Dorma Alcanter
Sherry Parks
Nancy Parker
Sue Fielder
Tracy Burch
Beverly Stacker
Melanie Bennett and, of course
Barbie Taylor.
Are you speaking of the James Earl Carter, Jr. of this universe and not some alternate and backwards parallel one? Because you appear to have his record exactly opposite the reality. Carter’s foreign policy was actually quite solid. Camp David Accords, SALT II, formal recognization of the Chinese government . . . It’s his domestic policy that sucked. His deregulation of oil prices is what lead directly to a massive rise in inflation (and stagflation) that most marred his administration. Carter most certainly did not get us out a recession, quickly or otherwise. I’m afraid that occurred in the following Reagan administration.
Sooooo, I’d have to add revisionist history the “Big List of Things that Suck.”
As well as Creationism and Intelligent Design in the public schools.
Incomplete list of additions (I know I could think of more):
Dating woes
Dot-com bust
Drought
Eminem
Gas prices
Hornets
Hot weather
Inflation
Junk mail
Killer bees
Metallica (post-Black album)
Madonna
Michael Jackson
Rap music
Recession
Red lights
Scientology(-ists)
Scrappy Doo
Slow drivers
Speed limits set too low
Tabloid news/journalism
Talk shows
Valentine’s Day
Wasps
Yellow jackets
Traffic jams.
Slow lines.
Things or systems which are badly designed.
Trolls.
Paper cuts.
Bad produce from the supermarket.
Door dings.
Deceit-filled commercials.
Spam.
Fox News Channel/CNN/MSNBC.
Cheap car alarms.
Junior Mods.
Previews which give away everything good about what they are previewing.
Overly long lists.
Attention whores.
Executives at Fox.
People who skipped ahead to the next post.
Traffic jams.
Slow lines.
Things or systems which are badly designed.
Trolls.
Paper cuts.
Bad produce from the supermarket.
Door dings.
Deceit-filled commercials.
Spam.
Fox News Channel/CNN/MSNBC.
Cheap car alarms.
Junior Mods.
Previews which give away everything good about what they are previewing.
Overly long lists.
Attention whores.
Executives at Fox.
People who skipped ahead to the next post.
Argh! Add:
Double posts.
:rolleyes:
Baseball most assuredly does not suck.
Neither do 21+ drinking laws. Trust me.
exhorbitant parking rates
tire blowouts
Michael Eisner
Newport News, Virginia
Anna Nicole Smith
driving 120 miles to see your favorite baseball team play and having them lose by 15 runs
spam messages that promise me a giant penis and then fail to deliver
rain on your wedding day
a free ride when you’ve already paid
good advice that you just didn’t take
drivers in the DC area
bosses who micromanage
daylight savings time
keys on your calculator that stick because you spilled Coca-Cola on it
Carpet burns on your mother’s back.
beats carpet burns on your father’s chest and knees…
AAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!MY EYES!!!MY BRAIN!!!GET IT OUT GET IT OUT GET IT OUT!!!
Actually, the Raspberry Ice Tea Thing (RITT) was intended as a metaphor for the utter suckitude of Making Up Stuff To Sell That No One Actually Asked For (MUSTSTNAAF), also known as Changing Things That Don’t Need Changing (CTTDNC). As in, you sit down in your favorite diner and order a nice, refreshing glass of fresh-brewed iced tea (never, ever sweetened, as that is an abomination before God) to wash down your club sandwich with crinkly fries. Without comment, the waitress brings you a glass filled with ice-tea-like liquid, and you take a huge gulp only to discover that it’s not iced tea at all, but some hideous raspberry-flavored beverage sugared to saturation point. And when you point out to the server person that whatever it was she served up was not, in fact, what most people would consider iced tea, she shrugs and sez, “Well, that’s the only kind we have”.
But that’s a long story, so I just shortened it to raspberry-flavored iced tea.
Oh, did I mention Tortured Acronyms (TAs)?
How on earth did we get this far and no mention of telemarketers?
We didn’t. Check the third post, er, nimrod (sorry, I’m not very good at hurling gratuitous insults).
I always suspected it, but now there’s proof: no one ever pays any attention to anything I say. Whine bloody moan.
I just did a Edit-Find on “telemarketer”. It didn’t catch “telemarketing”.
Intelligent design of the public schools does not suck, however. If it were ever to happen.
here’s another one: Incompetence
I asked the librarian five times if I would be able to access the journal article from my home computer… damn it all it hell.
Alright one more: Typos
damn it all to hell
These are more “ironic” - don’t you think?
Ignorant Tourists.
Hardly a week goes by without some tourist - usually American - making a scene about local buildings. See, many buildings here have the swastika incorporated into the brick or tile work. “How can you have THAT there?!” “Ohmigawd, I can not stay in the place that THAT on the ceiling…” I often get yelled at for walking into places, “How can YOU patronize a place owned by THOSE kind of people…” I had many flights where the people in the seat next to me complained about “all those Nazis” and “why doesn’t somebody round them up and arrest them…”
Well, if you had actually fuckin’ read anything about local culture, tradition, and custom you would realize that our “swastika” is has nothing to do with the symbol of the Third Reich.
Of course, the fact that two local watering holes have the names “Adolf and Eva’s” and “Goering’s Other Place” does not exactly help…