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June

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Posted: September 03 2010 at 21:35

zappaholic wrote:

People who think Xavier is pronounced Igzavier.

Yeah, I hear you. I'm assuming that's your name.

I can deal with the fact that I have to spell my last name all the time, but I hate that some people here can't pronounce my first name either.

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Posted: September 03 2010 at 23:57

- People who don't drive fast enough in general but especially people who cruise in the left lane for no damn reason. You don't have to change lanes 4 miles before you need to turn, you dumb pr*cks!

- Soccer (and people who pretend to care about it once every 4 years), College Football, Basketball, ESPN's coverage of basketball and golf (basketball due to over coverage, golf due to all-Woods-coverage)

- Dogs (an actual pet hate) - they are load, smell terrible, and worst of all are praised for loyality (which is the most idiotic trait any creature can possess)

- To quote Penn Jillette for the next one: "Blank you people who think government should intervene more, blank you. Really, blank you!" (cleaned it up)

- The past decade of The Simpsons

- Pitchers who blow out their arms

- Conspiracy theorists

- Roger Goodell

- Combining metal with prog

venting is fun, could go on all night but I'd better get some sleep because of my biggest pet hate:

- having to work for a living

Time always wins.

Chris S

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Posted: September 04 2010 at 00:54

Dog farts and the owners who are smug about it

People munching an apple or cereal within earshot

Talkative cashiers..........f&%k off let me get out of here, sorry stoney.

The weather channel......like we need one

melted butter on bread/toast

having to have a serious chat after sex

People who say " I" all the time

young peoples livers and their ability to get up and have another ripper of a day....jealous I know

Salads without dressing

and last but not least.......air travel procedures, including those damned meals.

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Posted: September 04 2010 at 01:23

People from USA or Europe who support terrorist groups from Perú because they believe we are not able to know what is best for us.
Not sexist but real, women who while driving move their car to the left lane in order to turn to the right (All in less than 2 seconds).
People eating fruits like mangos in the beach (worst when they throw the bone to the sand)
People who believe their kids are so cute that we must laugh when they throw something to our clothes or kick us.
People who drive at 20 miles per hour in the fast speed lane.
Beligerant drunks
Extremely friendly drunks
People who leave their gum bellow your expensive Louis XV armchair.
People who urinate in the street (We have lots of them)
Clients who don't want pay because they believe a lawyer has to write a document for free.

Iván

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Posted: September 04 2010 at 01:24

Triceratopsoil wrote:

what pets do I hate? Llamas.

and Iguanas. SCREW EM

Dean

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Posted: September 04 2010 at 06:39

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

10. Clients who don't want pay because they believe a lawyer has to write a document for free.

Iván

Lawyers who charge £25 for a 2 minute phone call - that's £750 an hour! £28,000 a week!! £1.5 million a year

What?

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Posted: September 04 2010 at 06:49

I hate those tiny hateful dogs that bark too much. Yap yap yap yap yap yap yip yap yap yap yap yap yap yap,etc., etc., etc... LOL

I mean these aren't really dogs, just glorified rats. Tongue

Edited by Slartibartfast - September 04 2010 at 06:50

Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Posted: September 04 2010 at 06:51

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

People from USA or Europe who support terrorist groups from Perú because they believe we are not able to know what is best for us.
Not sexist but real, women who while driving move their car to the left lane in order to turn to the right (All in less than 2 seconds).
People eating fruits like mangos in the beach (worst when they throw the bone to the sand)
People who believe their kids are so cute that we must laugh when they throw something to our clothes or kick us.
People who drive at 20 miles per hour in the fast speed lane.
Beligerant drunks
Extremely friendly drunks
People who leave their gum bellow your expensive Louis XV armchair.
People who urinate in the street (We have lots of them)
Clients who don't want pay because they believe a lawyer has to write a document for free.

Iván

Erm, you could have lassoed another worthy adversary into the Ivan Corral by just typing 'drunks' Wink

Edited by ExittheLemming - September 04 2010 at 10:31

Dean

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Posted: September 04 2010 at 07:24

June wrote:

zappaholic wrote:

People who think Xavier is pronounced Igzavier.

Yeah, I hear you. I'm assuming that's your name.

I can deal with the fact that I have to spell my last name all the time, but I hate that some people here can't pronounce my first name either.

My personal bug-bear is people who put superfluous vowels on the end of my name. My name is deliberately short because my parents hated names that could be truncate so purposely chose a one syllable name for me. Adding more syllables is going against the wishes of my parents and it is not my name. The diminutive of Dean is Dean - adding extra syllable makes it longer, Deano cannot be the diminutive form.

I don't care for people refering to me by my surname alone either - but that's throw-back to school where teachers called girls by their given names and boys by their family names.

What?

Snow Dog

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Posted: September 04 2010 at 07:33

Sorry.....didn't know nit was such an issue, Deano! Tongue

( I never once thought it was the diminutive form though.....just the Australian form)

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Posted: September 04 2010 at 08:22

Chris S wrote:

Talkative cashiers..........f&%k off let me get out of here, sorry stoney.

How about talkative waiters? Talkative in a philosophical way. Just had one like this last evening.

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Posted: September 04 2010 at 08:32

I hate some languages that are so restrictive with their users that the users' can't pronounce anything that is not in their language, even if they're explained how. My surname can't be pronounced be French people, and it's not really complicated. It's Mircea (MIR - CHÉ - A). They say MIR-SÉ-A. If I choose to remain in France, I either have to modify my name or to put this curse on my family/descendants. And there is no way to transliterate the pronounciation of my name into a French one, there is no good equivalent. Maybe Mirtchea, but that looks awful, I'd better kill myself. Many Romanians in France change their names. And btw, I hate those Romanians who modify their name without need. Really, why change Ionescu / Popescu to Ionesco / Popesco?

Edited by harmonium.ro - September 04 2010 at 08:34

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Posted: September 04 2010 at 09:34

- Drunks

- How people my age, and younger, talk

- Juggalos

- Urban and pseudo-urban clothing style

- People who feel the need to share the fact that they are deaf/mentally challenged with you while driving their car. I'm talking about booming bass, of course.

Time always wins.

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Posted: September 04 2010 at 09:44

Prog purists.

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Posted: September 04 2010 at 10:27

Chris S wrote:

Talkative cashiers..........f&%k off let me get out of here, sorry stoney.

I'd be happy to. I like my management trying to get me to sell sh*t to customers even less than they do. On that note, nothing is ever enough for a corporation. Once you hit a new bar of success, oh you'd better not think you can stay there, because they always want more, even when they f**king dominate the market share. And I don't even see the benefits of it. Oh well I might get a $.25 raise after half a year of surviving the yammering of the bitter future-mes gossiping and all. And with that I could save up little by little and buy a big bowl of f**king nothing.

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Posted: September 04 2010 at 10:52

Triceratopsoil wrote:

Triceratopsoil wrote:

what pets do I hate? Llamas.

and Iguanas. SCREW EM

You there... DIE.

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Posted: September 04 2010 at 11:02

Dean wrote:

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

10. Clients who don't want pay because they believe a lawyer has to write a document for free.

Iván

Lawyers who charge £25 for a 2 minute phone call - that's £750 an hour! £28,000 a week!! £1.5 million a year

I wish we could do 10% of this.

Here in Perú they don't pay phone calls (and have you an hour sometimes) or consults, as a fact most of the people say they pay if they win, but when they go to a doctor they pay even if he says he can't save you.

Iván

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Posted: September 04 2010 at 11:07

People who go to a friendly lunch with one of this hanging of their ear, and don't receive a f*cking call.,

Jabra JX10 Bluetooth Earset - Over-the-ear, Earbud - Silver

Nobody is that important that can't use his hands to answer the da,mn cell phone.

Iván

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - September 04 2010 at 11:07

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Posted: September 04 2010 at 14:22

Dean wrote:

Rick Wakeman's cornered the market in Grumpy Old Proggers so we're going to have to go some to catch him up.

Blacksword wrote:

People who drive right up close behind me, when I'm already driving at or just above the limit anyway. How fast do they want to go?? I just slow right down. They really don't like that.

In built-up areas I hit the limit and stick to it, within seconds I know I'm going to have the 4 Audi rings in my rear-view mirror, but I really don't mind because once we hit the national-limit signs I stop being Mr Safe-and-sound and will happily gun it; and because I know what I'm going to do and they don't I'll be 100yds ahead of them in a few seconds and they won't be able to tailgate me again until we get to the next 40 limit. Simple pleasures.

Slartibartfast wrote:

The cat pooping outside the box. LOL

We got a kitten last weekend (nothing wrong with the old one, it's not an upgrade or anything), it stands inside the littertray and craps outside it - we put the tray on the newspaper anyway so it's easily cleared up. One of our other cats hates standing in the litter - it will perch on the edge of the box to crap into the litter - quite a balancing act.

anyway, my pet hates:

waiters who wait until you've a mouthful of food before asking "is everything alright with the meal?" ... I know they do it on purpose so I really don't mind spraying them with partially masticated food when I answer. I'm not overly fond of the question - they aren't really concerned about the food, they ask so you can't complain when paying the bill - I respond with "Okay so far" or "I'll know when I've finished".

and the driving ones...

People overtaking on the inside - grrrh! - and related - when a lane-closure causes two lanes to merge into one and you can see that t*sser in the Audi a 100 yards back and you know he's going speed right to the front and try and muscle in - yup, I'm the guy who straddles both lanes trying to stop them.

Those white LED running lights on Audi's.

Yes! Good man. I do the same. Thats another thing I just can't stand.

And those lights...ugh...what are companies thinking. I'm all for seeing on the roads but don't make lights that literally blind other drivers for 5-10 seconds after some arse pulls up behind you or drives by you on the other side of the road. Really...normal lights work well.

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Posted: September 04 2010 at 19:51

WalterDigsTunes wrote:

Triceratopsoil wrote:

Triceratopsoil wrote:

what pets do I hate? Llamas.

and Iguanas. SCREW EM

You there... DIE.

I was kidding, I love all reptiles