Things That Annoy You

[West of the Rockies]

So what do you suppose the cause is, Bateman?  Is it an attempt to "claim social space", to simply piss a stranger off (in a similar way that pants-sagging is, I think, mostly done to piss everyone off).  Do these people feel neutered and powerless other than when they claim their power in a crosswalk?

I truly don't know the answer....

[Sardondi]

Doesn't this actually happen often enough?

Seriously? Uh, yeah, yeah, that's right. But usually we just do it to guys we think are assholes.

[bateman]

So what do you suppose the cause is, Bateman?  Is it an attempt to "claim social space", to simply piss a stranger off (in a similar way that pants-sagging is, I think, mostly done to piss everyone off).  Do these people feel neutered and powerless other than when they claim their power in a crosswalk?

I truly don't know the answer....

I think it may be a power play, yeah. "I ain't gotta move for nobody." Well, when someone with even less patience than me is driving, they'll end up scraping you off the street with a spatula, so good luck with that.

[bateman]

Seriously? Uh, yeah, yeah, that's right. But usually we just do it to guys we think are assholes.

Heh, maybe I just spend too much time with unscrupulous attorneys.

[PB the Deplorable]

... Is it an attempt to "claim social space", to simply piss a stranger off (in a similar way that pants-sagging is, I think, mostly done to piss everyone off...

Yep.  I amuse myself appearing to be fiddling with the radio or something, paying them absolutely no attention.  No way these POS's are going to get even a bit of satisfaction.

[West of the Rockies]

Oh, I'm gonna do that from now on, PaperBoy!  (Of course, that won't be as easy when I have a green light and my blood is beginning to boil....)

[Mind Flayer Monk]

I am near Los Angeles and our streets are so wide if you try a slow walk you won't make it across the street. There is a predominantly ethnic minority city nearby me and seems like one person per week is killed in a crosswalk accident. I guess the ultimate deterrent to the slowwalk is if your opponent just drives 2 hours south and gives you a whole lot of nothing to go with your wheelchair. (So people fear for their lives).

The annoying thing near my house is trains. A constant flow of endless trains carrying containers to an inland distribution point. Takes five minutes for one to pass. When I first moved out here trains were pretty rare, but now they are running one every 10 minutes or so.
Its good for truckers though because it allows them to bypass LA traffic. I wouldn't want to waste four hours of my life driving 10 miles.

[West of the Rockies]

I am trying to listen to Science Friday on NPR (a program I normally love).  Today, however, features "science rap".  I cannot think of anything more boring than listening to these sullen, surly voices yammering on in their insistent, non-stop manner.  Is it a rule that to rap you have to sound pissed off?  Am I just hopelessly old and unable to fathom the magic?

[Centurion40]

Nuff said.

[b_dubb]

Declare open season on pants sagging. BB guns only. And you can consider that nonsense DONE.

[HorrorRetro]

Declare open season on pants sagging. BB guns only. And you can consider that nonsense DONE.

I vote for cattle prods.

[widespread1]

Nuff said.

lol that is sad.
poor Billy Ray

[Treading Water]

We've had over seven inches of rain in less than 36 hours.  I have a picture of my underwater front yard, but I can't get it to post.   

Maybe I'll try again after I talk myself into going down into the cellar to see what's "dripping" or "rising" there....



Guess what!!  You can't fix a leaky pipe with that can of stuff that floats a boat with a screen door bottom.  When it rains, it...I can't say it....     :

[Sardondi]

Not even being the man who sang "Achy Breaky Heart" deserves this as a daughter.

However, having encouraged and pushed your 8-year-old girl to act and dress like a pedophile's dream, and having managed her career so that she presents herself as a nastier and more sexual Lolita, is the kind of behavior which richly deserves  - and almost always guarantees - this kind of daughter. Enjoy every Father's Day, Billy Ray.

[HorrorRetro]

We've had over seven inches of rain in less than 36 hours.  I have a picture of my underwater front yard, but I can't get it to post.   

Maybe I'll try again after I talk myself into going down into the cellar to see what's "dripping" or "rising" there....



Guess what!!  You can't fix a leaky pipe with that can of stuff that floats a boat with a screen door bottom.  When it rains, it...I can't say it....     :

Hope the rain stops and you dry out soon! 

[b_dubb]

Nuff said.

can't wait for the porn version of this.  wait ... am i being redundant?

[onan]

can't wait for the porn version of this.  wait ... am i being redundant?

Probably not. Shock television and radio aren't new. Media wouldn't keep it in front of our faces if it didn't sell. So yeah MC is a skank, but she is getting a tangible reward.

[ItsOver]

We seem to have two types of drivers in my area.  They drive like they're either doing crack cocaine or copious quantities of weed.  I guess I'm missing out.

[West of the Rockies]

Regarding Miley Cyrus, is her image here all that different really from Madonna's back in the early 90's?  For the times, wasn't Elvis pushing the envelope with his hip gyrations in tight leather? 

Breaking news:  sex sells! 

Yeah, I'd be horrified if I found my daughter looking like this ten years from now.  (She's much more likely to look and behave like Claudia Donovan.)  So I guess I've got a double standard...  One side of me says, "Miley is a healthy young woman who is interested in sex.  Good for her..."  The curmudgeon in me thinks, "But is she cheapening our society and making young men think of women solely as sex toys?"  Damn this non-black-and-white thinking!

[Eddie Coyle]

     His parents were booted from their high schools.

     My kid appears to be following suit. Saturday detention through November 23.

[onan]

     His parents were booted from their high schools.

     My kid appears to be following suit. Saturday detention through November 23.

It is pretty amazing how high schools frame the importance of their existence. Only for the majority of people to realize 10 or so years out how little significance really exists.

[Cynnie]

     His parents were booted from their high schools.

     My kid appears to be following suit. Saturday detention through November 23.

High school is a sucking waste of energy

[West of the Rockies]

I'm annoyed by trite, worn-out glib and hipster expressions...  if I never hear the expressions, "That's gotta hurt!" and "That's gonna leave a mark!" it'll be just great.  There's a new one, too, that I wish would vaporize forever:  "Keep fucking that chicken."  I don't know who started it, but it's weird and crude -- and more importantly, over-used.

[UnscreenedCaller]

THIS DRIVES ME INSANE. I deal with this all the time. Sometimes I lean on the horn. THEY DON'T EVEN FLINCH, which only serves to enrage me even more. If I have a green light, FUCKING MOVE IT. I'm getting twitchy just thinking about it.

You live in NY, too, right? Do these ring a bell: Queens Blvd? Liberty Avenue? Every couple of weeks I'll pick up a paper and read about someone getting hit by a car on Queens Blvd. I know Queens Blvd well. It's always very busy, but people customarily ignore the walk signs and dart out into traffic where they're taken down. I've seen really close calls on that road for time and again. I used to have the same problem on Liberty Avenue - they look directly at you while deliberately crossing against the light. It drives me wild, and it's deliberate, a definite power play: "Looka me! I can make you wait! That's my pathetic superpower!"  :

[Cynnie]

I'm annoyed by trite, worn-out glib and hipster expressions...  if I never hear the expressions, "That's gotta hurt!" and "That's gonna leave a mark!" it'll be just great.  There's a new one, too, that I wish would vaporize forever:  "Keep fucking that chicken."  I don't know who started it, but it's weird and crude -- and more importantly, over-used.

Ive never even heard that before..

[West of the Rockies]

Ive never even heard that before..

Here's what the Urban Dictionary says:  "Keep fucking that chicken" (KFTC) is a phrase coined by television anchor Ernie Anastos during a live broadcast of the Fox 5 New York local news. It is presumably a phrase of encouragement similar to keep on truckin, only with a more pronounced and colorful air of defiance.

The chicken being fucked may be an actual chicken, could be pejorative slang for a woman (i.e. chickenhead), or some other metaphor for an object of desire or enjoyable activity. In any case, KFTC seems to be a gesture of support to the recipient to continue doing whatever it is that they're doing, despite what others may say, so long as it makes them happy."

[Eddie Coyle]

It is pretty amazing how high schools frame the importance of their existence. Only for the majority of people to realize 10 or so years out how little significance really exists.

High school is a sucking waste of energy

      I agree wholeheartedly, and this my list of annoyances...my ex-mother-in-law telling him that "your parents have had jobs they hated because they didn't take high school seriously"   

         That should help.

[Cynnie]

GED

[Eddie Coyle]

GED

        That's the speling test for those grads.

[BobGrau]

      I agree wholeheartedly, and this my list of annoyances...my ex-mother-in-law telling him that "your parents have had jobs they hated because they didn't take high school seriously"   

         That should help.

Newsflash, ma: everyone hates their job. That's why they get paid.