Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)

[Andy]

Second season was fabulous, I lost interest in the first season a couple shows in.

[cutout]

Scott Stapp's technical incompetence. His music is still good though.

[Pidgeon]

P&R is pretty good so far. It was definitely a pleasant surprise seeing Louis C.K.

[Andy]

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.

[Sarah]

This confession explains a lot about your online persona.

[Andy]

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.

[JonFromMaplewood]

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).

[Pidgeon]

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.

[cavorting with nudists]

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!

[Andy]

group assignments.

[dave from knoxville]

group assignments.

Amen, brother, they are the cheap way out for lazy college professors.

[Steve of Bloomington]

The holidays, at least the where everybody I work with is in India for December part...

[Pidgeon]

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!

[Andy]

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.

[Sarah]

That's the spirit!