck was just spewing gravel all over the place.
What, do you think your dumb sign gives you a license to be irresponsible? Your sign has no effect, gravel truck drivers. Just putting up a sign doesn't change reality. You are responsible for your loose gravel. Face facts. I wish I wish I sued the gravel company and got an injunction against that stupid, misleading sign.
Also, I hope everyone knows that "not for resale" notices are worthless. If you own it, and you're not in some "I agree not to resell this" contract (which you're probably not), you can resell anything you want. It's yours. You also do not need express written permission to make fair use of footage from major league baseball games. But be prepared to go to court on that one.
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They fired someone else today. Fucking Wednesdays. Always at 11AM, too. Such BS!!! Do that shit at the end of the week or at least at the end of the day.
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Also, "minimum $7 to use credit card" = bullshit. Credit card issuers do not allow that sort of nonsense. If you take credit cards, you take credit cards. It's in your fucking agreement.
If they won't let you use a credit card for any purchase you want to make, just threaten to call the card issuer. VISA/MC/AmEx take that shit seriously.
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Also, "minimum $7 to use credit card" = bullshit. Credit card issuers do not allow that sort of nonsense. If you take credit cards, you take credit cards. It's in your fucking agreement.
If they won't let you use a credit card for any purchase you want to make, just threaten to call the card issuer. VISA/MC/AmEx take that shit seriously.
Do credit card companies have a per-transaction fee? I worked at a place that had a "$5 minimum," but the owner was not able to give a coherent reason why. (Note: 5% of $2.50 plus 5% of $2.50 is the same as 5% of $5.)
I assume they're just trying to make extra sales.
If there is a per-transaction fee I don't understand why they don't just batch their transactions.
At the same time, would it be a violation of the merchant agreement to kick people out who insist on using a credit card for everything? You take the card and then ban them for life. I guess it would be.
It is perfectly legal to refuse payment in pennies or any other form of cash, I might say. "Legal tender" just means that if I owe you a debt and offer to pay you in cash, you can't sue me. But I can refuse to enter a transaction with you (and thus prevent any indebtedness on either side) if you plan to pay with cash. If the customer merely has an item in his hand at the register it's not "his" yet and thus there's no debt, and so the merchant can refuse payment in cash.
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Lots of reasons
Yeah that's true. Like I need money for heroin and stuff.
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Ran completely out of groceries. No one in my house willing to give me a ride to the supermarket. I have like an end piece of bread and maybe a scoop of ice cream. That can last a weekend, right?
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Ice cream sandwich
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Ice cream sandwich
It'll have to be open face though. Or I could fold the piece of bread I guess.
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I hate that so many American acquaintances have started conspicuously using British-isms recently:
-"Cheers"
-"Mucking about"
-"When I was at university..."
-"Brilliant"
-"shite"
-"a proper _____"
-"colour"
-"arse"
-"get a pint"
-"dodgy"
Is it okay to slap these people?
You forgot "my lady" my least favorite.
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'Spot on' grates on my nerves.
I hate that so many American acquaintances have started conspicuously using British-isms recently:
-"Cheers"
-"Mucking about"
-"When I was at university..."
-"Brilliant"
-"shite"
-"a proper _____"
-"colour"
-"arse"
-"get a pint"
-"dodgy"
Is it okay to slap these people?
You forgot "my lady" my least favorite.
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This thread makes me afraid to say or do anything.
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This thread makes me afraid to say or do anything.
Mission accomplished. Lock it down.
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This thread makes me afraid to say or do anything.
I hate that.
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Having to listen to my friend talk about her child's militant nap schedule.
I don't care anymore. If you can't go do social things because the kid has to nap at the same times every day, that's fine. Just STOP involving me in your decision-making process. Not everyone believes a 14 month-old has to go to bed at 6:30 each and every night. Some people bring their children to weddings and dinners and other social events or let them fall asleep in the car. I am tired of having to agree with you just to make you feel better about this mania. Chill out and let the kid get used to shit. Or keep him on "the schedule". Either way just stop talking about it constantly because we all know that as a person without children, I'm not allowed to voice any criticism -- or in this case -- my true opinion on the matter.
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I didn't enjoy people telling me it was too hot or cold for my baby. Stay out of my business, non-baby-having jerks.
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Do credit card companies have a per-transaction fee? I worked at a place that had a "$5 minimum," but the owner was not able to give a coherent reason why. (Note: 5% of $2.50 plus 5% of $2.50 is the same as 5% of $5.)
I assume they're just trying to make extra sales.
I think some places have to pay something like a dollar per credit card transaction. So they impose a minimum CC payment themselves.
I went to buy an item at a convenience store that was something like $4.65. I went to pay with my card and he tells me "We can't take credit cards if it's under $5." Then he says "Well, we CAN. But we don't want to."
You don't want to? I wanted to walk out of the store without paying so he'd say "Sir, you have to pay for that!" Then I'd say "Well, I can. But I don't want to."
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The chick my boss is going to marry. She used to work with me, but left for grad school and comes back to visit occasionally. All the people up top love her but she chooses who she likes and doesn't like of the newer people. I'm one of the people she doesn't like and I've known her for 3 long years. I knew she didn't like me the second we met. We have a "family environment" so she comes to all the parties and gives me hugs and stuff but it's clear she doesn't like me.
Last night, she was around and I congratulated her on her engagement. She thanked me and I asked to look at her ring. She showed me and it was pretty. I told her she was going to make a beautiful bride, which is true. She replies, "We'll see." WTF? What does that mean? F you.
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Having to listen to my friend talk about her child's militant nap schedule.
I don't care anymore. If you can't go do social things because the kid has to nap at the same times every day, that's fine. Just STOP involving me in your decision-making process. Not everyone believes a 14 month-old has to go to bed at 6:30 each and every night. Some people bring their children to weddings and dinners and other social events or let them fall asleep in the car. I am tired of having to agree with you just to make you feel better about this mania. Chill out and let the kid get used to shit. Or keep him on "the schedule". Either way just stop talking about it constantly because we all know that as a person without children, I'm not allowed to voice any criticism -- or in this case -- my true opinion on the matter.
You are so right.
Chill out, parents. Your kid will still be OK even if you're not stressing out 24/7. It might even help.
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Several times a week at my work cafeteria, I'm subjected to someone in the check-out line attempting a conversation with the cashier where they throw in whatever Spanish words they happen to know (the cashier speaks perfect English). She just has to smile and treat these people like children ("that's very good!")
An example from this morning:
Lady: "Buenas deeyas"
Cashier: "Hi, haven't seen you around in a while"
Lady: "I've been busy with my trabahjo since June, how do you say "June"?
Cashier: "Junio"
Lady: "Juneau"
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Saw Tom's tweet today and I wholeheartedly agree about Nikki Finke. She's the worst part about Hollywood where she embodies entertainment as purely a business. Whenever I've read stuff linked to her site, it makes me think she probably hasn't see a movie in like 12 years or watched a show in ages.
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Do credit card companies have a per-transaction fee? I worked at a place that had a "$5 minimum," but the owner was not able to give a coherent reason why. (Note: 5% of $2.50 plus 5% of $2.50 is the same as 5% of $5.)
I assume they're just trying to make extra sales.
I think some places have to pay something like a dollar per credit card transaction. So they impose a minimum CC payment themselves.
I went to buy an item at a convenience store that was something like $4.65. I went to pay with my card and he tells me "We can't take credit cards if it's under $5." Then he says "Well, we CAN. But we don't want to."
You don't want to? I wanted to walk out of the store without paying so he'd say "Sir, you have to pay for that!" Then I'd say "Well, I can. But I don't want to."
I recently went to a local convenience store that I had never been to. I was getting drinks for my family and a big bag of chips for a two hour drive we were embarking on. I had about $7 worth of stuff and when I handed the lady my card she said simply "No cards". When I pointed out that the guy in front of me had just used a card she said it louder "NO CARDS!". I was really confused and I pointed to the credit card machine and asked "What's that for?" and she replied "NOT FOR YOU!". To this day I have no idea what that was all about but I hated the experience and I'm now even more insecure than I was before I went into that store.
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I happened to find a Teas Tea Goji while I was out of town. I've never had this flavor before (the local stores don't carry it), and I kept thinking I ought to just open it up and try it. Then I thought, I'll try it when I get home. I shoved it down in my bag and forgot about it.
Lo and behold, the security guy flagged my bag and the woman working the line confiscated my 16.9 oz tea. It's a stupid fucking rule, but them's the rules.
I said, "I just want to try it, then I'll throw it away." Nope, I would have had to go back outside and then come back through security, which in retrospect I should have done, but I didn't.
Moral of this story: Now the terrorists really have won.
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The Yankees.
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http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/122693-report-giuliani-didnt-like-yankees-seats?cnn=yes (http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/122693-report-giuliani-didnt-like-yankees-seats?cnn=yes)
I'm not saying I hate Giuliani, I'm just pointing out that he's a gigantic asshole.
"I WANNA TALK TO POSADA! WAAAH!"
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I was getting drinks for my family and a big bag of chips. . . . I had about $7 worth of stuff.
That sounds like an amazing deal. I mean, a big bag of chips alone must cost $4.
On another note: what I hate today is today, for no good reason.
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I was getting drinks for my family and a big bag of chips. . . . I had about $7 worth of stuff.
That sounds like an amazing deal. I mean, a big bag of chips alone must cost $4.
On another note: what I hate today is today, for no good reason.
Tighten up dere, Girl
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I'm easing off on this, don't want to come across as a whiny 30 something, or Jay Leno.
BTW I watched his monologue the other night. That Kevin guy does the 'sad guitar' thing every other joke. They couldn't get a trumpet player?
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I was getting drinks for my family and a big bag of chips. . . . I had about $7 worth of stuff.
That sounds like an amazing deal. I mean, a big bag of chips alone must cost $4.
On another note: what I hate today is today, for no good reason.
Tighten up dere, Girl
Another use of "tight" (well, a form thereof) with which I'm not familiar! I'm going to take it to mean something helpful unless someone tells me otherwise.
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Saw Tom's tweet today and I wholeheartedly agree about Nikki Finke. She's the worst part about Hollywood where she embodies entertainment as purely a business. Whenever I've read stuff linked to her site, it makes me think she probably hasn't see a movie in like 12 years or watched a show in ages.
Surreal - I had never heard of Nikki Finke until Tom's tweet. I googled her and then read a long New Yorker article about her. Then randomly today she's reporting about an ex-girlfriend of mine (not a brag!) who just parted ways with the Mad Men team, though the article skews it like there was some bloodletting at the show which is not entirely what happened -
http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/recent-emmy-winning-young-female-writer-loses-her-job-on-mad-men/
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If someone invites you to their wedding, mail back the god damned RSVP. Or, go fuck yourself.
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If someone invites you to their wedding, mail back the god damned RSVP. Or, go fuck yourself.
I'll go fuck myself, thanks.
But I guess I don't get a choice since apparently I didn't make the invite list. Oh well, there's always next time.
(I love trying to make people feel bad for things that they have no reason at all to feel bad about, but that's for discussion in another thread.)
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Also, I agree with Erika's post. It's not asking too much. Just let them know.
My big complaint lately is that the people who volunteer for everything follow through on none of it. I hate that. Don't volunteer. Or do what you volunteer to do.
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You were on the B list, Andy. Patience, patience...
Now poor Sparkles is going to have to go stag...
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If someone invites you to their wedding, mail back the god damned RSVP. Or, go fuck yourself.
I'll go fuck myself, thanks.
But I guess I don't get a choice since apparently I didn't make the invite list. Oh well, there's always next time.
(I love trying to make people feel bad for things that they have no reason at all to feel bad about, but that's for discussion in another thread.)
Power callers didn't make the cut, either, Andy.
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Here's one I'm torn on: fuck you security guards "just doing my job"
I'm staying in nice hotel with my dad and I have a final due tomorrow in a class. So I go downstairs to an empty conference room and spread out my stuff. I'm quietly working and in comes a security guard. "you can't be here". So I ask if they have a business center, and JE points me in the diection. It's a computer in the lobby of this hotel full of drunk football idiots and there is a karaoke bar across the hall. There is no way I'm writing my supply chain Mgmt paper there. So I go to the room until my dad decides to go to bed and I go back down. I find another small room with a table and work quietly until the security guy came back in. "sir, I thought we were clear that you couldn't be back in these area" I explained my predicament to him, biut he didn't care. By this time it's 12:30 and I just go out to my car to finish typing my paper.
On one hand I want to cut the guy some slack. He's just a big idiot doing what he's told and probably afraid to get in trouble.
In the other hand (this is about to sound really Shitty) I'm a 30 year old, clean cut guy dressed professionally, carrying a briefcase and working quietly in an upscale hotel in an extremely white bread suburb of Dallas. There's a part of me that just wants to say "can't you just be a human being for once in your life and realize that I'm not a threat and look the other way?"
whatever. Fuck that guy.
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I think I might have asked for an exemption with the front desk person.
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I think I might have asked for an exemption with the front desk person.
Yeah, me too probably. But fuck that guy anyway.
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Oh, I did.
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Here's one I'm torn on: fuck you security guards "just doing my job"
I'm staying in nice hotel with my dad and I have a final due tomorrow in a class. So I go downstairs to an empty conference room and spread out my stuff. I'm quietly working and in comes a security guard. "you can't be here". So I ask if they have a business center, and JE points me in the diection. It's a computer in the lobby of this hotel full of drunk football idiots and there is a karaoke bar across the hall. There is no way I'm writing my supply chain Mgmt paper there. So I go to the room until my dad decides to go to bed and I go back down. I find another small room with a table and work quietly until the security guy came back in. "sir, I thought we were clear that you couldn't be back in these area" I explained my predicament to him, biut he didn't care. By this time it's 12:30 and I just go out to my car to finish typing my paper.
On one hand I want to cut the guy some slack. He's just a big idiot doing what he's told and probably afraid to get in trouble.
In the other hand (this is about to sound really Shitty) I'm a 30 year old, clean cut guy dressed professionally, carrying a briefcase and working quietly in an upscale hotel in an extremely white bread suburb of Dallas. There's a part of me that just wants to say "can't you just be a human being for once in your life and realize that I'm not a threat and look the other way?"
whatever. Fuck that guy.
I'm a 30 year old, clean cut guy dressed professionally, carrying a briefcase and working quietly in an upscale hotel in an extremely white bread suburb of Dallas.
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If you thugged it up a bit, he probably wouldn't mess with you.
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Is this anything?
hxxp://www.jasonverlaine.com/
Found via:
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-343165
Does talking/gesturing maniacally into a camera qualify as entertainment? What has YouTube wrought.
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Is this anything?
hxxp://www.jasonverlaine.com/
Found via:
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-343165
Does talking/gesturing maniacally into a camera qualify as entertainment? What has YouTube wrought.
That guy needs to cut it out.
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I ordered some contacts this morning online and, it was a pretty big purchase for me, considering I made next to nothing. Whole thing went through, then I got notification that the ordered had been cancelled because the Dr. who had given me the Rx said it was expired. I thought that was funny because last time I ordered contacts from this website, the Dr. didn't even respond and they still sent them. The money wasn't returned to my account, so I had to call the website and we had to call my bank to get the pre-authorization cancelled. And I still need contacts.
I looked online and there are websites that you don't need verification of the Rx for the contacts. Anyone have any tips or recommendations?
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Conflicts between the Arduino and DarwinPorts versions of avrdude on the Mac.
F that noise.
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Ivory is typically a light shade of creamy white. Like actual ivory. Or "off-white" if you will.
And these fucking shoes are beige or taupe or tan or whatever the fuck. FUCK YOUUUUU ZAPPOS.COM.
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Bridezilla
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This is no joke. I will murder everyone.
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Especially Mothra
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Especially Mothra
Bridezillas generally go after Motherinlawra. But purely in self defense.
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I think I might have asked for an exemption with the front desk person.
Yeah, me too probably. But fuck that guy anyway.
(http://www.francetucky.com/front-desk-area.jpg)
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Today I hate lazy film critics. That's it.
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I hate when people invoke the Darwin Awards.
Tried to think of a better way to express that, but the topic just wears the shit out of me.
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I hate when people invoke the Darwin Awards.
Tried to think of a better way to express that, but the topic just wears the shit out of me.
"People are stupid."
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I hate when people invoke the Darwin Awards.
Tried to think of a better way to express that, but the topic just wears the shit out of me.
"People are stupid."
Scott Adams is going to retire rich on milking that one.
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I hate when people invoke the Darwin Awards.
Tried to think of a better way to express that, but the topic just wears the shit out of me.
Yah, but the "JBS Haldane Awards" just doesn't have the same ring.
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http://arthurkade.com/
Probably fake though - right?
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Think I read about that guy somewhere - don't think it's fake.
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Fuck you to the tendinitis in my achilies that is making me hobble around like a zombie.
It. Hurts.
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Fuck you to the tendinitis in my achilies that is making me hobble around like a zombie.
It. Hurts.
I can relate & empathize - still working out the tendinitis in my hip flexor and it's taking forever. Still can't run at my regular speed, and it's been 3 goddamned months.
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Diablo Cody being credited for phrases that have been popular for decades -
http://www.empireonline.com/features/the-diablo-code/
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Diablo Cody being credited for phrases that have been popular for decades -
http://www.empireonline.com/features/the-diablo-code/
Run and DMC would be interested to know that they got "buggin'" from Ms. Cody.
She used to be a stripper, you know?
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Diablo Cody being credited for phrases that have been popular for decades -
http://www.empireonline.com/features/the-diablo-code/
uh, I'm pretty sure Mike invented "bangin", on the other hand, didn't Diablo Cody invent "trippin'"?
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Diablo Cody being credited for phrases that have been popular for decades -
http://www.empireonline.com/features/the-diablo-code/
uh, I'm pretty sure Mike invented "bangin", on the other hand, didn't Diablo Cody invent "trippin'"?
Me, I'm going to ride out all this trendy shit. If you need me, I'll be hanging on the flippety flop.
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foshizz, heezelbee x-tee cee
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She should license Petey's coinages of a few years ago.
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I hate it when I go out of my way to help a student, against my better judgment, and they wind up being shitty to me anyway. They ruin it for everybody else.
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I was never a fan of the students trying to re-negotiate better grades after the test. 'I should get TWO points of partial credit here'.
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These old co-workers and their thoroughly boring, cliched and sexist conversations. "Oh you know, women! Blah blah blah!" or "Men think like this and women think like that." I can't believe how much they applaud each other and perpetuate and rejoice in that kind of talk. >:(
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I know it's a little thing, but it annoys me when people take things you have said and try to make it their own. More of a pet peeve than something that inspires vitriol.
Here's a kind of lame, but pretty accurate, kind of "real world" example of what I mean:
Me: I don't know, this band is okay, but they sound too much like bands X, Y, and Z for me to really get behind it. I'm kind of tired of this sound.
thirty second gap in conversation...
Girl: Doesn't this sound like bands X, Y, and Z? I don't know if I like it because it sounds too much like those other bands.
Me: ...I know, I just said that exact same thing thirty seconds ago.
I mean I know imitation should be flattering, but just spouting out what I said feels forced and uninformed.
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I found out today I have to pay $500 to get my car fixed. Plus I have a show tonight (I'm a comic), so instead of rehearsing and getting ready and being excited and pumped like I SHOULD be, it's been a day of begrudgingly getting money together that I really don't have to get my stupid car fixed, which is just upsetting and infuriating.
I don't know if this is a "stuff I hate" so much as me bitching about having a lousy day. I just hope tonight is a good show. Or I guess you could look at it as something lousy canceling out something awesome. Which I do indeed hate.
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Hate is funny, right? So use that negative energy, focus it on your show.
Seriously, has there ever been a funny, upbeat/optimistic comedian? MAYBE Brian Regan?
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Hate is funny, right? So use that negative energy, focus it on your show.
Seriously, has there ever been a funny, upbeat/optimistic comedian? MAYBE Brian Regan?
And I don't know if Brian Regan is particularly positive, he's just kind of not-miserable. And clean. He runs a clean ship.
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Hate is funny, right? So use that negative energy, focus it on your show.
Seriously, has there ever been a funny, upbeat/optimistic comedian? MAYBE Brian Regan?
You never heard a Moms Mabley?
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Hate is funny, right? So use that negative energy, focus it on your show.
Seriously, has there ever been a funny, upbeat/optimistic comedian? MAYBE Brian Regan?
This one time for some reason I watched Glenn Beck clips the night I was working a set. It made me so outraged and bewildered I ended up having an amazing set that night. So I think you definitely have a point there.
As for upbeat comics, I'd maybe throw Seinfeld into the hat along with Regan. But they're more clean then anything else.
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My dog bit through some wires under my seat and I had to pay $500 (the insurance paid the other $500) to 'replace the air bag harness'. I was probably screwed by the mechanics. Anyhow, I still love the little $500+ dog.
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UPDATE: Show last night ended up being really awesome.
But that leads to another thing I hate: the never-ending Best Show topic, "You know who you look like...?". A guy saw me and said "Look! It's the grandson of John Belushi." What, fat guys aren't allowed to carry samurai swords?
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I hate having a boss yell at me about how disappointed she is in me and how I ruined everything for her.
I really, really hate that.
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I hate having a boss yell at me about how disappointed she is in me and how I ruined everything for her.
I really, really hate that.
I call farts to that. It's not physically possible for you to disappoint anybody, Bonnie.
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quit being a disappointment and she wouldn't have to tell you about it.
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Is it ironic that I'm listening to Tom play a song I really like from the She & Him CD? Considering it's the thing that prompted me to start this thread? (go look at the first post.)
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I hate having a boss yell at me about how disappointed she is in me and how I ruined everything for her.
I really, really hate that.
Did she jump up and down and squinch up her face?
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haha! It was over the phone, which I think was a good thing.
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Unrelenting heartburn. I woke up with it this morning. A day's worth of tums and glasses of milk later, its still here.
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Here's a remedy I learned from a fellow who did me much wrong but whom I can't hate entirely because of this gift: Mix some distilled white vinegar with a half cup of water, add enough
vinegar baking soda to cause a spirited fizzing, and swallow the concoction at one go. As someone who has suffered from heartburn every day for more than thirty years, I can attest that this calms the worst attacks. Plus the violent burping is a lot of fun.
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Here's a remedy I learned from a fellow who did me much wrong but whom I can't hate entirely because of this gift: Mix some distilled white vinegar with a half cup of water, add enough vinegar to cause a spirited fizzing, and swallow the concoction at one go. As someone who has suffered from heartburn every day for more than thirty years, I can attest that this calms the worst attacks. Plus the violent burping is a lot of fun.
Is one of these vinegars supposed to be baking soda (or something else?)
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Yes. The second vinegar should be baking soda. A thousand apologies.
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Gonna try it soley for the violent burps
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You won't regret it. Mix up a batch and go to a solemn church service. It'll be a läff.
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Unrelenting heartburn. I woke up with it this morning. A day's worth of tums and glasses of milk later, its still here.
I believe I already recommended just licking some Baking Soda from the palm of your hand.
Not much jolly belching, however, if you do it before a mirror you can watch yourself make funny faces.
Then you feel better.
Also avoid raw vegetables for a couple weeks. Raw foods cause your stomach to build up extra acid to break down them down. Frequently the extra acid sneaks up to dissolve the lining of your esophagus.
Sincerely,
Dr. Fredericks
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Unrelenting heartburn. I woke up with it this morning. A day's worth of tums and glasses of milk later, its still here.
I believe I already recommended just licking some Baking Soda from the palm of your hand.
Not much jolly belching, however, if you do it before a mirror you can watch yourself make funny faces.
Then you feel better.
Also avoid raw vegetables for a couple weeks. Raw foods cause your stomach to build up extra acid to break down them down. Frequently the extra acid sneaks up to dissolve the lining of your esophagus.
Sincerely,
Dr. Fredericks
Astute analysis Doc. I recently became a vegetarian and my lunches for the past few weeks have consisted of salads made of raw fruits or vegetables. It was either that or the malt liquor I was drinking monday night. Your insight will not go unnoticed.
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Unrelenting heartburn. I woke up with it this morning. A day's worth of tums and glasses of milk later, its still here.
I believe I already recommended just licking some Baking Soda from the palm of your hand.
Not much jolly belching, however, if you do it before a mirror you can watch yourself make funny faces.
Then you feel better.
Also avoid raw vegetables for a couple weeks. Raw foods cause your stomach to build up extra acid to break down them down. Frequently the extra acid sneaks up to dissolve the lining of your esophagus.
Sincerely,
Dr. Fredericks
Astute analysis Doc. I recently became a vegetarian and my lunches for the past few weeks have consisted of salads made of raw fruits or vegetables. It was either that or the malt liquor I was drinking monday night. Your insight will not go unnoticed.
Highly doubtful that the malt liquor (after such a short period of indulgence) would do that to you.
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Here's a remedy I learned from a fellow who did me much wrong but whom I can't hate entirely because of this gift: Mix some distilled white vinegar with a half cup of water, add enough vinegar baking soda to cause a spirited fizzing, and swallow the concoction at one go. As someone who has suffered from heartburn every day for more than thirty years, I can attest that this calms the worst attacks. Plus the violent burping is a lot of fun.
How much is "some"?
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Here's a remedy I learned from a fellow who did me much wrong but whom I can't hate entirely because of this gift: Mix some distilled white vinegar with a half cup of water, add enough vinegar baking soda to cause a spirited fizzing, and swallow the concoction at one go. As someone who has suffered from heartburn every day for more than thirty years, I can attest that this calms the worst attacks. Plus the violent burping is a lot of fun.
How much is "some"?
Dave, "Some" = about size of a Buffalo nickel.
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Is it ironic that I'm listening to Tom play a song I really like from the She & Him CD? Considering it's the thing that prompted me to start this thread?
Not irony. Poetic justice.
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How much is "some"?
A couple of teaspoons, maybe? I've never measured.
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Despite your nebulous use of the word "some" and the dangerous of incorrect measurements, I will say Sarah that your remedy worked. I have also been banned from the elevator at work for my gastronomic expressiveness.
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I'm glad. I use this as my last-resort remedy, because of all the sodium, but it has never failed me yet.
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As some of you know, I edit the online version of an academic film journal, which basically means I receive, review and publish essays and festival reports to our website, stuff we can't fit in the printed journal. And I'm constantly amazed at the incompetence of some of our contributors. On a formal writing/editing level, that is - they usually know their subjects very well. Writers can be a sloppy, lazy bunch as it is - but throw in "middle-aged", "academic" AND "written for the web" into the mix and you got a headache-inducing combo. You'd think these professional people in their 40s-50s knew better than to use comic sans, embed images in Word documents, use [space] instead of [tab] and [............] instead of [...], but no. Enough to make your head spin. I spend way more time on these texts than I should.
Anyway. Short story long. Something that's really appreciated by me as an editor is when writers supply their own images. Images can be a bitch to track down, even with Google. So this morning I was thrilled when I got an essay in my Inbox with accompanying images. Perfect! Then I looked at the images. This is the actual size of one of them:
(http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/5894/strella.jpg) (http://img686.imageshack.us/i/strella.jpg/)
This guy probably spent a good amount of time tracking these thumbnails down too. What's even more hilarious frustrating is that he sent like fifteen images - all about the same size - for a piece that warrants perhaps three.
I know, I whine, this is a tiny issue and I can't believe I wrote this much about it. But I'm sure some of you can relate, especially if you work with the web or with people who still, in 2009, have no idea how images, documents or formatting work.
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So at work today I rented this special lens called the Abakus Stadium lens to the Discovery Channel, who in the past have used it for the "in-bowl" shots on Puppy Bowl.
"So you are you guys doing pickups on Puppy Bowl?", I ask.
"No, this for a new show. It's going to be about hoarders!"
"Wait, another show about Hoarders?"
"Yeah. Ours is going to be way better than A&E's"
So uh, look out for that, folks.
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But, that doesn't make any sense! The "Arts & Entertainment" network has already helped us "Discover" the "Entertainment" of other people's misery. Or wait... is "Hoarders" art?
Besides, when is "Discovery" going to realize that they're sitting on a goldmine and just become the 24 hour "Puppy Bowl" network?
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Waking up in the morning to find out that your hot water heater pipe has frozen.
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Not every member of our immediate family is going to be able to come to all of your family dinners. There are 20 of us.
So if only, say, six of us can come, try not to mope the entire time about the remainder of the people not making it out. Kind of takes the fun away from family time. And, it's a shitty way to tell us that our presence isn't appreciated unless everyone else shows up too.
Because, you see, next year NO ONE will show and you will really have something to complain about.
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I hate vague emergency texts like "Accident at work, in the hospital, it's broken pretty bad. Call you later" my brother sent this to me an hour ago... WTF?!!
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I hate vague emergency texts like "Accident at work, in the hospital, it's broken pretty bad. Call you later" my brother sent this to me an hour ago... WTF?!!
Probably not his finger, huh?
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F. you, Old Navy, for foisting the Super Modelquins on us. Is this a Canadian ad campaign, or do you have it in the U.S., too? It kinda smells Canadian.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ9zhOaEIrw
What effect are they going for here? Disgust? Repulsion? Alarm? This is one of the most unsettling ads ever. It falls pretty neatly into the category of the "uncanny," not something that any advertiser should be striving for.
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The officials at the University of Chicago. They can't get their servers straight for admissions day, can't send out notification emails to applicants for hours for the second time (like they said they would), and then defer me when they admit: "I can't believe it! I'm going to HOGWARTS!!!!" (paraphrase).
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I'm sitting here with all these gifts, food and money I collected for an adopt a family program. So I call the nonprofit I'm working with to find out when I can drop them off, and they say no later than 4:30 pm, because that's when they go home for the day. Doesn't matter that most people have to work til 5 or later, and that I'll have to take time of work during the busiest week of the year to go do this. No need to make it easy for us volunteers.
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you should volunteer to make their life a little easier and just follow the rules.
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I hate the soda machine at work. Yesterday, it dispensed a soda can that, upon coming out, promptly exploded in my face.
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you should volunteer to make their life a little easier and just follow the rules.
Nobody said I wasn't taking the obligatory time off work to follow their rules.
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Please stop being a jerk to me.
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I hate the soda machine at work. Yesterday, it dispensed a soda can that, upon coming out, promptly exploded in my face.
There's an enlightenment lesson here.
Big Hint: drink more water.
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You know what I don't hate? Andy, that's what.
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You know what I don't hate? Andy, that's what.
that makes one of us.
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That guy in the car that yelled 'F***** F****T F****T' at me while I was riding my bike. Actually yelling out of a car at passersby in general, although the Doppler shift makes it sound funny.
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You probably should have been riding on the sidewalk. Then he wouldn't have yelled at you.
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You probably should have been riding on the sidewalk. Then he wouldn't have yelled at you.
Then the old people yell at you (at least they do here) for riding on the sidewalk. I think I explained this earlier on in the thread, though.
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Does anyone have even a partial explanation for many motorists' extreme hostility towards cyclists? 'Cause I don't get it.
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An observation from living in Manhattan just a couple months - I am much more scared of cyclists than cars. Much. I've never risked getting clipped by a car going the wrong way down a one way street, blowing a stop sign. With cyclists, it happens almost daily.
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Yeah, in Montreal the cyclists are a much bigger menace than the cars, too. But I'm talking about stuff like Mark from Helsinki is describing: seemingly arbitrary acts of hostility from motorists directed towards cyclists who are just doing their thing.
And as a pedestrian, I can say with some confidence that this:
You probably should have been riding on the sidewalk. Then he wouldn't have yelled at you.
is not the correct answer to the problem. At least not in places that actually have pedestrians.
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I think the big thing with the pedestrian/bike/big steel box on wheels trifecta in most cities is that the automobile and the pedestrian were given clear "road rules" in the early stages and bikes were kind of an afterthought.
Some city planning (like helsinki) appears on the surface to be very friendly to bikes. And there are admittedly a lot of bike trails and even an online map system (http://kevytliikenne.ytv.fi/en/#mapcenter(point*2549164*6683186)mapzoom(8)) (like mapquest, but it actually sometimes works) that gives you bike trail directions.
But in reality one is very vulnerable as a city cyclist. One (edit)never is often not terribly sure where one should be biking. Sometimes the roads are just too dangerous and I take the sidewalk, much to the dismay of angry seniors.
Drivers, at least the ones here, seem ready to run over anything that is smaller than what they're driving.
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Does anyone have even a partial explanation for many motorists' extreme hostility towards cyclists? 'Cause I don't get it.
The blatant disregard for stop lights/signs could very well be the main issue.
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You know what I don't hate? Andy, that's what.
that makes one of us.
Please stop being a jerk to me.
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Please stop being a jerk to me.
Never. I'd hate that.
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Does anyone have even a partial explanation for many motorists' extreme hostility towards cyclists? 'Cause I don't get it.
Being in the way and slowing the cars down. Natch. Also what harris said: the scads of bikers who act like pedestrians when it's convenient and then cars when it's convenient.
Also the whole fucking existence of "Critical Mass" elevates my anti-bike rage by 3 points at all times, including while asleep.
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Also the whole fucking existence of "Critical Mass" elevates my anti-bike rage by 3 points at all times, including while asleep.
don't ever go to Portland ... you will pop several veins.
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I drive, bike, and walk in NYC, and the cars are hands down the worst, even when I'm in one. Bikes seem fine, except for the occasional meth-y bike messenger, but I haven't seen many of those since the early 90s. One thing Bloomberg has done well is making the city more bike-friendly, which means more bicyclers, which means a more mainstream profile, which (combined with clear bike lanes) generally means less chaos.
Though I will admit some surprise at how many people just walk about into traffic. I understand if you have the right of way at a crosswalk, because a lot of drivers are just fuckers and will threaten to careen into you, but I don't get just strolling out into the middle of a busy thoroughfare.
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This thread is for bitching, not whatever it has devolved into.
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I hate being told what to do on internet message boards.
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I hate being told what to do on internet message boards.
I'm getting sick of irony.
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I got into a pretty interesting car accident situation today. I was stopped a light and got hit from behind. When I looked in my rear view mirror, it was a cop car. I didn't get hurt too badly; I do have whiplash. An ambulance took me to the hospital and I've been dealing with insurance and paperwork for the rest of the day. Needless to say, I won't be doing any thrashing any time soon.
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Sorry to hear it. Did you beat up the cops?
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Sorry to hear it. Did you beat up the cops?
Thanks, Martin. No, I did not beat up the cops, although if he had just wanted to give me a ticket, he could have pulled me over.
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Hope you're OK.
Or: I hate FOT injuries.
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Hope you're OK.
Or: I hate FOT injuries.
Thanks, S2G. Feeling more sore today but it's not unbearable.
1001 is mindbendingly wonderful, btw.
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twenty year olds with fake IDs who spend the whole evening/early morning drinking, then leave, hit their friend's car, they argue in the street then they turn around and hit my car and continue to bumble through their apology as i call them on the fake ID, the expired insurance card, and the fact that the chevy silverado on their dad's insurance is actually their ford pickup, then tell me you'll take care of it out of pocket so i dont have to call your insurance.
don't fuck with me at four in the morning after YOU hit MY car.
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Aw, thanks, Nicole!
Baron, I hope you didn't trust those munches.
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twenty year olds with fake IDs who spend the whole evening/early morning drinking, then leave, hit their friend's car, they argue in the street then they turn around and hit my car and continue to bumble through their apology as i call them on the fake ID, the expired insurance card, and the fact that the chevy silverado on their dad's insurance is actually their ford pickup, then tell me you'll take care of it out of pocket so i dont have to call your insurance.
don't fuck with me at four in the morning after YOU hit MY car.
you probably shouldn't be parking in the street.
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City living often dictates that you have to, Oakie!
:-*
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No one's forcing her to live in the city.
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Andy should rename this thread "Andy Needs A Hug."
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Baron, I hope you didn't trust those munches.
hell no, i called his insurance. he is still attempting to pay for it out of pocket, more so out of fear that it will go on his record through his insurance than actually what's best for me, the person he fucked over.
you know how it goes....
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Andy should rename this thread "Andy Needs A Hug."
Hey, I tried.
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You probably should have been riding on the sidewalk. Then he wouldn't have yelled at you.
I was, Andy Rooney. Actually was nowhere near making contact with the car.
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SideWALKS are for walking, not riding. Probably what they were trying to tell you.
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Ok I understand what's happening; you have fun with that.
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This is going well.
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Everybody's having fun, and that's what it's all about, right?
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I hate people who are over the age of 12 what ride their bikes on the sidewalk in the city. Especially if they're all decked out in the helmet/pads getup. Get the fuck in the road where you're supposed to be, bikey.
Sorry Steve, I gotta go with the yelling car full of hatemongers on this one.
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It wasn't the...oh f*** it.
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This thread is making me so happy
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Are you havin a time?
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What do I hate? I hate life getting in the way and falling behind on the board - and feeling like a jerk about it.
So to me, I say, "f. you, jerk"
...and just like that, I'm feeling better already.
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90% of the things that have happened since I got married six weeks ago (the happiest day of my life, just for contrast) can go fuck themselves. Especially the $2500 physical therapy bill we got after we were told it was covered by our shitty insurance. That one can just fuck itself into oblivion and I'd be ok with that.
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I hate the way a five hour trip to the ER just kinda stares you down with a look that says "get off your lazy ass and find a PRIMARY PHYSICIAN!"
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Marketing and publicity people who pretend the word No doesn't exist (which actually just means they're scared shitless to say it), so they push at everybody and everything till they hear an answer they like, or at least till they hear one that doesn't make them piss themselves at the thought of conveying the message back to their overlords.
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You could have stopped after " ...people"
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You could have stopped after " ...people"
I thought about that; I figured I'd take some crap for not backing up my answer with examples.
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I hate it when uninteresting people post cliche' quotes on social networking sites. You could remove 10 quotes from the world and get rid of about 90% of the population's "favorite" quotes.
Be the change I hope to see? Besides being hacky, it's just not true. I've been a racial separatist my whole life and it seems like it hasn't done any good at all.
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I found out today I have to pay $500 to get my car fixed. Plus I have a show tonight (I'm a comic), so instead of rehearsing and getting ready and being excited and pumped like I SHOULD be, it's been a day of begrudgingly getting money together that I really don't have to get my stupid car fixed, which is just upsetting and infuriating.
I don't know if this is a "stuff I hate" so much as me bitching about having a lousy day. I just hope tonight is a good show. Or I guess you could look at it as something lousy canceling out something awesome. Which I do indeed hate.
Two months or so ago this happened. I'm now reliving this exact scenario again. My car has died around the same time I need it for a show. Although last time I ended up having a really good show. Hopefully that will be the case again. But I do hate when history repeats itself.
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I also hate apostrophes.
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You,re so cantankerous, Andy.
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I hate it when computer professionals can't spell 'website'.
We seem to be having an issue with the ftp'ing of the files from Unisys to the webserver it looks like they are transmitting ok except that they are not parsing correctly on the webside,
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Fuck you, Canada Post. Fuck you up, down and sideways. I wish you were one person so I could hope your foot gets run over by a car.
Because my mailbox is difficult to close (not by any means broken or impossible) they've stopped delivering my mail. This means I am potentially going to be missing out on birthday cards from family, FOTmail, bills, etc. On the note they so kindly slipped into the mailbox to inform me of this, they gave me the address of the place I could go to claim my mail. So I trudge out there in the cold and the snow, only to find out that that building has been closed since 2005. The phone number they gave me redirects to Canada Post's "customer service hotline," which I spent an hour navigating. The results of that phone call: I now have a "case file" that someone will "look into" within six business days. So in two weeks if I'm lucky I can expect to get a phone call from someone telling me where I can pick up my fucking mail.
ARGH.
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Bank of America. Enjoy that 70 bucks, shitheads, because it's the last you'll get out of me. Come Tuesday I'm moving my money to The People's Federal Credit Union.
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Bank of America. Enjoy that 70 bucks, shitheads, because it's the last you'll get out of me. Come Tuesday I'm moving my money to The People's Federal Credit Union.
Credit Unions are far superior institutions.
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Yeah, I don't understand why anyone would use a fr profit bank.
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Yeah, I don't understand why anyone would use a fr profit bank.
Libertarians love 'em.
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Bank of America. Enjoy that 70 bucks, shitheads, because it's the last you'll get out of me. Come Tuesday I'm moving my money to The People's Federal Credit Union.
Two years ago, upon returning from a week-long vacation on a Sunday night, I found a letter in the mail from Bank of America saying I had a $17,000 TAX LIEN AGAINST ME - which was not the case at all - and that they were withdrawing it all from my bank accounts. The amount in the accounts would cover a fraction of that. So basically, they had taken all of my money.
Being Sunday night, there was NO ONE I could reach. Nothing I could do. I sat there in bed, not sleeping at all, picturing my children looking like Tiny Tim asking passersby for farthings while coughing from consumption.
Next day, I go in as calmly as possible to ask what was going on. I provided my SSN and the person looked it up and said "Is your middle initial P?" "No," I replied. It was apparently another person with my name. Had they bothered to check the SSN before sending me that note and cleaning me out? NO! I asked if someone was going to send me an apology and was told the bank does not do that. At least the money was put back into my account that day.
Horrible bank. Horrible.
Come to think of it, that should be their slogan.
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I just stumbled on this and couldn't decide where to post it... I suppose here is as good as any, as I hate it.
It's an iPod Touch / iPhone app for people who want to do more of their parenting on their iPhone!
REWARD CHART is THE application for iPhone-owning parents!!
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http://freeappalert.com/clk/318046025
I don’t think you will find a better way to reinforce positive behavior, instill good habits and build confidence in your children.
From toilet training your toddler, to encouraging good grades at school from your older kids, this colorful, and fully customizable Reward Chart will make it a fun experience for all of you!
In public, encouraging good behavior and good listening is both challenging and vital for safety, this portable chart makes that easy and fun it just works!
My wife and I found that our old chart back at home was ‘out of site and out of mind’ when out of the house. This application not only bridges that gap, but is so much more fun for them, it has become an enjoyable bed time routine to let them add stars to their special chart, and at the end of the week, they can see what they won!... a special medal or trophy!!
Your kids can see the awards they have won, and watch their progress week after week towards the top prizes!
Add their name to the chart, make the background their favorite colour!
Add whatever categories you want and set the numbers of stars required for each prize! And that is it! Simple!
I didn't put the link there thinking you should get it, just so you can look at the ridiculousness of it all... There's a category for "behavior when going out to restaurants" on it! Ew.
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The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles. Not only did they erroneously suspend my license, which got revoked during my car accident, they allowed me to change my address over the phone, which, in effect, made me not a VA resident anymore (without telling me of course), their call center was closed on 12/29 yet they claim it was not, one lady told me I couldn't get an address exception unless I was military (wrong), and when I thought I had everything straightened out, gave them one week to get my address exception in, I called this morning to find out they're closed for Lee Jackson Day. I hope they like car washes...
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Would you rather they didn't observe Lee Jackson?
Also, who/what the fuck is Lee Jackson?
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Also, who/what the fuck is Lee Jackson?
Just what you think it is.
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What the fuck?
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Would you rather they didn't observe Lee Jackson?
Also, who/what the fuck is Lee Jackson?
Lee-Jackson Day? I just looked that up. Youse guys gotta really get over nem.
Weird - I grew up in NoVa and have never heard of this holiday.
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Would you rather they didn't observe Lee Jackson?
Also, who/what the fuck is Lee Jackson?
I can see your point. Celebrating both Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's birthdays bookend the observance of Martin Luther King Day really well. It certainly has squelched my civil liberties.
Also, Virginia is the only state to celebrate Lee Jackson Day, and since neither Robert E. Lee nor Stonewall Jackson were actually born on the 15th, the rest of Dixie has time to prepare for their own observances!
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So it's like Alternate Universe President's Day is what you're saying.
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So it's like Alternate Universe President's Day is what you're saying.
Precisely.
Just in case you're wondering how one might celebrate Lee Jackson day, check out this link:
http://www2.wsls.com/sls/community/lexington/article/lee-jackson_day/68560/ (http://www2.wsls.com/sls/community/lexington/article/lee-jackson_day/68560/)
Highlights in this city are a wreath-laying ceremony, a parade and a memorial service in the Lee Chapel and Museum. I wonder how the First Family celebrated.
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A bunch of trolls from a Swedish equivalent of 4chan just pulled one of those "Facebook group pranks" where they set up a seemingly innocent FB group with a noble cause (in this case: "For every member we will donate $1 to Haiti"), then promised that once the group had reached 200,000 members they would reveal their secret sponsor. But of course, when 200,000 members were reached (today), they changed the group info etc so it looked like a disgusting pedophilia group, complete with graphic images, a link to some sort of virus, and so on. Truly vile. (I never joined the group, but at least twenty of my friends did. And yes, people join groups on FB left and right without thinking twice about it, and they should be more careful - but still.)
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A bunch of trolls from a Swedish equivalent of 4chan just pulled one of those "Facebook group pranks" where they set up a seemingly innocent FB group with a noble cause (in this case: "For every member we will donate $1 to Haiti"), then promised that once the group had reached 200,000 members they would reveal their secret sponsor. But of course, when 200,000 members were reached (today), they changed the group info etc so it looked like a disgusting pedophilia group, complete with graphic images, a link to some sort of virus, and so on. Truly vile. (I never joined the group, but at least twenty of my friends did. And yes, people join groups on FB left and right without thinking twice about it, and they should be more careful - but still.)
Okay, the pedophilia stuff is reprehensible, but that's pretty funny otherwise.
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I'm all for dissing "slacktivism" such as joining FB groups instead of making (in this case) real donations to Haiti, and I'm normally thick-skinned when it comes to "pranks" like this, but the combo of preying on people's goodwill towards Haiti + virus + pedophilia = even took me aback. Definitely didn't find it funny.
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Yea, the virus is bad too.
I guess add that to my list: people who take funny ideas for pranks 2 degrees too far and ruin it for everyone.
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I hate trying to get used to a new dog while still mourning my old dog. Too soon, wife and daughter, too soon.
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Apple fanboy-ism
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Apple fanboy-ism
WHAT?! Are you honestly telling me you don't have any use for an iPhone the size of your torso?
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hey ladies who also work in my building but i have no idea what you do,
yes, the elevators are "REALLY screwed up today". knowing this, please pay attention to whether the elevator you're hoofing it onto is going the direction you need it to go because youre giving me a tour of every floor and all i want to do is take a walk on my break.
...jackasses.
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Also, who/what the fuck is Lee Jackson?
He was the bass player in The Nice, you progrockadummy.
(http://www.rockzirkus.de/bunt/hamburg70/nice_lee.jpg)
As well as Refugee:
(http://www.psychprog.com/img/imag18365.jpg)
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I was kind of a dick in the back pages of this thread.
The only things I hate now is the forum on the Criterion Collection website and frozen lighters.
Oh, and girls that take pictures of strangers in public places and upload them to flickr with a snarky comment and title.
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I was kind of a dick in the back pages of this thread.
The Nice did a cover of Dylan's My Back Pages.
Well played, Pidgeon.
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I was kind of a dick in the back pages of this thread.
The Nice did a cover of Dylan's My Back Pages.
Well played, Pidgeon.
Well, shit. If I recall, there's a psychobabble word for mind-triggering like that.
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Fuck the snow!!! Fuck this winter where I had a friend die, my husband herniated two disks in his back and now our honeymoon is threatened by yet another huge snow storm! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!
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I hate when on a tv show or in a movie, a character starts busts out a camcorder and then they do a point-of-view shot and it's camcorder-quality instead of whatever the show was filmed in originally.
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Fuck the snow!!! Fuck this winter where I had a friend die, my husband herniated two disks in his back and now our honeymoon is threatened by yet another huge snow storm! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!
When life gives you snow, make snowcones!
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-foot injuries
-breakups
-the consistently faulty plumbing in my stupid apartment
-when the program that you wanted to minor in and that is like half the reason you chose your university decides to shut down for a year and only tells you a week before the application deadline, after you've spent countless hours putting together a portfolio and references and a letter of intent and after you've spent a fuckton of money printing said portfolio
-canada post (obvously/always)
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The project manager hired by my client who likes to imagine he's an architect and is thus free to tell me in detail, endlessly, how to do my job.
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An architect that designs buildings? Or one of those 'software architects'?
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Fuck the snow!!! Fuck this winter where I had a friend die, my husband herniated two disks in his back and now our honeymoon is threatened by yet another huge snow storm! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!
When life gives you snow, make snowcones!
What flavor do I make them when snow gives me a canceled flight?
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An architect that designs buildings? Or one of those 'software architects'?
The building kind. And as a general rule 'real' architects are kind of touchy about software designers using the term -- although personally I don't really care.
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Fuck the snow!!! Fuck this winter where I had a friend die, my husband herniated two disks in his back and now our honeymoon is threatened by yet another huge snow storm! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!
When life gives you snow, make snowcones!
What flavor do I make them when snow gives me a canceled flight?
Bourbon.
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An architect that designs buildings? Or one of those 'software architects'?
The building kind. And as a general rule 'real' architects are kind of touchy about software designers using the term -- although personally I don't really care.
Architects and Engineers, yeah. Software is kind of the bin sort of smart people fall into so they try to figure out ways to legitimize it. And I can say that because I fell into it.
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is the Project Manager a contractor? If so, you should listen to him and thank him for his advice. He's only trying to help.
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One for the parents.
I hate that childrens' toys now come with about 30 yards of piano wire that you need to cut to release said toy from packaging, and as a side effect, the kids just want to play with the wire cutters that you are obviously trying to keep from them because they must be fun.
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One for the parents.
I hate that childrens' toys now come with about 30 yards of piano wire that you need to cut to release said toy from packaging, and as a side effect, the kids just want to play with the wire cutters that you are obviously trying to keep from them because they must be fun.
That is miserable. I usually un-twist the wires, which takes longer but I keep the wire cutters out of the picture.
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Fuck the snow!!! Fuck this winter where I had a friend die, my husband herniated two disks in his back and now our honeymoon is threatened by yet another huge snow storm! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!
When life gives you snow, make snowcones!
What flavor do I make them when snow gives me a canceled flight?
Bourbon.
I was thinking Valium...
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One for the parents.
I hate that childrens' toys now come with about 30 yards of piano wire that you need to cut to release said toy from packaging, and as a side effect, the kids just want to play with the wire cutters that you are obviously trying to keep from them because they must be fun.
That is miserable. I usually un-twist the wires, which takes longer but I keep the wire cutters out of the picture.
The anticipation a 3 year old has when you're opening a new toy for him can be enormous. My boy knows he's not allowed to touch the wire cutters, but he just begins playing with all the WIRES that come off these toys while I continue to hack away at the packaging. He's so desperate to play that he's willing to just play with whatever falls off the packaging.
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Erika, I really hope you guys get to Amsterdam. Keeping my fingers crossed until you actually arrive at Schiphol.
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Fuck the snow!!! Fuck this winter where I had a friend die, my husband herniated two disks in his back and now our honeymoon is threatened by yet another huge snow storm! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!
When life gives you snow, make snowcones!
What flavor do I make them when snow gives me a canceled flight?
Bourbon.
I was thinking Valium...
Yeah, probably a safer bet while at airports.
When you get there, Amsterdam will sort you out any which way you pleeeze.
What?
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:) It's cool. Or as cool as it can be... We're at this hotel til Thursday night now and then we have GOT to get out at that point, right? I WON'T GIVE UP. At least we're stuck at the airport where we need to be instead of on our street in the city that never gets plowed. This is nuts.
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is the Project Manager a contractor? If so, you should listen to him and thank him for his advice. He's only trying to help.
Then if things don't work out, it's ground glass in the coffee time.
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:) It's cool. Or as cool as it can be... We're at this hotel til Thursday night now and then we have GOT to get out at that point, right? I WON'T GIVE UP. At least we're stuck at the airport where we need to be instead of on our street in the city that never gets plowed. This is nuts.
Wow. I've been snowed in at an airport before, even spent a night in a hotel due to bad weather but DAYS? I had no idea.
So, bourbon and Valium and a little Mama's Medicine when you get to Holland.
What??
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That could kill you. Come on now.
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I'm about to throw my fucking computer out the window.
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Do it!
SCTV-style for the new century!
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Google Buzz!
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Google Buzz!
That was an "L" from the moment it opened.
Really surprising that google dropped the ball as much as they did with that "effort."
Sloppy, really. Like they didn't even care.
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The fact that it rains more than 75% of the days I have been in Washington and everyone is pretty ok with it.
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Google Buzz!
That was an "L" from the moment it opened.
Really surprising that google dropped the ball as much as they did with that "effort."
Sloppy, really. Like they didn't even care.
They should have just called it the iBuzz. Would have been way more lauded.
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Fuck you: Anyone who gets laughs seeing a child scream at something on the internet (e.g. the scary maze game, scary car commercial, etc).
Double fuck you: Anyone who has video recorded a child getting scared by something on the internet.
Triple fuck you with onion rings: Anyone who has posted such a video recording on the internet.
Ghouls all.
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100% agree, Jon.
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Mm, onion rings.
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Our state's (IN) governor deciding to cut $300 million from education so he can put 'I didn't raise taxes' on his campaign materials.
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Tom mentioned he hated the word 'whiff'. I had just been talking to a friend about my hate of the words 'odor' and 'smelly'. One time a woman at my work described something as a 'smelly odor' and I almost jumped out the window.
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Details --> "Deets"
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Details --> "Deets"
yeah, I don't like that one either. when I hear that word I think "pesticide".
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Carrot tempura. Knock that shit off.
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Carotid tempura. Even worse.
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I hate when you're having an argument and it goes something like this:
Them: I disagree with what you're saying on the subject and my side is backed up by the fact that I have worked in a medical office since I was 18.
Me: Then you should know it's HIPAA, not HIPPA, as you keep repeating.
Them: ....
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I hate when you're having an argument and it goes something like this:
Them: I disagree with what you're saying on the subject and my side is backed up by the fact that I have worked in a medical office since I was 18.
Me: Then you should know it's HIPAA, not HIPPA, as you keep repeating.
Them: ....
They pronounce HIPAA and HIPPA differently? They say every letter each time?
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Tom mentioned he hated the word 'whiff'. I had just been talking to a friend about my hate of the words 'odor' and 'smelly'. One time a woman at my work described something as a 'smelly odor' and I almost jumped out the window.
But you're cool with my handle, right?
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Steve- it was a little back and forth online, I was just embarassed to admit it and it mirrors other discussions I have on a daily basis.
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-All people that not only say words incorrectly, but their incorrectness comes from imagining there being a letter in the word that doesn't exist.
IE - If I mispronounced gormet - it'd be kind of embarassing or funny or dumb looking. But...
if I said "gorn-met".. so much worse.
I keep hearing and seeing people, for instance, say "turrent" and mean "turret" (referring to weapons and the like on gaming sites)
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I love that.
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-All people that not only say words incorrectly, but their incorrectness comes from imagining there being a letter in the word that doesn't exist.
IE - If I mispronounced gormet - it'd be kind of embarassing or funny or dumb looking. But...
if I said "gorn-met".. so much worse.
I keep hearing and seeing people, for instance, say "turrent" and mean "turret" (referring to weapons and the like on gaming sites)
EX-presso.
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"Hone" instead of "home."
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"Hone" instead of "home."
I actually prefer "hone" for situations where you are working through multiple layers to reach an inner core.
"Home" conjures, in me, the thought of aiming at something.
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But that what it's supposed to do. And when people use "hone" instead of "home," they aren't choosing to do so to communicate what you suggest; they are just making a mistake.
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HONE?
Who says that!?
As someone who is easily agitated by these weird little quirks,
i've never encountered this before!!
Is there an example somewhere of how this would be used "naturally?"
I just can't fathom hearing someone saying that. Is it a regional thing somewhere? I'm intrigued.
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HONE?
Who says that!?
As someone who is easily agitated by these weird little quirks,
i've never encountered this before!!
Is there an example somewhere of how this would be used "naturally?"
I just can't fathom hearing someone saying that. Is it a regional thing somewhere? I'm intrigued.
This was my initial reaction, too. But I think it's in a specific context, i.e. "I'm starting to hone in on a record I've been looking for," NOT as in "I'm heading hone for the holidays" which would be truly insane.
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HONE?
Who says that!?
As someone who is easily agitated by these weird little quirks,
i've never encountered this before!!
Is there an example somewhere of how this would be used "naturally?"
I just can't fathom hearing someone saying that. Is it a regional thing somewhere? I'm intrigued.
This was my initial reaction, too. But I think it's in a specific context, i.e. "I'm starting to hone in on a record I've been looking for," NOT as in "I'm heading hone for the holidays" which would be truly insane.
Oh, well that's different entirely. Hone is an actual word,
I thought this was some sort of weird phenominon where people were sort of mumbling "home" in a weird way because they were too lazy to consume the energy required to close their lips to make the "mmm" sound.
Yeah, example sentence you gave... either word could work strangely.... "home in on" as in...homing missiles. Or "hone in on" as in... the definition of hone, although it would be slightly off in that particular instance so I may see your point.
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Expresso is how the French, Spanish and Portuguese spell it, I believe, so it's technically correct. Or at least as correct as using the Italian. Although before I knew that, it bothered the hell out of me.
I hear lots of people say "exspecially," which does grate on my nerves.
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Yeah, example sentence you gave... either word could work strangely.... "home in on" as in...homing missiles. Or "hone in on" as in... the definition of hone, although it would be slightly off in that particular instance so I may see your point.
Be that as it may, the expression (or should that be "espression"?), is "to home in on."
How's about "exhilerator" for "accelerator"?
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Weird how many greeting cards misspell Valentimes day.
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Also, "bold-faced lie"
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Yes, erika! That's in the "hone" family.
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I don't like the racist turn this thread has taken. Shame on all of you.
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I say "exsqueeze me."
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Singers singing in the same breathy cutesy kewpie doll voice these past few years (Miss Li, Kate Nash, Regina Spektor, Feist, Ingrid Michaelson, a bunch more I can't remember)
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Also, "bold-faced lie"
What's the correct version of this saying?
Also: people who say "kewpie" when they mean "cutie-pie". Grrrr!
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anyways
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"one IN the same". ugh. Bad enough it's a cliche, but to get it wrong on top of that ...
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Also, "bold-faced lie"
What's the correct version of this saying?
"Bald-faced lie."
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Also, "bold-faced lie"
What's the correct version of this saying?
"Bald-faced lie."
Sarah, you do a great job separating the meat from the chaff.
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I hate it when my hamburgers are flecked with husks.
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Handburgers.
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Handburgers.
In the case of that delicacy, separate the meat from the nails.
Fingernails look like husks; don't you think?
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I hate this ridiculous Corporate Internet Policy.
(http://i.imgur.com/TjRnM.gif)
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Do you work in the Lady Foot Locker home office? Or Kern Pharmaceuticals?
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Singers singing in the same breathy cutesy kewpie doll voice these past few years (Miss Li, Kate Nash, Regina Spektor, Feist, Ingrid Michaelson, a bunch more I can't remember)
Which female singers do you like?
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Which female singers do you like?
I dunno, tons. Laurie Anderson, Astrud Gilberto, Billie Holiday, Kazu Makino, Roseanne Cash, Juana Molina, Isabellarah Rubella, Poly Styrene, Marnie Stern....
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Which female singers do you like?
I dunno, tons. Laurie Anderson, Astrud Gilberto, Billie Holiday, Kazu Makino, Roseanne Cash, Juana Molina, Isabellarah Rubella, Poly Styrene, Marnie Stern....
I know two people out of both those lists.
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Which female singers do you like?
I dunno, tons. Laurie Anderson, Astrud Gilberto, Billie Holiday, Kazu Makino, Roseanne Cash, Juana Molina, Isabellarah Rubella, Poly Styrene, Marnie Stern....
I know two people out of both those lists.
Yeah I havent a clue.
Sing-songy and breathy can also just be the way a woman with a higher pitched voice sings. It's not necessarily an affectation.
Stuff I hate: people bitching about women who have girly or high-pitched voices naturally. Seriously. Who's giving guys a hard time for how THEY sound?
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Er, I didn't mean to start a fight. All the singers I named are borrowing from the same style that's popular right now. And it grates on me every time I hear it on cutesy commercials for the Gap, Apple, etc. But it's not some anti-woman conspiracy.
Who's giving guys a hard time for how THEY sound?
Male singers with low voices have been biting the Eddie Vedder mushmouth grunge sound for the last 20 years -- and everyone I know has loudly given them a hard time for it.
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No I don't think it's an anti-woman conspiracy. But I don't think that these folks are borrowing from each other... it's just a style of singing. I'm sure some are copying from one another, but to assume it's some sort of epidemic of people singing one way or another... I dunno.
Maybe it's that I try not to classify music like that. Grunge sound? What IS that?
Sorry I'm in a terrible mood.
Another thing I hate: Herniated discs. Even on other people! It's true!
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I bet you guys know three (I'm guessing the two you were talking about were Laurie Anderson and Billie Holliday): Astrud Gilberto is famous for "The Girl from Ipanema."
I don't like light-voiced, breathy female singers, either. And I loathe high-voiced, screechy male singers. The Eddie Vedder clones are tiresome, but at least they don't hurt my ears.
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The Hotels.com claymation guy. I hate his smugness. The one eyebrow raised like he's hip, young, and knows more than me. How about I fire your smugness in a kiln, bitch?!
(http://www.hotels.com/images/external/3a884f9a-1281-454d-bb55-b3af499af8ee_20091013094613106.png)
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Old man, you'll never "get" claymation.
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The Hotels.com claymation guy. I hate his smugness. The one eyebrow raised like he's hip, young, and knows more than me. How about I fire your smugness in a kiln, bitch?!
(http://www.hotels.com/images/external/3a884f9a-1281-454d-bb55-b3af499af8ee_20091013094613106.png)
Also, because Ed Helms is just reusing his character from the Office to portray that claymation guy.
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Which female singers do you like?
I dunno, tons. Laurie Anderson, Astrud Gilberto, Billie Holiday, Kazu Makino, Roseanne Cash, Juana Molina, Isabellarah Rubella, Poly Styrene, Marnie Stern....
I know two people out of both those lists.
Yeah I havent a clue.
Sing-songy and breathy can also just be the way a woman with a higher pitched voice sings. It's not necessarily an affectation.
Stuff I hate: people bitching about women who have girly or high-pitched voices naturally. Seriously. Who's giving guys a hard time for how THEY sound?
I know this guy who has a high pitch girly voice, and man does it piss me off.
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I know this guy who has a high pitch girly voice, and man does it piss me off.
Crypto-Misogynist! :o
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The Hotels.com claymation guy. I hate his smugness. The one eyebrow raised like he's hip, young, and knows more than me. How about I fire your smugness in a kiln, bitch?!
(http://www.hotels.com/images/external/3a884f9a-1281-454d-bb55-b3af499af8ee_20091013094613106.png)
Also, because Ed Helms is just reusing his character from the Office to portray that claymation guy.
Ed Helms has more than one character?
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Something else I hate:
This whole "let's pay a cable/satellite subscription so we can watch amateurs who don't know how to sing yet butcher songs other people wrote" fad. I'll never understand the American Idol fad. It seems like something you should be getting paid to watch, not the other way around.
Or, if you really are into memorized karaoke type stuff, go have some drinks and show off/have fun at a karaoke joint.
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Something else I hate:
This whole "let's pay a cable/satellite subscription so we can watch amateurs who don't know how to sing yet butcher songs other people wrote" fad. I'll never understand the American Idol fad. It seems like something you should be getting paid to watch, not the other way around.
Or, if you really are into memorized karaoke type stuff, go have some drinks and show off/have fun at a karaoke joint.
I get some enjoyment out of the early shows in each season, because it's endlessly fascinating to me that some people think they have talent when they don't. It's a phenomenon.
I wouldn't voluntarily watch the later shows, though, because they are as you describe.
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I hate it when people say "visualize" when they mean "see." (It came up during a curling match today, but it was the multiple occurrences of "visualize the vocal chords" in ER that first got my goat.)
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I am hearing "deep dive" and "back of envelope" a lot at Le Job lately.
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What's the ask?
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I hate it when people say "visualize" when they mean "see." (It came up during a curling match today, but it was the multiple occurrences of "visualize the vocal chords" in ER that first got my goat.)
I hate the use of "shot clock differential" when they mean "the difference between the shot and game clocks." It's technically correct, but it's way overused for the commonness of that term being used that way.
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I hate how hospitals and schools are filled with soda and junkfood machines. Here in Nashville, Vanderbilt hospital (consistently in the top 20 of hospitals in the U.S.) has a McDonalds in the lobby. A MCDONALDS??!! IN A HOSPITAL???!!?!!!
You can reward a successful open-heart surgery with a supersized big-mac value meal!
AAAARRRGGHHHH
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Ok,
I just relistened to portions of this past week's show again.
*I HHHHHAAAATE* people who call Pizza "PIE". It's not a damn pie. A pie is a pie. A pizza is a pizza. A sandwich isn't a donut. It's a sandwich and a donut is a donut.
STOP CALLING PIZZA "PIE". DAMN.
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Asterik and asteriks.
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Ok,
I just relistened to portions of this past week's show again.
*I HHHHHAAAATE* people who call Pizza "PIE". It's not a damn pie. A pie is a pie. A pizza is a pizza. A sandwich isn't a donut. It's a sandwich and a donut is a donut.
STOP CALLING PIZZA "PIE". DAMN.
Pizza is a pie, pal.
Crust with fruit.
Relax.
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Asterik and asteriks.
(http://embedded.eecs.berkeley.edu/Alumni/mehrotra/images/asterix.jpg)
Asterix?
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you guys are just getting picky now.
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well, right at this moment I kind of hate everything... so at least I'M not being picky...
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I hate how hospitals and schools are filled with soda and junkfood machines. Here in Nashville, Vanderbilt hospital (consistently in the top 20 of hospitals in the U.S.) has a McDonalds in the lobby. A MCDONALDS??!! IN A HOSPITAL???!!?!!!
You can reward a successful open-heart surgery with a supersized big-mac value meal!
AAAARRRGGHHHH
The fitness center near us has a Subway inside, which I suppose is not too horrible, although you might get the '$5 Footlong' song stuck in your head, and if a song is stuck in your head while you're on the treadmill, it's not going anywhere.
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Supposably.
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irregardless
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Intermixes.
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Ok,
I just relistened to portions of this past week's show again.
*I HHHHHAAAATE* people who call Pizza "PIE". It's not a damn pie. A pie is a pie. A pizza is a pizza. A sandwich isn't a donut. It's a sandwich and a donut is a donut.
STOP CALLING PIZZA "PIE". DAMN.
Pizza is a pie, pal.
Crust with fruit.
Relax.
Nuuu! it's not!
I was once at a gig where they asked me if I wanted something to eat. "Want some pie? I'm going to get some pie". "No thanks", I replied. "Maybe after I eat some dinner." We went back and forth in this very confusing conversation. They came back with pizza for themselves, and some of what we ordered. I wanted pizza and had no idea that's what they were actually getting.
There are different varieties of pies, many of which are very mealish and not desserts at all. (Shepard's pie, for example). But these are almost always clarified by their full name being used during their reference.
But THAT was confusing and unneccesary. It's called pizza. I've never heard tell of pizza being called 'pie', except in old timey nursery rhyme type stuff where it was clarified as "pizza pie".
Is this some regional thing or something? The calling it pie?
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I was once at a gig where they asked me if I wanted something to eat. "Want some pie? I'm going to get some pie". "No thanks", I replied. "Maybe after I eat some dinner." We went back and forth in this very confusing conversation. They came back with pizza for themselves, and some of what we ordered. I wanted pizza and had no idea that's what they were actually getting.
If you order an orange soda in Artichoke, Nebraska, they'll bring you a live baby pig.
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Brian Regan.
(I'm not saying I hate Brian Regan. I'm saying the pie thing is as Brian Regan bit.)
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I think "pizza" just means "pie" in Italian.
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Brian Regan.
(I'm not saying I hate Brian Regan. I'm saying the pie thing is as Brian Regan bit.)
And here I thought you were saying YOUR word for pizza...
I hate Monday.
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This thread is making me hungry; I think I'll order a pizza pie with everything.
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I miss that fake Italian accent joke that was making the rounds in these parts a while back.
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Atsa nice-a pie.
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I hate it when people say "visualize" when they mean "see." (It came up during a curling match today, but it was the multiple occurrences of "visualize the vocal chords" in ER that first got my goat.)
Wait, if I can see your vocal chords, I am way to close to you. And if I can see mine, there's been some sort of horrible accident. And isn't it cords?
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I miss that fake Italian accent joke that was making the rounds in these parts a while back.
Are you sure it was "these" parts?
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The accent talk reminds me of something I hate...
When you and, say, your coworkers order some kind of ethnic food and there's the one guy who offensively talks in the accent of the food you ordered, thinking it's hilarious. Like if you get Chinese he starts going "Rah I rikey the Chinese! Ching chong ding dong! Hahahah!". It's moments like that that you realize that they don't make furniture light enough for throwing.
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Personal and the Pizzas are an outrageous minstrel show.
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It's moments like that that you realize that they don't make furniture light enough for throwing.
Oh yes they do. You're just not angry enough...
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It's moments like that that you realize that they don't make furniture light enough for throwing.
Oh yes they do. You're just not angry enough...
How angry do I have to be to throw a desk? And how long before Jack Magee and/or Thunderbolt Ross is on my trail?
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Personal and the Pizzas are an outrageous minstrel show.
I got my RAW PIE cassette in the mail today.
(http://burgerrecords.webs.com/_PIZZA.png)
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5. $5. $5 Footlooooooong.
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I currently hate the song "Knowing Me, Knowing You" because it's stuck in my head in an endless loop. However, not the ABBA version, but the version they created for the Alan Partridge show, so it's kind of jazzy and utter crap.
A-ha!
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I currently hate the song "Knowing Me, Knowing You" because it's stuck in my head in an endless loop. However, not the ABBA version, but the version they created for the Alan Partridge show, so it's kind of jazzy and utter crap.
A-ha!
That happens if you leave the DVD on at the menu screen.
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I currently hate the song "Knowing Me, Knowing You" because it's stuck in my head in an endless loop. However, not the ABBA version, but the version they created for the Alan Partridge show, so it's kind of jazzy and utter crap.
A-ha!
That happens if you leave the DVD on at the menu screen.
God love Steve Coogan, but he puts together some of the most annoying DVD menus.
I hate that yogurt commerical with the woman at the dry cleaner explaining that she wants her pants let in, and not out. "I was outside, now I'm in" It's doubly bad because the same actress is another commercial, for I think, Target and it just brings back all the bad feelings.
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And isn't it cords?
Yes.
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I'm sitting in a plane right now and guy next to me is reading Rich Dad Poor Dad. Should I kill him?
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I'm sitting in a plane right now and guy next to me is reading Rich Dad Poor Dad. Should I kill him?
Yes!
You're the lawyer; but I say "yes".
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5. $5. $5 Footlooooooong.
Does the $5 Footlong theme sound like some oddball indie folk song to anyone else?
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I hate that yogurt commerical with the woman at the dry cleaner explaining that she wants her pants let in, and not out. "I was outside, now I'm in" It's doubly bad because the same actress is another commercial, for I think, Target and it just brings back all the bad feelings.
I agree that that's a really annoying commercial, but that actress is actually really amazing.
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5. $5. $5 Footlooooooong.
Does the $5 Footlong theme sound like some oddball indie folk song to anyone else?
For reasons I can't recall once it was on TV and I said 'it's 'Air'', and my wife has mercilessly griefed me ever since about that mistake.
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I'm sitting in a plane right now and guy next to me is reading Rich Dad Poor Dad. Should I kill him?
Tell him 'here's a spoiler: you are, and always will be, Poor Dad.'
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the Fleet Foxes.
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A couple new ones:
Kelly Ripa. Especially when she does celebrity impressions.
My car repairs costing way too much.
My neighbor's awful jam band.
The show Scrubs.
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'Yeppers'
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'Yeppers'
Oof. I used to say that a long time ago and I now cringe when I think about it. I also used to say "cool beans" and "hoss" back then.
I want to build a time machine, go back to 1988 and slap my Walkman-toting, OP-Shorts-wearing self.
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And that reminds me. OP Shorts from the 80's should go on this list.
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/36/91304612_2a9eb43ec8.jpg)
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OP shirts, too. Who are we kidding?
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In 5th grade (1985) my older sister convinced me to buy pink animal-print bandanas from the Limited, dip them in Polo cologne and wear them on my wrists and thighs. I did this for exactly one dance party and no one thought it was unusual. They didn't say anything to my face anyway. :-\
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Wow, you had dance parties in the fifth grade?
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My sister's friends did and we were allowed there. Don't remember dancing much except slow-dancing to We are the World.
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First dance party: 3rd grade. I was the DJ. (Cassettes.)
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Whoa! You young folk. So fast!
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Annoying washroom habits of people:
-People who awkwardly explain their need to use the washroom.
-People who use the phrase "stink it up" in a civil setting, either referring to their unpleasant odors left behind or used in a plea to leave it in a suitable manner for them to make use of following yourself.
-People who don't flush. It's not just the unpleasantness of it all, but if you're at a someone's house, sometimes it takes so long before you can flush it again after flushing for the previous person that you're stuck with the choice of waiting it out when you're in a hurry or repeating the same offense.
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"Kill your television"
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Annoying washroom habits of people:
-People who awkwardly explain their need to use the washroom.
-People who use the phrase "stink it up" in a civil setting, either referring to their unpleasant odors left behind or used in a plea to leave it in a suitable manner for them to make use of following yourself.
-People who don't flush. It's not just the unpleasantness of it all, but if you're at a someone's house, sometimes it takes so long before you can flush it again after flushing for the previous person that you're stuck with the choice of waiting it out when you're in a hurry or repeating the same offense.
in the same vein of literal turlet talk, i can't even go pee in the restroom without someone walking in and immediately spraying the lysol.
give me a break- i don't even LIKE asparagus.
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Ooh, who died in here?
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People who don't properly tag mp3s. >:( >:( >:(
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Annoying washroom habits of people:
-People who awkwardly explain their need to use the washroom.
-People who use the phrase "stink it up" in a civil setting, either referring to their unpleasant odors left behind or used in a plea to leave it in a suitable manner for them to make use of following yourself.
-People who don't flush. It's not just the unpleasantness of it all, but if you're at a someone's house, sometimes it takes so long before you can flush it again after flushing for the previous person that you're stuck with the choice of waiting it out when you're in a hurry or repeating the same offense.
in the same vein of literal turlet talk, i can't even go pee in the restroom without someone walking in and immediately spraying the lysol.
give me a break- i don't even LIKE asparagus.
whatever you say, Stinkpee.
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Annoying washroom habits of people:
-People who awkwardly explain their need to use the washroom.
-People who use the phrase "stink it up" in a civil setting, either referring to their unpleasant odors left behind or used in a plea to leave it in a suitable manner for them to make use of following yourself.
-People who don't flush. It's not just the unpleasantness of it all, but if you're at a someone's house, sometimes it takes so long before you can flush it again after flushing for the previous person that you're stuck with the choice of waiting it out when you're in a hurry or repeating the same offense.
in the same vein of literal turlet talk, i can't even go pee in the restroom without someone walking in and immediately spraying the lysol.
give me a break- i don't even LIKE asparagus.
I *HAAATE* that.
It smells worse than 80% of the things that go on in there. And it's all chemicals that probably don't help anyone.
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Fuck it. I have no idea how to be anything but condescending when I'm sending the 5th email in a week on how to do something and you keep asking me "so what do you need from me to get this done?"
Why not refer to the list that is CONTAINED WITHIN THE EMAIL YOU JUST REPLIED TO? What more can I do? Engrave it in stone? Do you reset your brain every morning when you come into the office? If so, does it retain it's ability to help you read??? I don't ask that you remember how to DO the thing I explained 5 times, but you could at least read the fucking instructions.
*exhale*
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Kelly Ripa. Especially when she does celebrity impressions.
Disagree! K-Rip rules! Anything related to "Live! With Regis and Kathy" pretty much rules, but K-Rip is bright and beautiful and kinda reminds me of the sun.
My recent "I hates" include: iPhoning in public. And by "public" I mean anywhere near me. iPhones should only be used in private, when no one is around. Like in the bathroom. Also currently hating: my tax preparer!
Currently loving: Terre T's Alex Chilton tribute!
http://www.wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=2&show=35117&archive=59588
-Ajax
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This ironic/retro sexism phenomenon
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Ironic?
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Logging into Facebook and seeing this -
(http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/4419/jefftz.png)
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Ironic?
That's the defense, anyway.
Y'know, the whole "Get in the kitchen, woman" type of humor that's so popular at my college.
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Oh, I know exactly what you mean. My point was simply that the so-called irony barely and incompletely masks the heartfelt sincerity (and wishful thinking) behind much of that talk.
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And I've seen that whole thing extended to minorities, child abuse, etc. It's like people are just now realizing that they can say anything they want to, to anybody, and get away with it because of how over-the-top and ridiculous it is.
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And I've seen that whole thing extended to minorities, child abuse, etc. It's like people are just now realizing that they can say anything they want to, to anybody, and get away with it because of how over-the-top and ridiculous it is.
What makes it worse is when people try to pull that "I'm sayin' what everyone else just thinks!" bit, like they really believe (and are trying to convince their likeminded audience) that most people really are loathsome shitheads who only pretend to be respectful in their day to day lives.
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Blatant name dropping followed by "is dead".
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Cavities!
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abuse of apostrophe's
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As'shole's who use "hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm???" on comment section's of web pages'.
*edit: As'teris'ks' added appropriately.
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abuse of apostrophe's
N'ice.
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As'shole's who use "hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm???" on comment section's of web pages'.
*edit: As'teris'ks' added appropriately.
Oh man. Don't get me started.
I'm going to add the abuse of question marks and ellipses to that, especially in the context of an IM conversation.
I can't count the times I just ignored someone and walked away because their response to a question on IM was "..." followed by silence. Or "????????"
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Ending sentences with ",no?". Like "That was a good movie, no?". It reads and sounds pretentious.
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Blatant name dropping followed by "is dead".
Weird I hadn't heard that one. What's the context?
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abuse of apostrophe's
N'ice.
Na'Vi
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Blatant name dropping followed by "is dead".
Weird I hadn't heard that one. What's the context?
I think it was a clever joke about all of the unfortunate celeb deaths in recent years.
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Wait. What's the definition of "clever" again?
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Blatant name dropping followed by "is dead".
Weird I hadn't heard that one. What's the context?
I think it was a clever joke about all of the unfortunate celeb deaths in recent years.
I didn't mean that. I think it started with Nietzsche's "God is Dead" and then became a phrase in itself. I think Jonathan Goldstein wrote a book called "Lenny Bruce is Dead" but I don't consider that name dropping as most people would probably know who that is. I was looking up something on former Sec. of State Hamilton Fish and noticed that someone had a band named 'Hamilton Fish is Dead'. I suppose I was just reminded of other uses of that phrase that peeved me because they seemed pretentious or something.
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Whenever political bloggers write that "[Some site] wins the morning" with some meaningless scoop about RNC expenditures, or finding embarassing photos of Michael Steele in his World Class Wreckin' Cru days. Nobody wins, trust me.
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my paranoid boss who makes a point to watch me leave for the bathroom and undoubtedly times me while i'm away from desk.
it's starts out annoying, ends in 'fuck you'.
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Being called "dude" or "man."
I think it may be subconsciously because so many calls on the radio that begin with those two words just end really badly for some reason.
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Being called "dude" or "man."
I think it may be subconsciously because so many calls on the radio that begin with those two words just end really badly for some reason.
"Dude" and "man" are rooted pretty firmly into my vernacular for some reason. Always have been. I also say "cool" a lot. Go figure.
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Flipping through cable last night, the new Tonight Show with Jay Leno was on... Had to stop for a moment to watch him pander to Karl Rove, who was his guest, promoting his new book.
The only thing in the slightest way non-ass-kissing by Leno was his admission at the end of the chat that "I haven't finished your book but I liked the part about your childhood."
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I hate that my sunroof started leaking and I'm in Oregon during the rainy season.
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Being called "dude" or "man."
I think it may be subconsciously because so many calls on the radio that begin with those two words just end really badly for some reason.
"Dude" and "man" are rooted pretty firmly into my vernacular for some reason. Always have been. I also say "cool" a lot. Go figure.
i admit this very same thing. although, i do apologize to people when i call them, "dude"; i believe they deserve it.
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This day is non-stop stuff I hate.
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Being called "dude" or "man."
I think it may be subconsciously because so many calls on the radio that begin with those two words just end really badly for some reason.
For me it's being called 'buddy'. Makes my skin crawl.
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Strangely enough, being called "son" by someone other than my father doesn't bother me in the slightest.
I think that's supposed to be the one most men don't like.
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Strangely enough, being called "son" by someone other than my father doesn't bother me in the slightest.
My brother likes to annoy me by calling me "Hoss" and "Peaches".
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people who think all those really bad sitcoms with laugh tracks are funny.
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"You know it BROTHA!"
And all variations of "brother," except in the literal, actual sense.
Who started this nonsense?
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"You know it BROTHA!"
And all variations of "brother," except in the literal, actual sense.
Who started this nonsense?
In movies and TV i've always seen monks and religious types use it as a nearly exclusive way of referring to one another. But I think the crappy casual usage you're talking about was made extra crappy for you by dumb North Americans. I wonder if it's roots are in that other stuff though or not...
I hate it too, but not NEARLY as much as I hate...
Hey BRAH!
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being called "boss".
Whatever you say, boss.
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"You know it BROTHA!"
And all variations of "brother," except in the literal, actual sense.
Who started this nonsense?
In movies and TV i've always seen monks and religious types use it as a nearly exclusive way of referring to one another. But I think the crappy casual usage you're talking about was made extra crappy for you by dumb North Americans. I wonder if it's roots are in that other stuff though or not...
I hate it too, but not NEARLY as much as I hate...
Hey BRAH!
I give Men of the Cloth some slack on this one, bro.
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i call people dude, buddy, champ, chief, boss, son, boss, buster, brutha, brother, bro, brah, pal, friend and guy all the time. also, dude-man-dude and dude-man-bro. and hoss and peaches.
so basically, you would all hate my guts.
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would or do?
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would or do?
This could be a regular segment on a comedy podcast. "Now it's time to play WOULD! OR! DO!".
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The track listing for this new Robin Williams DVD:
1) What's Up DC?!? Chicago/Rio Olympics
2) Fires Weed and the Weather
3) Hybrids and Animals
4) Healthcare and Heart Surgery
5) Bush, Cheney, and the Obamas
6) Sarah Palin, the Clintons, and Jack
7) Arnold, the Economy and Alternative Fuels
8 ) Technology
9) Summer Olympics and Athletics, The
10) Drugs, Alcoholism and More Drugs.
11) Religion and Marriage
12) Intelligent Design
13) Porn
14) A Touching Tribute
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Hate is too strong for this point, but the whole thing is so minor I can't create a new thread for it.
This just bugs me .
The expression "What the ... ? ", specifically when used in children's TV programming.
There is no young-child-appropriate end to that expression - WHY is it used SO often in kid shows?
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Hate is too strong for this point, but the whole thing is so minor I can't create a new thread for it.
This just bugs me .
The expression "What the ... ? ", specifically when used in children's TV programming.
There is no young-child-appropriate end to that expression - WHY is it used SO often in kid shows?
"Heck"?
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That comic strip, Non Sequitur.
Wry and cynical humor if alright every now and then, but this one just seems like it's patting itself on the back. It's worse than the guy from Top Gear.
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Hate is too strong for this point, but the whole thing is so minor I can't create a new thread for it.
This just bugs me .
The expression "What the ... ? ", specifically when used in children's TV programming.
There is no young-child-appropriate end to that expression - WHY is it used SO often in kid shows?
Because the fact that "shit", "hell", "damn", "bitch" that are common in afterschool cartoons now are fine? :)
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Tumblr art photos/captions -
http://pseudomeaningful.tumblr.com/
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After looking at it for 15 seconds: I think the guy who runs that blog is more hateable than any of the stuff he's making fun of.
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I agree with that.
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Anyone who hates people who call others "brother" a lot must really loathe Jamie Oliver. Especially when he's talking to teenagers.
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After looking at it for 15 seconds: I think the guy who runs that blog is more hateable than any of the stuff he's making fun of.
Funny my original post was going to be "Tumblr art photos/captions + people who write about them". Maybe good to step away from Tumblr/the internet altogether.
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Anyone who hates people who call others "brother" a lot must really loathe Jamie Oliver. Especially when he's talking to teenagers.
That Scottish clown on LOST calls everybody 'Brother', too.
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Yes, but he's just reading lines. Jamie Oliver (whom I like, by the way) seems to use it compulsively to sound young and hep. But then he also seems to think that calling middle-aged women "girls" makes them happy.
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Whom.
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But then he also seems to think that calling middle-aged women "girls" makes them happy.
He's not entirely wrong about this, Lubec. You are sui generis and a member of a rare breed beyond even that.
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After looking at it for 15 seconds: I think the guy who runs that blog is more hateable than any of the stuff he's making fun of.
Funny my original post was going to be "Tumblr art photos/captions + people who write about them". Maybe good to step away from Tumblr/the internet altogether.
I think that guy just made those pics himself just to have something to whine about.
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But then he also seems to think that calling middle-aged women "girls" makes them happy.
He's not entirely wrong about this, Lubec.
I don't know. I think he's too young to get away with it. It comes off as condescending and disrespectful, and I think the cafeteria workers in the West Virginia grammar school where I've been hearing him do it resent him for it.
Thanks for the other, by the way.
And, Andy (whom I respect and admire [naturally])? Go to hell, boy.
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I sort of know who Jamie Oliver is, but for the purposes of this thread I've been steadfastly and stubbornly thinking of Jamie Kennedy.
Don't be hatin'.
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Yes, but he's just reading lines. Jamie Oliver (whom I like, by the way) seems to use it compulsively to sound young and hep. But then he also seems to think that calling middle-aged women "girls" makes them happy.
Yeah, in Jamie's American Road Trip it was actually more like "bruvva," which is obviously even worse. The guy seems to cycle through these weird verbal tics - "pukka," for example. When he was making Jamie at Home he used the word "literally" about 50 times each episode.
Overall, I'm enjoying the show, though. I love the guy, even if he does have some annoying mannerisms.
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Oh, he's a sweetie and his heart is in the right place. I forgive him a great deal.
And "pukka" was hilarious.
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I've only ever known him from when Anthony Bourdain zings him.
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I'll take a Jaime Oliver over an Anthony Bourdain six out of seven days in the week.
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Ah come on, I love Tony.
I do remember that Sweden episode where he basically just shat all over the country in general (not to mention ABBA!).
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I don't mind Bourdain*. And I don't have any problem with his assessment of Swedish food. Opinions.
*) I do have a problem with his machismo and his ridiculous notion that everybody who works with food is some kind of (cool) psycho
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I don't understand the notion that Tony Bourdain is regarded as some sort of arbiter of taste and the only time he isn't sucking on a Marlboro Red is when he is gulping foie gras or something made of pig.
He could make a nice paté out of lispy, irritating, Jamie, though.
At least Tony doesn't have two thousand lines of cookware bearing his name out there. Jamie's brand is a bit over-saturated, at least here in the Northern Europes.
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That is true, Mark. But looking beyond the pots and pans, he actually makes decent cookbooks - his book on Italian cuisine is very good indeed.
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Bourdain tries too hard.
I fucking hate my job today.
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"pooh-poohed"
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i'd take Bourdain* over Andrew Zimmern any day. that dude acts like he deserves a major award for trying food from other lands. then he's usually rude to his hosts about it since they're serving him "bizarre foods". get over yourself, dude.
*full disclosure, i'm a Bourdain fan and think the fries at Les Halles are super-great.
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The track listing for this new Robin Williams DVD:
1) What's Up DC?!? Chicago/Rio Olympics
2) Fires Weed and the Weather
3) Hybrids and Animals
4) Healthcare and Heart Surgery
5) Bush, Cheney, and the Obamas
6) Sarah Palin, the Clintons, and Jack
7) Arnold, the Economy and Alternative Fuels
8 ) Technology
9) Summer Olympics and Athletics, The
10) Drugs, Alcoholism and More Drugs.
11) Religion and Marriage
12) Intelligent Design
13) Porn
14) A Touching Tribute
I saw clips of his new special. The track listing seems to be the best part about the new special.
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i'd take Bourdain* over Andrew Zimmern any day. that dude acts like he deserves a major award for trying food from other lands. then he's usually rude to his hosts about it since they're serving him "bizarre foods". get over yourself, dude.
*full disclosure, i'm a Bourdain fan and think the fries at Les Halles are super-great.
'Kitchen Confidential' is a solid read, especially if you've ever been in the food industry.
Zimmerman kind of annoys me too. It seems like he just finds food items that aren't lethal and eats it. And it's always gross stuff that he eats.
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i'd take Bourdain* over Andrew Zimmern any day. that dude acts like he deserves a major award for trying food from other lands. then he's usually rude to his hosts about it since they're serving him "bizarre foods". get over yourself, dude.
*full disclosure, i'm a Bourdain fan and think the fries at Les Halles are super-great.
'Kitchen Confidential' is a solid read, especially if you've ever been in the food industry.
Zimmerman kind of annoys me too. It seems like he just finds food items that aren't lethal and eats it. And it's always gross stuff that he eats.
A chef friend of mine met Bourdain in Portland recently and said that he really wanted to hate him but Bourdain was totally cool to him.
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i'd take Bourdain* over Andrew Zimmern any day. that dude acts like he deserves a major award for trying food from other lands. then he's usually rude to his hosts about it since they're serving him "bizarre foods". get over yourself, dude.
*full disclosure, i'm a Bourdain fan and think the fries at Les Halles are super-great.
'Kitchen Confidential' is a solid read, especially if you've ever been in the food industry.
Zimmerman kind of annoys me too. It seems like he just finds food items that aren't lethal and eats it. And it's always gross stuff that he eats.
A chef friend of mine met Bourdain in Portland recently and said that he really wanted to hate him but Bourdain was totally cool to him.
I'm sure all of them are nice in person (except maybe for said Lispy Brit), you don't get that far in any business by being a total douche. Except for Mickey Dolenz, Gene Simmons, that meanie Brit chef Gordon Ramsey, Phil Spector, OJ Simpson... OK.
Never mind.
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I'm sure all of them are nice in person (except maybe for said Lispy Brit)
I would be truly disappointed to learn that Jamie Oliver is a creep. There aren't very many celebrities that I feel that way about.
But admittedly, some of his merchandising efforts are pretty shitty. The Flavor Shaker?! C'mon, Jamie...
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Yeah, The Flavo(u)r Shaker is the one I was trying to remember!!
What, is he the next Ron Popeil or a chef?
It's just that I think we have been seeing Jamie for a longer period here in Europe, at first I thought he was refreshing, "yeah? And then he was a bit, like over the top, yeah? And now it is just way-hey too easy-peasy to hate the li'l git."
PS, sorry if I am partially responsible keeping the hate focused on celebrity chefs, especially at a time when there is so much to hate all around us.
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I would say that you don't get that far in business withOUT being a total douche.
And I like Gordon Ramsay, but mostly because I refuse to watch any of his shows that don't appear on BBC.
Plus, he made me these:
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(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_rj59qX1bxts/SkhM2LQDLLI/AAAAAAAAB3g/T__T3trTGN8/s800/DSC01401.JPG)
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That girl looks so lifelike. What did he make her out of?
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Clearly, Andy has married a human-sized piece of marzipan.
We wanted to eat at Ramsay's restaurant in the Heathrow airport but we landed too late and Heathrow is like the gates of hell so we had to just get on to our connecting flight.
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Clearly, Andy has married a human-sized piece of marzipan.
We wanted to eat at Ramsay's restaurant in the Heathrow airport but we landed too late and Heathrow is like the gates of hell so we had to just get on to our connecting flight.
The Ramsay Experience at Heathrow?? (I had no idea such a thing existed). You must've had residual munchies!
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There are successful people who aren't douches; however I've run into them outside of doing what they do for money, where for all I know they're total douches.
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I really hate Finance class, but I find finance in the real world fascinating.
I also hate classes where the professor acts like the journey being an important part of the learning experience is a suitable excuse for not proofing their shit or being incredibly vague. There is not reason that 4 one line questions that are supposed to be the basis of a 5 page paper should require an additional 3 pages of clarifications. It's lazy.
I'm far from being one of those "just tell me what's going to be on the test so that I can study that and get a good grade" type of people, but this shit is ridiculous.
Also, fuck the entire finance industry. They have 4 names for everything and they use antiquated pricing methods and jargon in order to make things as confusing as possible to outsiders so that they can steal money. People should be in jail for a lot of the legal shit they do.
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"No worries."
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All of the weird @$$ children's programming on the television networks now. Seriously,
I know we all liked some pretty strange and stupid things growing up, but so much of that crap now has no merit whatsoever unless you're competing for who can make their viewers/children the most screwed in the head.
ESPECIALLY all of that Disney/Family channel crap. What the hell?
I watched a young relative bask in it's terribleness for a weekend and understood near immediately why that child has trouble at school, communicating properly with people in general and is generally weird.
Furthermore, I want to know how much their writers get paid because I'm pretty sure I can recreate their scripts by drawing words from random dictionary cards.
This COULD BE a scene in an episode in any one of their shows:
"Oh no, what do we do? The ice cream machine in the cafeteria is spitting ants all over my homework"
"That's ok, we'll just get the king of france to give us a ride on his helicopter if we can convince the school aardvark to let us go!"
It's seriously completely random thoughts and ideas loosely arranged to resemble either a public school classroom or cafeteria scenario or something hinting at young age dating, always presented in some sort of poorly acted non sequitur. Some "genius" somewhere seems to think there's value to children in it and they air reruns all day long. I really wish I could see into the minds of others sometimes.
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It's not for you, son.
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My daughter watches kids' TV. Some of it, like 'Phineas and Pherb', is really awesome. I'm glad I have an excuse to watch it. Watching the Disney Channel by myself would be pretty creepy.
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I watched a young relative bask in it's terribleness for a weekend and understood near immediately why that child has trouble at school, communicating properly with people in general and is generally weird.
But you assume those shows have more power in molding people than they actually do. It depends on the kid. My daughter is a relatively smart, social, and decent person, and she consumes a lot of iCarly and Hannah Montana. I see no ill effects beside picking up some catch phrases that bug me but are otherwise totally age-appropriate and used by many of her friends. It is no different than us going "Wait...whuuuuuuuut?"
Also, I agree with Pidgeon. These shows do not cater to us at all so why get bothered by them? I feel the same way about the Disney music. Why bother saying "Hannah Montana's music is terrible?" That's like saying "Hi-C juice boxes suck when compared to my 15-year-old scotch."
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Some of it, like 'Phineas and Pherb', is really awesome.
Oh my God I love that show. I could probably watch it without a kid as an excuse.
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I also watch Phineas and Ferb with a younger relative. It reminds me of Rocko's Modern Life because of all the subtle filth humor they somehow manage to slip past the censors.
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Icelandic volcanoes.
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I hate the fact that when I reviewed Eugene Mirman's God is a Twelve Year-Old Boy with Aspberger's for Pitchfork and he tweeted (probably facetiously) that the rating was a few points short of making him a "hot new band", I retorted with the joke that if the rating was the Richter scale his CD would still cause the World Series to be canceled. This was about a week before the Haiti earthquake, and there's been like eight of the damn things since.
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Icelandic volcanoes.
Have you seen this Martin? A nice display of what is happening. It is a Swedish website, according to The Daily What.
http://www.flightradar24.com/
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Icelandic volcanoes.
Have you seen this Martin? A nice display of what is happening. It is a Swedish website, according to The Daily What.
http://www.flightradar24.com/
I have seen it. I'm super bummed out about this.
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I hate the fact that when I reviewed Eugene Mirman's God is a Twelve Year-Old Boy with Aspberger's for Pitchfork and he tweeted (probably facetiously) that the rating was a few points short of making him a "hot new band", I retorted with the joke that if the rating was the Richter scale his CD would still cause the World Series to be canceled. This was about a week before the Haiti earthquake, and there's been like eight of the damn things since.
That's still a great joke.
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Thumb rings.*
I guess "hate" is a bit over the top, but I give thumb rings the same double-take I do when I see neck tattoos.
*on men
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Damn, now The 1990s will not be on Terre T's show, amid whatever other chaos. I defy you Eyjafjallajökull!
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ke$ha
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Saw "Religulous" last night. Bill Mahr makes me mad....not because of his views (I am an atheist as well) but because he's a smug little jerk about his views and a total dick to everyone in his proximity. You want to pick on Tom Cruise and televangelists, fine. But religious truck drivers? Tourists at a Christian theme park? Leave them alone, asshole.
And maybe let some of those interviewees watch over your shoulder while you edit the interviews in post-production.
Mahr actually has the nerve at the end to tell people to stop practicing faith and start practicing doubt, because it is more humble. Humble? Coming from Bill Mahr? Puh-lease. Maybe the better message would have been "Believe what you want. I will too. Respect each other in the process. Good night."
I am an atheist, but I do not look down upon those whose beliefs differ from mine, nor do I see religion as the cause of all death and war on the planet as some like Mahr believe. Atheists have contributed their share to 20th atrocities (Pol Pot? Stalin?).
Grrrr! That movie made me MAD!
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I hate walking into the men's room and seeing some guy standing at the urinal arms akimbo with both hands on his hips, like he's some kind of superhero of peeing or something.
(I fully admit that this is probably the worst thing I've ever posted here.)
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I, too, hate it when men choose to piss in that position. Not least because it invariably involves more cleanup.
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I hate walking into the men's room and seeing some guy standing at the urinal arms akimbo with both hands on his hips, like he's some kind of superhero of peeing or something.
(I fully admit that this is probably the worst thing I've ever posted here.)
I hate it when they do that AND have their pants and underwear down to their ankles at the same time.
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Zimmerman kind of annoys me too. It seems like he just finds food items that aren't lethal and eats it. And it's always gross stuff that he eats.
My favorite was when Zimmerman ate the sea urchin penis and all the locals laughed at him. He acted like it was good, but he totally got pranked.
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Saw "Religulous" last night. Bill Mahr makes me mad....not because of his views (I am an atheist as well) but because he's a smug little jerk about his views and a total dick to everyone in his proximity. You want to pick on Tom Cruise and televangelists, fine. But religious truck drivers? Tourists at a Christian theme park? Leave them alone, asshole.
And maybe let some of those interviewees watch over your shoulder while you edit the interviews in post-production.
Mahr actually has the nerve at the end to tell people to stop practicing faith and start practicing doubt, because it is more humble. Humble? Coming from Bill Mahr? Puh-lease. Maybe the better message would have been "Believe what you want. I will too. Respect each other in the process. Good night."
I am an atheist, but I do not look down upon those whose beliefs differ from mine, nor do I see religion as the cause of all death and war on the planet as some like Mahr believe. Atheists have contributed their share to 20th atrocities (Pol Pot? Stalin?).
Grrrr! That movie made me MAD!
I appreciate some of his sentiments in regard to government policies and things in some of the things i've seen him talk about before, but he's definitely up there in my mental list of most douchiest men to ever be broadcasted on television. All I can picture when anyone mentions his name is that weird sort of scrunching one side of the face and yelling a lot while pretending saying "oh come ON!" at something he disapproves of is some kind of new phenomenon that he's going to get rich off of.
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Saw "Religulous" last night. Bill Mahr makes me mad....not because of his views (I am an atheist as well) but because he's a smug little jerk about his views and a total dick to everyone in his proximity. You want to pick on Tom Cruise and televangelists, fine. But religious truck drivers? Tourists at a Christian theme park? Leave them alone, asshole.
You've confirmed all my suspicions about that movie. Ugh.
I'll take a self-righteous religious zealot over a self-righteous atheist any day. Guess what, Bill Maher, you're not the first smug little twerp to take up this argument.
Speaking of smug self-righteous jerks - and I'm sure it's been mentioned here before - I'd like to give a F.U. to Penn & Teller for that "Bullsh-t" show. It's in that same vein: snide, ill-informed arrogance backed up by carefully edited interviews with lunatics.
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I'll take a self-righteous religious zealot over a self-righteous atheist any day.
Why so?
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I'll take a self-righteous religious zealot over a self-righteous atheist any day.
Why so?
Probably because religious zealots can be spotted a mile away, and/or tell you everything you're doing wrong. The athiest variety traps you and tells you a lifelong story about everything they're doing "right".
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I'll take a self-righteous religious zealot over a self-righteous atheist any day.
Why so?
Probably because religious zealots can be spotted a mile away, and/or tell you everything you're doing wrong. The athiest variety traps you and tells you a lifelong story about everything they're doing "right".
I am a semi-religious zealot, but I am a lot more interested in the contours of the way your life is than I am in convincing you it should be more like mine. People are clearly focused on the wrong religious zealots. I guess I am presuming out of turn, but I think Pastor Josh and Bonnie are with me on this.
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I'll take a self-righteous religious zealot over a self-righteous atheist any day.
Why so?
Probably because religious zealots can be spotted a mile away, and/or tell you everything you're doing wrong. The athiest variety traps you and tells you a lifelong story about everything they're doing "right".
I am a semi-religious zealot, but I am a lot more interested in the contours of the way your life is than I am in convincing you it should be more like mine. People are clearly focused on the wrong religious zealots. I guess I am presuming out of turn, but I think Pastor Josh and Bonnie are with me on this.
I'm merely using "zealot" in the context the typical non-believer in popular society understands. We're talk'n whackos and perhaps racists and biggots in some cases, that sort of thing. Not to be confused with someone who has simple and/or profound zeal.
Not everyone knows the difference though, because some people ruined it for everyone else. Or at least, they were louder and more shocking than yourself, for example ;)
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Back to stuff I hate...
people who agree to call or show up at a certain time for something, and just don't bother without informing you.
I worked all night and should be in bed and some service guy looking after some specialized computer nightmare promised to call 2 hours ago "at the latest".
At least a quick "hey, i'm busy, i'll be in touch later instead" would be nice.
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I hate walking into the men's room and seeing some guy standing at the urinal arms akimbo with both hands on his hips, like he's some kind of superhero of peeing or something.
(I fully admit that this is probably the worst thing I've ever posted here.)
I hate it when they do that AND have their pants and underwear down to their ankles at the same time.
Is this a common thing? I was using the bathroom once (the stall, of course) and when I made my exit, a guy was standing at the urinal with his pants down past his buttocks. He was staring at me, which was a little creepy. I honestly thought he was coming on to me, but maybe I was too quick to judge.
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A zealot is by definition a fanatic. I do not believe DfK, or Bonnie, or Pastor Josh qualifies as such.
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I hate walking into the men's room and seeing some guy standing at the urinal arms akimbo with both hands on his hips, like he's some kind of superhero of peeing or something.
(I fully admit that this is probably the worst thing I've ever posted here.)
I hate it when they do that AND have their pants and underwear down to their ankles at the same time.
Is this a common thing? I was using the bathroom once (the stall, of course) and when I made my exit, a guy was standing at the urinal with his pants down past his buttocks. He was staring at me, which was a little creepy. I honestly thought he was coming on to me, but maybe I was too quick to judge.
The ONLY time i've ever seen this was when I was a child in a school that had an integrated so-called "special needs" program where kids with various handicaps and disorders and things would do half a day with the rest of us. In an innocent non-bully sort of way, it was very funny to us to all line up at the urinals, thinking we were just shorter versions of grown up men doing our business, and then watch this one guy from the special needs do his thing with the same (if not more) confidence, but with his pants basically on the floor.
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A zealot is by definition a fanatic. I do not believe DfK, or Bonnie, or Pastor Josh qualifies as such.
I respectfully disagree. Not with the latter, I don't know these people enough to call them crazy :)
But "zealotry" and "zeal" refer, more or less, to operating in significant, perhaps even nearly unwavering devotion.
I think you're talking about something typically called "overzealous"
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You presume too much.
"Zealot: 1 cap : a member of a fanatical sect arising in Judea during the first century A.D. and militantly opposing the Roman domination of Palestine 2 : a zealous person; esp : a fanatical partisan <a religious ~>" (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th ed.).
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A zealot is by definition a fanatic. I do not believe DfK, or Bonnie, or Pastor Josh qualifies as such.
I respectfully disagree. Not with the latter, I don't know these people enough to call them crazy :)
But "zealotry" and "zeal" refer, more or less, to operating in significant, perhaps even nearly unwavering devotion.
I think you're talking about something typically called "overzealous"
In the context of religion at least (which I think is it's original usage) I think Sarah's right. Someone who's not a fanatic is merely "religious". If you're a "religious zealot" that means you're a fanatic.
edit: ...but Sarah got there before me, and with the references to back it up.
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The mood I'm in today, I needed that, Bryan. Thank you.
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But those refer to something completely different. When a pastor says he's zealous (typically, anyway), he's not saying he's part of an ancient group of fanatics, nor is he saying he's a modern religious fanatic. I guess he could speak for himself though ;)
The definitions you pulled from MW aren't where the word's usage end. For example, a lot of "religious" persons read and speak of a "zeal" that isn't fanatical at all. You can be zealous about something without being insane.
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I'll take a self-righteous religious zealot over a self-righteous atheist any day.
Why so?
The conversations I've had with religious evangelists has been more bearable than the ones I've had with atheist evangelists. The religious types have been more interested in a semi-coherent philosophical discussion and are at least open to the possibility that I'm not going to walk away having been converted. The loud-mouth atheist types, on the other hand, mostly want to listen to themselves yammer about how much smarter they are than all the rubes out there.
Of course, I'm obviously generalizing based on a handful of people I've met. And keep in mind I'm talking about self-righteous loudmouths, trying to sort out what seems like a two-way tie for last.
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I'll take a self-righteous religious zealot over a self-righteous atheist any day.
Why so?
The conversations I've had with religious evangelists has been more bearable than the ones I've had with atheist evangelists. The religious types have been more interested in a semi-coherent philosophical discussion and are at least open to the possibility that I'm not going to walk away having been converted. The loud-mouth atheist types, on the other hand, mostly want to listen to themselves yammer about how much smarter they are than all the rubes out there.
Of course, I'm obviously generalizing based on a handful of people I've met. And keep in mind I'm talking about self-righteous loudmouths, trying to sort out what seems like a two-way tie for last.
Yeah, it's been my experience too most of the time. At their worst, those atheists seem to want to spend more time insulting innocent people's intelligence than anything else. The most troublesome of the religious evangelist types i've met like to ask too many questions or throw guilt around. Which is tolerable to a point by comparison.
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Imagine you were among adults who literally believed in Santa Claus, that a bearded guy came down everybody's chimney once a year. Would you question their intelligence?
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I hate walking into the men's room and seeing some guy standing at the urinal arms akimbo with both hands on his hips, like he's some kind of superhero of peeing or something.
(I fully admit that this is probably the worst thing I've ever posted here.)
I hate it when they do that AND have their pants and underwear down to their ankles at the same time.
Is this a common thing? I was using the bathroom once (the stall, of course) and when I made my exit, a guy was standing at the urinal with his pants down past his buttocks. He was staring at me, which was a little creepy. I honestly thought he was coming on to me, but maybe I was too quick to judge.
The ONLY time i've ever seen this was when I was a child in a school that had an integrated so-called "special needs" program where kids with various handicaps and disorders and things would do half a day with the rest of us. In an innocent non-bully sort of way, it was very funny to us to all line up at the urinals, thinking we were just shorter versions of grown up men doing our business, and then watch this one guy from the special needs do his thing with the same (if not more) confidence, but with his pants basically on the floor.
99 pages in, I'd just like to say: I LOVE THIS THREAD.
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But those refer to something completely different. When a pastor says he's zealous (typically, anyway), he's not saying he's part of an ancient group of fanatics, nor is he saying he's a modern religious fanatic. I guess he could speak for himself though ;)
The definitions you pulled from MW aren't where the word's usage end. For example, a lot of "religious" persons read and speak of a "zeal" that isn't fanatical at all. You can be zealous about something without being insane.
I was talking about the word "zealot," as were you, till you moved on to "zeal" and "zealous." "Zealot" carries far different, and more ferocious, connotations than either of those two. If I ever heard a preacher describe himself as a zealot I'd either be a-scared or question his command of the English language.
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People trying to bully you with 'you're going to hell lol' and people bullying you with 'you r stupid lol': 2-way tie for last. Fortunately, they are a pretty small minority in either group.
I have gotten crap in workplace situations for being a non-believer that I doubt I'd have gotten if I were, say, Mormon, though. Of course, those were some Mayberry type workplaces. They had so much wrong with them that that was just a blip anyway.
What was I talking about again?
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I hate walking into the men's room and seeing some guy standing at the urinal arms akimbo with both hands on his hips, like he's some kind of superhero of peeing or something.
(I fully admit that this is probably the worst thing I've ever posted here.)
I hate it when they do that AND have their pants and underwear down to their ankles at the same time.
Is this a common thing? I was using the bathroom once (the stall, of course) and when I made my exit, a guy was standing at the urinal with his pants down past his buttocks. He was staring at me, which was a little creepy. I honestly thought he was coming on to me, but maybe I was too quick to judge.
The ONLY time i've ever seen this was when I was a child in a school that had an integrated so-called "special needs" program where kids with various handicaps and disorders and things would do half a day with the rest of us. In an innocent non-bully sort of way, it was very funny to us to all line up at the urinals, thinking we were just shorter versions of grown up men doing our business, and then watch this one guy from the special needs do his thing with the same (if not more) confidence, but with his pants basically on the floor.
There was a kid in my 1st grade class who did this. He wasn't really a special needs kid, although he did kind of have a special need to learn to function without his mother around.
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Some of you may be interested to learn you've unwittingly earned yourselves forced, Clockwork Orange-style screenings of Ben Stein's EXPELLED.
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Some of you may be interested to learn you've unwittingly earned yourselves forced, Clockwork Orange-style screenings of Ben Stein's EXPELLED.
Please! I'm cured!
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Some of you may be interested to learn you've unwittingly earned yourselves forced, Clockwork Orange-style screenings of Ben Stein's EXPELLED.
Ben Stein is the Bill Maher of zealots. If either of them dies, the universe folds in on itself.
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New/recent stuff I do not dig:
Phrases beginning with "Why didn't anyone tell me...?". Like "Why didn't any one tell me that show was so good?". Yeah, the world forgot to tell YOU about it specifically.
Dumb, loud people that ruin comedy shows. I've had my fill of this.
Subways $5 footlongs coming and going. Sometimes it's all of them, sometimes it's some of them, sometimes it's none of them.
The Facebook mobile app not being very good.
World-wide disasters.
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People that feel the need to overlight any room they walk into. Especially when they exclaim "it's so dark in here!" when it's clearly at a comfortable level for whatever the people who were in the room first are doing.
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Maybe they are going blind. Don't be insensitive. No pun intended.
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Last night at the Bulls game, the guy sitting next to me kept putting on his Oakley sunglasses, including when they dimmed the lights for the player intros. He also was wearing a thumb ring.
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Don't switch the blade on the guy in shades.
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Beard ponytails.
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the sound of someone else eating yogurt makes me cringe. i can't stand the sound of a plastic or metal spoon scraping the bottom of the container.
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How about pudding?
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The Nicholas Cage Wicker Man. I love the original, and everything I love about the original is absent from this. It's also dedicated to my least favorite Ramone. I just watched the original again last night, and then I got mad thinking about the remake.
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apparently i'm being followed. seriously. on the internet. and i hate it.
also, i hate the bumper sticker on the car in the parking garage that says, "next time you think you're perfect try walking on water". THAT PROVES NOTHING EXCEPT THAT YOU CAN WALK ON WATER!
i love this thread.
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Some of you may be interested to learn you've unwittingly earned yourselves forced, Clockwork Orange-style screenings of Ben Stein's EXPELLED.
Ben Stein is the Bill Maher of zealots. If either of them dies, the universe folds in on itself.
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the sound of someone else eating yogurt makes me cringe. i can't stand the sound of a plastic or metal spoon scraping the bottom of the container.
That's a new one.
Or is it?
I used to be am very sensitive to the feeling of dry hands on a fresh roll of paper towels. I'd get all shivery and stuff. Just thinking about it almost does it.
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apparently i'm being followed. seriously. on the internet. and i hate it.
also, i hate the bumper sticker on the car in the parking garage that says, "next time you think you're perfect try walking on water". THAT PROVES NOTHING EXCEPT THAT YOU CAN WALK ON WATER!
i love this thread.
Deleting your number from my cell phone now
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The Nicholas Cage Wicker Man. I love the original, and everything I love about the original is absent from this. It's also dedicated to my least favorite Ramone. I just watched the original again last night, and then I got mad thinking about the remake.
Cage has a way of working himself into bad remakes. Ever see "City of Angels"? Ew buoy. I watched it without headphones on a red-eye from LA to NY. Stuck in a middle seat between two Rubin-esque businessmen. Couldn't sleep. The movie consisted of 50% this: A character with arms out, palms up, face to the skies, eyes closed in rapture, rain optional. Is there a word for that? "Redemption shot?" I dunno. I wish I had a sleeping pill for each one. It was my private hell.
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Businessmen like Jerry Rubin? Yippie or yuppie era?
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Businessmen like Jerry Rubin? Yippie or yuppie era?
Oops. Ruben-esque. Sorry.
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Businessmen like Jerry Rubin? Yippie or yuppie era?
Oops. Ruben-esque. Sorry.
I was hoping for Paul Reubens. That would have been a memorable flight.
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Cats shtupping on my porch and the neighbors that refuse to get them fixed. Who wants a kitten? I'm taking pre-orders.
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The gifts I get from my cat. In the past month, I've gotten a snake, half a rabbit, and countless moles. Thanks, but not thanks.
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Oops. Ruben-esque. Sorry.
I think sitting between two Rubinesque business would have been much more unpleasant, if less crowded.
Pidgeon, you should be glad your cat cares about you so much.
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The gifts I get from my cat. In the past month, I've gotten a snake, half a rabbit, and countless moles. Thanks, but not thanks.
We get those, primarily moles and mice, with the occasional rabbit or bird.
Usually they just leave the internal organs that are toxic to them, which the dog will try to eat.
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Ric Ocasek can walk on water, and while he has his good points I'd hardly consider him perfect.
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Ric Ocasek can walk on water, and while he has his good points I'd hardly consider him perfect.
(http://img1.eyefetch.com/p/5l/452439-5a22e180-a079-43b1-a978-6b3877a7385e.jpg)
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the sound of someone else eating yogurt makes me cringe. i can't stand the sound of a plastic or metal spoon scraping the bottom of the container.
That's a new one.
Or is it?
I used to be am very sensitive to the feeling of dry hands on a fresh roll of paper towels. I'd get all shivery and stuff. Just thinking about it almost does it.
i'm exactly that way with the weird, soft foam fabric found on dry cleaner hangers.
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I can't lick wooden popsicle sticks without shuddering.
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Did you ever have to use those wooden paddles that used to come with the ice cream they served in school cafeterias? Worse even than popsicle sticks. My hatred for both prompted one of my best inadvertent double entendres (I believe on the old FMU board): "I hate the feeling of wood in my mouth."
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Noooobody likes a drippy ceiling... :(
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apparently i'm being followed. seriously. on the internet. and i hate it.
also, i hate the bumper sticker on the car in the parking garage that says, "next time you think you're perfect try walking on water". THAT PROVES NOTHING EXCEPT THAT YOU CAN WALK ON WATER!
i love this thread.
Deleting your number from my cell phone now
oh, dave, if you're the one following me on the internet, fair is fair. if it's because of the bumper sticker, don't just delete that number, LOSE IT.
*don't really delete it!
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The gifts I get from my cat. In the past month, I've gotten a snake, half a rabbit, and countless moles. Thanks, but not thanks.
Mouse and rabbit, two days ago.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgdffzvoVmc[/youtube]
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I hate how self-aware I am of the dumb stuff I say.
I was chatting with a former teacher the other day and I, for some reason, decided to tell her that "my life is falling apart" to get sympathy. I'll probably never see this person, whom was very influential to me, again and this is the impression I decided to leave her with. I've been thinking about it nonstop ever since. What's wrong with me?
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You are a human bean.
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I don't know what that means but it sounds kind of adorable.
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I hate how self-aware I am of the dumb stuff I say.
I was chatting with a former teacher the other day and I, for some reason, decided to tell her that "my life is falling apart" to get sympathy. I'll probably never see this person, whom was very influential to me, again and this is the impression I decided to leave her with. I've been thinking about it nonstop ever since. What's wrong with me?
Apparently your life is falling apart.
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I don't know what that means but it sounds kind of adorable.
Ask Captain Beefheart.
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I hate how self-aware I am of the dumb stuff I say.
I was chatting with a former teacher the other day and I, for some reason, decided to tell her that "my life is falling apart" to get sympathy. I'll probably never see this person, whom was very influential to me, again and this is the impression I decided to leave her with. I've been thinking about it nonstop ever since. What's wrong with me?
Apparently your life is falling apart.
I'm desperately lonely and inadequate, but saying that "my life is falling apart" was a bit much.
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I hate how self-aware I am of the dumb stuff I say.
I was chatting with a former teacher the other day and I, for some reason, decided to tell her that "my life is falling apart" to get sympathy. I'll probably never see this person, whom was very influential to me, again and this is the impression I decided to leave her with. I've been thinking about it nonstop ever since. What's wrong with me?
Apparently your life is falling apart.
I'm desperately lonely and inadequate, but saying that "my life is falling apart" was a bit much.
Pidgeon - you're all right.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbUYJfbZ-Qc[/youtube]
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I know that Tom disapproves of the turlet talk, so I will try to state a thing I hate while staying within the confines of "hard G."
If I am in a public washroom, and standing at a - um - porcelain object installed on the wall (not a sink), please do not strike up a conversation with me. This rule applies to you especially if you're done using the washroom and have no business being there anymore.
Please pay special attention to this request if you are my boss.
Thank you. And I hope your ears have stopped burning from the profanity.
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turlet talk,
And I hope your ears have stopped burning from the profanity.
It's my eyes, my eyezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz that are burning!
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I hate how self-aware I am of the dumb stuff I say.
I was chatting with a former teacher the other day and I, for some reason, decided to tell her that "my life is falling apart" to get sympathy. I'll probably never see this person, whom was very influential to me, again and this is the impression I decided to leave her with. I've been thinking about it nonstop ever since. What's wrong with me?
Apparently your life is falling apart.
I'm desperately lonely and inadequate, but saying that "my life is falling apart" was a bit much.
Pidgeon - you're all right.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbUYJfbZ-Qc[/youtube]
On the other hand, That Summer Feeling might haunt you the rest of your life.
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when a cashier coughs into/wipes nose on their hand right before handing me my change. why would anyone do such a thing?
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when a cashier coughs into/wipes nose on their hand right before handing me my change. why would anyone do such a thing?
Cold. Allergy.
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when a cashier coughs into/wipes nose on their hand right before handing me my change. why would anyone do such a thing?
The intense desire to cause a pandemic.
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i'm starting to get a little more than annoyed how the flood relief situation in nashville (and millington) is being handled. or not.
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i'm starting to get a little more than annoyed how the flood relief situation in nashville (and millington) is being handled. or not.
No kidding. Jon Stewart did manage to give us attention AND make fun of Philadelphia in the same sentence.
Do you get flooded out, Baron?
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I hate how self-aware I am of the dumb stuff I say.
I was chatting with a former teacher the other day and I, for some reason, decided to tell her that "my life is falling apart" to get sympathy. I'll probably never see this person, whom was very influential to me, again and this is the impression I decided to leave her with. I've been thinking about it nonstop ever since. What's wrong with me?
Apparently your life is falling apart.
I'm desperately lonely and inadequate, but saying that "my life is falling apart" was a bit much.
Pidgeon, you asked what was wrong, and I quoted you; remember? "I was chatting with a former teacher the other day and I, for some reason, decided to tell her that "my life is falling apart" "
I wasn't making a value judgement, I just thought you forgot you had already answered this question.
Don't be lonely, that's why we are here. Just damp town the James-ness.
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Oh no, you misunderstood what I was saying. I was saying that "my life is falling apart" was a bit much for ME to say.
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Oh no, you misunderstood what I was saying. I was saying that "my life is falling apart" was a bit much for ME to say.
Wait, one of our lives are falling apart; which one is it?
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The Westboro Baptist Church is going to protest the funeral of a co-worker's young sister who was beaten to death by her boyfriend. I know they do this crap all the time but it just hits a little close to home :(
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The Westboro Baptist Church is going to protest the funeral of a co-worker's young sister who was beaten to death by her boyfriend. I know they do this crap all the time but it just hits a little close to home :(
What is the "spin" they're trying to put on the protest?
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She deserved to die because she's a Catholic.
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The Westboro Baptist Church is going to protest the funeral of a co-worker's young sister who was beaten to death by her boyfriend. I know they do this crap all the time but it just hits a little close to home :(
I know this is probably not the ideal time to suggest this, but wouldn't it be great if a group like Improv Everywhere (that usually does stuff that doesn't actually mean anything to anyone) would go fuck with the Westboro Baptist Assholes on one of their missions?
I bet they could get a bazillion people to participate, and it would finally bring them useless hipsters up a few notches in my book.
Anybody see the Louis Theroux episode on the Westboro Baptists? Scary stuff.
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I bet they could get a bazillion people to participate, and it would finally bring them useless hipsters up a few notches in my book.
I just saw in my mind's eye 1000 people dressed in camouflage hot pants wearing wigs and fake mustaches carrying signs supporting the church.
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I hate the rush by online newspapers to provide multimedia content. Often enough, the subject of an article will interest me, and I click through to see it's a video. I don't want to watch a video! I like reading.
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I hate the rush by online newspapers to provide multimedia content. Often enough, the subject of an article will interest me, and I click through to see it's a video. I don't want to watch a video! I like reading.
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(Yay! WBC didn't show up! Silverish lining!)
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Kelsey Grammar -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_mQPvKXw3U
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Kelsey Grammar -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_mQPvKXw3U
Wow. Too bad. That's really a shame.
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White people do things this way and black people do it another way.
Can I get a stand-up special now?
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Kelsey Grammar -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_mQPvKXw3U
This is not only a forum where the right can laugh and be themselves. It's also a place where comedians stuck in the 1980's can laugh and be themselves. I kept waiting for Rosie O'Donnel with a perm to come out chewing gum to introduce the next act.
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Dick Morris? There's a guy devoid of any redeeming value.
And answering machine jokes? I can't wait to hear that guy's FAX material.
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Dick Morris? There's a guy devoid of any redeeming value.
And answering machine jokes? I can't wait to hear that guy's FAX material.
"What's up with people who haven't gotten touch tone for their home phones. Do they LIKE watching the dial go around? How do they call their pagers?"
"And fax machines! They're so SQUEAKY! What's with all that racket?!"
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I hate Conair brand combs. They're like combing your hair with a plastic fork. And yet they're the only brand stocked at any of the shops I frequent. Ace, where are you?
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Are we still goofing on the comedians, or is this comb thing for real?
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Take a trip to Leominster, Mass. I believe it's the plastic comb capital of the world.
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I'm serious about hating Conair brand combs. I've been nursing this grudge for six months, when I started growing my hair longer and was in the market. I should have just visited Leominster and been done with it.
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...and what's up with 'Barbicide'? You'd think the last place they'd have something that kills barbers is the barber shop.
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(http://www.hairproducts.co.uk/images/1jar.gif)
that stuff always weirded me out when my dad used to take me to his old-timey barber. it was as odd as the magazine rack that featured highlights, time, entertainment weekly and playboy all on the same shelf.
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Inside the Facebook offices there is a "Go Big or Go Home" banner. Because of course there is.
(http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2010/facebook_headquarters/facebook_headquarters_08.jpg)
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I hope your future Secret Santa remembers this thread come Christmas, yesno.
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I hate it when people pressure wash refrigerators while their city is trying to conserve water.
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There's nothing worse than a dirty refridgerator, though.
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I hate when my toe hurts.
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I love the whole world.
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http://www.facebook.com/georgewbush
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Shocking.
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I hate measuring.
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I hate measuring.
I hate measuring.
I hate cutting.
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I hate measuring.
I hate measuring.
I hate cutting.
I hate measuring twice as much as I hate cutting.
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I hate measuring three times, then I hate cutting once.
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I hate cutting, blunting, and smothering.
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I have extremely visible stitches in my eyeball.
Actually nevermind, I hated them the first week but now I think they are pretty awesome.
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You kids today and your crazy fads.
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Misuse of then and than.
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I have extremely visible stitches in my eyeball.
Actually nevermind, I hated them the first week but now I think they are pretty awesome.
Emma- I can relate as far as our crazy fads go: Through an x-ray, doctors discovered the reason my big toe has been hurting is that there is a lump of calcium-like hardness in the bottom of my toe. They asked, "Do you recall ever stepping on an object, then it breaking off inside your toe and healing up in there?" "Um, not that I recall."
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ugh. I just had my PhotoBucket account open to upload those maps & charts, and since I had my Facebook account open on another tab (or maybe b/c I use the same email....?) freakin' PhotoBucket KNEW who I was.
so rude!
I thought I opted out of all that crap.
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Just watched 'Get Him to the Greek' with my 65-year old dad and his sheltered wife because I'm visiting and there isn't much else to do. 2 hours of the same unfunny dick jokes. So. very. painful :(
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But how was Puff Dimwit?
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Just watched 'Get Him to the Greek' with my 65-year old dad and his sheltered wife because I'm visiting and there isn't much else to do. 2 hours of the same unfunny dick jokes. So. very. painful :(
I want to know what universe it takes place in where a '70s style arena-rock dirtbag staging a ten-year anniversary concert is enough to give the music business a boost.
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Puff Dimwit was just the source of a loud stream of unfunny obscenities, not much else. I was already done with all things Apatow/Rogen/Jonah Hill-related, this just sealed it.
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Man I really hate inter-office whispering. C'mon guys, grow up.
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One week today.
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One week today.
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One week today.
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One week since Duchess died. Sorry for your loss, Sarah.
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Vielen Dank', Stan.
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One week today.
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One week since Duchess died. Sorry for your loss, Sarah.
Sorry Sarah I didn't know.
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Oh, why should you have? I was being self-indulgent and deliberately obscure. Dinna fash yersel.
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I respect this one high-level boss at my job. We have worked together for years at different companies. But today, HE ASKED ME TO FUDGE DATA. Everyone else in the room supported him, saying it was not a big deal. I refused. The big boss said "Fine. Email me the document and I'll fudge it."
I am seething right now.
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I had a somewhat similar experience when I worked at an expensive deli a few years ago. We ran out of organic eggs, and the owner told me to put the regular eggs in the organic containers. I balked, and he rolled his eyes at me and did it himself. I quit soon thereafter, and never shopped there again... I know it's not THAT big a deal, but it was indicative of the way the guy did business - dishonestly, and short-sightedly.
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Jon & Bryan - that is utter horseshit, and I'm sorry. It's super disappointing when you find out that people around you are not on ethical solid ground.
If nothing else, the consolation is that you guys both passed the diagnostics check. Both of you said It's not a big deal ... sure, but if these guys fart around on the small stuff, how would they behave when shit really goes down? That's what always comes to mind when these "little" tests present themselves. You guys are on the Right Path, and those guys are weasels.
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I hate weasels.
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Maybe you guys can help me with this. Is it normal for your roommates boyfriend to spend five out of seven nights a week at your apartment? To the point where it's more like three people living there than two? I'd like to know what other people my age think because I for one hate it.
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I respect this one high-level boss at my job. We have worked together for years at different companies. But today, HE ASKED ME TO FUDGE DATA. Everyone else in the room supported him, saying it was not a big deal. I refused. The big boss said "Fine. Email me the document and I'll fudge it."
I am seething right now.
Stick with your integrity, Jon, that kind of crap can hang over your head for a long time. Sometimes even as blackmail.
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I hate weasels.
I have a picture of a weasel one of my cats killed a few years back. Maybe I should send it to you.
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(http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktcuid0dBw1qa1vjfo1_500.jpg)
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Our large dog, Pepper, has vanished. He's old, and he has some struggle with arthritis or something similar in his hips. He lives outside, in an invisible fence set-up. This morning he seemed a little sluggish, but that's not all that unusual. During the day there was a terrible thunderstorm; when we got home, he's nowhere to be found.
We are hopeful that the battery on his collar ran down, allowing him to run for the hills when the lightning started striking; he definitely hated loud noises. But Carol is concerned that he snuck out into the woods to die; the invisible fence would allow him to go about 120 yards from the house.
With luck, he will limp back home tonight.
dave
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Oh, Dave, that is awful. I hope he comes home. It's terrible to think of a rickety dog (he sounds like he has Bandit's hips) on the loose.
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These weasel stories are reminding me of the 'humane raccoon relocation' business in 'The 400 lb. CEO'.
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Our large dog, Pepper, has vanished. He's old, and he has some struggle with arthritis or something similar in his hips. He lives outside, in an invisible fence set-up. This morning he seemed a little sluggish, but that's not all that unusual. During the day there was a terrible thunderstorm; when we got home, he's nowhere to be found.
We are hopeful that the battery on his collar ran down, allowing him to run for the hills when the lightning started striking; he definitely hated loud noises. But Carol is concerned that he snuck out into the woods to die; the invisible fence would allow him to go about 120 yards from the house.
With luck, he will limp back home tonight.
dave
That's always worrisome...I hope for the best for him!
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Our large dog, Pepper, has vanished. He's old, and he has some struggle with arthritis or something similar in his hips. He lives outside, in an invisible fence set-up. This morning he seemed a little sluggish, but that's not all that unusual. During the day there was a terrible thunderstorm; when we got home, he's nowhere to be found.
We are hopeful that the battery on his collar ran down, allowing him to run for the hills when the lightning started striking; he definitely hated loud noises. But Carol is concerned that he snuck out into the woods to die; the invisible fence would allow him to go about 120 yards from the house.
With luck, he will limp back home tonight.
dave
That's always worrisome...I hope for the best for him!
Here's the deal with Pepper. I went out around 9 with a flashlight; honestly I was afraid I was looking for a body. He's black with a white chest and tail; I was hopeful that I would not find him dead, but knew that white chest would pop in the flashlight if he was.
Wandered the streets of the neighborhood by car, calling and whistling for him. Came back home and started combing through some of the wooded areas close to the house. There's a natural creek that runs close to the house. On our property we have let it remain wild (that's my rationale for being too lazy to tame it); I fought through that for a while, staying close to the creek. No luck, but when I came to the edge of our property, the going got easier, and I decided to stay close to the creek, thinking that maybe when he got away from the house, he would have to have water at some point (the heat index was about 104 yesterday.)
Got a couple hundred feet into the third neighbors yard, and there he was, standing in water about 6 inches deep. He had gone into the creek, and then apparently his gimpy legs were not strong enough to get him out. Worse, there's nowhere in the creek that's shallow enough for him to put his head down, so he'd been standing there for God knows how long.
I jumped in the creek and tried to fish him out; he is a 75-pounder, and I am a notorious weakling. The third attempt I got about 2/3 of him above the creek bed, and sort of flipped him up (gently) and onto the ground. By that time the neighbor had come out to see what his dog was barking about. Thank goodness for that, because he had an oversized wheel barrow, and together we got the dog into it and back home.
I was a little worried because Pepper would not stand up, but I think he was just exhausted. Later when I took the little dog Pippin out to visit, Pepper at least stood up, so we are going to see if he's walking this morning, and take him to the vet to be checked out.
Our theory is that he ran off during the awful thunderstorm, and when he ran, found out that the collar on his invisible fence was not working (when the battery goes out, we often don't find out for a while, because he doesn't ever really try to leave the house anymore anyway) and ran for the hills. Or in this case, the steep watery valley.
Thanks for all the nice notes and tweets I got. So far so good!
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Poor Pepper (and you and Mary and AfK and anyone else who was worried, of course). I hope he recovers from his ordeal. Since he managed to stand up the very night you found him, I bet he will.
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Glad to hear you found Pepper, Dave. I wish him a speedy and full recovery.
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Good to hear that, Dave.
Has anyone heard from Andy from OK since the flooding down there?
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Andy's fine, save his toe.
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Glad to hear Pepper's doing OK, Dave.
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(http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktcuid0dBw1qa1vjfo1_500.jpg)
Just think, Frank Zappa could have picked any of these articles.
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Andy has toes with a mind of his own.
I really hate that so many women out there chemically straighten their hair like curly hair is some sort of curse :( And most of them dont' even have an unruly fro like I do!
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Andy has toes with a mind of his own.
I really hate that so many women out there chemically straighten their hair like curly hair is some sort of curse :( And most of them dont' even have an unruly fro like I do!
i agree with this. and the fact that breast augmentation will solve all their self esteem issues*.
*i'm not making assumption here; it has actually been said by women i know.
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curly hair is gross.
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My stupid neighbors mowing their lawn at 9:30-10 PM. What the Fuuuu
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Glad to hear Pepper's doing OK, Dave.
As it turns out, Pepper has had a stroke. He's walking in circles, and seems to be off balance, but he seems to be able to find his way to his food and water bowls, and into his dog house, which is outside, but out of the sun.
The worst part was that when he first returned from the vet he seemed to not recognize us; he was not unfriendly, but did not much respond to our neck-rubbing and talking, but today he seems to be coming around. I think I even saw his tail wagging a bit when we took out the little white dog, Pippin. Most dogs make substantial recoveries from strokes. No one knows for sure, but one widely held theory is that their brain is mostly given to instinctual rather than learned behaviors, and is somehow better able to rewire itself than humans.
I will keep you posted. We're hoping he will have a good quality of life in his declining years. He certainly won't lack for love and attention. Carol especially appreciates your warm wishes.
Here's another thing I really hate; Julie from Cincinnati's trip, which started out with a shared dinner with Mr and Mrs DfK, was an unmitigated disaster. I am deeply sorry that she will associate my town forever with sickness (both to her and the third or fourth greatest dog I have ever met) and devastating automobile repair bills. It saddens me to say it, but visit Knoxville at your own peril! Anybody get me Patton's cell phone number yet?
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I just got a facebook solicitation from my former drama teacher from my wealthy Fairfax County high school.
What do they need 1500 dollars for? To procure trophies and food for a big awards show pitting high school actors against each other.
Least noble cause ever?! Somewhere an oily pelican just squawked, "Trophies?"
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And of course in my usual idiot fashion, i replied to the facebook message by completely tearing into him, only to realize that all 300 people on his list would read it. Now I'm fighting with strangers.
I hate me for again forgetting to never have an opinion on the internet.
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The news of Pepper's stroke makes me sad. May he enjoy what's left!
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And of course in my usual idiot fashion, i replied to the facebook message by completely tearing into him, only to realize that all 300 people on his list would read it. Now I'm fighting with strangers.
I hate me for again forgetting to never have an opinion on the internet.
The internet is all about having opinions. You used the internet as it was intended to be used.
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And of course in my usual idiot fashion, i replied to the facebook message by completely tearing into him, only to realize that all 300 people on his list would read it. Now I'm fighting with strangers.
I hate me for again forgetting to never have an opinion on the internet.
this has happened to me on more than one occasion, including pre-internet days when i would angrily write a note to someone, pass it along, and have it read by everyone else they showed it to- same principle, same outcome.
you can't win, BE. continue to do what you do.
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Had I read this whole page I would've posted my rant later.
Sorry about your dog, DFK.
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Glad to hear Pepper's doing OK, Dave.
As it turns out, Pepper has had a stroke.
Aw ... poor dog. I'm sorry Dave!
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I just got a facebook solicitation from my former drama teacher from my wealthy Fairfax County high school.
Woah - what school in Fairfax Co.?
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Had I read this whole page I would've posted my rant later.
Sorry about your dog, DFK.
...i also did the same exact thing a few pages back when dfk's mom was going through some health issues.
you and i are blunder brothers.
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Glad to hear Pepper's doing OK, Dave.
As it turns out, Pepper has had a stroke. He's walking in circles, and seems to be off balance, but he seems to be able to find his way to his food and water bowls, and into his dog house, which is outside, but out of the sun.
The worst part was that when he first returned from the vet he seemed to not recognize us; he was not unfriendly, but did not much respond to our neck-rubbing and talking, but today he seems to be coming around. I think I even saw his tail wagging a bit when we took out the little white dog, Pippin. Most dogs make substantial recoveries from strokes. No one knows for sure, but one widely held theory is that their brain is mostly given to instinctual rather than learned behaviors, and is somehow better able to rewire itself than humans.
I will keep you posted. We're hoping he will have a good quality of life in his declining years. He certainly won't lack for love and attention. Carol especially appreciates your warm wishes.
Here's another thing I really hate; Julie from Cincinnati's trip, which started out with a shared dinner with Mr and Mrs DfK, was an unmitigated disaster. I am deeply sorry that she will associate my town forever with sickness (both to her and the third or fourth greatest dog I have ever met) and devastating automobile repair bills. It saddens me to say it, but visit Knoxville at your own peril! Anybody get me Patton's cell phone number yet?
Dave, you have my deepest sympathy regarding Pepper's stroke. I was reminded of the brain scientist who spoke about her own stroke at the TED conference. I know dogs and humans have very brains. But, according to her story, Pepper may not recognize you but also may be in a very beautiful place. Check it out if you haven't seen it yet. Here's a link: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
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that's always been one of my favorite Ted conference speeches.
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that's always been one of my favorite Ted conference speeches.
Agreed Baron. Best explanation of the left brain/ right brain duty-split I've ever heard.
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I just got a facebook solicitation from my former drama teacher from my wealthy Fairfax County high school.
Woah - what school in Fairfax Co.?
Lake Braddock, proud home of Mia Hamm and half of The Dismemberment Plan.
Are you from the area, AC?
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that's always been one of my favorite Ted conference speeches.
Agreed Baron. Best explanation of the left brain/ right brain duty-split I've ever heard.
Thanks Fredericks, you're the best, even if I pretend to hate you for comedic effect.
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Lake Braddock, proud home of Mia Hamm and half of The Dismemberment Plan.
Are you from the area, AC?
Oh, yes ... went to Langley.
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Every year the company I work for picks a project of the year based on (they claim) a matrix of client satisfaction, profitability, etc... It always jusT seems like the pick the highest profile job. The top 2 jobs present at our managers meeting and a winner is anounced.
This year I had a job that was a finalist and should have been a slam dunk winner, but it's a smaller job so I was worried we'd ge trumped on job size. When the came back after presentations, they said that it was a tie (for the first time ever)
to me this means that they had one they wanted to win, but the other made such a convincing case that they couldn't not have them win. I just don't know which one my job was (I know which one I think it was, but I can't be sure)
anyway, a tie means neither one of us wins. My gut tells me that they were set up to give it to the other job and we did such a convincing presentation that they couldn't let us lose, but that may be wishful thinking on my part.
Fuck.
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Congratulations?
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Congratulations?
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I bought a Rolling Stone today (not proud) because I was traveling on a train. There was an article championing Jonah Hill whose every other word was dick or fuck. Most of the article was him sticking it to anyone who ever doubted he'd be "such a big star" - popular girls in high school, teachers, guidance counselors. There's also an in-depth look at his ability to riff. Example: Conan O'Brien compliments his overcoat. Jonah Hill (improvising): "Yeah, I raped and murdered Inspector Gadget for it". Following are quotes by other comedians testifying to his ability to come up with similarly great jokes, just on the fly like that!
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i don't mind loaning you money, dear sister-in-law, but don't ask for money and then throw out, "...because i lent you $20 bucks that one time, remember?"
i'm still fuming about this. who would throw the $20 i paid back in my face in order to justify why YOU need $20? it's my money and i get to choose who i want to loan it to, regardless of the ONE time you loaned me $20 six fucking months ago.
oh, Rage Cage, why aren't you real?!
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I bought a Rolling Stone today (not proud) because I was traveling on a train. There was an article championing Jonah Hill whose every other word was dick or fuck. Most of the article was him sticking it to anyone who ever doubted he'd be "such a big star" - popular girls in high school, teachers, guidance counselors. There's also an in-depth look at his ability to riff. Example: Conan O'Brien compliments his overcoat. Jonah Hill (improvising): "Yeah, I raped and murdered Inspector Gadget for it". Following are quotes by other comedians testifying to his ability to come up with similarly great jokes, just on the fly like that!
Yeah I really hate Jonah Hill. He reminds me of the jerk in highschool who is fat and ugly and no one likes him but no one can insult him because he has a notebook full of toilet-mouth 'just being honest' insults that he can say really fast.
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Nothing makes you hate humans more than hearing the thud of a mother's hand/fist hitting their young child in a department store, followed by "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO THAT FOR" and a lot of crying, and then a promise that she will "Fuck you up in public if you don't shut up"
I didn't see this. I heard it from at least 4 aisles away. It almost made me physically sick.
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Kid probably pulled a knife on her.
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It's all in the game, Sarah. All in the game.
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Nothing makes you hate humans more than hearing the thud of a mother's hand/fist hitting their young child in a department store, followed by "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO THAT FOR" and a lot of crying, and then a promise that she will "Fuck you up in public if you don't shut up"
I didn't see this. I heard it from at least 4 aisles away. It almost made me physically sick.
Erika, swear to God, you go straight to the manager and demand they call the police. For future reference.
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erika, just reading that and knowing exactly what you were talking shot my heart rate up. oh boy, that's rough.
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Nothing makes you hate humans more than hearing the thud of a mother's hand/fist hitting their young child in a department store, followed by "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO THAT FOR" and a lot of crying, and then a promise that she will "Fuck you up in public if you don't shut up"
I didn't see this. I heard it from at least 4 aisles away. It almost made me physically sick.
Erika, swear to God, you go straight to the manager and demand they call the police. For future reference.
Mmmm in Baltimore City people don't call the police for stuff like that. I'll try it next time but I bet I'll get jacked in the parking lot or, at best, get laughed at by a city police officer.
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I bought a Rolling Stone today (not proud) because I was traveling on a train. There was an article championing Jonah Hill whose every other word was dick or fuck. Most of the article was him sticking it to anyone who ever doubted he'd be "such a big star" - popular girls in high school, teachers, guidance counselors. There's also an in-depth look at his ability to riff. Example: Conan O'Brien compliments his overcoat. Jonah Hill (improvising): "Yeah, I raped and murdered Inspector Gadget for it". Following are quotes by other comedians testifying to his ability to come up with similarly great jokes, just on the fly like that!
Yeah I really hate Jonah Hill. He reminds me of the jerk in highschool who is fat and ugly and no one likes him but no one can insult him because he has a notebook full of toilet-mouth 'just being honest' insults that he can say really fast.
This reminds me of somebody else who I can't stand, and that is Seth Rogen. I still crack up about Tom's imitation of Seth Rogen playing Bernie Madoff 20 years from now the inevitable biopic.
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I bought a Rolling Stone today (not proud) because I was traveling on a train. There was an article championing Jonah Hill whose every other word was dick or fuck. Most of the article was him sticking it to anyone who ever doubted he'd be "such a big star" - popular girls in high school, teachers, guidance counselors. There's also an in-depth look at his ability to riff. Example: Conan O'Brien compliments his overcoat. Jonah Hill (improvising): "Yeah, I raped and murdered Inspector Gadget for it". Following are quotes by other comedians testifying to his ability to come up with similarly great jokes, just on the fly like that!
Yeah I really hate Jonah Hill. He reminds me of the jerk in highschool who is fat and ugly and no one likes him but no one can insult him because he has a notebook full of toilet-mouth 'just being honest' insults that he can say really fast.
Ugh Jonah Hill is in the new Duplass Brothers film. Not excited about that. Seth Rogan's current status and unfunniness has affected how I see him in Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared and this is unfortunate.
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i don't know if i dislike these guys really, but rather, i dislike (even more?) the fan base they attract.
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Nothing makes you hate humans more than hearing the thud of a mother's hand/fist hitting their young child in a department store, followed by "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO THAT FOR" and a lot of crying, and then a promise that she will "Fuck you up in public if you don't shut up"
I didn't see this. I heard it from at least 4 aisles away. It almost made me physically sick.
Erika, swear to God, you go straight to the manager and demand they call the police. For future reference.
Mmmm in Baltimore City people don't call the police for stuff like that. I'll try it next time but I bet I'll get jacked in the parking lot or, at best, get laughed at by a city police officer.
Then you need to move from that hellish place to another where people look after one another. Animals.
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Is Baltimore a lot like it is in The Shield?
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iTunes 9.2 (http://natepatrin.com/post/726141691/a-pointless-new-thing-that-itunes-9-2-can-do-this).
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iTunes 9.2 (http://natepatrin.com/post/726141691/a-pointless-new-thing-that-itunes-9-2-can-do-this).
iTunes!
Speaking of which, I don't even update iTunes but my stuff got scrambled again! All podcasts and playlists are gone. Some portions of albums left behind most are scattered all over. I can find most of the stuff and put it back in place but, man, what a pain in the ass.
Yes/no says this is not a storage problem. I believe him. I have no explanation.
If I didn't love Airtunes so much, I dump the whole thing.
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Mmmm in Baltimore City people don't call the police for stuff like that. I'll try it next time but I bet I'll get jacked in the parking lot or, at best, get laughed at by a city police officer.
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Then you need to move from that hellish place to another where people look after one another. Animals.
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Meh. There are animals everywhere.
If half the shit that happened in this city (and others) made it into the public eye, you'd be done with humanity all together...
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iTunes 9.2 (http://natepatrin.com/post/726141691/a-pointless-new-thing-that-itunes-9-2-can-do-this).
iTunes!
Speaking of which, I don't even update iTunes but my stuff got scrambled again! All podcasts and playlists are gone. Some portions of albums left behind most are scattered all over. I can find most of the stuff and put it back in place but, man, what a pain in the ass.
Yes/no says this is not a storage problem. I believe him. I have no explanation.
If I didn't love Airtunes so much, I dump the whole thing.
my itunes fucked up big time. i can't update the program AND i can't delete the damn thing. i can't open it (unless i use a link, like listening live from the wfmu website), i can't listen to music, i can't do much anything with it.
unfortunately, i prefer it to Windows Media Player. i'm a simple person so as far as i'm concerned those are the only two that exist. not to mention, i use my ipod A LOT, but i haven't been able to update it in MONTHS.
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Isn't The Shield set in Los Angeles?
(I have a feeling I'm being a straight man again. Oh well.)
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Mmmm in Baltimore City people don't call the police for stuff like that. I'll try it next time but I bet I'll get jacked in the parking lot or, at best, get laughed at by a city police officer.
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Then you need to move from that hellish place to another where people look after one another. Animals.
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Meh. There are animals everywhere.
If half the shit that happened in this city (and others) made it into the public eye, you'd be done with humanity all together...
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amen to that. seriously, the things that i know about in Memphis (and i don't know a lot) create some despairity at times. that's when i visit friends out of town.
t's a nice compromise to moving.
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iTunes 9.2 (http://natepatrin.com/post/726141691/a-pointless-new-thing-that-itunes-9-2-can-do-this).
iTunes!
Speaking of which, I don't even update iTunes but my stuff got scrambled again! All podcasts and playlists are gone. Some portions of albums left behind most are scattered all over. I can find most of the stuff and put it back in place but, man, what a pain in the ass.
Yes/no says this is not a storage problem. I believe him. I have no explanation.
If I didn't love Airtunes so much, I dump the whole thing.
my itunes fucked up big time. i can't update the program AND i can't delete the damn thing. i can't open it (unless i use a link, like listening live from the wfmu website), i can't listen to music, i can't do much anything with it.
unfortunately, i prefer it to Windows Media Player. i'm a simple person so as far as i'm concerned those are the only two that exist. not to mention, i use my ipod A LOT, but i haven't been able to update it in MONTHS.
I only use iTunes for podcasts. I hate almost everything about that software, but it handles podcasts very well.
I play music (CDs, mp3, FLAC, etc) with foobar.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/torontos-this-aint-the-rosedale-library-bookstore-at-risk-of-closing/article1611029/?cmpid=rss1 (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/torontos-this-aint-the-rosedale-library-bookstore-at-risk-of-closing/article1611029/?cmpid=rss1)
This Ain't the Rosedale Library, one of the best bookstores in Toronto (and certainly the one that has done the most for independent books and writers in the city) is in danger of closing. If this happens I am going to kick somebody in the face.
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That really sucks, Emma. It's a wonderful bookshop.
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I had nowhere else to post this but its a thing I love and it is the archive from 4/13/04 where Jon Benjamin is in studio using a voice modulator. When he started talking I made a fool of myself at work.
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That really sucks, Emma. It's a wonderful bookshop.
It really really does. Charlie and Jesse are trying to raise money so that they can convince their landlady not to shut them down, there's a paypal link on their website: http://www.thisaint.ca/ (http://www.thisaint.ca/)
There's no bookstore that's been more supportive of independent lit stuff in Toronto probably ever. Case in point: When my tiny internet magazine had its first event a month ago, Charlie (who had heard about me/us through word-of-mouth) emailed me the day of the reading to tell me they had set aside a book for us to give away as a door prize. They do that kind of stuff all the time. I know people who have sold hundreds of copies of their chapbooks or self-published novels through their bookstore. I like Type and everything, but This Ain't is the last bookstore in the city that's 100% involved and invested in the community, and it'll be really really sad if we lose it.
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql49eLRRJ_E&feature=related[/youtube]
If you like god or guns or whatever, that's fine... But if you're gonna preach about it, at least give us ONE reason guns are good.
This stuff makes me want to puke.
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql49eLRRJ_E&feature=related[/youtube]
If you like god or guns or whatever, that's fine... But if you're gonna preach about it, at least give us ONE reason guns are good.
This stuff makes me want to puke.
The author of Saturday Night Special is rolling barefoot in his casket.
"Why don't we dump them to the bottom of the sea?"
Coincidentally, I, recently, had an extended conversation with the vice-president of the Florida NRA. It ended badly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWBoeY0AAec
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WOW!
Never knew that was an anti gun song! Never actually bothered to listen beyond the AOR first few riffs, but that's kind of beside the point...
How did that meeting with the NRA guy end? I'd have liked to hear the conversation.
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WOW!
Never knew that was an anti gun song! Never actually bothered to listen beyond the AOR first few riffs, but that's kind of beside the point...
How did that meeting with the NRA guy end? I'd have liked to hear the conversation.
Mark,
Poor Ronnie betrayed by his own brother. A brother who is making a living off the name of the band his brother founded.
I firmly believe that song saved my life more than once since I moved down here.
Oh, how I wish I had the presence of mind to tape that phone call.
It ended with me telling him he was an intellectually dishonest ideologue incapable of being persuaded by logic or reason.
Then he offered me a deeply discounted two-year membership.
I laughed; I hung up.
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From
Hand guns are made for killin'
They ain't no good for nothin' else
And if you like to drink your whiskey
You might even shoot yourself
So why don't we dump 'em people
To the bottom of the sea
Before some ol' fool come around here
Wanna shoot either you or me
to
Well there was a time we ain't forgot
You could rest all night with the doors unlocked
But there ain't nobody safe no more
So you say your prayers and you thank the lord
For that peace maker
In the dresser drawer
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I always wondered why they were singing "It's a Saturday Nineteen Special."
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The word "jeggings".
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I don't know what that means.
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Denim jean leggings. They're horrible, and the word is horrible.
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I took your word for it, which is why I refused to look it up for myself. Unkind of me, since it required you to talk about them some more. Sorry.
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Nah - I always like an opportunity to rant.
You know what else I really hate?
I've been watching a number of the Comedy Central stand up shows which are now on Netflix Streaming. This has compressed several seasons together & I've probably seen about 30-40 comedians in a number of evenings... what I've noticed is that more and more comedians are using that stereotypical lispy-nelly gay man voice when they're doing a female voice in their bits ... this is always used for some woman who's annoying them; most of the time it's the girlfriend but sometimes its some woman ahead of them in line or whatever.
I think it started with Dane Cook.
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Nothing makes you hate humans more than hearing the thud of a mother's hand/fist hitting their young child in a department store, followed by "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO THAT FOR" and a lot of crying, and then a promise that she will "Fuck you up in public if you don't shut up"
I didn't see this. I heard it from at least 4 aisles away. It almost made me physically sick.
Erika, swear to God, you go straight to the manager and demand they call the police. For future reference.
Mmmm in Baltimore City people don't call the police for stuff like that. I'll try it next time but I bet I'll get jacked in the parking lot or, at best, get laughed at by a city police officer.
Then you need to move from that hellish place to another where people look after one another. Animals.
Just went outside the office to get lunch in lovely West Philadelphia and heard an easily 6 year-old girl tell her YOUNGER brother to "Shut the f-ck up." As I passed them and the hudelum posse the had assembled on the corner, I shot, who I thought was the mother, a look as if to say "Congrats for raising two gems!"
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AC, I hate, hate, hate that. It also always puzzles the hell out of me. And, yeah, I first noticed it during a Dane Cook special I watched years ago (I think it was his first Comedy Central special, in 2000).
I don't think I know one woman who talks that way.
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AC, I hate, hate, hate that. It also always puzzles the hell out of me. And, yeah, I first noticed it during a Dane Cook special I watched years ago (I think it was his first Comedy Central special, in 2000).
I don't think I know one woman who talks that way.
I've noticed a few women lately who do; they tend to be quite young. I think it's supposed to be sexy, a little bit like baby-talk. It's definitely an affectation and one I assume they'll grow out of, so I think of that as anomalous here!
In any event, 99.9% women don't talk that way, and I also don't think gay dudes would appreciate the implications either.
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The person we saw open for Marc Maron did that voice for entirely too much of his set.
On the other hand, Natasha Leggero's impression of the 40s-era film starlet baby talk is pretty amusing.
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The person we saw open for Marc Maron did that voice for entirely too much of his set.
On the other hand, Natasha Leggero's impression of the 40s-era film starlet baby talk is pretty amusing.
Yeah, and the diff there is that the impression is specifically of that voice, rather than just an unimaginative derogatory way of imitating a ballbreaking chick.
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AC, I hate, hate, hate that. It also always puzzles the hell out of me. And, yeah, I first noticed it during a Dane Cook special I watched years ago (I think it was his first Comedy Central special, in 2000).
I don't think I know one woman who talks that way.
I've noticed a few women lately who do; they tend to be quite young. I think it's supposed to be sexy, a little bit like baby-talk. It's definitely an affectation and one I assume they'll grow out of, so I think of that as anomalous here!
In any event, 99.9% women don't talk that way, and I also don't think gay dudes would appreciate the implications either.
it always reminds me of the david cross bit "gabriel's gonna rollerblade", which points this out...kind of. at least in gay men.
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What I wonder is whether women actually sound to these comedians like the most offensively stereotypical gay men one can imagine. If they do, what does this mean? If they don't, what does this mean?
Note: I've heard this voice used simply as the standard female voice, not just the ball-breaking harridan voice.
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What I wonder is whether women actually sound to these comedians like the most offensively stereotypical gay men one can imagine. If they do, what does this mean? If they don't, what does this mean?
Note: I've heard this voice used simply as the standard female voice, not just the ball-breaking harridan voice.
Agreed w/all of the above. It's a 2 for 1 insult as it zaps both groups in this really broad, lazy way, and yeah, I've heard it as just the Female voice too.
The Gabriel's gonna rollerblade is a good example of the same thing, as well as Adam Corolla's upcoming book, which will be called In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks: . . . And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy. What do you think Corolla tells his wife or mom or daughter? "I don't mean YOU, honey!" Yeah.
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What I wonder is whether women actually sound to these comedians like the most offensively stereotypical gay men one can imagine. If they do, what does this mean? If they don't, what does this mean?
Note: I've heard this voice used simply as the standard female voice, not just the ball-breaking harridan voice.
Agreed w/all of the above. It's a 2 for 1 insult as it zaps both groups in this really broad, lazy way, and yeah, I've heard it as just the Female voice too.
The Gabriel's gonna rollerblade is a good example of the same thing, as well as Adam Corolla's upcoming book, which will be called In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks: . . . And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy. What do you think Corolla tells his wife or mom or daughter? "I don't mean YOU, honey!" Yeah.
Adam Carolla's putting out a Denis Leary book? Well, great.
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Hmmm. Okay, now watching an episode of Premium Blend from the late '90s where Adam Ferrara is doing that voice.
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You mean Dane Cook did something unoriginal?
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You mean Dane Cook did something unoriginal?
I know, I couldn't believe it.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonasnaimark/4739841273/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonasnaimark/4739841273/)
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Coworkers who waste literally a whole day telling people about the vacation they were just on.
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Coworkers who waste literally a whole day telling people about the vacation they were just on.
i agree with this with the exception of my brother, who i do not work with, but manages to have the gift of Tom when telling hilarious stories of things that have happened to him.
i'll waste an hour for that!
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I kind of like wasting time on the job, although I do my best not to waste others' time.
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I was (for some reason) waiting to order at a veeeery tourist-heavy place which has no distinct line, just sort of a gradual move up to the counter. One lady decided another had cut her and started screaming "You should be ashamed of yourself! We're all in this together!" So indignant over something so minor, and it's not exactly a survival situation that we're all in together...
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Cyclists who willfully endanger themselves by insisting that nothing ever slow them down in any way, even in heavy traffic in a major urban center. I say this as someone who bikes as pretty much my sole transportation method year round. Everyday I witness so much insane behavior on two wheels that, while I fear the many bad drivers out there, I am beginning to sympathize with the ones who hate all cyclists.
And of course there is nothing surprising about the fact that cyclists in general are no less selfish on the road than everyone else -- it's just amazing to me that their relative vulnerability doesn't check their behavior a bit.
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What I wonder is whether women actually sound to these comedians like the most offensively stereotypical gay men one can imagine. If they do, what does this mean? If they don't, what does this mean?
Note: I've heard this voice used simply as the standard female voice, not just the ball-breaking harridan voice.
Agreed w/all of the above. It's a 2 for 1 insult as it zaps both groups in this really broad, lazy way, and yeah, I've heard it as just the Female voice too.
The Gabriel's gonna rollerblade is a good example of the same thing, as well as Adam Corolla's upcoming book, which will be called In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks: . . . And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy. What do you think Corolla tells his wife or mom or daughter? "I don't mean YOU, honey!" Yeah.
Adam Carolla's putting out a Denis Leary book? Well, great.
Also pretty tired is the black comedians "white voice." Nevertheless it makes me laugh every time.
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And of course there is nothing surprising about the fact that cyclists in general are no less selfish on the road than everyone else -- it's just amazing to me that their relative vulnerability doesn't check their behavior a bit.
Yes! I agree strongly. I understand that when you're travelling by muscle power it sucks to come to a full stop and then have to start up again... but maybe you could slow down a bit at intersections? And defer to pedestrians who don't know you're about to blow through the intersection? Come on, guys.
And wear a helmet.
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The fixed gear craze has hit the hipsters in OKC. I live seeing someone with tats and skinny jeans on an ill-fitting track bike.
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The fixed gear craze has hit the hipsters in OKC. I live seeing someone with tats and skinny jeans on an ill-fitting track bike.
Almost got hit the other day by a fixed gear jerk and he stopped just in time but his Pig-Pen-esque orb of dirt got all over me. This can be said about all worthless subcultures but don't the know they all look the same?
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The great thing about hipsters is that they don't stand for anything and simply recycle previous era's aesthetics, which makes Real Countercultural Types hilariously self-righteous and super-angry over some ritualistic "lifestyle" trappings ("dude I had to order tapes out of 'zines and made my own MDC shirt, you didn't LIVE THE LIFE, poser"). But it does a good job in skipping the whole getting co-opted/selling out your principles stage, since it's already a co-optation without principles to sell out aside from maybe "old stuff is weird" and "deliberate tackiness is hilarious". Its disillusionment and casual rejection of norms is built-in, which just confuses the hell out of people because it's to hedonistic ends instead of your traditional rebellious or destructive ones. And since the only people who're really bothered by hipsters seem to be the type of people who are already overly concerned with their own sense/lack of cool, the very existence of hipsters is like some sort of elaborate troll to draw out and infuriate people who are way too concerned with trying to forge their own half-baked bohemian philosophy. Like John Lydon wouldn't be wearing skinny jeans and a dirt 'stache and living in Portland if he was born in Iowa 20 years ago.
(This is maybe overstating things a bit but frankly I am kind of tired of people thinking I'm some vapid rich kid because I listen to LCD Soundsystem and have a beard.)
(Hipsters that laugh at your sunglasses are pretty much legit assholes, though)
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The great thing about hipsters is that they don't stand for anything and simply recycle previous era's aesthetics, which makes Real Countercultural Types hilariously self-righteous and super-angry over some ritualistic "lifestyle" trappings ("dude I had to order tapes out of 'zines and made my own MDC shirt, you didn't LIVE THE LIFE, poser"). But it does a good job in skipping the whole getting co-opted/selling out your principles stage, since it's already a co-optation without principles to sell out aside from maybe "old stuff is weird" and "deliberate tackiness is hilarious". Its disillusionment and casual rejection of norms is built-in, which just confuses the hell out of people because it's to hedonistic ends instead of your traditional rebellious or destructive ones. And since the only people who're really bothered by hipsters seem to be the type of people who are already overly concerned with their own sense/lack of cool, the very existence of hipsters is like some sort of elaborate troll to draw out and infuriate people who are way too concerned with trying to forge their own half-baked bohemian philosophy. Like John Lydon wouldn't be wearing skinny jeans and a dirt 'stache and living in Portland if he was born in Iowa 20 years ago.
(This is maybe overstating things a bit but frankly I am kind of tired of people thinking I'm some vapid rich kid because I listen to LCD Soundsystem and have a beard.)
(Hipsters that laugh at your sunglasses are pretty much legit assholes, though)
This dissection of the North American Hipster Dilemma 2010 is wiki-worthy. That being said, I look upon hipsters (I am too much of a full time parent to trim any 'stache, much less fit into skinny jeans) much in the same way I look upon the hip hop kids, with their low-riding pants and so on.
I just think that someday most (former) hipsters and hip hoppers will look at pictures of their weird, former selves and wonder aloud "what was I thinking, I'm better than that."
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That's brilliantly stated, Stupornaut. I'm with you on this one.
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I could really give a shit about them until their they impact my life through their stupidity. There is no reason to ride a track bike on the roads. It's dangerous and stupid.
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I have to admit that I find track bikes a.k.a. fixies to be beautiful machines insofar as I like minimalist design in general, and a bike can't be simplified any more than that. But I doubt many people riding them these days do so for that reason. I think it typically has more to do with rejecting for shallower fashion reasons all the excessive doodads that have accrued to bikes over the years, and especially with defining a special club that is appealing precisely because it's too dangerous and scary for your average rider to join.
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You can definitely simplify a bike further than a fixie.
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Face.
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I like riding fixed during the winter. Less junk to clean/maintain and you can feel when you're losing traction on bad roads.
Overall, bikes are pretty fun to ride no matter what.
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I hate theater producers who think they can fucking lord it over you with the offer of a six-day, non-reviewed workshop production that 500 people will see, and which no one will make a dime from, who make you wait two years for such a production, and who won't let you take the play elsewhere -- but at the same time refuse to promise you this insignificant little bone they're dangling in front of you. And who provide you with endless headaches when you try to have a goddamn STAGED READING somewhere besides their company.
I also hate my old, do-nothing agent for leaving me with such a shitty contract.
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Something that bugs me is when you are talking music with someone who apparently thinks he knows more than you and when you bring up someone like Neil Young (or a musican that holds a BIG role as influential to all the music you are talking about) and they dismiss them instantly by saying something like "I always found him sort of boring." :o
Also people who claim they don't have time for movies. I mean cmon I don't expect you to be an aficionado but really, an hour and a half.
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Something that bugs me is when you are talking music with someone who apparently thinks he knows more than you and when you bring up someone like Neil Young (or a musican that holds a BIG role as influential to all the music you are talking about) and they dismiss them instantly by saying something like "I always found him sort of boring." :o
That can be pretty exasperating but I think pretty much every single music nerd has some blind spot like that. Me, I never could get into Sleater-Kinney or the Smiths. And then there's this one dude that I know of who listens to a lot of cool music, and he's on the record of hating the Band. The Band! Can you believe that?
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One of my ex-boyfriends had an ex-girlfriend whose all-time favorite band was Sonic Youth.
I always thought that was such bullshit.
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One of my ex-boyfriends had an ex-girlfriend whose all-time favorite band was Sonic Youth.
I always thought that was such bullshit.
Note the "ex." It's weird how certain bands just can't be someone's favorite band. Sonic Youth is such a "phase band." "I liked noise music during my Sonic Youth phase." Not to mention 80% of Sonic Youth's output is awful.
I'll admit tho that I have little to no patience for The Beach Boys and I never hear the end of it. A friend accuses me of being and indie snob because I don't like The Beach Boys or pop in generally. But to me it seems like it is more abnoxious to say you like pop music like Britney Spears and Shakira, and think that insane diversity is unique and not to be questioned, which he does. "You gotta learn to have fun with music man."
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I like Sonic Youth, because I assumed they couldn't top Daydream Nation, which is great, and so that's all I know by them.
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One of my ex-boyfriends had an ex-girlfriend whose all-time favorite band was Sonic Youth.
I always thought that was such bullshit.
Not to mention 80% of Sonic Youth's output is awful.
Couldn't agree less with you on that.
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One of my ex-boyfriends had an ex-girlfriend whose all-time favorite band was Sonic Youth.
I always thought that was such bullshit.
Not to mention 80% of Sonic Youth's output is awful.
Couldn't agree less with you on that.
That's why they made horse races, young son.
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One of my ex-boyfriends had an ex-girlfriend whose all-time favorite band was Sonic Youth.
I always thought that was such bullshit.
Not to mention 80% of Sonic Youth's output is awful.
Couldn't agree less with you on that.
I like Washing Machine.
Great for road trips.
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one of my subcontractors (a painter) did a terrible job on this building that we're just finishing up. I had finally had enough and told him I was going to pay his contract, but that we were going to hire another painter to handle all of the owners changes. Now I'm getting these emails from him that switch back and for between attacking, playing dumb about his company's shitty performance, and acting like he wants to do anything to keep our work relationship going. They're all about 6 paragraphs long and they're really starting to piss me off.
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I like Sonic Youth from Bad Moon Rising through Daydream Nation. Sister and Daydream Nation are favorites. I have checked in and out on the albums since then. They have some definite off moments or albums, but I would also put them well under 80% of their output.
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I hate when I'm dumb enough to comment on somebody's political discussion on their Facebook page, and then for however long that drama plays out my updates are clogged with notices about all the dopey warmed over arguments from all sides people dump on to the pile. Really I just hate Facebook.
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I hate when I'm dumb enough to comment on somebody's political discussion on their Facebook page, and then for however long that drama plays out my updates are clogged with notices about all the dopey warmed over arguments from all sides people dump on to the pile. Really I just hate Facebook.
I have gotten to the point where I have to carefully choose which pictures or status upadated to comment on. Never comment on baby pictures, wedding pictures or announcement status updates.
I also hate how morning newscasters all think the viewer is on board with their humorless wit and rambling inside jokes. It's 6 a.m., gimme the news!
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I also hate how morning newscasters all think the viewer is on board with their humorless wit and rambling inside jokes. It's 6 a.m., gimme the news!
I hope you're not talking about CBS Eyewitness News with Ukee Washington, Liz Keptner, Doug Kammerer and Bob Kelly. I find their blatent unprofessionalism somehow refreshing, news stories about the mile long hoagie being constructed on the Rocky Stairs can wait, I want to see Ukee throw quarters at Bob Kelly while he's doing traffic, then race over and pick them up (while Bob Kelly is still doing traffic), saying, "I can’t trust Bob with my quarters, he still carries around milk money."
If you're talking about Action News, I completely agree, Terry Ruggles is a horror show.
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If you're talking about Action News, I completely agree, Terry Ruggles is a horror show.
Terry Ruggles is a robot. Ever see how akward he gets when he talks to Matt Lauer. And I die a little inside everytime Bill Henley does that dumb pronunciation of Miami Beach. I might start watching CBS but Jillian Yealy(sp) makes it all worthwhile.
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I also hate how morning newscasters all think the viewer is on board with their humorless wit and rambling inside jokes. It's 6 a.m., gimme the news!
I hope you're not talking about CBS Eyewitness News with Ukee Washington, Liz Keptner, Doug Kammerer and Bob Kelly. I find their blatent unprofessionalism somehow refreshing, news stories about the mile long hoagie being constructed on the Rocky Stairs can wait, I want to see Ukee throw quarters at Bob Kelly while he's doing traffic, then race over and pick them up (while Bob Kelly is still doing traffic), saying, "I can’t trust Bob with my quarters, he still carries around milk money."
If you're talking about Action News, I completely agree, Terry Ruggles is a horror show.
I have held a grudge agaisnt Ukee Washington for some time because we toured the KYW studios back in grade school, and had to go in two groups. While my group was hangin' on the set of Ukee's weekend teen issues show "Rap Around", the other group was meeting with Ukee himself, laughing it up and living the life. When it was my group's turn to go into the offices, Ukee was conveniently on the phone and couldn't even be bothered to raise his eyes enough to acknowledge us. Since that day, I have secretly hoped for a public fall from grace.
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One of my ex-boyfriends had an ex-girlfriend whose all-time favorite band was Sonic Youth.
I always thought that was such bullshit.
Not to mention 80% of Sonic Youth's output is awful.
Couldn't agree less with you on that.
That's why they made horse races, young son.
I'm 42. Show some respect, you munch.
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One of my ex-boyfriends had an ex-girlfriend whose all-time favorite band was Sonic Youth.
I always thought that was such bullshit.
Not to mention 80% of Sonic Youth's output is awful.
Couldn't agree less with you on that.
That's why they made horse races, young son.
I'm 42. Show some respect, you munch.
I'm 73 and a half kind sir!
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I'll admit tho that I have little to no patience for The Beach Boys and I never hear the end of it.
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I agree with you there, dude. Although the term "pop" can be applied so liberally to say you don't like pop music suggests that you don't like a large swath of the American and English musical output of the past fifty years.
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I'm 42. Show some respect, you munch.
I'm 73 and a half kind sir!
If I was 73.5 I would hate Sonic Youth too. Forgivesies?
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I'm 42. Show some respect, you munch.
I'm 73 and a half kind sir!
If I was 73.5 I would hate Sonic Youth too. Forgivesies?
If you were 73.5 you might be in Sonic Youth.
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I'm 42. Show some respect, you munch.
I'm 73 and a half kind sir!
If I was 73.5 I would hate Sonic Youth too. Forgivesies?
If you were 73.5 you might be in Sonic Youth.
Zing!
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My coworker says I, my, mine and me more than anyone I have ever met. (I realize I just said I and my.) It's gotten to a frightening point. She literally turns any statement thrown at her into a personal experience story. It's nearly clinical.
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Not having an AC in this heat.
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Not having an AC in this heat.
What counts as "hot" in Malmö? 20 C?
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Admittedly I'm a big pussy when it comes to heat, and would be happy if the temperature never rose above 25 C, I really can't stand it. I can't do anything, I can't think, I definitely can't write for shit. But we've had up around 28-30 C this weekend, and quite humid too*, so I feel my complaint is legitimate. And to make matters worse, the windows in the old brownstone-ish building I'm living in face S/SW, so from around lunch til about ten o'clock at night it's almost impossible to stay in the apartment because of the sun. Around this time of night (almost 2 am) it's quite nice.
All very interesting I'm sure.
*) When I had friends from LA visiting last summer they claimed the humidity made 'our' heat unbearable compared to sunny California.
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I'm just being a little jerky because this is the third summer in a row I'm in DC, and it doesn't get easier. My dog, a random mix of northern breeds, stopped to lie in the shade during his 8 am walk.
I was in semi-northern Europe recently and it amazes me how far north you guys are. The sun doesn't go down until like 11 at night. (23 h).
I'd like to apologize for my consistent use of European-style measures on 4 July.
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I would not be able to stand that kind of heat.
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I grew up in DC and I can corroborate: the humidity is completely vile there. It's bad in NYC too but someone in DC will always tell you when the topic comes up ... DC was built on swampland.
The only thing I really miss about living on the West coast (Seattle, Portland and Bay Area) was no humidity - the weather was glorious, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
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2010 was DC's hottest June ever recorded with temps reaching 95 or higher 8 days out of 30. I'd be glad it's over but July and August will no doubt be shittier.
This of course following a winter featuring record-breaking snowfall.
I just committed to school that will keep me here for at least three more years. I'm beginning to hate that decision.
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We've had a blizzard, softball size hail, earthquakes, a flash flood (10" of rain in 4 hours), tornadoes, weeks at a time of sustained 30 mph winds, and wildfires (caused by lightning) this year. Oklahoma is pretty exciting. Come august it should be consistently over 100, so it's not all bad.
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But we also have central AC, which helps make it bearable.
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But we also have central AC, which helps make it bearable.
Two weeks until I'll be living in a place with central air and I can't wait. AC units are the worst- they only cool one room so you still have to sleep with a fan in the bedroom and you have to turn everything up so loud to be able to hear over it's noise.
The humidity in MN has been pretty awful the past week.
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Rick Scott!
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How hot are all those temperatures in real numbers?
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About 557 Rankine.
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97 today in Knoxville
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People who rely on Spotify* playlists for their goddamn wedding party instead of getting a proper DJ. When there's plenty of DJs among the wedding guests, to boot. Thumbs down. Humiliating.
*) or Pandora or whatever else of the streaming-random-playlists-to-a-laptop/ipod variety.
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People who rely on Spotify* playlists for their goddamn wedding party instead of getting a proper DJ. When there's plenty of DJs among the wedding guests, to boot. Thumbs down. Humiliating.
*) or Pandora or whatever else of the streaming-random-playlists-to-a-laptop/ipod variety.
Well, unless the DJ-guests were willing to work for free, it's possible that this is a budgetary decision.
Or maybe it's a taste-related decision. Nothing ruins a wedding faster than a DJ who decides it's his job to inject his "personality" into his narration tasks, intro songs, etc, as though it's a morning zoo instead of a special event that requires a bit of restraint. We specifically asked our wedding DJ to keep his mouth shut in order to avoid this. Then he showed up with a big banner in front of his DJ setup reading "A DASH OF CLASS" and his phone number. So thanks, guy, for dropping your dash of class into our wedding photos.
I guess what I'm saying is, I hate wedding DJ's. ;D
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You know what's worse? A pastor who insists on singing during funeral services. I had the misfortune of attending three funerals in a church where that happened, once when the family specifically requested that he keep his big fat mouth shut.
P.S. Did he sing hymns? No, he always performed schmaltzified versions of pop rock songs. With a lot of exaggerated soulful vibrato.
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People who rely on Spotify* playlists for their goddamn wedding party instead of getting a proper DJ. When there's plenty of DJs among the wedding guests, to boot. Thumbs down. Humiliating.
*) or Pandora or whatever else of the streaming-random-playlists-to-a-laptop/ipod variety.
Well, unless the DJ-guests were willing to work for free, it's possible that this is a budgetary decision.
Or maybe it's a taste-related decision. Nothing ruins a wedding faster than a DJ who decides it's his job to inject his "personality" into his narration tasks, intro songs, etc, as though it's a morning zoo instead of a special event that requires a bit of restraint. We specifically asked our wedding DJ to keep his mouth shut in order to avoid this. Then he showed up with a big banner in front of his DJ setup reading "A DASH OF CLASS" and his phone number. So thanks, guy, for dropping your dash of class into our wedding photos.
I guess what I'm saying is, I hate wedding DJ's. ;D
Sorry about that, that guy sounds horrible.
They have a bunch of friends attending the wedding who dabble as DJs (as in club DJs, not wedding DJs - me included), all of whom would be thrilled to play a number of 30-60 mins long sets all through the evening. I think it's not so much a question of taste as a case of last-minute scramble to get everything sorted out.
But I will oblige and put together something for them to use. Why not?
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The new FOT forum theme and the way it logs me out constantly >:(
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People whining about the heat like it's instant paralysis.
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It actually sort of is for me.
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Look here son, you need to tough up! Nah I say this when I work in a/c all day then go home to bundled utilities that only cost me $20/m. My only time in the heat is between work and the bus and home, all which I do in the nude. But I know it sucks without a/c, I spent the 4th at a friends house and he didn't have it. I could hardly breath inside his house.
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Yeah, I can't move or think in this weather. In a way, I kind of like that: you can't fight it, so you just have to slow down.
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Yeah, I can't move or think in this weather. In a way, I kind of like that: you can't fight it, so you just have to slow down.
I like how the weather is so consistent. Like that there's no rest until you enter an a/c room. It's just a steady beating. And in a tie and long pants you can really feel it. Wait I mean I hate it!
Also I am relistening to 04 archives and I really hate Captain Jack. Tom sort of loses his mind with him but I am surprised he lasted as long as he did. I mean I assume it is a character, right? But just the way he overtalks is so unbearable and wildly unhinged. And when Trish calls to try to vouch for him it leads me to believe they are all calling from a compound fills with only the sleaziest jerks.
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97 today in Knoxville
psh. 103 in Baltimore. Holla.
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I don't get it. Do you hate the octopus? Or were you rooting for Germany?
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The new FOT forum theme and the way it logs me out constantly >:(
What's weird is that when I go to this page, it's logged out, but if I click "Home" or go to a page or something, then I'm logged in. This board seems less fussy than the other one, so okay.
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The new FOT forum theme and the way it logs me out constantly >:(
What's weird is that when I go to this page, it's logged out, but if I click "Home" or go to a page or something, then I'm logged in. This board seems less fussy than the other one, so okay.
I had the "Recent Unread Topics" bookmarked, and when I would go there, it would appear as though I was logged out. But, like AC said, if I went Home, it would know who I was again. I just re-bookmarked "Recent Unread Topics" and now it works just great again.
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I don't get it. Do you hate the octopus? Or were you rooting for Germany?
Don't they go hand in hand?. I think Paul the octopus jinxed it for the Germans.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/07/AR2010070704578.html
"National Public Radio is changing its name to NPR"
Every time an organization does this it fills me with murder rage. NPR stands for something. That's a fact. You can't will that away. You can't erase history by fiat.
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Also, what's the point?
Do you also hate it when manufacturers redesign labels? I do.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/07/AR2010070704578.html
NPR stands for something. You can't erase history by fiat.
DAMN RIGHT!
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Also, what's the point?
Do you also hate it when manufacturers redesign labels? I do.
Yes, especially when it's a well-known and cool-looking logo. Like UPS. And hey, good job changing "Kinkos" to "FedEx Store."
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In general, change for the sake of change is a load of bunkum.
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I have a theory about changing logos/labels. Things that are a little old start looking embarrassing to some people--just dumb and out of date. But if you just stick with it through the awkward phase, it starts to look retro, which is cool again. Finally, if you keep on doing the same thing without changing it eventually looks classic.
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Can we blame KFC for this phenomenon? I remember everyone being so shocked when they announced they were no longer going to be Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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Can we blame KFC for this phenomenon? I remember everyone being so shocked when they announced they were no longer going to be Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Well, in that case they were trying to distance themselves from the word "fried", right? Even though the menu remained pretty much the same. And then got even more disgusting, what with the sadness bowls and the 2 pieces of chicken making a sandwich.
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NPR claims to be distancing themselves from the word "radio," but that's total bullshit. They want people to forget the "public" part of it.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/07/AR2010070704578.html
"National Public Radio is changing its name to NPR"
Every time an organization does this it fills me with murder rage. NPR stands for something. That's a fact. You can't will that away. You can't erase history by Fix It Again, Tony.
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I don't get it. Do you hate the octopus? Or were you rooting for Germany?
This looks like one of those 4Chan photoshop things. Like, you have no idea what's going on but you're filled with a sense of dread because there's probably some disgusting weiner-goatse thing your eyes haven't picked out yet.
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NPR claims to be distancing themselves from the word "radio," but that's total bullshit. They want people to forget the "public" part of it.
You can hear this a lot on NPR but I hate when people say "so" before every sentence. It sounds so pretentious and the person always acts like they are teaching us and passing on some great knowledge. Also when they say "the problem with this is" like all good things have objective problems. "So the problem with The Beatles is..."
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Also, what's the point?
Do you also hate it when manufacturers redesign labels? I do.
I detest new haircuts. That's why I have the same one I had in 1974.
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I've got you beat. My hair looks the same as it does in my eight-grade graduation picture. Except grayer.
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The only FOT forum I ever check really is General Discussion, which his what I have bookmarked. But literally every time I come back to the page, I have to log in again. Is there a thread that explains the recent changes to the forum so I can figure out what's gone wrong?
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delete your bookmark and re-add it.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/07/AR2010070704578.html
"National Public Radio is changing its name to NPR"
Every time an organization does this it fills me with murder rage. NPR stands for something. That's a fact. You can't will that away. You can't erase history by fiat.
I'd like to second the hate for this. If they want to remove the word "radio," then replace it with something. The "R" in "NPR" still references "Radio." If they still want to capitalize on the branding of the old name, they are stuck with it. Same with KFC.
I guess one could argue that, eventually, a generation of consumers came along that only thinks of the letters "AT&T" rather than "American Telephone and Telegraph." So maybe in 50 years nobody will have any idea what KFC or NPR stands for. In the meantime, though, they both suck.
One silver lining is that they didn't change it to "@nPR" or some kind of "capitalization and punctuation rules are soooo 20th century" eyesore. That era seems to have mercifully passed.
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I hate rebrands as well. Usually they're just management's way of blaming something (anything) other than their shitty management for the failing performance. Pizza Hut is not The Hut (I think they've gone back to Pizza Hut), Radio Shack is now The Shack. Fix your fucking product.
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I'm 100% convinced TCM will do one of these rebrandings at some point. They'll start showing RUSH HOUR 3 in prime time and Robert Osborne will be forced to call himself "Os 2.0" before being replaced by some Maxim babe.
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On a related note, has anyone done a double take yet when they saw mention of "The Daily Show's Olivia Munn"?
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On a related note, has anyone done a double take yet when they saw mention of "The Daily Show's Olivia Munn"?
If I recall correctly, Olivia Munn is well hated is these parts. I had never heard of her before being inducted as a member of the hate pit. Outside of that, I have enjoyed her contributions to TDS. I guess it's obvious, her contributions are produced and I'm sure there are writers involved to make sure it's funny. She still has to deliver the goods on that. I don't remember so clearly, a story about her using toilet language in front of a kid at a comedy club and the mother protesting...which set off another round of toilet language...it's all a little fuzzy. Was it PFT who told the story?
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You can hear this a lot on NPR but I hate when people say "so" before every sentence. It sounds so pretentious and the person always acts like they are teaching us and passing on some great knowledge.
I've noticed this too over the last few months, but particularly when used in responding to a question. To me it has the effect of making the speaker sound as though he didn't listen to the interviewer and instead is choosing to following his own separate stream of thoughts.
The first time I remember hearing someone use 'so...' in this way was a few years back when an old friend of my girlfriend's came to visit and did it constantly. My girlfriend and I agreed afterwards it was really weird and eccentric. Now suddenly it seems to be commonplace. Is it a meme or what?
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I frequently use "so" this way in casual writing (in posts on this message board, for example) or when I'm talking on the phone to someone who won't let me get a word in edgewise. It's a lazy/efficient way of jumping into a subject without the bother of contextualizing or otherwise justifying it. I don't particularly like it, but sloth wins the day.
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Heany's Beowulf did it first.
So. The Spear-Danes in days gone by
and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness.
We have heard of these princes' heroic campaigns.
Hwæt. We Gardena in gear-dagum,
þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
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Seamus always was a lazy bastard.
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I don't remember so clearly, a story about her using toilet language in front of a kid at a comedy club and the mother protesting...which set off another round of toilet language...it's all a little fuzzy. Was it PFT who told the story?
I'm pretty sure that was told during her appearance on Doug Loves Movies. I thought she came off as a bit of a jerk in that appearance, but then, who cares? Lots of male comedians are jerks (or pretend to be).
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My roommates boyfriend gave me the history of PBR(Pabst not Roy) one night. And literally asked me if I knew how it got started. I said no and he paused and went into "Okay so..." It was frightening that he acted either like explaining this was a chore and hard to intake (as if to doubt my intelligence or to be like "okay here's the lowdown" on something I don't care about at all) or that he was doing me a favor in sharing this wisdom about a beer I don't even drink.
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I don't remember so clearly, a story about her using toilet language in front of a kid at a comedy club and the mother protesting...which set off another round of toilet language...it's all a little fuzzy. Was it PFT who told the story?
I'm pretty sure that was told during her appearance on Doug Loves Movies. I thought she came off as a bit of a jerk in that appearance, but then, who cares? Lots of male comedians are jerks (or pretend to be).
That's exactly where the story was told...I forgot she was on DLM. Didn't impress me at all. Sorry for making up that whole imagined story taking place on TBS.
I hate my non-remembering brain, to get back on the thread topic!
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delete your bookmark and re-add it.
Thanks man, that seems to have done it, even though the original URL I bookmarked is/was the same as the current one. Strange.
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delete your bookmark and re-add it.
Thanks man, that seems to have done it, even though the original URL I bookmarked is/was the same as the current one. Strange.
It appears that the 'www' in the URL is somehow problematic. If you use http://friendsoftom.com/forum/ it works just fine.
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delete your bookmark and re-add it.
Thanks man, that seems to have done it, even though the original URL I bookmarked is/was the same as the current one. Strange.
It appears that the 'www' in the URL is somehow problematic. If you use http://friendsoftom.com/forum/ it works just fine.
I was sort of confused why everyone but me seemed to be having that problem- until I just went to actually post for the first time in a few days and realized I've been logged out the entire time. Smart.
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My stupid AT&T U-Verse is about to drop AMC and IFC.
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I hate when people who don't have the power to create/inforce rules try to do so and then act like you're an idiot for not following their rules. My physician has a new policy: all medication refill requests must come from a pharmacy. My medication is a controlled substance, so I have to go physically pick up the prescription every month. Instead of me calling the doctor and the doctor calling me when the script is ready, now I have to call the pharmacy, the pharmacy calls the doctor, the doctor calls the pharmacy when it's ready, the pharmacy calls me when they hear from the doctor. This would be ok if the jackasses didn't act like they were put out constantly or wait until the end of the day to make their calls, so that the process takes 4 days instead of a day.
So I just still call my doctor, and they still write me prescription, but every month the nurse tells me "you really need to be having your pharmacy fax over a prescription request, but we'll go ahead and take care of it this time." I kind of take pleasure in the fact that I know she hangs up the phone and bitches about me ("what's so hard about this, people are idiots...")
I don't have to follow your stupid rules. Especially rules that are designed to help your bottom line at the expense of my experience as a customer. Go fuck yourself, doctor's offices.
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People who rely on Spotify* playlists for their goddamn wedding party instead of getting a proper DJ. When there's plenty of DJs among the wedding guests, to boot. Thumbs down. Humiliating.
*) or Pandora or whatever else of the streaming-random-playlists-to-a-laptop/ipod variety.
Well, unless the DJ-guests were willing to work for free, it's possible that this is a budgetary decision.
Or maybe it's a taste-related decision. Nothing ruins a wedding faster than a DJ who decides it's his job to inject his "personality" into his narration tasks, intro songs, etc, as though it's a morning zoo instead of a special event that requires a bit of restraint. We specifically asked our wedding DJ to keep his mouth shut in order to avoid this. Then he showed up with a big banner in front of his DJ setup reading "A DASH OF CLASS" and his phone number. So thanks, guy, for dropping your dash of class into our wedding photos.
I guess what I'm saying is, I hate wedding DJ's. ;D
Sorry about that, that guy sounds horrible.
They have a bunch of friends attending the wedding who dabble as DJs (as in club DJs, not wedding DJs - me included), all of whom would be thrilled to play a number of 30-60 mins long sets all through the evening. I think it's not so much a question of taste as a case of last-minute scramble to get everything sorted out.
But I will oblige and put together something for them to use. Why not?
Hey, guess how well this turned out!
Guess how many of my 100 cherry-picked all-time classic party jams got selected by the drunk partygoers who all had access to the same laptop with all the music on it? (A: 1,2. (Salsoul Orchestra's Runaway only got 20 seconds before someone changed it to, if memory serves, Tubthumping.))
Needless to say, I had a great time.
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Needless to say, I had a great time.
Ugh. This is the worst. I feel lucky that I had a restrained DJ friend who was willing to spin in exchange for cab money (and then we paid him anyway). A crowd of drunk people should never be allowed to control music.
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I hate when people who don't have the power to create/inforce rules try to do so and then act like you're an idiot for not following their rules. My physician has a new policy: all medication refill requests must come from a pharmacy. My medication is a controlled substance, so I have to go physically pick up the prescription every month. Instead of me calling the doctor and the doctor calling me when the script is ready, now I have to call the pharmacy, the pharmacy calls the doctor, the doctor calls the pharmacy when it's ready, the pharmacy calls me when they hear from the doctor. This would be ok if the jackasses didn't act like they were put out constantly or wait until the end of the day to make their calls, so that the process takes 4 days instead of a day.
So I just still call my doctor, and they still write me prescription, but every month the nurse tells me "you really need to be having your pharmacy fax over a prescription request, but we'll go ahead and take care of it this time." I kind of take pleasure in the fact that I know she hangs up the phone and bitches about me ("what's so hard about this, people are idiots...")
I don't have to follow your stupid rules. Especially rules that are designed to help your bottom line at the expense of my experience as a customer. Go fuck yourself, doctor's offices.
Also: FAXes! Yesterday's technology tomorrow with these people...
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Needless to say, I had a great time.
Ugh. This is the worst. I feel lucky that I had a restrained DJ friend who was willing to spin in exchange for cab money (and then we paid him anyway). A crowd of drunk people should never be allowed to control music.
You'll be interested to know that I'm attending ANOTHER wedding this weekend, with this interesting musical set-up: twelve DJs, one dancefloor. Each DJ gets 30 minutes. Vinyl and CDs, with additional samplers and laptops expected. Entire crowd will be very hardcore music nerd people, but with WILDLY varied styles/genres. I'm organizing it (and will be doing a set), and right now I'm trying to put together a workable schedule. Where to put the indie pop dude? Next to the gal playing Italo disco? The guys who will play mostly ambient drone on cassette tapes will admittedly be difficult to fit in anywhere. Maybe as a chill-out set as the sun comes up.
I'm actually really excited about this. My only concern right now is time. If everybody ends up doing their sets we'll be dancing til 6 am. Luckily I won't be doing any of the late sets.
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All this wedding talk reminds me of the time my friend, who's a trained (though not professional) photographer, was hired by an old friend of hers to shoot his wedding. They agreed to a fee of a few hundred dollars or so, including film costs (this was in 2002, prior to high-quality digital being common) -- a serious bargain.
She shoots the wedding using three or four different cameras and film stocks, does an amazing job, and then gets a call from the groom the next weekend saying he can only give her about 25% of the agreed fee. He didn't offer much of an excuse, just said that things were kind of tight. My friend wasn't even able to cover her own expenses (and she had bought them a gift).
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This just hardens my belief that weddings are the bunk.
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This just hardens my belief that weddings are the bunk.
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This just hardens my belief that weddings are the bunk.
If you subscribe to the Industrial Wedding Complex (florist, fancy caterer, expensive dress, high-end photographer, popular (shitty) DJ) your wedding will probably be boring and lame and not memorable. I have seen enough of them to know. For 4 years I was a bar manager at a fancy Yacht Club in SF and we did 70 to 80 special events a year. Most of those were weddings and 99% of those weddings SUCKED. ("Weddings suck. Wedding receptions suck..." etc.) They were completely unoriginal with zero creativity thrown in. BOO-ring. To this day, anytime I hear "Love Shack" I want to stab somebody.
That said, a wedding is what you make it. Mine was fantastic. As cliché as it sounds, it was the best day of my life. We made it a full weekend event for everyone and we did it on the cheap. We didn't ask our friends to do anything yet they were volunteering to help out like crazy.
If people getting married think of it as a "party" and not a "wedding" and never open a bridal magazine or consult a wedding planner, they can avoid the bunk label and throw a pretty good shindig.
Oh, things I hate...um..."Love Shack". Really hate "Love Shack".
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I would get married at an arcade or waterpark.
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Which us exactly why you'll probably never get married
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Which us exactly why you'll probably never get married
"Is"
You meant "is." ;)
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Which us exactly why you'll probably never get married
"Is"
You meant "is." ;)
Are you sure? Because there is no "us" in "unmarried".
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No, he's just a bad speller.
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Kurt Sutter (showrunner of the FX show Sons of Anarchy), grade A factory wrapped douche, whiny fuck, internet tough guy, and wannabe biker.
This man infuriates me. Examples? An employee of his quits his show and goes to work with Frank Darabont on AMC's new Walking Dead series. What does Sutter do? Whine about it on his blog and act tough and talk about how he wants to kick the shit out of Frank for "stealing" his employee.
His show doesn't get nominated for any Emmys. What does he do? Takes the high road and says how proud of he is of his show and his cast only after he takes the low road and whines about it and calls all the people nominating the shows idiot sheep, people who just don't get his edgy, outsider show.
There are smaller things, like how he wrote a Mary Sue character and cast himself into his show as an insanely badass biker in prison. Or how his awesome nepotism has Katey Sagal singing in a show she acts in, and even in a scene she's acting in. Or on his blog where he obviously fabricated a story about running into a trendy, conformist TV executive who hated him with a fiery passion for being the straight talking outsider that he is and all the awesome zingers he flung at her (like, "You remind me of a crazy girl I used to date. I like crazy girls.").
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In a Chicago paper yesterday, there was a review for "Inception" that referred to it as a "slambitious manchievment", which made me want to indignangrily vomrant into the nearest testostertoilet.
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In a Chicago paper yesterday, there was a review for "Inception" that referred to it as a "slambitious manchievment", which made me want to indignangrily vomrant into the nearest testostertoilet.
I pray that you will send this ballarious comment verbatim to the email address of the guy who wrote it.
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Weathermen for giving me false hope that this heatwave will cool off "any day now". The last two weeks it's been, "it's hot now, but in TWO DAYS we're gonna see some showers and temperature will fall". Then, the next day, "well, maybe not any rain, but definitely a fall in temp". And on the day: "great news! Not a cloud in the sky, temperature's at the same insane levels as it has been for the last four weeks!"
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Weathermen for giving me false hope that this heatwave will cool off "any day now". The last two weeks it's been, "it's hot now, but in TWO DAYS we're gonna see some showers and temperature will fall". Then, the next day, "well, maybe not any rain, but definitely a fall in temp". And on the day: "great news! Not a cloud in the sky, temperature's at the same insane levels as it has been for the last four weeks!"
"You don't need a weatherman to..."
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I agree.
(http://i31.tinypic.com/s13sc5.gif)
If anyone needs me, I'll be in the Baltimore City Public Pool working on my planter's warts...
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How when it rains the smokers stink up the covered entrance at work something awful.
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Awwww you poor thing!
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Mommybloggers.
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Mommybloggers.
This is a good one.
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What do you have against mommies?
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The Guardian. That is, the articles, the comments, and the fact that every single columnist has an extremely punchable face.
(http://www.papture.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/charlie-brooker.jpg)
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The Guardian. That is, the articles, the comments, and the fact that every single columnist has an extremely punchable face.
(http://www.papture.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/charlie-brooker.jpg)
You are wrong. The Guardian is the best English-language newspaper on the planet. And while that may be an irritating photo of Charlie Brooker, the fact remains that he is a full-time hero.
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To be fair, I haven't read much of the reporting. It's the editorials I don't care for. And there's only so much I can take of that "smugly clever and cynical" style of British writing. If I don't "get it," I think I can still live with that.
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Mommybloggers are just sad, not worthy or hate in my opinion. They are trying to cling to any bit of social relevance they can because the stay at home mom shit is not as personally fulfilling to their ego as they thought it would be.
Also, it drives me nuts how non-smokers (I am one) act like the smell of smoke is SOOOOO offensive to them. People used to smoke on airplanes, you can walk past someone smoking on the sidewalk and not act like you're completely disgusted.
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It is confusing why cigarettes don't smell as great as pipe smoke though.
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Mommybloggers are just sad, not worthy or hate in my opinion. They are trying to cling to any bit of social relevance they can because the stay at home mom shit is not as personally fulfilling to their ego as they thought it would be.
For me what I hate about it is the culture of extreme perfectionism (and/or consumerism), and the judgementalism that goes along with it - like if you're not feeding your kid organics it's tantamount to child abuse.
As if it's even possible to raise a child "perfectly"! That shit makes people crazy.
You're right that for the majority, it's simply a matter of community.
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It is confusing why cigarettes don't smell as great as pipe smoke though.
I've yet to figure that out myself Mr. No.
I do know pipe tobacco is much moister and oilier.
Can't roll it and smoke it.
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Mommybloggers are just sad, not worthy or hate in my opinion. They are trying to cling to any bit of social relevance they can because the stay at home mom shit is not as personally fulfilling to their ego as they thought it would be.
For me what I hate about it is the culture of extreme perfectionism (and/or consumerism), and the judgementalism that goes along with it - like if you're not feeding your kid organics it's tantamount to child abuse.
As if it's even possible to raise a child "perfectly"! That shit makes people crazy.
You're right that for the majority, it's simply a matter of community.
I hadn't thought about that. I do hate the one-upmanship with the parenting thing, both on and off blogs.
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Mommybloggers are just sad, not worthy or hate in my opinion. They are trying to cling to any bit of social relevance they can because the stay at home mom shit is not as personally fulfilling to their ego as they thought it would be.
But other mommies find it interesting. It's not FOR YOU.
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Current Rolling Stone in general, but especially when it tries to be political.
I am looking at a page right now that uses the phrase "Eat it, Bushie!" in response to Paul McCartney's comments on our last President. I'm not a fan of him either, but god damn.
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Does Rolling Stone still give 3 stars to all the albums they review except maybe one that's a fish in a barrel?
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The state of New Jersey. Not the place, not the people, but the government. I worked there for seven years and am getting the worst fucking runaround ever trying to get unemployment -- I'm appealing for the second time because they're just casually leaving off one-quarter (the first appeal was because they left off one-half) of my income. Plus they're making me physically go into New Jersey with a letter from my ex-employer stating that I was laid off, and just getting a copy of said letter has been its own goddamn nightmare. And did I mention that it's been almost a month since I stopped getting paid by Rutgers and I still have yet to see a dime?
New York unemployment has been so much easier to deal with. I never want to work in New Jersey again.
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"if you don't vote, you can't complain later"
Go fuck yourself.
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I just had to buy a new laptop b/c the old one was shitting the bed, and I put my $ into a Toshiba Satellite, sight unseen. Well the genuises who designed this thing gave is a cool "Fusion Finish" which is all black and shiny. problem being: after using it for more than 5 minutes, it becomes absolutely covered in fingerprints and not only looks disgusting, but the keys become kind of gross to touch. My boss has an HP that has the same sort of finish on it. don't they do fucking focus groups for these things?
Also, Twitter. I don't give a shit what you are having for lunch, "friend".
Awww. How about what I had for breakfast?
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"if you don't vote, you can't complain later"
Go fuck yourself.
Agreed. Your vote is meaningless, except on abstract principle. What I try to say to people who claim this is "if you don't campaign enthusiastically, and swing a large number of votes to your side who would otherwise have voted otherwise, or not voted at all, you can't complain." Casting your vote is literally the least you can do to make your community better.
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Well, it's not like I've ever had anything better to do in early November.
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When people use the cliche 'I don't care what you had for lunch' to dismiss Twitter.
I only mention lunch when burritos are involved. That stuff is important.
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I do care what you had for lunch! (http://friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,5463.0.html)
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I hate it when magazines are interviewing a musician or actor and they're eating lunch and the subject of the interview is always described as "chewing thoughtfully" on his food before answering. Or something like "he paused to munch thoughtfully on his onglet aux échalotes". Or "noshed" which is always cutesy. It just seems like a lazy writing gimmick.
^that's the most random stuff I've hated on in this thread, but it's all I got
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I agree that "nosh" is a truly despicable word, as is "nabe" (i.e. short for "neighborhood".) I also dislike the current trend of using "crazy" as an intensifier: "Those brownies were crazy good!"
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If half the shit that people described as "amazing" was actually amazing, the world would be a pretty cool place.
Hyperbole is killing our language.
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If half the shit that people described as "amazing" was actually amazing, the world would be a pretty cool place.
Hyperbole is killing our language.
Awesome post, Andy.
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Casting your vote is literally the least you can do to make your community better.
Well said, Dave.
And nice job of correctly using the word literally also. I hate it when people don't.
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If half the shit that people described as "amazing" was actually amazing, the world would be a pretty cool place.
Hyperbole is killing our language.
Awesome post, Andy.
This post is the best post of the whole entire thread on this board!
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I find that noshing helps me think. I don't know about you.
Hyperbole I blame on advertising. They are responsible for all that is wrong and evil in the world.
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I find that noshing helps me think. I don't know about you.
Hyperbole I blame on advertising. They are responsible for all that is wrong and evil in the world.
They are responsible for literally, absolutely all that is totally wrong and completely evil in the entire world.
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If half the shit that people described as "amazing" was actually amazing, the world would be a pretty cool place.
Hyperbole is killing our language.
Awesome post, Andy.
This post is the best post of the whole entire thread on this board!
Literally amazing.
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Hyperbole is killing our language.
I love this so much.
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This place where I work is constantly getting food for various made up occasions (its Friday! or Our group is done moving our offices around, so let's celebrate!). So there's bagels and doughnuts a couple times a month ontop of birthday celebrations. But with the birthday celebrations, this ain't yer mamma's sheetcake, chump! It's cupcakes, or gelato, or chips and beer. Then one of the assistants has a HUGE easter basket full of mini-candies which I found out is expensed as it's like a morale booster thing.
This may sound nice and in a surfacey way I guess it is. But there's something pathological about it because god forbid you don't take a portion or your co-workers will pounce. It's like we're all in a junk food shame spiral.
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This place where I work is constantly getting food for various made up occasions (its Friday! or Our group is done moving our offices around, so let's celebrate!). So there's bagels and doughnuts a couple times a month ontop of birthday celebrations. But with the birthday celebrations, this ain't yer mamma's sheetcake, chump! It's cupcakes, or gelato, or chips and beer. Then one of the assistants has a HUGE easter basket full of mini-candies which I found out is expensed as it's like a morale booster thing.
This may sound nice and in a surfacey way I guess it is. But there's something pathological about it because god forbid you don't take a portion or your co-workers will pounce. It's like we're all in a junk food shame spiral.
Christina, everything you say sends me into a reverie.
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Why did you just call Elaine "Christina"?
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Why did you just call Elaine "Christina"?
Who is Elaine?
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Mike Nichols's better half.
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This is all very nice.
I've been meaning to see Ishtar again for maybe the billionth time, and now the urge is massive.
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I can't believe my semi-obscure, 15 year old Seinfeld reference isn't universally understood.
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I can't believe my semi-obscure, 15 year old Seinfeld reference isn't universally understood.
I thought we were talking about the great comedian Nicholson May.
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I can't believe my semi-obscure, 15 year old Seinfeld reference isn't universally understood.
I can't believe you thought it was.
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Jimmy Pardo/Never Not Funny
Which is strange because at times I also like it as well. But I hate, I fucking hate, when he or they say "Negro" ironically or joke about rape (usually with a female comedian on) or whatever. Then get all defensive and say, "oh, shut up, it's for comedy you fucking baby, I don't actually mean it" at the notion of anyone not liking it.
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Jimmy Pardo said he likes the Slash solo album and was specifically blown away by the track with Fergie >:(
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I just found out the title of that one Black Eyed Peas song is spelled "I Gotta Feeling." i.e. "I Got to Feeling."
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I just found out the title of that one Black Eyed Peas song is spelled "I Gotta Feeling." i.e. "I Got to Feeling."
This revised title raises so many questions. Did someone have a change of heart, or is someone getting groped?
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Sorority girls with raspy voices and pony tails pulled through the back of their baseball hats talking loudly about "Grey's" (Grey's Anatomy).
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My bike getting stolen.
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Iphone ads. Except the one with the grandpa, that's ok I guess.
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Iphone ads. Except the one with the grandpa, that's ok I guess.
The grandpa one is cool and sweet. The rest are badly acted in a bizarre way that makes me think it's the director's fault.
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If I was the Grandpa I'd feel more proud of the fact that I figured out how to use an iphone.
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I hate everything.
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Now my feelings are hurt.
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The fact that our elderly neighbor constantly - like every day - hassles us about the state of our front lawn. We didn't water it enough for a while so a patch at one edge, maybe five feet long by a foot wide, is dried up and yellow. I guess she finds it embarrassing to live next to such squalor.
And yet her back yard is literally one continuous six-foot high pile of junk covered in tarps, hoarder-style, which we get to stare at every time we want to relax outside or have friends over for a barbeque.
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You can always take comfort in the fact that she is crazy and probably miserable.
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General discussion of lawns and other domestic trivia bugs me. I ran into a guy from my neighborhood in the Fitness Center at work, and I think he spent 10 minutes talking about how the lawn at the house nobody currently lives in had grown out of control until finally somebody mowed it. I live 2 houses down, and missed all of this drama somehow. Largely due to not caring.
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Lawn care obsession is a frightening and confusing thing. The only issue in that general ballpark I can bring myself to care about is pesticide use (surprise: I'm against it). But apparently lots and lots of people spend a lot of energy thinking about and judging others' lawn care regimens.
I guess having a ship-shape lawn is just a general signifier of respectability in the 'burbs/countryside? Is that all there is to it? If so, why do people get so mad about that stuff?
Is it property values? And if so, is a neighbour's brown or overgrown lawn really going to affect the value of your house?
I just spent a few days in rural Ontario, and marvelled at the vast lawns that were all perfectly manicured. The time they must spend...
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Lawn care obsession is a frightening and confusing thing. The only issue in that general ballpark I can bring myself to care about is pesticide use (surprise: I'm against it). But apparently lots and lots of people spend a lot of energy thinking about and judging others' lawn care regimens.
I guess having a ship-shape lawn is just a general signifier of respectability in the 'burbs/countryside? Is that all there is to it? If so, why do people get so mad about that stuff?
Is it property values? And if so, is a neighbour's brown or overgrown lawn really going to affect the value of your house?
I just spent a few days in rural Ontario, and marvelled at the vast lawns that were all perfectly manicured. The time they must spend...
"Look at me, I can control the environment for a blink of a eye in the the face of all of eternity."
Personally, I root for the grass that pushes up through the sidewalk!
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If/when I get a house, I am reclaiming the lawn as prairie. Anyone who doesn't like living next to a bunch of wildflowers and crazy grasses can SUCK IT!!!!!!!!!!
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Precisely how I feel. And when solicitous souls offer to mow my lawn for me, I turn 'em down.
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I hate when you guys try to justify your laziness by writing it off as quirkiness.
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Oh lordy. I am the laziest person in the world. Quirk ain't got nothing to do with my neglected yard or my befurred house.
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If/when I get a house, I am reclaiming the lawn as prairie. Anyone who doesn't like living next to a bunch of wildflowers and crazy grasses can SUCK IT!!!!!!!!!!
I would do that, except there are already little snakes out there. If I let the grass go, I can only imagine the snakes would get bigger and soon it would be Anaconda 4: Terror in the Hudson Valley.
Not to mention that I got a riding mower, and city boy that I am, I still get a kick of riding that thing around. Hooray mowing!
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Quirk is hard work. I do understand keeping the grass down for tick avoiding reasons. But if, for example, a small animal dies in the back yard and maggots start consuming it, I am inclined to let nature take its course.
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f, for example, a small animal dies in the back yard and maggots start consuming it, I am inclined to let nature take its course.
Waste of food, to my mind.
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http://www.toms.com/wedding-collection (http://www.toms.com/wedding-collection) I can maybe see justifying this as raising awareness of poverty around the world, but it really irks me that Toms can frame this as anything other than a profit boost for them. The possibility that anyone would take them up on the offer and print out the supplied table number card templates and wedding invitation inserts explaining why they decided to make everyone buy $50 dollar canvas shoes instead of putting a charity on the registry is too depressing to think about.
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http://www.toms.com/wedding-collection (http://www.toms.com/wedding-collection) I can maybe see justifying this as raising awareness of poverty around the world, but it really irks me that Toms can frame this as anything other than a profit boost for them. The possibility that anyone would take them up on the offer and print out the supplied table number card templates and wedding invitation inserts explaining why they decided to make everyone buy $50 dollar canvas shoes instead of putting a charity on the registry is too depressing to think about.
That's completely disgusting. Justifying extravagance with that small measure to try and make it appear as if they give an f.
This made me so agitated I had to look at the site and I found this - the one day without shoes.
Condescending and goopy.
http://www.onedaywithoutshoes.com/learn.php (http://www.onedaywithoutshoes.com/learn.php)
That said, if it helps anyone than great.
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I googled some quotes from the recent "Grabbler" video on the Onion to see if there was any faux "controversy." Instead I just found a bunch of white
power pride types posting things on message boards like "Yeah, so true."
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re: Toms, those poor kids probably want Air Force 1s or something. "Great, some plaid vegan slippers."
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I googled some quotes from the recent "Grabbler" video on the Onion to see if there was any faux "controversy." Instead I just found a bunch of white power pride types posting things on message boards like "Yeah, so true."
The guy in front of me at the 7-11 had "Power" tattooed on the back of his right arm.
Perhaps, I should have recommended that he have it modified.
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Come now. For all you know "hydroelectric" or "solar"" was on his left.
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Or Girl.
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Or Grrl.
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Ho, Ho, by the way, Mr. E.
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Or puppy...
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YFDPJkmaxC4/SwvgawK8I8I/AAAAAAAAAzc/Y-GsCelhz8o/s320/worst+5.jpg)
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or Cat
(http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/4573/cat20power203.jpg)
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Know what I hate? When I catch myself Googling people I hate. I need to not do that. It's a waste of time and energy.
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Know what I hate? When I catch myself Googling people I hate. I need to not do that. It's a waste of time and energy.
It can be rewarding, though, like when you discover their blog that has 100s of posts and no comments.
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Know what I hate? When I catch myself Googling people I hate. I need to not do that. It's a waste of time and energy.
It can be rewarding, though, like when you discover their blog that has 100s of posts and no comments.
You're talking about me, aren't you?
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Know what I hate? When I catch myself Googling people I hate. I need to not do that. It's a waste of time and energy.
It can be rewarding, though, like when you discover their blog that has 100s of posts and no comments.
Or better yet, TONS of comments. All of them fights with family members.
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Know what I hate? When I catch myself Googling people I hate. I need to not do that. It's a waste of time and energy.
It can be rewarding, though, like when you discover their blog that has 100s of posts and no comments.
I had the best (in a really pathetic way) moment when I noticed that my ex-boyfriend's pretentious blog post detailing his entire summer had a total of one comment between his website and facebook- and it was someone pointing out a typo.
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Redundant hashtags.
#stuffihate #examples #words
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hashtags are terrible.
#especiallywhentheytrytobecute
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hashtags when you're not on twitter drive me bonkers
fascism usually gets my goat, too.
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#guiltyascharged
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The $8k homebuyer credit pisses me off.
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To me, the worse hashtag offense is using them for things that aren't topics (in a non-joke capacity). Fictional example that I'm sure has happened: "I can't wait to get back to #Tufts this semester!" If someone was for some reason actually trying to search for things mentioning Tufts University on Twitter, it's already only one word.
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I thought hashtags had to be all one word...
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full disclosure: I use hashtags sometimes, but it's only to piss people off. Like when we had ice storms and the roads were terrible, I would post something like:
"I'm out on the roads, they're really not all that bad #okice"
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I thought hashtags had to be all one word...
Exactly. Look at the trending topics- usually most of them are multiple words put together into one hashtag. There's no reason to make a one out of a single word that you could just search for anyway.
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I must say though I really like Neil Hamburger's hashtag usage -
http://twitter.com/neil_hamburger (http://twitter.com/neil_hamburger)
#funny #hashtags
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Nothing better than when you ask a question and are immediately met with defensiveness. This seems to be especially prevalent with people who work in the softer side of things, like PR. If you act like you constantly need to justify you existence, people are going to treat you like need to.
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Influenced by the Best Show, I started going through the West Wing. I'm in the fourth season--the show does have some good moments, but it gets kind of repetitive after Season 1.
Anyway, I really hate the character Toby Ziegler.
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Pancakes are SO over-rated. They're flavorless without the syrup. I might as well just spoon syrup in my mouth and eat white bread. I hate the expression: "Pancakes everyday!!!"
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Pancakes are SO over-rated. They're flavorless without the syrup. I might as well just spoon syrup in my mouth and eat white bread. I hate the expression: "Pancakes everyday!!!"
Fuck, I just got that one tattooed on my arm.
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Dr. Laura. A thousand times, Dr. Laura.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008120045 (http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008120045)
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I hate slow zombies.
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I hate fast ones.
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Zombies in general. If Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone released a Zombies album at the same pace comic publishers released zombie titles, they'd have a bigger discography than Madlib.
(I recognize how tortured that analogy was and promise to do better.)
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I hate fast ones.
Me too. Thumbs down, fast zombies.
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Pancakes are SO over-rated. They're flavorless without the syrup. I might as well just spoon syrup in my mouth and eat white bread. I hate the expression: "Pancakes everyday!!!"
Fuck, I just got that one tattooed on my arm.
Gee, emma, that was fast! Although I'm flattered that you would ink a text tattoo (and EVERYone knows how cool and aucurrant those are) any of my meaningless meandering thoughts on your skin, I have to say, I'm spoken for. Am I right to take this as a pass?
Anyhoo, here's a guy who's available. Check it out. There may be a love connection!!!
Just as long as you aren't a wannabe cowgirl looking for a wannabe cowboy, HAHA. Good Luck!! and have a great rest of the summer :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byfG6PquTAc&feature=player_embedded# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byfG6PquTAc&feature=player_embedded#)!
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I believe, sir, that you are mistaking my love of pancakes for something else entirely.
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Aw, damn, not again! WHAT is wrong wit me???
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byfG6PquTAc&feature=player_embedded# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byfG6PquTAc&feature=player_embedded#)!
By "Rock n' Roll", I'm guessing he means Eddie Money.
Technically he would be a "Forkboy"
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Podcasts where 5 different comedians are fighting to get in the last zinger, all talking over each other and canceling each other out.
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Podcasts where 5 different comedians are fighting to get in the last zinger, all talking over each other and canceling each other out.
Doug Loves Movies has gotten more like that since he started getting 3 guests on each show instead of just 2. Oh well - it's still usually pretty funny.
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Zombies in general.
Here here. When I started writing a book 2.5 years ago, it had zombies in it (sounds like a great book, eh?). Then the zombie zeitgeist took over, and I went back and completely excised all of it. Replaced them with cannibals because the cannibal fad is not upon us yet (Sounds even better now, right?).
And to think...this is a book about mountain climbing.
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Seems to me mountain climbing and cannibalism go together like two things that go together very well.
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Seems to me mountain climbing and cannibalism go together like two things that go together very well.
Didn't I read a book about this combo already?
No! Soccer players not mountain-climbers.
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Rugby, not soccer.
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Seems to me mountain climbing and cannibalism go together like two things that go together very well.
Didn't I read a book about this combo already?
No! Soccer players not mountain-climbers.
This is my first attempt at writing a novel, and I'm finding that so many ideas I have had for it came from old concepts lodged in my brain that are not even conscious to me anymore. I suddenly have more sympathy for people who are charged with ripping others off. For example, I was watching "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad" for the first time since childhood the other day, and realized that I had unintentionally ripped off a whole scene from that film in my book. Then I created a character who in hindsight is Sacajawea even though I was not conscious of this as I was writing her. I had forgotten about her story for decades.
So for all I know, the mountain/cannibal connection in my book is indeed there because of "Alive" although, as you point out, FONPR, these are climbers, not plane crash survivors.
It's amazing how little is original under the sun. I am trying to write every paragraph to be as original as possible, yet here I am...the Carlos Mencia of authors.
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Seems to me mountain climbing and cannibalism go together like two things that go together very well.
Didn't I read a book about this combo already?
No! Soccer players not mountain-climbers.
This is my first attempt at writing a novel, and I'm finding that so many ideas I have had for it came from old concepts lodged in my brain that are not even conscious to me anymore. I suddenly have more sympathy for people who are charged with ripping others off. For example, I was watching "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad" for the first time since childhood the other day, and realized that I had unintentionally ripped off a whole scene from that film in my book. Then I created a character who in hindsight is Sacajawea even though I was not conscious of this as I was writing her. I had forgotten about her story for decades.
So for all I know, the mountain/cannibal connection in my book is indeed there because of "Alive" although, as you point out, FONPR, these are climbers, not plane crash survivors.
It's amazing how little is original under the sun. I am trying to write every paragraph to be as original as possible, yet here I am...the Carlos Mencia of authors.
Did I mention I will soon be reading From Cliche to Archetype?
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This asshole (http://worldsbiggestwriting.com/)
One person has created the world's biggest writing by using a car and a GPS tracking device as a "pen." The writing -- "Read Ayn Rand" -- consists of 12,328 miles traveled and stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean and covers 30 American states.
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Sounds like the work of a rational actor to me!
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This asshole (http://worldsbiggestwriting.com/)
One person has created the world's biggest writing by using a car and a GPS tracking device as a "pen." The writing -- "Read Ayn Rand" -- consists of 12,328 miles traveled and stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean and covers 30 American states.
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs377.snc4/46060_146653055364158_100000583936391_318008_7298779_n.jpg)
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Hahahahahaaa!
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This asshole (http://worldsbiggestwriting.com/)
One person has created the world's biggest writing by using a car and a GPS tracking device as a "pen." The writing -- "Read Ayn Rand" -- consists of 12,328 miles traveled and stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean and covers 30 American states.
I'm sure the Petroleum giants concur with the sentiment.
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This asshole (http://worldsbiggestwriting.com/)
One person has created the world's biggest writing by using a car and a GPS tracking device as a "pen." The writing -- "Read Ayn Rand" -- consists of 12,328 miles traveled and stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean and covers 30 American states.
Hey, you gotta admire the willpower of someone who is capable of pulling that kind of stunt without ever once using a single roadway that was built by the public sector.
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someone needs to die.
Bret Michaels - What I Got (New Song 2010) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUOklx4fX44#)
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^Worst anything of everything. Thread over. :P
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This asshole (http://worldsbiggestwriting.com/)
One person has created the world's biggest writing by using a car and a GPS tracking device as a "pen." The writing -- "Read Ayn Rand" -- consists of 12,328 miles traveled and stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean and covers 30 American states.
Hey, you gotta admire the willpower of someone who is capable of pulling that kind of stunt without ever once using a single roadway that was built by the public sector.
Aren't GPS satellites also government built? ::)
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It's amazing how little is original under the sun. I am trying to write every paragraph to be as original as possible, yet here I am...the Carlos Mencia of authors.
Sorry for the unfunny thread drift, everybody, but Jon, I'm assuming you already know Jonathan Lethem's "The Ecstasy of Influence." (http://harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081387) Embrace it! The most successful play I've ever written swipes from all over the place (and acknowledges this up front), but people are always talking about how original it is, something that never happened with anything I wrote that actually was original.
To those that argue that Mr. Mencia lies in a pool of his own sweaty mendacity at the bottom of that slippery slope, I would agree that jokes are the one exception to that rule because they rely on novelty and the unexpected.
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It's amazing how little is original under the sun. I am trying to write every paragraph to be as original as possible, yet here I am...the Carlos Mencia of authors.
Sorry for the unfunny thread drift, everybody, but Jon, I'm assuming you already know Jonathan Lethem's "The Ecstasy of Influence." (http://harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081387) Embrace it! The most successful play I've ever written swipes from all over the place (and acknowledges this up front), but people are always talking about how original it is, something that never happened with anything I wrote that actually was original.
To those that argue that Mr. Mencia lies in a pool of his own sweaty mendacity at the bottom of that slippery slope, I would agree that jokes are the one exception to that rule because they rely on novelty and the unexpected.
Thanks. You made my day, because it happened again last night in what seemed like a case of cosmic coincidence.
As for Mencia, it is not the theft of concept, but the theft of concept and delivery. Just like that FWD who was ripping off Patton Oswalt recently. In these cases, there is no chance of simple coincidence.
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Jim Morrison's poetry. Also...Jim Morrison.
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Jim Morrison's poetry. Also...Jim Morrison.
Also...people in their late-teens/early 20s who want to model their life after Jim Morrisson.
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Jim Morrison's poetry. Also...Jim Morrison.
Also...people in their late-teens/early 20s who want to model their life after Jim Morrisson. .
Matt Braunger does a bit about Morrison that is spot-on.Toilet NSFW Talk Matt Braunger Effinfunny Stand Up - Driving Mr. Morrison (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3qWme6duLI#)
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C'mon!
"The west is the best?" Never have more profound words been written or uttered.
I once called the show and relayed to Tom the story of when I badmouthed Morrison at an office party, and it turned out the new guy next to me was in a Doors cover band.
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C'mon!
"The west is the best?" Never have more profound words been written or uttered.
I once called the show and relayed to Tom the story of when I badmouthed Morrison at an office party, and it turned out the new guy next to me was in a Doors cover band.
I'm afraid to ask, but what was their name? I know 'Crystal Sh**' is already taken...
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C'mon!
"The west is the best?" Never have more profound words been written or uttered.
I once called the show and relayed to Tom the story of when I badmouthed Morrison at an office party, and it turned out the new guy next to me was in a Doors cover band.
I'm afraid to ask, but what was their name? I know 'Crystal Sh**' is already taken...
LOL
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Jim Morrison's poetry. Also...Jim Morrison.
Agreed. I gave all their albums a shot, but they're just not that good. When I was a college freshman, all the girls had Val Kilmer dressed as him on the walls.
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When I was back there in seminary school
There was a person there
Who put forth the proposition
That you can petition the Lord with prayer
Petition the Lord with prayer
Petition the Lord with prayer
You cannot petition the Lord with prayer
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Jesse Thorpe's fashion blog which encourages us to dress like the jagoffs in Esquire.
http://putthison.com/ (http://putthison.com/)
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Jesse Thorpe's fashion blog which encourages us to dress like the jagoffs in Esquire.
http://putthison.com/ (http://putthison.com/)
Yeah, high quality artisan made clothing woven cut and sewn in America is total jagoff. Looking like an informed adult while purchasing things that will LAST sucks too. I hate a good pair of shoes that I can have resoled 3 or 4 times.
Quality is quality whether it is a book or record or movie or pair of pants. Jesse Thorne likes to look like he takes pride in his wardrobe choice.
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Yeah I have a hard time hating on a podcaster who cares about his appearance, even if I question his taste from time to time.
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No problem caring about yr clothes and such, but the 'dress like a grown-up' condescending tag phrase I can do without.
Also I've never made it thru an episode of 'Jordan, Jessie, GOOOOOO!'
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the 'dress like a grown-up'...
(or 'informed adult')
...condescending tag phrase I can do without.
Yep. That was really the gist. I enjoy his podcasts fine.
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I'm not sure what it is about this that I hate, so I'm going to describe the scenario and let you decide:
I have an acquaintance who becomes obsessed with things for a very short period of time. The thing is, she's a PR lady, so she lives everything. The usual arc goes something like this (played out in twitter):
2 months of: "hey y'all, I've always wanted to learn acoustic guitar. Anyone know where I can get one for $50? Anyone got one I can borrow?
1 month of: "I love practicing. I know 4 chords, but they go to a death cab song so they're the only ones I need. This is never going to get old"
1 week of: "It's finally happening. I'm getting up on stage to sit in with my friends cover band. Everyone come out and support me."
Then there is the inevitable disaster, followed by:
1 night of: "AMAZING! I love being on stage. It didn't go as well as I had hoped, but I'm going to stay with it"
Followed by a month of nothing
Followed by a lifetime of "I used to play around a little bit with my friends band, I'd love to do it, I just don't have time, but we were really good"
Like I said, I don't know why it bothers me so much. Part of me wonders if I'm jealous that she's getting out there and trying things, but I really think what she's doing is disrespectful to people who really do these things. I also now that she ropes people in to participating in things like this (some of which are group activities) and then doesn't follow through and leaves them holding the bag while she goes on to the next thing.
Yuck.
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Also, I was being generous on the one month of practice. It's literally a week and a half on this one
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Are you allowed to make fun of her and call her a liar when she makes claims along the lines of "I used to play around a little bit with my friends band, I'd love to do it, I just don't have time, but we were really good"? Or are you required to pretend to believe her?
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Look at the trending topics- usually most of them are multiple words put together into one hashtag. There's no reason to make a one out of a single word that you could just search for anyway.
On that note, there is hilarious hashtag abuse going on here -
https://twitter.com/TeaPartyLeader
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Update on my hated friend in twitter. She just posted this:
"**Attention World** I really enjoyed the Spoon album. I even heard a couple of songs to learn."
The spoon album she's talking about is Gimme Fiction. It came out in 2005. I wonder what other albums from 2005 she would like?
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Also, she kept calling it "Get Friction" instead of "Gimme Friction". Clearly she LOVES it.
Why am I so obsessed?
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Also, she kept calling it "Get Friction" instead of "Gimme Friction". Clearly she LOVES it.
Why am I so obsessed?
That "Attention World" would piss off a kitten.
I have similar weird obsessions w/similar people... I'm not sure how it's defined exactly but it's fascinating (and scary-you wonder how bad you are) to observe someone with high levels of both self awareness and cluelessness.
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Conference Calls, can I get a witness
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HOT: Throwing Tomatoes at La Tomatina Festival, Bunol, Spain: World's Biggest Food Fight! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzWWhqL0ruY#)
Not sure if you guys on the Jersey side of the Atlantic have heard or seen this annual atrocity. I'd never heard of it until I moved here. The reason I post this old video is that I just noticed this year's event on TV. I guess the participants have been too busy taking tomatoes out of their ears and bathroom parts to post a new video already.
Europeans like to scoff at the eating contests in the US etc., which would ring true if things like the above did not actually exist.
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James Blunt - Where is my mind (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tQL2vOhzf0#)
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James Blunt - Where is my mind (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tQL2vOhzf0#)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=james%20blunt (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=james%20blunt)
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Poorly done infographics.
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The writing in this piece, and that it's on CNN's homepage -
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/09/01/netiquette.unfriending/index.html?hpt=C2 (http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/09/01/netiquette.unfriending/index.html?hpt=C2)
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The writing in this piece, and that it's on CNN's homepage -
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/09/01/netiquette.unfriending/index.html?hpt=C2 (http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/09/01/netiquette.unfriending/index.html?hpt=C2)
Wow. I couldn't finish that. It was giving me tummy trouble.
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When did they start printing expiration dates on the actual egg? Hate.
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The writing in this piece, and that it's on CNN's homepage -
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/09/01/netiquette.unfriending/index.html?hpt=C2 (http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/09/01/netiquette.unfriending/index.html?hpt=C2)
Plenty to hate there, plus these clowns have a blog, 'Stuff Hipsters Hate' which - guess what - is going to be a book.
http://stuffhipstershate.tumblr.com/ (http://stuffhipstershate.tumblr.com/)
One-joke 'humor' blogs getting book deals is something else I hate (Stuff White People Like, S%(*( My Dad Says, etc). The word 'humor' is kind of like the word 'monologuist' - kind of sets your expectations low so you don't feel too ripped off if you don't laugh much.
I am probably just jealous because I've never had a book deal.
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That blog makes me like hipsters a little.
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One-joke 'humor' blogs getting book deals is something else I hate (Stuff White People Like, S%(*( My Dad Says, etc). The word 'humor' is kind of like the word 'monologuist' - kind of sets your expectations low so you don't feel too ripped off if you don't laugh much.
I generally agree, but I gotta say that I love "Stuff White People Like" and feel that the writers deserve anything they get.
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Racist.
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One-joke 'humor' blogs getting book deals is something else I hate (Stuff White People Like, S%(*( My Dad Says, etc). The word 'humor' is kind of like the word 'monologuist' - kind of sets your expectations low so you don't feel too ripped off if you don't laugh much.
I generally agree, but I gotta say that I love "Stuff White People Like" and feel that the writers deserve anything they get.
I think I am probably hating the people offering up the book deals as much or more than the blog people. I found 'Stuff White People Like' amusing because I like most of that stuff, but it seems like once it got a book deal suddenly every other remotely similar blog has to get a book deal, too.
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The Pill "Don't Spare Your Best Pair" (http://vimeo.com/9304318)
I hate this commercial. I hate all those clotheslines festooned only with a myriad of pretty panties and pastel sheets. I hate the smirk on the girl's face. I hate the way she serpentines amid the laundry, snags a single pair of underpants from the line, and then goes inside only to deposit it in a drawer--WHICH SHE THEN LEAVES AJAR. I hate the way she then grabs from a rack a random smocklike garment reminiscent of a waitress uniform or perhaps the regulation garb of a mental hospital--whether intended for staff or patient is unclear--and wafts back outside to drape it casually over one of the array of clotheslines. I hate the slogan "Don't spare your best pair," which not only painfully distorts the idiom but is cloyingly cute to boot. Perhaps most of all I hate Hulu for inflicting this ad on me over and over and over again.
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I hate this commercial. I hate all those clotheslines festooned only with a myriad of pretty panties and pastel sheets. I hate the smirk on the girl's face. I hate the way she serpentines amid the laundry, snags a single pair of underpants from the line, and then goes inside only to deposit it in a drawer--WHICH SHE THEN LEAVES AJAR. I hate the way she then grabs from a rack a random smocklike garment reminiscent of a waitress uniform or perhaps the regulation garb of a mental hospital--whether intended for staff or patient is unclear--and wafts back outside to drape it casually over one of the array of clotheslines. I hate the slogan "Don't spare your best pair," which not only painfully distorts the idiom but is cloyingly cute to boot. Perhaps most of all I hate Hulu for inflicting this ad on me over and over and over again.
"Serious risks include blood clots, stroke and heart attacks."
I kind of like how 'stroke' is singular, yet 'heart attacks' is plural.
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The Pill "Don't Spare Your Best Pair" (http://vimeo.com/9304318)
I hate this commercial. I hate all those clotheslines festooned only with a myriad of pretty panties and pastel sheets. I hate the smirk on the girl's face. I hate the way she serpentines amid the laundry, snags a single pair of underpants from the line, and then goes inside only to deposit it in a drawer--WHICH SHE THEN LEAVES AJAR. I hate the way she then grabs from a rack a random smocklike garment reminiscent of a waitress uniform or perhaps the regulation garb of a mental hospital--whether intended for staff or patient is unclear--and wafts back outside to drape it casually over one of the array of clotheslines. I hate the slogan "Don't spare your best pair," which not only painfully distorts the idiom but is cloyingly cute to boot. Perhaps most of all I hate Hulu for inflicting this ad on me over and over and over again.
"Underwear, Undies, Unmentionables..." Hard to make it past the first 3 seconds. I also like the choice of colors and fonts at the 0:52 mark, just in case you weren't getting that this was marketed to women.
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Invitations to events where liquor is described as 'libations'.
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Or "adult beverages" or "coldbeer" (popular with the hayseeds)
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Or "adult beverages" or "coldbeer" (popular with the hayseeds)
Oat Soda is another one I hate.
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I actually sort of like "adult beverages," but it's better if proceeded by "sophisticated."
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anytime the prefix "man" is used for anything aka
"man cave"
"man food"
"man room"
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In advertising, companies calling a perk "free." for example, in a Vonage comercial a woman says "I can call puerto Rico Free!" Well, not really.
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It blows me away how self-important a lot of the twats on twitter can be. Two examples of how the Social Media people (read: PR types) are trying to flex their muscles:
I just read a 6 paragraph blog post about how outraged someone is that the best local coffee shop has turned off the power to their outlets so that people don't sit there all day (shame on me for reading it.) Keep in mind, this coffee shop is a no-nonsense kind of place that sells themselves as such AND they still have free wifi, they just don't want you setting up camp for so long that you have to recharge your laptop. The coffee shop doesn't sell itself as a laid back place where you're welcome to hang out, and no one even questions that their coffee is the best in the area. The impression I got from reading this shithead's blog post is that he's more upset that they never responded to his complaint via @reply on twitter (newsflash: all the other PR idiots were OUTRAGED that the coffee shop wouldn't respond. IT'S A PR CATASTROPHE!!!!)
We have a very good local taco truck/restaurant that prides itself on making everything in house and fresh every day. This place is good. Like Rick Bayless invited the owners to his house to cook dinner for him good. Well, one day one of these Social Media idiots gets a bone in their chicken taco. She goes up to the counter and tells them, asking for her meal to be comp'ed, they said they'd give her another taco, but they weren't giving her any money back. She proceeds to trash them on Twitter, talking about how they didn't offer her anything and how she wanted an apology or she would continue to trash them. Their public response was "We use fresh chicken, occasionally you'll get a bone. If you don't like it, eat at Chili's." Public support for the taco shop was huge and eventually all the other PR types that had lined up behind the complained showed their true colors and turned on her because her side wasn't popular.
So, really, I'm bitching about PR people and not twitter people, but the two are kind of synonymous in OKC.
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Another good reason to hate twitter: it has exposed Wayne Coyne as being way more of a 50 year old pothead frat boy than some kind of artistic genius.
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Another good reason to hate twitter: it has exposed Wayne Coyne as being way more of a 50 year old pothead frat boy than some kind of artistic genius.
You don't love the photos of his half-naked wife & of drunk girls falling all over your fair city?
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I'm still pissed at Wayne Coyne for ripping off Peter Gabriel.
(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ztfJp13leoAhFM:http://www.genesis-news.com/petergabriel/images/achiv/bild06.jpg&t=1)
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1436/823418194_e4b4522883_z.jpg?zz=1)
I would love to see Coyne's ball get picked up by a sky hook attached to a helicopter, and then subsequently dropped into the middle of the Pacific.
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I'm still pissed at Wayne Coyne for ripping off Peter Gabriel.
(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ztfJp13leoAhFM:http://www.genesis-news.com/petergabriel/images/achiv/bild06.jpg&t=1)
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1436/823418194_e4b4522883_z.jpg?zz=1)
I would love to see Coyne's ball get picked up by a sky hook attached to a helicopter, and then subsequently dropped into the middle of the Pacific.
I am still pissed that Peter Gabriel ripped off Jackie Chan.
Operation Condor - Zorb ball scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI7vz9Bd664#ws)
Thank God that ball's impervious to spears.
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I'm still pissed Jackie Chan ripped off The Prisoner -
(http://www.denofgeek.com/siteimage/scale/800/600/82013.png)
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(http://www.calebdaniloff.com/whereirantoday/uploaded_images/bubble_boy_2-754379.jpg)
I'm still pissed off Bubble Boy ripped off Tobey Maguire.
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Dear Atheists: We get it. You think you're smarter than everyone else. So why can't you understand that when you discuss your views on religion, you're just as annoying as the religious people you look down on.
I hate religion, but I also hate atheists.
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Dear Atheists: We get it. You think you're smarter than everyone else. So why can't you understand that when you discuss your views on religion, you're just as annoying as the religious people you look down on.
I hate religion, but I also hate atheists.
Where did the like button go?
Listen to 15 minutes of any episode of the podcast Skepticality, and you will be praying for the God whose existence you doubt to smite these smirking pricks.
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For the record, I think both atheists and religionists think they're smarter than the other--that's why they hold the opinions they do and not the other's--but that the difference is, the atheists are right. Given that, what are they supposed to do: not discuss their views for fear that their dirty secret (that they actually believe they're right) will come out?
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I have no patience with people who are certain they are right about something that cannot be proven.
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Exactly, Sarah.
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I've got a bad feeling about the direction this is going.
I agree with you, Andy, only in the sense that people who think they are smarter than others are frustrating. Well, I guess we all feel that way sometimes, so let me rephrase as "People who think they are smarter than others - even after deep introspection on the likelihood of that - are frustrating." But to pin that quality to all atheists - to make that quality a necessary trait of atheists - is unfair. You may assume all atheists are like that because those are the most vocal atheists!
For the record, not all atheists think they are smarter than those who believe in a god or gods; just as not all Christians try to convert, not all Jews are kosher, and not all Hindus take the Ramayana to be a true story. I am an atheist and have nothing but the utmost respect for my family members who believe in god. My mother-in-law, who was born again, welcomed me into her family even though I was raised Jewish. We used to have respectful discussions about everything. She never gave me grief for being Jewish (I did not tell her about my atheism because I knew how sad it would make her), she never proselytized, and I never questioned her being born again. It brought her joy and she felt it deeply, and that made me happy for her.
If anything, I feel envy. My wife's view of the universe is so much more spiritual and poetic than mine.
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I dunno, I think there are some claims so preposterous that the burden of proof is on those who make them, not on those who point out their preposterousness.
I also don't think invisible superheroes who live in outer space make for a more poetic universe than the one that seems to thrive without them.
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Introducing the SurvivaBall Model X7 Climate Change Mitigation Unit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO1Bm8Wrwe8&feature=player_embedded#)
I'm still mad that Tobey MacGuire ripped off the Yes Men.
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I avoids religious discussions altogether, unless they are fun discussions about what your family does for Ramadan or whatever.
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Here's a good rule of thumb: Unless I ask you about your religious beliefs, keep them to yourself.
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Here's a good rule of thumb: Unless I ask you about your religious beliefs, keep them to yourself.
That's not a bad rule. On the other hand, I'm wondering which atheists forced you against your will to read/listen to them and thus occasioned this:
Dear Atheists: We get it. You think you're smarter than everyone else. So why can't you understand that when you discuss your views on religion, you're just as annoying as the religious people you look down on.
Some annoying atheist haranguing you on the subway perhaps? That happens a lot.
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Introducing the SurvivaBall Model X7 Climate Change Mitigation Unit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO1Bm8Wrwe8&feature=player_embedded#)
I'm still mad that Tobey MacGuire ripped off the Yes Men.
So ridiculous.
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The atheists that purchased a billboard that has been all over the local news here. The same ones who bitch about it when churches do the same thing. It just bugs me that they're acting all smug about it and acting like "we're not trying to be controversial, we just want people to know that there are likeminded people out there" when I know the guy who heads the local group and he's totally doing it to be controversial.
Plus,having a group based on not believing something seems weird to me (although I can't put my finger on why that is)
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Plus,having a group based on not believing something seems weird to me (although I can't put my finger on why that is)
What if instead of God we were referring to WMD? Would that make a difference?
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The atheists that purchased a billboard that has been all over the local news here. The same ones who bitch about it when churches do the same thing. It just bugs me that they're acting all smug about it and acting like "we're not trying to be controversial, we just want people to know that there are likeminded people out there" when I know the guy who heads the local group and he's totally doing it to be controversial.
I agree that he should have the integrity to admit that a billboard like that is bound to be controversial whether it's their primary intention or not, and go on to say that there's nothing wrong with controversy, especially over ideas that get as much deference across the board as religion does. That said, the other part of the message, that if you don't believe you're not alone, seems perfectly worthy to me.
Plus,having a group based on not believing something seems weird to me (although I can't put my finger on why that is)
I can't either. Are you now saying that they should not only shut up about it unless asked, but also refrain from forming associations that are weird?
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I guess I am one of those religionists. Interesting how all of my thought processes have been reduced to a label. Do any of you ever feel like I have ever tried to "evangelize" you? I mean, I must have, right, after all we religionists are all the same. Right?
Categorization of people feels convenient, but categorization of persons hardly ever works.
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Plus,having a group based on not believing something seems weird to me (although I can't put my finger on why that is)
What if instead of God we were referring to WMD? Would that make a difference?
Weapons of Mass Destruction? Would the group be that you didn't believe that they exist in general, or in a specific location? Big difference.
Who wants to join any of the new clubs I'm starting. One is for people who don't believe in ghosts. Another is for people who don't believe in aliens. Another is for people who don't believe in bigfoot.
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Drop it, folks. Too personal for healthy debate.
So let's look for common ground instead: I think we can all agree that Clapton is not God.
Now let's all spoon.
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See, actually, if belief in Bigfoot were a nearly-unquestioned dogma despite the lack of any compelling evidence, and if various strands of Bigfootist doctrine were routinely used to justify government intervention in people's private lives, and questions of morality and ethics were continually reduced to interpretations of the words Bigfoot supposedly dictated to some goat herders 2000 years ago, and everywhere you looked people were held up as transcendantly wise men because of the depth of their faith in Bigfoot while dissenters from Bigfootism were commonly held to be inherently immoral, corrupt, and de facto unfit to hold public office --I think there might be a market for an anti-Bigfoot group. As things stand though, anti-Bigfootists probably just don't feel it's all that important.
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It drives me nuts when people say, "I know it's hip to hate on ________". Sometimes I guess it applies, but just now at work someone said, "I know it's hip to hate on MADtv, but there are some decent skits on there....". It's not merely fashionable to dislike that show, there are some very valid reasons! >:(
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Drop it, folks. Too personal for healthy debate.
So let's look for common ground instead: I think we can all agree that Clapton is not God.
Now let's all spoon.
I'm coming in late to this argument, which is probably over, but for the record: a) Clapton is a douche, and 2) my god is Money.
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I hate motherfuckers who don't believe in ghosts. They are fucking scary!
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Weapons of Mass Destruction? Would the group be that you didn't believe that they exist in general, or in a specific location? Big difference.
In a specific place, Andy.
I'm pretty sure "WMD" as a commonly known abbreviation only started after the marketing campaign.
Similarly, if you had said "KFC" before their marketing campaign, most folks wouldn't have known what you were talking about. Now, the majority of Americans do. The chicken was always existed.
Are you trying to steal my energy?
I'll give you some for free.
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Weapons of Mass Destruction? Would the group be that you didn't believe that they exist in general, or in a specific location? Big difference.
In a specific place, Andy.
I'm pretty sure "WMD" as a commonly known abbreviation only started after the marketing campaign.
Similarly, if you had said "KFC" before their marketing campaign, most folks wouldn't have known what you were talking about. Now, the majority of Americans do. The chicken was always existed.
Are you trying to steal my energy?
I'll give you some for free.
Kent Fitness Clubs?
http://www.kfc.net/ (http://www.kfc.net/)
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I heard they had to change it to WMD because there wasn't any chicken in it.
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I heard they had to change it to WMD because there wasn't any chicken in it.
These WMD will make YOU
Finger Lickin' Dead
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Here comes the NFL to steamroll over every moment of sports coverage and/or social interactions I get to deal with for the next four months. Hooray! It's like, fine, I can understand an NBA fan rolling their eyes at all that doe-eyed baseball mythology whenever Spring Training takes over what sports news cycles aren't usurped by March Madness, and I can sort of kind of almost sympathize with people who were baffled at suddenly having to try and figure out what the deal was with the World Cup earlier this year. But there's something weirdly alienating about being the guy who's ten times more interested in the September pennant races than the early hype cycle of a sport that only plays once a week and fills the rest of the time with pseudoanalytical noise emanating from the gullets of the least interesting people imaginable. I like watching Adrian Peterson deke defenders out of their shoes and all that, but it's not my God-given American duty to do so.
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I still hate Kurt Sutter. Here he is being a whiny little bitch about people reviewing his show:
http://sutterink.blogspot.com/2010/09/omg-like-this-show-like-totally-sucks.html (http://sutterink.blogspot.com/2010/09/omg-like-this-show-like-totally-sucks.html)
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This person and her videos -
http://www.youtube.com/spricket24 (http://www.youtube.com/spricket24)
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What a train wreck. She's the female PhillyD.
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I hate really big numbers w/out commas in them to break them up.
Also, European phone numbers. Not enough dashes in there.
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This person and her videos -
http://www.youtube.com/spricket24 (http://www.youtube.com/spricket24)
This completely ruined my mid-morning-post-coffee-break-pre-lunch-snack.
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Dear Atheists: We get it. You think you're smarter than everyone else. So why can't you understand that when you discuss your views on religion, you're just as annoying as the religious people you look down on.
I hate religion, but I also hate atheists.
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/atheists.png)
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I dunno, I think there are some claims so preposterous that the burden of proof is on those who make them, not on those who point out their preposterousness.
I also don't think invisible superheroes who live in outer space make for a more poetic universe than the one that seems to thrive without them.
Agreed on all points.
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For the record, I think both atheists and religionists think they're smarter than the other--that's why they hold the opinions they do and not the other's--but that the difference is, the atheists are right. Given that, what are they supposed to do: not discuss their views for fear that their dirty secret (that they actually believe they're right) will come out?
Our lives are so microscopic and fleeting in the scheme of things. The idea that the universe is here so we humans can be judged needs hashing out in the company of a few contrarians and "b. busters" if you will.
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Who feels superior?
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It's probably inescapable, feeling smarter than somebody else. Even if you are the stupidest person on Earth, you can probably find somebody you think is more stupider. You'll be all like 'your stupid, you beleiv that thing'.
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(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rScBRKlTdoE/Sdl0pbNERFI/AAAAAAAAMxM/Pw0gZWbJuec/s400/!BP9!Qk!CGk~$(KGrHgoH-DQEjlLlu3hQBJ2SJkrj!w~~_3.JPG)
The popularity of electric drums in the 1980's. They make me think of the opening fill for "Invisible Touch" (DOO-guh-doo, DOO-guh-doo) and then I want to murder myself in the face.
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(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rScBRKlTdoE/Sdl0pbNERFI/AAAAAAAAMxM/Pw0gZWbJuec/s400/!BP9!Qk!CGk~$(KGrHgoH-DQEjlLlu3hQBJ2SJkrj!w~~_3.JPG)
The popularity of electric drums in the 1980's. They make me think of the opening fill for "Invisible Touch" (DOO-guh-doo, DOO-guh-doo) and then I want to murder myself in the face.
See, I feel like obscurity and disuse has made these interesting again. Or at least I felt that way when I heard them on the new Love Is All record.
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Proof that the future works, but unfortunately not Future-proof.
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I hate the idea of this. (http://pitchfork.com/news/40159-weezer-announce-first-blueipinkertoni-dates/)
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(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rScBRKlTdoE/Sdl0pbNERFI/AAAAAAAAMxM/Pw0gZWbJuec/s400/!BP9!Qk!CGk~$(KGrHgoH-DQEjlLlu3hQBJ2SJkrj!w~~_3.JPG)
The popularity of electric drums in the 1980's.
Good one.
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The marketing aspirations behind electronic drum kits in the 80s ("One day all drummers will use them!") is similar to the hype behind the invention of the Segway back in 2000 ("They're going to design whole cities around these!"). Cut to the present day.
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The hexagon pads are kind of cool looking though, you must admit. I miss the guitar synthesizers of the 80s - $2000 devices that could create amazing simulations of the sounds of a $5 harmonica.
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The death of Greg Giraldo.
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I hate the idea of this. (http://pitchfork.com/news/40159-weezer-announce-first-blueipinkertoni-dates/)
The fifteen-years-ago Me checked Ticketmaster after seeing the dates on this tour, then the present Me closed the window. It's so hard to say goodbye sometimes.
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I hate the idea of this. (http://pitchfork.com/news/40159-weezer-announce-first-blueipinkertoni-dates/)
The fifteen-years-ago Me checked Ticketmaster after seeing the dates on this tour, then the present Me closed the window. It's so hard to say goodbye sometimes.
I know, the whole idea of it bugged me - it's like, what, is the Blue album a symphony now or something?
On the other hand, I did think it was kinda cool that Phish covered an album every Halloween or New Year's Eve. Or whatever they did. I can't stand Phish, but what if you did think they were awesome? There's this band you love doing Exile on Main St. in it's entirety to celebrate Halloween. That's pretty cool.
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I hate the idea of this. (http://pitchfork.com/news/40159-weezer-announce-first-blueipinkertoni-dates/)
The fifteen-years-ago Me checked Ticketmaster after seeing the dates on this tour, then the present Me closed the window. It's so hard to say goodbye sometimes.
I know, the whole idea of it bugged me - it's like, what, is the Blue album a symphony now or something?
On the other hand, I did think it was kinda cool that Phish covered an album every Halloween or New Year's Eve. Or whatever they did. I can't stand Phish, but what if you did think they were awesome? There's this band you love doing Exile on Main St. in it's entirety to celebrate Halloween. That's pretty cool.
I am not a Phish fan, but I do like their cover shows of The White Album and Quadrophenia. They are spirited versions.
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The death of Greg Giraldo.
Let me second this. Greg Giraldo dying is something I really don't like.
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I hate the idea of this. (http://pitchfork.com/news/40159-weezer-announce-first-blueipinkertoni-dates/)
The fifteen-years-ago Me checked Ticketmaster after seeing the dates on this tour, then the present Me closed the window. It's so hard to say goodbye sometimes.
I know, the whole idea of it bugged me - it's like, what, is the Blue album a symphony now or something?
Good point. Cuomo used to get down on Pinkerton so bad, I just don't trust their touring this. They made that Hurley album, now go live it on the road. Plus, I'm just not sure I like the group anymore. Fugazi used to keep their catalog in their back pocket so they could play any song at any time, but they kept making good stuff the whole time. Weezer has rolled off bad album after bad album.
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Referring to yourself as "moi" or "yours truly".
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Use of:
POTUS
SCOTUS
and (seen by me for first time today):
FLOTUS
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Use of:
POTUS
SCOTUS
and (seen by me for first time today):
FLOTUS
Absolutely. Especially imagining them pronounced out loud. FLOTUS sounds particularly gross.
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Use of:
POTUS
SCOTUS
and (seen by me for first time today):
FLOTUS
Absolutely. Especially imagining them pronounced out loud. FLOTUS sounds particularly gross.
When did this actually start? Was it when that "cat" got into office that the Man thought it was OK to abbreviate these things?
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The first time I remember hearing POTUS was on the first episode of The West Wing. Is Aaron Sorkin responsible for this, then?
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I think it's a secret service thing, co-opted from the army. The army never met an acronym it didn't like.
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FOTus.
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FOTus.
Scraping FOTus from the Wheel.
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FOTus.
Scraping FOTus from the Wheel.
Holy crap. I actually know a FONPR reference.
A friend introduced me to foetus dude just last week.
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FOTus.
Scraping FOTus from the Wheel.
Holy crap. I actually know a FONPR reference.
A friend introduced me to foetus dude just last week.
He does the music for the Venture Bros.! It is a weird world.
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FLOTUS
Mmm.
(http://www.raisins.org/Recipe_database/Images/image_flauta2.jpg)
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FOTus.
Scraping FOTus from the Wheel.
Holy crap. I actually know a FONPR reference.
A friend introduced me to foetus dude just last week.
He does the music for the Venture Bros.! It is a weird world.
"Weird"? Nah, I prefer "Magical".
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News of the weird stories that end in some absurd, dumb death -- then there's always one reader comment that states: "Darwin award!"
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News of the Weird. It's one of those things where I can never read past one or two stories. OK, I get it, guys with 'Wayne' as their middle name commit a lot of crimes!
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News of the Weird. It's one of those things where I can never read past one or two stories. OK, I get it, guys with 'Wayne' as their middle name commit a lot of crimes!
so I take it you don't follow news out of New Port Richey.
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I hate that magazines are still saying stuff like "famous assets (http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/12/kim-kardashian-takes-it-all-off-for-w-magazine/?hpt=Sbin)" to describe female body parts. Get it, "assets"? What is this, 1972?
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I hate that magazines are still saying stuff like "famous assets (http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/12/kim-kardashian-takes-it-all-off-for-w-magazine/?hpt=Sbin)" to describe female body parts. Get it, "assets"? What is this, 1972?
No quibble with the bad puns but I bet women in the movies/music had an easier time in '72 than now. Or at least it could not have been worse. You really need to cheesecake yourself to get attention. Katy Perry is a singer right? Not just a model?
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I don't like baseball, but I HATE the Yankees.
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I don't like baseball, but I HATE the Yankees.
That seems reasonable.
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Some choice quotes from the guy who just got elected mayor of Toronto:
"If you are not doing needles and you are not gay, you wouldn't get AIDS probably, that's bottom line."
"Those Oriental people work like dogs. They work their hearts out. They are workers non-stop. They sleep beside their machines. That's why they're successful in life. I went to Seoul, South Korea, I went to Taipei, Taiwan. I went to Tokyo, Japan. That's why these people are so hard workers. I'm telling you, the Oriental people, they're slowly taking over."
"I can't support bike lanes. Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks. My heart bleeds when someone gets killed, but it's their own fault at the end of the day."
For real!
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Some choice quotes from the guy who just got elected mayor of Toronto:
"If you are not doing needles and you are not gay, you wouldn't get AIDS probably, that's bottom line."
"Those Oriental people work like dogs. They work their hearts out. They are workers non-stop. They sleep beside their machines. That's why they're successful in life. I went to Seoul, South Korea, I went to Taipei, Taiwan. I went to Tokyo, Japan. That's why these people are so hard workers. I'm telling you, the Oriental people, they're slowly taking over."
"I can't support bike lanes. Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks. My heart bleeds when someone gets killed, but it's their own fault at the end of the day."
For real!
As much as I and everyone I know Toronto are depressed and fearful this morning, I have a feeling Ford will be not able to get a whole lot done during his term. He's divisive and bullying, and a large portion of City Hall already loathes him. His entire platform is based on cutting 'wasteful' spending, and to be really successful at that you need to convince a lot of people to work harder at their jobs and take some flak on your behalf. Which means getting people to believe in you by building good relationships with staff and councillors. And that is far beyond his meager abilities.
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Some choice quotes from the guy who just got elected mayor of Toronto:
All of these are horrible, but people using Oriental drives me crazy - my dad uses it and he gets all foofy when I say "please use Asian" ... he starts in about Occident vs Orient and rugs and dressing.
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I thought Canada was an oasis of enlightenment here in North America--how did this schmoe get elected?
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AC - I think he and your dad would agree on this particular issue:
Anti-immigrant politician invokes SOAS to save his bacon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7adTyQDwa7o#)
Crumbum - I think you're right, but I'm finding myself way more upset than I thought I'd be about it. I think I'm just depressed that he seems to be what the city wanted - like, people actually VOTED for him! A lot of people! That's fucked!
I thought Canada was an oasis of enlightenment here in North America--how did this schmoe get elected?
Our last mayor had to handle a city that was in pretty rough shape, budget- and otherwise, and he did his best with it but I think because he wasn't able to fix everything immediately (which would have been impossible) everyone has completely swung around the other way. Ford got in on a platform of "respect for the taxpayer" - his big slogan thing was about "stopping the gravy train." Which I guess people were into the idea of. We'll see how that actually ends up working out, though.
I'm jealous of Calgary - how come they get this guy: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2010/10/19/calgary-election-mayor.html (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2010/10/19/calgary-election-mayor.html) and we get this guy: Rob Ford's Maturity (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOi2wIUCTnA#)
??
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Our last mayor had to handle a city that was in pretty rough shape, budget- and otherwise, and he did his best with it but I think because he wasn't able to fix everything immediately (which would have been impossible) everyone has completely swung around the other way. Ford got in on a platform of "respect for the taxpayer" - his big slogan thing was about "stopping the gravy train." Which I guess people were into the idea of.
Why--speaking as a citizen of the US, this has an uncannily familiar ring to it!
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...in pretty rough shape, budget- and otherwise, and he did his best with it but I think because he wasn't able to fix everything immediately (which would have been impossible) everyone has completely swung around the other way.
"First" world types are so infantile.
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PASATINH.
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Listen to what this POS had to say today:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201010260017 (http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201010260017)
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Jesus Christ, what is that HORRIBLE song that samples "Werewolves of London" and "Sweet Home Alabama"? I haven't despised a big ubiquitous hit this much since "Beautiful."
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Jesus Christ, what is that HORRIBLE song that samples "Werewolves of London" and "Sweet Home Alabama"? I haven't despised a big ubiquitous hit this much since "Beautiful."
it's called All Summer Long by Kid Rock.
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Oh. That's not very current then, huh? For some reason I've heard it three times in the last couple of days. Really awful song.
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Tom mocked the Kid Rock song at length around the time it was out. I haven't thought of or heard it since then.
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Finding a (commercial) website that is using one of my photographs without my permission nor even having to common courtesy to link back to my site.
Fuck you Boston Grub Street.
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Vintage photo effects. All of them.
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I whip my hair back and forth! I whip my hair back and forth!
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Your peacock cock cock, your peacock cock.
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Vintage photo effects. All of them.
Can you elaborate on this?
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Vintage photo effects. All of them.
Can you elaborate on this?
Instagram, Hipstamatic, faux-Leica, cross-processing, all that stuff.
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DEAR SELF-STYLED INTERNET PERSONALITY: nobody cares that you don't like the Beatles.
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Oh come on, not liking the Beatles is rebellious! No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones, or The Clash. (except the Brett Haskins version).
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I hate mice in my house. Not mice per se. Mice in the house. Come on guys. I have 3 acres and you're welcome to all of it except for the house. You've been really great about this for the past few years. Why the sudden desire to help yourself to my Cheetos? Sheesh.
I also hate the subsequent but unavoidable anti-mouse pogram. Is this how Pol Pot got his start? I hope not.
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http://www.lifestudent.com/hub/about/ (http://www.lifestudent.com/hub/about/)
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I hate mice in my house. Not mice per se. Mice in the house. Come on guys. I have 3 acres and you're welcome to all of it except for the house. You've been really great about this for the past few years. Why the sudden desire to help yourself to my Cheetos? Sheesh.
I also hate the subsequent but unavoidable anti-mouse pogram. Is this how Pol Pot got his start? I hope not.
If only the dumb things could be reasonable. I don't even mind them in the house as long as they stay out of the kitchen. But do they abide by these easy terms? No, they do not. And before you say, "Wait a minute there, toots. All the best treats are in the kitchen--surely you can see how unfair it is to expect mice to resist that temptation?" I will counter by saying they can eat all manner of stuff we can't and I'm willing to give them all of that, plus warm, safe living quarters, in return for nothing but a little restraint. It's a damn good deal, were they smart enough to see it.
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My little sister had a taxidermied turtle that was shellacked and the mice in her rent house ate the flesh off of it, exposing the bones on all the visible fleshy parts (head, feet, tail)
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Hell, they eat fiberglass insulation; a stuffed turtle must have been a gourmet delight.
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That stuffed turtle story is seriously freaky. Sounds like a prop from the Addams Family show. Now that I think of it- is the turtle for sale?
And Sarah- they eat fiberglass? For reals? Think of the implications of a steady diet of fiberglass.
Pros:
You'd be able to float forever.
If you drink a cup of tea- it'll keep you warm for a really long time
Cons:
Going #2- reeeaaaaaalllly itchy
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Nah, sorry to disappoint, but, though they burrow through it, chew it up, and wreck it, I don't think they gain any nutritional benefit from the exercise. My point was more that they seem to be willing to try 'most anything.
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Ugh. I've had the same group of friends since just about kindergarten (obviously, we all have friends outside the group, but there's a core group of about 8 of us that still keep in touch.) we've been through a lot and we've always kind of had a brotherly shit-talking thing. Lately one of these guys in particular has become extremely sensitive, reading too much into any comment and taking them as insults when they aren't even directed at him. He just sent me a message on facebook about how I need to stop trolling on facebook (which I don't do) and about how he uses facebook for networking and he doesn't need me fucking up his contacts (I don't even know where he's coming from)
Ugh.
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I'm missing Thanksgiving again.
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Jesse Ventura's conspiracy show on TruTV.
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Eww, TruTV is spelled "TruTV?" I don't know what I was expecting, but ... not that. Gross.
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I don't get TruTV. I imagine the show would be good for 10 minutes of entertainment or so, kind of like Sarah Palin's Alaska was.
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Jesse Ventura's conspiracy show on TruTV.
seen this episode? hehe ;)
Conspiracy Theory: Jesse Ventura Investigates the Pro Wrestling Hoax (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXCptu3ckMI#ws)
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TruTV has some enjoyable shows (it used to be court tv)
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Jim Morrison's poetry. Also...Jim Morrison.
Getting back to Morrison hate for a second, you have to admit he was prophetic in this clip:
Jim Morrison Interview 1970 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw8KJ29qph0#)
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Jim Morrison's poetry. Also...Jim Morrison.
Getting back to Morrison hate for a second, you have to admit he was prophetic in this clip:
Jim Morrison Interview 1970 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw8KJ29qph0#)
Props given. Thanks Smel.
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Jim Morrison's poetry. Also...Jim Morrison.
Getting back to Morrison hate for a second, you have to admit he was prophetic in this clip:
Jim Morrison Interview 1970 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw8KJ29qph0#)
That was eerie, especially when he mentioned Spank Rock by name.
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Jim Morrison's poetry. Also...Jim Morrison.
Getting back to Morrison hate for a second, you have to admit he was prophetic in this clip:
Jim Morrison Interview 1970 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw8KJ29qph0#)
That was eerie, especially when he mentioned Spank Rock by name.
And how the fuck did he call it on crabcore?
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The mouse that has been acting so brazenly in my living room has found its way to the kitchen. There were many little turds on the stove today. Oh well. Time for another elaborate contraption. I hope it doesn't take too long to catch it.
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Sarah- I feel for you. Stove-top poop = big yuck.
Here's my latest report. I launched a four pronged peanut butter and trap assault a week or so back. The opposition crumbled before my relentless assault. The mouse side suffered major casualties. It was a gruesome post-battle scene for sure. I celebrated the victory with a glorious "Mission Accomplished" peanut butter and crackers party as I had plenty of peanut butter left.
Boy was I surprised when the insurgents appeared in my bedroom ceiling a few nights later. They had never been so brazen! They knew better than to get into a stand-up fight by now and I have to admit- their sleep deprivation tactics were pretty demoralizing. For a while they had the upper hand. Things were quiet last night since we were able to take out one of their operatives with a cleverly placed trap above the shower stall. We're not sure if they're wiped out or just laying low- biding their time for another counter-attack.
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Do you kill or catch and release?
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On the topic of pests, I hate that the cockroaches in my house can apparently fly now.
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On the topic of pests, I hate that the cockroaches in my house can apparently fly now.
Evolution.
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Do you kill or catch and release?
ALEX sounds like a KILLER, to me.
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I thought so, too, but wondered if that was just a performance to make the story better. In any case, if my house were truly infested, I'd be a killer, too. But when it's just a mouse here and there, I just catch 'em in a joint compound container and drop 'em off someplace where they can find someone else to plague.
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Well if you're getting these mice high, it's no wonder they won't leave.
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Do you kill or catch and release?
ALEX sounds like a KILLER, to me.
I've spent I don't know how much money on different non-lethal contraptions and electronic mouse scarer-offers. Unfortunately none of them has ever worked except one. I had this little box-like thing once (small and cheap) that they were supposed to walk into and it closes behind them. We had one in the garage in a inaccessable place and I forgot about it. One day I remembered it and find it closed with a dead mouse inside. Apparently the poor thing got trapped for a long period of time and probably died a slow painful death. This really bothered me. I'm a vegetarian. I realy don't want to kill anything. I would love to catch and release but I don't want them to suffer a slow death..
Sarah- What kind of non-lethal traps do you use? Are they effective?
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I put peanut butter and sunflowers seeds on sour cream container lids and then put those in the bottom of an old joint compound container. I then place that in the sink and use a lath, on which I lay a trail of sunflower seeds, to make a ramp from the counter up to the lip of the container. It works. I caught two mice with such a trap in the spring, and one of my sisters has had great success with a similar arrangement. So far, the one I'm after now has just eaten the seeds on the lath, but, hey, it's only been two days. He'll go for the treats at the bottom of the container soon enough.
The thing is, this kind of setup is only good when you're being plagued by one or two mice. As I said, if I were under siege, I'd probably resort to old-fashioned spring traps, horrible though they are.
You have my sympathy, Alex.
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Different post for a different object of hatred: I absolutely loathe obituaries. Their syrupy exaggerations make me sick to my stomach. It's not that I expect warts-and-all coverage (although I think that would be great), but the way minimal accomplishments are vaunted as earth-shattering achievements or passing fancies portrayed as lifelong passions makes me crazy. Everyone who knew the dead guy or gal also knows the obit is full of shit, yet everyone pretends it's true, for a moment, anyway. I don't understand the point of it. I don't see how lies give comfort. It's like winning by cheating--what's the point?
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Different post for a different object of hatred: I absolutely loathe obituaries. Their syrupy exaggerations make me sick to my stomach. It's not that I expect warts-and-all coverage (although I think that would be great), but the way minimal accomplishments are vaunted as earth-shattering achievements or passing fancies portrayed as lifelong passions makes me crazy. Everyone who knew the dead guy or gal also knows the obit is full of shit, yet everyone pretends it's true, for a moment, anyway. I don't understand the point of it. I don't see how lies give comfort. It's like winning by cheating--what's the point?
The one in my local paper literally just gives the birthdates, family names, funeral dates, and that's it.
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Count yourself lucky.
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Another thing that irks me with obituaries is they almost never tell how the person died, which makes me wonder about that. Then I feel bad about focusing on that instead of appreciating what degree of Freemasonry the person reached.
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Yeah, I'll give that much to the obit that prompted my complaint: at least it gave a cause of death (it wasn't entirely accurate, but it was partly correct). The thing is, I bet it was included only because the family wanted it to be clear that the guy didn't OD.
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The obits in the Economist are wonderful; the best feature of the magazine.
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A well-written, thoughtful obituary can be a thing of beauty and a meaningful tribute to a life. Most of those for nonfamous types, though, are composed by grieving family members who don't know how to write and only speak not just well but superlatively of the dead. It's that variety against which I am railing.
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I hate the fact that Obama is extending Bush's tax cuts to the rich. No elected leader should ever whine about the deficit again.
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Wasn't it crystal clear that this would happen when they wouldn't vote before the election even though they had the majority and could have rather easily ended the cuts? The two party system works again. The republicans can do some chest thumping about how they got it done, the democrats can do some complaining about how those bastard republicans are the problem and everyone's campaign contributors get their tax cuts. And we all keep being outraged by fox news or msnbc.
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I don't like Jen Kirkman's calls on TBS :/
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Do you kill or catch and release?
ALEX sounds like a KILLER, to me.
I've spent I don't know how much money on different non-lethal contraptions and electronic mouse scarer-offers. Unfortunately none of them has ever worked except one. I had this little box-like thing once (small and cheap) that they were supposed to walk into and it closes behind them. We had one in the garage in a inaccessable place and I forgot about it. One day I remembered it and find it closed with a dead mouse inside. Apparently the poor thing got trapped for a long period of time and probably died a slow painful death. This really bothered me. I'm a vegetarian. I realy don't want to kill anything. I would love to catch and release but I don't want them to suffer a slow death..
Sarah- What kind of non-lethal traps do you use? Are they effective?
Pardon my language, but you do realize that they will shit in the food they are sampling, right? Down at the bottom of the box, where you may not notice until after you've eaten that cous cous? And that you can't take a step without crushing small forms of animal life?
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Yeah, I'll give that much to the obit that prompted my complaint: at least it gave a cause of death (it wasn't entirely accurate, but it was partly correct). The thing is, I bet it was included only because the family wanted it to be clear that the guy didn't OD.
THIS time
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Do you kill or catch and release?
ALEX sounds like a KILLER, to me.
I've spent I don't know how much money on different non-lethal contraptions and electronic mouse scarer-offers. Unfortunately none of them has ever worked except one. I had this little box-like thing once (small and cheap) that they were supposed to walk into and it closes behind them. We had one in the garage in a inaccessable place and I forgot about it. One day I remembered it and find it closed with a dead mouse inside. Apparently the poor thing got trapped for a long period of time and probably died a slow painful death. This really bothered me. I'm a vegetarian. I realy don't want to kill anything. I would love to catch and release but I don't want them to suffer a slow death..
Sarah- What kind of non-lethal traps do you use? Are they effective?
Pardon my language, but you do realize that they will shit in the food they are sampling, right? Down at the bottom of the box, where you may not notice until after you've eaten that cous cous? And that you can't take a step without crushing small forms of animal life?
Dave-I know everything you say is true. We have everything locked down pretty tight in the kitchen and they haven't gotten into our food. With all the pet food around I don't know that the mice couild be bothered. I also know it isn't possible to live without- at least indirectly -killing. That doesn'ty mean it's pointless to avoid killing wherever possible.
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Last month an acquaintance of mine who struggled with depression throughout adulthood committed suicide. Her parents mentioned the depression/suicide specifically in the obit, which was especially unusual for a small Southern & religious town where I've noticed suicide is judged harshly. But I was glad to see the parents got a lot of positive support all around for their honesty. They didn't try to paint a rosy picture or exaggerate at all about her life.
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Again, count yourself lucky (as far as the obit is concerned; that your acquaintance killed herself is awful). I know it's up to the families to say what they want; I know my irritation is better directed at them than at the institution. And I know that it's unkind of me to feel irritated since these people are going through hell and doing what they must to get through it. Yet irritated I remain.
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Pardon my language, but you do realize that they will shit in the food they are sampling, right? Down at the bottom of the box, where you may not notice until after you've eaten that cous cous? And that you can't take a step without crushing small forms of animal life?
What's your point? That I shouldn't be squeamish about killing mice? If so, how helpful. I would never have thought of that.
(WARNING: This morning brought the first nasty snow/slush event of the season, along with a power outage that made all my winter anxieties wake up. As a result, I am short-tempered. Apologies.)
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Pardon my language, but you do realize that they will shit in the food they are sampling, right? Down at the bottom of the box, where you may not notice until after you've eaten that cous cous? And that you can't take a step without crushing small forms of animal life?
What's your point? That I shouldn't be squeamish about killing mice? If so, how helpful. I would never have thought of that.
(WARNING: This morning brought the first nasty snow/slush event of the season, along with a power outage that made all my winter anxieties wake up. As a result, I am short-tempered. Apologies.)
I love you, mouse apologist or no. They are like blood hounds; not matter how far away you take them, they will return to your abode and bring buddies. Haven't you seen Pattonatoowie?
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Pardon my language, but you do realize that they will shit in the food they are sampling, right? Down at the bottom of the box, where you may not notice until after you've eaten that cous cous? And that you can't take a step without crushing small forms of animal life?
What's your point? That I shouldn't be squeamish about killing mice? If so, how helpful. I would never have thought of that.
(WARNING: This morning brought the first nasty snow/slush event of the season, along with a power outage that made all my winter anxieties wake up. As a result, I am short-tempered. Apologies.)
I love you, mouse apologist or no. They are like blood hounds; not matter how far away you take them, they will return to your abode and bring buddies. Haven't you seen Pattonatoowie?
I caught/killed three mice yesterday in our storage/studio space and am going to buy more traps today. The next door neighbor piles up his garbage uncovered for months before taking it to the dump which isn't helping the rodent situation. I HATE killing the things, I really do but they just aren't good to have around. I really want to get a barn cat to do this nasty business.
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I caught/killed three mice yesterday in our storage/studio space and am going to buy more traps today. The next door neighbor piles up his garbage uncovered for months before taking it to the dump which isn't helping the rodent situation. I HATE killing the things, I really do but they just aren't good to have around. I really want to get a barn cat to do this nasty business.
In my experience, this has been the most effective anti-mouse measure.
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I caught/killed three mice yesterday in our storage/studio space and am going to buy more traps today. The next door neighbor piles up his garbage uncovered for months before taking it to the dump which isn't helping the rodent situation. I HATE killing the things, I really do but they just aren't good to have around. I really want to get a barn cat to do this nasty business.
In my experience, this has been the most effective anti-mouse measure.
10 gajillion NYC bodega owners can't be wrong...
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My cat does what she can. Baited joint compound containers pick up the slack. As long as there are only a couple/few mice in my house, I can indulge myself and avoid killing them. If I die of a mouse-related illness, so be it. Gotta go somehow, right?
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There are also always barn owls.
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Just what I need: owls in the house. Maybe I should get a few snakes, too?
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I would rent an iguana. Let it disappear for a few days inside the walls and then the house will be free of pests.
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Don't they need warmth? I keep my house pretty cold, and it would be even chillier in the walls.
I do like the idea of owls swooping through my house as snakes slither and coil on the floor and an iguana or two clatters around in the walls. Cozy.
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Sarah, wouldn't your cat like a colleague/friend or two?
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If you mean a cat, no. Indeed, she's very happy right now because her brother is still walkabout (for the last three years he's taken off for months at a time, preferring to live rough as long as the weather allows). She's going to be furious when he comes home for the winter and might well murder me if I dared introduce another feline into the household.
Hey, it's just a mouse or two. Those who are infested deserve sympathy, not I.
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Yeah, I meant a cat. Oh well, if she's happy.
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Owls.
Sure, they're fine at the zoo or featured in anti pollution public service ads, but real ones are fucking scary.
You're just walking along a dark trail late at night and then they *whoosh* by -- invisibly -- their sharp talons just nearly touching your juicy head.
*shudder*
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Owls.
Sure, they're fine at the zoo or featured in anti pollution public service ads, but real ones are fucking scary.
You're just walking along a dark trail late at night and then they *whoosh* by -- invisibly -- their sharp talons just nearly touching your juicy head.
*shudder*
Parking beside my mailbox one night and casually glancing over to see one of them standing on top of it, staring at me, was probably the most traumatic event I've ever experienced. Which is great, of course.
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Was its head turned toward the back, Linda Blair style?
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A little. If I remember right, it was one of these guys.
(http://www.nbbd.com/photos/birds1/BarredOwl.jpeg)
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Was its head turned toward the back, Linda Blair style?
Has anyone seen Matt Braunger's bit on this? Totally funny.
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Donate some money = "Kick me some bread / Kick me some scheckles", Also, "groovy".
(WTF Podcast only)
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The idea that replacing a "c" in a word with a "k" is somehow an insult to it. Does anyone actually know what I mean? I see it a lot on sites like Digg and Youtube.
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I know what you mean. I was khukkling over this just the other day.
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The idea that replacing a "c" in a word with a "k" is somehow an insult to it. Does anyone actually know what I mean? I see it a lot on sites like Digg and Youtube.
Do you mean like Amerika? I haven't seen any other words spelled like that.
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Kan't "see" always be replased with a "K" or an "S"?
English is a konfusing language why not simplify?
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The idea that replacing a "c" in a word with a "k" is somehow an insult to it. Does anyone actually know what I mean? I see it a lot on sites like Digg and Youtube.
Do you mean like Amerika? I haven't seen any other words spelled like that.
Well, I stumbled upon some weird Afrocentric hate website that did that for every word with a 'c' in it but I've seen it a lot of other places too.
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I will literally kill the child of an NBC exec if parks and Rec doesn't come back soon.
I think I used literally wrong, but you get the point
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I'm sure they'll allow you to do needlework in prison.
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When my crabby old cat is sitting on my lap, and he lets out a fart that makes my eyes water.
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I will literally kill the child of an NBC exec if parks and Rec doesn't come back soon.
If you didn't know, season 3 starts on Jan. 20!
I've streamed the entire second season on Netflix (HD!) twice already and I just got the DVD too, so I'm sure I'll manage to watch the whole thing one more time before new episodes begin airing.
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Are the other seasons better than the first?
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Second season was fabulous, I lost interest in the first season a couple shows in.
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Scott Stapp's technical incompetence. His music is still good though.
(http://i.imgur.com/LdbAj.png)
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P&R is pretty good so far. It was definitely a pleasant surprise seeing Louis C.K.
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I hate that I am willing to make things way harder on myself in order to not hurt someone else's feelings even when they deserve to have their feelings hurt.
I'm a president elect of a civic organization and the secretary of the club hasn't done shit in a while. she's in line to be president elect next year, but I passed her over last year and it's getting ready to happen again. She's a totally nice person, but she doesn't do shit. I ought to just kick her ass off the board, but instead I'm a pussy about it and I keep trying to get her consent to do it (basically getting her to step down) and she keeps dodging me.
And this is just one example, I do it every day. I make shit WAY harder for myself because I don't want to ask someone else to do their job or I don't want to inconvenience them (even when it's their job to do it.)
Anyone else ever deal with this? If so, what do you do? You wouldn't think a 6'3" construction guy would have a problem being assertive.
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This confession explains a lot about your online persona.
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yuck.
but really, there have been times when I've taken time off of twitter/facebook because I felt like it was giving me too much of an outlet to vent about things that I needed to be bitching about in real life. Kind of a "either it's important enough to really say it, or you need to shut up about it" kind of a move.
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http://nycsantacon.com/ (http://nycsantacon.com/)
My wife and I had a night out on the city this last Saturday and THIS stunk it up quite a bit.
Must have seen about 100 of these apes over the course of the evening. Two of them were swearing like stevedores around our kids (before we had a chance to drop the kids off with my parents).
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http://nycsantacon.com/ (http://nycsantacon.com/)
My wife and I had a night out on the city this last Saturday and THIS stunk it up quite a bit.
Must have seen about 100 of these apes over the course of the evening. Two of them were swearing like stevedores around our kids (before we had a chance to drop the kids off with my parents).
Well, at least that they admit that they don't know why they're doing this...on the front page.
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Jon, between this and your True Grit call, you are so trying to raise PG kids in an X-rated society.
Not a diss, by the way! I would be doing the same!
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group assignments.
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group assignments.
Amen, brother, they are the cheap way out for lazy college professors.
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The holidays, at least the where everybody I work with is in India for December part...
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These tacky/racist/jingoistic forwarded emails I always get from relatives. One of the recent ones had the heading "How do you *wink* at an illegal immigrant?" I opened it up to see a photo of a tough-looking cowboy aiming his shotgun at me and underneath that was a circa 1999 clip art of a stereotypical Mexican guy crawling through a barbed wire fence.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg!
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Group members that I carried through supply chain management and stats classes just took the last final exam of the MBA program. I, meanwhile, have another year left in the program because I dropped classes I could have easily passed because I didn't feel like I was able to learn enough due to my work load at the time.
I'm not sure who to hate on that one, so I'll just turn the hate on myself.
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That's the spirit!
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These tacky/racist/jingoistic forwarded emails I always get from relatives. One of the recent ones had the heading "How do you *wink* at an illegal immigrant?" I opened it up to see a photo of a tough-looking cowboy aiming his shotgun at me and underneath that was a circa 1999 clip art of a stereotypical Mexican guy crawling through a barbed wire fence.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg!
Somehow I managed to get off the lists. I think they've written me off as irredeemable since I voted for Obama. That and I started saying 'don't send me this crap'.
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The mouse in my house is too damn smart and too damn spry. A little while ago I heard a frantic rustling in the kitchen (I'm watching a movie in the living room mere feet away, mind you, and can see the sink in which the trap sits from my chair). When I checked, the piece of paper that I'd stuck on the end of the lath leading to the lip of my joint-compound-container trap, onto which I'd glued a sunflower seed (my hope was that the mouse would go for the seed and fall in), was in the bottom of the trap. The seed was gone and the other bait was disturbed. No mouse to be seen. From the sound of it, it needed more than a single bound to jump out but jump it did. Fuming a bit, I draped the piece of paper over the lath again and went back into the living room. A few minutes later more rustling came from the kitchen. This time, the piece of paper was GONE. The cat was lounging on a box nearby, looking barely interested.
Damn. Now I've got to figure out something else. I should fire the cat, too, but she has tenure.
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I'm team Mouse.
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Smart choice. My money's on it, too.
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I don't have a Twitter account, but this constant condescension toward it from the baby boomer crowd has got to stop. Who tweets about what they had for breakfast? No one ever does that.
Take yesterday's Non Sequitor for example:
(http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=23e30ee34f966555f412a8b852fa65eb)
Oh, the wryness! It's killing me!
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But also the other way; youthful disrespect and condescension of older people, whose experiences they can't hope to understand, is disgusting.
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Who tweets about what they had for breakfast? No one ever does that.
I don't want to bum you out, but there are still people who tweet about what they had for breakfast, lunch and dinner on a regular basis. If they weren't colleagues I wouldn't feel obligated to follow them in the first place. I need to get something like TweetDeck where you can filter stuff out more easily.
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To get a good idea of what a bunch of mouthbreathers twitter's mostly made up of, look at the dumb hashtags that are trending.
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To get a good idea of what a bunch of mouthbreathers twitter's mostly made up of, look at the dumb hashtags that are trending.
Or better yet, never, ever do this.
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But also the other way; youthful disrespect and condescension of older people, whose experiences they can't hope to understand, is disgusting.
Sorry, sir.
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I hate feeling obligated to follow people on Twitter because they are colleagues. Actually I don't do that, though. Fortunately they decided to set up an 'internal Twitter' here. It serves as a nice write-only black hole for people's 'stay posi 2010' tweets, and you can follow all the people you're supposed to follow w/ no negative repercussions.
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But also the other way; youthful disrespect and condescension of older people, whose experiences they can't hope to understand, is disgusting.
Sorry, sir.
I really didn't mean that to sound defensive; your point was a good one. Also, I think you meant "Sorry, old man".
Your pal,
dfk
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Boy oh boy do I hate wavy gravy.
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Boy oh boy do I hate wavy gravy.
He's still alive?
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Boy oh boy do I hate wavy gravy.
With you through and through - that hippy clown gives me the creeps!
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I own one of his teeth if you want to buy it from me and hit it with a hammer.
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According to television and the movies, that tooth could be used for some powerful magic. I think you might be able to become his puppet master if you cast the right spell. Imagine what you could do then!
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Something online-related I can't stand are these people who are always concerned with ethnicity and genetics, in kind of a creepy way. For instance, I was watching a clip of Jeremy Piven on youtube and I see someone in the comments mention that he's Jewish because he's got that "Khazar blood in his veins." This goes for the kind of people who use words like "mongoloid" and "caucasoid" on a regular basis.
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I do not like when people say that the English language is "going to hell." In my opinion, it is tantamount to saying that the United States is going to hell because of all of the immigrants.
Strunk and White and their arbitrary prescriptivism can eat my dangling modifier.
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"Team ________"
Can't take it anymore. Especially after Scott Baio recently added the hashtag #teamreagan to some political bullshit he was saying on Twitter.
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'now that's what I'm talkin' about!'
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Something online-related I can't stand are these people who are always concerned with ethnicity and genetics, in kind of a creepy way. For instance, I was watching a clip of Jeremy Piven on youtube and I see someone in the comments mention that he's Jewish because he's got that "Khazar blood in his veins." This goes for the kind of people who use words like "mongoloid" and "caucasoid" on a regular basis.
i agree,
also has anyone else noticed on some of those crime scene shows, csi, bones etc. occasionally they'll pull out negroid and caucasoid and stuff like that when talking their fake science jargon. really? have those words had any scientific relevance in like 200 years? it's so bizarre.
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I've heard phrases like "ethnic stock" being used very liberally lately too, which just sounds so crude.
It's really dehumanizing.
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My-life-is-so-cozy Facebook updates:
"Snowy day outside. NPR on the radio. Blueberry pie cooling on the stove. Baby cuddling puppy on the couch. Perfect little day".
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My-life-is-so-cozy Facebook updates:
"Snowy day outside. NPR on the radio. Blueberry pie cooling on the stove. Baby cuddling puppy on the couch. Perfect little day".
also the opposite. doom and gloom my life sucks facebook updates.
i get it, you're sad! shut up!
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My-life-is-so-cozy Facebook updates:
"Snowy day outside. NPR on the radio. Blueberry pie cooling on the stove. Baby cuddling puppy on the couch. Perfect little day".
;D
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"How (cool) is that!?"
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This thread makes me terrified of meeting any of you in person.
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This thread makes me terrified of meeting any of you in person.
Agreed, myself included. I don't want to meet myself.
I've often wondered why I contribute more to this thread than any other on here.
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This thread makes me terrified of meeting any of you in person.
I hate people who say that. (Is that OK as a joke?)
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This thread makes me terrified of meeting any of you in person.
I hate people who say that. (Is that OK as a joke?)
Sure, have at it.
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This thread makes me terrified of meeting any of you in person.
I hate people who say that. (Is that OK as a joke?)
Sure, have at it.
Oh no, I was just kidding.
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Freakonomics(Movie):
The "research" discussed in the movie, especially about Roe v. Wade decreasing crime, is ridiculous from a statistical point of view.
I would like to examine the data and model Levitt used to determine that.
I would not know how to do it after 5 quantitative modules at uni.
How he establishes the causal link is maybe the most mystifying thing...
I avoided the books, because they looked like hokum but the movie was in my face and i went in with a somewhat open mind.
I was bitterly disappointed.
Stay away from the stuff at all cost and buy yourself a statistics textbook: That's money well spent!
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Is the Freakonomics guy the one who's always on NPR talking about baseball statistics?
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I don't listen to NPR and wouldn't know but it sounds like him.
His name is Steven Levitt and his only rationale seems to be:
"Can i make outrageous claims to increase book sales and popularity? Yes, and everybody will believe me, because nobody knows statistics ans statistical modeling!
But i shouldn't do it in my own field of expertise, because some of those guys there took statistics and actually paid attention. I better talk some crap about some broad social issues that would have to be substantiated by enormous data sets no one will analyze anyway! KA-CHING!"
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One thing that's really been irritating me is, usually in editorials and opinion pieces, "the West" is treated like its own country. Yes, of course there are overlapping values and traditions in the Western world but not to the extent a lot of people think.
Going along with that, it seems like every time someone makes a reference to "the West," it's negative.
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I decided to check out a few episodes of the Age of Persuasion podcast. That affected voice, the heavy usage of those dumb sound effects- I hate everything about that style of production.
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I decided to check out a few episodes of the Age of Persuasion podcast. That affected voice, the heavy usage of those dumb sound effects- I hate everything about that style of production.
Whose podcast is that?
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I decided to check out a few episodes of the Age of Persuasion podcast. That affected voice, the heavy usage of those dumb sound effects- I hate everything about that style of production.
Whose podcast is that?
Terry O'Reilly. http://www.cbc.ca/ageofpersuasion/ (http://www.cbc.ca/ageofpersuasion/) People recommend it all the time on ask metafilter and sites like that. The content is interesting enough, but the style is really annoying. Ugh, I also hate how clever they try to be with the credits at the end.
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I decided to check out a few episodes of the Age of Persuasion podcast. That affected voice, the heavy usage of those dumb sound effects- I hate everything about that style of production.
Whose podcast is that?
Terry O'Reilly. http://www.cbc.ca/ageofpersuasion/ (http://www.cbc.ca/ageofpersuasion/) People recommend it all the time on ask metafilter and sites like that. The content is interesting enough, but the style is really annoying. Ugh, I also hate how clever they try to be with the credits at the end.
If you listen to a bunch of them at a time, the affected voice and nearly-condescending manner starts either to disappear or makes you want to tear out your ears with a garden hand rake, but the content is really good on that podcast. I'd forgotten about that one, actually.
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I decided to check out a few episodes of the Age of Persuasion podcast. That affected voice, the heavy usage of those dumb sound effects- I hate everything about that style of production.
That's the CBC house style! It's one of the reasons why even passionate believers in public broadcasting (like me) have a hard time defending the role of the CBC these days.
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When internet commenters (on the AV Club, f'r'instance) offer a premise or theory and instead of saying anything about it themselves, just follow it by saying: "Discuss".
Discuss.
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I actually managed to read every comment on one of the AV Club's popular articles.
Literally every single one of them was mean-spirited and cynical. At least the spelling was alright.
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Mos Def talking politics/religion on Real Time.
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Anyone talking on real time
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Real Time
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I actually managed to read every comment on one of the AV Club's popular articles.
Literally every single one of them was mean-spirited and cynical. At least the spelling was alright.
I don't know why the AV Club has this reputation as one of the worst comment boards in the land. Have you ever even checked out Youtube's comments? Yeesh.
Not to mention, it's not as if this forum doesn't have its fair share of cynicism and mean-spiritedness. I mean you posted this in a thread called "stuff you hate".
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You can be mean or cynical without being a bag of shit, which seems to be a prerequisite for being a commentor.
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Or commenter
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I actually managed to read every comment on one of the AV Club's popular articles.
Literally every single one of them was mean-spirited and cynical. At least the spelling was alright.
I don't know why the AV Club has this reputation as one of the worst comment boards in the land. Have you ever even checked out Youtube's comments? Yeesh.
Not to mention, it's not as if this forum doesn't have its fair share of cynicism and mean-spiritedness. I mean you posted this in a thread called "stuff you hate".
But the Youtube comments are usually so inhuman that I can't even really get mad at them. I can't picture a living, breathing human being typing up some of the things I see on that site.
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I actually managed to read every comment on one of the AV Club's popular articles.
Literally every single one of them was mean-spirited and cynical. At least the spelling was alright.
I don't know why the AV Club has this reputation as one of the worst comment boards in the land. Have you ever even checked out Youtube's comments? Yeesh.
Not to mention, it's not as if this forum doesn't have its fair share of cynicism and mean-spiritedness. I mean you posted this in a thread called "stuff you hate".
But the Youtube comments are usually so inhuman that I can't even really get mad at them. I can't picture a living, breathing human being typing up some of the things I see on that site.
Touche.
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Kevin Smith, being interviewed on WTF podcast:
"My wife is one of these yoga broads and shit, and at one point she fancied turning one of the rooms in our house into a yoga cave - I don't know what they're called - and she bought some wall hangings from a Buddhist-type store and..."
later:
"It's shameful how big a Kevin Smith fan I am. I'm the biggest Kevin Smith fan on the planet!" - Kevin Smith
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The mice are back. They taunt me in the ceiling directly above my bed at 1:30am. It sounds like they have those tiny new years eve noisemakers that you spin around in your hand. I just hope they're not wearing capes.
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Oh, you should hope they are! Then you could catch them and sell them to a circus for millions of pennies!
My kitchen mouse seems to have moved on, for the moment. I'm grateful but puzzled: it and/or its comrades seem to be moving furniture in the walls; you'd think they'd need snacks to keep up their energy.
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I hate that Gary Puckett has two stepdaughters.
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I hate having to kill mice to get them out of the house.
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Kevin Smith, being interviewed on WTF podcast:
"My wife is one of these yoga broads and shit, and at one point she fancied turning one of the rooms in our house into a yoga cave - I don't know what they're called - and she bought some wall hangings from a Buddhist-type store and..."
later:
"It's shameful how big a Kevin Smith fan I am. I'm the biggest Kevin Smith fan on the planet!" - Kevin Smith
Ugh, I know. He's mastered the "Hey, I'm Kind Of Shitty At What I Do And I'll Admit It, But Man, I'm Really Fucking Great At What I Do And I Don't Give A Shit What You Say, But Man, Fuck You For Saying I'm Shitty At What I Do" thing.
I was curious to hear the interview because someone on AST wrote that it gave them a whole new appreciation of Kevin Smith because he's so humble. I listen to it, and it's the most self-aggrandizing bullshit I've ever heard.
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I hate having to kill mice to get them out of the house.
Sucks, don't it?
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Is the Freakonomics guy the one who's always on NPR talking about baseball statistics?
That's the Freakonomics guy.
Also -- I read somewhere that Wurster was in a band w/ one of the Freakonomics guys. Anyone have any more info?
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It's true. If memory serves, they were called the Right Profile, and it was Dubner (the journalist), not Levitt (the economist).
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"He's mastered the "Hey, I'm Kind Of Shitty At What I Do And I'll Admit It, But Man, I'm Really Fucking Great At What I Do And I Don't Give A Shit What You Say, But Man, Fuck You For Saying I'm Shitty At What I Do" thing."
Matt- you nailed it. This made me laugh.
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I hate coworkers who broadcast EVERYTHING.
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I hate coworkers who broadcast EVERYTHING.
If you mean the dreaded "Reply to all" button I'm with you 100%, Paul
I have another work related one. I work for a big company and there's a corporate IM system. I think IM for work is great for quick, informal exchanges with people that already know each other but a couple of things people do with it drive me nuts. 1st off, do not IM me with "can you talk" or "are you there" and when I say I'm available ask me my phone number. This reeaaaaly pisses me off. I mean really. What am I a frickin phone book? These people either already have my number or if they don't they can look it up in about 5 seconds right through the IM app. You need to talk to ME and I have to type out my phone number so you can avoid pressing a couple of buttons you lazy SOB! Here's a hint chuckles, if you need to talk to me on the phone, how about a novel idea? CALL ME! Or better yet, don't!
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You work for AT&T?
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I hate coworkers who broadcast EVERYTHING.
If you mean the dreaded "Reply to all" button I'm with you 100%, Paul
I have another work related one. I work for a big company and there's a corporate IM system. I think IM for work is great for quick, informal exchanges with people that already know each other but a couple of things people do with it drive me nuts. 1st off, do not IM me with "can you talk" or "are you there" and when I say I'm available ask me my phone number. This reeaaaaly pisses me off. I mean really. What am I a frickin phone book? These people either already have my number or if they don't they can look it up in about 5 seconds right through the IM app. You need to talk to ME and I have to type out my phone number so you can avoid pressing a couple of buttons you lazy SOB! Here's a hint chuckles, if you need to talk to me on the phone, how about a novel idea? CALL ME! Or better yet, don't!
It's moreso when my coworkers go on and on about what they just bought, what their vacation was like (God bless em but no one asked) or how cold they are inside our overly-heated building.
We too have that IM system, constantly letting me know that so and so in Delaware had a baby girl or that the office is collecting $2 a person for a get well present for a sick coworker. Meanwhile last time this year I was in the hospital for a week and recieve, count em, 2 EMAILS!
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You work for AT&T?
Nope
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I complain a lot about comments sections on websites, but the ones that really get me are ones for "best of" lists.
500 posts of "What!? No ______!?"
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I know it's not particularly good form to complain about free entertainment buuuut:
I hate when a perfectly great podcast decides to move to twice a week with both episodes being over an hour long. Not everyone can be Hollywood types with tons of free time.
I'm looking at you, Nerdist podcast.
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Is Nerdist any good?
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Is Nerdist any good?
I like it a lot. Chris Hardwick is very funny but also good at asking his guests (who tend to be really interesting) questions that really go to the craft and their approach to whatever their particular art may be. He has a lot of comedians on there which is a good thing but he tends to trod similar ground each time when he starts getting into "deconstructing comedy" mode.
Also, there is an episode where he interviews this actress on a Sci Fi channel show. He comes on really strong and hitting on her and then it turns out she's like 18 or something and you can almost hear Hardwick screeching the brakes. But then the rest of the episode is really hard to listen to because the girl tries to hard and Hardwick goes into "cool guy teaching young girl cool things" stuff.
But overall, worth a listen, for my money. This new plan, though, is to release two episodes a week, one with a guest and one with just the three regulars. We'll see how that turns out.
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DISCLAIMER: DEAR YOUNG PEOPLE, PLEASE NOTE THAT I AM SAYING THAT ILLEGAL DRUGS ARE *BAD.* (SUPER MARIO KART IS SO MUCH BETTER)
I admit to having "inhaled" from time to time as a college kid. It was usually underwhelming. I might get a little quiet and smiley, but that was about it.
Since then, I would say I have touched the stuff once every few years, and every time, it seems like it is becoming more and more weaponized. What the shit is going on? Where is the stuff that makes you giggle a little and eat snacks? I don't need something created in a subterranean lab by Simon Bar Sinister.
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The street trash are slowly, but surely, starting to overtake my city. I saw a guy this morning with a mullet and a beard who was wearing a kid-sized knitted sweater with Mr. Monopoly on it and a pair of swamp-green pants. At first I thought that, with that mullet of his, he may legitimately be wearing those clothes without any irony.
And then this came out of his mouth: "My woman-friend got it for me. I've been wearing the shit out of it."
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We haven't had one snowflake fall in OKC and they canceled school in all districts (plus Universities) and all non-essential City positions. I'm not saying that I don't think we're going to get hammered, but it seems ridiculous. This happened last week and we ended up getting a thin layer of ice, which was gone by 10am (and was totally manageable anyway.) I hate the overreaction to everything. I have the people making stupid snowmageddon jokes.
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We haven't had one snowflake fall in OKC and they canceled school in all districts (plus Universities) and all non-essential City positions. I'm not saying that I don't think we're going to get hammered, but it seems ridiculous. This happened last week and we ended up getting a thin layer of ice, which was gone by 10am (and was totally manageable anyway.) I hate the overreaction to everything. I have the people making stupid snowmageddon jokes.
My neighbor and one of my coworkers are among those drivers in DC who left work early at 4 pm last week to get home and beat the snow, and ended up stuck on the highways until 5:30 am. Now everyone's freaked out at the slightest chance of snow, but I can't say I blame them. Snow needs to be polite and fall overnight like it's supposed to.
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Ok, it's pretty fucking bad out there this morning
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This talk of snow days reminds me of how great it was when I lived within easy walking distance of school in a very cold and snowy part of New York (Potsdam). Whenever school was canceled, I felt like I was getting away with murder.
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I don't mind the snow so much. I do mind the snow hysteria. The media eats this stuff up. To see it on TV, you'd think we're all living in lean-tos (grammar police- help!), huddled around a few smoldering twigs with our stomachs growling. It's snow, people. It'll melt. You won't be trapped in you're McMansion for weeks, forced to subsist on a diet of everything you could possibly want, while watching 350 channels of TV. I promise. It'll end. Then you can go out again to the mall and scurry back home.
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I don't mind the snow so much. I do mind the snow hysteria. The media eats this stuff up. To see it on TV, you'd think we're all living in lean-tos (grammar police- help!), huddled around a few smoldering twigs with our stomachs growling. It's snow, people. It'll melt. You won't be trapped in you're McMansion for weeks, forced to subsist on a diet of everything you could possibly want, while watching 350 channels of TV. I promise. It'll end. Then you can go out again to the mall and scurry back home.
"I do mind the snow hysteria."
Drop out the word "snow".
"I do mind the _______ hysteria."
Drop in practically any noun in its place.
"I do mind the terrorism hysteria."
"I do mind the Lady Gaga hysteria."
"I do mind the Super Bowl hysteria."
"I do mind the Dave From Knoxville hysteria."
OK, they don't all work, but still.
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tea party?
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I think that becomes a more interesting game if you use both parts of the original statement: "I don't mind _____ so much. I do mind the _____ hysteria."
"I don't mind terrorism so much. I do mind the terrorism hysteria."
"I don't mind cell phones so much. I do mind the cell phone hysteria."
"I don't mind Dave from Knoxville so much. I do mind the Dave from Knoxville hysteria."
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I think that becomes a more interesting game if you use both parts of the original statement: "I don't mind _____ so much. I do mind the _____ hysteria."
"I don't mind terrorism so much. I do mind the terrorism hysteria."
"I don't mind cell phones so much. I do mind the cell phone hysteria."
"I don't mind Dave from Knoxville so much. I do mind the Dave from Knoxville hysteria."
I am getting Andy to cross-stitch this for me.
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I think that becomes a more interesting game if you use both parts of the original statement: "I don't mind _____ so much. I do mind the _____ hysteria."
"I don't mind terrorism so much. I do mind the terrorism hysteria."
"I don't mind cell phones so much. I do mind the cell phone hysteria."
"I don't mind Dave from Knoxville so much. I do mind the Dave from Knoxville hysteria."
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...or mix and match
"I don't mind the terrorism so much. I do mind the Lady Gaga hysteria."
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Is it true that when record store employees are hired they are told that if anyone asks for something they don't have, to say: "We actually get that in a lot but it goes quick."
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I think that becomes a more interesting game if you use both parts of the original statement: "I don't mind _____ so much. I do mind the _____ hysteria."
"I don't mind terrorism so much. I do mind the terrorism hysteria."
"I don't mind cell phones so much. I do mind the cell phone hysteria."
"I don't mind Dave from Knoxville so much. I do mind the Dave from Knoxville hysteria."
I am getting Andy to cross-stitch this for me.
I still have one I need to send you.
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I think that becomes a more interesting game if you use both parts of the original statement: "I don't mind _____ so much. I do mind the _____ hysteria."
"I don't mind terrorism so much. I do mind the terrorism hysteria."
"I don't mind cell phones so much. I do mind the cell phone hysteria."
"I don't mind Dave from Knoxville so much. I do mind the Dave from Knoxville hysteria."
I am getting Andy to cross-stitch this for me.
I still have one I need to send you.
I ain't complaining. My Secret Santa gift for NJL is turning into a Secret Easter Bunny gift.
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...or mix and match
"I don't mind the terrorism so much. I do mind the Lady Gaga hysteria."
Alex from the woods FTW!
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DISCLAIMER: DEAR YOUNG PEOPLE, PLEASE NOTE THAT I AM SAYING THAT ILLEGAL DRUGS ARE *BAD.* (SUPER MARIO KART IS SO MUCH BETTER)
I admit to having "inhaled" from time to time as a college kid. It was usually underwhelming. I might get a little quiet and smiley, but that was about it.
Since then, I would say I have touched the stuff once every few years, and every time, it seems like it is becoming more and more weaponized. What the shit is going on? Where is the stuff that makes you giggle a little and eat snacks? I don't need something created in a subterranean lab by Simon Bar Sinister.
Wow. I'm really feeling like I crossed some invisible line here. Did I? Or was it just not that interesting a post? I kind of hope it was the latter.
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A lot of times people don't react to what's said in this thread. I doubt if the lack of response to your post is any more significant than the lack of response to others.
About your weaponization comment, however, I agree. In my pot-smoking youth, a couple of people could share a joint and get lightly high. Nowadays it seems the goal is to make the lightest of puffs enough to render one paralytic. I'm just glad I stopped liking marijuana when I was sixteen, so that I didn't have to fret, rage, and mourn over the changes. I mean, I'm still upset Swiss 'n' Ham crackers were discontinued (in the sixties, I believe); imagine how upset I'd be about the evolution of the mary jane?
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DISCLAIMER: DEAR YOUNG PEOPLE, PLEASE NOTE THAT I AM SAYING THAT ILLEGAL DRUGS ARE *BAD.* (SUPER MARIO KART IS SO MUCH BETTER)
I admit to having "inhaled" from time to time as a college kid. It was usually underwhelming. I might get a little quiet and smiley, but that was about it.
Since then, I would say I have touched the stuff once every few years, and every time, it seems like it is becoming more and more weaponized. What the shit is going on? Where is the stuff that makes you giggle a little and eat snacks? I don't need something created in a subterranean lab by Simon Bar Sinister.
Wow. I'm really feeling like I crossed some invisible line here. Did I? Or was it just not that interesting a post? I kind of hope it was the latter.
Nah, I don't think you crossed a line, nor were you uninteresting.
I've heard a lot of talk in the media that weed is a lot stronger now than it was in the 60s or 70s, but I've always assumed that was a way for baby boomers to say, in effect, "it was OK for us to do it back in the day, but it's not OK for our kids to do it!" I personally haven't noticed a big difference between the product now and back in the 90s (my earliest point of reference).
In general, it's a good strategy to just have a little teensy bit until you know what you're getting yourself into.
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Motivation for moderation seems to be fickle, especially while high.
But once you find balance, what works and what doesn't for your body and mind, a hit here and there might actually be good.
I know my dad smokes to ease stress and settle his stomach. Responsibility is key.
I doubt any of what I just typed makes much sense.
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Makes perfect sense.
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About your weaponization comment, however, I agree. In my pot-smoking youth, a couple of people could share a joint and get lightly high. Nowadays it seems the goal is to make the lightest of puffs enough to render one paralytic. I'm just glad I stopped liking marijuana when I was sixteen, so that I didn't have to fret, rage, and mourn over the changes. I mean, I'm still upset Swiss 'n' Ham crackers were discontinued (in the sixties, I believe); imagine how upset I'd be about the evolution of the mary jane?
I'm intrigued by these Ham 'n Swiss crackers you speak of. Maybe it's the " 'n "? Whenever I read a phrase with " 'n " in it, I hear the sweet faint sound of banjos being played on a front porch somewhere. Did eating one of these things have a similar effect?
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Whoops--my mistake (well, Nabisco's, really): Swiss n' Ham is the official name (http://www.flickr.com/photos/christianmontone/4497216144/#sizes/z/in/photostream/).
My father and I loved these when I was little. Indeed, one Christmas, I got a whole box for myself. Best present ever.
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They sound delicious. Personally, I'm hooked on the new Nabisco Caviar n' Foie Gras flavored crackers. Yum.
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Just got to one-up me, eh, Alex? The humble fare of my childhood can't compete with that there fancy snackin'.
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Sarah just made me hungry for chicken-in-a-biscuit.
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A pale imitation, but probably the closest you'll get.
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Isn't it "Biskit"?
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Si.
(http://www.toucandy.com/images/P/0000178400.jpg)
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I saw an office supplies delivery van this morning. The motto on the back was "We put the 'oh' in office supplies." On the side of the van, the word "Different" was painted.
Over the weekend, I saw a car with a Virginia license plate that said something like "Mid Lyf." Around the license plate was a frame--the top read "Parrothead," the bottom, "Key West, Fla." The car had stickers for three sports teams: Celtics, Pats, Red Sox.
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I hate privilege.
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I hate privilege.
I was just thinking the same thing.
We need a real meritocracy.
We could start by increasing the estate tax.
I keep visualizing an olympic track with a straight starting line rather than a staggered one.
Little more than luck of birth determines who winds up on the inside track and thus wields the power ($) in our country.
This metaphor was inspired partly by our previous president.
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Hippies.
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Nah, I think my hatred and anger hark back to an earlier kind of fervor.
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Populist. Trade unionist. Fabian socialist. Luddite. Huguenot. Savonarolist.
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Populist. Trade unionist. Fabian socialist. Luddite. Huguenot. Savonarolist.
It's very nice to have you back, Buff.
I missed you.
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Radical puritan.
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Distributist Whig.
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(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/pictures/2011/2/1/1296566356800/Fernando-Torres--007.jpg)
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i hate impromptu moving.
as in, when i woke up this morning, i had no idea i'd living somewhere new by nightfall.
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Populist. Trade unionist. Fabian socialist. Luddite. Huguenot. Savonarolist.
One of each?
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Sucka MCs
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(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/pictures/2011/2/1/1296566356800/Fernando-Torres--007.jpg)
Yes. Yes indeed.
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Sucka MCs
Their time is up.
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Populist. Trade unionist. Fabian socialist. Luddite. Huguenot. Savonarolist.
It's very nice to have you back, Buff.
I missed you.
Aww... I missed you, too, Freddy!
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Sucka Huguenots.
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Foreign showers! In both senses, international and unfamiliar.
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I work in a college library. We have a bunch of tables where people can sit, study, read, sleep, etc. But no one, not students or faculty or staff, pushes in the chairs when they leave the tables.
When did this small courtesy get thrown to the wayside? What prompted this laziness among our academic community?
*shakes fist*
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I'm sure you're thankful for the ones with obsessive tendencies like me who have to make the chair, books, and computer accessories symmetrical before they leave. Meanwhile, I'll be painfully wondering if everything truly was symmetrical for the next five or so minutes.
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What about people who don't put their carts in the proper place when they're done shopping?
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What about people who don't put their carts in the proper place when they're done shopping?
Jesus. I cannot tell you how much that REALLY bugs me. Lazy ef-hucks.
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What about people who don't put their carts in the proper place when they're done shopping?
There is a special sub circle in hell devoted to those who leave them inside parking spaces.
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Yes, they are bad and certainly cause the most inconvenience, but for some reason I hate most the ones who take the time to walk their carts back to the store and then just give them an aimless shove once they're inside, instead of taking three extra steps to put them where they're supposed to be.
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Yes, but that makes it like a fun game.
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Yes, but that makes it like a fun game.
True. There's no more satisfying end to a shopping trip than lining up your cart 20 feet away from the cart corral and giving it a good shove that splits the uprights. Sometimes you have to adjust for a bad wheel but that adds to the fun.
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I'm sure you're thankful for the ones with obsessive tendencies like me who have to make the chair, books, and computer accessories symmetrical before they leave. Meanwhile, I'll be painfully wondering if everything truly was symmetrical for the next five or so minutes.
While I would show concern for your condition, I must admit that you would probably do the job better than me.
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I hate that my wife has a medical condition that keeps her from enjoying British comedy. She was born in London and her family moved here when she was 4. Her family apparently watched anything English on TV when she was a kid. She now claims to suffer from BHPTS (Benny Hill Post Traumatic Syndrome). I can't get her to even LOOK at Alan Partridge. Mighty Boosh is verboten. Very depressing. I have so watch this stuff locked in a closet with my ear against the speaker.
The one thing I've gotten her to sit through is Nighty-Night. The fact that she'll fight through the effects of her BHPTS to watch it is a testament to it's brilliance.
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I can empathise. I suffer from Yackety Sax Syndrome.
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When people don't get it.
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That car commercial that has Tim Allen saying "this is America, man."
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I work a boring office job, and since employees can't be trusted to use the internet judiciously, we have an internet filter in place. Normally I don't really care, I don't need to watch youtube at work. But this set me on edge:
Your request was denied because of its content categorization: "Charitable Organizations;Social Networking".
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Scrabble Flash...what's wrong with plain old scrabble?
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People who refer to Israel as a "she."
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But, but, it was long traditional usage to refer to nations with feminine pronouns, though I believe the practice is in decline. Is this something specific about Israel or about dummies who use antiquated locutions?
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It's nothing against Israel in particular; I just always hear conservatives refer to it in that way and at this point I think it's the only country really referred to as such in English.
So yeah, just annoying outdated terminology.
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I hate people who live on golf courses complaining about their house getting hit with golf balls.
this was a story on the news the other night.
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I hate recipes that call for bay leaves. Bay leaves are a scam.
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You are so wrong, ben. Bay leaves are wonderful. Try crushing one between your fingers and sniffing. Lovely.
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I also think you are wrong. If you can find fresh bay leaves, you'll see what they can do for you. In general, if you think that a spice or herb doesn't have much flavor, it probably means that the stuff you are using is too old.
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Is it true that if you eat the stems of bay leaves they will cut up your insides? I was told this as a kid.
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Why don't you try it and see?
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It's nothing against Israel in particular; I just always hear conservatives refer to it in that way and at this point I think it's the only country really referred to as such in English.
Maybe the real problem lies in always putting yourself in a position to hear conservatives. I myself, have never, ever, heard anyone refer to Israel as "she" until reading this thread.
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What I call the "Laugh and Look." (When the person next to you turns to you to make sure you're laughing.)
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Why don't you try it and see?
I fear bodily harm.
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It's nothing against Israel in particular; I just always hear conservatives refer to it in that way and at this point I think it's the only country really referred to as such in English.
Maybe the real problem lies in always putting yourself in a position to hear conservatives. I myself, have never, ever, heard anyone refer to Israel as "she" until reading this thread.
And maybe I should stop leaving my TV on when I go to bed so I wont have to wake up to Biblical prophecy talk shows.
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Why don't you try it and see?
I fear bodily harm.
Coward. (Or are we done with our faux fight now?)
I did a little Googling and was surprised by the number of people who are afraid of bay leaves. My mother instilled no such fear in my sisters and me; in fact, in my family, getting the bay leaf (in, say, a serving of spaghetti) was considered good luck. Of course, we never ate the damn things; no sensible person would want to. But I bet the number of bay-leaf-related fatalities is pretty small.
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I also think you are wrong. If you can find fresh bay leaves, you'll see what they can do for you. In general, if you think that a spice or herb doesn't have much flavor, it probably means that the stuff you are using is too old.
I will give them another shot. I've never seen fresh bay leaves but will look for them at the Piggly Wiggly.
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What I call the "Laugh and Look." (When the person next to you turns to you to make sure you're laughing.)
Oh man. I have a family member who's dating a really nice guy and in the process of getting to know our family, he sort of goes out of his way to make jokes somewhat compulsively. They are pretty corny jokes and always followed by direct glances to everyone to make sure they laugh. Everyone is good about laughing, but it is uncomfortable. We all sympathize b/c we assume he's just nervous.
I had a friend in my college dorm who would always pick up an acoustic guitar and stare you in the eye while he was playing it so you knew how talented he was. I sympathize less with him.
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I did a little Googling and was surprised by the number of people who are afraid of bay leaves. My mother instilled no such fear in my sisters and me; in fact, in my family, getting the bay leaf (in, say, a serving of spaghetti) was considered good luck. Of course, we never ate the damn things; no sensible person would want to. But I bet the number of bay-leaf-related fatalities is pretty small.
It is good luck THAT YOU SURVIVED!!!
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What I call the "Laugh and Look." (When the person next to you turns to you to make sure you're laughing.)
Oh man. I have a family member who's dating a really nice guy and in the process of getting to know our family, he sort of goes out of his way to make jokes somewhat compulsively. They are pretty corny jokes and always followed by direct glances to everyone to make sure they laugh. Everyone is good about laughing, but it is uncomfortable. We all sympathize b/c we assume he's just nervous.
I had a friend in my college dorm who would always pick up an acoustic guitar and stare you in the eye while he was playing it so you knew how talented he was. I sympathize less with him.
My brother combines "the look" with immediate, barked laughter of his own, just so everyone knows what time it is. Laughin' time.
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In my view, when one lane is merging into another lane, the proper protocol is for each car in the lane being merged into to allow one or two cars from the merging lane in, before continuing on his way. The two lanes thus smoothly lace together like folded hands.
Last night I was driving and I let 4 cars merge ahead of me--their lane couldn't continue. I think this was considerate. The right thing for the cars behind those cars to do was wait for the same courtesy to be extended by the cars behind me.
But car number five--he had to get in, too. He wasn't going to be some sucker, merging behind me. He saw the opportunity to get a car length ahead, and he was going to take it. Well, I never let him in. He almost rammed me like 5 times, before slamming on his brakes. This went on for a while. I really would rather have let this guy hit my car, then make space for him. He was trying to be a merge-cheater. I hate them.
Well, this guy eventually sped up and merged in front of the car in front of me. (Oh, this was at a toll plaza, so he was rapidly running out of time.) I bet he think he won. I think I won, though. I never made room for him and I refused to succumb to his bullying tactics.
What gets me is that he probably thinks I was being an asshole. I probably was. But sometimes you need to be an asshole, to teach an asshole an imaginary lesson.
This was on the way back home from the Asbury Park Titus Andronicus shoot, which was very fun.
Relatedly, you know the people that zoom ahead and try to merge at the last minute when a lane is ending, despite all their road peers merging in the proper way? Fuck them.
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It's nothing against Israel in particular; I just always hear conservatives refer to it in that way and at this point I think it's the only country really referred to as such in English.
Maybe the real problem lies in always putting yourself in a position to hear conservatives. I myself, have never, ever, heard anyone refer to Israel as "she" until reading this thread.
And maybe I should stop leaving my TV on when I go to bed so I wont have to wake up to Biblical prophecy talk shows.
Now we're making progress!
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In my view, when one lane is merging into another lane, the proper protocol is for each car in the lane being merged into to allow one or two cars from the merging lane in, before continuing on his way. The two lanes thus smoothly lace together like folded hands.
Last night I was driving and I let 4 cars merge ahead of me--their lane couldn't continue. I think this was considerate. The right thing for the cars behind those cars to do was wait for the same courtesy to be extended by the cars behind me.
But car number five--he had to get in, too. He wasn't going to be some sucker, merging behind me. He saw the opportunity to get a car length ahead, and he was going to take it. Well, I never let him in. He almost rammed me like 5 times, before slamming on his brakes. This went on for a while. I really would rather have let this guy hit my car, then make space for him. He was trying to be a merge-cheater. I hate them.
Well, this guy eventually sped up and merged in front of the car in front of me. (Oh, this was at a toll plaza, so he was rapidly running out of time.) I bet he think he won. I think I won, though. I never made room for him and I refused to succumb to his bullying tactics.
What gets me is that he probably thinks I was being an asshole. I probably was. But sometimes you need to be an asshole, to teach an asshole an imaginary lesson.
This was on the way back home from the Asbury Park Titus Andronicus shoot, which was very fun.
Relatedly, you know the people that zoom ahead and try to merge at the last minute when a lane is ending, despite all their road peers merging in the proper way? Fuck them.
Yes!!! to all of this. This is the kind of stuff that makes me crazy. I find myself trying to "teach a lesson" to other motorists, too. I suspect it doesn't work, but it makes me feel a teensy bit better.
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on the motorists merging thing, i would like to add pedestrians who cross the street while traffic is perpendicularly barreling towards them- with no incentive to speed up their pace for their safety.
people, the road is lava, you've got to across as quickly as you can. i, the driver, am at the wheel of an anti-lava mobile- get the fuck out of my way. or at least look like you care about the hood of my car soon being the new place for your knee caps.
also, quit trying to be a wise guy and beat the crosswalk light while it's blinking- you know you missed it, take the back seat on this one.
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In other words, I own a car and am therefore King Shit.
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In other words, I own a car and am therefore King Shit.
hardly.
all i'm saying is (and i'm pretty sure it's not partial to this region), that stepping off the curb when you see a car coming and practically daring me to hit you...fuck you.
that's all.
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Don't pedestrians have the right of way over cars in pretty much every state?
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Maybe im not making myself clear.
I'm not against pedestrians; I'm against pedestrians who gamble their life with my car.
Maybe this is a regional thing I'm talking about?
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I know what you mean, IABVT. Me and Kiemzi were driving home thru the lower east side on Saturday, and people were crossing the street whenever they wanted, whether they were on a corner nor not, whether there was a window between cars to run across. One bunch of dudes ran right in front of us on purpose, and one guy put their hand out to stop us.
There's right of way, and then there's willful shit-ass behavior ... like, "if you hit me, it's your fault no matter what I did, so I'm just going to act like a total cock & and run out in front of you."
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I get annoyed as a driver and as a pedestrian and as a biker at people who are not following the law. There's an easy way to determine who should have the right of way: Find out what the rules are, and then follow them.
There are several pedestrian crossings near my house, where your choice is to either risk your life or not cross. There are always cars and they will never stop like they're supposed to. Also, nothing bugs me more than cars that get all pissy that I delay their vital errands, when I dare cross an intersection when I have the walk guy. I can't let even one car turn in front of me when I have the right of way, because if I do, then the car behind him will just follow, not necessarily even knowing there's a pedestrian.
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AC, I knew there was a reason I designated you as Grandpa's guardian upon my death- sound mind with great language to boot. At any rate, you completely got my point across.
I'm all for following the law, and I'll stop BEFORE the crosswalk of an intersection when taking a right turn, knowing people in midtown memphis are primarily bikers and walkers. It's only courteous.
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I'm all for following the law, and I'll stop BEFORE the crosswalk of an intersection when taking a right turn, knowing people in midtown memphis are primarily bikers and walkers. It's only courteous.
A truly lovely sentiment. I've gotten used to the idea that cars on cross streets will not stop until they are half a car length over the line, but the one that really gets me (as a cyclist) is when someone comes hurtling towards an intersection still going the speed they were clocking on the straight stretch, and then begins applying the brakes when they are within a few feet of the crosswalk. That way they not only end up stopping well into my lane of traffic, but also cause me to seriously question whether I am about to die.
I also hate flat tires.
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Back to shopping carts. I just got back from the grocery store where I had occasion to curse lazy shoppers not once, not twice, but thrice: (1) Entering the store, pushing one cart I'd found outside, which I intended to use, and hauling another that I'd brought in out of the sheer goodness of my heart, I found three carts all helter-skelter in the vestibule. Naturally, I put them in their proper places, along with the extra I'd just brought in. (2) Shopping done, I had to put away three more carelessly abandoned carts before I could take my groceries out of my own cart and slot it into its proper spot. (3) As I was doing this, a woman exited the store proper, grabbed her bag, and gave her cart a push in entirely the wrong direction before she left the store altogether. Of course, I had to put that one away, too, but that time I muttered cantankerously while doing so.
I know this is not as gripping the life-and-death three-way struggles of cars, cyclists, and pedestrians, but, damn, this casual antisocial brattiness gets my goat. I quail to think of how it must manifest itself in the larger towns/cities where most FOT live.
Grumble concluded.
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Baby Knee Pads!?!?!?!
(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSWU6S4ZVWVfVhRaAZsYfcL8RjzdxWUQs8E3MenuZUZvrE-rlPixA)
Actually I hate most of the babyproofing section of Babies R Us.
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Maybe im not making myself clear.
I'm not against pedestrians; I'm against pedestrians who gamble their life with my car.
Maybe this is a regional thing I'm talking about?
Baron, it is a regional thing. Every time I walk around another city with people not from the NY/NJ metro area I'm always accidentally leaving them behind at every street crossing. It's my habit to just cross unless something is going to stop me. Like being flattened. The color of the traffic light or what the little cross-walk sign is doing is a nice information point but if I can keep going, I do. People in other cities actually stand there and wait for the light with no traffic coming. We're not known for our patience in this part of the country.
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Baby Knee Pads!?!?!?!
(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSWU6S4ZVWVfVhRaAZsYfcL8RjzdxWUQs8E3MenuZUZvrE-rlPixA)
Actually I hate most of the babyproofing section of Babies R Us.
I'm surprised the kid isn't wearing a helmet.
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Or courtesy.
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The word "taxpayers". When people use this term, 95% of the time the meaning behind it can be translated as "fuck you, got mine, hands off."
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The day-glo red nightmare that is the lips of the founder of Chipotle Mexican Grill on the commercial for that new NBC restaurant reality show.
Get this man some chapstick, stat!
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"There's an app for that."
apps.*
ipads.
* except for wfmu app!
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My iPad is my most useful and most used piece of electronics.
I hate the phrase "opening the kimono."
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I hate the phrase "opening the kimono."
Seconded.
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When/where/how is this used?!
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Dumb business/management writing and the occasional news source.
It's in this week's Economist (http://www.economist.com/node/18226961), for instance:
“If you open the kimono, a lot of good things happen,” says Don Tapscott, a management consultant and author: it keeps the company honest, creates more loyalty among employees and lowers transaction costs with suppliers.
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“If you open the kimono, a lot of good things happen,”
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“If you open the kimono, a lot of good things happen,”
This sounds like me pleading with my wife circa 1987.
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So being a flasher is a good career choice?
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So being a flasher is a good career choice?
For a lady.
Wait, where's the anonymous option on this board?
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Dumb business/management writing and the occasional news source.
It's in this week's Economist (http://www.economist.com/node/18226961), for instance:
“If you open the kimono, a lot of good things happen,” says Don Tapscott, a management consultant and author: it keeps the company honest, creates more loyalty among employees and lowers transaction costs with suppliers.
I don't get it...
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Google the phrase and a lot of hits come up that clarify its meaning pretty quickly.
I'd never heard of it before today. It is icky.
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If only there were some way to make a basic obvious concept convoluted and creepy...
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From my experience in the corporate world, "opening the kimono" simply means exposing an important piece of proprietary information to a client or potential client.
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I suggest "pull aside the jock strap" as an alternative. Or "remove the diaper."
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mean girls.
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Mean girls or Mean Girls?
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mean girls.
Read this (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/magazine/27lives-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine). It will refresh you.
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I had my first professional interview of my career today for a summer associate position at a local law firm.
I hate the question "tell me about yourself". It is so open ended.
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I have a thing for mean women. Just FYI.
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mean girls.
Read this (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/magazine/27lives-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine). It will refresh you.
They weren't mean at all. I feel misled.
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The Adrian Brody Stella Artois commercial. Especially the edited down version where it doesn't even sound like he's speaking English.
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mean girls.
Read this (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/magazine/27lives-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine). It will refresh you.
They weren't mean at all. I feel misled.
You calling me mean?
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The Adrian Brody Stella Artois commercial.
I will second this.
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Open calls for Fantasy Baseball managers while I am working, that fill before I get finished.
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People who post a link to Google whenever someone asks a question on a forum (No, I've never encountered this here).
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The "We say Merry Christmas" bumper sticker I saw on an SUV on Sunday. I'd never seen one before. It made me so mad.
Is that really something that's SO important that it needs to be declared all day, every day, all year 'round?
here's a picture:
(http://images.billoreilly.com/imagesproc/24701_H_SW350.jpg)
I do love the fleurs-di-lis though. I wonder if the designer knew they are French. I wonder if Bill O'Reilly knew they are French. I wonder if the person whose dumb vehicle this dumb sticker was on knew that is one of the most French symbols ever. I was tickled by that.
I think I need a bumper sticker that reads "It's St. PADDY'S Day" to show that my anger that people call it "St. Patty's Day" never takes a day off.
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Those Kit Kat ads where the song is strung together from the sound of people chewing.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
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The "We say Merry Christmas" bumper sticker I saw on an SUV on Sunday. I'd never seen one before. It made me so mad.
Is that really something that's SO important that it needs to be declared all day, every day, all year 'round?
here's a picture:
(http://images.billoreilly.com/imagesproc/24701_H_SW350.jpg)
I do love the fleurs-di-lis though. I wonder if the designer knew they are French. I wonder if Bill O'Reilly knew they are French. I wonder if the person whose dumb vehicle this dumb sticker was on knew that is one of the most French symbols ever. I was tickled by that.
I think I need a bumper sticker that reads "It's St. PADDY'S Day" to show that my anger that people call it "St. Patty's Day" never takes a day off.
I want one with a Coptic Cross. Or better, an Ankh.
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I've recently had some growing hatred for when people say "I feel like" instead of "I think."
ex: "I feel like the Pavement shows were'nt as good as people said they were." "I feel like their earlier stuff was much better."
also when people say "I don't know what that is" when someone is talking about something, instead of simply asking what it is. Saying "I don't know what that is" is totally useless and a waste of time. It's worse when they follow it with "sorry."
Both are very petty, but damn, they get my goat!
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I like saying "I don't know what that is" when the thing I don't know about has been brought up by someone clearly trying to impress, shock, show off, etc. It takes the wind out of a blowhard's sails and denies him/her the satisfaction of being asked to explain.
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Yes, I also must come to the defense of "I don't know what that is."
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My coworkers give me shit about saying "I don't get it." when I should be saying "I don't understand why you did it that way"
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or I guess when I should be saying "explain why you took that approach"
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I like saying "I don't know what that is" when the thing I don't know about has been brought up by someone clearly trying to impress, shock, show off, etc. It takes the wind out of a blowhard's sails and denies him/her the satisfaction of being asked to explain.
I get I am refering to situations when the person doing the talking is not overtly trying to impress, shock, show off, etc.
Recently I witnessed a person giving directions to his friend who has been living in Philly for quite a time. He said "You are gunna want to take the El to...." and the friend cut him off with "I don't know what that is!" The El is a subway line that EVERYONE knows about. The friends rides a bike and "never has to rely on public transit."
I see what you're saying and support your method but in the situations I refer to it is the one who says "I don't know what that is" who's the jerk.
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It can be used for good or evil. And, in the exchange you describe, the so-called friend abused it, since obviously he knew what the El was.
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I may have posted this one before, but it's worth repeating: "Methinks."
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I may have posted this one before, but it's worth repeating: "Methinks."
Funny when Tom says it.
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The guy on my block who uses a dented, ill-running early 90s stretch limo as his primary transportation and parks directly in front of my home eating up three good parking spots. F that dude.
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I may have posted this one before, but it's worth repeating: "Methinks."
Funny when Tom says it.
Does he say it in an Art Fern voice? That can make anything funny.
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Those Kit Kat ads where the song is strung together from the sound of people chewing.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
I'll nauseously second this.
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comedians being referred to as "funnyman"
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Or worse, funnymenne.
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comedians being referred to as "funnyman"
"Funnyman" I don't mind so much, but I absolutely hate any and all variations on "the funny." Like "bringing the funny," for example.
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I'll be happy to add "have a go at it" to that list.
Right now, I'm hating how itunes "doubles any mp3 or mp4 I import, thereby decreasing the already limited harddrive on my laptop. Suggestions?
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I'll be happy to add "have a go at it" to that list.
Right now, I'm hating how itunes "doubles any mp3 or mp4 I import, thereby decreasing the already limited harddrive on my laptop. Suggestions?
go to you itunes preferences, click advanced and uncheck the box that says "copy files to itunes media folder when adding to library"
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I'll be happy to add "have a go at it" to that list.
Right now, I'm hating how itunes "doubles any mp3 or mp4 I import, thereby decreasing the already limited harddrive on my laptop. Suggestions?
There's a feature that says "show duplicates"; I find it useful for weeding out stuff.
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Thanks. I found that a little earlier today, now its just a matter of going back and deleting what was already put in the library. Should free up some space!
Now, if you can come up with a way from Apple to get their album art right...I hit "get artwork" for a Motown comp, and got "A Taste of Victory: Victory Records sampler."
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Thanks. I found that a little earlier today, now its just a matter of going back and deleting what was already put in the library. Should free up some space!
Now, if you can come up with a way from Apple to get their album art right...I hit "get artwork" for a Motown comp, and got "A Taste of Victory: Victory Records sampler."
Make sure to check the times as well as the names of the songs or you may delete a live or cover version of a song unintentionally.
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if you add a playlist file as well as mp3s, dupes get added. so never add .pls files, .m3u files etc.
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Bill Cosby demos his OFFICIAL Mobile App (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaXgEeereak&feature=youtu.be#ws)
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Did Tim & Eric direct that?
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I have never liked Bill Cosby.
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I loved every second of that, especially 0:18.
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"My app will find you".
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I REALLY hate this guy:
http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/the-heart-attack-grill-24471051 (http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/the-heart-attack-grill-24471051)
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"Honey, let's go try that new restaurant, you know, the one for blobs and losers."
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comedians being referred to as "funnyman"
I don't like "the comedic stylings of..."
also I don't like when people say 'excuse me' or 'pardon me' at a louder volume than their passing of gas.
Or perhaps when it's inaudible you just don't say it.
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Those dudes who wear sunglasses on the back of their heads.
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Those dudes who wear sunglasses on the back of their heads.
Is that a Finnish thing?
(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.switched.com/media/2009/08/optical_illusions4.jpg)
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(http://idiotpantsparty.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/back-of-head-sunglasses-guy.jpg)
Not a Finnish thing, but over the past few years the practice has spread all over.
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Those dudes who wear sunglasses on the back of their heads.
Is that a Finnish thing?
(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.switched.com/media/2009/08/optical_illusions4.jpg)
I'm not sure what's scarier:
The horrific nature of that picture
or
That that look looks EXACTLY like The Edge.
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Those dudes who wear sunglasses on the back of their heads.
Is that a Finnish thing?
(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.switched.com/media/2009/08/optical_illusions4.jpg)
Kriss Kross'll make ya JUMP! JUMP!
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Apparently that wasn't an isolated incident:
(http://www.everythingweird.com/images/my-second-face_49.jpg)
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I hate how unfunny, uninteresting and all in all a waste of time this Charlie Sheen thing is.
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Apparently that wasn't an isolated incident:
(http://www.everythingweird.com/images/my-second-face_49.jpg)
That looks like Andy Breckman.
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Not bald enough.
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This is unreal. I don't know where to start.
KANYE WEST PAID FOR MY ABORTION!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqCJc6cvjec&feature=fvhl#ws)
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This is unreal. I don't know where to start.
Jebus. That guy is still around? Uhg.
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This is unreal. I don't know where to start.
Jebus. That guy is still around? Uhg.
If I recall, the guy actually had the nerve to beg for donations on the same video he was bragging about his expensive trip to Hawaii.
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This is unreal. I don't know where to start.
Jebus. That guy is still around? Uhg.
That guy was ever around?
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Bill Cosby demos his OFFICIAL Mobile App (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaXgEeereak&feature=youtu.be#ws)
I do not hate this. It just makes me sad. I grew up with Bill Cosby records and I unapologetically love him.
People get old and they often get unfunny.
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Bill Cosby demos his OFFICIAL Mobile App (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaXgEeereak&feature=youtu.be#ws)
I do not hate this. It just makes me sad. I grew up with Bill Cosby records and I unapologetically love him.
People get old and they often get unfunny.
Not Don Rickles!
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Yeah, I'll never forget the day he passed away.
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I tried to watch Bill Cosby 'Himself' recently, and about halfway into it I reminded myself 'I don't _have_ to do this' and turned it off. It's not necessarily bad, it's just too familiar at this point.
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Yesterday, a guy in my karate class said this:
"I just hope the tsunamis are not carrying radioactivity around the world with them."
That has to be the zenith of stupidity.
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Yeah, I'll never forget the day he passed away.
May I say ... your avatar is crazy.
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http://karmajapan.tumblr.com/ (http://karmajapan.tumblr.com/)
Folks, I'm starting to lose faith in humanity.
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This idea of wishing bad karma on people based on their geography makes no sense to me.
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http://karmajapan.tumblr.com/ (http://karmajapan.tumblr.com/)
Folks, I'm starting to lose faith in humanity.
this is so disgusting to me.
also, who are these people? Pearl fucking Harbor??? is there really that much lingering resentment from WW2?
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This idea of wishing bad karma on people based on their geography makes no sense to me.
I wouldn't wish a catastrophe of this magnitude on my worst enemy, let alone tens of millions of innocent people.
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http://karmajapan.tumblr.com/ (http://karmajapan.tumblr.com/)
Folks, I'm starting to lose faith in humanity.
this is so disgusting to me.
also, who are these people? Pearl fucking Harbor??? is there really that much lingering resentment from WW2?
There has to be a Gideons Law equivalent for WWII, in general. Every time there's a my country vs. your country fight on a forum, it always devolves into an argument of who "saved" or "beat" who in WWII.
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The Pearl Harbor stuff has been so insanely stupid. As was Glen Beck's earthquake from god stuff. But, thankfully, that trash is only coming from a few people when compared to the massive outpouring of well wishes and donations that has come this way since the earthquake. That stuff really can't hurt anyone.
What I do hate and what does hurt people is the disinformation and fear-mongering in the news media, and 99% of it is being done by the foreign news media. All the way from Fox to HuffPo I've seen way too much panic being put out abroad. Sometimes it's because of very outdated stories, things have been changing every hour it seems, but still a lot of it is hype to draw more viewers and page views.
So, stuff I hate... the US news media.
BTW, has the fact that there has been no reports rioting or looting come out on the media out there? While I'm sure there might have been some thievery none of it has been reported yet and it will be minor if that. Same as after the Great Hanshin Earthquake.
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Speaking of which...
http://www.tmz.com/2011/03/14/gilbert-gottfried-fired-aflac-japan-earthquake-twitter-tweets/ (http://www.tmz.com/2011/03/14/gilbert-gottfried-fired-aflac-japan-earthquake-twitter-tweets/)
It looks like Gilbert...
(http://i53.tinypic.com/2r20pox.jpg)
...Gottfired.
csi miami theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5NQlpZp238#)
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BTW, has the fact that there has been no reports rioting or looting come out on the media out there?
This was mentioned on MSNBC, but I haven't heard it elsewhere.
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This was mentioned on MSNBC, but I haven't heard it elsewhere.
That's good to know. Thanks!
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I was surprised to hear Gottfried did the Aflac duck. Does that duck ever say anything besides 'Aflac'? They couldn't get an impersonator? They couldn't hire the guy(s) who did his voice for all the direct-to-video Aladdin sequels?
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They couldn't hire the guy(s) who did his voice for all the direct-to-video Aladdin sequels?
I think that guy's name is Gilbert Gottfried.
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Huh. I thought Gottfried had bailed after the first one.
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Huh. I thought Gottfried had bailed after the first one.
What else did he have going on in the mid-90's?
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What else did he have going on in the mid-90's?
USA UP All Night? With the B-movies. I remember my puberty raddled brain spending all night watching hoping for one slight booby shot.
New addition, although he's most likely on this list already... Rush Limbaugh.
http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/03/17/rush-limbaugh-mocks-japanese-earthquake-survivors/ (http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/03/17/rush-limbaugh-mocks-japanese-earthquake-survivors/)
This, like most of the problems with the coverage shows the failure to understand how we here in Japan live our day to day lives. Recycling is the same as drinking a cup of coffee in the morning. It's part of how you live your day to day life--as I'm sure it is for the FOTs. One of the first things you learn when you come to Japan is the burnable garbage days and non-burnable garbage days. The people up in Tohoku are trying to live their day to day lives...
...and this twit mocks them for it.
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And you know damn well these kinds of jokes would not be made if all this were happening in New Zealand or Australia.
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Can anyone just watch a show anymore?
(http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/jackwhite1.jpg)
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Xfinity/Comcast commercials.
Both the one where the dudes arms are moving really fast and his body remains still. And the one with the jingle highlighting the advantage of having enough channels that you can now watch TV to the point of needing an intervention.
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Xfinity/Comcast commercials.
Both the one where the dudes arms are moving really fast and his body remains still.
Oh god yes! The part of the song where he goes up in range is just unbearable. I also hate when they fudge "trick" shots. Ones that look like Michel Gondry would do for a Coldplay music video or something and all they use is a crappy green screen.
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Xfinity/Comcast commercials.
Both the one where the dudes arms are moving really fast and his body remains still. And the one with the jingle highlighting the advantage of having enough channels that you can now watch TV to the point of needing an intervention.
I don't know that commercial, is it like this?
That Mitchell and Webb Look - Wavy Arms (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwAioN2mtsA#)
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Can anyone just watch a show anymore?
(http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/jackwhite1.jpg)
It's Jack White, they were probably bored.
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Xfinity/Comcast commercials.
Both the one where the dudes arms are moving really fast and his body remains still. And the one with the jingle highlighting the advantage of having enough channels that you can now watch TV to the point of needing an intervention.
I don't know that commercial, is it like this?
That Mitchell and Webb Look - Wavy Arms (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwAioN2mtsA#)
I like that.
Wheelchair commercial?
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Team Mitchell all the way, me.
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I wasn't saying i hate mitchell and webb. i just wanted an excuse to post that video haha
i'm obsessed with david mitchell
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I wasn't saying i hate mitchell and webb.
It never occurred to me that you were, honey!
i'm obsessed with david mitchell
But that's just sick.
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I don't know why, but David Mitchell's face makes me so angry.
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TKC: It's the aniridia, isn't it?
AP: Antianiridist.
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TKC: It's the aniridia, isn't it?
AP: Antianiridist.
The Internet tells me he doesn't have that.
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This has been stuck in my head for almost 24 hours and shows no signs of slowing up/going away:
Soulja Boy - Report Card (Throw Some D's) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s295A9N2IjM#)
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People who say they like certain rappers or rap groups because they use live instrumentation.
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People who say they like certain rappers or rap groups because they use live instrumentation.
When the big crackdown on sampling happened it made me very sad.
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If the use of any single word is capable of ruining my entire day, it's "sheeple."
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Sounds like someone needs to WAKE UP
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(http://4gifs.com/gallery/d/168831-3/Sheep_eating.gif)
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comedians being referred to as "funnyman"
There is only one comedian who should be referred to as "funnyman," and that is Bobby Bittman.
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Neil Hamburger is America's Funnyman.
A new thing I hate that I used to do- if someone invites you to a Facebook event and you don't think you'll be able to go, just reply Not Attending. It's so nerve-racking having twice as many maybes (a lot of whom I know have no intention of showing) as you have cinformed attending.
Also, for the live of god, buy tickets before the day of the event.
This is going to contribute greatly to my looming heart attack.
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The fact that people feel compelled to belong to Facebook.
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People generally feel bad about saying 'No' to those invites, so 'Maybe' actually means no.
They could add a 1 to 5, one being most likely to attend, 5 meaning least likely to attend, but I suspect that wouldn't really help.
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I'll be saying no after this experience.
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The fact that others feel superior to those on Facebook.
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Defending Facebook usage is like defending the banks, the military/industrial complex, or the ny yankees.
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Yeah, you get to keep in contact with old friends. It's inexcusable.
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I guess all us sheeple are just slaves to Facebook.
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We are also slaves to the printing press and the email.
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I am a slave to breathing. Also eating, drinking, and evacuation. The grind of it all is getting me down.
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Defending Facebook usage is like defending the banks, the military/industrial complex, or the ny yankees.
Hahaha!
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I just wish that Facebook, Twitter, etc, were built along the decentralized, federated model of "classic Internet" things like the web and email. It troubles me that single companies are becoming the custodians of so much data about people's relationships. There are already plenty of points of control on the Internet (ICANN, oligopolistic ISPs, registrars, etc) and it would be nice if we didn't keep adding more. Most of the applications which made the Internet take off were developed without a commercial motive, but social networks' main concern now is turning eyeballs into revenue rather than sustainably adding to the architecture of the net.
As for the addictive aspects people complain about, who cares? I have a Facebook account (so people can get in touch with me) but barely use it. That part of it is entirely within each person's control.
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Thank you, yesno.
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I just wish that Facebook, Twitter, etc, were built along the decentralized, federated model of "classic Internet" things like the web and email. It troubles me that single companies are becoming the custodians of so much data about people's relationships. There are already plenty of points of control on the Internet (ICANN, oligopolistic ISPs, registrars, etc) and it would be nice if we didn't keep adding more. Most of the applications which made the Internet take off were developed without a commercial motive, but social networks' main concern now is turning eyeballs into revenue rather than sustainably adding to the architecture of the net.
As for the addictive aspects people complain about, who cares? I have a Facebook account (so people can get in touch with me) but barely use it. That part of it is entirely within each person's control.
I agree with your point about decentralization, yesno, but after I signed up for an Identi.ca account I only used it a couple times, so I'm not really helping the cause.
All these sites really are about data gathering, analyzing, and selling. Not necessarily intrinsically evil, just creepy. I've heard it said that 'if the service is free, then you're the product being sold'.
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the fear that once Tom finally ends the show a lot of people are going to just abandon WFMU.
I keep seeing all these people, twitter mostly, complaining about how they still haven't gotten last years premium and shit. is that really why people donate to WFMU? to get some swag? that kinda grosses me out. Maybe it's because I was a long time listener to WMFU before happening upon the Best Show but it bugs me that keeping WFMU on the air isn't enough incentive for people.
I'm not trying to come off self-righteous, I'm totally excited for the swag as everyone is, and obviously there are FOT's who are WAY more involved in the station than I am and can afford to donate a lot more money than I did, I just don't think premiums should dictate whether or not you support WFMU.
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the fear that once Tom finally ends the show a lot of people are going to just abandon WFMU.
I keep seeing all these people, twitter mostly, complaining about how they still haven't gotten last years premium and shit. is that really why people donate to WFMU? to get some swag? that kinda grosses me out. Maybe it's because I was a long time listener to WMFU before happening upon the Best Show but it bugs me that keeping WFMU on the air isn't enough incentive for people.
I'm not trying to come off self-righteous, I'm totally excited for the swag as everyone is, and obviously there are FOT's who are WAY more involved in the station than I am and can afford to donate a lot more money than I did, I just don't think premiums should dictate whether or not you support WFMU.
Where's the "like" button?
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I was not sure whether to put this under stuff I love or stuff I hate, because I love Achewood and I hate that it is on "indefinite hiatus."
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/03/21/chris-onstad-achewood-hiatus-interview/ (http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/03/21/chris-onstad-achewood-hiatus-interview/)
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We are also slaves to the printing press and the email.
I have lost contact with good friends from highschool who don't have Facebook, and ignited friendships with people I wasn't friends with in highschool who do have Facebook.
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I was not sure whether to put this under stuff I love or stuff I hate, because I love Achewood and I hate that it is on "indefinite hiatus."
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/03/21/chris-onstad-achewood-hiatus-interview/ (http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/03/21/chris-onstad-achewood-hiatus-interview/)
That has been coming for a while. Updates were getting more and more sporadic. I'd agree that I hate that it's on hiatus - it's been a favorite of mine for a long time. I even have 2 servers named 'beef' and 'ray' here.
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Something that's made me cringe since I was a kid is when my parents mockingly imitate other languages (usually Spanish or Chinese).
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Keith Morrison.
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People who tell me what podcasts to listen to.
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You should check out WTF with Marc Maron
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You should check out WTF with Marc Maron
I just got done deleting it.
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the fear that once Tom finally ends the show a lot of people are going to just abandon WFMU.
I keep seeing all these people, twitter mostly, complaining about how they still haven't gotten last years premium and shit. is that really why people donate to WFMU? to get some swag? that kinda grosses me out. Maybe it's because I was a long time listener to WMFU before happening upon the Best Show but it bugs me that keeping WFMU on the air isn't enough incentive for people.
I'm not trying to come off self-righteous, I'm totally excited for the swag as everyone is, and obviously there are FOT's who are WAY more involved in the station than I am and can afford to donate a lot more money than I did, I just don't think premiums should dictate whether or not you support WFMU.
I saw somewhere (Twitter, I believe) where this dope was contemplating not donating to the 2011 marathon because they hadn't received the previous year's premium yet. I don't care how amazing the DVD is - it's nothing compared to the excitement of knowing I get to listen to my favorite thing on earth each and every Tuesday night. Donating for any reason other than supporting programming you enjoy (I'm starting to sound like the PBS fund drive here) seems less than genuine to me.
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Hear, hear!
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Yo Alex P, I am from Lake Charles! Great song.
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It is!
And Miss Williams is from there too.
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This guy:
(http://i53.tinypic.com/2i93wh4.jpg)
Talking with this guy:
(http://i52.tinypic.com/359b97n.jpg)
About this:
(http://i53.tinypic.com/14jca9v.jpg)
On the otherwise pretty great:
(http://i56.tinypic.com/2e2fehj.jpg)
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Who's that in the first pic? French Canadian Nardwuar?
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It is Duncan Trussell.
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I hate how now it's cool and hip NOT to like things. This guy at the record store was talking about how much he absolutely hated Bob Dylan and The Beatles. "I hate The Beatles but I LOVE The Monkees!" How random and cool!
I wish I had the balls to say "Name three albums asshole!" Sorry I'll cool down.
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Hating The Beatles + Loving 60's bubblegum bands = DOES NOT COMPUTE
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I hate how now it's cool and hip NOT to like things. This guy at the record store was talking about how much he absolutely hated Bob Dylan and The Beatles. "I hate The Beatles but I LOVE The Monkees!" How random and cool!
I wish I had the balls to say "Name three albums asshole!" Sorry I'll cool down.
Unfortunately, if you spend a lot of time in record stores, you're going to hear some of the most obnoxious shit on the planet. I was trying to be friendly to a record store clerk once and innocently mentioned that the great Minutemen documentary "We Jam Econo" was playing one-night-only the following weekend. This smug jerk didn't even let me get half the words out of my mouth before rudely cutting me off with: "I don't like FUNK!" A simple "not my cup o' tea" would have sufficed.
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That also goes for comic book, video game, and hobby/model stores.
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I hate how now it's cool and hip NOT to like things. This guy at the record store was talking about how much he absolutely hated Bob Dylan and The Beatles. "I hate The Beatles but I LOVE The Monkees!" How random and cool!
I wish I had the balls to say "Name three albums asshole!" Sorry I'll cool down.
Unfortunately, if you spend a lot of time in record stores, you're going to hear some of the most obnoxious shit on the planet. I was trying to be friendly to a record store clerk once and innocently mentioned that the great Minutemen documentary "We Jam Econo" was playing one-night-only the following weekend. This smug jerk didn't even let me get half the words out of my mouth before rudely cutting me off with: "I don't like FUNK!" A simple "not my cup o' tea" would have sufficed.
Funk?
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Andrew this was at Beautiful World Syndicate. The guys who work there are cool but their crusty friends who come to hang gig posters, say dumb shit like that, then ride off of their fixed gears, make me sick. Last week Tom was talking about maybe if you say you like everything then you don't really like music. I think these guys are just the opposite but with the same outcome.
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Ok, going to take a five minute break from homework to old man rant on something I am growing to hate: the whole meme culture of "laughing at the abject." Honestly, if you lined up all the viral clips of the past few years, the one thing that the laughs have in common is marginalization of the subjects for being other. The consequences are kinda alarming: it is making those who laugh sorta uniform and hegemonic and making difference something to be laughed at. Now corporate culture is catching up with things like Rebecca Black, creating an artificial abject to capitalize on.
If I was a conspiracy theorist, it would make me scared for the future.
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I hate how now it's cool and hip NOT to like things. This guy at the record store was talking about how much he absolutely hated Bob Dylan and The Beatles. "I hate The Beatles but I LOVE The Monkees!" How random and cool!
I wish I had the balls to say "Name three albums asshole!" Sorry I'll cool down.
Unfortunately, if you spend a lot of time in record stores, you're going to hear some of the most obnoxious shit on the planet. I was trying to be friendly to a record store clerk once and innocently mentioned that the great Minutemen documentary "We Jam Econo" was playing one-night-only the following weekend. This smug jerk didn't even let me get half the words out of my mouth before rudely cutting me off with: "I don't like FUNK!" A simple "not my cup o' tea" would have sufficed.
Quote from the early 90s WXYC zine profile of Schoolkids Records: "Do you think the people who work here are cooler than you are? Because they do."
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(http://i52.tinypic.com/359b97n.jpg)
I find this man's shorts alarming.
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I think that's Joe Rogan.
I hate when people don't differentiate between stupidity and intellectual laziness (or just regular laziness.) Like when they post something about working with a bunch of "mental giants".
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I hate it when people don't differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
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I think that's Joe Rogan.
Perhaps more disturbing is the fact that he is a man who believes the moon landing was staged.
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This is true about Joe Rogan? I really hate people who think the moon landing was faked.
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This is true about Joe Rogan? I really hate people who think the moon landing was faked.
He's doing you a service! You now have proof there is no need to listen to a thing he says.
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All you guys will get a kick out of this:
http://lavenderhour.com/2011/03/15/joe-rogan-in-snake-handler/ (http://lavenderhour.com/2011/03/15/joe-rogan-in-snake-handler/)
(This is the podcast I was referring to with my little collage.)
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I hate how now it's cool and hip NOT to like things. This guy at the record store was talking about how much he absolutely hated Bob Dylan and The Beatles. "I hate The Beatles but I LOVE The Monkees!" How random and cool!
I wish I had the balls to say "Name three albums asshole!" Sorry I'll cool down.
Unfortunately, if you spend a lot of time in record stores, you're going to hear some of the most obnoxious shit on the planet. I was trying to be friendly to a record store clerk once and innocently mentioned that the great Minutemen documentary "We Jam Econo" was playing one-night-only the following weekend. This smug jerk didn't even let me get half the words out of my mouth before rudely cutting me off with: "I don't like FUNK!" A simple "not my cup o' tea" would have sufficed.
Funk?
I thought that was a bit of stretch on his part.
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Andrew this was at Beautiful World Syndicate. The guys who work there are cool but their crusty friends who come to hang gig posters, say dumb shit like that, then ride off of their fixed gears, make me sick. Last week Tom was talking about maybe if you say you like everything then you don't really like music. I think these guys are just the opposite but with the same outcome.
I'm giving that place a lifetime pass because the $2 copy of "Station to Station" I bought there plays like a champ, but these crusty friends of the owners you speak of sound insufferable.
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This is true about Joe Rogan? I really hate people who think the moon landing was faked.
'Tis true. I heard a debate between him and astronomer Phil Plait on Penn Jillette's podcast a few years back (I used to like Penn's show but at some point the constant sound of rattling phlegm in his throat got to be too much for me to take). Unfortunately I can't find a working link to the recording.
It's possible that he's since changed his mind but I don't generally keep up on Joe Rogan current events. Perhaps he talks about it on the latest WTF which I see in my iTunes this morning.
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Minor pet peeve: Podcasts that don't embed album artwork in the mp3 file. Come on, Thrilling Adventure Hour, come up with some cool old timey looking logo!
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Minor pet peeve: Podcasts that don't embed album artwork in the mp3 file. Come on, Thrilling Adventure Hour, come up with some cool old timey looking logo!
Mine does this:
(http://meganchristopher.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/ps.gcyeegml.170x170-75.jpg)
I guess that's a thing.
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Minor pet peeve: Podcasts that don't embed album artwork in the mp3 file. Come on, Thrilling Adventure Hour, come up with some cool old timey looking logo!
Mine does this:
(http://meganchristopher.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/ps.gcyeegml.170x170-75.jpg)
I guess that's a thing.
That's in yours automatically? Weird. Other podcasts have their artwork there automatically but not that one.
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Did you delete all the episodes? The icon goes away if you do that.
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The smug grin those green pigs give you if you fail to destroy them.
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Did you delete all the episodes? The icon goes away if you do that.
I know that. I mean when there actually is an episode. The artwork is embedded in the MP3 file itself and unlike music files, for some reason, iTunes won't add artwork to podcasts with the "Get Album Artwork" option in the right click context menu. Now most podcasts embed the image before they upload but some don't. Hence my pet peeve.
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*non-iTunes
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Are coats with buttons that fall off almost immediately some sort of fashion thing I'm missing?
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Sarah Palin Battle Hymn (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhMepzqJvIw#)
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"When she gets to Washington, it'll be cold as hell" means she won't get there till hell freezes over, right?
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Oh, and that song counts as one of those things that make me hate white people.
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Sarah Palin Battle Hymn (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhMepzqJvIw#)
Worst Hype Man Ever.
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This is my first visit to this thread so forgive me if this has already been posted, but this woman's Italian stepin fetchit routine makes me want to stockpile munitions.
Bitchin' Kitchen Sizzle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Oy8sIN3oow#ws)
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Ugh, she's like a female Guy Fieri. Possibly worse...?
@ 1:09ish - quick flash of a guitar-shaped spatula.
Gross.
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Robin Williams On Dock Ellis's NO HITTER on LSD.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO281JqXQdc&feature=grec_index#ws)
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Ugh, she's like a female Guy Fieri. Possibly worse...?
@ 1:09ish - quick flash of a guitar-shaped spatula.
Gross.
More like a female Andrew Dice Clay with less redeeming qualities. Well...I doubt Andrew Dice Clay could make you a delicious meal, AY???
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Ugh, she's like a female Guy Fieri. Possibly worse...?
@ 1:09ish - quick flash of a guitar-shaped spatula.
Gross.
I'm with worse. Instant hate pit.
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Ugh, she's like a female Guy Fieri. Possibly worse...?
@ 1:09ish - quick flash of a guitar-shaped spatula.
Gross.
I'm with worse. Instant hate pit.
She is also doing a great job of stereotyping Italians.
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Unlike most people, Italians like food.
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Hearing newscasters say "Hell yeah."
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Unlike most people, Italians like food.
Yeah it's just their genetic make-up.
They can't help that they are driven by their animalistic instincts.
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I still hate Guy Fieri more.
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Huffington fucking Post, now and forever, and their snide April Fool's post -
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/a-word-about-digital-subs_b_843385.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/a-word-about-digital-subs_b_843385.html)
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Robin Williams On Dock Ellis's NO HITTER on LSD.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO281JqXQdc&feature=grec_index#ws)
Anytime Robin Williams talks about drugs, it's cringeworthy. 'Far out, this is trippy, man'. The visual canned video editing preset effects push it further down the hate pit.
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Hearing newscasters say "Hell yeah."
Somehow I hate 'hells yeah' even more.
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Hearing newscasters say "Hell yeah."
Somehow I hate 'hells yeah' even more.
Totes, brah.
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http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/03/snooki_of_jersey_shore_gets_2k.html (http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/03/snooki_of_jersey_shore_gets_2k.html)
I still don't want to believe this.
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http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/03/snooki_of_jersey_shore_gets_2k.html (http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/03/snooki_of_jersey_shore_gets_2k.html)
I still don't want to believe this.
Ugh
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http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/03/snooki_of_jersey_shore_gets_2k.html (http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/03/snooki_of_jersey_shore_gets_2k.html)
I still don't want to believe this.
Ugh
I'm enrolled to go there in September, this is not encouraging.
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I bet Jason Grote understands.
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http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/03/snooki_of_jersey_shore_gets_2k.html (http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/03/snooki_of_jersey_shore_gets_2k.html)
I still don't want to believe this.
Ugh
I'm enrolled to go there in September, this is not encouraging.
Take comfort in knowing that a mandatory portion of your tuition money is going directly to human garbage.
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Fuck Rutgers.
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Fuck Rutgers.
Fuckgers.
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Fuck Rutgers.
Fuckgers.
(http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/100716/Look-Around-You-cast_320.jpg)
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You hate Look Around You? Really?
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You hate Look Around You? Really?
thanks ants. thants.
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Oh. I am not on my game.
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The death of Yvette vickers and more specifically the fact that I saw a recent picture of her when I did a google search.
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Netflix still not making Dexter Season 3: disc 2 available. It was available on from Wednesday to Thursday, which was shocking, and then went to back to "very long wait" (and of course I forgot to mail The Wicker Man on Tuesday, so I missed the window). The wife and I have been waiting since the end of January to continue with this dumb show. This is making hate on Netflix and Dexter.
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To be fair, Dexter season 3 should make you hate on Dexter.
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Is that the Jimmy Smits season? That's when I stopped watching.
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Is that the Jimmy Smits season? That's when I stopped watching.
yeah, that's a good time to stop. Not even Lithgow in season 4 could pull it out of it's nosedive.
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To be fair, Dexter season 3 should make you hate on Dexter.
Well, I wouldn't know because I've only seen disc 1.
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Is that the Jimmy Smits season? That's when I stopped watching.
Don't get me wrong, I either hate or don't care about any of the other characters on this show besides Dexter. It's a "how's he gonna get out this one" fascination the wife and I have with show. The supporting characters, UGH.
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Weathermen calling the weather "soupy" is genuinely repulsive.
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Weathermen calling the weather "soupy" is genuinely repulsive.
Really? Why?
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Weathermen calling the weather "soupy" is genuinely repulsive.
Really? Why?
I can't help but imagine going outside and sweating tomato soup broth out of my pores.
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Weathermen calling the weather "soupy" is genuinely repulsive.
I have to say that "soupy" and "wintry mix" are some of the more descriptive cliches in the weatherperson's limited arsenal.
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Weathermen calling the weather "soupy" is genuinely repulsive.
I have to say that "soupy" and "wintry mix" are some of the more descriptive cliches in the weatherperson's limited arsenal.
When I lived in Louisiana during the hurricanes we would play drinking games for when weatherperson's would say 'hunker down.'
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Weathermen calling the weather "soupy" is genuinely repulsive.
I have to say that "soupy" and "wintry mix" are some of the more descriptive cliches in the weatherperson's limited arsenal.
When I lived in Louisiana during the hurricanes we would play drinking games for when weatherperson's would say 'hunker down.'
I definitely prefer "close" to "soupy" when describing hot, humid weather.
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http://www.okstorms.com/chasing/other_weather/drinking_game.htm (http://www.okstorms.com/chasing/other_weather/drinking_game.htm)
We have different drinking games for different weathermen and seasons. This is the most popular one- Gary England during tornado season
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That "Get Inside My Sleeping Bag" song by ZZ Top. Is there a woman alive who would be receptive to crawling inside a canvas bag with a drunk Billy Gibbons? That song sounds like a sex crime set to music.
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And tell me the video is not troubling on all fronts -
ZZ Top - Sleeping Bag (Music Video) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEM78ElGthI#)
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Weathermen calling the weather "soupy" is genuinely repulsive.
I have to say that "soupy" and "wintry mix" are some of the more descriptive cliches in the weatherperson's limited arsenal.
When I lived in Louisiana during the hurricanes we would play drinking games for when weatherperson's would say 'hunker down.'
I definitely prefer "close" to "soupy" when describing hot, humid weather.
Nick Gregory on Fox 5 kept referring to today's heat wave conditions as "sultry".
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I love "sultry."
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"It is soooooo hot outside!"
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"It is soooooo hot outside!"
Soupy, even!
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"It is soooooo hot outside!"
Soupy, even!
How dare you!
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I hate comments on news sites, but I read them nevertheless.
This has opened up a new hatred of Tea Party(?) extremists saying "wake up sheeple!" which I think is kind of a trend.
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'Soupy' and 'Wintry Mix' sound delicious.
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'Soupy' and 'Wintry Mix' sound delicious.
8Tracks thread, I believe, Auntie..
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The overuse of the word "ass". From "stupid ass idiot" to "grown ass man". But the coup de grace was hearing a coworker say "90 year old ass man". That just doesn't make sense.
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Maybe he's an ass man who is ninety.
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Double albums with sides 1 and 4 on the first disc and 2 and 3 on the second.
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But they stack better that way. It always made sense to me. (Yeah, yeah, I know it's terrible for the records. But sometimes I'm lazy.)
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Maybe he's an ass man who is ninety.
Or a 100 year old man with the ass of a 90 year old man. He takes care of himself.
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Bad job interviews. I hate those.
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I cannot stop saying "no problem" when someone says "thank you". Most of the times it is a problem and I should say "you're welcome", but I can't seem to make the change.
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ALL Alex Jones, Right populist nonsense.
It's turning some friends into shaved apes. My longtime friend posted a picture on facebook of Obama on a margarine container dressed like the cream of wheat guy, and it reads "Wealth Spread". And he likes Godard!!!
Sucks , cuz we used to be tight. It's tough but....Heave Ho olde friend, HEAVE HO!
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If Bobby Fischer were still alive, he'd be a regular on the Alex Jones show.
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I cannot stop saying "no problem" when someone says "thank you". Most of the times it is a problem and I should say "you're welcome", but I can't seem to make the change.
I read about a guy who insisted on referring to 'problems' as 'challenges' because he had some kind of problem with the word 'problem' (the negativity of the word had to be avoided). He would always say 'no challenge', then, so you are doing a lot better than that guy.
I hate when people refer to problems as 'issues', but I can't seem to shake that habit completely either. Rather than try to put a positive spin on the word 'problem', people should be like doctors and play up any problem they encounter as the worst thing that they have ever seen, so that when they solve said problem, they are god-like heroes.
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I hate the last episode and, in retrospect, the entire season of The Killing. I started watching because it looked good and AMC has a good track record lately. And sure, it was plodding and if was a longer season I would have quit it, but it had its sparkling moments, and was well-acted, so I gamely hung in, waiting for the "whodunnit".
F You. No pasaran next season.
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The phrase "no challenge" used in that manner is too absurd to be bad. Tell him to call into the show!
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I cannot stop saying "no problem" when someone says "thank you". Most of the times it is a problem and I should say "you're welcome", but I can't seem to make the change.
I read about a guy who insisted on referring to 'problems' as 'challenges' because he had some kind of problem with the word 'problem' (the negativity of the word had to be avoided). He would always say 'no challenge', then, so you are doing a lot better than that guy.
I hate when people refer to problems as 'issues', but I can't seem to shake that habit completely either. Rather than try to put a positive spin on the word 'problem', people should be like doctors and play up any problem they encounter as the worst thing that they have ever seen, so that when they solve said problem, they are god-like heroes.
I kinda don't like "no worries," but admittedly use it when I'm feeling sarcastic. Is it wrong to use subtle, probably unnoticeable sarcasm when one is feeling put out?
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Stop using the word "fuck" in your band name!
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I don't hate "grown ass man" so much. What I really hate is when a grown ass man excuses himself to go to the "little boy's room."
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If Bobby Fischer were still alive, he'd be a regular on the Alex Jones show.
Ha! Too true.
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Maybe he's an ass man who is ninety.
Saw this out of context and felt it should be at the top of the page again.
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Ugh the "cheers" pandemic in this country gives me migraines. I have a feeling many don't even use the word right.
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Ugh the "cheers" pandemic in this country gives me migraines. I have a feeling many don't even use the word right.
I think that Anglophilia is creeping into US English language usage in a more general way. I can't tell you how many people I've heard talk about going on "holiday", or references to soccer as "football" in addition to the overuse of "cheers."
I blame this on Harry Potter.
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I can't stop preceding all statements to service personell with the word "uh."
As in, "Would you like a bag?" "Uh yes."
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I can't stop preceding all statements to service personell with the word "uh."
As in, "Would you like a bag?" "Uh yes."
Right, involuntarilly pretending like you have to think about it.
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Ugh the "cheers" pandemic in this country gives me migraines. I have a feeling many don't even use the word right.
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http://friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,4007.msg77575.html#msg77575 (http://friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,4007.msg77575.html#msg77575)
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Americans calling people "gingers."
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Americans Anyone calling people "gingers."
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Guys in their fifties with goatees and earrings, wearing a baseball cap backwards.
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Ukulele covers.
Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead cover on ukulele) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwAJg007xXA#)
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Ukuleles seem to be making a comeback.
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Guys in their fifties with goatees and earrings, wearing a baseball cap backwards.
You mean Fred Durst?
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Guys in their fifties with goatees and earrings, wearing a baseball cap backwards.
You mean Fred Durst?
Even worse, my town is full of wannabe Fred Dursts, except most of them have a rebel flag tattoo.
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any old guy who rides a motorcycle and has that stupid thick fu manchu like the guy from American Chopper.
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Ukuleles seem to be making a comeback.
Ukuleles never went away. Did you know that Bowie wrote the music to "Lust for Life" on a ukulele?
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Ukulele covers.
Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead cover on ukulele) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwAJg007xXA#)
What you mean you think there is no need for guys that call themselves Neutral Uke Hotel!?
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Ukuleles: always rhythmic.
Like mandolins.
Guilty pleasure: The Gourds - Gin and Juice (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4hGSR5njZE#)
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References to bed as "the sack", especially in regards to sex. "Good in the sack". Ecch.
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"Bad in the sack".
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'Tiger in the sack'. Usually preceded by some insult (e.g. 'She is a raving nut, but I bet she's a tiger in the sack.')
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I never get it when other web designers and IT people include mentions in their Twitter profile about coffee or their addiction to it. "Father, Husband, Mac Developer, Coffee Lover, etc". Why is coffee an interesting characteristic to include? I've even seen "This website was built with the power of Starbucks lattes", etc. :P
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I hate any bio thats just a lot of one word descriptors (is that a word?)
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A lot of "soupy" forecasts lately. Despicable!
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Samsung Infuse 4G "Spider" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcr2uWkJkzI#ws)
This dumb phone commercial where the woman starts SCREAMING in horror at the phone's spider screensaver. This jolts me so much when i'm just sitting around with the TV on in the background. It's so unpleasant.
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Earnest analysis (and defense of) the "Dice Man" persona on WTF Pod. Oy :P
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Earnest analysis (and defense of) the "Dice Man" persona on WTF Pod. Oy :P
I am so glad that history has vindicated the utter hatred I had for that character in 1989. I was like, fucking dirty nursery rhymes? Really?
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Did anybody see the episode of 'Night Court' where they had a fictional comedian based on Andrew 'Dice' Clay on the show? I can't remember why the comedian was in court. Maybe a Lenny Bruce thing.
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Ear buds which have one bud on a much longer cable than the other. Is there some special way to wear these that I don't know about? Because when I wear them, the entire weight of the cable is supported by one ear, so it keeps popping out.
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Ear buds
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Ear buds which have one bud on a much longer cable than the other. Is there some special way to wear these that I don't know about? Because when I wear them, the entire weight of the cable is supported by one ear, so it keeps popping out.
First world problem.
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Ear buds which have one bud on a much longer cable than the other. Is there some special way to wear these that I don't know about? Because when I wear them, the entire weight of the cable is supported by one ear, so it keeps popping out.
First world problem.
Not sure what you're adding to the conversation. First World Problem should be the alternate title to this thread.
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Ear buds
+1
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Well damn, Shut Up Weirdo sure is lazy. They used the same archive for their July 8 and August 5 show.
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Samsung Infuse 4G "Spider" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcr2uWkJkzI#ws)
This dumb phone commercial where the woman starts SCREAMING in horror at the phone's spider screensaver. This jolts me so much when i'm just sitting around with the TV on in the background. It's so unpleasant.
This is and the mint chocolate chip Klondike Bar where the guy struggles to listen to his wife for five seconds are the two worst for me at this second.
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I have no idea which of the dozen Kevin Smith threads to post this in, so I'll just leave this here:
Kevin Smith on Paul Thomas Anderson (specifically, Magnolia):
“I’ll never watch it again, but I will keep it. I’ll keep it right on my desk, as a constant reminder that a bloated sense of self-importance is the most unattractive quality in a person or their work.”
(via Flavorwire. (http://flavorwire.com/200745/the-30-harshest-filmmaker-on-filmmaker-insults-in-history/4))
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There's just no way to respond to that. Except perhaps: is he sure that's a copy of the Magnolia DVD, and not a mirror?
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I would describe him less as having "a bloated sense of self-importance" and more as having "delusions of competence."
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I have no idea which of the dozen Kevin Smith threads to post this in, so I'll just leave this here:
Kevin Smith on Paul Thomas Anderson (specifically, Magnolia):
“I’ll never watch it again, but I will keep it. I’ll keep it right on my desk, as a constant reminder that a bloated sense of self-importance is the most unattractive quality in a person or their work.”
(via Flavorwire. (http://flavorwire.com/200745/the-30-harshest-filmmaker-on-filmmaker-insults-in-history/4))
24. Vincent Gallo on Sofia (and Francis Ford) Coppola:
“Sofia Coppola likes any guy who has what she wants. If she wants to be a photographer she’ll fuck a photographer. If she wants to be a filmmaker, she’ll fuck a filmmaker. She’s a parasite just like her fat, pig father was.”
I wonder if he made this statement before or after Tetro.
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On a related note, I just read "The 30 Harshest Musician-on-Musician Insults in History" at Flavorwire and saw this:
30. Wayne Coyne on Arcade Fire
“I get really tired of their pompousness [sic]… We’ve played some shows with them and they really treat people like shit. People treat Arcade Fire like they’re the greatest thing ever and they get away with it… They have good tunes, but they’re pricks, so fuck ‘em.”
How pompous is it to write sic after the word pompousness?
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Albini's recent comments on OFWGKTA probably belong on that list, but perhaps they were to recent.
Related hates:
- Such lists
- Comments on such lists along the lines of 'you forgot to include ______'
- Websites forcing you through a slide show instead of just listing everybody/thing on one page
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I never read this Podmass review in my life, but checked it out when Tom mentioned it on Twitter today:
"The Best Show On WFMU
It’s week one of the Regular Caller Ban on The Best Show, though the rule isn’t strictly enforced, because Julie from Cincinnati is actually in the studio to tell a good story about what landed her in prison. Calls from non-regulars include a person who was once mistaken for Wayne Knight and another whose father was beaten up at a hardcore festival. Tom Scharpling goes on several extended riffs on the banes of his existence (buffet hogs, his high-school bullies, and lists of the best comedian tweeters), but the highlight of the episode is a call from Philly Boy Roy, who discusses all the surprise indie guests at this year’s Gathering Of The Juggalos. That said, without a guest, this week’s episode misses some of the usual magic."
Has this guy/gal even listened to some episodes before 2011?
Seems to me he/she isn't fit (too ignorant of the canon) to give an opinion on the astounding self-referential loop the whole show was set up for.
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Anyone who thinks the show is only good if there's a guest is an ass. For me, the best shows have always been about Tom, not the callers (well, except for those callers who all sort of sound alike, if you catch my meaning, if you get my drift).
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(I thought Julie was the guest?)
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But Julie is only a fancy celeb guest to us.
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Sometimes there will be stretches where there's a guest every week, and I'll think 'enough with the guests'. The show works perfectly fine without guests.
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Anyone who thinks the show is only good if there's a guest is an ass. For me, the best shows have always been about Tom, not the callers (well, except for those callers who all sort of sound alike, if you catch my meaning, if you get my drift).
Where can I sign my name to this?
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Speaking of lists, when it's come to lists of "15 Comedians Who Are Vegetarian or Vegan," it's really time for someone to go shopping for a coffin.
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Episode 6 of My So Called Life where Roger Rees is the unorthodox, Dead Poets-style substitute writing teacher with mismatching socks who seems really hard on the students but only because he wants to challenge them.
(http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/5439/rees.jpg)
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Weird black-power fist-pump thing he does after getting fired for refusing to censor material in the student newspaper -
(http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/9230/fistd.jpg)
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Good show, at least as I remember it, but I agree - bad episode.
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Weird black-power fist-pump thing he does after getting fired for refusing to censor material in the student newspaper -
(http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/9230/fistd.jpg)
I make this gesture every Friday.
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Episode 6 of My So Called Life where Roger Rees is the unorthodox, Dead Poets-style substitute writing teacher with mismatching socks who seems really hard on the students but only because he wants to challenge them.
(http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/5439/rees.jpg)
He seems really "what" the students?
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"pull the trigger" when buying something
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I hate having no electricity at my house since Sunday afternoon with no end in sight. No water either since I'm on a well and the pump needs powert. Toilets that flush are cool. I miss them.
I am starting to like working from a Panera every day though. There's a whole crowd of blackout refugees in here every day.
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I hate having no electricity at my house since Sunday afternoon with no end in sight. No water either since I'm on a well and the pump needs powert. Toilets that flush are cool. I miss them.
I am starting to like working from a Panera every day though. There's a whole crowd of blackout refugees in here every day.
Sorry. I feel your pain. We are without potable water in Maplewood.
On a more mundane note, I hate plastic wrap. F you, plastic wrap.
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Sorry. I feel your pain. We are without potable water in Maplewood.
On a more mundane note, I hate plastic wrap. F you, plastic wrap.
Wait, you live in Maplewood?
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I hate having no electricity at my house since Sunday afternoon with no end in sight. No water either since I'm on a well and the pump needs powert. Toilets that flush are cool. I miss them.
I am starting to like working from a Panera every day though. There's a whole crowd of blackout refugees in here every day.
Sorry. I feel your pain. We are without potable water in Maplewood.
On a more mundane note, I hate plastic wrap. F you, plastic wrap.
I'm with you on the platic wrap thing. It's too damn sticky. I always end up with it in a ball. Maybe I'm a spaz. F me for being a spaz.
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Still at the Panera. I'm warning you all that I'm going to keep obsessively posting as long as I'm stuck here due to the blackout. I'm all fired up on caffiene and sugar.
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Still at the Panera. I'm warning you all that I'm going to keep obsessively posting as long as I'm stuck here due to the blackout. I'm all fired up on caffiene and sugar.
Their hazelnut coffee is pretty drinkable without sugar even for non-black-coffee types (how are there still any of you left)?
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I hate Panara coffee.
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I hate wildfires. It feels like the world is falling apart
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Still at Panara. Day 4 here. (Day 6 of no power at home.) It looks like Bernice is out sick today. I hope she feels better soon. Carol is preparing food today. The job interview that's being conducted three tables over started well, but there have been some stumbles by the interviewee. I don't think Ken is impressed by the fact that the interviewee has never made the President's Club even once when he was pushing Lipitor, FloMax and Viagra. Tine for mu first conference call.
I hate my lack of discipline when it comes to those chocolate filled croissant-ish thingies. Diabetes, here I come! Maybe the drug salesman can help...
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I don't think Ken is impressed by the fact that the interviewee has never made the President's Club even once when he was pushing Lipitor, FloMax and Viagra.
Welcome to my world.
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Which world? Salesman or consumer?
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Which world? Salesman or consumer?
I work in pharma. Thankfully not on the sales side. That's a tough place to be these days, as I'm sure Ken is aware.
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I hate the phrase 'wait for it' when used as an interjection in one's own statement.
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i told my team to party every night this weekend, except Monday. i hate myself.
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There's no more definitive tour announcement page on pitchfork anymore. That was the main reason I went to that site.
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There's no more definitive tour announcement page on pitchfork anymore. That was the main reason I went to that site.
Agreed completely, the new redesign takes away all utility from the site.
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i told my team to party every night this weekend, except Monday. i hate myself.
Did they follow your advice though?
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To my dismay, they did not. I wrote everyone up.
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I hate Netflix completely screwing up their company. They were one of the few corporations I wholeheartedly endorsed but in a scant 6 months have come to loathe every new communication from Reed Hastings.
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From a business perspective, it's quite possibly a smart move. He's cutting his shipping charges, as I'm sure they're lacking, and putting them into better streaming.
There's more to it, but this is an obvious business move. albeit, I hate it myself.
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I understand that their plan is to eventually sell off the DVD by mail part. But streaming is nowhere near ready for that type of prominence right now. Between the content selection being piss poor, broadband speeds not really up to snuff for the majority of Americans, and then the cable companies are going to start capping that broadband usage...
The thing that irks me off the most is the lack of integration between the two websites. So now if I want to watch something I have to log into Netflix to see if it's streaming. If not, I then have to go to a separate website (Qwikster, stupid name) and see if it is available as a DVD by mail.
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I don't Know that they could legally spin off a company and not split their operations.
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Ricky Gervais. Global warming. I guess it is apropriate that texas is burning to a crisp right now.
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People arguing heatedly on Twitter whether or not Amy Schumer "crossed the line" last night.
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I find it odd that Kate Walsh had by far the funniest line I've seen from that thing.
Can we just get rid of roasts, now? Perhaps they were more entertaining in the 60s. I doubt it. But they certainly suck now.
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I find it odd that Kate Walsh had by far the funniest line I've seen from that thing.
Can we just get rid of roasts, now? Perhaps they were more entertaining in the 60s. I doubt it. But they certainly suck now.
It's a parade of insult comics. It's sick and unfunny. Which leads me to something I stirred over for a while but am pretty sure I hate and that's when Louis CK gets obviously offensive in his sets and the stupid people that eat it up. I am not calling my roomate stupid but we watch Louie together and will show no reaction to stuff I find hilarious but he laughs at EVERY purposely offensive joke. Like one episode Louie says "I wish another 9/11 would happen right now to get me out of this" which I don't really find humor in at all but he laughs in that way as if to say "holy shit, I can't believe he just said that!" Louie is a good show and all but look, I'll say it: I feel like Louis CK is a comic that makes people without a sense of humor feel like they have one. But I also like him (I think I have a good sense of humor, just go with it) so he appeals to both crowds, which I guess is good? Have you seen the crowds at his show? I know he can't help it but theres a lotta hair gel.
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What about someone like me? Who likes all of Louis CK's stuff, from the patently offensive to his more intellectual avenues?
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What about someone like me? Who likes all of Louis CK's stuff, from the patently offensive to his more intellectual avenues?
I'm not meaning to call names and I'm not in any way judging you. You like what you like. But I just think the crudeness gets out of hand sometimes, and I don't know, the jokes seem too easy? Like he'll start off with a few funny jokes about himself masturbating then just get really graphic and obnoxious and sometimes I'm sitting there thinking that the original jokes were funny enough. I feel like the more he builds on a joke the less funny it gets. And maybe a lot of the reason I don't like it is because I don't and everyone else does. I sometimes feel like liking Louis CK puts me in the category of guys that laugh at Jeffrey Ross.
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Part of one of his stand-up specials where he jokes about throwing rocks at deer in his backyard put me off Louie CK for a while.
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I seem to remember Louis CK's much older stuff as being kind of fratty/hacky. It got more fashionable to like him about 5 years ago when he got more confessional and delved into his divorce and kids and everything. Maybe that's just my perception.
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I sometimes feel like liking Louis CK puts me in the category of guys that laugh at Jeffrey Ross.
I laugh at Jeffrey Ross sometimes. "I've seen younger faces on cash" was a pretty good line.
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The Big Bang Theory replacing The Office at ten before The Simpsons come on.
The Big Bang Theory continuously beating out Curb Your Enthusiasm at awards shows.
... aaaand The Big Bang Theory
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And Jerry, the suspenders? A little hacky.
I read a bunch of descriptions of Mork & Mindy episodes. I loved that show as a kid, although I remember hating the Mearth character.
Those episode descriptions make it sound like Satan wrote a comedy vehicle for his favorite minion. He made the show OK the first year, got everybody to love it, and then really let loose starting with Episode 1 of Season 2.
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Talkin' ... Blues songs.
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And Jerry, the suspenders? A little hacky.
I read a bunch of descriptions of Mork & Mindy episodes. I loved that show as a kid, although I remember hating the Mearth character.
Those episode descriptions make it sound like Satan wrote a comedy vehicle for his favorite minion. He made the show OK the first year, got everybody to love it, and then really let loose starting with Episode 1 of Season 2.
I think - and I'm serious about this - your next project here should be an episode-by-episode review of Mork & Mindy: The Compleat Series.
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Talkin' ... Blues songs.
My least favorite is 'Talkin' Baseball'
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And Jerry, the suspenders? A little hacky.
I read a bunch of descriptions of Mork & Mindy episodes. I loved that show as a kid, although I remember hating the Mearth character.
Those episode descriptions make it sound like Satan wrote a comedy vehicle for his favorite minion. He made the show OK the first year, got everybody to love it, and then really let loose starting with Episode 1 of Season 2.
I think - and I'm serious about this - your next project here should be an episode-by-episode review of Mork & Mindy: The Compleat Series.
Ditto.
I hate dudes that try to tell you how to bike, especially when you aren't violating any law. I hate them when you are violating the law, too, but at least then they're in the right. I knew creeps like this before I started riding, too -- they would derisively refer to riders not as hardcore as themselves as "helmets" (because they wear helmets, which are uncool). You get the sense that these guys actually resent all the new NYC bike lanes in even more than the Republican Brooklynites in their SUVs.
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I hate dudes that try to tell you how to bike, especially when you aren't violating any law. I hate them when you are violating the law, too, but at least then they're in the right. I knew creeps like this before I started riding, too -- they would derisively refer to riders not as hardcore as themselves as "helmets" (because they wear helmets, which are uncool). You get the sense that these guys actually resent all the new NYC bike lanes in even more than the Republican Brooklynites in their SUVs.
I've started saying "your dog is a jerk!" to anyone who doesn't pull their dog over to their side of the greenway. I think it confuses people. Especially when I ride back past them from the other direction 20 minutes later.
The cities in which I bike are inconsistent about bike lanes. Especially Durham, where North Carolinians have only just reached the tipping point where most people want to just get around bikers rather than actively attempting to hurt them.
Biking on roads in the 1980s in North Carolina was rare - there were a lot of people (dudes between 16 and 22) who would open doors into bikers and so on. I struggle all the time to come up with reasons that suburban sprawl and mixing with Yankees haven't been good for us. I resent the carping about "real bagels" and how life is "so slow" in this place WHERE YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO LIVE I guess.
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I do give dirty looks to people who are doing something obviously stupid, like walking two abreast in a bike lane, which is more dangerous for them than anything. But these dudes just remind me of the hippy-jocks I was surrounded by in Jersey in much of the 1990s -- dudes with bob haircuts and Birkenstocks who would yell at you for hackeysacking or drumming wrong. I bet NC has lots of those too.
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I do give dirty looks to people who are doing something obviously stupid, like walking two abreast in a bike lane, which is more dangerous for them than anything. But these dudes just remind me of the hippy-jocks I was surrounded by in Jersey in much of the 1990s -- dudes with bob haircuts and Birkenstocks who would yell at you for hackeysacking or drumming wrong. I bet NC has lots of those too.
Chapel Hill certainly does.
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I'm just sick of dealing with bicyclists who ride on the sidewalk, especially down streets where there are actual bike lanes. As a pedestrian I've learned to spot the dumb things that car drivers do (such as turning a corner while looking into oncoming cross-traffic while not checking first if there's anybody in the damn crosswalk), but I still can't get over the ambush of walking down the sidewalk and having someone doing 15+ MPH on a bicycle zipping up from behind and darting around me. The Twin Cities are a real bicycle Valhalla, too, with lots of vocal activists who really tilt towards the self-righteous aspect of the whole lifestyle, so I get the feeling a lot of this kind of thing gets overlooked or excused because hey, One Less Car, right?
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Yeah, I hate that too. I will ride on the sidewalk in industrial zones where there aren't any pedestrians and the streets are full of huge trucks (my office is in Greenpoint and the TV show shoots mostly in Long Island City, both in empty areas, and the roads themselves are terrifying). And I half-ride, half-walk down the sidewalk on my own block sometimes, but I'm going below 5 miles an hour and usually stop to talk to my neighbors. In any case I always defer to pedestrians. The other day I was with my wife and kid talking to an old woman who lives nearby, and someone riding down the sidewalk had the gall to ring her bell at us. I gave her a really nasty look and so must have everyone else, because she looked sheepish.
It's kind of impossible to always obey traffic laws in NY, but you can not be an asshole about it. Like, if I'm riding the wrong way down a one-way, I keep it to a minimum and always stop or move aside for traffic going the right way. The thing that gets me is the sense of entitlement. It similarly pisses me off when I'm driving and pedestrians go to jaywalk, then look pissed that there's a car coming so they have to wait.
(Incidentally, Stupornaut, I also hate motorists who ignore the crosswalk. I always stop).
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Last summer I saw a guy biking down the sidewalk on Queen Street West in downtown Toronto (basically the most pedestrian heavy stretch of sidewalk in Canada), weaving around people at a pretty good clip on his low-rider, wearing headphones and a backwards baseball cap, while drinking a large starbucks coffee. He was completely oblivious to the looks he was getting, or quite possibly he was enjoying them.
A few seconds after he barely missed me I heard a crash and turned to see him on the ground, covered in coffee, his front wheel hopelessly twisted after a collision with a garbage can. A few people were openly laughing at him. That was probably the most satisfying comeuppance I've ever witnessed.
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Also, I hate the words 'Internets', 'Interweb(s)' and any similar malapropism invoking a series of tubes.
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Also, I hate the words 'Internets', 'Interweb(s)' and any similar malapropism invoking a series of tubes.
My grandma calls it "The Net"
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Last summer I saw a guy biking down the sidewalk on Queen Street West in downtown Toronto (basically the most pedestrian heavy stretch of sidewalk in Canada), weaving around people at a pretty good clip on his low-rider, wearing headphones and a backwards baseball cap, while drinking a large starbucks coffee. He was completely oblivious to the looks he was getting, or quite possibly he was enjoying them.
A few seconds after he barely missed me I heard a crash and turned to see him on the ground, covered in coffee, his front wheel hopelessly twisted after a collision with a garbage can. A few people were openly laughing at him. That was probably the most satisfying comeuppance I've ever witnessed.
Thank you for this story.
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Also, I hate the words 'Internets', 'Interweb(s)' and any similar malapropism invoking a series of tubes.
Occasionally I will call it the Inter-ka-net for laughs and then feel really dumb about it almost immediately afterwards.
Memes in general are just lousy.
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My grandma calls it "The Net"
That at least is a legitimate, if slightly dated, nickname.
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My grandma calls it "The Net"
That at least is a legitimate, if slightly dated, nickname.
I've been hearing "cyber" added as a prefix here and there lately; it now sounds very end-of-20th-century to me.
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My grandma calls it "The Net"
That at least is a legitimate, if slightly dated, nickname.
I've been hearing "cyber" added as a prefix here and there lately; it now sounds very end-of-20th-century to me.
Like cybertooth?
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My grandma calls it "The Net"
That at least is a legitimate, if slightly dated, nickname.
I've been hearing "cyber" added as a prefix here and there lately; it now sounds very end-of-20th-century to me.
Like cybertooth?
That's very end of another century, Dave.
Still like "space age" to describe something. Perhaps because it is so dated. It's reminiscent of Disneyworld's Tomorrowland.
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How do you feel about "movie"?
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My grandma calls it "The Net"
That at least is a legitimate, if slightly dated, nickname.
How do you feel about "movie"?
(http://www.impawards.com/1995/posters/net.jpg)
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How do you feel about "movie"?
Ha, I've always thought we should be more incensed about that word.
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At the least, we should be using the more modern "talkie," don't you think?
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At the least, we should be using the more modern "talkie," don't you think?
The word "flick" has always smacked of porn to me.
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At the least, we should be using the more modern "talkie," don't you think?
Motion Picture.
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I hate that my computer is exhibiting much wonkiness after the hard disk was restored using Windows system image. Exact duplicate, my aunt Fanny.
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Gussie Fink-nottle's voice in the Jeeves and Wooster series.
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I hate how the media seems to completely ignore Ron Paul. I understand that he's PROBABLY not going to get the nomination (even though he's the only republican worth anything). But if that's their logic, WHY did they give so much attention to Donald Trump, and HERMAIN CAIN! REALLY! It makes me sick. Ron Paul wins tons of straw polls (which when Hermain cain wins them they seem to mean something but when paul does there not importaint) he averages 11 -13 percent in the national polls, raised over 8 million dollars in three months, and predicted the housing bubble in 2005! But I guess that doesn't make a SERIOUS candidate in the medias eyes.
F you media.
P.S. I'm James from southeast Pa, thats right, I'm finally a FOT, But I've always been one in my heart!
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I hate how the media seems to completely ignore Ron Paul. I understand that he's PROBABLY not going to get the nomination (even though he's the only republican worth anything). But if that's their logic, WHY did they give so much attention to Donald Trump, and HERMAIN CAIN! REALLY!
Where do Cain and Trump stand on our foreign military entanglements?
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I hate how the media seems to completely ignore Ron Paul. I understand that he's PROBABLY not going to get the nomination (even though he's the only republican worth anything). But if that's their logic, WHY did they give so much attention to Donald Trump, and HERMAIN CAIN! REALLY!
Where do Cain and Trump stand on our foreign military entanglements?
Cain: "Nein Nein Nein"
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Oh God I hate those "Antoine" commercials so much. The ones for the blind company where a woman is explaining the deals and a guy keeps interrupting and she keeps saying "Thanks Antoine" "Thanks again Antoine " and finally "Antoine, you just have to have the last word! "
WHAT...THE...F#$@! Who is the for and what does it mean? Who thought of this and how did it get past stage one? How were living humans used to create this? It may be local, anyone from Philly seen it? It comes on about four times during the morning news.
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Oh brother.
https://twitter.com/#!/zachbraff/status/126030516565704704 (https://twitter.com/#!/zachbraff/status/126030516565704704)
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Oh brother.
https://twitter.com/#!/zachbraff/status/126030516565704704 (https://twitter.com/#!/zachbraff/status/126030516565704704)
SFW?
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Oh brother.
https://twitter.com/#!/zachbraff/status/126030516565704704 (https://twitter.com/#!/zachbraff/status/126030516565704704)
SFW?
Unfortunately yes. This guy's films make me long for Kevin Smith movies.
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Oh brother.
https://twitter.com/#!/zachbraff/status/126030516565704704 (https://twitter.com/#!/zachbraff/status/126030516565704704)
I don't get the hate, but I am willing to hear the argument.
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oh brother,
Personally, I thought it was hilarious, but his movies still suck. I'll always think of him as "That Guy from Scrubs"
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nick swardson
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ha - I really like Nick when he's on CDR but I haven't really liked anything he's done beyond that. But I don't hate him!
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nick swardson
Yeh me too. I hate the whole personality he has. Doug Benson too.
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I like Doug. Nick seems like one big fart/dick joke and not much more. That stuff is ok, but not when it's the only bullet in your gun.
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I was actually on a high school comedy improv team with Nick about 16 years ago, so it's weird to know that he just starred in one of the most critically-panned comedies ever and it's a thing to hate his stuff now. I haven't even really kept tabs on his recent material aside from his CDR/CBB appearances, but I saw him do a pretty funny stand-up set about ten years back that was more lighthearted and less dicks'n'farts-centric than his current stuff.
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I loved Nick as the Terry character on Reno 911.
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I predict that in a couple of years, Bucky Larson will become a cultishly adored stoner classic a la Freddy Got Fingered. I haven't seen it, but it seems totally credible to me that it's pretty crazy and funny, but just exactly the kind of thing that all movie critics hate.
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I predict that in a couple of years, Bucky Larson will become a cultishly adored stoner classic a la Freddy Got Fingered. I haven't seen it, but it seems totally credible to me that it's pretty crazy and funny, but just exactly the kind of thing that all movie critics hate.
I was excited about it. Then I saw it.
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College football
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College football
Sorry dude. Is it because I mentioned you in last week's blog post? Oklahoma's ranked 78th now.
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robot chicken
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Robot Chicken was right where I decided that letting geek culture win was a bad idea.
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I don't think there has ever been a person on tv that i have despised more than Daniel Tosh. He is the absolute worst.
I also can't stand how in the new IPhone Siri commerical, the black dude has gotta say "Play some Coltrane".
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I also can't stand how in the new IPhone Siri commerical, the black dude has gotta say "Play some Coltrane".
Yeah, like any Coltrane record will do the trick. Might as well show us a schlubby white guy who wants "to hear some Neil Young."
"Oh, I dunno: Harvest, Arc/Weld, Trans... I'm sure that whatever your randomizing algorithm settles on will complement my mood just fine!"
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Siri, play some Durst.
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I also can't stand how in the new IPhone Siri commerical, the black dude has gotta say "Play some Coltrane".
Would you prefer he say, "Play some Stan Kenton"?
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I also can't stand how in the new IPhone Siri commerical, the black dude has gotta say "Play some Coltrane".
Would you prefer he say, "Play some Stan Kenton"?
"Fix a sandwich for Kenny G"
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sudo fix a sandwich for Kenny G
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I also can't stand how in the new IPhone Siri commerical, the black dude has gotta say "Play some Coltrane".
Would you prefer he say, "Play some Stan Kenton"?
I wish they would have went with the more obvious/ obnoxious "Play some 'Bird'".
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Now when the white guy says play some white music, you have no problem with it, but when a black guy says play some black music, it's offensive? I'm not really getting what they should have done with this guy, enlighten me, Bobo.
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Now when the white guy says play some white music, you have no problem with it, but when a black guy says play some black music, it's offensive? I'm not really getting what they should have done with this guy, enlighten me, Bobo.
I'm sorry, I've been away for awhile. Who the fuck are you again?
It's not offensive. I couldn't give a shit either way. It's just one of those little annoying things that a person complains about on internet message boards.
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Now when the white guy says play some white music, you have no problem with it, but when a black guy says play some black music, it's offensive? I'm not really getting what they should have done with this guy, enlighten me, Bobo.
I'm sorry, I've been away for awhile. Who the fuck are you again?
It's not offensive. I couldn't give a shit either way. It's just one of those little annoying things that a person complains about on internet message boards.
I'm with KickTheBobo on this. Any fulfillment of group stereotypes in the media are annoying. Perhaps not offensive, but annoying. Such portrayals are the enemy of the Individual. When I see two women in a commercial do something like conspire behind their husbands' backs to go on a shopping spree, or I see an Italian family all slapping each other on the shoulder and hugging around a table full of food, or I see a guy planning out his man-cave, I shudder a little. Nothing offensive has happened, but it is a little sad.
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Like it or not, stereotypes are typically based in at least a little fact. The Coltrane thing is annoying though, for reasons I can't put my finger on.
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We're not gonna fall for no banana in a tail pipe.
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Like it or not, stereotypes are typically based in at least a little fact. The Coltrane thing is annoying though, for reasons I can't put my finger on.
Because of Gene Hackman in Royal Tenenbaums?
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Like it or not, stereotypes are typically based in at least a little fact. The Coltrane thing is annoying though, for reasons I can't put my finger on.
I was not suggesting that stereotypes are arbitrary. Heuristics (as opposed to algorithms) are the predominant decision-making tool of humans, and stereotypes are the necessary - and often beneficial - result of those heuristics. But I do not have to like them when they are employed in advertising to target individuals, as you point out.
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I find it annoying he doesn't specify WHICH Coltrane tracks he wants to hear. Giant Steps? Ascension? Makes no difference, I guess.
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"“Remind me to get milk when I leave work.” Milk? Jeez, could you get more predictable?
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Again, a similarly positioned white actor could have said Coltrane, Madonna, The Beatles, or Beethoven, and none of those choices would have been deemed stereotypical or inappropriate.
Which artist would have been more acceptable for the African American actor to say?
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I bet someone in the ad department's first impulse was to make him say "Play some Snoop Dogg" or something and then someone else chimed in that that was offensive and tried to class it up with a Coltrane reference. If you've worked in advertising, you've heard these conversations.
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I bet someone in the ad department's first impulse was to make him say "Play some Snoop Dogg" or something and then someone else chimed in that that was offensive and tried to class it up with a Coltrane reference. If you've worked in advertising, you've heard these conversations.
Perhaps, but if he said, "The Eagles," many people watching would have said "The Eagles?!" and some would have even posted on message boards about it. I'm genuinely curious as to what kind of music an African American actor should ask for in a commercial.
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... Heuristics (as opposed to algorithms) are the predominant decision-making tool of humans...
NERD! Logic Nerd! Drop and give me 20.
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I bet someone in the ad department's first impulse was to make him say "Play some Snoop Dogg" or something and then someone else chimed in that that was offensive and tried to class it up with a Coltrane reference. If you've worked in advertising, you've heard these conversations.
Perhaps, but if he said, "The Eagles," many people watching would have said "The Eagles?!" and some would have even posted on message boards about it. I'm genuinely curious as to what kind of music an African American actor should ask for in a commercial.
Lady Gaga. Something "everyone" likes.
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Again, a similarly positioned white actor could have said Coltrane, Madonna, The Beatles, or Beethoven, and none of those choices would have been deemed stereotypical or inappropriate.
Which artist would have been more acceptable for the African American actor to say?
It's hard to say, I don't know any black people.
Maybe Assück?
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I bet someone in the ad department's first impulse was to make him say "Play some Snoop Dogg" or something and then someone else chimed in that that was offensive and tried to class it up with a Coltrane reference. If you've worked in advertising, you've heard these conversations.
Perhaps, but if he said, "The Eagles," many people watching would have said "The Eagles?!" and some would have even posted on message boards about it. I'm genuinely curious as to what kind of music an African American actor should ask for in a commercial.
I always associate Apple products with bands like The Arcade Fire or LCD Soundsystem, but since it's a mass-market commercial maybe something like REM, U2 or the Stones.
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I don't know much about them, but I hear tell of a band called the "Texas N's." Would they be good for this?
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I bet someone in the ad department's first impulse was to make him say "Play some Snoop Dogg" or something and then someone else chimed in that that was offensive and tried to class it up with a Coltrane reference. If you've worked in advertising, you've heard these conversations.
Perhaps, but if he said, "The Eagles," many people watching would have said "The Eagles?!" and some would have even posted on message boards about it. I'm genuinely curious as to what kind of music an African American actor should ask for in a commercial.
Lady Gaga. Something "everyone" likes.
EXACTLY. Or Carcass.
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I'm genuinely curious as to what kind of music an African American actor should ask for in a commercial.
Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand (Live Knebworth 1979) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWOuzYvksRw#)
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Again, a similarly positioned white actor could have said Coltrane, Madonna, The Beatles, or Beethoven, and none of those choices would have been deemed stereotypical or inappropriate.
Which artist would have been more acceptable for the African American actor to say?
Big Head Todd & The Monsters
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I'm enjoying this conversation.
Is John Coltrane such an obscurity in our culture now that even the mention of his name in a commercial annoys people? That's sad.
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Women be shoppin!
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I specifically remember seeing another commercial where a young professional black man sat down in his house "to listen to some Coltrane." It aired all the time maybe 10 or 12 years ago. If anyone can point me to this commercial I'd be grateful.
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I really do think that it's sometimes easy to assign negative motives when they just don't exist (i'm terrible about this). With the snoop dog-> Coltrane scenario, it's just as likely that they said "we need this guy to throw a name out that is obscure enough to the mainstream that it sounds cool but it's recognizable". Similar scenario, way less hateful, still just as annoying.
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Also, I hate that Patrice O'Neal had a stroke and that it's so hard to find out how severe it was (it sounds bad.)
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the thing that annoys me about it is that it's just lazy cut-and-paste writing on the part of the ad agency. Then again, I'm a music nerd who reads waaaay too much into the media I consume.
Soon Siri will be able to just stream a hologram of Saint Coltrane right into the middle of your cocktail party!
(http://i26.tinypic.com/256qwld.png)
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I never thought of it as a question of obscurity. If anything, Coltrane (and jazz in general) is always the safe go-to reference in media/advertising to represent black professionals because to a white audience, Coltrane is somehow more "dignified" than a hip-hop reference, and everybody's happy. It is annoying, but Smelodies' point is just as valid - you can't win either way. It would just as dumb if he said he said "Play some Dream Theater."
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What if he'd said "Play some Marsalis"?
EEEEWWWWW.
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Again, a similarly positioned white actor could have said Coltrane, Madonna, The Beatles, or Beethoven, and none of those choices would have been deemed stereotypical or inappropriate.
Which artist would have been more acceptable for the African American actor to say?
White Reign.
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A buddy of mine who works for Twitter mentioned that Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes stopped by their offices today. Standard jorts and hockey muu-muu for Kevin, but a fresh bob haircut for Jason -
(http://p.twimg.com/AcziklPCMAERlTy.jpg)
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"Put on some Coltrane. That shit's whack, yo!"
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"Play me some muthafuckin' Luther Vandross."
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A buddy of mine who works for Twitter mentioned that Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes stopped by their offices today. Standard jorts and hockey muu-muu for Kevin, but a fresh bob haircut for Jason -
Wait, but the other one's name is bob.
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I don't know if this has been mentioned before but, I can't stand the "funny" Halloween costumes at Halloween stores. I went to a Halloween store last night and it seems like this year the funny costumes are all boner related.
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I don't know if this has been mentioned before but, I can't stand the "funny" Halloween costumes at Halloween stores. I went to a Halloween store last night and it seems like this year the funny costumes are all boner related.
I'm going as a slutty buffcoat.
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A buddy of mine who works for Twitter mentioned that Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes stopped by their offices today. Standard jorts and hockey muu-muu for Kevin, but a fresh bob haircut for Jason -
Wait, but the other one's name is bob.
Maybe Kevin Smith will get a Jay Cut
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I don't know if this has been mentioned before but, I can't stand the "funny" Halloween costumes at Halloween stores. I went to a Halloween store last night and it seems like this year the funny costumes are all boner related.
I'm going as a slutty buffcoat.
You should experience my slutty sewage-pipe maintenance crew costume. The authentic smell and toe-cleavage.
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I don't know if this has been mentioned before but, I can't stand the "funny" Halloween costumes at Halloween stores. I went to a Halloween store last night and it seems like this year the funny costumes are all boner related.
I'm going as a slutty buffcoat.
You should experience my slutty sewage-pipe maintenance crew costume. The authentic smell and toe-cleavage.
I forgot about the slutty costumes. There were a few strange ones like slutty Freddy Kruger, slutty Leatherface and slutty highway patrol zombie.
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I was thinking about a slutty Jason from Alabama, but how do you make that any sexier?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2011/10/28/iphone-4s-battery-life-problems_n_1064532.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2011/10/28/iphone-4s-battery-life-problems_n_1064532.html)
Luckily I still have the 4 to listen to Coltrane.
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I was thinking about a slutty Jason from Alabama, but how do you make that any sexier?
What about a slutty Jason Alexander costume?
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I was thinking about a slutty Jason from Alabama, but how do you make that any sexier?
What about a slutty Jason Alexander costume?
What that costume might look like:
(http://images-mediawiki-sites.thefullwiki.org/11/3/5/6/21828393627957356.jpg)
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Gerunds in movie titles. (Wrestling Ernest Hemingway, Kissing Jessica Stein, Waking Ned Devine, Finding Forrester, Raising Helen, Being Julia, Saving Silverman, Becoming Colette, Boxing Helena, Drowning Mona, Losing Isaiah, Courting Courtney, Killing Zoe, Trusting Beatrice, etc)
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Woody Allen had one called Deconstructing Somebody, right? Thus, a hat trick of hateable things: title gerunds, using "deconstruction" without a clue as to what the word originally meant, and Woody Allen.
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How do you feel about Being There?
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Woody Allen had one called Deconstructing Somebody, right? Thus, a hat trick of hateable things: title gerunds, using "deconstruction" without a clue as to what the word originally meant, and Woody Allen.
'Deconstructing Harry'. Also featuring Robin Williams, which wasn't exactly doing it any favors. He was disappearing for reasons that were heavily over-explained in the dialog.
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People saying things like "Penn State Pride!", "We are more than that!", "We are a world class university".
Attending or being an alumni of a university/being a fan of a football team does not demand blind pride so that when something is about horrific crimes and institutional cover-ups, you cry persecution and cling to the blue and white.
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Gerunds in movie titles. (Wrestling Ernest Hemingway, Kissing Jessica Stein, Waking Ned Devine, Finding Forrester, Raising Helen, Being Julia, Saving Silverman, Becoming Colette, Boxing Helena, Drowning Mona, Losing Isaiah, Courting Courtney, Killing Zoe, Trusting Beatrice, etc)
YES YES YES
My friend and I used to have fun coming up with our own. Felching Cheney, Questioning Sasquatch, etc.
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Questioning Sasquatch
Winner.
Also, I would go see this.
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Inventing Vance
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What do you guys think about the new Gaspar Noe film, Desperately Seeking Sodomy?
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I dunno, Felching Cheney is up there.
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As someone who currently lives in Central Pennsylvania, I hate the feed on my Facebook of people supporting Paterno, I hate all the students at PSU supporting Paterno, and currently, I hate that my diploma says Penn State on it.
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As someone who currently lives in Central Pennsylvania, I hate the feed on my Facebook of people supporting Paterno, I hate all the students at PSU supporting Paterno, and currently, I hate that my diploma says Penn State on it.
^^This is comforting to hear (see).
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Almost every single inflection in Daniel Stern's voiceover on the Wonder Years.
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Hate is a bit strong for these, more like "stuff that grates" -
-"Spanx" as the go-to topic for every female comedian in my Twitter stream
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Ear buds which have one bud on a much longer cable than the other. Is there some special way to wear these that I don't know about? Because when I wear them, the entire weight of the cable is supported by one ear, so it keeps popping out.
BREAKING NEWS!!!
I no longer hate this style of ear buds. I've figured out how to wear them: the long bit goes around the back of your neck - why did it take me so long to get this right?
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Ear buds which have one bud on a much longer cable than the other. Is there some special way to wear these that I don't know about? Because when I wear them, the entire weight of the cable is supported by one ear, so it keeps popping out.
BREAKING NEWS!!!
I no longer hate this style of ear buds. I've figured out how to wear them: the long bit goes around the back of your neck - why did it take me so long to get this right?
This happened to me, too. It's still a really terrible design, though.
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Ear buds which have one bud on a much longer cable than the other. Is there some special way to wear these that I don't know about? Because when I wear them, the entire weight of the cable is supported by one ear, so it keeps popping out.
BREAKING NEWS!!!
I no longer hate this style of ear buds. I've figured out how to wear them: the long bit goes around the back of your neck - why did it take me so long to get this right?
This happened to me, too. It's still a really terrible design, though.
True, no ear buds I have ever tried, fit even remotely well into my ears and I have to constantly readjust them when I am moving around. So when I lose the long cord one, I always have to search behind my back.
Bad times.
(Just my contribution to a riveting conversation)
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Nerds
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Nerds
It's racist to separate out the Rainbow ones.
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Metta World Peace and Kurt Sutter were on episode 5 of Brand X.
I think that is enough information.
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Nerds
It's racist to separate out the Rainbow ones.
Like gay ones? You're not making sense.
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Nerds
It's racist to separate out the Rainbow ones.
Like gay ones? You're not making sense.
Yes he is.
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Fredrick's can you explain what a rainbow nerd is then?
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Anyone else hate Greg Gutfeld?
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(http://imagethumbnails.milo.com/001/692/639/trimmed/1692596_1529639_trimmed.jpg)
I have no feelings about Greg Gutfeld, but Greg Proops drives me insane. That voice! And I know the whole "Smartest Man in the World" thing is kind of a joke, but it still seems really obnoxious to me.
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(http://imagethumbnails.milo.com/001/692/639/trimmed/1692596_1529639_trimmed.jpg)
I have no feelings about Greg Gutfeld, but Greg Proops drives me insane. That voice! And I know the whole "Smartest Man in the World" thing is kind of a joke, but it still seems really obnoxious to me.
I would like to add junk food to my list.
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Fredrick's can you explain what a rainbow nerd is then?
Nope.
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The Jeselnik Offensive. Yikes.
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The Jeselnik Offensive. Yikes.
Yeah, I think that guy is funny, but I only made it about 5 minutes into the first episode before bailing. Kroll Show seems to be getting better as the season goes on, though! I like that one.
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Yeah, his standup can be good. But the show is trying to out-Tosh Tosh 2.0, which is a terrible strategy for comedy though probably good for money. I couldn't tell how much of the jokes were coming from writers or the comedians themselves. But that bit between him, Patton and Nick Kroll - unbearable.
You're right about Nick's show though. It's pretty weird, no laugh track, funny. And Jenny Slate is awesome.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xMj_P_6H69g# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xMj_P_6H69g#)!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xMj_P_6H69g# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xMj_P_6H69g#)!
Thank you. I feel like tons of people I respect are totally in the tank for Amanda Palmer but she leaves me cold. That whole Kickstarter tour then trying to get professional musicians to play for free for her was so sketchy. Her whole answer to that is "man, you don't know what it's like being a sidewalk artist, it's all for ART!" Yeah, well, you're no longer on the sidewalk. You need to pay professionals if you want professionals. The good of unions becomes evident when New York (with it's strong stage musicians union) was the only stop she planned on paying.
Also, it's so weird that she's married to Neil Gaiman. Kind of solidifies the stuff about Gaiman I don't like while liking a ton of things he's done (pretty much just Sandman).
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After watching some of that Amanda Palmer video, I've just realized that I think I hate TED talks.
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Quoting a friend here: "TED talks are a merger of two venerable American snake-oil institutions: the chautauqua and the infomercial."
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To the point of TED talks:
JRE: Eddie Huang TED Conference Exposed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hwLMBdnbXk#)
They all sound like a great bunch and Sarah Silverman also had a great time with them, right?
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After watching some of that Amanda Palmer video, I've just realized that I think I hate TED talks.
If you hate TED talks, you may like this:
http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2013/03/lets_save_great_ideas_from_the.html (http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2013/03/lets_save_great_ideas_from_the.html)
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Quoting a friend here: "TED talks are a merger of two venerable American snake-oil institutions: the chautauqua and the infomercial."
A great quote, and even better after I wiki'ed 'chautauqua'.
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I hate TED talks even more than i hate TED the movie.
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The shadowy figure at the center of the TED movement takes his name from the two adjectives that best describe his creation:
Pat Smug
Also, didn't the Monty Python sketch "How to Do It" thoroughly anticipate TED 40+ years ago?
Alan: ... first, here's Jackie to tell you how to rid the world of all known diseases.
Jackie: Well, first of all become a doctor and discover a marvelous cure for something, and then, when the medical world really starts to take notice of you, you can jolly well tell them what to do and make sure they get everything right so there'll never be diseases any more.
Alan: Thanks Jackie, that was great.
Noel: Fantastic.
Alan: Now, how to play the flute. (picking up a flute) Well you blow in one end and move your fingers up and down the outside.
Noel: Great Alan. Well, next week we'll be showing you how black and white people can live together in peace and harmony, and Alan will be over in Moscow showing you how to reconcile the Russians and the Chinese. Til then, cheerio.
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Anyone else hate Greg Gutfeld?
He's no good, but Andy Levy seems like a decent dude.
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I think they're both pretty funny.
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I hate the lazy jokes and story lines and the cheesy sentimentality on this season of Commuity.
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My take on Amanda Palmer? It's like Avril Lavigne hired Tori Amos as her principal songwriter. And I really wanted to like it, but it didn't happen.
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Adam Carolla
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I hate the lazy jokes and story lines and the cheesy sentimentality on this season of Commuity.
I agree. I think Chevy was justified in his "controversial" rant that came to light a few months ago. I mean, I really don't think the Pierce of Season 1 would do blackface around a black family, yet, that's now counting as a throwaway line for him
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"Bacon" as an insta-punchline to everything.
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"Bacon" as an insta-punchline to everything.
YES. And bacon in every restaurant salad.
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Keffiyehs on white guys. Aka, the new dreadlocks-on-white-guys.
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Pain that is at once unavoidable, unbearable, and inexplicable.
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Trance by Danny Boyle
I hate this movie so much. More than I even hate bad movies, because they identify themselves right from the get go and I can turn them off.
No, this movie is visually appealing and has some stunning direction in it.
Like you would expect from a Boyle film, the color palette is expertly chosen and the camera finds wonderfully upsetting angles, so that the pictures alone string you along, begging you to keep watching.
But, should you read this and you haven't yet seen the movie, don't.
Burn it with fire!
You will see the ending coming from a mile away, but it still won't fit, since Boyle is not upstanding enough to put in sufficient hints.
The resulting paranoia about what the ending might actually be, will carry you to the end of the film, but that won't be satisfying. No, it will just be stupid and abuse the main mechanic of the film (hypnosis), which was stated as being frail, but somehow is all powerful and can even influence fate itself. The explanation at the end of the film will simply come across as sounding ridiculous.
Also the dream/trance/hypnosis sequences are not sufficiently differentiated from real ones and Boyle thinks, that he can get away with huge plot holes this way, which are explained away by the magic of hypnosis. He manufactures cheap thrills within the dream sequences, which should also be rejected as these are simply there to distract the viewer from the horrible story.
So do not watch the movie, it will just make you angry.
Watch Side Effects!
That's a good movie about the human mind.
Or better yet, read the Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson!
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Read everything by Jon Ronson!
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Read everything by Jon Ronson!
Exactly!
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Trance by Danny Boyle
I hate this movie so much. More than I even hate bad movies, because they identify themselves right from the get go and I can turn them off.
This was just what I thought, too. It was extra-maddening because it was ALMOST good. But it didn't make a lick of sense, and the whole bit featuring Rosario Dawson's crotch was sleazy as hell.
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Read everything by Jon Ronson!
Exactly!
His podcast is pretty good, too. They are a little skimpy.
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"unsettling at best"
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...and the whole bit featuring Rosario Dawson's crotch was sleazy as hell.
As Col. Thomas Sharp would say: "He's a filth monger!"
Although I personally feel, that it was just a desperate attempt to distract.
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"inside baseball"
I know the president has used it, but come on, it's a dumb term. Think of another way to say that the discussion has expanded to include minor or incidental details that would only be familiar to insiders.
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"inside baseball"
Conspiracy
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By far, Obama's worst offense to the English language is referring to people as "folk." Which I've probably already complained about on here, making me a repetitive jerk.
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"inside baseball" is inside baseball
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Just a coincidence?
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By far, Obama's worst offense to the English language is referring to people as "folk." Which I've probably already complained about on here, making me a repetitive jerk.
That's an "inside baseball" term. You just don't get it.
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"inside baseball"
I know the president has used it, but come on, it's a dumb term. Think of another way to say that the discussion has expanded to include minor or incidental details that would only be familiar to insiders.
It's actually "insider baseball" and originally referred literally to the Congressional Baseball game (http://www.congressionalbaseball.org) and, later, to the wheelings and dealings that went on inside the dugouts and on the basepaths of the annual contest. Rep. Ron Paul (R, Texas) famously declared an end to "insider baseball" (and the small-ball managerial style of Ted Stevens [R, Alaska]) in 1979 when he hit the game's first over-the-fence home run. I've done my research, now you do yours.
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By far, Obama's worst offense to the English language is referring to people as "folk." Which I've probably already complained about on here, making me a repetitive jerk.
No, it makes you racist.
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A repetitive racist jerk, then.
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Folks:
When there's things to do not because you gotta
When you run for love not because you oughtta
When you trust your friends with no reason notta
The joy I name shall not be tamed