Onus wrote:Also, is it just me or do people that eat foods like sliced pizza or burgers with a knife and fork, fuck anyone else off?
I can't stand that shit. Just pick the fuckin thing up!

You obviously haven't had good pizza.

april fool's jokes in publications.

INVISIPEDS:

Jay-walkers, at night, crossing 4 to 6 lanes of busy traffic, in all dark clothing, who look at you in an incredulous manner when you have a near miss.

The other night, at one of the most common places near us for this to occur, we saw police stopping traffic and a car on one side of the median and another on the other side of the median were not moving. What I'm saying is that these two cars didn't have an accident with each other (there was a median between them) but apparently a jaywalker had been hit by one of the cars, and then flung in front of the other car coming the opposite direction...

And all you can think is "you poor bastard, if you had taken 5-10 more minutes in your busy routine and just walked the 1/2 block out of your way to the crossing light..." damn.

Although they are a major pet peeve, I don't actually wish harm on anyone - but when harm befalls them and they clearly did it to themselves out of laziness, or just thinking they're clever enough to not need the crossing light... it's just so sad.

FUCK YOU INVISIPEDS - WHY DON'T YOU BE MORE CAREFUL!?

Arson Smith wrote:Jay-walkers, at night, crossing 4 to 6 lanes of busy traffic, in all dark clothing, who look at you in an incredulous manner when you have a near miss.

It's a near hit. A collision is a near miss













Couldn't resist

Arson Smith wrote:INVISIPEDS:

Jay-walkers, at night, crossing 4 to 6 lanes of busy traffic, in all dark clothing, who look at you in an incredulous manner when you have a near miss.

this happens when people are really high.

I have been this high many times, but fortunately did not decide to cross the interstate. What's happening in their brain is very simple- "Uh... ok... over there. I want to be there. Not here. OK. Right. Annnnnd.....walking... SHIT, what was that?"

This does not excuse their behavior, but it explains it a little. Particularly, the incredulous look. The possibility of traffic didn't really factor into their decision to cross the street. They would have been only slightly more surprised if you'd zipped by in a flying saucer.

Stoned people need guide animals, I think. Everyone should get a specially trained bonobo with an ounce of weed.

This has the added convenience, by the way, of obviating certain types of courtship small talk between stoned people.

When their monkey friends start frantically coupling in the middle of the bar, the more confident stoned person can say "Heh..." and point, and the other stoned person will nod and say "Yeah."

And some time later, one will say "Looks like fun..."

and the other will say "Yeah."

and a suitable interval will pass, where they both think of things to say, then forget to actually say them, until someone says "Y'know, we could...."

whereupon the other will say "Yeah...."

and off they'll go.

Their trained guide monkeys will keep them from walking into traffic on the way.


Everybody wins.

I know that some style guides say that when you quote something, the trailing punctuation goes inside, "like this," but that makes no sense to me. I always put it on the outside in such cases, "like this". Obviously if you're doing something like "quoting somebody's question?" where the punctuation is part of the quotation, then that punctuation goes inside.sunyab wrote:It's the '80s. Not the 80's. Jesus Christ.YES dammit. Tell you what else - and this is happening more and more these days - signs that say things like "1000's to choose from". Not only is there the grocer's apostrophe, but it literally says "one thousand's to choose from", which is horrible. How hard is it to write "thousands"?!Ah yes, grammar Nazism.givemeenoughrope wrote:Pet Peeve : heavy gearCompounding pet peeve: stairs.

Marsupialized wrote:People who flush after they shit in a public place. Especially when it's something remarkably large or unsightly. What a waste of a perfect easy opportunity to make a complete stranger angry/disgusted.Marsupialized all looking over the top of the stall and getting peeved when they flush it.

Hey, how's it going?

jimmy two hands wrote:On the radio, especially NPR, when they don't bother editing out the lip noises of people talking so it sounds like they have a mouth full of mayonaise.This is why Carl Kasell's retirement from Morning Edition didn't break my heart.

Grown men who pee with the toilet seat down. Nothing like sitting for a nice poop, and noticing a yellow teardrop of piss, or pube on the front of the seat. The word has bigger problems, yes, but come on...it an't that hard to negotiate.If you can do it without getting pubes or piss on the seat, great, I don't know about you. I am referring to people who don't care, or don't know they are doing it.