I don’t “really” care “about” the use ‘of’ quotations. “It” does ‘not’ ‘really’ “confuse” me, as ‘much’ as “some” other “things.”
My apologies, but the hijack started before my first post.
My contribution? Ranting about how (insert X sport you don’t like) is terrible.
People who complain about hijacks. Never understood it.
Pit threads about ‘Ask the…’, ‘Band name’, ‘Jump the shark’, ‘Hi Opal’, ‘Pulls up chair’ or whatever other posting fad is going around. Honestly, they’re not being used that much, and whenever they do become popular again they always die down after a little while whether you complain about them or not.
You know, I had a really fun Valentine’s Day. Go figure… 
I’m not bothered by people who cut ahead of me at the grocery store, post office, in traffic etc… I’m never in such a hurry that I can’t wait just a couple more minutes.
Honey
I like the Post Office. They teke my mail across the country for only 37 cents, still a good deal. I’ve never had anything major lost in the mail after more years than I care to admit.
I like reading Libertarian’s posts, I like reading Dewey’s posts, and I like reading december’s posts. I even miss Chumpsky.
I like the SDMB. No popups, no ads, how do they do it?
(It’s spelled “a lot”.)
C’mon, someone had to do it.
Now that’s enterainment! It’s been a long time since I watched that show. I’m gonna have to start watching again!
Yes. It can make you feel that you are being steamrolled over and not getting your viewpoint heard. You want to say “you all hate snow, you are acting like a bunch of old people, but I like to roll around in it.” Or, "I think it’s asinine to talk about the contestents on Joe Millionaire and other shows like that all earnestly, as if they were members of your family or your friends, as if they were people who actually have any part of your life, AND you make it sound like you are speaking for everybody, AND because I sit by quietly, if you recognize me at all, you are assuming that my silence means I agree with you and think like you. WRONG. Not everyone has the great gift of speaking up assertively. Some people choke on stuff they never get to say. It eats away at them. This is at the heart of what makes some people less tolerant of the opinions of others. The fact that they differ from your own, but you never really get a chance to get YOUR two cents in. This can make you feel invisible. And in real life situations it’s not always realistic to shout down 10 people who loudly talk about something they all agree on and you are the only one who doesn’t feel the way they feel.
And now you may welcome me to the board. I had planned for a slightly more graceful debut, but, after lurking for a long time here, I couldn’t help but jump onto this one. It hit a real nerve.
So because you are too afraid to speak up and join in a conversation you get to resent everyone? Because everyone else likes to talk about a certain subject that you think you are too good for, you get to resent everyone?
No, sorry.
WHAO! Hold your horses! I was merely trying to explain why some people get so bothered by other people’s jabber. I should have added that the most annoying kind of jabber is the weather-jabber or the Joe Millionaire jabber and other topics along those lines. The small talk. It’s not really worth starting an arugument about, so you let it go. But you build up resentment nevertheless. If it’s about something important you bet your bottom dollar I speak up! The superficial jabber, the weather chit-chat, Jacko, etc., and you always know in advance what they are going to say because you know they look to the local media to tell them what to think! They play it safe. If the trash media says it, it’s mainstream and safe to repeat withour risk as your “own” opinion. And they get so phony outraged about the stupidest trash!
Those are the kinds of people I was talking about. They repeat what you and they heard the night before on the local news, so you can predict verbatim what they are going to say with a 90% accurace rate. They try so hard to be ordinary and agreeable that you get the feeling they are afraid to form an original opinion, much less voice one. They are so afraid of unpredictability in life, they’ve elevated ordinariness to a form of reverse rebellion! Their favorite word is “normal”. One person said today when a bunch of middle aged women stood around complaining about the snow: “But didn’t anyone go out and PLAY in it? Don’t you ENJOY it?” I wanted to kiss her. I said: Yes, mememe. And the old bags looked at the two of us like we were crazy.
Who are you to deny me my right to resent such boring, unalive people? I wonder how anyone can tell when people like that have died, considering that they were never alive to begin with! And yet, these boring ones have a way of always making themselves heard, while a more quiet, thoughtful person with perhaps something more valuable to say, gets to shut up. I don’t think so.
I am still wondering why you resent them in the first place then.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again:
Titanic is a wonderful movie, fully deserving of its Best Picture Oscar.
And I also am not particularly bothered by religious people coming to my door. Fundamentally, they’re good people, in that they are doing a thankless job that they believe will help other poeple. They’re wrong, but good. (This assumes that they are of the polite variety, which is, for the most part, the only variety I have personally encountered…)
Slow drivers. Life is too long, I have so much time and I don’t know how to use it and I don’t have to be anywhere at a certain time. I really like being behind some blue hair stopped, trying to make a left from the right lane of a six lane road. Yeah, they make me chuckle. They are extreme drivers!
I have the keys to the English language and they are under the rock I pulled up and sat down on so’s I could write this.
The [insert extremist political philosophy here] moderator closed my thread.
Because she thinks she’s better than them and resents having to even share oxygen with them.
So, is anyone else terrified?
WHEN GO AWAY LEAVE PIE
I think we’ve found a mate for Justhink.