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

Please, Neil. Spare us the detailed list.

Please ...... :_|

Yes, that really pisses me off. About a mile from my house there is a new section of housing estates that just sprouted up. It is called "The Preservation". Would you like to know how many acres of trees were cut down to create this "preservation" of houses? What exactly do they think they are preserving? And why is it that I seem to be the only one who noticed?
I would further like to state that I agree with everything on your list except for the part about cats.

This was directed at Jelli because I already know that he is a Christian -- and a moderate one -- praise the Lord.

Regarding your most recent post, H.G. Wells wrote a marvellous novel: "The Soul of a Bishop."

A certain English Bishop was beset with problems, not the least of which was a married priest who had committed adultery.

"But M'Lord," the priest pleaded. " I was married and still I burned."

[b]"He is marying into hell" [/b] comes from. ]:)

And further more why RC-priests live in [b]celibacy [/b]
Although it would be the ultimate place to save souls :D :^0 ;)

Rob

ps could be "She is .... into hell" aswell, can't it.

edited because of those: Bloody emoticons (oops other discussion)

I am scared now (Clenches buttocks)

the sign of a disorganized mind.:^0

[b]Dawg[/b] ]:)

I do love his motorcycles. :^0 BTW he is a member of that far flung Nipponese family, just in case you ever thought about the irony of his family name. Most of his environmental rants are pretty good and on target but every now and then he does go off the reservation.

[b]Dawg[/b] ]:)

It goes back to the days of actual paper and actual paste. There was no copying of anything. The phrase is embedded in our language so we unthinkingly use it for something that is similar but not really the same.

Besides, you don't REALLY want Microsoft terminology to seep into real-life language, do you? Do you want to explain to your children that when you said "start" the toaster, you really meant "turn it off"?

..it is so much more satisfying, because of the contained space, especially if you can let off a "silent but deadly" and the elevator is crowded so no one can pinpoint it on you. The escalator is open enough that it dissapates quickly.

The problem with the escalator is that if you do a click and drag, the stench would linger with you; and not reach the audience anticipated. :D

We've all done the "elevator fart", deliberately or maliciously, but the "escalator fart" just struck me as such an original concept. You need to get traffic density right and it's the delayed action - and the chance that you might miss - that gives it a certain appeal.

For those of you who don't know the London Underground, some of the escalators are very long indeed. You can drop your fartmine and be travelling back down the other side by the time your intended victim hits the spot...

I don't travel much on the Tube these days but next time I do, I'll report back.

:D

was also recommended by Jesus, but only for those who felt a special calling:

Matthew 19:12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, [b]which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.[/b]

In 1 Corithians Chapter 7 (I recommend that you read the whole chapter) the reason given is:

1 Corinthians 7:32-34 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

As for mandatory celibacy of RC priests (and nuns), my own suspicion is that it is because it costs the church a lot less to support a single (unmarried) person than a whole family.

And that's an understatement.

The point made by the previous post was that "cut-and-paste" was in the language long before it became used as a common computer term in wysiwyg and, although "copy-and-paste" is possibly what you're actually doing, the former has stuck (pi).

Come on, Jules. Concentrate!

As evidenced by my post.

I've spent the afternoon watching the Commonwealth Games. One of my longstanding pet hates has always been the number of contrived sports in this and the Olympics. For instance, do we really need four different ways to swim? Surely it's just about getting down the pool quickly?

Anyway, one of today's finals was the Synchronised Swimming Individual event. Now, what the fcuk is [b]that[/b] about? Synchronised Individual? What, both t:ts in unison?

Several years ago there was one of those biography programs, I'm not sure if it was CBC or CTV, about people of interest in Canada and the interviewer posed a question in regards to the irony of David's last name being the name for a brand of motorcycles and cars. What sort of set the interviwer at a loss was the acknowledgement that he was distantly related and what of it??? Frankly I admired the sang-froid manner of his response but then I have noted this tendancy in other oriental cultures, for instance China, where all people with the same last name consider themselves somewhat distantly related even if you would have to go back 100 generations to find the link. That was indicated to me quite recently by a Chinese gentleman who, being in possesion of one of the four most common family names in China, he said he [b]felt[/b] a link to all those of a similar name and said he thought that was something westerners would never understand about the Chinese but he felt it was a major factor in the Chinese being so unified in their national character and identity.

I agree with many of the Mr. Suzuki's aims as regards the environment but do find that sometimes he seems to forget that we do not and have not attained zero population growth and with a constantly growing population, one day we will reach a point where we can no longer protect the environment at the expense of its human inhabitants. I am in favour of a clean environment but I fear we are going to lose much of it unless we start to concentrate on sustainable development rather than total protection.

We can get away with doing that now but generations from now our great grandchildren may be impinging on these so called protected areas and some politician, like Bush with ANWAR, will eliminate them with a stroke of the pen. Then there will be ungovernable development rather than an ecologically sustainable one. BTW Mr. Suzuki has admitted this is one of his major worries in that by promoting the arrest of all development of the environment he may very well be building the foundation for future attacks upon it. In short he feels we are damned if we do and damned if we don't but that on an emotional level he leans more towards protectionism even while acknowledging the potential dangers of the future.

One thing for certain, he is more right than he is wrong in pointing out the things we should be looking at if we are going to have anything left to preserve. He is not against development so much as he is against unrestrained and undirected development and he does see the paradoxes in that position.

Being in BC and living in the midst of so much logging you might find his full position on old growth timber educational. It isn't so one sided as everyone, developers and environmentalists alike, seem to believe but I'll warn you before you start; it's heavy going and a lot of of it is as dry as dust. His proposals would not only preserve the forests but could possibly provide even more jobs in the industry.

Anyway my first comments were fascetious and probably should have been a little more serious. Suzukis does way more good than harm but unfortunately not too many hear him properly and/or completely. He does try to consider both sides of a question in as objective a manner as possible,it's just that most people only listen to the parts they want to hear and ignore everything else.

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[b]Dawg[/b] ]:)

1) Religous kooks that think you have to belong to their religion of you are going to suffer.
[ they are wrong, if they keep stuffing their beleifs down my throat I'll stuff a knife in their's. ]

2) People who assume that you have windows / xbox / ps2 etc just because the advertisements say you should.
[ I have none of the above, nor do I want any of them ]

3) Stupid People.
[ the one's that should be killed off to improve the human race, like Bush and Co. ]

4) drug addicts
[ see number 3 ]

5 alcoholics
[ see number 3 ]

6) the shit-for-brains that insist on driving gas guzzling suv's at high speed to go a block to the store.
[ kill em all off ]

ugh..thats nasty !!

has anyone ever even tried this?

it is a "Thing that bugs me Rant"
Hot cola, eeeeeeeeuuwww, disgusting. Even worse as hot beer, if that is possible.

Or it must be slang for chicken. And those I do like :0 ;) :)

Rob

edited for those #$%^ emoticons

You may regret this JD :)
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-People who::: dig around for exact change for 5 minutes, while paying for something, when there is a large line of people behind them. Just use the nearest amount, or how about next time, have your stupid little purse out and ready? Thats what I do..I estimate how much my purchase is going to be and prepare the appropriate amount so I don?t completely p1ss off the people behind me.

-People who::: say ?I don?t mean to ?insert word?, but?? For example: ?I don?t mean to make you feel guilty, but??
Yes you do mean to make me feel guilt you irritating ****, otherwise you wouldn?t have said it.

-Skinny people who::: eat a lettuce leaf and then moan about how fat and bloated they are. Give it up, no one cares.

-Overweight people who::: lament at how they have no idea why they are putting on weight. Give it up, you: eat too much, eat the wrong foods, and don?t exercise enough. Yes, there are medical conditions that some people suffer from and I sympathise and wish you all the best. I?m ?fluffy? myself and know how hard it is too keep the weight down, but that tube of Pringles I ate on Saturday night is the exact reason why.

-People who::: assume I know everyone in Canada or the US because I am from America. For example: ?Oh I have a cousin in Toronto, lives on Elm Street. Do you know it?? No I don?t, think about it you moron. (My response to this is ?Oh wow ya, I know him, we went to different schools together?, I then walk off before anything else can be said.

-Dried figs::: gross
-Yogurt::: disgusting, its rotten milk people..and the next person who says ?try it, you might like it now? is going to find the pot of it going straight up where the sun don?t shine. I didn?t like it 10 years ago, 8 years ago, 6 years ago..*you get the picture*
-Spelling mistakes in Word Docs. Two words: Spell check

*I?m seeing an alarming trend..most of my annoyances are due to people. Does this make me anti social?

I've loads more...when i've got some more time i'll write em down

what would be slang for hot chicken..??
i think i've missed something here?

*its monday, brain still operating on sunday scheduale*

I can't believe I'm so immature that i was almost in tears laughing about this. One my friends used to do this when we were kids..he was rotten to the core!

AH, fart stories..you should start a new thread JD..

who use meaningless naming conventions in complex applications and do not bother to put in even one comment that may point you to some sort pattern..

*aagggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*

ain't the right one.

The hot chick ... is the slang or way to express for a nice lady that one does like.

Does sound familiar to you, doesn't it. [i]I hope at least. (am I realy saying this [/i] :0 )

Rob

oh...ok..i get ya now! :)

chicken = chick

are ya a beavis and butthead fan? kinda makes me think of the "chicken mall"..no beavis, the chick IN the mall.

:)

[b][i][u]"Tech Republic Peer Product Review _____"[/u][/i][/b] Once every six months would be more than enough.

[b]Dawg[/b] ]:)

"Smoking. Sure in a reasonable size city you may have choices, but in one horse towns, if the owner decides to make it smoking, you don't have a choice."

Some businesses have managed to get around this by becoming private clubs. If you want to join, you have to agree to the rules.

"If you are waitress, second hand smoke is a workplace hazard."

Work someplace else.

"Christopher Reeves' wife never smoked in her life, never lived with a smoker, but she worked in a lot of smoky nightclubs. She got lung cancer, and the most credible reason is through the smoke from those nightclubs. If you want to pollute your lungs in the great outdoors or in your car or house, go ahead."

For every example of a person who never smoked and died of cancer, there are [b]hundreds[/b] of examples of people who lived to 90+ after smoking most of their lives who never got cancer. The link between smoke and cancer is a (ahem) smoke-screen put up by the medical community to cover the fact that they themselves are responsible for the perpetuation of this, and other genetically influenced maladies.

You cannot join unless you agree to the rules.

smoke screen..... you got me....... :p

IMNSHO then.

appears - on first glance - to be [b]total[/b] bollocks. I'm not sure whether it's a wind-up or not. I'm assuming that it's not as it was a response to James's anti-smoking post.

It's your last paragraph that interests me. The first sentence is what I would expect from someone who is totally ignorant of any aspect of statistics or was just being deliberately obtuse and provocative - badly - for whatever reason.

I can't actually work out what you're trying to say in your last sentence other than it would seem that you're suggesting that the medical profession in keeping people alive who would otherwise have died is allowing the propagation of "bad" genes that would otherwise have killed the carriers before they bred.

Is that it?

all believe that Uncle Tony/Grandpa [b]INVENTED[b] farting, and that other people only knew how to do it because I taught them (they don't call me Master Blaster for nothing!). Hey, everyone wants to leave a legacy :)

Bicycles not stopping at stop signs. Runners jogging down the middle of the street. anyone going 10 or more miles below the speed limit (5 or more if the limit is under 30) Same thing for over the limit. Cell phones in heavy traffic.
the state department not wanting cuba to play in the world baseball classic. for that matter the trade embargo with cuba. for god's sake what harm can castro do to us; we have defeated communism! Telling other countries how to run their internal affairs. Going to afghanistan -good, Iraq - even if he was an despot it was not our right to meddle. Gay rights, fine, just don't hit on me. Divorce, If you make a commitment you should stick to it. If they cheat or go to jail divorce them otherwise if you are unhappy, figure out why and fix it but don't go blaming it on your spouse.

was somewhat behind me on the stairs at a local store when she whispered loudly enough for me to hear "Tony! Did you?" to which I replied "What?" and stepped back down to where she was, where I smelled it and loudly proclaimed "Oh, No.... I'd have claimed that one!" :)