I don’t know how to download so I’ll have to describe this. I ordered a tee shirt special made that says on the front, “If I wanted to hear somebody’s elses conversation…” and on the back, over a cell phone with a slash thru it, it finishes, “…I’d listen to my husband.” I ordered it in yellow so it’d really stand out and am planning on wearing it to Walmart next weekend. What’s your pet peeve?
People.
I’m so sorry. I think of people like short stories sent to me by God; everybody has a story. And I’ve learned something from every person I’ve everybody I’ve ever met, even if it was that I hope I dont run into them again. (But usually it’s something neat that I remember forever.)
The Republicans have pissed me off, so I stopped being one. Don’t worry, I’ve certainly not become a Democrat, though.
That is a neat thought, and I haven’t heard that anywhere else. Thanks.
Short stories wouldn’t be so bad, but a lot of them turn out to be Dan Brown novels.
This is such a beautiful thought. Thank you for sharing it!
Honestly, at this point in my life, I have decided it is only the constant, low-level hum of annoyance in my life that is keeping me alive.
Homophobia pisses me off, so when I recently found out that my mom’s boyfriend is a huge unrepentant homophobe who is actively campaigning to ban gay marriage, I defriended and blocked him on Facebook and let them both know that he’s no longer welcome in my house or around my children.
In retrospect it probably would have caused less family drama if I’d just bought a shirt.
Not a genre I enjoy.
Yeah, I wouldn’t get out of bed in the morning if I wasn’t at least a little pissed off.
Jerk parents who drive too fast in the school zone, cut off other parents, run the light at the crosswalk and don’t give kids the right of way in the school parking lot.
Also, but with a bit less venom, those parents who block both drop-off lanes and have to get out of their car, get the kid’s backpack out of the trunk, have a nice long chat about the school day and then get back in the car and drive off.
I had a friend who hated those in-store incentive cards so much (here in Australia the you can earn frequent flyers when you shop for instance), that he had a t-shirt made up that said “No, I don’t have Fly Buys!” I thought that was pretty awesome.
When my sister and I were little we were filling out a questionaire that had this question. We gave each other puzzled looks, then wrote down “Snooky.”
Snooky was our dog.
I hate anti-vaxxers. I loathe them, despise them, want them to fuck themselves and die of the contagious and dangerous diseases they advocate for. I am co-writing a book about just how wrong they are. The cool part? The book will be published (probably next year) by a respected publisher.
Let us know!
What pisses me off?
-Michele motherfucking Bachmann. The fact that she is from the state I live in pisses me off even more. How DARE she be so freaking stupid in a time when we can least afford to BE stupid?
-That’s another pet peeve of mine: actually stupid people. I used to think that most people had some manner of intelligence, even if it’s not in the fields that I’M intelligent in, but now I think that there are people who really are just that stupid.
-People who say “evolution isn’t real!!” then proceed to cite reasons that not only show a vast lack of understanding about evolution, but indeed have very little to do with evolution at all. This goes for all of science, actually. Is it too much to ask that you actually learn what science is all about before claiming that you are against it? This especially pisses me off when the people who are doing this are politicians. If I were the emperor of the world, Carl Sagan’s A Demon Haunted World would be required reading for anyone and everyone who wants to be in politics. (Or I’d just do away with politicians. Either/or.)
Oh, and MsWhatsit, I think I’d do the same. Screw the family drama, I have WAY too many GLBT friends to justify hanging around creeps like that.
My brother and my parents. My brother got a DUI a couple of months ago. He refused the breathalyzer and was run through the gamut of games they make you play to prove you aren’t drunk (walk a straight line, count backwards, etc.) and his lawyer was very clear that on the video he is obviously drunk and the lawyer refuses to fight the charge. He worked a plea bargain but he will not say my brother isn’t guilty. My mother, on the other hand, refuses to accept this and has forced my brother to turn down the plea bargain and they are now fighting the courts because without a breathalyzer reading you can’t prove he was drunk. She thinks she is helping him because if he doesn’t have a DUI on his record it will be cheaper for him to maintain his license and it won’t be a hinderance to him getting a new job in the future, etc. I think she is showing him that not only does he not have to take responsibility for his actions but that she will stand up in a court of law and fight for his right to avoid being a responsible adult. My father thinks my brother should take the plea bargain but he is the one who taught him to drink and drive in the first place since he hasn’t had a single day where he wasn’t drinking from the moment he woke up until the moment he went to sleep in 7 or 8 years now.
I’ve told them that my brother’s behavior and choices are reprehensible and that the next time he drives drunk and gets caught (he is still driving drunk, he just hasn’t gotten caught again) it may not be because he is being ticketed but instead because he killed someone and that my parents will be just as responsible for that as he is if they don’t back off and let the courts handle this. I’m also working on what I’m going to say when they find out I’m not going to allow them to babysit my daughter or spend time alone with her after she is born. I’m trying to find a nice way of saying, “You’re all stupid drunks!” but I’m having difficulty with the wording.
Yes. Required reading and a passing grade on the test afterwards.
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