An uptight middle aged couple getting all haughty about a friend’s sarcastic remark made about having to keep his limbs inside one of those limo carts theme parks use to transport people from their parking lots to the park itself. We were at a Springs, and the cart was moving at about 15 mph. If that.
Kyle: Chyeah, I’m sure they lose dozens of people on these things every year. Watch out!
Woman: They shouldn’t be making fun like that, they’re bound to offend someone.
Man: No respect at all.
Daughter: I thought it was funny, mom.
Woman: Yeah? Well a lot of people wouldn’t :mad: .
Yes. I’m sure the park employees take sarcastic comments about safety regulations dead personal. Seriously, if a throwaway comment like this that’s not even directed at you offends you, well, I just don’t know where you find your opportunities to laugh. Lame.
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Reminds me of back when the rage was all for the bumperstickers/license plate holders saying “My other car is a [whatever]” - the best one I saw was on a red truck saying “My other truck is a Tonka.” That I liked!
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“My other car is a piece of shit too.”
At my first college (hi, Tabula Rasa!), there was a guy whose appearance was right out of 1950. Way overdeveloped torso straining at a button-down shirt. Horn-rimmed glasses. And hair that was just short of a pompadour, clotted with some kind of greasy kid stuff.
Now, I didn’t see this happen, but I have no reason to disbelieve it. The campus had a weight room. This guy would work out a lot, naturally, and one day another guy I knew was also in there. When he went into the bathroom (or locker room, but I’m not sure there was one), Mr. 1950 (who was also an Ayn Rand devotee; wonder if that had anything to do with it?) was standing at the mirror, combing his hair. The other guy washed his face and pits, went into a stall and changed clothes, stayed in the stall for a bit, the whole thing taking, he said, ten minutes (he timed it). Comes out and 1950 is still combing his hair.
Oh, and no, he was not handsome. Though he claimed to be.
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What’s beyond lame are stick figure family window stickers. I wonder what they’re trying to tell other drivers; “I’m more fertile than you!”? I’ve never seen such displays with less than three children.
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As I am sure many of you have noticed, when you drive a certain make of car you tend to notice that make of car - especially if you like your car. I drive a Jeep Wrangler and love it, so I notice other Wranglers.
One afternoon I am driving up the expressway and notice a Wrangler in my rear-view mirror. However, something is just not right about it. I can’t figure out what it is, because I really can’t get a good look - I’m more concerned about driving mine than looking at the other one!
The other Wrangler gains on me and finally passes as I’m slowing to make the exit.
Some stupid sonabitch had lowered a Jeep Wrangler. So low it probably couldn’t make it over speed bumps.
That poor Wrangler looked so embarassed.
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I’ve seen one of those. Wide short profile street tires too.
[QUOTE=Charger]
After some digging around, I found it! My memory may have exaggerated it’s condition, but not the style of the suit, which certainly doesn’t look like a $5,000 suit. And the “Look out, ladies, here I come” expression gets me every time.
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It’s impossible to tell whether that’s a $5000 suit or a $50 suit because the picture’s too dark to tell. But I know it can’t be a $5000 suit because:
That tie looks like a wool peice of shit, and the shirt doesn’t fit. Why would you buy a $5000 suit and wear it with a $9 tie and a $19 shirt? At least spring for a silk tie, for Christ’s sake. If you actually offered to buy a $5000 suit and said you wanted them to throw in a decent tie, they would, and
I don’t think that dork would even know where to buy a $5000 suit. You don’t pick up $5000 suits off the rack at J.C. Penney.
That guy doesn’t look like he’s going to pick up chicks. He looks like he’s about to hand me a copy of “The Watchtower.”
[QUOTE=elmwood]
When I lived in Florida, many people of a working-class exurban and rural Confederate cultural orientation, whose skin in the area between their heads and shoulders reflect light in the in the wavelength range of about 625 to 750 nanometers, would have large stickers bearing what they thought were witty short phrases mounted across the top of the front window of their trucks.
Seen on a jacked-up Ford F-350 crew cab pickup with duallies:
I AIN’T COMPENSATIN’!
Another favorite was on the back of a Nissan Sentra seen in a barrio-like neighborhood in Denver. Stretched across the back window, in a large Old English typeface, was the word “CAR”.
Can’t forget the powder blue Dodge Aries sedan with spinning rims I saw in Las Cruces, New Mexico a few years ago.
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I’ve never done this but I’ve always been tempted to get a nondescript late-model vehicle, white, and on the doors paint a big black UPC barcode and “CAR.”
Better still would be: A Volvo station wagon. With spinning rims and purple neon undercarriage lights.
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Lameness is in the eye of the beholder, you know.
To Military Rifle shooters, the guys with the brand, spanking new .300 Winchester Magnum rifle with the Hubble Space Telescope’s younger cousin mounted atop its chromed receiver firing at targets only 50 yards away are extemely lame*- even more so if they’re wearing Camouflage gear or “Tactical” clothing of any kind.
Having said that, the guys with the .300 Winchester BlingMaster rifle and AllSeer scope regard the guys firing century old rifles- without scopes, the horror!- at targets 100+ yards away as being uber-lame for the opposite reasons, with extra lameness for wearing helmets, equipment belts, or making references to the film Zulu whilst at the range.
*For military rifle shooting purists, anything less than 100 yards is considered “Bayonet range”- ie, you may as well fix bayonets and charge the target rather than wasting ammo shooting at it, since it’s not exactly hard to hit a target at 50 yards even with a Boer War or WWI vintage rifle.
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I bet all of the above, including the “military rifle shooting purists,” look pretty lame to actual soldiers.
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I saw a great lameness yesterday - a guy working behind the counter at burger king while wearing one of those bluetooth ear pieces.
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Shit, anyone wearing one of those earpieces while not actually using it is lame. I even think people who talk on the phone while doing somehting else at the same time is a little bit lame. If I have to choose between them, then I am too busy to talk on the phone. I suppose with some jobs there may not be a choice, except there is a choice: another line of work.
[QUOTE=Lizard]
Shit, anyone wearing one of those earpieces while not actually using it is lame. I even think people who talk on the phone while doing somehting else at the same time is a little bit lame. If I have to choose between them, then I am too busy to talk on the phone. I suppose with some jobs there may not be a choice, except there is a choice: another line of work.
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I’m not sure what you mean. I do things while talking on the phone all the time. Heck, that’s probably the only time I ever clean my bedroom. At the very least, I walk around. I get fidgety if I just sit still while on the phone.
[QUOTE=Speaker for the Dead]
I’m not sure what you mean. I do things while talking on the phone all the time. Heck, that’s probably the only time I ever clean my bedroom. At the very least, I walk around. I get fidgety if I just sit still while on the phone.
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I meant things that require attention be paid to them that talking on the phone detracts from, such as driving. Cooking, cleaning, etc., have always been done while people talked on the phone. But some people will be on their cell phone any time, anywhere. It gets irritating to be getting groceries and hear some jackass talking on the phone with someone at his house about what they’ll be doing as soon as he gets home. I mean geez, why not just talk after he/she walks through the door? Cell phone technology is extremely sophisticated, and collectively we pay billions for the privilege of using it, for what? So we can gab about pointless crap. Lame. :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=cher3]
San Diego State was allowed to keep its team the Aztecs, mainly because they couldn’t find living tribes closely related to them. They did have to change the mascot from a cartoony Monty Montezuma to a more dignified Aztec Warrior guy.
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[QUOTE=Lizard]
It gets irritating to be getting groceries and hear some jackass talking on the phone with someone at his house about what they’ll be doing as soon as he gets home. I mean geez, why not just talk after he/she walks through the door? Cell phone technology is extremely sophisticated, and collectively we pay billions for the privilege of using it, for what? So we can gab about pointless crap. Lame. :rolleyes:
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I don’t see how that is irritating. Why do you care if they’re talking to someone on the phone or someone next to them? And don’t say it is because you can only hear one side of the conversation, because the conversation is none of your beeswax one way or the other. I suppose you never “gab about pointless crap” in person? You must be a lot of fun in social settings. Why does it matter whether you do it via technology or face to face? (And in my case? Whoever I’m talking to on my phone is NOT someone I could easily be talking to face to face, since virtually everyone I know lives in other states.) I can see the point about people talking on their phone while doing something like open heart surgery or driving, but grocery shopping? Hell it’s boring! Why shouldn’t I use that time to chat? I completely fail to see why you should care at all.
[QUOTE=OpalCat]
I don’t see how that is irritating. Why do you care if they’re talking to someone on the phone or someone next to them? And don’t say it is because you can only hear one side of the conversation, because the conversation is none of your beeswax one way or the other. I suppose you never “gab about pointless crap” in person? You must be a lot of fun in social settings. Why does it matter whether you do it via technology or face to face? (And in my case? Whoever I’m talking to on my phone is NOT someone I could easily be talking to face to face, since virtually everyone I know lives in other states.) I can see the point about people talking on their phone while doing something like open heart surgery or driving, but grocery shopping? Hell it’s boring! Why shouldn’t I use that time to chat? I completely fail to see why you should care at all.
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Well, first of all, the example I gave eliminates the talking you do, as you’re talking to people you can’t talk to in person. Secondly,
really is part of the problem, because whatever half of the conversation I can hear, I don’t give a fuck either way. Yet people on cell phones tend to talk LOUDLY, which makes them impossible to ignore. I have to lsten to their inane chatter whether I want to or not.
And no, I really don’t talk about “pointless crap” in person or on the phone. To me, a phone is to either A) talk to people I can’t see in person (same as you), or B) to take care of important things, such as my boss calling and asking me to come in early. I am paying to use my cellphone; I’ll not pay to hear/engage in idle banter that can otherwise be engaged in free.
Lastly, I like to concentrate on the task at hand. I don’t go to the grocery store to talk on the phone, I go to the grocery store to buy groceries and get the hell out. If grocery shopping is boring, why prolong it on the phone?
[QUOTE=Lizard]
If grocery shopping is boring, why prolong it on the phone?
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I’ve heard some of the weirdest and intimate conversations in stores and it always makes me wonder why people will talk about their personal shit in front of strangers, as if we can help but hear it. It is my opinion that these people cannot be on their own for any amount of time without having someone to “virtually” hold hands with. As an independent type, I don’t get it. I assume they are either lonely or extremely attention-seeking. It is incrediby lame either way.
