Pet peeves

[Ekserb]

When a girl goes to the beach and wears a swimsuit that does not fit well. No one wants to look at the ass of your suit hanging loose between your legs. It's a swimsuit! It should hug the curves of your body like a second skin. Buy a new one, pull it up into your ass, or wear a thong, but do not go out in public like that!

 

[Ekserb]

I'm reading my favorite Mac web site live update on the Macworld keynote speech from Steve jobs, and they haven't posted an update in, like, five minutes! I wanna know what's the "one more thing" for this year's event!! He's already announced the iPhone and appletv, what could he possibly have in store for us that we haven't already seen? What could it be??? I have to know!

Oh ... I mean, um ... never mind.

 

[Dirty_Angel26]

Because you have a southern accent right? Same here.

Yep..my accent is so strong, it often comes out in my writing. I can't help it

 

[Dirty_Angel26]

A certain little brother that won't call our mom on her b'day.. How quickly he forgets that she has gave him everything he has ever wanted and all she has asked for in return is respect for her and his love. And he can't even do that. Makes me ashamed to call him my brother.

 

[Daizie]

A certain little brother that won't call our mom on her b'day.. How quickly he forgets that she has gave him everything he has ever wanted and all she has asked for in return is respect for her and his love. And he can't even do that. Makes me ashamed to call him my brother.

You too Angel? My little brother is the same way. I love him because he's my brother, but I still find him to be a repugnant little troll at times.

 

[Dirty_Angel26]

You too Angel? My little brother is the same way. I love him because he's my brother, but I still find him to be a repugnant little troll at times.

You put it nicer than I do

 

[Ekserb]

Another driving peeve:

These fuckers that can't take a turn in their sedan without steering away from the corner before cutting back into the turn. Like they think they're going to cut the corner off if they simply steer into it.

Your fucking car is only fourteen feet long. It's not a bus. You don't have to make turns like an 18-wheeler.

Oh, and you're sitting on the left side of the car, not the centerline, so stop driving with the car way over on the right side of the lane. You are supposed to put the car in the middle, not your body.

It's called spatial awareness. Christ, get a clue.

 

[Daizie]

I'll add to the driving peeves:

People who feel the need to hit the brakes at every intersection, even when they don't have the stop sign.

 

[Ekserb]

Automobile model year designations.

Who decided to give cars model years? He was a fucking genius. The average consumer is so driven to own the "newest" anything that they will line up to get a car that is exactly like the one they own just because the manufacturer says it's next year's model. WTF?!?

And now they're getting ridiculous. Has anyone else noticed that sometimes these fucking companies will advertise "the new 2008 models" in 2006? What the double-fuck?!? Why not just say they're all 2025 models. Hell, I'll buy a car for $40,000 if it can travel through time.

When you buy a stereo the box doesn't say 2007 Harmon Kardon receiver. I didn't get a 2005 Oster blender. My toothbrush is a Sonicare 5120 and when they come out with a new model it won't be the 2007 5120, it'll be a 5125 or something.

And naming a car a Mustang or Corvette or Impreza and then changing it dramatically from year to year isn't like selling the same car. This year's Suburban isn't the same truck from two years ago, so call it something else. How about naming cars based on the body style/engine/suspension combination? A Ford 3-18-7, for example. When they discontinue the number 3 body style, they retire that designation forever. You could still use this idea if you had to give the cars names like Nova and Coupe de Ville. In fact, the Mustang would have a number 7 or 8 body style, seeing as how they've really only changed the design a few times in the over forty-year history of that car. If they used this method you would be able to tell at a glance whether the car you are looking at is the same as any other car: "Oh, this Cadillac has the new number six engine, so I know it's better than Joe's."

Getting back to buying a car earlier than the model year begins, you're getting royally fucked when it comes time to trade that car in on another, even if you only drive it for a year. Follow me here:

You buy a 2008 in June of 2006 and drive it an average of 10,000 miles a year. So far, so good. now you drive it for two years and want to trade it in on a new 2009 car ('cause you know those fuckers aren't going to make the same mistake year after year). So you pull into the lot and the sales manager tells you your car has a lot of miles on it, so they're going to have to deduct for the excess mileage. "What? It's only got 20,000 on it and I've been driving it for two years. That's below average for any car!" "Well, sir, it's a 2008, so it's really only one year old as far as the book value is concerned, so we're looking at a one-year-old car with double the average mileage. Sorry."

Always buy your new car late in the model year if you can.

Until they come around to my way of thinking and then the year the car was made won't have any bearing on the resale value, only the options and mileage.

 

[Daizie]

Ekserb, do you stay up at night thinking of these things? Just wondering in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way. (I'm teasing so please do not take offense.)

 

[Ekserb]

Ekserb, do you stay up at night thinking of these things? Just wondering in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way. (I'm teasing so please do not take offense.)

These things don't keep me from sleeping, but I do think about them often. I'm not offended at all.

 

[Daizie]

These things don't keep me from sleeping, but I do think about them often. I'm not offended at all.

Good. We do tend to share the same driving annoyances. There are far too many people out on the road who should be riding a bus.

 

[Lorali82]

Good. We do tend to share the same driving annoyances. There are far too many people out on the road who should be riding a bus.

And that bus should be headed straight over a cliff.

 

[Ekserb]

Any other NPR listeners here?

Does the music they play in between stories or new items bother you? It does me. The heavy-handed drama they try to include in my daily news headlines is getting to be too much. After yet another story on some New Orleans family that is still waiting to move back to their home in the Ninth Ward, I don't need to hear some somber, minor-keyed music clip to drive home the fact that this was supposed to be a sad story. I get it. Let's move on. Fffffuck. Morning Edition is the fucking worst.

The only reason I listen at all is because I'm stuck in my work truck without a CD player or satellite radio and local radio is unlistenable since they took Howard Stern off the regular airwaves. Listening to the engine is just too boring, although another few months of Diane Rehm's spasmodic fucking voice will surely push me to kick the radio through the firewall.

 

[Ekserb]

And that bus should be headed straight over a cliff.

Amen.

 

[bluebell]

It frosts my cookies

I really hate it when people that you originally thought were very interesting, and possessing many layers (more Ayn Rand than Amelia Bedelia) turn out to be incredibly flat. Especially if you feel that you've been investing time and energy and they just look at you with this lazy bovine gaze...

 

[Lorali82]

Any other NPR listeners here?

Does the music they play in between stories or new items bother you? It does me. The heavy-handed drama they try to include in my daily news headlines is getting to be too much. After yet another story on some New Orleans family that is still waiting to move back to their home in the Ninth Ward, I don't need to hear some somber, minor-keyed music clip to drive home the fact that this was supposed to be a sad story. I get it. Let's move on. Fffffuck. Morning Edition is the fucking worst.

The only reason I listen at all is because I'm stuck in my work truck without a CD player or satellite radio and local radio is unlistenable since they took Howard Stern off the regular airwaves. Listening to the engine is just too boring, although another few months of Diane Rehm's spasmodic fucking voice will surely push me to kick the radio through the firewall.

Consider yourself lucky. Some punk kid ripped the antenna off of my car about a year ago and now the only station that comes in is smooth jazz.

 

[Lorali82]

I really hate it when people that you originally thought were very interesting, and possessing many layers (more Ayn Rand than Amelia Bedelia) turn out to be incredibly flat. Especially if you feel that you've been investing time and energy and they just look at you with this lazy bovine gaze...

mmm frosted cookies...

 

[bluebell]

Reservations for hell

I guess all those little punks should be on that bus, too, eh Lor?
Soft jazz, my god- kill me now. After two years at an uppity Borders I can feel your pain.

Some of those punks took baseball bats to all the mailboxes on my street when I was in high school.

O'Doyle rules...

 

[Ekserb]

Consider yourself lucky. Some punk kid ripped the antenna off of my car about a year ago and now the only station that comes in is smooth jazz.

Pet peeve ... people who drive cars with parts missing after an accident or vandalism.

 

[Lorali82]

Pet peeve ... people who drive cars with parts missing after an accident or vandalism.

It's actually the 2009 model Honda Civic. Comes with a ripped off antenna.

 

[Lorali82]

A thread posted on a public forum directed specifically at one individual with really ambiguous details. I just read a thread someone posted on the GB apologizing to a "certain person" for saying "certain things." And then he got all mad when people started asking him what those things were. Dude, do it in PMs or something. Don't subject the whole world to your drama and then get upset when people want to know what the fucking thread is about.

 

[Ekserb]

It's actually the 2009 model Honda Civic. Comes with a ripped off antenna.

Wait two years, then take it back and demand a full refund.

 

[monique1971]

Any other NPR listeners here?

Does the music they play in between stories or new items bother you? It does me. The heavy-handed drama they try to include in my daily news headlines is getting to be too much. After yet another story on some New Orleans family that is still waiting to move back to their home in the Ninth Ward, I don't need to hear some somber, minor-keyed music clip to drive home the fact that this was supposed to be a sad story. I get it. Let's move on. Fffffuck. Morning Edition is the fucking worst.

The only reason I listen at all is because I'm stuck in my work truck without a CD player or satellite radio and local radio is unlistenable since they took Howard Stern off the regular airwaves. Listening to the engine is just too boring, although another few months of Diane Rehm's spasmodic fucking voice will surely push me to kick the radio through the firewall.

Surely some radio station in Miami broadcasts Rush Limbaugh or some similar right-wing hero. I would have thought he was much more your style.

I don't care much for those little music clips either, for the same reason.

 

[monique1971]

I really hate it when people that you originally thought were very interesting, and possessing many layers (more Ayn Rand than Amelia Bedelia) turn out to be incredibly flat. Especially if you feel that you've been investing time and energy and they just look at you with this lazy bovine gaze...

Hah! I agree, but the best part of this post is the juxtaposition of Ayn Rand and Amelia Bedelia.

Unfortunately, most people turn out to be pretty boring, myself included.