Random thing you loathe right now.

Higgledy wrote:

Tenuous logic combined with astrology.

On a walk recently a woman said to me, "You look a bit like Robert De Niro (I don't.) What star sign are you?"

"I'm Cancer," I said in a tone that I hoped would convey my lack of interest.

"Ah, see. He's a Leo." Sensing that I wasn't particularly impressed with this she continued, "They're both in July! I'm good at linking people with particular star signs through the way they look. It's a gift I have."

How on earth did you hide the whites of your eyes at this point? My eyes would have been rolling for minutes after that conversation.

Novocain wrote:
MacBrave wrote:

Public universities, aka money sucking vampires.

Wait, as opposed to the private universities that are just charities in disguise?

Heh heh, private universities are so far out of my price range that I do not even consider them. I could start a rant about how our public universities have completely lost sight of the mission their were created in the first place to perform, but this isn't the forum for that.

MacBrave wrote:

Heh heh, private universities are so far out of my price range that I do not even consider them. I could start a rant about how our public universities have completely lost sight of the mission their were created in the first place to perform, but this isn't the forum for that.

Whatever forum you're going to discuss that in, lemme know. As a graduate of an amazing business, er, I mean the University of Texas at Austin, I feel you bro.

Secretaries (specifically Italian speaking ones).

f*cking scam car warranty auto dial calls.

Grenn wrote:

Secretaries (specifically Italian speaking ones).

Oh HELL no. They're HOT!

Minarchist wrote:

In the grammar vein, I'd have to add the recent trend of using an apostrophe to pluralize words. From whence came this idea? How have we practiced this correctly for hundreds of years, only to suddenly wake up one day and collectively forget?

My boss does this, and it annoys the hell out of me. On many occassions I've wanted to come to him and ask why all of these words own things, and I can't.

Sonicator wrote:
Atomicvideohead wrote:

B) I'm aware of the rules of "the game" but frankly, I willfully ignore them. I don't aim to impress so much as give an honest picture of myself. I don't like indulging mating ritual stuff that dating seems to be made of -- I see that as base instinct; deception to the self and other. When I see a girl starting to put me through the same troupes that are associated with dating, I start to see less a transcendent human being with self awareness and free will. Instead they start looking like monkeys to me, doing just a more sophisticated version of the same monkey dances. And frankly, I don't like kiss monkeys.

Yeah, I'm a little vainglorious.

Eh, you're conflating the dating game (see: The Rules, one of the most evil books ever) and 'The Game' which is different. The name comes from the fact that the weird guru guy that the book is mostly about advocates treating dating like a video game rather than something serious, iirc. Have't actually read it for a couple of years.

I wasn't referring to either book specifically-- I mean the general hoops, the tropes, and how you're "supposed" to approach girls.

I'll stick to my out look. It allows me to quote Charlton Heston if things go bad in a certain way. Get your hands off me you damn dirty ape!

Being at work for the next 4 hours. I want my weekend to start already

Rallick wrote:
Grenn wrote:

Secretaries (specifically Italian speaking ones).

Oh HELL no. They're HOT!

Let me be a little more specific.

5'3" 250+ lbs., pushy, better than you, Italian speaking secretaries that expect you to do their jobs for them because they don't feel like working right before a 3 day weekend.

Yoreel wrote:

Being at work for the next 4 hours. I want my weekend to start already

Indeed.

The worst part is that NO ONE is here and things are excruciatingly slow.

It's funny how on manic-busy days, I just yearn for some peace and quiet, but when it swings in the polar opposite direction it's just as bad.

T minus 3 hours, 48 minutes.

Still playing with this whoreson BlackBerry Bold.

I just accidentally called my boss's parents, who happened to be the only entry in the contact list.

Now I'm adding random numbers from the Yukon and Northwest Territories into the phone, to minimize my chances of future accidents.

In case you were wondering about relevance, all of the aforementioned things are loathsome.

Don't you ever, EVER talk about NWT like that again. EVER.

For further evidence about the NWT's awesomeness, look no further than their license plates:

IMAGE(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Northwest_Territories_License_Plate.png)

It's a frickin polar bear! Take that, Live Free or Die!

I loathe double posting.

Loathe:

Twitter, hearing about twitter, seeing twitter, watching people "Twit" when they should be doing anything else.

dthind wrote:

Loathe:

Twitter, hearing about twitter, seeing twitter, watching people "Twit" when they should be doing anything else.

Double-dipping here, but it seems appropriate.

Yoreel wrote:

Being at work for the next 4 hours. I want my weekend to start already

I feel ya!

WORK
Showing up for work today was purely a formality. I knew when I woke up that I was going to accomplish ZERO today. I showed up late and closed my office door and turned on the radio and fired up my PC. Since I've been on GWJ and IGN all day. Call me what you will... Today I'm just chillin' Tuesday I'll turn it on again, but for now pseudo-working will do until 4:30

Aaron D. wrote:
dthind wrote:

Loathe:

Twitter, hearing about twitter, seeing twitter, watching people "Twit" when they should be doing anything else.

Double-dipping here, but it seems appropriate.

{youtube thingy}

god I hate twitter.

"I am wearing socks"

"socks are warm"

"The cat is running up the stairs"

"I hear the dog bark, does he bite?"

dthind wrote:

"I hear the dog bark, does he bite?"

That is not my dog.

Dysplastic wrote:

Don't you ever, EVER talk about NWT like that again. EVER.

For further evidence about the NWT's awesomeness, look no further than their license plates

Who said anything bad about NWT? I've been telephoning their delightful citizens all afternoon, with mostly courteous results: "Oh, you're using a BlackBerry? Why are you telling me?"

Now I can ask them about their license plates though, thanks for that.

Aaron D. wrote:
dthind wrote:

Loathe:

Twitter, hearing about twitter, seeing twitter, watching people "Twit" when they should be doing anything else.

Double-dipping here, but it seems appropriate.

You have forever changed my perspective. I'm ashamed to have a twitter account...

magnus wrote:

f*cking scam car warranty auto dial calls.

QFT.

dthind wrote:
Aaron D. wrote:
dthind wrote:

Loathe:

Twitter, hearing about twitter, seeing twitter, watching people "Twit" when they should be doing anything else.

Double-dipping here, but it seems appropriate.

{youtube thingy}

god I hate twitter.

"I am wearing socks"

"socks are warm"

"The cat is running up the stairs"

"I hear the dog bark, does he bite?"

See, there's your problem. Follow a few goodjers, and get in on our next lunch twitter karaoke. Basically, don't follow anyone on twitter you couldn't talk to for an hour.
(Plus, I learned a few things from the AndroidSite twitter feed, and a few of the devs I follow.).

(a) At my company, I'm prosecuting a one-man war against the word "concess", which the entire upper management think is a verb meaning "to make a concession". My other grammar type hates are, in no particular order:

(i) I "wouldn't of" known if you hadn't told me
(ii) apprise vs. appraise
(iii) fewer vs. less
(iv) the use of the noun "impact" as a verb

all of which are used routinely by upper management types in my company whose jobs, one would have though, would be based on being able to communicate effectively, and not sounding like halfwits. My grammar is not perfect, I know, but I care, and when my mistakes are pointed out, I endeavour to stop making the mistake.

(b) the High Rise Terminator, otherwise known as the Australian Question Intonation. I think you know of what I speak.
(c) the way that many people on the internet think that the best way to signify A FILM OR GAME TITLE is to capitalise it, rather than using those cute "quotation marks", or even italicisation that have been good enough for centuries for such things.
(d) My bloody eye. My son scratched my eyeball in January, and every few weeks my eye swells up after I wake up. It just won't get better properly. And it's my good eye, the one without massive astigmatism. The specialist says I have loose corneas, and that it'll take "several months" for them to heal without reopening the scratch again whilst I sleep. Now I have to go into a pharmacist and ask for "lacri-lube" every few weeks, which sounds like something to facilitate bum sex.

This whine thread is is very cathartic.

magnus wrote:

f*cking scam car warranty auto dial calls.

FTC got a restraining order last week, shutting down two companies that were doing a lot of this.

Grenn wrote:

Let me be a little more specific.

5'3" 250+ lbs., pushy, better than you, Italian speaking secretaries that expect you to do their jobs for them because they don't feel like working right before a 3 day weekend.

Ok, yeah. I loathe those ones too. :hi-five:

BadKen wrote:
magnus wrote:

f*cking scam car warranty auto dial calls.

FTC got a restraining order last week, shutting down two companies that were doing a lot of this.

Now if only someone would shut down all the "Congratulations! You've won a trip to ___!" auto-dial scam artists.

muttonchop wrote:
BadKen wrote:
magnus wrote:

f*cking scam car warranty auto dial calls.

FTC got a restraining order last week, shutting down two companies that were doing a lot of this.

Now if only someone would shut down all the "Congratulations! You've won a trip to ___!" auto-dial scam artists.

I just wish there were a blanket law that stopped unsolicited calls of all types altogether. It was one thing when they only interrupted your dinner years ago, but now that everyone has cell phones, these damn calls are actually costing people money when they dial your cell during peak hours (I'm on an evening/weekends for free plan). Even if I don't pick up the call (which I don't), it burns my monthly minutes from 7am to 7pm.

Same goes for unsolicited faxes announcing weekend getaway vacations that burn through your toner carts. Those stupid things use toner ink on like 75% of the page.

Unsolicited anything just burns my briefs.

I loathe the feeling of being homesick.
And the fact that I'm missing my high school's graduation back in Idaho right now. Where about 25 of my friends are graduating.
Oh well, they know I'm cheering for them anyway.

Clemenstation wrote:

Who said anything bad about NWT?

Clemenstation wrote:

Still playing with this whoreson BlackBerry Bold.

I just accidentally called my boss's parents, who happened to be the only entry in the contact list.

Now I'm adding random numbers from the Yukon and Northwest Territories into the phone, to minimize my chances of future accidents.

In case you were wondering about relevance, all of the aforementioned things are loathesome.

You did, you bastard!

I'm telling you what I don't loathe - this beautiful afternoon.

Trying to sell my furniture on Craigslist has become a complete chore. Listen guys, if you're not interested, don't e-mail me. Do tell me you'll be by in an hour and never show up, don't tell me you'll be by tomorrow and never show up, and don't tell me you're waiting to get money and never contact me again. I hate you people!