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Things that make your blood boil (or at least simmer)

Nanda Devi said:
- SUVs with the flag/GW/yellow ribbon/Choose Life stickers plastered on the back window. Do these things roll off the assembly lines with flag decals as a standard feature or what?!?!
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Just like a Mazda Miata comes with a rainbow sticker?


LOL
 
mkrishnan said:
Admit it, you sometimes just shoot his balloon repeatedly, hoping that he will fall to his miserable death, right? :D
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We set it up a lot of times in Four Swords. My friend would deliberately kill himself so that he drops all his Force Gems. Tingle comes in on his stupid little balloon to steal them all, I position myself...and fire an arrow just when he's over a pit of lava or a swamp or something.

It's always fun to watch Tingle fall to his death in lava. He keeps coming back though :(

Then in Super Smash Bros I just hit his balloon whenever I can mindlessly...
 
People who laugh/talk incessantly in the Cinema. Especially when its a very dark serious film.

Last night I saw Bullet Boy, a film about gun violence in Hackney, London. It was a very gritty, dark film made worse by the fact that I frequent many of the places where the film was shot. The most grimmest bit was when the main character gets killed in a train station which i use many times.

Anyways, I hear this constant chatter and laughter throughout, it felt like they were taking the piss. So it all got to a head and I shouted "YOU LOT F***ING SHUT UP!". And so they did.
 
Smokers, or rather people who smoke in public. hell i dont want lung cancer! what gave them that idea?!

people who are content drinking every night, or those who say they can only have a good time drunk, and say they're not alcoholics

goths/moshers/scallies... anyone who wants to just be in a group of people. destroying individuality. funny though, at goths in particular, they say they want to be different but they dress just like every other goth on the planet :confused:
 
Lau said:
So, I shall add - the general culture of "hey, I'm stupid, look how cool I am". This isn't about people with learning difficulties (have no problem at all with that), but there is this culture in the UK (and maybe elsewhere) that being intelligent, using 'big words', admitting to having read a book once (and enjoying it :eek: ), being keen to learn etc, is seen as lame. It started in primary school, and is there through secondary school, university and even work. Really odd. It's similar to the "no really, I am working class (innit) my dad had a job once" culture, where people try to make themselves seem as poor as possible and it all turns into the Four Yorkshireman sketch....
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The cult of stupidity is alive and well in the US as well. We even have subcultures. Rednecks and various white trash who worship NASCAR, hunting, and various other micropenis compensation activities. They are found of saying "Git er dun" even though most cannot actually describe what "er" is. This is best seen at the top, with G.D. Bush, who often invites foreign dignitaries to his cow pasture in Texas.
We then have the ghetto culture which is divided into government subsidized blacks, whites who talk/dress like the ghetto blacks, asian americans who talk/dress like ghetto blacks, and those of mexican/latin american background who are very similar to the other groups, but substitute pure hip hop music for some hip hop and some traditional polka style music and have an affinity for hair nets. All enjoy designer sports apparel, particularly jerseys/accessories of professional teams made in non-team colors (i.e. a New York Yankees hat in pink or bright blue). Gold and other flashy items attract the attention of all subgroups.
We also feature a rather large group that masquerades often as regular middle or upper class individuals but feel that anything not specifically stated in the bible can not possibly exist (never mind that god never mentioned anything about electricity, automobiles, or radio waves) The often feel the need to argue that evolution is a lie designed specifically by satan to drive god out of schools and all public places. They often feature small fish emblems attached on the back of their SUVs or on the signs of their small businesses. It's very interesting how, much of the time, this great melting pot resembles the bottom of a toilet.
 
anonymous161 said:
The cult of stupidity is alive and well in the US as well. We even have subcultures. Rednecks and various white trash who worship NASCAR, hunting, and various other micropenis compensation activities. They are found of saying "Git er dun" even though most cannot actually describe what "er" is.
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Oh god, I hate the Git er Dun crap. It was funny when Larry the Cable Guy first did it, but now that rednecks plaster stickers saying "Git er Dun" all over everything they own, its gotten real old real fast.
 
people who dont do the right thing because they think it wont make a difference.

people who smoke that should know better.

school computers

visual basic

the uneducated masses of idiots that roam london in chavwear acting like idiots and intimidating people for entertainment.
 
yg17 said:
Well thats weird. Here, there are never exits in the left lane except when the interstate ends and all lanes eventually take you to a different interstate or another street
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or you're trying to get on I-70 West when you're going North on I-170. :)
 
tobefirst said:
or you're trying to get on I-70 West when you're going North on I-170. :)
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I was just in St. Louis a few weeks ago, and my friend there made a big deal about ignoring the proper way to make this interchange, and instead insisted on the switchin'-four-lanes approach. :(
 
anonymous161 said:
The cult of stupidity is alive and well in the US as well. We even have subcultures. Rednecks and various white trash who worship NASCAR, hunting, and various other micropenis compensation activities. They are found of saying "Git er dun" even though most cannot actually describe what "er" is. This is best seen at the top, with G.D. Bush, who often invites foreign dignitaries to his cow pasture in Texas.
We then have the ghetto culture which is divided into government subsidized blacks, whites who talk/dress like the ghetto blacks, asian americans who talk/dress like ghetto blacks, and those of mexican/latin american background who are very similar to the other groups, but substitute pure hip hop music for some hip hop and some traditional polka style music and have an affinity for hair nets. All enjoy designer sports apparel, particularly jerseys/accessories of professional teams made in non-team colors (i.e. a New York Yankees hat in pink or bright blue). Gold and other flashy items attract the attention of all subgroups.
We also feature a rather large group that masquerades often as regular middle or upper class individuals but feel that anything not specifically stated in the bible can not possibly exist (never mind that god never mentioned anything about electricity, automobiles, or radio waves) The often feel the need to argue that evolution is a lie designed specifically by satan to drive god out of schools and all public places. They often feature small fish emblems attached on the back of their SUVs or on the signs of their small businesses. It's very interesting how, much of the time, this great melting pot resembles the bottom of a toilet.
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1. prejudices.
 
Smilie stealers
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clayj said:
2. People who fail to signal turns and lane changes when driving. They put the blinky lights on your car for a reason, chimps. (Also, people who drive with their blinkers on for no reason.)
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People who turn onto a street (without a blinker) and beep at you while you are crossing as if you were supposed to know they were about to turn.
 
Hehe. Sometimes I'll flash my left blinkers and make a right just to piss off a tailgater.
 
  • People being rude for no reason
  • People who litter
  • People who conform without reason
  • People who let bias get in the way of reason
  • People who force religion upon you
  • People who say 'gay' to mean 'bad'

The first one is my biggest pet peeve. Today a person in my computer science class was making fun of another person by calling them 'gay' over an over again. I was about to rip his head off.

But the way I see it is that I won't be in HS too much longer and once I'm in college (hopefully) I won't have to deal with that kind of immaturity.

scem0
 
Lacero said:
Smilie stealers
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hey im just proud of myself for figuring it out
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dont worry though, im sure i will find my own batch sometime soon, just dont know where to start thats all!
 
homerjward said:
my english teacher
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eek... *Hopes his own students don't feel this way about him* :$

i'd add:

People who have misconceptions about Macs (i.e. Can only use one button mice, can't use a floppy disk, etc. etc. etc. ad nauseum)

"Calvin-pissing-on-various-car-manufacturer-logo" stickers... so weak...

people who get offended easily... (hypersensitivity)

people who send you ridiculous Fwd:'s - Seriously, people believe ANYTHING that's in an email forward... And then they send it out to EVERYONE in their address book WARNING them about dangers or prizes for emailing... so very very weak...

lots of other things... hmm... lemme think...
 
mkrishnan said:
But in terms of technology, the emphasis here has been much more on installing terminals at stores for people using credit/debit so that they can swipe themselves, enter their own PIN number, sign digitally, etc.
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Yep, we have them too. Swipe and enter your PIN. That's the most common way of buying stuff here.

And you've reminded me of another peeve - redundancy. PIN number, LCD display, ATM machine, etc.
 
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