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QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Nov 8, 2007 -> 10:41 AM)
Renting a DVD, and having it skip during the last 15 min. of the movie, making it unwatchable.

 

We never rent DVD's (usually buy them) and last weekend we borrowed a rented (from Blockbuster) one (Mr. Brooks) and it did the same thing. We totally thought it was our dvd player.

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QUOTE(mreye @ Nov 8, 2007 -> 09:59 AM)
More walkers: The people you pass on the sidewalk and then they step in front of you at the "Don't Walk" sign only to have to pass them again.

uggh...I hate those peeps!

 

Another commuter one.

 

Waiting for the train and everyone is kind of bunched up where the doors stop and then everyone starts filing in. Then here comes Mr/Ms important walking right past everyone and then just tries to merge in along the side at the door. HELLO.....Cutting in line is like one of the first things you learn not to do as a kid. What distorted twisted self serving version of reality do you live in that makes you think walking in front of 20 people is some how the correct thing to do?? I just don't get it.

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I hate loud people in quiet places.

 

I'm sitting in the general area where WI-FI users sit to use a computer, about to do my political blogging, when I read this headline/article: "my career as a pundit is over

b4 it began"

 

and the "article" was a link to Rosie's blog:

 

 

 

msnbc

one hour

live

following keith olbermann

 

we were close to a deal

almost done

i let it slip in miami

causing panic on the studio end

 

well

what can u do

 

2day there is no deal

poof

my career as a pundit is over

b4 it began

 

just as well

i figure

everything happens for a reason

bashert - as we say

 

and on we go

 

http://www.rosie.com/blog/2007/11/07/the-s...that-never-was/

 

LOLZ

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QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Nov 6, 2007 -> 10:56 PM)
People who read while on the treadmill or stationary bike. If you have enough focus and concentration to retain anything you're reading, then you're not working out hard enough. Go home and free up the treadmill for someone who is ready to work hard.

 

What else are you supposed to do on the stationary bike???? I read comic books.

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More:

 

misuse of apostrophes. I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said "Give Thank's to God."

 

fans of sports that suck: hockey/lacrosse/cricket/curling.

 

9-11 conspiracy believers.

 

regional codes for DVDs.

 

People that repeat what a character in a movie has just said - IN THE THEATRE.

 

misuse of the word literally (actually I love it-it's so funny) - heard a radio host say "This team has no quarterback. They LITERALLY have no quarterback." How is that even possible?

 

Speed limits.

 

Parking meters.

 

Jesus fish on people's cars.

 

People who go WAY out of their way to avoid walking by me when I'm walking my pitbull. What's he gonna do - not like how you walk and just attack? Nevermind the fact that he's a total pussycat.

 

That's enough for now.

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QUOTE(longshot7 @ Nov 8, 2007 -> 12:56 PM)
People who go WAY out of their way to avoid walking by me when I'm walking my pitbull. What's he gonna do - not like how you walk and just attack? Nevermind the fact that he's a total pussycat.

 

That's enough for now.

Hahahah. They do that to me and my Rotty. I think its hilarious, whole families will LITERALLY cross the street.

 

 

Chicago parking tickets.

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QUOTE(longshot7 @ Nov 8, 2007 -> 12:56 PM)
More:

 

misuse of apostrophes. I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said "Give Thank's to God."

 

fans of sports that suck: hockey/lacrosse/cricket/curling.

 

9-11 conspiracy believers.

 

regional codes for DVDs.

 

People that repeat what a character in a movie has just said - IN THE THEATRE.

 

misuse of the word literally (actually I love it-it's so funny) - heard a radio host say "This team has no quarterback. They LITERALLY have no quarterback." How is that even possible?

 

Speed limits.

 

Parking meters.

 

Jesus fish on people's cars.

 

People who go WAY out of their way to avoid walking by me when I'm walking my pitbull. What's he gonna do - not like how you walk and just attack? Nevermind the fact that he's a total pussycat.

 

That's enough for now.

2 things...

 

1. You may know your dog is harmless, but no one else does. And frankly, I've seen a number of dogs, including pit bulls, go off on people randomly walking past them on the street. So yes, in fact, some dogs might do exactly that. Probably 98% of them won't of course, but if someone's been lunged at or attacked before, why on earth would they take the chance again? I think you are missing the perspective here.

 

2. I completely agree on the use of "literally". One of the most misused words in American English.

 

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QUOTE(longshot7 @ Nov 8, 2007 -> 12:56 PM)
misuse of the word literally (actually I love it-it's so funny) - heard a radio host say "This team has no quarterback. They LITERALLY have no quarterback." How is that even possible?

David Cross had a bit in one of his stand up routines that covered this topic. Was quite funny.

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QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Nov 8, 2007 -> 10:51 AM)
uggh...I hate those peeps!

 

Another commuter one.

 

Waiting for the train and everyone is kind of bunched up where the doors stop and then everyone starts filing in. Then here comes Mr/Ms important walking right past everyone and then just tries to merge in along the side at the door. HELLO.....Cutting in line is like one of the first things you learn not to do as a kid. What distorted twisted self serving version of reality do you live in that makes you think walking in front of 20 people is some how the correct thing to do?? I just don't get it.

 

More commuters ones...

 

The Oompa-loopa looking person who can barely walk, yet has to line up at the door multiple stops early and jams up the exit for everyone else, so that they can be the first off of the train at their stop, only to then clog up the stairs with their fat/slow ass. If you move that slow, you aren't going to get to work any quicker by being the first off of the train.

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Seeing the thing about 9-11 conspiracy theorists reminded me of this one. There are actually people out there who refuse to be organ donors because they believe that doctors don't do everything they can to save you (basically let you die) if they see that you are a donor.

 

A guy I went to high school with told me that, and how he and a few of his friends aren't donors because of that. No matter how much arguing I did, he could not be swayed. I really wanted to strangle him to death for being so ignorant/selfish, but then I remembered that nobody would get his organs if I did.

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QUOTE(longshot7 @ Nov 8, 2007 -> 12:56 PM)
People that repeat what a character in a movie has just said - IN THE THEATRE.

 

People who bring infant children and babies to the rated R movie at 11pm on a Friday night. If you cannot get a sitter, then maybe the movies isnt the best destination. I have seen 3 women bring babies/infants into the theater on weekend nights. The infant brought their blanket, and started to scream at the top of their lungs around 20 minutes into the movie. Mom of course staired at the kid, and didnt want to move. Security had to come and tell her that its time to calm the child down outside of the movie.

 

People who yell at the screen. Its a video, they cannot hear your warnings that the killer is under the bed. They are also actors, and not in real danger.

 

The realists, who have to break down out loud in the theater on how X theory is not real, yet a week before they were at the theaters watching a flying dinosaur who talks and shoots lazers. That they had no problem with.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Nov 8, 2007 -> 03:21 PM)
People who bring infant children and babies to the rated R movie at 11pm on a Friday night. If you cannot get a sitter, then maybe the movies isnt the best destination. I have seen 3 women bring babies/infants into the theater on weekend nights. The infant brought their blanket, and started to scream at the top of their lungs around 20 minutes into the movie. Mom of course staired at the kid, and didnt want to move. Security had to come and tell her that its time to calm the child down outside of the movie.

Thank you. That is one of my biggest ones. Rude people in theatres, in general, but particularly these idiots who bring small children to adult movies.

 

If I had the capital, I had a business idea to solve that. Open a nice theatre, one that had a very small bar at the entrance. I mean like one bartender, and no stools. This allows you to restrict the entry age to 21, regardless of parents around or not, if you want to. This eliminates the kids and the high schoolers. But the bar only allows time to get like 1 drink, so the theatre doesn't turn into the Brew & View (which is fun in its own right, but different).

 

In the theatres, have an usher who actually stays IN the theatre, and deals with loud people immediately.

 

In exchange for the extra staff, you charge another 1 or 2 dollars per ticket. I would GLADLY pay it, for a theatre you knew would be reasonably quiet.

 

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QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 8, 2007 -> 02:17 PM)
More commuters ones...

 

The Oompa-loopa looking person who can barely walk, yet has to line up at the door multiple stops early and jams up the exit for everyone else, so that they can be the first off of the train at their stop, only to then clog up the stairs with their fat/slow ass. If you move that slow, you aren't going to get to work any quicker by being the first off of the train.

 

HEY, EFF YOU!!! I'M MOVING AS FAST AS I CAN!!!!

 

I mean..........YEAH, I hate that guy, too....... :D

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QUOTE(The Critic @ Nov 8, 2007 -> 04:48 PM)
HEY, EFF YOU!!! I'M MOVING AS FAST AS I CAN!!!!

 

I mean..........YEAH, I hate that guy, too....... :D

 

 

I'm sure he hates the fact that he moves that slow as well. Hopefully if it's some sort of disability he doesn't ever hear the comments above.

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QUOTE(Steff @ Nov 8, 2007 -> 07:16 PM)
I'm sure he hates the fact that he moves that slow as well. Hopefully if it's some sort of disability he doesn't ever hear the comments above.

I hope so too, because I wouldn't want someone who was never named, whose stop on the train was not disclosed, and who was never described in any detail beyond his weight to be offended.

 

 

 

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Car salesman (especially the finance mangers that try to sell you window etching)

 

When people call their gas bill their heat bill or electrical bill their light bill

 

When people tell you they know a guy

 

When people say they could care less

 

White kids that BLAST rap music in their cars

 

When people ask me who got eliminated from dancing with the stars

 

When people tell you something is really in right now

 

 

 

 

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QUOTE(DrunkBomber @ Nov 8, 2007 -> 09:15 PM)
White kids that BLAST rap music in their cars

 

 

 

Isn't this against the law now (not being a white kid blasting rap music, but blasting music too loud in your car at all)?

 

Noise pollution or something or other?

 

 

 

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