begins the countdown to trainwreck
People that open the fridge, stare blankly at it for a full 30 seconds, close it, complain loudly “there’s nothing to eat!”, then go through the entire process all over again. Yeah, I’m sure Numero Uno has delivered a nice fresh pizza right into the fridge in the 20 seconds since you last closed it. Moron.
Couldn’t resist:
Amen Brother, I am guessing your a fellow locksmith.
I am tired of people demanding that their piss poor planning is more important than any other persons problem.
People bitching about the price I charge to go out and unlock a car. Come on people would you drive across the county for a total stranger to unlock their car for free?
I’m tired of fearmongering. Mostly used as an excuse to tune in to the evening news:
Really, most of this stuff is life, deal with it and move on. Quivering fetally in the corner, sucking your thumb over another buck-a-gallon of gas is seriously counter productive.
Perhaps I missed the orientation seminar, but I don’t recall hearing how everyone was guaranteed cheap gas, a well paying job, infinite credit, 2.5 kids and a white picket-fence. This country provides more people with the opportunity for success, but you’ve gotta do something about it yourself.
Shut up I do that on a daily basis :(. Usually it isn’t because I’m hungry, I’m just bored. And when I’m bored I kind of potter around the house. So I’ll potter into the kitchen and look for food out of habit. Then I’ll potter away. 20 minutes later I’m back in the kitchen, opening the cabinets looking for food…
I have one friend who likes to complain that there are “no decent guys out there” but the ones she does get she treats like shit, and brags about it at work. Maybe that’s why you aren’t getting any decent dates, honey.
Another friend, I love her to death, but she complains about her boyfriend/fiancee constantly. Every day I hear, “we got in a fight last night” or “he threatened to move out” or “we don’t have any money because he spent 50 dollars on CDs yesterday”. She actually caught him cheating, and I was thinking that maybe she was going to get her head straightened out. I flat out told her NOT to jump back into a relationship with him and guess what, two days later they were back together. So yeah, people complaining about problems in their own life when they’re the one creating them is one of my pet peeves.
Hetero men complaining about women in general; hetero women complaining about men in general (the whole “can’t live with 'em, can’t live without 'em” thing).
Everything, unless it’s life, death or abuse.
I am a poker dealer. I make my living from gamblers.
Guess what? The same door that let you in, will let you back out. Every hand there are at least 6 losers and at most 9. You lost? Color me shocked.
I don’t give a crap about how much YOU have lost, and contrary to your opinion, I did not make you lose it. I did not drag your ass out of bed, dress you and bathe you, drive you here, pull out your wallet and force you to call bets. So do you know how much sympathy I have for your crappy attitude? How much sympathy I have for how much you have lost? Here’s a clue, GET UP!
If you can’t afford to lose, don’t play. Scared money is dead money. This is a hobby, not a freakin’ job. The only folks who are guaranteed to make money is the house and the employees. Otherwise…
quitcherbitchin’. Really.
FYI: People who complain to the boss are almost without exception, losing their ass. We know this, you should too.
People sho whine and bitch about passwords.
“Oh, they’re so HARRRD to remember!” “There’s so MANY of them!”
I live and breathe passwords. It’s what I do. Passwords are difficult on purpose. That specia! ch@racter is there to make it harder for a script kiddie to throw every word in the dictionary at a system and find one that works. Likewise the miXeD CasE requirements.
In this company, we’ve made great efforts at reducing the number of passwords a typical user needs. Active Directory has allowed us to move a raft of things like viewing your payroll statements, PTO schedule and timecards to use your LAN password, rather than a separate one for each. The operational stuff is harder as it’s a mix of everything from dinosaur mainframes to new stuff, but we’re getting there.
Oh, whenever people complain about having so many passwords, I ask how many they have. They’ll answer with something like five. I tell them that I stopped counting when I got over 30 passwords for my day-to-day work.
Bitching about the cost of postage in the U.S. Come on!!! Are you kidding me?
For a measley .39 cents you can mail up to five sheets of 8.5 x 11 sized paper anywhere in the U.S. and odds are it will be there within two days. We have the cheapest and best postal system in the world.
Quit whining about it.
And no, I am not a postal employee.
It allows one to start a polite conversation with someone you know nothing about. Isn’t that enough?
Perhaps you’re not in a position to be objective about it. :o
Are you one of those propeller heads? 
Knives in the eyes. Sheesh … grow a pair.
ATM fees. I agree: $2.85 is a ridiculous amount to charge. That’s why unless I really need cash, I won’t pay it. However, if I really need cash, I should have brought some with me from my bank where it’s free to make a window or ATM withdrawal.
The plethora of Reality TV shows: thereagain I agree. There’s too damned many of them. That’s why most of them, I don’t watch. You can always go see which one of Nostradamus’s prophecies about the Olsen Twins is being dealt with that week on HISTORY CHANNEL or if this is one of the great Sweet Daddy Williams’ episodes of Good Times on Nick@Night, or if nothing’s on worth watching just go read or masturbate or play with your dog. (Yes, I know, I’ve pitted History Channel before, I never said I was consistent.)
Porn on the Internet- Thereagain, it may not be easy to avoid if you type in “Percy Bysshe Shelley” and somehow the first thing to come up is “Wet Horny Teeny Sluts”, but you can learn to tell in 1.10 seconds that “Wet Horny Teen Sluts” probably won’t have the full text of Queen Mab.
The Gay Agenda- for reasons I don’t even have to go into because you can just do a Search above for the keywords gay agenda Martin Hyde and it’ll pull up 8,992 threads. If gays could ever unite on any damned thing it long enough to get an agenda going we’d be too much in fear of our ocelot-lizard hybrid overlords to have to worry about it.
Homophobia- I think it’s perfectly apt to complain about homophobia when a reasonable person would say it exists in such’n’such a comment or action. Saying the word in a whiney complaint everytime a standup comic makes a gay joke or Gene Shalit disses Brokeback Mountain or an idiot co-worker asks “are you the man or the woman” diminishes the word, however (and the best answer from a gay man to that question is “I’m the lesbian”- it confuses the hell out of them and it’s fun watching their head start leaking).
ANY SUBJECT, regardless of how valid a topic is to complain about (pollution, the environment, Bush, religion, racism, etc.) when the person doesn’t have a clue what in the hell they are talking about. I have more respect for Ann Coulter than I do for a liberal anti-war activist who screams “No war for oil!” and couldn’t find Iraq on a blank map, has no clue what Ba’ath is or concept that we import more oil from Canada than from all the Middle East combined.
People who overindulge their kids from the time they’re born, and then complain endlessly later on that the kids are “so spoiled.” :rolleyes:
And how did the darlings get that way, hm?
Along with this, I have one similar to add as a teacher.
Parents who complain about their child having poor grades, but refuse to take away TV or Video Game rights because the child will “complain”.
The weather.
“Ooohh, it’s so cold out there!” Well, yes. This IS winter in Canada. And there’s nothing you can do to change it. So shaddap already.
But never, ever attempt all three at once.
(You might damage your book.)
Bush. WMDs. and so on.
The unbelievable amount of hatred toward one’s fellow Americans because of a difference of opinion that was so over the top during the election just astounded me. And the back and forth arguments just NEVER stop.
Newzines and talk radio is SO one-sided these days, topics other than Bush bashers lovefests are rare. And I am one who thinks the man is a maroon. But JEEEEEEEEEEEEZ, enough already.
This one’s for you, Norwegian media: It is not a “disaster” if a Norwegian athlete who had a good chance to do well in the Olympics doesn’t win a gold medal. Or doesn’t win a medal at all. It’s a disappointment to that athlete and his or her support team, and a lesser disappointment to Norskie sports fans. But it ain’t the end of the world, tomorrow’s another day, etc etc.
And to Norwegian sports fans: This is a tiny country. Really tiny. We’re competing against countries with many times our population. And yet we have more total medals than any other country on the board right now, plus a respectable number of high placings that narrowly missed the shiny-CD-thing around the neck. Our guys and gals are doin’ good, and it’s a testimony to what can be achieved with drive, perseverence, and truly obscene amounts of money. If only one of the medals happens to be gold so far, so bleeding WHAT. Kwitcherbitchin’ and enjoy the Games.