Pet Peeves?
Dec 6th 2011, 2:06 pm
#1216
BE Forum Addict
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 2,847
Re: Pet Peeves?
A couple more 'Peter Purves' for today...
It really peeves me that on my way to/from work, I see so many things that peeve me, and then by the time I get to journey's end, I've forgotten them...
I had 3 to share today... simply can't remember them... bugger.
Oh, oh, no, I remember one of them - drivers who stop at a 2/3/4 way intersection with stop signs and all the other junction furniture, and then let people in/out of the car... in such a glacially slow, and downright selfish way that all the other drivers at the intersection are utterly confused as to who goes next etc - and scared 'cos getting it wrong might get you a bullet in the head. Wankers. Selfish wankers. I hope the guy who did it to me about 10 minutes ago has his manhood shrivel up in the cold so he can't replicate - we need to keep his genes, and those of his wife, out of the gene pool. Wanker (or potentially, not!).
Oh, now they're coming back to me... nope gone again.... nope it's back - people who proclaim they don't want 'government' telling them what they can and can't do, such as not being allowed to use a mobile phone while driving... they'll happily take responsibility for their actions... WANKERS!! It's too frickin' late when my car is totalled and my better half needs eleventy billion dollars worth of medical treatment because you (a) can't act responsibly in the first place and (b) are arrogant enough to think that only you should be exempt of any kind of guidance, or heavens forbid, rules. Wanker of the lowest wanking order.
And connected to this - people who are normally so, well, normal and intelligent, only to ruin it with the kind of sh*t I described above. Feckers!!
OK, I'm done for the moment. Peace & tranquility man!
PS - this is NOT me - I don't scrub up so well!!!
It really peeves me that on my way to/from work, I see so many things that peeve me, and then by the time I get to journey's end, I've forgotten them...
I had 3 to share today... simply can't remember them... bugger.
Oh, oh, no, I remember one of them - drivers who stop at a 2/3/4 way intersection with stop signs and all the other junction furniture, and then let people in/out of the car... in such a glacially slow, and downright selfish way that all the other drivers at the intersection are utterly confused as to who goes next etc - and scared 'cos getting it wrong might get you a bullet in the head. Wankers. Selfish wankers. I hope the guy who did it to me about 10 minutes ago has his manhood shrivel up in the cold so he can't replicate - we need to keep his genes, and those of his wife, out of the gene pool. Wanker (or potentially, not!).
Oh, now they're coming back to me... nope gone again.... nope it's back - people who proclaim they don't want 'government' telling them what they can and can't do, such as not being allowed to use a mobile phone while driving... they'll happily take responsibility for their actions... WANKERS!! It's too frickin' late when my car is totalled and my better half needs eleventy billion dollars worth of medical treatment because you (a) can't act responsibly in the first place and (b) are arrogant enough to think that only you should be exempt of any kind of guidance, or heavens forbid, rules. Wanker of the lowest wanking order.
And connected to this - people who are normally so, well, normal and intelligent, only to ruin it with the kind of sh*t I described above. Feckers!!
OK, I'm done for the moment. Peace & tranquility man!
PS - this is NOT me - I don't scrub up so well!!!
Dec 6th 2011, 2:08 pm
#1217
I have a comma problem
Joined: Feb 2009
Location: Fox Lake, IL (from Carrickfergus NI)
Posts: 49,598
Re: Pet Peeves?
A couple more 'Peter Purves' for today...
It really peeves me that on my way to/from work, I see so many things that peeve me, and then by the time I get to journey's end, I've forgotten them...
I had 3 to share today... simply can't remember them... bugger.
Oh, oh, no, I remember one of them - drivers who stop at a 2/3/4 way intersection with stop signs and all the other junction furniture, and then let people in/out of the car... in such a glacially slow, and downright selfish way that all the other drivers at the intersection are utterly confused as to who goes next etc - and scared 'cos getting it wrong might get you a bullet in the head. Wankers. Selfish wankers. I hope the guy who did it to me about 10 minutes ago has his manhood shrivel up in the cold so he can't replicate - we need to keep his genes, and those of his wife, out of the gene pool. Wanker (or potentially, not!).
Oh, now they're coming back to me... nope gone again.... nope it's back - people who proclaim they don't want 'government' telling them what they can and can't do, such as not being allowed to use a mobile phone while driving... they'll happily take responsibility for their actions... WANKERS!! It's too frickin' late when my car is totalled and my better half needs eleventy billion dollars worth of medical treatment because you (a) can't act responsibly in the first place and (b) are arrogant enough to think that only you should be exempt of any kind of guidance, or heavens forbid, rules. Wanker of the lowest wanking order.
And connected to this - people who are normally so, well, normal and intelligent, only to ruin it with the kind of sh*t I described above. Feckers!!
OK, I'm done for the moment. Peace & tranquility man!
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BWtz0E0nPa...255B1%255D.jpg
PS - this is NOT me - I don't scrub up so well!!!
It really peeves me that on my way to/from work, I see so many things that peeve me, and then by the time I get to journey's end, I've forgotten them...
I had 3 to share today... simply can't remember them... bugger.
Oh, oh, no, I remember one of them - drivers who stop at a 2/3/4 way intersection with stop signs and all the other junction furniture, and then let people in/out of the car... in such a glacially slow, and downright selfish way that all the other drivers at the intersection are utterly confused as to who goes next etc - and scared 'cos getting it wrong might get you a bullet in the head. Wankers. Selfish wankers. I hope the guy who did it to me about 10 minutes ago has his manhood shrivel up in the cold so he can't replicate - we need to keep his genes, and those of his wife, out of the gene pool. Wanker (or potentially, not!).
Oh, now they're coming back to me... nope gone again.... nope it's back - people who proclaim they don't want 'government' telling them what they can and can't do, such as not being allowed to use a mobile phone while driving... they'll happily take responsibility for their actions... WANKERS!! It's too frickin' late when my car is totalled and my better half needs eleventy billion dollars worth of medical treatment because you (a) can't act responsibly in the first place and (b) are arrogant enough to think that only you should be exempt of any kind of guidance, or heavens forbid, rules. Wanker of the lowest wanking order.
And connected to this - people who are normally so, well, normal and intelligent, only to ruin it with the kind of sh*t I described above. Feckers!!
OK, I'm done for the moment. Peace & tranquility man!
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BWtz0E0nPa...255B1%255D.jpg
PS - this is NOT me - I don't scrub up so well!!!
Oh and yes - I agree with you. Wankers to a man.
Dec 6th 2011, 4:59 pm
#1218
WTF?
Joined: Aug 2003
Location: Homeostasis
Posts: 79,367
Re: Pet Peeves?
No you're not missing anything. However, I have noticed that every single person that does that is totally useless, sociopathic, and morally bankrupt individual, and I'm just thankful that by using those types of profile pics they are giving us fair warning up front.
Dec 6th 2011, 5:01 pm
#1219
-------------------------
Joined: Nov 2008
Posts: 8,382
Re: Pet Peeves?
Easy, tiger!
Dec 6th 2011, 6:45 pm
#1220
Heading for Poppyland
Joined: Jul 2007
Location: North Norfolk and northern New York State
Posts: 14,547
Re: Pet Peeves?
I just took a 45 minute course entitled "Workplace Harassment for Supervisors." I'm so proud, I printed off the certificate and stuck it on my office wall. Bloody silly, though.. the course should have been titled "Workplace Harassment (Prevention & Reporting.)"
Dec 6th 2011, 8:15 pm
#1221
BE Forum Addict
Joined: Feb 2011
Location: WA state
Posts: 3,062
Re: Pet Peeves?
The course I have to do is called "Sexual Harassment Training", which produced the same joke from hundreds of people (which was "I don't need training to know how to do that")
Dec 6th 2011, 8:44 pm
#1222
Heading for Poppyland
Joined: Jul 2007
Location: North Norfolk and northern New York State
Posts: 14,547
Re: Pet Peeves?
I've now learned that making that joke could in certain circumstances be construed as harassment and is reportable. In fact, you referring to the existence of the joke may contravene the BE Harassment Policy.
Dec 6th 2011, 9:11 pm
#1223
-------------------------
Joined: Nov 2008
Posts: 8,382
Re: Pet Peeves?
A bit like the man that jokingly said he had a bomb in his luggage when he was asked if he had anything to declare? He got 14 months to think about the joke. Still, I suppose the guys he said it to laughed for the next six months about that, so it's an ill wind.
Dec 6th 2011, 9:16 pm
#1224
I have a comma problem
Joined: Feb 2009
Location: Fox Lake, IL (from Carrickfergus NI)
Posts: 49,598
Re: Pet Peeves?
According to my sister, you could hear a pin drop all the way back to the UK
Dec 6th 2011, 11:13 pm
#1225
Heading for Poppyland
Joined: Jul 2007
Location: North Norfolk and northern New York State
Posts: 14,547
Re: Pet Peeves?
Apparently my dad, in his naïvité, when the US immigration bloke in O'Hare was going though his passport on his recent visit quipped 'just making sure I'm not a murderer', or words to that effect.
According to my sister, you could hear a pin drop all the way back to the UK
According to my sister, you could hear a pin drop all the way back to the UK
Whoa.
These things run in the family too.. I for one will in future will be careful around SoS.
Dec 6th 2011, 11:40 pm
#1226
Boomshacalaca!!
Joined: Dec 2005
Location: South of the North Pole.......Colorado
Posts: 5,066
Re: Pet Peeves?
So I take it you don't have an off-set, looking upwards p.o.v xmas "I hate christmas" ornament....
Dec 7th 2011, 2:46 pm
#1227
I have a comma problem
Joined: Feb 2009
Location: Fox Lake, IL (from Carrickfergus NI)
Posts: 49,598
Dec 7th 2011, 2:48 pm
#1228
Heading for Poppyland
Joined: Jul 2007
Location: North Norfolk and northern New York State
Posts: 14,547
Dec 7th 2011, 2:50 pm
#1229
I have a comma problem
Joined: Feb 2009
Location: Fox Lake, IL (from Carrickfergus NI)
Posts: 49,598
Re: Pet Peeves?
.Though I have been slowly turning into my dad since my early 20s, or so my mum and wife inform me
Dec 7th 2011, 2:55 pm
#1230
Heading for Poppyland
Joined: Jul 2007
Location: North Norfolk and northern New York State
Posts: 14,547
Re: Pet Peeves?
BBC Accents.
I listen to BBC Radio 4 morning and evening; the Today Programme and PM. It gives me the momentary illusion that I'm not living in the back of beyond. So what happened to BBC accents? Almost everyone sounds as if they are from Scotland, Northern Ireland or somesuch obscure & remote region. If they are being interviewed as financial or business experts, they are usually German or Indian; presumably seen as being more believable than an Englishman. This seems to have crept up on me unawares, but I began to think about BBC accents after our compatriot L-M from Teesside told us her worthy spouse spoke with a BBC accent.
I listen to BBC Radio 4 morning and evening; the Today Programme and PM. It gives me the momentary illusion that I'm not living in the back of beyond. So what happened to BBC accents? Almost everyone sounds as if they are from Scotland, Northern Ireland or somesuch obscure & remote region. If they are being interviewed as financial or business experts, they are usually German or Indian; presumably seen as being more believable than an Englishman. This seems to have crept up on me unawares, but I began to think about BBC accents after our compatriot L-M from Teesside told us her worthy spouse spoke with a BBC accent.