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You met Gav Thorpe and didnt attempt to kill him.

Im disapointed in you.

Couple things that make me want to cause mass murders.
Turning your turn signal on when half way threw the turn. No gak your turning, why bother with the signal then?
I also hate it when people say cool beans. I had a boss once, and thats ALL she would say. About everything. Cool beans. It just drives me nuts

KingCracker wrote:Couple things that make me want to cause mass murders.
Turning your turn signal on when half way threw the turn. No gak your turning, why bother with the signal then?
I also hate it when people say cool beans. I had a boss once, and thats ALL she would say. About everything. Cool beans. It just drives me nuts

cool story bro

Vladsimpaler wrote:

KingCracker wrote:Couple things that make me want to cause mass murders.
Turning your turn signal on when half way threw the turn. No gak your turning, why bother with the signal then?
I also hate it when people say cool beans. I had a boss once, and thats ALL she would say. About everything. Cool beans. It just drives me nuts

cool story bro

Cool beans man, cool. fething. beans. who will cut you. so good.

Wrexasaur wrote:

Vladsimpaler wrote:

KingCracker wrote:Couple things that make me want to cause mass murders.
Turning your turn signal on when half way threw the turn. No gak your turning, why bother with the signal then?
I also hate it when people say cool beans. I had a boss once, and thats ALL she would say. About everything. Cool beans. It just drives me nuts

cool story bro

Cool beans man, cool. fething. beans. who will cut you. so good.

generalgrog wrote:I hate it when I go to the "express" lane at the local grocery store and people either blatanly ignore the "15 items or less" sign, by bringing double the "allowed" amount. If it was 16 items it might bother me, 17 items maybe, but when you double up the allowed items, that's right out anarchist!

Oh... and I also want to mention the people that get in the "express" lane and have like 15 items but "divide" the purchases up into 2 or three chunks. 5 items on credit card, 5 items with check, and 5 items with cash.

Oh...Oh...Oh.. and I almost forgot my favorite. "Oh I don't have that much money, can you take a few things off" Then they have to spend 10 minutes rummaging through the bags to find that specific item that can be removed to get the total under the amount they can afford. grrrrrrr

Having worked in a grocery store, it was one of my favorite things to tell people that they couldn't use the express lane. They would come up with a buggy full and start to unload and I'd tell them "I'm sorry, this lane is for 15 items or less." They invariably would look at me like I just told them I was going to kill their first born child and continue to unload. I would stand there patiently and remind them "This lane is only 15 items or less, I cannot check out your items." At about this point, they would call for the manager and he would come over they would tell him that I wouldn't check them out and he would ask how many items they had. Whenever they said they had the whole buggy, he would politely tell them that the lane was the express lane and they would have to go to another lane. The looks on their faces! It was priceless.

As for putting things back, that is one that ALWAYS gets on my nerves! I live in a decidely poor area and there are many families on welfare. Now, I have no problem with welfare, heck, my mom was on WIC when I was younger. She and my dad, however, worked hard to support our family and still couldn't get enough to raise my brother and I. However, I digress.

So, there's this family in front of me at the checkout. They have a buggy load of grocery goodness. When the lady rings them up, it's just over $100. They swipe their foodstamp cards (the guy and gal weren't married, they were just "dating" they each had their own card!) and low and behold they have a combined total of $50 and change. So, they start putting stuff back. What do they put back? The raw meat, eggs, bread, and milk, etc. What do they keep? A boatload of frozen pizzas/dinners, a couple of 12 packs of Mt. Dew and each one of the group (there was at least five) got a candy bar and a 20 oz soda of their choice.

I was stunned.

I hate some drivers, not hate, but basically despise.

One thing that I never understood, was having a drive thru, that allowed for merging... what a stupid. fething. idea. You know that some dumbass is going to try and force their way into the line, it is just totally unnatural.

Another thing is drivers that are oblivious, utterly freaking oblivious. They think they are driving a train or something, like there very movements are decided by some nonexistent track. I hate honking at people, so I use my lights, and it works epically well. People really notice it, and personally, I think a friendly blink or two, or three, or four, is much more polite than obnoxious honking. Makes me want to carry a mega-phone, and a party horn... but a lot of things make me want to do that though. Really... just writing about it sounds like an amazing idea, it would such a dynamic pair of tools. You have your horn to get attention, and your mega-phone to just be louder. You know when people try and get louder, to "win" the argument, HORN! HAH! MEGAPHONE!

I wonder how the police would feel about that, I mean seriously though, how could someone not be allowed to retaliate in a non-physical manner, it is not exactly illegal to argue with someone. I just feel that if someone has no problem trying to deafen me with their battlecry, I can have no problem melting their eardrums with my own take on the same thing.

OH, and you can wear earplugs too... it is actually a pretty awesome experience, not having to listen to someone scream at you.

My wife is incapable of putting a lid back on any jar correctly, putting a container of juice or milk back in the fridge or squeezing a toothpaste tube anywhere but in the middle. It used to drive me fethin' nuts, but somehow I've gotten so used to it that my brain is able to by-pass the RAGE synapsis and go directly to the JUST FORGET ABOUT IT one.

zatchmo wrote:Having worked in a grocery store, it was one of my favorite things to tell people that they couldn't use the express lane. They would come up with a buggy full and start to unload and I'd tell them "I'm sorry, this lane is for 15 items or less."

You sir are my hero for the day.

Bravo!!!

GG

Lots of things bug me, but I'll keep this to the little things:

-PIN number and ATM machine - the acronym already contains the last word! You're saying Personal Identification Number Number, and Automated Teller Machine Machine! Also came up in a text I was reading "cruciform shaped" cruciform- cross shaped. Cruciform shaped? cross shaped shaped. Argh!

-People who don't have their money ready when they are buying one or two items in the shop, or who pay by credit card. You fethers. I hope you die in a fire.

Your army's a Twilight rip-off. I bet the armor's all glittery.

GoFenris wrote:

Roze wrote:LOL i watched a big scary looking guy punch a BMW door and the guy in the car sat crying until he left...thats what you get for driving like a tool then having the audacity to swear at the person you almost killed!

Were you in Las Vegas when this happened? I swear my friend told me yesterday about how he was arrested a few weeks back for this very same thing.

I wasn't hun, i saw an old lady beat up a really big guy when i was in Vegas though...that was pretty sweet.

Brother, I don’t pretend to be a sage,
Nor have I all the wisdom of the age.
There’s just one insight I would dare to claim:
I know that true and false are not the same;
And just as there is nothing I more revere
Than a soul whose faith is steadfast and sincere,
Nothing that I more cherish and admire
Than honest zeal and true religious fire,
So there is nothing that I find more base
Then specious piety’s dishonest face-
Than those bold mountebanks, these histrios
Whose impious mummeries and hollow shows
Exploit our love of Heaven, and make a jest
Of all that men think holiest and best;
These calculating souls who offer prayers
Not to their Maker, but as public wares,
And seek to buy respect and reputation
With lifted eyes and sighs of exaltation;
These charlatans, I say, whose pilgrim souls
Proceed, by way of Heaven, toward earthly goals,
Who weep and pray and swindle and extort,
Who preach the monkish life, but haunt the court,
Who make their zeal the partner of their vice-
Such men are vengeful, sly, and cold as ice,
And when there is an enemy to defame
They cloak their spite in fair religion’s name,
Their private spleen and malice being made
To seem a high and virtuous crusade,
Until, to mankind’s reverent applause,
They crucify their foe in Heaven’s cause.
-Tartuffe

avantgarde wrote:Brother, I don’t pretend to be a sage,
Nor have I all the wisdom of the age.
There’s just one insight I would dare to claim:
I know that true and false are not the same;
And just as there is nothing I more revere
Than a soul whose faith is steadfast and sincere,
Nothing that I more cherish and admire
Than honest zeal and true religious fire,
So there is nothing that I find more base
Then specious piety’s dishonest face-
Than those bold mountebanks, these histrios
Whose impious mummeries and hollow shows
Exploit our love of Heaven, and make a jest
Of all that men think holiest and best;
These calculating souls who offer prayers
Not to their Maker, but as public wares,
And seek to buy respect and reputation
With lifted eyes and sighs of exaltation;
These charlatans, I say, whose pilgrim souls
Proceed, by way of Heaven, toward earthly goals,
Who weep and pray and swindle and extort,
Who preach the monkish life, but haunt the court,
Who make their zeal the partner of their vice-
Such men are vengeful, sly, and cold as ice,
And when there is an enemy to defame
They cloak their spite in fair religion’s name,
Their private spleen and malice being made
To seem a high and virtuous crusade,
Until, to mankind’s reverent applause,
They crucify their foe in Heaven’s cause.
-Tartuffe

Oui, mon frère, je suis un méchant, un coupable. I am very compelled to watch this play now.

Better watch out, though... I have said essentially the same thing, with realworld (registered trademark) examples to back it up, and got called intolerant... Twice.
I have noticed that religion here in Dakka OT is a very touchy thing... /dir

This grinds my gears, it bothers me greatly... Let me say that first, so we stay on topic and not start trashing peoples beliefs.
To each his own. I just wish people would stop calling other people trolls for posting their opinions, simply because you don't agree with it. That's fethed up, Dakka.
Like Frazz told me, the rule is "don't be offensive". But when it comes down to it, everything I have posted about what I believe has offended people here in Dakka OT, and people fight with me about it, chastising me for being intolerant, or just plain wrong, or "fabricating" facts. I said the same thing to a Christian, I got Mod attention.

Scenario:
Atheist: I don't get why Christians think this. It frustrates me.
Christian: What is not to get? Are you calling us stupid? I think you are stupid. You must just be intolerant or ignorant. Why do you have to bash us? Learn to accept others.
Atheist: ...o.O WTF, that's not what I said...
Atheist-Druid-Scientologist-Buddhist-Pagan: True, Christian=/=Stupid, but it is possible for any religious person to act in a way others would think is stupid. (followed by a real story, with verifiable facts. Not trashing or flaming. Real life with real facts.)
Mod: You are intoloerant
Atheist-Druid-Scientologist-Buddhist-Pagan: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU...

That is what I believe! It does not invalidate your opinion or belief, just like yours to mine... I am not intolerant for saying it, you are not intolerant for disagreeing.
But when you call me intolerant based on that, I think THAT is intolerant... Maybe this would be better off posted in the irony thread.

I hate it when someone tells you that they will call you right back then you don't here from them for over a week.

G

I hate when people act like their kid is really cute by doing something uber annoying. Meanwhile, all those who don't share any biological relation with said child want to see it get smacked for a quick schadenfreude high.

I hate the "youth control alarm" at my local shop. Yes i know only people under the age of 21 are suposed to be able to hear that teeth sharreting high pitched scream, and i know it must be horrible having a bus load of kids angry because you wont sell them alcohol, But please...for the sake of my sanity, PLEASE just call the police instead of blasting that alarm. I'm 24 Mr shop keeper and i hear it. I can't be the only one over 21 to hear it, Every time you do it every fiber of my being hurts....*sob* don't make me kill it while you sleep...Because i will...i will smash it to bits!!

Instead of these high tech soundwave emitters, they should just hand out some smacks to the little gaks.

Roze wrote:I hate the "youth control alarm" at my local shop. Yes i know only people under the age of 21 are suposed to be able to hear that teeth sharreting high pitched scream, and i know it must be horrible having a bus load of kids angry because you wont sell them alcohol, But please...for the sake of my sanity, PLEASE just call the police instead of blasting that alarm. I'm 24 Mr shop keeper and i hear it. I can't be the only one over 21 to hear it, Every time you do it every fiber of my being hurts....*sob* don't make me kill it while you sleep...Because i will...i will smash it to bits!!

Ah i feel for you, them alarms suck! We don't have them in Cambridge but when i was in Liverpool St Station sometime last year i think they were testing one out. I could hear it (I look after my hearing as i was a music student) and none of my friends could. They thought i was mental...

I hate extreme high frequency's...they piss me off to the max.

To the max?
Very nineties.

Liliputians bother me. [I think that is how it's spelled]

I hate it when people let their children raise the parents.

"Little Johnny gets what he wants because I'm too much of a pussy to discipline my child. I do not want to spank him on his bottom because then I will go to jail for child abuse."

God fething dammit! I will go to jail for murder if they don't teach their kids to behave!

@generalgrog - Woot! I was someone's hero! Really though, it is annoying and I tried to prevent it when it was obvious. Another tactic of those people with cartloads of goods was "Well, it's not 15 DIFFERENT items..." Please, you have to be kidding me...

@tblock1984 - I understand exactly what you mean. I am a Christian and I can't stand it when others are simply intolerant to people who don't believe the way we believe. To each his own, I agree.

And as for the alarms. In my experience in the States, we don't have them, but it is a popular ringtone on a lot of teenager cell phones. I can remember working at a movie store and was renting movies out to a lady and her teenage daughter. I kept hearing this high pitched buzzing and, after cocking my head many a time, saw the teenage daughter texting on her phone. I inquired as to whether she had that as a ringtone and she got all huffy and said, "Ugh! They said only teenagers could hear this!" and proceeded to storm out of the store. The mother turns to me and says, "Thanks. Now I have to deal with that all the way home, couldn't you just keep your mouth shut?" and left. I'm so glad I don't work in customer service anymore!

zatchmo wrote:"Ugh! They said only teenagers could hear this!"

People using "moot" to mean "not worth debate".

My neighbors.

Inconsiderate, self-centered, or (and?) egotistical people in general. (See above.)

People who randomly come up to me on the street and say hello just 'cos I'm in Englishman in China and you wanna impress that girl next to you with your perfectly spoken single syllable. Seriously...do you go up to other Chinese people and say "Hi"? No you don't. You don't know them and you don't know me...lets keep it like that.

I have vowed myself many times the next time someone does it I'm gonna start a whole conversation with them and see how smart they feel.

Oh and my neighbours...the people who feel that construction work on their apartment should begin at 10pm and finish around 2am.

Haha, got to love the person who came up with the idea people under 21 hear a different frequency. Who the feth thought that was actually a provable theory?

I'm never lucky to get cashiers to shoo away people with more than the express items allows. I always get stuck wanting to buy a pack of gum and a bottle of something to drink behind some lady/guy/family at the 10 items or less checkout with 3 carts of groceries and the cashier starts ringing them through. I swear those cashiers need to be taught how to read.

I'd say after long enough working with pissy customers with entitlement complexes you just start letting them away with it for the quiet life. I don't blame the cashiers too much in that situation, I blame the pricks with the excess shopping.
I actually really really hate it when I see someone being rude to service industry staff. I mean, you can always be polite, even if you're not happy with something, and a lot of the time it's not the person you're talking to's fault. Even if it is, and they're being rude, I think you should still stay polite.

I hate when someone calls you on the phone then immediately puts you on hold.

G

Telemarketers.

"Hello."
"..."
"Hello?"
*With an Indian accent so thick you could lean on it*"Er, hello. My name is bub (trying to say bob), I am calling flom Blisbane to discuss your phone plan you are going to save money every month on your phone plan does that sound good?"
*if I have not hung up already* "What's the catch?"
"There is no catch, only-" at this point the bloke is speaking so quickly that comprehension is impossible. On If I find that patience tricks are pulled like asking if you can speak while on the toilet and squeezing a nearly-empty sauce bottle.

It just annoys me because the calls always seem to come when my sleep deprived family gets a rare siesta in. On the other hand I feel kind of bad about complaining about it when those Indian folks are likely to be poor or living rough (especially by western standards).

I hate people who act all tough and walk with that spanker swagger.

I just wanna violence them. If I was the tyrant of Australia I'd just give em the noose.

No one cares how tough you are, You dont need to stare me down in your commadore (its a car), you dont need to do nothing.. you can be the alpha male of the shopping centre.. I just wanna get some damn *insert shopping item here*.

People who are actually tough give off that toughness, swagger = spanker.. If this is you cut your wrist from the hand to the elbow.

Ah I feel better.