Pet peeves

[Lorali82]

Naw. She's just in a drug-induced coma...forever.

I watched five minutes of that trial today and it knocked ten points off my IQ.
Who the hell is that judge?
He's like someone's dirty Uncle Ralph who watches little girls run through the sprinkler while he puffs a cigar and scratches himself.
If men were cloth, he'd be the cheapest polyester Goodwill had to offer.

I would bet he lands his own daytime court show by October sweeps.

 

[Guest]

I would bet he lands his own daytime court show by October sweeps.

LOL...I was thinking the same thing. That ham's going to milk his 15 minutes for all it's worth.

 

[bluebell]

Stay tuned for a giant pile of nothing.

I would bet he lands his own daytime court show by October sweeps.

That ham's going to milk his 15 minutes for all it's worth.

I'm already programming my DVR.

 

[trysail]

Marketing Sleazeballs, Toothbrushes, and Mutual Funds


Why is it impossible to find a toothbrush with "firm" bristles? The damn grocery stores have rows and rows of "soft" and "medium" bristles. How in god's name can a toothbrush cost $4.00 in the first place? It's ridiculous.

While I'm on the subject, is it really necessary for Proctor & Gamble and Colgate to market one hundred eighty-five varieties of toothpaste? The answer is, "Of course not." This is marketing segmentation and product line extension run amok. Is it really necessary to market Crest Tartar Control Whitening With Peroxide and Baking Soda along with one hundred eighty-four permutations?

Be sure to thank all the marketing professors at Stanford Business School, Darden, Tuck, Fuqua, Wharton and Harvard and their scummy little M.B.A. protogés for this abomination as well as the ones that follow.

Of course, the marketing sleazeballs have done the same thing at Fidelity Investments, T. Rowe Price, Goldman, Legg, etc. At last count, Fidelity offered four hundred sixty-five (465) different mutual funds. I swear to god, I'm not making this up. T. Rowe Price only offers a modest one hundred ninety-six (196) funds. Needless to say, this is a scam of mindboggling and epic proportions.

The scumballs have invented an excuse for a different flavor of mutual fund for every day of the year.

I'm on a roll. Why stop now?

If clothing manufacturers expect me to serve as a walking billboard, it's time for them to start paying me. I will be goddamned if I EVER buy an article of clothing with the vendor's name blazened all over it (THIS MEANS YOU, L.L. Bean, Land's End, Nike, Adidas, Reebok, et al !!!)

 

[koalabear]

Why is it impossible to find a toothbrush with "firm" bristles? The damn grocery stores have rows and rows of "soft" and "medium" bristles. How in god's name can a toothbrush cost $4.00 in the first place? It's ridiculous.

While I'm on the subject, is it really necessary for Proctor & Gamble and Colgate to market one hundred eighty-five varieties of toothpaste? The answer is, "Of course not." This is marketing segmentation and product line extension run amok. Is it really necessary to market Crest Tartar Control Whitening With Peroxide and Baking Soda along with one hundred eighty-four permutations?

Be sure to thank all the marketing professors at Stanford Business School, Darden, Tuck, Fuqua, Wharton and Harvard and their scummy little M.B.A. protogés for this abomination as well as the ones that follow.

Of course, the marketing sleazeballs have done the same thing at Fidelity Investments, T. Rowe Price, Goldman, Legg, etc. At last count, Fidelity offered four hundred sixty-five (465) different mutual funds. I swear to god, I'm not making this up. T. Rowe Price only offers a modest one hundred ninety-six (196) funds. Needless to say, this is a scam of mindboggling and epic proportions.

The scumballs have invented an excuse for a different flavor of mutual fund for every day of the year.

I'm on a roll. Why stop now?

If clothing manufacturers expect me to serve as a walking billboard, it's time for them to start paying me. I will be goddamned if I EVER buy an article of clothing with the vendor's name blazened all over it (THIS MEANS YOU, L.L. Bean, Land's End, Nike, Adidas, Reebok, et al !!!)

got zoloft

 

[mattdchef]

pet peeve:
people who type really really big love the color but the size hurts my eyes!

in my opinion of course but what do i know

 

[Daizie]

I agree with some of what Trysail said. There are just too many choices of toothpaste out there. I don't have time to stand there looking through them all. Just clean my damn teeth!!! My goodness, how did mankind survive all those years with just plain old teeth cleaning toothpaste.

And I like his pretty font colors, especially the pink!

 

[bluebell]

Mungbean

I rather enjoyed that rant, Trysail.
You should spout about the mundane more often.
Trysail, meet Whimsy. Whimsy, this is Trysail.
I hope you two can have a long, prosperous relationship which has very little to do with the price of oil.

And if it makes you feel better, I can never find the toothbrush I want either.
I'm beginning to think it exists in the same plane as "tasty" haggis and "good" Cameron Crowe movies.

 

[Ekserb]

Why is it impossible to find a toothbrush with "firm" bristles? The damn grocery stores have rows and rows of "soft" and "medium" bristles. How in god's name can a toothbrush cost $4.00 in the first place? It's ridiculous.

While I'm on the subject, is it really necessary for Proctor & Gamble and Colgate to market one hundred eighty-five varieties of toothpaste? The answer is, "Of course not." This is marketing segmentation and product line extension run amok. Is it really necessary to market Crest Tartar Control Whitening With Peroxide and Baking Soda along with one hundred eighty-four permutations?

Be sure to thank all the marketing professors at Stanford Business School, Darden, Tuck, Fuqua, Wharton and Harvard and their scummy little M.B.A. protogés for this abomination as well as the ones that follow.

Of course, the marketing sleazeballs have done the same thing at Fidelity Investments, T. Rowe Price, Goldman, Legg, etc. At last count, Fidelity offered four hundred sixty-five (465) different mutual funds. I swear to god, I'm not making this up. T. Rowe Price only offers a modest one hundred ninety-six (196) funds. Needless to say, this is a scam of mindboggling and epic proportions.

The scumballs have invented an excuse for a different flavor of mutual fund for every day of the year.

I'm on a roll. Why stop now?

If clothing manufacturers expect me to serve as a walking billboard, it's time for them to start paying me. I will be goddamned if I EVER buy an article of clothing with the vendor's name blazened all over it (THIS MEANS YOU, L.L. Bean, Land's End, Nike, Adidas, Reebok, et al !!!)

So you won't buy clothing with the name of the manufacturer on it. Does this lame judgement also apply to cars, cameras, radios, pens, computers, phones and luggage? (That's just a list of the things I can see from this seat.) I mean, if you don't want to advertise a product without getting paid for it, you're going to end up living naked in an nearly empty house.

(Please don't tell me you already live naked - that's not something I need to know.)

 

[rose_trouble]

I work in a coffee shop with a drive thru and my biggest peeve is when customers walk up to the counter or pull up to the order speaker and are on their cell phones. They just sit there, talking, ignoring the fact that I just greeted them because ending their conversation would mean the end of the world, right? I obviously have nothing better to do than sit there and watch them talk about the most mundane bullshit because I'm just a lowly coffee girl. Who raised these people?

I feel better now.

 

[Daizie]

I work in a coffee shop with a drive thru and my biggest peeve is when customers walk up to the counter or pull up to the order speaker and are on their cell phones. They just sit there, talking, ignoring the fact that I just greeted them because ending their conversation would mean the end of the world, right? I obviously have nothing better to do than sit there and watch them talk about the most mundane bullshit because I'm just a lowly coffee girl. Who raised these people?

I feel better now.

There, there. It's not you or the coffee shop you work in. These self-important ass fucks are everywhere: the post office, the bank, the grocery store. I'd like to send these people back to a time when the only telephone was the one in the kitchen, with a cord! Suffer!!!!!!

 

[Ekserb]

Japanese pixel porn.

Why do the Japanese porn producers put a mosaic filter over the cocks and pussies? I mean, I know why - it's the law in Japan - but what gets me is that they don't cover the most disgusting parts of porn. Wanna see a girl drink a quart of cum from fifty men? No problem. How about a girl kicking a man in the balls as hard as she can? Again, here you go. But put a dick on screen and they add a bunch of chunky pixels in an attempt to disguise what's going on. Come on! (Like I can't tell what that dark part is between the girl's legs, anyway.)

This is why I won't buy Japanese cars.

 

[Lorali82]

Japanese pixel porn.

Why do the Japanese porn producers put a mosaic filter over the cocks and pussies? I mean, I know why - it's the law in Japan - but what gets me is that they don't cover the most disgusting parts of porn. Wanna see a girl drink a quart of cum from fifty men? No problem. How about a girl kicking a man in the balls as hard as she can? Again, here you go. But put a dick on screen and they add a bunch of chunky pixels in an attempt to disguise what's going on. Come on! (Like I can't tell what that dark part is between the girl's legs, anyway.)

This is why I won't buy Japanese cars.

I think I read somewhere once that it's pubic hair that's considered obscene in Japan, and this is what they're actually obscuring. The genitalia itself is no big deal.

 

[Ekserb]

I think I read somewhere once that it's pubic hair that's considered obscene in Japan, and this is what they're actually obscuring. The genitalia itself is no big deal.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but I've seen plenty of pixelated porn that didn't have any pubic hair. Oral sex comes to mind - you see the girl's mouth sucking on a bunch of cock-colored tiles.

 

[rose_trouble]

There, there. It's not you or the coffee shop you work in. These self-important ass fucks are everywhere: the post office, the bank, the grocery store. I'd like to send these people back to a time when the only telephone was the one in the kitchen, with a cord! Suffer!!!!!!

I know! The funny, or maybe pathetic, thing to me is that the conversations are so boring. You know: "hey, what are you doing?" "Nothin" "Where you at" "The store" "Cool". Was it really that important that you had to treat someone else like shit? Whatever.

 

[trysail]

Russian Roulette Behind The Wheel


The U.S. is full of idiot drivers. The Germans may drive like bats out of hell, but at least they're good drivers and obey the laws. Americans, on the hand, are terrible drivers. Why do so many of them feel entitled to speed? We all know that if you drive at the speed limit on a major U.S. interstate you will be subjected to flashing lights and obscene gestures, if not actual gunfire. Where do they grow the jerks who feel entitled to recklessly weave and dart through traffic, endangering everybody else?

Hell, I'm just scratching the surface; I haven't even started talking about the dopes talking on their stupid cell phones.

DRIVE NOW,
TALK LATER!​

I hate driving amidst all the buffoons in the U.S. I hate putting my life at risk everytime I get behind the wheel. No wonder flying is safer than driving.

I really don't give a damn if they kill themselves; I'd actually applaud it. I do, however, object to their putting my life in jeopardy.

 

[Ekserb]

Here we go with the phones again.

So I'm in line at the deli counter and there are a ton of people waiting to be served. As usual, there are a couple people chatting away on their fucking cell phones instead of paying attention to what's going on.

"Now serving number ninety-six!"

Nothing.

"Ninety-six?"

Still nothing, but you can see a few people getting agitated because they can feel that 96 is the fucker chatting away while we wait.

"Ninety-seven!"

"Here!" says another shopper.

"What can I get you, sir?"

"Oh! Wait! Did you call ninety-six? That's me!" yells the chatterbox. Then, into his phone: "Hang on a sec. I have to order my food here."

The crowd grows impatient. There is murder in their eyes.

In my mind's eye I see myself reaching out with both hands, snapping his neck like so much uncooked spaghetti. We feast on his still-beating heart.

You goddamned mother fucking cocksucker bastard. Get the fuck off the fucking phone before you're forced to wear it as a fucking suppository.

 

[monique1971]

I'm not saying you're wrong, but I've seen plenty of pixelated porn that didn't have any pubic hair. Oral sex comes to mind - you see the girl's mouth sucking on a bunch of cock-colored tiles.

You mean some men have something other than cock-colored tiles between their legs? Huh. Interesting.

And here I thought porn was so realistic and all.

 

[Ekserb]

You mean some men have something other than cock-colored tiles between their legs? Huh. Interesting.

And here I thought porn was so realistic and all.

Only when the guys are more than ten inches long. Them little ones are fake.

 

[Lorali82]

I'm not saying you're wrong, but I've seen plenty of pixelated porn that didn't have any pubic hair. Oral sex comes to mind - you see the girl's mouth sucking on a bunch of cock-colored tiles.

I found this site about Japanese porn censorship myths during my Googling of the subject. Looks like I was mistaken about the pubes. I would say that Japanese porn is fucked up in so many other ways, though.

 

[Ekserb]

I found this site about Japanese porn censorship myths during my Googling of the subject. Looks like I was mistaken about the pubes. I would say that Japanese porn is fucked up in so many other ways, though.

Fuck if you ain't the veritable internet info spigot. Good link.

 

[Lurnk]

The discussion board/instant messaging mix-up.

I realize folks have their lovely reasons for disregarding standard English spelling and basic grammar--no comment. Yet, what need compels anyone to spit out a post so quickly that virtually every other word in it is fucked-up? I'm talking about switched, tacked on, and forgotten letters and words, oddly slapped-together words, and illogical spacing choices--all to the point that the message becomes a language all its own.

I kinda thought a discussion board differed from a chat room, if only by its measured rather than "instant" pace, bolstering the idea of reasoned-out thoughts and responses. Oh chuckle. Apparently, I'm a scatterbrain for thinking that (effective) communication was the objective here.

 

[monique1971]

The discussion board/instant messaging mix-up.

I realize folks have their lovely reasons for disregarding standard English spelling and basic grammar--no comment. Yet, what need compels anyone to spit out a post so quickly that virtually every other word in it is fucked-up? I'm talking about switched, tacked on, and forgotten letters and words, oddly slapped-together words, and illogical spacing choices--all to the point that the message becomes a language all its own.

I kinda thought a discussion board differed from a chat room, if only by its measured rather than "instant" pace, bolstering the idea of reasoned-out thoughts and responses. Oh chuckle. Apparently, I'm a scatterbrain for thinking that (effective) communication was the objective here.

How odd; I don't remember this topic ever having been discussed before.

 

[Lurnk]

How odd; I don't remember this topic ever having been discussed before.

Oh? Next time I'll thoroughly inspect the thread. Heaven forbid a peeve repeat.

 

[Ekserb]

Oh? Next time I'll thoroughly inspect the thread. Heaven forbid a peeve repeat.

Maybe the thread starter could add a peeve index with a very short description of what's already been discussed.