Since we haven’t had a minor pittings thread in a while I thought I’d give it a go. And please, for the love of all that is holy don’t turn this into a V-Day whinefest, or else I’ll to pit your ass.
People that go into threads about “underrated” and “unknown” stuff and then proceed to post things like Casablanca, The White Album, anything by Stephen King and Pac-Man. This just annoys me to no end, but what really gets me is that they’re always serious
Conversely, people that answer these questions and more with some ridiculously long plot summary of some anime that hasn’t even come out in Japan yet. I don’t care how much Yoshi and Yumi represent Bush and Condi, if you need to post the whole script it’s not worth it.
SUVs going 40 on the highway. If you’re that scared of a few flurries in Upstate NY, stay home.
People who get pissed that they can’t borrow books with their library card. If you tried to pull that shit at Blockbuster you’d be escorted out of the store.
Finally, I pit Peter Moore, VP of Microsoft’s Game division. The man is an idiot who believes single player gaming is obsolete, that games will not be sold on physical media in the future and that consoles will eventually be phased out. Mr. Moore, you are an idiot and the poster child for all the MS hate on the Internet.
I suspect consoles will eventually go away. Simply put, they are becoming more and more expensive. While they do currently offer superior value just for gaming, that may well not last. If the best graphics people ever need costs only 100 bucks, do you buy the $100 console version or the $200 PC version with everything on it. And of course, the consoles themselves are mutating into a hybrid entertainment center/computer anyway.
While I think the Nokia N-Gage was probably a bad move, it’s likely that cell-phones with built-in gaming will grow. One day, your Gameboy/DVD/cell-phone/Ipod/netsurfing/calculater/Blackberry/internet browser will be coming to a store near you.
I Pit whichever of my students gave this mutant disease. It keeps shifting from my lungs to my head to my throat, I ache, and I am rapidly running out of Kleenex, even though I bought 6 new boxes just last week. Aarrgghh, I hate being sick!
I pit the members of my class who are not only financially well-off enough to not have to work or live with roommates, giving them lots of free time and quiet to study, but who are also freaking geniuses and manage to remember everything mentioned in lecture.
I knew there were people out there who were smarter than me. Sucks meeting 120 of them all at once.
I pit myself for not approaching this cute girl at the deli near work several months ago. Haven’t seen her since. Stupid, stupid me. Oh, those missed opportunities.
Oh don’t go thinking the Blockbuster people get off light on this one. I’ve had people yell, scream, and even physically threatening me for not handing over Blockbuster property to every yahoo that walks off the street.
I pit 15 year old girls who say highly inappropriate things even if they honestly have no idea what the fuck they just said.
(I teach Defensive driving, when signing students up for their drives I usually try to book all 4 lessons so I know they will have daylight for the ones that need it and no rush hour traffic for those drives…I was thinking out loud and said “well do a freeway on lesson two” and student A says “Okay!” with obvious enthusiasm yeah innocent so far. student B says " what?" so I repeat the bit about the freeway to wich student A replys sounding a bit disapointed “Oh I thought you said a THREEWAY” at wich point I simply had to stop talking or get fired for being a pervert…turns out she seriously thought we were going to drive to a threeway stop to get some practice at unusual intersections.)
Pullet, you’ll do fine. You’re a Doper, so that puts you leagues ahead of all those other freaks with their mommies to pay their way and their retentative memories to keep them abreast of the topics.
You’ve got US to get you through. I mean it too. Heh.
I pit the man who made the keyboard on my microwave. For most everything it works pretty well. But if I make a mistake and hit the ‘clear’ button, nothing happens. You have to hit it a second time. Why? That’s just annoying!
I pit people who drive and can’t count to three. Every morning I arrive at a three-way intersection at rush hour. It is always full of people going in all three directions. So you go to the light and count three: one car goes, a second car goes, now it’s YOUR turn. So GO! Don’t sit there looking like an idiot, go! Really, push the fucking gas pedal down and get out of the intersection, idiot! The rest of us don’t know if you’ve lost count and are about to jackrabbit through the intersection in fear or have fallen into a peaceful slumber, so we’re reluctant to pull out in front of your stupid ass for fear of getting T-boned by a retard like you. So, Go! Get your freaking stupid ass out of the intersection, off the road, and out of our lives, moron! If you can’t count to three, you should be behind the wheel, cretin!
I pit whoever is responsible for DVD region encoding. I’m looking at a perfectly good copy of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon that I can’t watch, since it’s from my friend in Hong Kong. Whose brilliant idea was this? :mad: And they’re doing it again with Blu-Ray/HD-DVD, aren’t they? Bastards.
And a hearty pit to my new coworker who is in a snit over my hours. (I just started a new job and got some cushy hours.)
Guess what? That’s the deal I made with management. Sorry you don’t like it. They accepted my hour limitations and I accepted their scheduling weirdness, see? It’s a deal we made! I know it looks like I come in ‘late’ and leave ‘early’, but it’s a part time job to help during the busiest part of the day.
So…Get over it already. Or go part-time. Stop huffing and puffing and looking at your watch every time you see me. I’m exactly on time and will leave exactly on time even though you don’t like it.
