Pet Peeves

Henning said:
Where we messed up the population was with medicine. The population did not really see a rise until the small pox vaccine and then reached for the sky with penicillin. Now it's out of control and we're running out of clean water.
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What we need Henning is another good World War.
 
LJS1993 said:
One of my major pet peeves are those excessively too loud Harley Davidson's with the typical SoCal "bro" riding the thing.
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Amen, brother!

I've been riding for 36 years, and these dickless weenies with their big, bad, ridiculously loud Harleys make me want to laugh, puke -- and then sweep them off the bike with a ball bat. They sit out on my street corner, revving their pathetically under-powered P's of S, pretending to be big men cuz they can wake up babies and scare puppies with their motorsickles. It's...pathetic.

I was hoping when South Park made fun of these douchebags they would get the message and learn to ride. No such luck... :mad2:

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s13e12-the-f-word
 
LJS1993 said:
What we need Henning is another good World War.
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We can't really afford the waste, that's the problem. You can never cure a problem through waste, only through efficiency, but you can never get anything for free.
 
Henning said:
We can't really afford the waste, that's the problem. You can never cure a problem through waste, only through efficiency, but you can never get anything for free.
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I'd certainly say inefficiency peeves me.

At my kids elementary school every morning when I drop off my kids I enter 'the loop'. The cars line up to drop off their little rug rats. Well, we could pull up to the front and drop 'em off 10 at a time, but no. Everyone want's their precious lil'Johnny dropped off right AT the gate...so it's pull up one car, stop, drop off, close door, pull up one car, stop, drop off, close door, pull up one car...600 times in a row.

I stopped that silliness on day one. When the line stops I drop off my kids right there. They can walk the 25 yards to the gate. Yes, there is a covered sidewalk for them so it's perfectly safe and I'm not shoving them into traffic. They get out on one side and the sidewalk is right there. Then I pull into the inside lane and pass all the crazies waiting for their turn at the gate.

Sorry to bore ya'll with my daily peeve, but there it is.
 
Just got out of the theater, having been seated next to a guy who felt the need to provide a running commentary to the movie "2016". It was like he had never been to a public theater before. :mad2:

The theater was packed, BTW. Never seen THAT before when watching a documentary.

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Agree with your post Jay. But then my eye caught yet another peeve:

sent by my <insert phone here> using <insert software here>.


Why do phones do that? If its advertising why would they do something that makes me NOT want the product?
 
Henning said:
Where we messed up the population was with medicine. The population did not really see a rise until the small pox vaccine and then reached for the sky with penicillin. Now it's out of control and we're running out of clean water.
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Sigh. The plague wiped out about half of Europe and eased the starvation that was rampant. Then, the Renaissance followed.
 
Captain said:
Agree with your post Jay. But then my eye caught yet another peeve:

sent by my <insert phone here> using <insert software here>.


Why do phones do that? If its advertising why would they do something that makes me NOT want the product?
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I agree! I'll have to see if there's a way to turn that off.
 
Captain said:
Agree with your post Jay. But then my eye caught yet another peeve:

sent by my <insert phone here> using <insert software here>.
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Somebody, somewhere (maybe here) has a great tag line in their sig:

Sent from my brain using my fingers

:thumbsup:
 
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I was just reminded of one early this morning. It used to happen quite often, not so much anymore.

Companies that fax advertising to me and, by doing so, waste my ink and paper while spreading their propaganda. I pulled one off the fax this morning.

So, I walked over to my file cabinet and pull out my "spam fax" file. It contains a nice cover sheet that states "quit wasting my paper and ink and I'll quit wasting yours". Also in that file are 20 solid black sheets of paper.

I fax these 21 sheets to them.

I don't think i've ever received a second spam fax from anyone!

:)

BTW, this morning's fax was 6 pages!
 
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timwinters said:
I fax these 21 sheets to them.

I don't think i've ever received a second spam fax from anyone!

:)
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That assumes that the spammer uses an actual fax machine.

I route all incoming faxes to web fax service. Also, in our state, you can sue people who send you junk faxes. A whole cottage industry of low-rent lawyers lives off C&D orders that generates. The going rate to buy junk-faxes is $500, they keep the rest.
 
I honestly don't even know why I have a fax line anymore. I think it's time to lose it.
 
timwinters said:
I honestly don't even know why I have a fax line anymore. I think it's time to lose it.
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Since we moved to Texas in '10, our fax line has been all web-based. We receive them via email, and can choose to print them or not.

Since all of our on-line reservations come in via fax, we're stuck with it -- but at least spammers can't hurt us anymore.

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Talking elevators. Seriously. Talk about a $10 solution to a $4 problem.
 
I don't like talking trashcans. I have seen them at the mall where when you put trash in them, they say "thank you".

What I don't like about it, is edict would dictate you say "you're welcome" after someone says thank you, however I am not going to talk to a trashcan. So what the can is doing, is conditioning me to not say you're welcome.

It's counter productive to the reason it exists in the first place.
 
denverpilot said:
Maybe to you. Blind folk appreciate them.
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I thought of that. But what percent of the population is blind? Besides, they have brail on the numbers. Sorry, talking elevators are a peeve. The blind do just fine on the 99% of elevators that don't talk. This goes right into the needless category.
 
Mafoo said:
I don't like talking trashcans. I have seen them at the mall where when you put trash in them, they say "thank you".

What I don't like about it, is edict would dictate you say "you're welcome" after someone says thank you, however I am not going to talk to a trashcan. So what the can is doing, is conditioning me to not say you're welcome.

It's counter productive to the reason it exists in the first place.
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Strictly stimulus manipulation; Pavlovian style response training using emotional resource to drive it rather than food. The response they seek is they want you to associate using the trash can and feeling good about yourself. It's a measurable response even. This is your tax money working for you. That is the Mommy Lobby.
 
Henning said:
Strictly stimulus manipulation; Pavlovian style response training using emotional resource to drive it rather than food. The response they seek is they want you to associate using the trash can and feeling good about yourself. It's a measurable response even. This is your tax money working for you. That is the Mommy Lobby.
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It is insulting in the extreme when a machine talks to you and pretends to have human characteristics. It's like civilization, except instead of being mostly fake, it's completely fake.

Every time I hear a machine talk to me on it's own, the only thing that comes to mind is "F.O." and a sledge hammer.
 
fgcason said:
It is insulting in the extreme when a machine talks to you and pretends to have human characteristics. It's like civilization, except instead of being mostly fake, it's completely fake.

Every time I hear a machine talk to me on it's own, the only thing that comes to mind is "F.O." and a sledge hammer.
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Not a big fan of Siri, eh? :D

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Did you do that on purpose Jay?

"not a fan a Siri, eh?

sent from my nexus 7"



Sort of like a Droid phone dissing an iPhone on a thread about machines talking! Brilliant!
 
Love this thread. Place where I can vent on the internet and no one really knows who I am! :) For those haters of not liking to vent publicly or think it's dumb I submit the 387 postings that disagree. Love the internet. How'd I ever survive before it?!
 
fgcason said:
It is insulting in the extreme when a machine talks to you and pretends to have human characteristics. It's like civilization, except instead of being mostly fake, it's completely fake.

Every time I hear a machine talk to me on it's own, the only thing that comes to mind is "F.O." and a sledge hammer.
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It's not all bad, you just have to parse for intent as well as content. Stimulating good thoughts is not a bad thing in and of itself. The Mommy Lobby is not all bad and they mean well, but they have unhealthy views on safety and risk management with children and it's degrading not only their ability to cope with hazards but diluting our freedom to take risks for joy. They want to dictate how much fun I can have, and that is constitutionally guaranteed in pursuit of happiness.
 
Jay Honeck said:
Not a big fan of Siri, eh? :D
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What the heck is a Siri? (I'm not a hard core technogeek like most people)

The automated be nice to the "valued customer" no human checkout at the supermarket is annoying. (The term "valued customer" is an insult) I'm certainly not buying some contraption that is designed to talk to me about how it's feeling today. It's a frigging machine that should do it's job, not pretend it cares because it doesn't.
 
denverpilot said:
"Siri, I'm bleeding, call me an ambulance!"

"Ok, I'll call you, 'an ambulance' from now on."
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Yeah, reminds me of the days when I would have to do CQ at the barracks.

"Specialist, can you call me a cab?"

"Sure thing sir. You're a cab!"

Fifty pushups later....
 
Captain said:
I thought of that. But what percent of the population is blind? Besides, they have brail on the numbers. Sorry, talking elevators are a peeve. The blind do just fine on the 99% of elevators that don't talk. This goes right into the needless category.
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How does that help tell them what floor the doors are opening on? Or are they expected to stand next to the door and reach out to feel the braille on the door jamb every time the door opens?
 
Oh, and my pet peeve it walking out of a restaurant and having many of the counter staff call after you "Have a nice day." You know it's just their training manual, they'd just as soon not do it, and you're left wondering whether to reopen the door to reciprocate!
 
Yeah, along those lines are people that ask "How are you doing?" and they only expect a "Good, thank you" response. If someone asks me how my day is going and it's crappy, I'm going to tell them I'm doing crappy. If you aren't prepared for or don't want a negative response then don't ask.
 
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