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Britomart wrote: "I cannot stand smart ass little kids!!!! It's like, "Why don't you go and sit down somewhere? Read a book, shit! It is not my job to entertain you.""

You're new to our planet, aren't you?

[[deleted user]]

You should have Britt babysit yours Clark!

[Farrah]

People who chew with their mouth open

[Phil]

The way Chris Matthews (MSNBC host) talks, breathes and asks questions.

He talks like he's afraid someone else might get a word in; he breathes like he's always drooling, so with each breath you hear a sucking sound; he asks questions, then proposes an answer he thinks the interviewee might say, then talks over them as they try to respond.

[[deleted user]]

Oy, I hate MSNBC, Phil. My boss always has it on, all day long. They're constantly screaming to be heard over the market traders behind them, or over each other...makes me NUTS!

Farrah, my ex-husband chewed with his mouth open and smacked his food so disgustingly that more than once I left the table to eat on my own. I'm hyper sensitive now.

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Amelia wrote: "You should have Britt babysit yours Clark!"

Ha! They would tear her a new one, Amelia, if you get my meaning.

[Angela~twistedmind~]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Angela, is a buggy a shopping cart? That drives me batshit too. PAY ATTENTION, SHOPPERS. You are not the only one in the DAMN STORE."

opps. my southern roots are showing. lol.
but, no, i do NOT call it wallyworld.
and come to think of it, that bugs me, too.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I loathe MSNBC. (I don't have TV anymore so the snippets I see are online, or sometimes I see transcripts.)

I feel Chris Matthews ought to be put to death. Really.

[Janice]

Feel or think?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Both. Feel, think, demand.

[[deleted user]]

Thankfully the death penalty is not legal in Australia. I would hate to get on the wrong side of LG.

[Janice]

That's conviction.

[Sally, la reina]

My kin call it Wally World. It makes me want to writhe.

[Félix]

Sally wrote: "My kin call it Wally World. It makes me want to writhe."

Call what Wally World?

[[deleted user]]

I think it's cute that Sallers says, "kin". :)

When traffic is slow, but there is no accident or stall. I need to have a reason, people... a REASON .

[Brittomart]

Myles wrote: "Larry wrote: "Sally wrote: "My kin call it Wally World. It makes me want to writhe."

Call what Wally World?"

Wal-Mart.

It's almost as bad as people who call McDonald's "Micky-D's""

Tarjay

[Sarah]

Amelia wrote: "I think it's cute that Sallers says, "kin". :)

When traffic is slow, but there is no accident or stall. I need to have a reason, people... a REASON."

Oh my goodness, tell me about it. I left an hour and a half to go thirty miles this morning to give a presentation to the state police cadets and I ended up late.

Mind you, the other reason I was late was another Thing That Bugs Me:
When Mapquest/Googlemaps/GPS steer you wrong.

They have the voice of authority, so you never realize that they are taking you to another location of the same name, or dropping you mysteriously two steps from your actual destination, or....argh.

[janine]

Myles wrote: "Britomart wrote: "Tarjay"

OK, I have to admit I think that one is cute."

Is that faux-French for Target?

[Sally, la reina]

Dah-Kor.

[Phil]

Is that the same as day-kor?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Loathe Tar-jay.

[Phil]

The store or the faux-French pronunciation of the name?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

The ff.

[Stacey Lynn]

It bugs me when people get to the register at the store then pick through everything piece by piece to decide what they really want. If you don't know what you want then you shouldn't be in line to begin with!

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

It bugs me when people decide they do not want a frozen bag of corn, or a container of ice cream, and they deposit it on some random, uncooled shelf. Where an employee will find it 8 hours later, and if it's the corn, stick it back in the freezer so the next shopper can purchase some thawed/refrozen vegetable matter.

[Sarah]

Good job with the spam-killing!

New thing that bothers me: trolls who respond to your Craigslist for-sale ad with obvious scams. "I am Mozambique. I will be in US in two weeks. Please send item and bank details and I will send you check."

[Scout]

Should probably be a good thing, but straight people who are overtly, clappingly enthusiastic about gay issues bug me. Stinks of jumping on the PC bandwagon.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Perhaps they merely believe in equality for all, or just have a gay friend or relative. Is there even a PC bandwagon anymore? I haven't seen it since 1995.

[Janice]

What LG said.

[Scout]

When I make comments, I keep forgetting that no one knows me or where I'm coming from.

Lg, Barb, yes, I know that many people sincerely celebrate advances in gay rights.

At the same time, I think many people fake enthusiasm in public because it's the politically correct thing to do. They literally or figuratively clap too loudly because they want to fit in, and their insincerity and hypocrisy bug me.

I have to say that I do think a big "PC Bandwagon" exists in our country, and it's full of hypocrites.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I suppose it's possible, but I haven't seen it myself. I don't know a single person who is advocating gay marriage just to be "pc." Can you point to someone that we've heard of, perhaps? Who is doing this in the media?

[Sally, la reina]

I know what you mean Scout. People who are not a part of this lifestyle, nor know barely anyone who is, but make a big loud deal about "not that there is anything wrong with that. IN fact, my best friend's sister's husband's little brother is gay and he is JUST THE SWEETEST person I know." or somesuch.

[Scout]

I said, "At the same time, I think many people fake enthusiasm in public because it's the politically correct thing to do. They literally or figuratively clap too loudly because they want to fit in, and their insincerity and hypocrisy bug me."

I wasn't talking about public advocates of gay rights; I was talking about everyday people who fake enthusiasm when those rights are acknowledged because to do otherwise would brand them as bigots. They're the ones who bug me.

Lg, maybe we have different definitions of pc. What's yours?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Really, it's not a term I use at all. I find it hasn't been useful since the mid-90s, and even then I didn't find it that useful. It's a term that needs to go away. Larry once defined it in a way I thought was appropriate but hell if I could find the thread.

If there was a time it was useful, way back when, it was because things like gay rights were relatively new. The people who were opposed to them, or shocked by them, such as Rush Limbaugh and his cronies, used PC as a derogatory term to label the other side.

Or the very first people to take their reusable cloth bags to the grocery, instead of getting paper or plastic, would have been labeled PC by the Rush Limbaughs, and scorned.

I don't find the term useful anymore because there are now, as there always have been, concrete, legitimate reasons why people ought to use reusable bags, and ought to support gay rights. I just don't think there are a lot of people carrying cloth bags to the grocery store to be hip; they're doing it because they really don't want to send extra plastic bags to the landfill. Now undoubtedly Limbaugh would label this behavior as PC, but it's not PC because the people doing it are not doing it in order to be PC. They're doing it for legitimate environmental reasons.

[Scout]

Here's a current definition of political correctness:

conforming to a belief that language and practices which could offend political sensibilities (as in matters of sex or race) should be eliminated.

I can't imagine that you have no understanding of the current meaning of the term.

[~Geektastic~]

I don't send out friend requests unless I really, really want to be friends with someone, but I'm generally flattered when I receive a request from someone, so I accept. This is not working out well; I have discovered, by the means of these unknown friends, that I am really, super, uber annoyed by people who write like this:

OH MY GOD WHAT ARE YOU READING RIGHT NOW????HOW GREAT IS IT?? I TOTALLY LOVED IT!!! (stop shouting at me!)

and

it was totally great!!!...lol...i mean sure yea....lol!!!!!!!!!!!! my friends said no but i said yes.... blah blah blah, more extraneous exclamation points and unfinished clauses, etc, etc.


Argh.

[Kevin]

amber - sorry about that message to you. i was just excited about the book. (geesh)

[Sarah]

Sally wrote: "I know what you mean Scout. People who are not a part of this lifestyle, nor know barely anyone who is, but make a big loud deal about "not that there is anything wrong with that. IN fact, my bes..."

Sweet Sally, I'll admit that "part of this lifestyle" stings a little though I know it is entirely unintentional. There is no gay lifestyle. There are just people trying to live their lives and coming up against some pretty ridiculous roadblocks.

And Scout, I don't mind "straight people who are overtly, clappingly enthusiastic about gay issues" even a little tiny bit. Even if they are actually horrible homophobic hypocrites sticking pins into Village People voodoo dolls in the privacy of their own homes. Cause you know what? Every "like" on facebook, every cheer on the news broadcast, every politician voting for it (whether for financial or ethical reasons) MATTERS. Every single person who joins the chorus as a positive voice rather than a detractor affects the climate and the tone of the debate. Every straight person saying "hooray!" encourages the lawmakers, because the lawmakers know they're not just siding with their gay constituents, (who likely don't make up a majority in their district) but with all the supporters as well. If they feel confident that they won't lose many votes over it, the next battle will be easier. If TV and movie producers don't think that gay characters will tank their productions, there will be more gay characters. If newspapers don't think they'll lose subscribers, they'll write more positive stories. Gay kids will feel a little safer. Employers will add benefits rather than risk negative publicity. All good stuff as far as I'm concerned.

I don't care one whit about their motivations: every one of those clappingly enthusiastic straight supporters makes life a little better.

[Janice]

Well said, Sarah.

I don't have any problem with people supporting human rights whether or not it directly impacts them. Do I have to have a family member, friend, coworker, or acquaintance to want equal rights for everyone?

[Kevin]

there is no gay lifestyle? dangit. you mean it is not like the birdcage? shoot. i'm disappointed

[Sarah]

Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "there is no gay lifestyle? dangit. you mean it is not like the birdcage? shoot. i'm disappointed"

I think there's a South Beach lifestyle. Hang on to that, Kev.

[Sally, la reina]

Shit, Sarah. I didn't mean it like that. I'm sorry.
I have friends of all orientations.
I was just thinking of the way certain members of my family talk. I'm sorry.

[Kevin]

my fav line of that movie:

"wig? whish wig?"

[Sarah]

Sally wrote: "Shit, Sarah. I didn't mean it like that. I'm sorry.
I have friends of all orientations.
I was just thinking of the way certain members of my family talk. I'm sorry."

I know, Sally. Most of that comment is a reply to Scout's statement, not yours. Apology accepted. No friendships were harmed. :)

[~Geektastic~]

Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "my fav line of that movie:

"wig? whish wig?""

Favorite Birdcage moment:
http://youtu.be/E-2rRyXGyhc

[Jim]

Sarah Pi wrote: "Kevin "El Liso Grande" wrote: "there is no gay lifestyle? dangit. you mean it is not like the birdcage? shoot. i'm disappointed"

I think there's a South Beach lifestyle. Hang on to that, Kev."

There is probably a South Bend lifestyle that may be a little closer to home Kev.

[[deleted user]]

As of today I am not going to let things bug me that shouldn't. So there.

[[deleted user]]

Barb wrote: "BunWat wrote: "Maybe we can put the bigots in the closet and let the gay people out."


♥"

Now that is a fantasy world I could live in!

[Leslie]

That makes sense, I never thought of it that way before, but it makes a whole lot of sense.

[Stacey Lynn]

Gail «Cyborg» wrote: "As of today I am not going to let things bug me that shouldn't. So there."

You go girl!