This thread was inspired by this one, but let us try to keep this discussion away from SDMB politics. Though you have every right to say that you are tired of people complaining about the SDMB, how the SDMB is run and how the SDMB is not what it used to be.
So here is what I am tired of:
College students complaining about not having time to get anything done. Even if you have a 40 hour a week job and take five classes, it is still possible to get all your work done. You won’t have much time for anything else, but that’s the hand you were dealt with and complaining about it won’t do you any good. Most the teachers don’t care anyway.
**Anyone complaining about being too old to learn. **Unless you have a legitimate medical condition, this is not an excuse. You just don’t want to learn, so stop saying you can’t and stop asking me to tivo something for you.
Paying taxes. There is no way around this guys, just deal.
**People offering to do something nice and then complaining about doing it. ** There is a simple solution for this, that is if you do not want to do something, don’t offer to do it.
Any one complaining about the weather. You can write a letter to George Bush about it being to warm, but what good does it do complaining about a rainy day?
I’m sorry if I generalized a bit, but I hope you can understand the type of people I am talking about. Yes, some countries can have unjust taxes worth complaining about, but those are not the type of complaints I am referring to.
I decide on circumstance whether the complaint is justified. Sometimes it can be, but mostly, yes, it’s not.
They’re wrong, we know they’re wrong, but there’s a reason they’re convinced they’re out of the loop. Explain that, and you can help them a lot.
**Any one complaining about the weather.**Come to Britain. It’s no exaggeration to say that complaining about the weather is a pasttime. Nobody seems to have realised that (a) most of the time, it’s not worth talking about, and (b) no one here can deal with serious weather anyway
Gas prices. They’re the lowest in the non-Arab world.
The so-called liberal media. You only do this because you’re programmed to.
Sex, when you could give two shits about violence.
The President- Yeah, we get it: he’s a flaming, mornic douchebag. He’s been a flaming, moronic douchebag for the last 6 years and will be a flaming, mornic douchebag for the next 2. Unless he does something especially flaming, moronic, or douchey**, can we just shut up about it already?
**Including (but not limited to): starting more wars, nuking someone and/or something, killing puppies/kittens/baby badgers, pissing of China, etc. and so forth.
Yes $29 is a lot of money, and when you have 4 or 5 items coming through @ 29 each, I really do feel your pain. Perhaps this I why I tried to offer you overdraft protection when you opened your account. This is also why I would have reversed half of them if you’d have come in asking like a decent person.
What it is not however, is my fault. Despite all your yelling, screaming and horrid mathmatical ability $500 - $1500 is not a positive number, and it never will be. If it would make you happier I’ll gladly close your account and report you for NSF Activity, but then you’d probably just bitch more.
YES. One of my coworkers does this ALL THE TIME. See, she wants me to talk to our boss about whatever the hell. She’ll complain and complain and complain but I suggest she talk to the boss about it, she’ll say “oh, you ought to do it, he never listens to me.” That’s because you never talk to him!
Of course, 90% of the time, I don’t give a flying fuck about whatever it is she’s complaining about.
I’m tired of people complaining about the commercialization of x holiday. Well, it wouldn’t be over-commercialized if people didn’t like to buy shit, but they do and so it is. It’s called “creating a market” and “capitalizing on stupidity” so there’s really nothing you can do except not buy the shit that’s offered. There’s absolutely no reason you can’t celebrate x holiday without participating in the commercial enterprise.
Traffic. The biggest complainers are those that choose to live 50 miles from work, drive gas gussling SUV’s and they howl about the cost of licensing said vehicle. Move closer to work and drive an older economy car, problem fixed.
I’m sick of my students complaining that they didn’t know assignments are due when the assignments are written on the blackboard right in front of them in foot high letters, often for a week or more if it’s an essay. One kid actually said, “This is just a pointer, but when you write the assignment on the left side of the board, no one is going to look at it.” It’s written all huge! It’s been there for a week! I reminded the class about it every day since I wrote it there! Give me a break.
I’m tired of hearing women complain about their weight and not do a damn thing about it. Yeah, I’m eating a cookie, but I took four spinning classes this week.
People who think the government should step in to keep the price of cable TV low. Yeah, that’s the biggest crisis facing our nation. Pull the plug already, read a book.
Oh, but you’re supposed to call them at home, remind them of the assignment and the due date; and while you’re at it, offer to come over and wipe their noses too.
Smoking restrictions. Yep, you’re right up there with the Civil Rights movement by lighting up in a restaurant in Dallas. Not being able to smoke in a restaurant is right up there with segregated lunch counters.
I bow down to your superiority…those classes are HARD!
People who complain about how pricey parts and service are for luxury cars (“What do you mean $107.34 for an oil change? That’s outrageous!”) always get an :rolleyes: from me. You buy an expensive car…it’s going to take money to keep it that way.
I get tired of people complaining to me about how I won’t cut keys for them when they lock their keys in the car and don’t have any proof they own the car, or any I.D. It’s not my fault you locked your keys in the car, and I’m sure you wouldn’t want me cutting a key for anyone who could write down your vin number on a piece of paper.
It’s written all huge! It’s been there for a week! I reminded the class about it every day since I wrote it there! Give me a break.