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I needed one of these. The word appropriate should be banned. I'm sick of hearing it, it is the word of killjoys and un-fun people everywhere. Anyone who says it needs their tongue torn out and fed to a hungry honey badger. I wish people would stop trying to appear morally superior and just get on with realising that other people have different opinions. I thought my gears were completely worn down untill i saw a tweet on a tv program that said " That's not appropros"

Seriously, in what fethed up world does some witch live in where they think they need a 'cooler' version of appropriate, is it not enough to be a killjoy but now they have to be one in a 'cool' way?
feth appropriate and feth appropro.

Also feth advertising people who keep insisting to people that if a word is shortened it is somehow cooler, it fething isn't . Apropros isn't fething cool and neither is fething za.

Rant fething over.

I don't like word "pet peeve" on a aesthetic level which means it perfectly captures the meaning of the word.

One last thing. I hate, hate it when people dismiss something as "Just being a theory". A theory, scientifically speaking, is as close as we can get to 100% certainty about something.

 TheCustomLime wrote:
One last thing. I hate, hate it when people dismiss something as "Just being a theory". A theory, scientifically speaking, is as close as we can get to 100% certainty about something.

Well I doubt everything that what you hear people call a theory is actually a scientific theory...

 TheCustomLime wrote:
One last thing. I hate, hate it when people dismiss something as "Just being a theory". A theory, scientifically speaking, is as close as we can get to 100% certainty about something.

If it hasn't been proven it is not 100% certain and should only be regarded as a theory, anything else is not science. If you start regarding scientific theories as fact what happens when one is proven false? It may be ok to regard them as true, but it has to be held foremost that they are not proven. Sorry for jumping on your pet peeve, but growing up with two chemists as parents who took great pains to explain whenever something was a theory it wasn't proven has certainly left it's mark.

I'll add people who regard scientific theories as proven to my pet peeve list.

Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 Smacks wrote:


I guess it fits a larger peeve, which is "Anyone trying to fake being something that they're not".

So anyone with a hyphenated -American that they identify as??

No. Saying you are Irish-American is not the same as pretending to be Irish when you aren't.

Bullockist wrote:If it hasn't been proven it is not 100% certain and should only be regarded as a theory, anything else is not science.

Since proving something 100% would mean proving it beyond "unreasonable doubt" I would argue that it is impossible. I think the main issue is one of equivocation. I might be paraphrasing Richard Dawkins here, but to non-scientists/laymen the word 'theory' can be used interchangeably with words like 'guess' and 'assumption' and other unsubstantiated ravings. His argument was that scientific 'fact' is a much closer translation. I tend to agree, especially when you consider that some things we call 'facts' can also end up being wrong.

 kronk wrote:
Also, slow drivers in the fast lane.

Also, slow drivers in the fast lane that won't get out of the fething way.

Mine is the reverse. People driving two inches from your rear bumper when you're overtaking a convoy of trucks, clearly can't go out of the way and are already speeding.
On the plus side, this is an easy pet peeve to get revenge for .
I slow down to just barely faster than whatever I'm overtaking for people like that.

People that insist on trying to strike up a conversation when I'm reading a book. And its always when I get to a good part too.

Rotary wrote:I went on a date with this really cute girl during college. On our first date we met up with her friends who she called "N***A". It drove my crazy almost instantly for so many different reasons. In my area it became a word all ethnicity's started using as a greeting to sound "cool".

Yep, that's what happens when you let white people listen to rap

 dogma wrote:

 mega_bassist wrote:
I've watched that video before. It's an extreme example, but an example nonetheless. It's cringe-worthy.

Well, if we're going to talk about "extreme examples" Kevin Ogar is the textbook case.

Ogar was not correctly spotted, and the weights behind him should not have been there.

This image...



...is even more disturbing as either competitor's bail has a significant chance to impact the other.

Again I only bench press wiener dogs. Whats the issue with the pic?


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 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 Smacks wrote:


I guess it fits a larger peeve, which is "Anyone trying to fake being something that they're not".

So anyone with a hyphenated -American that they identify as??

Neanderthal-American. I member of true minority.

I identify as un-American , part of a large majority.

 Frazzled wrote:

Again I only bench press wiener dogs. Whats the issue with the pic?

If the guy behind bails (drops the weight because he cannot complete the lift) forwards, or the guy in front bails backwards, there is a chance the weight will hit one or the other. This is always bad, but if one or the other is in the middle of a repetition it is much worse as he is much more likely to be injured. No two lifters engaging in any similar lift (both are attempting a full snatch) should be that close together. Indeed, many gyms don't allow that sort of exercise at all due to liability issues.

Also, the presence of unsecured weights around the lifting platform is bad. They can either become projectiles due to a bail, or direct the weight being lifted in unpredictable ways during a bail; as Ogar unfortunately discovered.

Bullockist wrote:

 TheCustomLime wrote:
One last thing. I hate, hate it when people dismiss something as "Just being a theory". A theory, scientifically speaking, is as close as we can get to 100% certainty about something.

If it hasn't been proven it is not 100% certain and should only be regarded as a theory, anything else is not science. If you start regarding scientific theories as fact what happens when one is proven false? It may be ok to regard them as true, but it has to be held foremost that they are not proven. Sorry for jumping on your pet peeve, but growing up with two chemists as parents who took great pains to explain whenever something was a theory it wasn't proven has certainly left it's mark.

I'll add people who regard scientific theories as proven to my pet peeve list.

In the realm of science there is no 100% certainty about anything. A theory is a hypothesis that has been tested rigorously and has not been disproven. This is as close as we can get to certainty. What you may be thinking of is a hypothesis.

And to address another poster, that is certainly true but too often people do use that phrase in the context of a scientific theory. That is what bothers me. The certainty they desire is simply not possible.

 dogma wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

Again I only bench press wiener dogs. Whats the issue with the pic?

If the guy behind bails (drops the weight because he cannot complete the lift) forwards, or the guy in front bails backwards, there is a chance the weight will hit one or the other. This is always bad, but if one or the other is in the middle of a repetition it is much worse as he is much more likely to be injured. No two lifters engaging in any similar lift (both are attempting a full snatch) should be that close together. Indeed, many gyms don't allow that sort of exercise at all due to liability issues.

Also, the presence of unsecured weights around the lifting platform is bad. They can either become projectiles due to a bail, or direct the weight being lifted in unpredictable ways during a bail; as Ogar unfortunately discovered.

Thanks for clarification. That indeed sounds bad.

At the Frazzled household most of the time when doing wiener dog lifting exercise, I am surrounded by a large safety system ( sitting on a sofa) thus insuring the safety of all parties. We have to watch though because if I put TBone on the sofa, if I am not on alert he will spring awake and attempt to leap off into space after Ghost Julia and this doesn't end well (I cradle him down and up). I usually have a large cushion on the ground just in case but am very careful to always keep a finger on him. I have caught him in mid flight a few times.

 Smacks wrote:

Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 Smacks wrote:


I guess it fits a larger peeve, which is "Anyone trying to fake being something that they're not".

So anyone with a hyphenated -American that they identify as??

No. Saying you are Irish-American is not the same as pretending to be Irish when you aren't.

My argument to that would be, if a person is born in a country, that makes them of that country. eg, if they are born/live in England, Ireland or USA, that makes them English, Irish, or American. If you're a black person in the US, and have had family members in this country for 2-3+ generations, that makes you American, not African-American... you were not born there, you've probably never been there, you'd probably die if you went there now.

Now, if you are "fresh off the boat" as it were, sure, I can see calling yourself Italian-American, Irish-American, African-American, Asian-American, etc. but if you don't fit that bill, then quit claiming to be something you're not.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:
My argument to that would be, if a person is born in a country, that makes them of that country. eg, if they are born/live in England, Ireland or USA, that makes them English, Irish, or American. If you're a black person in the US, and have had family members in this country for 2-3+ generations, that makes you American, not African-American... you were not born there, you've probably never been there, you'd probably die if you went there now.

Now, if you are "fresh off the boat" as it were, sure, I can see calling yourself Italian-American, Irish-American, African-American, Asian-American, etc. but if you don't fit that bill, then quit claiming to be something you're not.

When I go for citizenship I might start calling myself Irish-American

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

When I go for citizenship I might start calling myself Irish-American

See, if you're applying for citizenship then you are obviously from a different country, so if you are indeed from Ireland, I have no issues with you calling yourself Irish-American

People who work out at my gym and show no improvement as the months go on. Just unsub and stop taking up parking spaces in the parking lot, and using my stations.

People who are late. Be early, or on time, or don't bother coming. Time is a person's most precious resource in life, wasting it is tantamount to theft. In that regard, tardy folks STEAL FROM ME.

Pisses me right off.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:
My argument to that would be, if a person is born in a country, that makes them of that country. eg, if they are born/live in England, Ireland or USA, that makes them English, Irish, or American. If you're a black person in the US, and have had family members in this country for 2-3+ generations, that makes you American, not African-American... you were not born there, you've probably never been there, you'd probably die if you went there now.

Now, if you are "fresh off the boat" as it were, sure, I can see calling yourself Italian-American, Irish-American, African-American, Asian-American, etc. but if you don't fit that bill, then quit claiming to be something you're not.

Ahhh I see. Sorry, I actually thought you were being sarcastic before and meant completely the opposite of that. I agree and I find it strange.

However I do sort of understand. I imagine the original immigrant populations in America might have been quite insular in a lot of ways, like tiny colonies. If you grow up speaking Italian, with Italian parents, and all your friends and everyone on your street is Italian... Then culturally you're probably very Italian, even if this all happens in America. I can understand how even generations later people might still consider themselves Italian growing up in that kind of community. Even though they would slowly become distinct from Italians in Italy.

It's slightly different to someone who has Italian ancestry but otherwise grew up in a non-Italian culture.

Fraz how many pounds is the wiener that you lift? Sounds mighty heavy.

Also: My damn college. To get the piece of software that i need for an assignment i need to register to another section of their site, DESPITE ALREADY BEING A REGISTERED STUDENT

Mate, you're just coming to terms with the fact that most of the educational system in the UK is about as reliable as 5th ED Deepstrikes in Cities of Death. Trust me, I was there about ~8 months ago. You'll be fine

 PrehistoricUFO wrote:
Time is a person's most precious resource in life, wasting it is tantamount to theft. In that regard, tardy folks STEAL FROM ME.

If you can't get anything done during down time then you, minimally, lack ambition and , maximally, are lazy.

Bullockist wrote:
I thought my gears were completely worn down untill i saw a tweet on a tv program that said " That's not appropros"

Seriously, in what fethed up world does some witch live in where they think they need a 'cooler' version of appropriate, is it not enough to be a killjoy but now they have to be one in a 'cool' way?
feth appropriate and feth appropro.

Also feth advertising people who keep insisting to people that if a word is shortened it is somehow cooler, it fething isn't . Apropros isn't fething cool and neither is fething za.

Rant fething over.

You do know that apropos is not an abbreviated form of appropriate, right? They aren't even from the same original sources. They happen to be synonyms, however, so it is completely apropos to use apropos instead of appropriate.

edit: Personally, my pet peeve is making judgements based on incorrect or insufficient facts.

 pretre wrote:

Personally, my pet peeve is making judgements based on incorrect or insufficient facts.

A fair point, I will make another edit to return the original sentiment to my post so PrehistoricUFO has a chance to reply.

 pretre wrote:

Bullockist wrote:
I thought my gears were completely worn down untill i saw a tweet on a tv program that said " That's not appropros"

Seriously, in what fethed up world does some witch live in where they think they need a 'cooler' version of appropriate, is it not enough to be a killjoy but now they have to be one in a 'cool' way?
feth appropriate and feth appropro.

Also feth advertising people who keep insisting to people that if a word is shortened it is somehow cooler, it fething isn't . Apropros isn't fething cool and neither is fething za.

Rant fething over.

You do know that apropos is not an abbreviated form of appropriate, right? They aren't even from the same original sources. They happen to be synonyms, however, so it is completely apropos to use apropos instead of appropriate.

edit: Personally, my pet peeve is making judgements based on incorrect or insufficient facts.

. I stand humbled, corrected and rubbished.

 Smacks wrote:

 liquidjoshi wrote:

 gianlucafiorentini123 wrote:
One thing that's always annoyed me a bit is when some members of the Irish American community take being 1/64 Irish sooooooo seriously, it might be a bit insensitive of me but it always grated on my nerves.

1/16th Irish here. Totally get why that would annoy some people - personally, I reckon I'm pushing it at that...

Heh! American's are crazy with that 'heritage' stuff. I had a girl from Florida once tell me in IRC that she shouldn't rightly like me, because I'm English and she's "Irish" (Though she'd never set foot in Ireland in her life).

As it happens: I'm half Irish, have an Irish passport, even the English half of my family has Irish roots, and do love those potatoes!... I still don't consider myself Irish enough to go around calling myself "Irish" or putting on the accent. The term 'plastic paddy' would spring to mind.

I guess it fits a larger peeve, which is "Anyone trying to fake being something that they're not".

YES. This has always bothered me to no end. It makes it even better when they attempt to prove their Irish heritage by describing themselves with hateful stereotypes of Irishmen.

Ask them to name three geographic locations in Ireland next time. They wont be able to. This is of course only slightly less annoying than when a run of the mill white American describes his or her heritage as 1/8 Dutch German Irish French Swedish English Scottish....and the cherry on top Native America. We get it. You are a white suburbanite like all the rest of us.

Also I work in a whole foods industry that has a large number of crossfire people. There is no doubt that it is an effective workout, but the extremes in which some of these people worship it are worrisome. The group closest to me has come to the point of cult worship whereas the "coach" ( cult leader) tracks peoples diets and "encourages" people to to things outside of the gym together as a group.

 Strombones wrote:
Also I work in a whole foods industry that has a large number of crossfire people. There is no doubt that it is an effective workout, but the extremes in which some of these people worship it are worrisome. The group closest to me has come to the point of cult worship whereas the "coach" ( cult leader) tracks peoples diets and "encourages" people to to things outside of the gym together as a group.

I've heard that Crossfit has similar cult-ish worship (and they never shut up about it either)

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 Strombones wrote:
Also I work in a whole foods industry that has a large number of crossfire people. There is no doubt that it is an effective workout, but the extremes in which some of these people worship it are worrisome. The group closest to me has come to the point of cult worship whereas the "coach" ( cult leader) tracks peoples diets and "encourages" people to to things outside of the gym together as a group.

I've heard that Crossfit has similar cult-ish worship (and they never shut up about it either)

Much truth. One of my friends has been a die-hard CrossFit "trainer" for two years, and he posts his workouts on Facebook all the time. Not to mention he tries to get me to go to the gym every damn time we hang out.

 PrehistoricUFO wrote:
People who work out at my gym and show no improvement as the months go on. Just unsub and stop taking up parking spaces in the parking lot, and using my stations.

Mmm the young are always funny when they talk. Wait until you're older boy, and watch as the worm has turned.
http://metro.co.uk/2014/03/20/woman-told-to-cover-up-in-gym-because-toned-body-was-intimidating-others-4667490/

I agree on the being late thing though.



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Bullockist wrote:
Fraz how many pounds is the wiener that you lift? Sounds mighty heavy.

TBone the Magnificant is about 14 at this point. His goal is to die eating steak and I am happy to oblige him. Rodney is about 17 now. He's a nervous little fatty.