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Ryanc829

Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 02:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My pet peeve of the day...actually...yesterday.

"We have breaking news to bring to you tonight. Something happened at ****** street. We don't know what it is yet, but we'll bring you more details as we recieve them."

Why do news stations do this? Are they so desperate to be the first one to report at story that they feel the need to report it before there is actually a story?

Whoami

Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 02:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Or, how about the news stations that say something like, "A major Hollywood star is dead today. We'll tell you who it is tonight at 10:00." Talk about tacky. Like we can't find out before then from 100 other sources anyway!

Ryanc829

Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 02:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Reminds me of a line from a comedian...

"Tonight at 10 we'll tell you how to protect yourself."

What if somethin' happens to me at 7:15?

Ryanc829

Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 02:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Another pet peeve.

The use of terror/terrorism/terrorist as a buzzword.

Juju2bigdog

Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 04:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Another pet peeve Ryan reminded me of: No more use of the term buzzard's crotch.

Sweetbabygirl

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 06:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Anyone ever have a co-worker that just talks too damned much, and about nothing?

Normally I tune out said co-worker, but yesterday I couldn't....she usually takes the subway home, but because someone jumped in front of a subway train she took the bus, which naturally is the same bus that I take.

Now, despite the fact that I'm pretty lively on this board and with my loved ones, I consider myself a fiercely private person, one who MUST have 'her space'....my friends could tell stories on how moody I can be when I feel that my 'space' is being invaded, but we won't go there right now
(Note to myself, stop rambling and continue with rant!)

Anyway, the co-worker stands with me as we wait for the bus. It's hot, which means that I'm irritable, because I HATE the heat and I'm wearing my walkman and sunglasses, projecting a wanna-be gangsta lean. Do you think that I can hear R. Kelly's new slammin' jam, Thoia Thoing? NOOOOOOOOO, 'cause everytime I turn on my walkman, I have to turn it off and go "What?", 'cause I missed her incessant gabbing....yack-yackita-yackity-yack, DAMN!!

So we get on the bus, and she goes "Where are you sitting, I'll sit with you." FLUCK! Now, I usually sit in the back (despite the fact that black people don't have to sit at the back of the bus anymore, but that's my favorite seat; this has been a Huey P. Newton mini-rant). Anyway, I sit in my favorite seat, and she proceeds to attempt to sit next to me. I say attempt 'cause I'm hippy, she's hippy and two sets of hips like ours just ain't gonna work together; thankfully she realizes this and moves down a seat, only to start talking again!!

Bottom line is this....I talk to you for eight hours a day, if that....when the day is over, you go your way and let me go mine, in peace and quiet!!

SBG scurries out of folder

Squaredsc

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 06:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
i like sitting in the back too because its my choice now to do so. yep i hate when people see that you have headphones on and they want to talk you to death.

Sasman

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 07:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
i hate it when my ball picks up dirt, then the mouse pointer keeps getting stuck and then i have to blow on it.

Goddessatlaw

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 07:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Dirty balls are a pet peeve of mine too, Sas. I don't blow on them, though. That's where you and I differ.

Sasman

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 07:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
so gal, what do you do with your dirty balls?

Sasman

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 07:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
i think i need one of those mice with balls, optical mouse.

Goddessatlaw

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 07:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Scrub them with a scrunchy in a vanilla bubble bath. No sooner do I clean them, however, they're dirty again and need another bubble bath. I can't figure it out. I'm wasting alot of time on it, though.

Sweetbabygirl

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 07:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
ROTFLMAO!

Sasman

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 07:36 am EditMoveDeleteIP
goddess, where do you live?

Goddessatlaw

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 07:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Baltimore. I'm actually a member of Squared's personality disorder.

Sasman

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 08:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
are you a charter member?

Goddessatlaw

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 08:07 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm three of them plus a few fragments.

Sasman

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 08:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
next time im in balto, the 3 of you + framgmets, square and i will have to get together.... hope you're going to vegas with us.

Squaredsc

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 08:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
yall are off the chain and i use saliva..... to clean my mouse ball.

Sweetbabygirl

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 08:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My ball rolls automatically....however on occasion it may stall, so I wet my index finger and gently swipe the dirty ball.

Ryanc829

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 09:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Actually, technically, wouldn't an optical mouse be a mouse without balls? And, if ya get a cordless optical not only does your mouse have no balls, it has no tail.

Sasman

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 09:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
i still prefer blowing on them

Juju2bigdog

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 09:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
May I suggest Goddess try a Brillo pad so she doesn't have to keep doing it all the time?

Shouldn't Weinermr be in here any minute?

Sweetbabygirl

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 09:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sas, I asked you this before.....is there a revelation that you want to share with the rest of the class?

Sasman

Friday, August 29, 2003 - 09:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
none that i can think of.....