*I * think you’re swell. 
You know what would be good for lunch? Leftover chili!
Another thing that chaps my hide: people who hang back in line. The line is advancing, or you’re next, but there’s a six foot gap in front of you while I’m two inches behind you. MOVE, blast you!
Worse: some harpy who hangs back and blocks two different registers because she’s decided she’s going to be next, whichever one of the two registers opens up momentarily.
ETA: Hillary looks like the kind of lady who would do that.
Bumpersticker on car in parking lot: “My chihuahua is smarter than your honor student” No, fuckwad, your dog is not smarter than an honor student. It’s a dog.
I don’t even have a child in school to be an honor student (or not) but this pisses me off to no end. I have to fight the urge to deface it with my ever-handy Sharpie marker.
I get pissed when my neighbor mows his lawn for the third time in a week–even the second time. It’s like he has nothing else to do. Also the newly divorced/forced to leave his job due to the morals clause other neighbor who feels he is not living unless he makes noise with some kind of power tool. I swear the guy has built on enough space for 2 more families in his house. And if it’s not the lumber saw, it’s the chainsaw/edger/mower/hedge trimmer/leaf blower. I no sooner go out on the porch to enjoy a glass of iced tea and the birds chirping and he starts up.
God, I hate summer because of men and their fucking noisy toys. There, I said it. Yes, it’s ALL your fault. :mad:
Actually, hand to hand does not mean mano a mano either. Or it shouldn’t, I’m sure at some point that expression will worm its way into the dictionary as it’s in so many books and games by now.
Man to man is cara a cara; hand to hand is sin armas.
Does anybody know why every Spanish comic book character except Manuel de la Rocha speaks like el fucking Zorro only with worse grammer and spoilling? Manny is an ass, but at least he doesn’t sound like a cross between Antonio Banderas, Enrique Iglesias and a hangover.
Preach it, sister! My neighbors across the street must have 85 engines/motors/whatevers. If they aren’t legitimately mowing the lawn, they are driving the lawn mower around, riding scooters, mini 4-wheelers, using the weed whip, leaf blower, power washer, snow blower. It is literally ALWAYS something. I can’t watch TV in the living room with the window open, much less sit on the porch. They SERIOUSLY need to move to the country!
Oh, I didn’t add his sons–the same ones who* shoot at squirrels on the golf course across the street**(I called the police on that one–hard to report your neighbors to the cops in a small suburb, especially when the boys in question are the fire chief’s sons, but I did it anyway), and ride their ATVs/minbikes/motorcycle up and down our one way lane again and again and again. These are not young guys–these are 20 somethings. White trash lives and it lives two doors down. None of this happened when the wife lived there. Oh, and other lawn obsessed neighbor? Shoots off bottle rockets all summer long. Because he’s a 60 year old gentleman with arrested development. Gah.
Completely irrelevant aside: lawn guy’s wife, when my daughter was born, came over with a gift. I said thank you and oohed and ahhed over it etc. Then she said, “when she gets old enough, send her over to my house to play Barbies. I love doing that and I’d like to play again.”
Yeah. Like that ever happened…
Other things that piss me off:
You are driving on a 4 lane road. There are strips malls on either side. Cars that want to turn left edge out to block the right hand lane of traffic. For these morons, I will honk and glare. I soooo want to take off someone’s front end, just to teach them a lesson someday.
*two of the many oh, so responsible gun owners I’ve known over the years.
Rascal’s Mom and eleanorigby, when did you two move onto my block?
Because . . . Scott. His name is Scott.
Good God NO!
I lived in the country as a teen. These sorts of yahoos would come out and rip down fences so that they could go blasting through on their ATVs. Didn’t matter that they were damaging property and crops, endangering livestock and trespassing on 20 different properties in one day. They were in the country!
The worst are the ones who buy the house on one acre next to the larger farms. It often takes legal charges and lawsuits to convince them that your corn field is not their private playground. Talking to them about it is like talking to a brick wall. It just doesn’t penetrate their tiny brains that they might be doing something wrong or that you might actually object!
But they’ll be glad to meet you at the end of their driveway with a shotgun, because “don’t you dare set foot on MY property!” :rolleyes:
I hear ya! I grew up on a farm. My “city cousins” would come out and want to break windows on the outbuildings and wanted to hurt animals. This was back in the day before ATVs, so I can only imagine the scenario then.
This family across from me though, this is young kids, meaning aged probably 10 and 13. The boys and their dad want to move out of town to a place with acreage. The mom is the holdout. This is soooo old, and it’s only May.
It is FIFTY FUCKING DEGREES IN CLEVELAND, OHIO.
It is MAY 27th. My wedding anniversary. Five days till June. It’s supposed to be WARM, dammit.
Oh, and we call them the Bumpus family.
Mine is named Ray. His dopey lawn partner is Jimbo (yes, he calls himself Jimbo). His kids are named Bubba and Roy–ok, I made that up.
They are so obnoxious. The ATVs etc going down my lane? (and it’s a lane–narrow and one way)-- it’s a paved lane, nonetheless. Gosh, how exciting and manly that is. It makes my lil ole heart just go pitty-pat, why, I’m wet just thinking about it!
I really dislike macho aging boys. Really. dislike. them.
People referring to Wikipedia as Wiki.
Wiki is a generic term for, as Wikipedia describes, “a collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content”.
In essence, Wikipedia is a wiki, Lostpedia is a wiki, Uncyclopedia is a wiki. There are shitloads of wikis on the Internet.
So when you say you ‘looked it up on wiki’, despite the fact it is almost certain you mean Wikipedia, it doesn’t make me want to get any less stabby.
People who use the expression “______ makes me feel stabby” or variations thereof. It could be that the expression was amusing once; but I don’t think so.
Scumpup.
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ALL COMPUTER PERIPHERALS DO NOT NEED BLINDINGLY BRIGHT LEDs. Yes, I know I should be more environmentally conscious and turn off my computer and external drive at night. I don’t always. Sometimes for legitimate reasons, like I’m downloading or backing up a large file. I’m tired of needing to stick electrical tape on everything.
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When they built the dorms I live in, they neglected to put in ceiling lights. We have a little desk lamp, and a little lamp stuck in an alcove over the medicine cabinet. No overhead lights. This rather drastically reduces the percentage of our four electrical outlets that are available.
2a. God I have too much electrical crap. Computer, speakers, printer, hard drive, floor lamp, fan, fridge, illegal microwave, plus three other decorative lights. If you don’t want us to use extension cords or outlet splitters (which they don’t, as per the housing agreement), give us enough outlets!
One of these things is not like the other. 
I get the impression your a light sleeper, like me. It SUCKS.
I can beat #2 - no ceiling lights and the ceiling is sloped so it takes a ladder to hang any lamps unless you do it right next to the wall. And not a 2 or 3 step ladder - a serious fucking, eight foot tall thing. My room is still dark.
My husband and I say, “Oh, honey, they’re leaking testosterone again.” “I love the smell of testosterone in the morning.” “Did you see a cloud of testosterone go by?”
And the corollary on that… the wiki is the entire resource, not individual pages in it. You are not “sending a wiki” to me about that topic. You did not “write a wiki” about that topic. (Before you ask who would be savvy enough to participate in a wiki yet still screw up the terminology, it’s generally corporate intranet users).