Some of my least favorite things - Page 5

Genz · #41 12-13-2006, 09:52 PM

One more thing: I have been studying for my final exams for about 1 1/2 - 2 years about 8 hours a day (not in the US). It's a full time job. It really pisses me off when some person comes around complaining that he has to study so extremely hard for some kind of exam or paper for a period of time like the last 2-3 weeks or something. Or if they are bragging that their field of study is at least as difficult and time consuming as the one I did. Or if they - as the other extreme - just don't believe that you actually have to work that hard, and just tell you, that they think you are vastly exaggerating. I think everyone who had to work really hard for something knows this feeling if someone comes along and has no appreciation at all.

kipin · #42 12-13-2006, 09:54 PM

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Seeing as I am a huge skeptic,

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Skeptics of the world feel free to add what you dislike.

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I don't think this word means what you think it means.

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Oops, I guess I'm a bit tired. My brain must have switched the words in my head.

The two words I was looking for were cynic, and cynics.

SoHotRightNow · #43 12-13-2006, 09:59 PM

1) Getting distracted by others at work just to talk [censored] (other than after 4, or all day friday).
2) The Chicago Bears D/ST. They have been a thorn in my side all season long in pertty much every fantasy league I play in.
3) Having the nicest TV in the flat, which therefore means it gets put in the living room, while everyone else has their crappy TV's in their own room. Net result is that if I dont like what everyone else is watching, I cant do sh*t about it, while if anyone else doesnt like whats on, they can go watch whatever they want in their own room.
4) My flatmates/fiance messing with my tivo settings.
5) Innefectual or incompetent refereeing/sports officiating.
6) People who love their jobs.

Thats all I got for now...

StaticShock · #44 12-13-2006, 10:03 PM

Coworkers that come by my desk and comment on what I'm eating. "Oooooooh, you're eating a hamburger for lunch?!? You shouldn't do that. You know I read that it's bad for you."

Oh is that right? Well I read that I don't care about you or your diet book's [censored] opinions.

Blarg · #45 12-13-2006, 10:13 PM

The thing is, this is common and even recommended in deadlifting. But I think it's the only lift it's not dumb in, unless you really did just give out, legit. And if you did, you should probably just lift weights you can handle, unless you're on roids, where your recovery ability is so great you can afford to push to failure.

justatrey · #46 12-13-2006, 10:15 PM

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2) Cashiers that get confused when I give them $17 for a $6.54 bill.

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I had a similar but even worse experience recently. My bill came to $10.01. I thought I didn't have any change, so I gave the cashier $11.00. Then, when I find a penny and try to give it to the cashier before the damn register was open I get "Sorry but I already entered it in."

He thought it wouldn't balance because he "already entered it".

Blarg · #47 12-13-2006, 10:21 PM

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One more thing: I have been studying for my final exams for about 1 1/2 - 2 years about 8 hours a day (not in the US). It's a full time job. It really pisses me off when some person comes around complaining that he has to study so extremely hard for some kind of exam or paper for a period of time like the last 2-3 weeks or something. Or if they are bragging that their field of study is at least as difficult and time consuming as the one I did. Or if they - as the other extreme - just don't believe that you actually have to work that hard, and just tell you, that they think you are vastly exaggerating. I think everyone who had to work really hard for something knows this feeling if someone comes along and has no appreciation at all.

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Absolutely I know what this is all about.

I once mentioned this to a friend who pissed me off this way in front of some other friends. I told him that how come every time you're bad at something, no matter how ill-suited for it you are or how hard you try, you suck? but even if you really suck at something and put blood, sweat and tears into it for literally years on end, as soon as you get good at it, people say, "Oh, well, that's easy for YOU."

Cracked them all up, and it's a legit point. It's easy to discredit anything anybody does that's hard or good even if it took them a lot of work, and at the same time blame them for the things they can't do or suck at even if they try. It's an asinine way of making sure nobody gets any credit for anything or any simple understanding that not being great at every last damn thing doesn't mean you suck or aren't even trying.

stinkypete · #48 12-13-2006, 10:25 PM

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2) Cashiers that get confused when I give them $17 for a $6.54 bill.

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I had a similar but even worse experience recently. My bill came to $10.01. I thought I didn't have any change, so I gave the cashier $11.00. Then, when I find a penny and try to give it to the cashier before the damn register was open I get "Sorry but I already entered it in."

He thought it wouldn't balance because he "already entered it".

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a lot of them are trained not to figure [censored] out on their own, and to go by what the register says ALWAYS. and it makes sense, because most of them are retards.

what you should do in this case is wait for your change, then add your penny to it, and ask for a dollar in exchange for the 99c + 1c you are now holding. usually they won't even realize how retarded this is, but that's fine.

Blarg · #49 12-13-2006, 10:32 PM

A HUGE pet peeve of mine:

People who read ONE DAMN STORY on yahoo or whatever, citing some study or other, and use that to rattle off what they treat as definitive opinions on some subject. Never mind whether they have any other reading or understanding of the subject, it becomes "Scientists say!" or "Our old notions have been definitively overturned, and forever!"

Gimme a friggin' break. Every moron becomes a well-grounded scholar every time the least worthwhile study comes out.

This is made even worse because so much science is so far from science, and is in fact politically or commercially motivated and funded. Much like when the government forms a special committee to investigate itself after a scandal: "We're Innocent!"

Whew, who would have guessed????

I wish more people would STFU instead of proudly pretending knowledge they don't have because some screwball study comes out, doubtless to be both refuted and rebutted a thousand times before the real truth comes out on the matter. What the hell ever happened to withholding judgment until further evidence is in, or getting SOME sort of reading going before you leap on the often outlandish claims that get a study singled out for a publicity blitz?

SoHotRightNow · #50 12-13-2006, 10:40 PM

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Coworkers that come by my desk and comment on what I'm eating. "Oooooooh, you're eating a hamburger for lunch?!? You shouldn't do that. You know I read that it's bad for you."

Oh is that right? Well I read that I don't care about you or your diet book's [censored] opinions.

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Sounds like someone has a case of the mondays...