Ok, so can I use your property for a dump?

I think I learned how to use "they're, their and there" in like 4th grade. It's amazing that a lot of highly educated people I know still get it confused.

 

its the internet and text messaging.  Kids don't know or learn proper grammar these days.  I'll admit, many times, ill just type without using punctuation marks,  etc., but at least I know the difference.

Federal study reveals a connection between cigar smoking and a decreased sex life.  No data was available for pipe smokers because, apparently, pipe smokers don't have sex lives. --Jon Stewart

Inlaws!  Who needs them?!  :whip:

Inlaws! Who needs them?! :whip:

 

Between my two brothers, I have three ex-sisters-in-law. I get along better with the exes than I do with my brothers.

Inlaws!  Who needs them?!  :whip:

 

Between my two brothers, I have three ex-sisters-in-law. I get along better with the exes than I do with my brothers.

lucky you.  My skank-in-laws family sucks.  The exception is her father.  He knows one of his kids isn't worth a dime.

^ Agreed.

 

The same goes for soooo many of the people who fish at piers locally.. Just go look how littered they are at State parks like Mosquito and Edgewater...

 

That is another issue, but similar scenario.

Same can be said for every RTA train stop and bus stop.  I see riders dropping them just as they get on the bus all the time.  Unfortunately they carry their stench with them...

Left-turners who go out of their lane because they are holding their cellphones. 

 

I annoyed a cell phonie yesterday.  I pulled alongside her, rolled down the power windows, and cranked up the first side London Calling, by the Clash.  If she had had her hands free, she could have rolled up her window, but she couldn't.

Left-turners who go out of their lane because they are holding their cellphones.

 

I annoyed a cell phonie yesterday. I pulled alongside her, rolled down the power windows, and cranked up the first side London Calling, by the Clash. If she had had her hands free, she could have rolled up her window, but she couldn't.

 

Speaking of turning drivers...people who take 10 years to make a simple 90 degree turn.

 

Ahaha, like people who come to a complete stop to turn even they don't need to. You see that a lot in Portsmouth.

You see a lot of that in Williamsport/Montoursville too.

That cellphone story was great!! :lol:

I have to give a speech on this subject in class tommorow.

 

This thread will be great to use!!!!!

I HATE IT WHEN SOMEONE SENDS ME A PRIVATE MESSAGE, YET THEIR MAILBOX IS FULL AND I CANNOT RESPOND! :x

 

IF MAILBOXES ARE NOT FULL, IS THERE SYSTEM GLITCH?!

People in Ohio that tell me how much they hate Michigan after they find out i'm from there.

 

Yes, i understand you don't like the University of Michigan because of the rivalry between two schools that you didn't attend. I'm not a fan of that school either, you see...i went to Michigan State University and no...it's not the same thing.

Being 'invited' [read: mandatory attendance] to an awards dinner to fill a seat because the company bought a table and the CEO will be there, only to find out that said CEO's good buddy got Cavs tickets and he bailed at the last minute.

People in Ohio that tell me how much they hate Michigan after they find out i'm from there.

 

Yes, i understand you don't like the University of Michigan because of the rivalry between two schools that you didn't attend. I'm not a fan of that school either, you see...i went to Michigan State University and no...it's not the same thing.

 

And I hate people (generally not from Ohio) who don't realize "Ohio" is not the same as "Ohio State".

 

Living in Texas, this was a big problem.  Even more so b/c I couldn't say "I went to OU" ... that to them was Oklahoma...even though OU was a school before Oklahoma was a state...and even when I was wearing a GREEN hat with "OU" on it, I would get crap about "being a Sooner".  Hey f-stick...the hat is green, not red.  I mean, at least go for Oregon...they're green too...

^ A good response may be "It's only as big of a party school as someone makes it."

I'm starting to realize having a big football program increases name recognition across the country. That's a pet peeve for sure.

 

Yeah.. It just demonstrates where the priorities are placed. I hate when people simply assume everyone is into sports by saying things like  "You going to the game?" etc.

 

 

Here is another peeve....  made up names to the extreme...  But I must say when this was forwarded to me...it was just too funny!

 

 

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

 

 

 

I say that, even as a once huge fan; now barely. Other interests have evolved.

My biggest Pet Peeves today are Cleveland.com and the people that turned the review of the Springsteen concert into a political thread... and the incoherent Baby Boomer going on about 69 camaros...

 

 

I hate it when people don't edge into the intersection when they are waiting to make a left turn at a traffic light. Leaving downtown during rush hour, it hate when I have to wait a few cycles because the driver in front of me doesn't realize that it is legal to do this.

Pennsylvania drivers.  All of them.  I want to move back to Jersey...

I hate when you watch these house hunter shows, and they refer to every room as a "space".  Like, "Oh wow, that's a really nice space".  It's a freaking living room for crying out loud.  Maybe it's just me, but it drives me nuts.

The sound of running water in a radio program just drives me up the wall.  It's like fingernails on a chalkboard  (who remembers chalkboards?).

I have two big ones at the moment:

 

1) Several dozen aging Baby Boomers who think being a patriot means riding around Manhattan on souped-up Harley motorcycles on Veterans Day, as if the rest of us are supposed to marvel in awe at how cool you are. No, you're not cool. You're just obnoxious douchebags who are preventing me from getting any work done, and hence, preventing me from contributing to the economy.

 

2) Speaking of rapidly-aging people who still think they're teenagers: A certain skank on my office who reeks of cigarette smoke and heavy perfume, dresses like a tramp, and who consistently subjects nearby co-workers to the sounds of her obnoxious voice, her radio, her obnoxious voice singing along to her radio, smacking her gum, and chewing her food with her mouth open. I swear my cat has more class and better table manners.

 

End of rant.

I have two big ones at the moment:

 

1) Several dozen aging Baby Boomers who think being a patriot means riding around Manhattan on souped-up Harley motorcycles on Veterans Day, as if the rest of us are supposed to marvel in awe at how cool you are. No, you're not cool. You're just obnoxious douchebags who are preventing me from getting any work done, and hence, preventing me from contributing to the economy.

 

This is what’s great about America! that we enjoy freedom of speech/expression to the extent that aging veterans who sacrificed time and risked their lives can be mocked and ridiculed by spoiled, nasty, ungrateful brats of a younger generation.

 

I have two big ones at the moment:

 

1) Several dozen aging Baby Boomers who think being a patriot means riding around Manhattan on souped-up Harley motorcycles on Veterans Day, as if the rest of us are supposed to marvel in awe at how cool you are. No, you're not cool. You're just obnoxious douchebags who are preventing me from getting any work done, and hence, preventing me from contributing to the economy.

 

 

This is what’s great about America! that we enjoy freedom of speech/expression to the extent that aging veterans who sacrificed time and risked their lives can be mocked and ridiculed by spoiled, nasty, ungrateful brats of a younger generation.

 

 

 

And even better- spoiled, nasty, ungrateful brats of a different political persuasion can bask in the glow of their sacrifice in hopes that some of that nobility will rub off on their position.

 

 

The thesis of the Rolling Thunder Motorcyclists is that we would have won Vietnam if the patriots were not stabbed in the back by the antiwar hippies and elitists.

 

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/06/0081080

 

Stabbed in the back! The past and future of a right-wing myth

 

Every state must have its enemies. Great powers must have especially monstrous foes. Above all, these foes must arise from within, for national pride does not admit that a great nation can be defeated by any outside force. That is why, though its origins are elsewhere, the stab in the back has become the sustaining myth of modern American nationalism. Since the end of World War II it has been the device by which the American right wing has both revitalized itself and repeatedly avoided responsibility for its own worst blunders. Indeed, the right has distilled its tale of betrayal into a formula: Advocate some momentarily popular but reckless policy. Deny culpability when that policy is exposed as disastrous. Blame the disaster on internal enemies who hate America. Repeat, always making sure to increase the number of internal enemies. ...

 

This is what’s great about America! that we enjoy freedom of speech/expression to the extent that aging veterans who sacrificed time and risked their lives can be mocked and ridiculed by spoiled, nasty, ungrateful brats of a younger generation.

 

I grew up a military brat and come from a long line of veterans going back to the Civil War. My paternal grandfather spent WWII in the British Merchant Marine avoiding U-boats in the North Atlantic, my dad spent Vietnam as a hospital corpsman disposing of severed limbs at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital, and my youngest brother is in Okinawa and preparing for a second tour in Afghanistan. So you can take your sanctimonious attitude and shove it where the sun doesn't shine. At least the veterans I know don't feel the need to make an obnoxious public spectacle of their military service, and they don't support draft-dodging politicians who send other peoples' sons into war and yet can't be bothered to attend a single military funeral in eight years.

This is what’s great about America! that we enjoy freedom of speech/expression to the extent that aging veterans who sacrificed time and risked their lives can be mocked and ridiculed by spoiled, nasty, ungrateful brats of a younger generation.

 

I grew up a military brat and come from a long line of veterans going back to the Civil War. My paternal grandfather spent WWII in the British Merchant Marine avoiding U-boats in the North Atlantic, my dad spent Vietnam as a hospital corpsman disposing of severed limbs at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital, and my youngest brother is in Okinawa and preparing for a second tour in Afghanistan. So you can take your sanctimonious attitude and shove it where the sun doesn't shine. At least the veterans I know don't feel the need to make an obnoxious public spectacle of their military service, and they don't support draft-dodging politicians who send other peoples' sons into war and yet can't be bothered to attend a single military funeral in eight years.

or perhaps they just didn't feel the need to turn a funeral into a showy photo-op :-)... and I'm sorry if some veterans have the audacity to exceed the bounds of your self-styled edicts of good taste, but as a non-veteran myself, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. Then again, you didn't serve in the military either, did you???

Obama's attendance at the Fort Hood memorial service yesterday was nothing more than a showy photo-op? You, sir, are one sick fuck.

 

I serve my country just fine without wearing a uniform, and the fact that somebody wore a uniform 40 years ago isn't an excuse for behaving like an asshole today.

New pet peeve. The Obama thread spilling into every other thread on UO...

 

oy! Give it a rest and stop baiting each other. We all know that nobody's opinion(s) are going to change based on a snarky post.

Forumers who forget that participation and membership here is a privilege, not a right.

I hate when you watch these house hunter shows, and they refer to every room as a "space".  Like, "Oh wow, that's a really nice space".  It's a freaking living room for crying out loud.  Maybe it's just me, but it drives me nuts.

 

The hosts must be from a non-residential real estate background.

I like how half of this thread is about driving. Being forced to drive everywhere is driving people insane. pun intended, duh dum cheee!

I hate when you watch these house hunter shows, and they refer to every room as a "space".  Like, "Oh wow, that's a really nice space".  It's a freaking living room for crying out loud.  Maybe it's just me, but it drives me nuts.

 

The hosts must be from a non-residential real estate background.

 

Thats because most of those new fangled open concept rooms are just that....space.

 

No character....just space!

When I saw the title of this thread five words came to mind extremely quickly:

 

Chris Sliterman and Jason Haap

although I'm sure they've probably been mentioned a time or two on this thread before...

People who wear shorts and / or flip flops, especially in the winter.

I like how half of this thread is about driving. Being forced to drive everywhere is driving people insane. pun intended, duh dum cheee!

 

I love driving.  There is nothing more relaxing.  Even in traffic!

Coworkers who tell me how much they hate cats.  This happens a lot at work.  Also, people who offer(ed) up how much they hate President Clinton and then start blathering unsubstantiated and uninteresting evidence.

Coworkers who tell me how much they hate cats.  This happens a lot at work.  Also, people who offer(ed) up how much they hate President Clinton and then start blathering unsubstantiated and uninteresting evidence.

 

I don't like cats either.  To much attitude.

cats and Clinton!  Now there are a couple of good hate topics! 

A pet peeve that keeps coming up with me is when people take liberties with names, specifically shortening them.  I always introduce myself as Melanie, and I always use Melanie in any correspondence.  I don't know why someone would decide to call me something else?

 

Similarly, I know someone named James, and that's what he wants to be called.  He only refers to himself as James.  When we went to his wedding a few years ago, the minister called him Jim several times.  I found it rather annoying.

I agree.  Addressing someone by a commonly accepted nickname without their consent is suggesting a familiarity with that person which may not exist.  I would have no more right to call you Mel, than you would have to call me Daniel!

 

 

I don't trust people who don't go by the familiar version of their name with their friends...this is just a general statement...not a specific comment towards you, Mel.  :-P

 

In particular James and Andrew...those are two names that cry out for Jim and Andy. (maybe not professionally, but they just sound uptight otherwise)

I don't trust people who don't go by the familiar version of their name with their friends...this is just a general statement...not a specific comment towards you, Mel.  :P

 

In particular James and Andrew...those are two names that cry out for Jim and Andy. (maybe not professionally, but they just sound uptight otherwise)

 

Why, my grandfather gave all of us kids nicknames.  We're grown and he still calls us by those name.

 

My grandfather used my nickname in front of my boss and my boss started calling me by my nickname.

Does your boss know what you did to that old boss?

Does your boss know what you did to that old boss?

 

My new boss is scared of me and I like it like that!  :whip:  :whip:  :whip:  >:D

 

I love and miss my old boss.  He was like a second father to me.

 

I love and miss my old boss. He was like a second father to me.

 

So YOU were scared of him, then?

 

People who wear shorts and / or flip flops, especially in the winter.

I hate it when people wear them in the summer!!

 

I love and miss my old boss.  He was like a second father to me.

 

So YOU were scared of him, then?

 

 

My old boss, not scared, but respect!  He's taught me a lot.  Plus he always let me have my way....for the greater good of the company.  :angel:  >:D  :angel: