Trivial things that bother you...

[Plant Woman]

Get it off your chest, what gives you angst, even though you know there are more important things to be anxious about.

I have a hard time with proper names not being capitalized. It's only an internet problem, but when I type a nick that isn't capitalized, it bothers me. If it spills over into real life, I might move to a deserted island.

[Shelli]

Baby paper clips!! :trash:

&

Checks stapled to remits!! :rant:

[Crumb]

Having my cube located in a high traffic area...

[Shelli]

Drivers that drive too slow.
Drivers that drive too fast.
Drivers that drive up my ass.
Drivers that don't know what the turn signal is for.
Drivers that think that the turn signal is to be on at all times.
Drivers that ride their brakes.
Drivers that don't know where the brake is until the last minute.
Drivers that run red lights.
Drivers that stop at yellow lights.
Drivers that are too busy jacking off to realize that the light is AS GREEN AS IT GETS.
Drivers that block access to side streets when they can't go anywhere anyway because the upcoming light is AS RED AS IT GETS.
Drivers that cut me off.
Drivers that drive in the wrong lane.
Drivers that don't yield to the right of way.

In short...

All drivers but myself. :didi:

[lisarea]

ASHLEY TAYLOR BRAND UNDERPANTS.

[Plant Woman]

:rofl:

[Shelli]

There's more... a LOT more.. but I don't want to make liv and vm pay for extra bandwidth. :giggle:

[wei yau]

I have one of those light switch plates with two switches. I need both switches to be in the same position (on or off).

This bothers me enough that I'll toggle the switches between the ones at the top of the stairs and the ones at the bottom to make sure that each pair are in the same position and the controlled lights are both on or off.

[Watser?]

When I get a deadline that is set in stone and then after I work my butt off to make it my work gets shoved into some drawer :rant:

[Sock Puppet]

Drivers that drive up my ass without buying me dinner first.:fixed:


My trivial botheration: people who process incoming information waaaay too damned slowly, e.g.:

The bright light who was in front of me coming back from lunch, waiting for the elevator. Two adjacent elevators "dinged" and lit at the same time. She waited for the one on the right to open. Instead, the one on the left did. She stood there for precious seconds of my life, trying to figure out what had happened. When it registered within her tiny mind that the one on the left was open and the one on the right wasn't, it still took her another precious few seconds of my life to decide to abandon her hope of the right elevator and take the left. IT'S THE BOTTOM GODDAMNED FLOOR! ANY OF THEM WILL TAKE YOU TO THE SAME F***ING PLACE! :rant:

[Shelli]

Drivers that drive up my ass without buying me dinner first.:fixed::lol:

[Crumb]

Nothing to do at 8am, flood of crap at 12pm... arg!!!

[ceptimus]

Is 12pm noon or midnight? I'm never sure.

[lisarea]

Is 12pm noon or midnight? I'm never sure.

Colloquially, it's noon. But there is no such thing as 12PM. There's noon, which is followed by 12:01PM; and there's midnight, which is followed by 12:01AM.

[Crumb]

I meant noon.

Oh and architect should NOT be used as a verb!

[ChuckF]

The verb to orientate.

The way the cap on my mouthwash is designed. It's supposed to be like a little cup you can use you measure your mouthwash, but if you don't wash it out thoroughly every time you wind up with mouthwash all over the side of the container.

[Crumb]

I find just using the cup for a second water rinse is sufficient to fixing that problem.

The mouthwash problem, not the orientate problem. Orientate can only be solved by orientating the muzzle toward their head.

[curses]

People that get in the right turn lane to skip in front of traffic. This wouldn't be so mind-bogglingly irritating if they didn't stop to wait for someone to let them over, keeping those of us who want to use the lane for its intended purpose from doing so, thus adding 5-10 minutes to my commute when I'm literally 45 seconds from my driveway.

[godfry n. glad]

Hmmm...to make this easy, it would be "most other people."

However, I'll be a bit more specific:

- the phrase, "Y'know what I mean?"
- people abusing cellphones.
- oranges.
- excessive cover fragrance (perfume, cologne, au de toilet...whatever).
- drivers who change lanes without signalling.
- people who request books based upon their cover color.
- neuroscientists.
- solicitors, either door-to-door, telephone or legal professionals.
- those who rush to label others.

[ChuckF]

I find just using the cup for a second water rinse is sufficient to fixing that problem.

Ah, see I don't do a secondary rinse. I'm switching back to the most brutal flavor of Listerine as soon as I use up this pansy-ass Crest stuff.

And also Yahoo! Slurp Spiders.

[livius drusus]

When TV detectives make flippant puns about the corpse they've just found, usually some smartassery about the method of death or the smell or something along those lines.

[The Lone Ranger]

Anytime someone calls me "Mike". As Sarah once said of me, "You are so not a 'Mike'." When I introduce myself to someone, I always refer to myself as "Michael." If that person then calls me "Mike," I think they're being rude and I pointedly correct them.


Actually, I kind of like the old notion that names have power, and that if you know someone's "true" name, you have some sort of power over them. I don't actually believe that, of course, but I don't like to give people my full name. If someone asks me what the middle initial stands for, I change the subject. They generally assume that it's because I have an embarrassing name, but it isn't that at all. I consider it private information, not to be shared with anyone who isn't a close and trusted friend.

Cheers,

Michael

[lisarea]

I meant noon.

Oh and architect should NOT be used as a verb!

OK, but sometimes, you go all the way around and try to describe it using other words, like "built" or "designed" or "structured," all of which you have to qualify at length, and then nobody knows what you mean, until you describe it using FOUR MILLION WORDS and they say, "Oh, you mean 'architected,'" and you end up having to say, "LOL. WHATEVS," which is even worse than saying architected in the first stupid place.

[Plant Woman]

When TV detectives make flippant puns about the corpse they've just found, usually some smartassery about the method of death or the smell or something along those lines.

I think in real life, real detectives do this, as a way to release the stress and the gruesomeness of the situation.

[Crumb]

I meant noon.

Oh and architect should NOT be used as a verb!

OK, but sometimes, you go all the way around and try to describe it using other words, like "built" or "designed" or "structured," all of which you have to qualify at length, and then nobody knows what you mean, until you describe it using FOUR MILLION WORDS and they say, "Oh, you mean 'architected,'" and you end up having to say, "LOL. WHATEVS," which is even worse than saying architected in the first stupid place.
"Architect a plan" Now tell me that's not wrong.

[Pinecone]

Price stickers!!!

They stick them on expiration dates.
They stick them on the cooking instructions
They stick them on glass ware that you have to use stinky goo-away to
get them off
They stick them on painted surfaces so the paint comes off

I swear they look for the ugliest stickiest stickers, cut them up so you have to peel them away in micro bits and then look for the most irritating place to stick them .... you know where they can stick them!!!???? :glare:

I tell you I'm glad they over package a 2oz bottle in a shoe box! Why? Because they can't get to the product to put the sticker on it! and and...how about those hard plastic molded packages. Hell, you have to call in the jaws of life to get your product out! BUT! Ho Ho! Another thing they couldn't get the sticker on! Don't even get me started on CDs and all those sealing stickers to get the box open. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,,,,,,,,,,,

[Dingfod]

People that pull out into traffic without looking. Thank goodness I'm quick on the brakes, because had I not, I would've plowed that new Suzuki into this jerk on 94th South the other day.

People that use the word "break" when they mean "brake".

They're, their, and there are three different words with at least three different meanings. Learn them.

Flair and flare are not the same thing any more than hair or hare are.


Edit: Grrrr. I hate those new hard bubble packs. They're dangerous. You could put an eye out trying to get one open without cutting your fingers.

[lisarea]

I meant noon.

Oh and architect should NOT be used as a verb!

OK, but sometimes, you go all the way around and try to describe it using other words, like "built" or "designed" or "structured," all of which you have to qualify at length, and then nobody knows what you mean, until you describe it using FOUR MILLION WORDS and they say, "Oh, you mean 'architected,'" and you end up having to say, "LOL. WHATEVS," which is even worse than saying architected in the first stupid place.
"Architect a plan" Now tell me that's not wrong.

Yah. I ain't saying it's not wrong, man. I'm just saying that it may or may not be on my resume.

[D. Scarlatti]

Structured is an adjective in that context. You don't structure a structure.

What really irritates me is people who just appear in some thread without anything constructured to say.

Also I can't stand all those teenyboppers on the bus with their backpacks bumping into you.

[viscousmemories]

I have a hard time with proper names not being capitalized. It's only an internet problem...
I know the feeling! :shudder:

[Dingfod]

What really irritates me is people who just appear in some thread without anything constructured to say.Gawd, you must despise me.

[lisarea]

Structured is an adjective in that context. You don't structure a structure.

What context?

[ChuckF]

Oh and architect should NOT be used as a verb!
Why not? It's perfectly cromulent.

[Stormlight]

MS Powerpoint and the idiots that use it for each and every little thing.

[Kyuss Apollo]

If there is anything I despise more than the mission statement, it was the ridonkulous meetings to discuss and defend the mission statement, the time now spent reading assigned articles about the importance of mission statements, which is only the prelude to more meetings to revise the previously and aptly defended stupid mission statement.

[ChuckF]

Defend the mission statement against what, exactly?

[fragment]

I think the sub-committee will be reporting back to answer that, Chuck.

[Watser?]

Price stickers!!!

They stick them on expiration dates.
They stick them on the cooking instructions
They stick them on glass ware that you have to use stinky goo-away to
get them off
They stick them on painted surfaces so the paint comes off

I swear they look for the ugliest stickiest stickers, cut them up so you have to peel them away in micro bits and then look for the most irritating place to stick them .... you know where they can stick them!!!???? :glare:

I tell you I'm glad they over package a 2oz bottle in a shoe box! Why? Because they can't get to the product to put the sticker on it! and and...how about those hard plastic molded packages. Hell, you have to call in the jaws of life to get your product out! BUT! Ho Ho! Another thing they couldn't get the sticker on! Don't even get me started on CDs and all those sealing stickers to get the box open. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,,,,,,,,,,,

They stick them on my precious lp's so I either have to damage the sleeve or leave them on :whine:

Oh, oh, oh :mutter: They stick them on soda cans! On the part you drink from!!

[godfry n. glad]

MS Powerpoint and the idiots that use it for each and every little thing.

My coworkers and I hope for the introduction of a 12-step powerpoint addiction program. It's obvious to us that steps like this have long been necessary.

Ahem... as soon as my assistant can get the projector to work as per specs....

We happen to have some slides to introduce the various aspects of this proposed program. Don't worry about taking notes, there will be handouts afterwards.

Lights, please?

[Stormlight]

:rofl:

[Shelli]

I swear they look for the ugliest stickiest stickers, cut them up so you have to peel them away in micro bits and then look for the most irritating place to stick them .... you know where they can stick them!!!???? :glare:
:giggle:

[The Lone Ranger]

Price stickers!!!

You know those sticky things they put into dvd cases to keep you from stealing them? Well, a local bookstore has been putting them in books. Stuck right in the middle of a book, where the blasted thing covers a portion of the page. And it's dang-near impossible to remove the thing without damaging the page. Whose idiotic idea was that?



Oh and architect should NOT be used as a verb!
Why not? It's perfectly cromulent.

"Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anispeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation."


Cheers,

Michael

[Shelli]

People who pawn their shit off onto everyone else. :rant:

[Shelli]

Radio commercials! :blahblah:

[ChuckF]

MS Powerpoint and the idiots that use it for each and every little thing.
No, dude, Powerpoint is not a "trivial" thing. Powerpoint is one of the great evils stalking the world today. From the torturous process of making the stupid slides to sitting through the presentations where speakers read every goddamn word off of every goddamn slide, Powerpoint is 100% devil's work. Powerpoint doesn't bother me; Powerpoint ate my soul.

[Watser?]

Powerpoint raped my grandmother!

[Shelli]

:ohno:

[The Lone Ranger]

MS Powerpoint and the idiots that use it for each and every little thing.
No, dude, Powerpoint is not a "trivial" thing. Powerpoint is one of the great evils stalking the world today. From the torturous process of making the stupid slides to sitting through the presentations where speakers read every goddamn word off of every goddamn slide, Powerpoint is 100% devil's work. Powerpoint doesn't bother me; Powerpoint ate my soul.

It occasionally has its uses, but count me among the Powerpoint haters. Far too many of my colleagues rely upon it, but I find that whenever I put up PP slides, students pay attention to the slides, and not to me. So I almost never use them. If they need to see a pretty picture, that's why they have textbooks.

Cheers,

Michael

[curses]

People who don't know how to use google. I don't mean people who are too lazy to, I mean people who have no internet research skills whatsoever. I have other things to do this morning other than figure out what you've just done to your Outlook Express. I don't even have Outlook Express. Google it, dammit!

[ChuckF]

I wish I could look at the pretty pictures on Powerpoint. The minute a professor starts a PP presentation, I pretty much check out and start thinking about other things.

[Shelli]

My own irritableness at times.

[Sock Puppet]

In related peevitude, people who use Excel like it's a word processing program because they're too damned lazy to learn basic use of M$ Word. In the time it took you to figure out how to fit your magnum opus into a cell and print it properly, you could've printed it from Word and had a much longer one of your all-important thumbing-yer-ass sessions.

[Shelli]

... and had a much longer one of your all-important thumbing-yer-ass sessions.Is this with or without lube? :?

[Sock Puppet]

I don't know; I don't shake hands with them to find out.

[Shelli]

ewwwwww :eww:

[wei yau]

When TV detectives make flippant puns about the corpse they've just found, usually some smartassery about the method of death or the smell or something along those lines.

I think in real life, real detectives do this, as a way to release the stress and the gruesomeness of the situation.

Yeah but, in real life, there's no one waiting around to cue up the theme music for the detective.

It reminds me of a great opener for CSI, a couple of murders occurred on Fight Night in Vegas. After the first body was found and Grissom made the liv-hated flippant remark, the theme music started to cue up....only to be interrupted by Grissom's beeper because another body had been found.

[Sock Puppet]

ewwwwww :eww:You did ask. :funface:

[Shelli]

Yep. Silleh me. :giggles:

[Plant Woman]

Coffee mugs that glare at you first thing in the morning!

[Sock Puppet]

I'm pretty sure that one is self-inflicted. :wink:

[Shelli]

Like this one?

[Plant Woman]

:giggles:

[Plant Woman]

I'm pretty sure that one is self-inflicted. :wink:

Are you saying I am seeing my reflection? :yikes:

[Sock Puppet]

No, I thought you'd gotten one of those spiffy mugs. I didn't realize you were talking about Shelli's sig.

[Plant Woman]

:giggles:

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Butterflies, they flap around like they're so special. Pretentious little fuckers.

When I fuel up my car, I invariably get diesel fuel on my hands because some idiot that used the pump before me somehow got it on the handle. I still can't figure out how they mannage that feat without trying.

Skittles in the vending machine I frequent now cost $0.80 instead of $0.75, which means I can no longer buy four bags with three dollars.

[Shelli]

:bluebutterfly:

[Pinecone]

When I fuel up my car, I invariably get diesel fuel on my hands because some idiot that used the pump before me somehow got it on the handle. I still can't figure out how they mannage that feat without trying.



That was me!! I'm the idiot! I'm the idiot!:crazy:
How you do that is you try to fill up those yellow diesel cans...only they make the hole almost the same size as those large diesel spouts. The air builds up, and it blows that shit all over the place! I hate filling up the diesel cans...and sorry about that....:sorry:

[Dingfod]

I too fill a diesel "can", fuel for my tractor. I am very careful and don't spew it all over the place even though diesel foams like the dickens.

If I could find a place that sold farm (no road tax) diesel, I would buy it there. It would be legal for me to do so because it's for a tractor. Maybe I need to make a deal with Village Inn and Waffle House, the closest restaurants to Rancho Pobrecito, to rid them of their used cooking oils. Then, when I'm mowing my yard or spreading gravel, can smell french fries and fried chicken instead of plain old diesel.

Actually, the exhaust on my tractor hardly stinks at all. The fuel, on the other hand, stinks plenty, and brings back bad memories.

[Plant Woman]

We used to fill our kerosene burners for our boat with Jet fuel, gave me a headache every time. Not diesel but close enough.

[godfry n. glad]

I've been told that home heating oil is the same thing a diesel. I don't really know if that's true or not, not having to test it. It does seem as though you might be able to obtain diesel via the home heating oil folks....but I'll bet they don't sell gas-can amounts.

[Dingfod]

Home heating oil is, in most cases, #2 or #3 Fuel Oil. Diesel is #2 Fuel Oil. One could burn it in a diesel engine. However, heating oil never was utilized in Oklahoma for home heating and is unavailable. In Oklahoma there has been an ample supply of natural gas for heating since the late 1890s.


Edit: Jet fuel is kerosene blended with naptha (white gas, Coleman stove fuel) with a crapload of anti-corrosion, anti-gumming and anti-icing additives. Probably not good stove or lantern fuel.

[Plant Woman]

Yes, I'm sure it did. My ex thought it was good stuff. I hated the kerosene stoves as they always plugged up. And of course always in the middle of cooking something.

Propane stove is what I wanted, but never got.

[viscousmemories]

My boss' boss commented wryly that my boss thinks in Powerpoint, and I believe it.

[Sock Puppet]

Damn Otto's Burgers to the umpteenth circle of hell. I expect the McDonald'ses and Booger Kings of the world to presume they know what condiments I want on my burger, but this is supposed to be a good place. If I wanted the bun soaked in a gallon of mustard, I'd do it myself.

[TomJoe]

Mustard is for hot dogs. Not burgers! :glare:

[Plant Woman]

Dust inside closed cabinets.

[Shelli]

How ever since I got my impacted wisdom teeth removed which caused nerve damage, every time I get really stressed out, the left side of my face gets tingly and kinda numb. Irritates the shit outa me.

[JackDog]

I hate it when vending machine prices don't match and I get stuck with change. For example, in our breakroom at work we have a soda machine which costs $.50 and the stuff in the snack machine starts at $.55...so if I want a Coke and some candy I either have to bring along a nickel or a dime, or I get stuck with a pocketful of change. Trivial? Yes. Does it bother me? Hell, yes!
:fuming:

[curses]

Today I mainly hate people who don't realize that the onramp to a highway is for getting up to the speed of the cars on the highway and merging into traffic, not for going 25 MPH and then stopping at the end of it with their blinker on.

[Plant Woman]

Passive-aggressives!

[ChuckF]

Passive-aggressives!
:shiftier:

[Crumb]

Passive-aggressives!
Are you calling the people in this thread passive-aggressives, or are you saying that they bother you, or both? :confused:

[Shelli]

Being continuously bothered while I'm on the phone. :brooding:

[Crumb]

Registration sites that recheck the "Yes, please send me spam" check box if you make a mistake or need to choose a different user name.

[Ymir's blood]

Poisonous tree frogs

[Plant Woman]

I am bothered by PA behavior! Grrrrrrrrr.

[curses]

Poisonous tree frogsYou have a problem with these in your neck of the woods, or have you been mail ordering them again?
:P

[Dingfod]

Right now, I'm ticked off about spam, adware, spyware, trojan horses, viruses, and malware of any kind. Are people really that malicious?

[Plant Woman]

:afraid:

[Ymir's blood]

Poisonous tree frogsYou have a problem with these in your neck of the woods, or have you been mail ordering them again?
:P
They were supposed to be here today but the postman never showed up for some reason.

:scratch:

[Pinecone]

:giggle:

[Plant Woman]

Annoyed with myself for sleeping in until noon, and half the day is gone.

[pescifish]

Spinning windmills, bright white flashes and colored dots. :rubeyes:

[ChuckF]

Latvia :glare:

[SharonDee]

Paper hounds. By this I mean: people like my boss who, in this electronic age, rely too much on hard copy printouts. In fact, he's the only paper hound I know so I guess he is the trivial thing that bothers me.

For our biweekly staff meetings, he prints a project report for everyone to read from. This is not a bad thing. But for years he would fax this document to our telecommuter who only has the one phone line. So here I am trying to reach her about a problem and I get this long be-e-e-e-e-e-ep because her fax machine is waiting for the project list or she's forgotten to disconnect the fax machine after getting the list.

Now I'm a helpful sort so I show him how to "print" the list to the document image writer, which produces an electronic printout that can be emailed. He thinks it's great, the telecommuter thinks it's great--no more using the fax machine as he was the only reason she still used it--and I think it's great because I no longer worry about being able to reach her.

There was a problem with system resources, the disk usage leaped from 60% to 79%. To handle the problem, he printed a list of huge files and sent it around to us, asking us to check files belonging to us to see if they could be deleted. Then he says to give it back to him when we're done because he wants to fax it--fax it!--to the telecommuter so she can look it over. Hello? Remember that email report tip? IT WOULD WORK FOR THIS, TOO!!

We have an electronic project tracking system, homegrown, that lets you create projects, update projects, track a project's progress, close a project, send an email to the project's requester when it's completed. But when I complete a project he will still show up at my desk and ask where the hard copy is for his files. Argh! Print it yourself, ya 1980's throwback!

By the way, my boss is the VP of Information Technology.

(And I'm not at all bitter. Not. At. All.)

[Dingfod]

Balcony seats that cost $65.

[inland wave]

Balcony seats that cost $65.

They are damn good seats :glare:

[Sock Puppet]

Tollway gates that require exact change with no dollar bill acceptor. The toll is $1, even. Why the FUCK isn't there a changer there? Oh yeah, increased revenue from toll-running fines. Assholes.

Oh, and while I'm at it, the ones that DO have changers make you feed your dollar in, fighting to keep the 40mph winds from blowing it away before the machine deigns to accept it, only to give you a dollar coin that you then have to throw into the hopper. Is there any FUCKING reason why it can't just take the dollar bill directly, and open the stupid gate? Rhetorical question. :rant:

[Shelli]

* Shelli :giggles: @ :sockpuppet:

[Kyuss Apollo]

Coffee places that charge $2.04 cents for a large coffee.

Who the fuck has 4 pennies laying around in their car every day?

Who wants freaking 96¢ change?

[One for Sorrow]

Capital One. I have never had a Capital One card. I have never applied for a Capital One card. They send me offers at least twice a week. Today they sent me two. In one freaking day!

I'm thinking about actually applying, but exaggerating my financial situation to appear to be so bad they'd deem me unsuitable to carry their damn card (I wouldn't need to exaggerate by much. Heh). But, with my luck, they'd send me one anyway. Bunch of :asshat: :asshat: :asshat: .

[Plant Woman]

Hey there! You can call 1-888-567-8688 and opt out on these prescreened offers of credit.

[Shelli]

The fact that I started smoking and have to quit again. :wall:

[One for Sorrow]

Plant Woman: Really? That's great! Thanks.

Oh, and since you brought up phone numbers (this has nothing to do with what you posted, it just brought a weird random memory to mind), I am really annoyed that the 800 number for Air Canada that they have posted at the ticket counter at work apparently leads to a phone sex line. :whoa:

[godfry n. glad]

Capital One. I have never had a Capital One card. I have never applied for a Capital One card. They send me offers at least twice a week. Today they sent me two. In one freaking day!

I'm thinking about actually applying, but exaggerating my financial situation to appear to be so bad they'd deem me unsuitable to carry their damn card (I wouldn't need to exaggerate by much. Heh). But, with my luck, they'd send me one anyway. Bunch of :asshat: :asshat: :asshat: .

Ramen! :fsm:

I had a Capital One card. When it was issued to me, it had a really decent 7.5% APR. I had it about five years before I missed a payment. They then jumped the APR to 23.7%. Bastards. I bailed and finally paid that sucker off and destroyed it.

[Miss Shelby]

people who have overly happy enthusiastic loud voices in every conversation they carry.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Capital One. I have never had a Capital One card. I have never applied for a Capital One card. They send me offers at least twice a week. Today they sent me two. In one freaking day!

I'm thinking about actually applying, but exaggerating my financial situation to appear to be so bad they'd deem me unsuitable to carry their damn card (I wouldn't need to exaggerate by much. Heh). But, with my luck, they'd send me one anyway. Bunch of :asshat: :asshat: :asshat: .

Why not just save them for papier-mâché arts and crafts?

[curses]

Hey there! You can call 1-888-567-8688 and opt out on these prescreened offers of credit.

Wow! Thanks for that. So much easier than Dad's method of stuffing the return envelopes full of junkmail and sending them back in. He figured that eventually they'd get tired of paying for the postage, and apparently they did.

[pescifish]

:sadcheer: I've done the opt out thing and I still gets scads of finance offers in snail mail.

[Dingfod]

Hey there! You can call 1-888-567-8688 and opt out on these prescreened offers of credit.I did that about a year ago, but haven't noticed that it's made any difference at all, there's still one or two in the mail nearly every day.

[lisarea]

I've opted out, too. I still get offers, but probably not as many as I would have otherwise.

Plus, the mortgage ones are all based on the mortgage I had before I refinanced, which makes me think my new mortgage company really isn't selling my information.

[Shelli]

Plus, the mortgage ones are all based on the mortgage I had before I refinanced, which makes me think my new mortgage company really isn't selling my information.I've noticed that too. Weird. :?

[lisarea]

Plus, the mortgage ones are all based on the mortgage I had before I refinanced, which makes me think my new mortgage company really isn't selling my information.I've noticed that too. Weird. :?

I figure it's just that every piece of information that does get out there stays out there pretty much forever, in rogue databases and stuff.

I get junk mail based on some of the most tenuous and absurd assumptions. Today I got a reverse mortgage offer for my house, addressed to my dad who has been dead for 14 years. Hell, I once got something for a guy a friend of mine was married to for a while 20 years ago!

I can only conclude that there are some very hoopty databases out there, based on nothing more than rumor, innuendo, and thinly veiled threats.

[ChuckF]

Yeah, that's very weird. My parent's house has not moved since its construction 22 years ago. However, due to some postal changes and something to do with the local 911 service, it has had 3 addresses in that time. They last change was 14-15 years ago. But they still occasionally get mail addressed to 123 Rural Route 4 (numbers changed to protect the innocent from teh intarwebs) - an address they haven't had for at least 17 or 18 years. It isn't particularly annoying, I'm just shocked that that address is still in the system somewhere.

Oh, and Latvia no longer bothers me. Now it's Belarus and Ukraine :glare:

[Watser?]

Belarus and Ukraine!

Always with the drinking and the noise and the staying up late! :brooding:

[viscousmemories]

Junk mail? Doesn't everyone move every year?

[Plant Woman]

9 and 1/2 years so far, 8 years at the last place.

[Crumb]

I'm moving after a year here. 5 at the place before that though.

[pescifish]

I'm sorry if you posted this elsewhere, but ... why are you moving again so soon, Crumb? I seem to remember your current apartment was a really great find. I hope it's for an even more cool place!

[Shelli]

I've lived at my current residence for 11 or 12 years. Before I landed where I am though, I moved quite a bit over the years.

[inland wave]

1) The 2 yr old gelding being a butt head. :glare:

[Shelli]

As long as he's not butting your head. :giggle:

[Crumb]

There's not enough room at the current place and it is too close to a very busy street. The place we are moving is much nicer and much more secluded. It is only twice the distance from work so I am still pretty close. It is a three story townhouse with garage and an extra room for my office. :excited:

[Shelli]

Coolness, Crumb. :joecool2:

[Pinecone]

Yeah...nifto torpedo Crumb! :hellyes:

[pescifish]

There's not enough room at the current place and it is too close to a very busy street. The place we are moving is much nicer and much more secluded. It is only twice the distance from work so I am still pretty close. It is a three story townhouse with garage and an extra room for my office. :excited:Excellent! Now I can be :excited: for you in this new place just like I was the last one!

[Crumb]

torpedo? :chin:

[Shake]

Capital One. I have never had a Capital One card. I have never applied for a Capital One card. They send me offers at least twice a week. Today they sent me two. In one freaking day!
Have you tried putting some of your other junk mail in those pre-paid envelopes and sending them back yet? They probably won't stop sending you offers, but it'll make you feel better, plus it's less stuff in your trash bins! :D

[viscousmemories]

People saying 'less' when 'fewer' is appropriate.

[Shelli]

oops.. :blushes:

It's not my fault. The fuzzies made me do it. :giggle:

[Dingfod]

People saying 'less' when 'fewer' is appropriate.Along that line, people that say 'lessened' when they mean 'decreased'.

[Shelli]

Picky people. :glare:

[Dingfod]

People that don't care about details.

[Shelli]

I do. It just depends on what details we're talking about. :girltong:

[lisarea]

People who talk about prescriptive grammar, people who are nitpicky, people who are not nitpicky, and leprechauns.

[Dingfod]

People who are bothered by leprechauns and people who are detail oriented about some things and not others.

[Plant Woman]

People who put pyramids in their avatars.

[Dingfod]

Flowers.

[Plant Woman]

Sand!

[Dingfod]

Pistils.

[Plant Woman]

You ARE!

[Dingfod]

:lol:

[Plant Woman]

:giggles:

[Shelli]

i is irritated by people who is not fuzzy. :glare:

[Watser?]

Irritated people bother me :brooding:

[Shelli]

People who is irritated by me irritate me. :slaps:

[Dingfod]

People that get irritated by people that get irritated by them irritate me.

[Stormlight]

You all are starting to irritate me! :unglare:

[Shelli]

You :unglare:ing at me irritates me. :whup:

[Crumb]

This thread.

[Shelli]

That it takes Crumb FOREVER to get to the Countdown Thread every day. :unglare:

[Crumb]

Crumb is working. :glare:

[Shelli]

Yeah, so? You should post in the Countdown Thread first!, not after posting everywhere else in the :ff: :glare:

:hmph:

[Plant Woman]

oooooo the thread nazi! :giggles:

[Shelli]

You are! :glare:

[Crumb]

Yeah, so? You should post in the Countdown Thread first!, not after posting everywhere else in the :ff: :glare:

:hmph:
I usually go to the Atrium first. Then I read/post from the bottom up.

[Miss Shelby]

coworkers who use the community lunch microwaves to heat up their nasty smelling-fish-in-a-box frozen lunches.

[Shelli]

Oh, gawd.. is that disgusting or what? And it also stinks up the surrounding area. :vomit:

[Plant Woman]

Can't be as bad as when I worked with a Korean years ago, who would eat his kimchee in the lunch room, every day. It wreaked of it the rest of the day. I tried to get in there before him so I wouldn't have to smell it. I never did get used to it.

[godfry n. glad]

The stench of an orange being peeled.

[Plant Woman]

YUM!

People who make commitments or agree on deadlines and then constantly fail to meet them.

[inland wave]

Counting toilet paper squares.

[Shelli]

:chuckle:

[pescifish]

Wasting my time with useless human interaction.

[ChuckF]

People who don't e-mail back. Don't get me wrong, I'm terrible at replying, so I'm a hypocrite. Big deal.

I sent out six e-mails to six different people containing very valuable information specific to their own research topics. Recommendations for articles and books, and even copies of articles so they don't have to go looking for them. I even offered to loan my personal copies of a couple of things since they're not in the library. How many replies have I gotten, even just saying "Thanks!"? TWO. Ingrates.

[Miss Shelby]

The stench of an orange being peeled.

i like that smell. matter fact, I like eating orange peels.

[Dingfod]

People that don't identify themselves on the phone. It's rude.

[Shelli]

i like that smell. matter fact, I like eating orange peels.Is that good for you? I have always thought that it wasn't. :?

[Shake]

People who don't e-mail back. Don't get me wrong, I'm terrible at replying, so I'm a hypocrite. Big deal.

I sent out six e-mails to six different people containing very valuable information specific to their own research topics. Recommendations for articles and books, and even copies of articles so they don't have to go looking for them. I even offered to loan my personal copies of a couple of things since they're not in the library. How many replies have I gotten, even just saying "Thanks!"? TWO. Ingrates.
When I know it's someone like that at work, I always click the option for read receipt. That way I can at least know they've seen it. Then if I have to call later and ask about it I can mention to them that I know they read my email.

[Dingfod]

I like eating orange peels.Do you mean orange zest or chunks of the actual peel? If its the latter I think I'm going to hurl.

[Miss Shelby]

Is that good for you? Probably not, but I only eat one every six months or so. I like lemon peels, too. And I eat sunflower seeds whole, shell and all. I KNOW that's not good for the digestive system. But I like sunflower seeds, and I can't stand spitting out the shells. I think it's gross.

[Dingfod]

I bet you've got the cleanest digestive tract in town.

[Watser?]

There is orange peel in marmalade

[inland wave]

This thread.

:shakefist:

[inland wave]

ASHLEY TAYLOR BRAND UNDERPANTS.

What??:innocent2:

[Dingfod]

Yup (http://i9.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/8f/3b/cb26_1_b.JPG)

[inland wave]

Yup (http://i9.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/8f/3b/cb26_1_b.JPG)

Wow...never mind.:giggle:

[Plant Woman]

* Plant Woman doesn't want to know!

[Dingfod]

It can't be too bad, it's on eBay.

[Shelli]

heh

[Plant Woman]

As the one who pays you, it is not cool to tell me you aren't going to use outside sources anymore when you don't get the concept of setting up your interviews earlier then the day before deadline. Then when your interviewee gets sick you tell me you are going to be late once again.:grrr:

I think it's time to let you go...

[lisarea]

ASHLEY TAYLOR BRAND UNDERPANTS.

What??:innocent2:

They're bad underwear. I bought some once like five years ago and they were terrible. The FIRST TIME I washed them, the waistband separated and the elastic started to come loose, so there'd be little strings hanging down making it feel like there were spiders in my pants or something.

I am going to be mad about those underpants forever.

[Shelli]

The FIRST TIME I washed them, the waistband separated and the elastic started to come loose, so there'd be little strings hanging down making it feel like there were spiders in my pants or something.omg.. I freakin' HATE that. :brooding:

[Plant Woman]

Friends who shoved a cow on my head in a hat shop and took my picture! Then someone else sends it to me ten years later.

The NOIVE! :giggles:

[Dingfod]

When I get down to the Hanes undershorts because it means it's time for me to do my laundry. I wish there was a Chinese laundry here like my brother in NYC patronizes; he drops it off, they deliver it, clean and folded.

[Kyuss Apollo]

When I get down to the last few pair of boxer briefs, they are the older ones and the tags have gotten all melted and broken up, and they cut into/itch/irritate my lower back.

I HATE THAT.


Stupid underwear. Who needs it, anyway?

[Shelli]

When I get down to the last few pair of boxer briefs, they are the older ones and the tags have gotten all melted and broken up, and they cut into/itch/irritate my lower back.You could always invest in a pair of scissors. :scissors:

:giggle:

[pescifish]

Scissors would hardly be a comfortable alternative to old boxer briefs. :eyebrow3:

My momma told me not to dance with scissors!
:unundies:

[Shelli]

:giggles:

[Shelli]

Stupid ass commercials on the radio. :unfrustrated:

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Infomercials. I wouldn't mourn if Billy Mays died. He doesn't just bother me, he's like chalk stick-slip screaching on the blackboard of my mind.

[Stormlight]

Stupid ass commercials on the radio. :unfrustrated:

Ain't that the truth! Especially here in Luxembourg where they still sing them to "Rock around the clock" or other selected "Golden oldies". :wall:

[Shelli]

Stupid ass commercials on the radio. :unfrustrated:

Ain't that the truth! Especially here in Luxembourg where they still sing them to "Rock around the clock" or other selected "Golden oldies". :wall::shudder:

[pescifish]

Being chastised for how I participate on :ff: when I am already barely here at all these days.

[Stormlight]

Who chastised you?

ETA: Nevermind, I get it now.

[pescifish]

It was, I believe, a false accusation by beyelzu of not posting on topic in his thread. He'll be sorry though, 'cuz I drowned him with a boatload of self-defense drivel in return.

No bandwidth can survive a pesky self-defense!
:shakecursor:

[Stormlight]

For what it's worth, I think his post was more in defense of Kilik and not so much an attack on others.

[pescifish]

Ooh! New trivial thing that bothers me...

I can't find the "This or That" thread!!!
:whine:

[Stormlight]

You mean this? (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7751)

[pescifish]

Weee!
:bundance:

Newest trivial thing that bothers me...
Not being familiar enough with the latest That to be able to answer without doing research first! :blush2:

[Sock Puppet]

Mindless documentation busywork. :workload:

[Shelli]

people in general at the moment :brooding:

[Crumb]

:patpat:

[Shelli]

:=)

[RevDahlia]

My krav maga school moved to a new facility, which irritates me in the following trivial ways: the ceilings are a little too low for us to jump rope, which means we have to run in circles to warm up instead, and I hate running in circles. There is one titchy little window; our last classroom had a whole wall of windows. Also, there is no AC. Blecch. As if getting motivated to drive across town and have my ass kicked over and over wasn't hard enough.

[curses]

Not being able to find well designed personal photography sites for inspiration.

[Kyuss Apollo]

Administrators.

(At work, not here!)

[Shelli]

That there doesn't seem to be enough hours in a day. :time:

[Dingfod]

Humidity.

[Shelli]

When I come back to work after taking a day off to find that someone messed with the settings on my puter. :brooding:

[Crumb]

"Please listen carefully, our menu has changed."

[Shelli]

"Please listen carefully, our menu has changed.":shudder:

[godfry n. glad]

Humidity.

Sorry... That's NOT trivial. In combination with high temperatures, it's debilitating.

[godfry n. glad]

Tapped out chewing gum that's been spit out onto the walkway.

[Shelli]

Tapped out chewing gum that's been spit out onto the walkway.I stepped in someone's tapped out, spit out gum the other day. :brooding:

[Dingfod]

You're right, godfry, humidity isn't trivial at all.


Nevermind.

[Kyuss Apollo]

Stupid dishes.

[godfry n. glad]

People dressed in black from head to toe, including combat boots, leather cuffs, skullcap, duster, and spiked dog-collar, complaining about the heat on a sunny day.

[godfry n. glad]

Those who play the music on their portable whatever so that the type of music, if not the actual tune, can be discerned from three rows of seats away on a city bus, and they have the headphones (earbuds, whatever) on.

This also includes those who play their car stereos so loud that the beat can be felt at 200'.

Keep in mind I wear hearing aids in both ears.

[pescifish]

Stupid dishes.:yup: The stupid ones are annoying! But the smart dishes are just plain scary!
....Resistance is futile!
:spork: :spork: :spork: :spork:
You have no chance to survive make your time.
:spork: :spork: :spork:

:wink: j/k... piles of dirty dishes are both stupid and annoying, for sure!

[Shelli]

:giggle:

[Shelli]

Arrogant showroom customers :snooty:



Asshole co-workers (the "gargle guy" in particular) :plonk:



Bird shit on my motorcycle :unpoop:



Plumbers that won't hire a bookkeeper because they expect us to put their books straight when they continually fuck them up :duh:



Cat puke :puke:



My next door neighbor who has decided that it's easier to run a crack house than get a regular job (oh.. wait.. that's not trivial.. whatever) :balls2:

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Public toilet paper dispensers that only give you a few short, thin sheets per tug. Fuck. That. Toilet paper needs to be as thick as a paper towel and come out in gobs.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

People dressed in black from head to toe, including combat boots, leather cuffs, skullcap, duster, and spiked dog-collar, complaining about the heat on a sunny day.

Ah yes, Gothic poseurs.

[Dingfod]

Yeah, real Goths wouldn't be caught dead outdoors in the daylight.

[inland wave]

Pink undershorts....

[Dingfod]

... especially when they're supposed to be white.

[Crumb]

Ambiguous signage.

Out of order.

Water only.

[inland wave]

Being Pissy...:glare:

[Watser?]

Ambiguous signage.

Out of order.

Water only.

They have actual traffic signs here that just say:

SITUATION CHANGED

[Stormlight]

:lol:

[Sock Puppet]

Getting charged for receiving two text messages, when the only texts I've EVER received have been unsolicited advertisements or wrong numbers. It's trivial because it's just $0.60 on my bill, but now I have to make a decision: Do I spend way more time than it's worth fighting it, on principle, or do I just pay the extra sixty cents? The do-gooder in me says I should fight it, since no doubt Cingular is making money ass-over-tit by charging LOTS of unwarranted, tiny amounts to thousands of customers. But the lazy-ass in me says, "Just write the check and your brain will release some nice endorphins for you."

[Shelli]

Ambiguous signage.

Out of order.

Water only.

They have actual traffic signs here that just say:

SITUATION CHANGED:stwitch:... :lol:



But the lazy-ass in me says, "Just write the check and your brain will release some nice endorphins for you.":chuckle:

[ms_ann_thrope]

Getting charged for receiving two text messages, when the only texts I've EVER received have been unsolicited advertisements or wrong numbers. It's trivial because it's just $0.60 on my bill, but now I have to make a decision: Do I spend way more time than it's worth fighting it, on principle, or do I just pay the extra sixty cents? The do-gooder in me says I should fight it, since no doubt Cingular is making money ass-over-tit by charging LOTS of unwarranted, tiny amounts to thousands of customers. But the lazy-ass in me says, "Just write the check and your brain will release some nice endorphins for you."Fight it on principle. Your brain will still release some nice endorphins for you when you win. Don't be afraid to cite to the UCC to make your case! :whup:

[Crumb]

Ambiguous signage.

Out of order.

Water only.


They have actual traffic signs here that just say:

SITUATION CHANGED

We have signs like that here. They say "Traffic Control Change Ahead".

[Shelli]

checks stapled to remits :brooding:

[Crumb]

:chuckle:

[Shelli]

:glare:

[Crumb]

:rofl:

[Sock Puppet]

Fight it on principle. Your brain will still release some nice endorphins for you when you win. Don't be afraid to cite to the UCC to make your case! :whup:Could you provide this lazy ass with the full UCC citation? And maybe make the phone call for me?

Okay, I was kidding about the second thing.

[Shelli]

Crumb laughing at me bothers me. But, not to worry. I'll get 'im. Oh, yes I will. :whup:

[inland wave]

Just wanting an oil change and they want to sell you other services. They don't want to take "NO" for an answer.

[Sock Puppet]

Macho chest-beaters who have no idea how insecure they sound.

[Shelli]

People that think that if it's not a Harley, it's worthless. :rolleye1:

[Sock Puppet]

That reminds me: Harleys in residential neighborhoods. I don't CARE how cool the fucking bike is. Just don't wake up my napping toddler and I won't have to bitchslap you and embarass you in front of your tough-guy buddies. (cf. my previous post)

[Plant Woman]

Never mind! :)

[Shelli]

That reminds me: Harleys in residential neighborhoods. I don't CARE how cool the fucking bike is. Just don't wake up my napping toddler and I won't have to bitchslap you and embarass you in front of your tough-guy buddies. (cf. my previous post)Harleys are only loud if pipes are put on them to make them loud, same as any bike, and just like any bike with pipes, they're obnoxious. Same with the cars that are customised with sound systems that rattle my house windows from a street away. :brooding:

[Kyuss Apollo]

Yeah! I have straight pipes on my sled, but its an old ironhead--came that way. When I'm riding through a residential area, I always roll back and keep her quiet. But those nimfuckingrods that are just ride around till they see a person, then they just have to twist it up, that's so retarded. Goes up my ass--its because of them idiots that all these "no straight pipes" ordinances have been popping up all over the place. For 100 years, non-retarded people rode around and the straight pipes had coexisted with the population, but not anymore.

The best thing about straight pipes though is riding through Providence and pulling up to one of those Honda Civics with the windows down and the bass turned up to 11. Those fuckers get the full blast dose of the straight pipes upside their drivers' side window. :motor:

[motormonkey]

Feet

Having a cigarette but nothing to light it with...

Repeating myself