Things that bug me Rant!!! (join in the fun)

Conspiracy Theories.

JKF - Dead, Princess Diana - Dead, Elvis - Dead.

Shot, crashed & peanut butter sandwiched in that order - no conspiracy, just dead people

Uh... ah...

Dang. I actually agree with you on all points. Well, could you expand on #4 ?

12) Usage of the phrase "Cut and Paste".
If it is copy and paste that is being done, then say it as "Copy and Paste" :-))

religion. while the wackos of ANY faith should stay out of your face, so should the anti-religion people. Saying "under god" in the pledge did not scar you as a child and it won't anyone else. get over it.

Until ID is disproven or Evolution becomes more than a theory, get over yourself monkey boy.

abortion. safe, legal, rare. should NEVER be casual or "just one of those things". Anyone that wears an "I had an abortion" shirt is scum.

drugs. depends. no excuses for people on drugs, EVER. can't pay your bills because you spent your money on drugs? Starve. Got kids and your strung out? Take the kids away and put you in jail for child endangerment.

same sex marriage. this is not taking anything away from gays by not changing existing definitions of what marriage is and has been. the existing rules do not need to be changed just so you can validate yourself. it isn't marriage. civil unions were created for this purpose. If you don't like what marriage is, don't do it. do the NEW union for the new type of union.

divorce. now that being the better parent isn't based on who has the vagina, fine. women, you want to leave then you are entitled to half that you worked for. you are NOT entitled to a paycheck. men, give them what they are due and nothing more. kids. parents that WANT to be involved should have equal time. If you have equal time, there should not be any support paid as you support the kids when you have them.

GWB and war. It turns out that some of the early Democrats were right. Iraqies are NOT worth it. let them kill each other like the bloody savages they are. make trade partners with whoever is left standing.

sexism/racism and all other isms are stupid thoughts by stupid people. but that is the double edge of a free society. freedom of speech protects even hate speech. (ask the ACLU). It should be illegal in hiring/housing, but is hard to apply a law anywhere else. (hard enough to do it in the work place). charging someone with a "hate crime" is just stupidity as well. Is it better to kill someone I don't hate?

smoking. people in CA show that they are only interested in SOME rights. They are quick to pick and choose, showing their complete lack of integrity. If your in an open place, or a private business, then it should be dependant on the owner of that place to decide if they want to cater to smokers or non-smokers. If they make an unpopular choice, they go out of business because people won't go there. on the other hand, smokers have already shown THEIR questionable intelligence by smoking in the first place.

But the number one rule, as long as you don't affect my life, you have the right to be wrong.

People with opinions you expressed in items 1 through 5 and item 7 really irk me. :-)

As far as #6, divorce should not be taken lightly, but at the same time there are valid reasons for divorce, too, and "falling out of love" is not one of them. I count valid reasons as infidelity, irresponsibility, drug use, criminal activity, spousal abuse, and a very mean and spiteful spouse.

Now I do agree completely with you with items 8 through 10.

here here I agree with you. here are some things to add that burn me. Of course there is more but these were the first couple that entered my angry mind.
11. begging/ spare change
Nothing annoys me more than someone begging me or seeing someone who is missing limbs hassle me or give me a bad look when I don?t give them my hard earned money during my lunch.
12. Whatca reading?
I hate being in the breakroom during lunch reading a book and someone chiming in that question. They usually are not interested in knowing, they just want to talk when you don?t.
13. fake people
Be honest, youre not fooling anyone. Be polite, but don?t pretend that you suddenly like someone because they can do something for you.
14. rubber neckers
The highest crime against humanity. I hate being stuck in traffic because someone needs water cooler material. Somebody got into a fender bender, big deal it happens al the freaking time. Mostly the cars have a scratch and not anything serious.
15. slow people in the fastlane
These tend to be new car owners believing that this is the ?prestige lane or envy lane?. The major offenders tend to also be suv drivers concerned with gas milage. You bought it, suck it up.
16. office equality
I am not talking about racism, I am talking about the 5 year old envy or high school mentality. Oh look he has something new, when do I get that? Od you have a business need for it? No, but why should he have something that I cant? Yeah why him?(other office worker chiming in) soon enough there is a frenzy mimicking a coup.

1. People who drive slow in the passing lane and do not move over for faster drivers. Even worse when the vehicle is very large and you can't see around it.

2. People using cell phones while driving, letting themselves be distracted.

3. Putting on makeup while driving.

4. Minivans full of kids going to soccer practice, and the "soccer mom" driving while distracted by the little barbarians.

5. Poorly timed traffic lights. Make it through one traffic light, and the next turns red before you can get through the next intersection.

6. People who drive either pulled all the way up or leaning so far back that you can barely see the back of their heads, and they are looking out through the space between dashboard and the top of the steering wheel.

7. "Tricked out" and "Pimped" vehicles with one or more of the following:
A. Huge fin on the back.
B. Spinning rims
C. Metallic paint color, or bright outrageous colors like purple or pink or bright green.
D. Loud speakers with a very strong deep bass that you can feel in your chest
E. Fender or door a different color than the rest of the car.
F. Jacked up with huge mud tires.
G. Huge roll bars and spot lights (usually in conjunction with item F).
H. Gratuitous advertisement of some product that the driver uses on his car on the rear window (usually in conjunction with items F or G).
I. A number of some NASCAR driver (usually in conjunction with (F, G, or H).

8. Poorly maintaned vehicles that should have been scrapped long ago with one or more of the following:
A. Visible smelly smoke.
B. Rear end, side, or front smashed in or damaged in some way.
C. One or more window cracked and taped up or missing and replaced with plastic.
D. Fender, door, or hood replaced with another of a different color and not repainted to match.
E. Color of car can best be described as a mixture of rust, chipped paint, and bondo gray.

1) Religion.

I don't care what you are. I know what I am. Stay out of my business. This is not something that's up for debate, this is each person's private acceptance and whatever a person accepts is right for them.

2) Intelligent Design.

I believe that aliens put us here. Just look at the facts. There is evidence all over Egypt, Peru, China...

3) Abortion

I believe a woman has a right to choose.....whether or not to have sex. If she makes the choice to have sex, she needs to be prepared for any consequences. Abortion should not be an easy out. It should only be used in cases of rape, incest, or if the mother's life is in jeopardy.

4) Drugs

herbal, not chemical

5) Same sex marriage

same thing as religion.

6) Divorce

Best thing ever invented. You know why divorce is so expensive? Because it's worth it.

7) Iraq/George Bush etc etc...

I think GB senior should have taken care of this the first time. The other day I was listening to "Wait, Wait, don't tell me" and the comment was made that Iraq is just one "tastes great, less filling" argument away from civil war. Should we be there? not my decision. Should we withdrawal? I would like to say "no, we need to clean up what we started" but i really think that whether we leave now or later, it's still going to result in a lot of blood shed.

8) Sexism

Maybe one day we will all be treated like equals, but right now it is still a man's world and I don't really care.

9) Racism

take away the skin and we are all the same. I don't think we shoudl judge someone on how tan their culture is.

10) Smoking in public places.

Is this in relation to number 4? I really don't care where people smoke. If some place allows smoking inside and you don't like it, don't go there.

4x4 jeeps used for school runs
Phone call menus, "press 12 to hear the other 11 options again". "We value your call, please hold"
Celebrities, Celebrity magazines, and more importantly, the new breed of non-celebrity such as Big Brother contestants and girls who sleep with footballers
Mobile ringtones
The Royal Family
Smoking
Religion
McDonalds (I HATE Big Macs)
Having your mobile phone ring when you're sitting on the toilet
Noisy neighbours
Nitro-keg bitter
People that spit in the street
"Child on board" stickers
Cats
Christian fish logos on cars
Speed cameras
Golf
People on your side in an argument who can't argue properly
People on your side in an argument who can argue, but who are dickheads
People who boast I never understood [X] at school, who still don't
Smelly people on the Tube
Chewing gum
Dog crap
ALL Reality TV
Shampoo and cosmetics commercials that use invented 'scientific' jargon
Bleeped-out swear-words on television
Muzak
Windows - all versions
Pigeons and especially the people who feed them
Fundamentalism (of any kind)
Pseudo-science
Astrologers and other soothsaying charlatans
People whose hi-fi systems are more valuable than their music collections
People whose cars are more valuable than their music collections
Tea from vending machines
People who use apostrophe's to denote plural's
Housing estates named after the flora destroyed to build them
Cyclists who ride on the pavement
Anyone who talks about IQ as if it actually means anything
Birmingham (Ours, that is, as I know sod-all about yours)
People who judge historical figures against modern moral standards
Pre-sliced cheese
People who can't tell the difference between margarine and butter
Grown men with ponytails
Bald men with ponytails (doubly so!)
The new BBC1 TV "fillers" with the silly dancers. Especially those "Asian" pratts!
Young pop-stars who issue cover versions of classic songs
Collagen lips (Lesley Ash - you used to be gorgeous)
Thin people who say, "I need to lose weight" - Shut up, you bastards!
White rappers. Well, any (c)rap music
Paper clips that think they can write letters better than me
Hate lists

Your right to personal choice ends where it impacts my safety and my rights. I once took a course on the "Philosophy of Economic History" and even the great capitalists were not in favour of unbridled capitalism at the expense of others. I'd suggest that if I and others enjoy clean air, the onus is on the polluter (smoker) not to pollute where I want to be.

James

used to be looked poorly upon. This was not really a bad thing.

If you get divorce, then it shows you can't make a commitment OR you make poor choices in life.

Mine was poor choices, hers was commitment.

Divorce is too acceptable as an easy out, so it isn't as big of a deal to get married anymore. This used to be a big deal to get married because people really EXPECTED to do as they promised and spend the rest of their lives together. Now it is almost expected that it won't last.

The standard has been lowered. It is the lowering of standards that is the problem, not marriage. People should make better choices in this person they are committing a lifetime to.

People that just find themselves "not content" are also part of the problem. Watch less TV and spend more time with your mate and work on what it is that you need in life. Too many people don't let the other know what they need "because if they loved me, they would know". What a stupid reason for a marrage to split.

Heres some more I forgot: -

Inspirational Posters. Nuff said

People who put pithy little quotes at the bottom of their emails - It doesn't make you look clever, just boring...

Leet Hackers (or l33t h3xx0r5)- You people bug the sh*te out of me. When I am enjoying a civilised game on my PC/games console over t'internet with friends I really don't appreciate some 12 year old coming into our game and flaming us with incorrect spelling using numbers instead of letters. And furthermore, I have been into computers since the good old Spectrum ZX81 so therefore I am not a newbie (n00b for all you nappy wearers out there). Go feck off & ply your prepubescant trade elsewhere. Bastards...

Walking fashion billboards - I am so sorry, but the fact that you are wearing a Sean Coombes hat does not impress me & by the way, it's written on the hat itself in letters bigger than me so why leave the little bit of cardboard on? If you want to be a billboard for someone else go do it elsewhere.

Nipples in America - We all have them people (men too). When I open a tabloid newspaper back in Blighty it's the first thing you see. Why is it such a big issue over here in the US? A nipple causes a public outcry yet you can turn on the TV at any time of the day & see people getting shot or beaten.

Reality TV - Why? What's the point? If I want to watch reality I go out into the street.

Boston - No reason really, it just annoys me.

Smug people - Isn't there something about them that makes you want to beat them into soggy piles of blood & snot?

Celebrities who do wrong & get away with it because of who they are - Drink driving, child molestation, murder - No problem, I was in a couple of movies/released some records etc etc.

People who shout in the street at 2 in the morning.

Pigeons & Seagulls - Rats with wings.

Save the cutsie animal campaigns - Save all of them, even the ugly ones.

People who write really long responses on Tech Republic - Umm... errr... That'll be me then... Thanks for letting me vent & I really enjoy reading what people put up in here (Maxwell & Jardinier, you're letting me down here - I want to see what bugs you too).

because it would be a flat out lie! :D

Humble isn't a descriptor used on me often. Gracious maybe, thoughtful and considerate even.

(I won't bother listing all the BAD descriptors......)

I hate it when.....

..... people build an entire argument based on a false premise.

..... people make the same argument, even though their false premise has been discredited.

..... people make-up a "fact" to support their argument.

..... people make the same argument, even though their made-up "fact" is exposed.

..... people base an argument on emotion rather than reason.

..... people put politics ahead of principle.

..... unprincipled, partisan people accuse me of putting politics ahead of principle.

..... people can't explain what their principles are.

..... people say, "In other words, what you are saying is.....".

..... people don't take responsibility for their own lives.

..... people make excuses for other people who don't take responsibility for their own lives.

..... government takes a dollar from the person who earned it, only to give it to a person who did not.

..... people make excuses for government that takes a dollar from the person who earned it, only to give it to a person who did not.

..... people suggest what government is "supposed to do", with total disregard to what government is "designed to do".

..... people rely on and repeat silly platitudes.

..... people answer a question with a question.

..... stupid people try to sound intelligent.

..... liars call other people liars.

..... George Clooney opens his mouth.

..... Michael Moore opens his mouth.

..... Al Franken opens his mouth.

..... Barbra Streisand opens her mouth.

..... people throw trash out of their car window (unless it's one of the above).

..... people turn right on a red light, and I have to either move over into the other lane to make room for them or smash into their car.

..... I don't choose to smash into their car.

1)Do not check in their source code in an ***available*** source control system. All the code resides on their workstation...

2)Check in source code without testing, causing the entire build to break...

3)Always seem to have a fast solution to a bug, but then do not test their solution thoroughly. Rest of the team spends eons fixing bugs related to the solution.

That wait until AFTER thier bill has been totaled, to pull out their checkbooks and begin to write thier checks.

And to top it off, they usually have to enter it into the check register, and then do the math to see what thier current total is.

But I loved the Clive Cusler book...

Dirk Pitt Fan #13...

1: People who assume they have a right to persist in annoying me with their silly assed opinions after I have indicated, to them, that I am completely indifferent to their beliefs, problems and situations.

2: People who assume that shear volume and constant repitition will make their arguments more convincing to me.

3: Silly assed bald men who wear pony tails. When I see a pony tail, I automatically assume that what is under it, is a horse's ass. I am invariably correct in that assumption.

4: Women who complain of sore feet but persist in wearing the highest possible of high heels. It was your choice to wear them; now shut up about it.

5: Relatives who are more than a 15 minute drive away, phoning at 3AM to tell me some relative who I haven't seen in 15 years has died. He/she is dead; they'll still be dead at 9AM. They aren't going anywhere and there is damn little I can do about it at 3AM. I will be more sympathetic at 9AM after I've had a night's sleep and my second cup of coffee but I still won't be able to alter the basic fact that old Uncle Whosis or Auntie Phlo has croaked. Old people have a habit of doing that; in fact all of us will, eventually. Calling an undertaker would be more useful, than calling me. However, if the dearly departed has seen fit to bequeath me all their worldly possesions, then I might be a tad more sympathetic.

6: People who assume that bad planning on their part should automatically constitute an emrgency on my part.

7: People who assume that I will be thrilled to hold their new born infants. This is definitely a non starter for me. I won't touch any rug rat until it has at least been paper trained or better yet, house broken. I wasn't wild about handling my own kids, even less wild about handling my grand child, so why should I want to pick up some damn, crapping, puking, little stranger who has poorer toilet habits than a 10 week old puppy.

8: People who thrust a red faced, howling, puking infant in my face and insist, "Isn't he/she just the cutest thing???" No he/she is not!!! It's face is all lopsided and red; it's making more noise than it should be capable of making, considering its size and it stinks of puke, piss and poop and it looks as if it is about to go off all over again. Refer to #7 above.

9: People who threaten me with bodily harm. Take this as gospel; I will believe you and will react accordingly, especially if you are foolhardy enough to step on my property to threaten me. Your continued state of existence and well being, is of no consequence to me but does create the minor problem of how to dispose of your body. Under threats of bodily harm, I am sometimes given to fits of random violence which are of absolutely no redeeming social value, whatsoever.

10: People who assume I am joking about #1 - #9. It leads me to assume you are (a)masochistic, (b) have strange affinities for pain and suffering and (c)like living on the edge. Messing with me is the equivalent of messing with your ability to breathe.

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11: Take it as given that most of the items on everybody else's lists are going to brass me off just as much as they brass them off. I usually suggest preemptive retaliation as an effective remedy in these instances.

Axiom I: I do not get angry. I do get even.
Axiom II: All debts will be repaid with interest.
Axiom III: For any questions, refer to axioms I and II.

[b]Dawg[/b] ]:)

i agreed with everything you said up untill now..
iced tea my number one refreshing beverage in the world
all hail the iced tea!!

because you were just a kid, and kids have no idea what love is.

Kids have infatuation, and from there you just took the only option you had on the table is what it sounded like. That is the same reason kids can't get a tattoo. They are not prepared to make a life long decision.

Good for you to want more out of life for you and your kid. Having a kid to take care of really makes it hard to lift yourself up but you didn't chose the path of least resistance.

The question about if you "fell out of love" would be, do you honestly think you would have married this person if you wouldn't have been pregnant? Doubt it.

I have known other people that don't like the idea of their mate working or going to school. they lose that control over what they do and who they do it with.

My ex was not happy when I went back to school because she was taking classes too. I should have "waited till she was done". didn't have issues with babysitters, didn't have classes together or even on the same night as I would wait for her schedule and then plan my classes on different nights so someone would be home with the boys. Another advantage was grants. We made too much to get pell grants until we were BOTH going, then we both became eligable for pells, so it saved us both money by going at the same time.

I took a year off for the divorce, but am going in tomorrow to get signed back up. got three semesters to go for my BA in networking.

As a Christian you should know that St Paul cited lust as the ONLY acceptable reason to get married:

KJV Version:
1 Corinthians 7:8-9 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

RSV Version:
To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is well for them to remain single as I do.
But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion.

At the age of 15, y're just about starting to discover your own self, your own sexuality, the opposite sex.
Would call it, the marriage, an act out of lust, getting to know what sex is like.

With very little to no support from the ones(your family) that should support, stand by, you. I can imagine that from there on it seemed the best way to go, to get married, but you were by far too young to make such a commitment. (not saying that it couldn?t workout fine but chances are slim)
With age of 23 you were more mature and realized what had happened more clearly and could see that what happened (marriage) was not a good thing to do.
So divorce was inevitable, as marrying the guy didn?t happen for the right reason. It seems to me that your ex married you to support you and your child, it was the descent thing to do. However nice of him to do so he could have offered you support without getting married, but that would have brought him into conflict with welfare, so it was a selfish act of him to do so.

Still I don?t see your divorce as an act of ?falling out of love? more as eye shells falling off, correcting what went wrong by marrying that guy and seeing him as a selfish person who wants to abuse the welfare system.
In fact I would call it an ?act of falling out of lust? with a selfish guy.
And good for you that you did divorce and develop yourself. I salute you as it takes a lot of courage to do so.

Rob

yeah, whatever was the reason to switch from milk to cream powder. Back in the olden days, I guess they might have switched to cream and in the modern days it is these powders.

But can never fathom iced tea or cold coffee (or one of those thousand variations) :-))))) To me it is equivalent of switching from a cold fruit juice to a hot fruit juice :-))))

make some homemade apple juice right..i'm sure there are loads of recipie's online

then heat it up..
now pour in a good measure of vodka..and then a wee bit more..

(i've heard spiced rum is good too)

then drink up..

ROTFLMAO!!! What a kidder!!! ;\ ;) :^0

[b]Dawg[/b] ]:)

the Halifax guy...

could we start an internet campaighn to get those ads pulled?

Infidelity aside, your second husband's issues may have been enlightened with counseling. I still would not say you 'fell out of love', but rather, I would say you made a decision not to love him due to the hurt he inflicted.

Please do not think I am judging, or condemning you for this, I am merely stating my opinion that love is mostly choice, not mostly ?oohey-gooey, butterflies in the tummy? emotion.

(pause for breath) Mwah-hah-hahahaaaaaaaaahahahahaah - Classics!

Neil, you're a star.

Please do not think I look down my nose at you due to your divorce. The issues may have been issues that could have been worked through. However, it sounds like it was your ex who needed to work through them. If he was unwilling to do so, you need to preserve your own life, and mental health before his.
In my initial Email, I said that I do not think anyone should suck it up and stay married through 50 years of hell, I suggested those couples should work on their issues and get back to why they 'loved' each other, and got married in the first place.

of who has the right to tell who what.

We can't tell someone not to kill their unborn baby, but we can tell them they can't have a smoke (which is a legal product).

Patrons that chose to smoke or not smoke can also chose to go the a bar that does nor doesn't allow the patrons to smoke.

If you don't like smoke, no one is going to MAKE you go into a bar that allows the use of a legal product. Don't go in.

Don't I hear the same thing from the people that think there should be no-holds-barred for TV and radio programs? "just turn it off"? Just don't go in.

You do not have a RIGHT to tell someone how to run their business, you do have a right to NOT GO IN.

Land of the free?

It's just that people who have a problem with religion really tick me off!! :p
Actually, I was not trying to force anything down anyones throat, I was just informing Jules that I did not have the same stance as him on marriage and lust.

Not a problem Jellymonsta - it's a lighthearted discussion.

(Just wait till i post a serious one - LOL) ;)

There was a time back in the 80's that I liked to go to the arcade. (didn't have a TV, so no game consoles to go on a tv either).

Some of the games can take a long time once you get good. So to get on a game, you would walk up next to someone playing the game you wanted, drop a few and then walk away.......

lots of vegies before going to the arcade! :D

I recently told my boys about this, and had them both in tears. Especially when I told them the time I had some beef jerkey and did it. (they KNOW what beef jerkey does to me!)

LOVE to get mulled apple cider on a cold morning!

Every October I take the boys to the pumpkin farm and they have fresh made doughnuts and the mulled cider. mmmmmmmm!

Yes, dropping some RUM in can be good too but they don't have rum at the farm.....

Anyone ever put kahluah in their hot coco? :D

I like tea, but CAN'T do iced tea. The frozen coffee drinks are good, as well as if you go to "Arbys" and get their jamocha shake!

Well, it makes as much sense as cold tea.

:d

Two HUGE pet peeves of mine, I have even considered writing the local rag or posting signs for morons around Vancouver bus loops.

1) People who see 20 people standing at a bus stop, at a skytrain station (but service is every 1/2 hour at most) they walk up to the sign pole and check the schedule. Then they stand right at the pole, cutting in front of EVERYONE and are first on the bus.

My thought; with THAT many people there, and 1/2 hour service, how long do you think you'll have to wait?

If if said the next bus was in an hour, what are you going to do? Fly instead? Why check the schedule, it will come when it comes and you will have to wait until it does. My favorite is to just say "3 hours" when someone is trying to read the schedule. Most don't speak a word of English so it's just the English speaking minority that get a giggle out of it.

2) People who walk [b]into[/b] lineups. 20+ people lined up in a row as the bus pulls up, one person just walks up to the front of the line and, within two or three 'lined up' people, one will stop and let the person on.

"Uh, excuse me, I know it might be a bit odd or confusing but, in Canada, we stand one behind the other like this and then get on in the same order we got to the stop."

The things I do to do my part in reducing pollution! Speaking of which, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID SUZUKI!!! He's 70 on March 24th!!

is to divide the human race into groups of people who hate each other and try and kill each other.

Didn't you know that? B-)

Flattery will get you EVERYWHERE.

Refer to number 5 and DON'T turn your back to me. :x

And y're right not making it your statement.

You just did give me the idea that you would subscribe the statement of St Paul as you say: "As a Christian you should know? giving me the idea that you appealed to yourself (and maybe others) as being Christians who should agree upon St Paul's statement. My mistake

Would be interesting to know what he would have stated about the non-widows with burning love or who can not exercise self-control being aflame with passion, now would it. ;)

Rob