The reason i dislike SUV’s is because everyone i know who owns one, drives it because “it looks cool”. Not because they live in the mountains, or in a rural area where it would be useful, they live IN the city on the coast! The only exception is my older brother, but he drives 45 minutes a day to work and often through dirt roads, etc.(His work is in a small rural town). The people im talking about are the same ones who freak if they get dirt under their nails (Like my twin brother and all his friends). Oh heres more:
-Jeeps (Again used by people who would cringe at getting their nails dirty)
-Vegans, Vegetarianism, and all that stuff
-Enterntainment Tonight (I really hate how they always brag how theyre the only ones let in to interview stars at movie premiers Duh theyre using you to sell the damn movie LOL)
-Rosie O’donell
-the free tibet people (It’s not that i dont think supporting freeing Tibet is bad (thats a good thing), i just dislike how it’s the current charity for celebrities to jock).
-cell phones
“Let me show you something
that you’ve never seen before
like a light im gonna shine on you
forever is a word i dont often get to say
but if you say it loud enough i’ll say it too”
And my contribution to the list is “gambling”. When I went to Vegas, I spent the first 10 minutes gambling. No fun.
After that, I spent the next 4 hours at Luxor playing video games.
movie/video game ninja. Everybody is always flipping out over ninja. sigh Ninja can do this, ninja can do that. Ninja = assassin. No mystical abilities and other junk.
BIG ditto on gambling. There are lot’s of other things I’d rather do with my time and money.
Actors who feel that they have to whisper to sound dramatic or tough
“Music” that pounds. Frequently heard in dance clubs and aerobics rooms. You listen to it, and all you hear is that incessant “POUND! POUND! POUND! POUND!” I used to tolerate that sort of “music,” but now I just detest it. Dirty Devil, I’ve considered upgrading my Tacoma 4X2 to have larger wheels and tires (possibly purchased from a ‘pull-a-part’ place - the wheels anyway) to at least acheive better clearance. However, I think I’ll shop around for a good used 4X4 pick-up and make a final decision from there. Although, on 3 occasions, I haven’t let the “4WD Only” roads stop me!
Why people with glasses are stereotyped as nerdy, childish, or senile
Why TV and movie drama has to show people being brutalized
Why contemporary TV “comedy” involves vulgar speech we thought we’d grown out of when we finished junior high school
Why some employers think they need to lie to employees about their evaluations
Why drivers choose to ignore stop signs (and red lights)
Why people keep getting drunk when hangovers hurt so much
Why feminists bristle at men who try to be courteous (opening a door, offering a seta on a bus, etc.)
Why older siblings sometimes carry hostility to younger siblings into middle age
First off I gotta second Ricky Martin, NSYNC, the Backstreet Boys and the rest of these teeny bopper bands. Let’s not forget the worst of the worst…Hanson.
Also, the Kennedy’s- Nothing personal, but who really cares.
Rosie O’Donnels’ talk show
The Phantom Menace- The most overhyped movie of the decade?
People who spend $30,000 on a truck/car and live in a trailer park.
The current backlash against 80s music, as if because it’s 10 years old it sucks.
Madonna
Celine Dion
Republicans
Any magician can pull a rabbit out of a hat, show me one who can pull a hat out of a rabbit and I’ll believe.
People who don’t flush public toilets. What the hell are they thinking? “Why, I’ll save water! In a little while someone else will be delighted to sit on this toilet that’s had my crap in it for hours! I’m going to save the environment, one flush at a time!”
Do they do this at home? Can you imagine what their houses must be like? What they must smell like?
Had a bad experience in the Donut shop washroom today. Can you tell?
all the boy bands - I never did, nor will I ever, stand next to a stage and scream and sob because HE looked at me.
Running around telling everyone how your man or woman did you wrong, and not bothering to say anything to said man or woman. Geez, stay single or something.
Heavy Metal - What’s the point if you can’t understand the words?
Ditto on the Kennedys
Double Ditto on the English royalty. Like they have anything to do with America?
Trisha
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice - Albert Einstein
Lots of people are saying, “The creators are geniuses!” No, the creators had one good idea: to have the actors improvise the entire movie. They wrote less than one page of dialogue, and showed the actors how to work the cameras. After that, all they did was follow the actors around and make spooky noises.
I also hear a lot of “The acting is so believable and realistic!” Well, no kidding. If you want actors to look like they’ve been in the woods for three days with little food or sleep, what could be better than to send them out into the woods for three days, then steal their food and make noises all night?
One more thing: the story is fictional. Get over it.
Woodstock 99 - WHY???
(For Tetzel - Wavy Gravy was an announcer at the one and only Woodstock, and then went on to other “hippie” things, currently runs a school for clowns and circus performers for underprivileged kids in N. Cal)
Rosie O’ Donnell
Singers that think they can act
Actors that think they can sing
For me the music stopped in the very early 70’s and with a few exceptions hasn’t been much since
Ally McBeal, Friends, any "Greatest…from Fox TV
Songwriters that sell out to advertisers
Advertisers that think we are to dumb to make up our own minds without a song that sold a bizzilion records
Julia Roberts and Richard Gere
Anyone else’s sex life (as long as they are adults and consenting)
All for now
The worst thing that can possibly happen is not be used for something by someone - Kurt Vonnegut
Rock gardens…esp. the mini-ones with sand and the teeny rake
Golf
Cigars, cigarrettes, smoking in general
Drinking just to get drunk
Getting drunk=fun, college rite of passage, etc.
Acrylic nails
Pierced nipples, genitals, and tongues
People who bring young babies to movies
Disney
Romance novels
Shopping when you have no money–just to try on clothes “for fun”
Bottled water
High heels
Pineapple on pizza
Teenagers with beepers
Spending $30 for itty bitty underwear (saw a teeny tiny thong at Victoria’s Secret yesterday)
“Me fail English? That’s unpossible!”
“English? Who needs that? I’m never going to England.”
Ballet and modern dance–I like to think I’m an art lover, but this particular branch is a closed book to me. All I can think is, “what the hell are they jumping around for??”
Ricky Martin–he’ll be nobody in another year, just like all the other heart throbs before him. Why don’t people realize this?
People that appear on Jerry Springer–if your boyfriend/girlfriend/significant other told you that you’re going to be a guest on this show, wouldn’t you pretty much figure out that you were going to get dumped? Why do they always look surprised?
Smoking–how do you start? I tried it once, and I threw up.
Those “Wild on…” shows on E!–If you’re going to have a show that’s about nothing more than titillation, why have it on a network that blurs the nudity? That’s like having a cooking show and blanking out the key ingredients!
Howard Stern–what is the attraction? Once you get past the initial guilty pleasure of his crass behavior, what is there? To me, his shows are nothing more than a group of sycophants trying to get Stern’s abusive approval. And, again, you have a show that has nudity where you can’t see it. Folks, it’s radio; they could all be nude and you’d never know! What’s the point?
R-rated movies on TV–I sat through “Fargo” on TBS last week. Somehow they looped in new dialogue to replace the multiple obscenties, thereby taking a lot of the edge off this fine film. Why bother? They left a lot of the gruesome violence which, in some ways, is more obscene than the language.
Adding Elmyra to “Pinky and the Brain”–thereby changing the show from one of my all-time favorites to something unwatchable. Do network executives get paid to screw up my favorite shows?
“Don’t rush me! I’m thinkin!..and my head hurts…”–Yosemite Sam
Its like Scrappy Doo all over again. Or JarJar Binks.
I’m not a proponent of running a formula into the ground but, if you’re going to make changes, do it for the better.
I’m still trying to find out what “floating basketball art” is. All searches I’ve tried come up with nothing.
Why did you say that, bantmof? You don’t understand why people buy cars with automatic transmissions? I am not so impaired myself by I know that authomatic transmissions are a godsend for amputees, including war veterans (I know personally a veteran who lost both legs in World War II. His car has an automatic transmission).
Oh, I understand why people who don’t have all their limb buy them. But only a small number of people fall into that category.
For everybody else - let’s see - they get worse gas mileage (not as much now as in the past, but still some, depending on how you drive - it’s usually not hard to beat the EPA estimate with the manual tranny), they are often more expensive, often heavier (translating into performance penality), always give you less control over the car, and most of all, take all the fun out of driving.
It just seems to be a north-american thing. In europe, an automatic transmisison will seriously hurt the resale value of a car. Over here, it seems like we prefer to have everything “done for us” so we don’t have to know how ourselves. And that’s the philosophy I don’t get.
Why buy automatic transmission? Because you can get a remote-starter for it and warm up the car in winter if you don’t have a garage. Or just to mess with the kids outside.
