Things That Annoy You

[onan]

I heard this on a news show yesterday... I am annoyed.


Goodwill, pays many of its employees less than minimum wage. This has been the law since FDR signed it. People with disabilities, because of some legal wordings, are not always guaranteed the wage that hardly pays enough to support oneself.


Now, if Goodwill were a manufacturer or other for profit company, I may have less of an issue, probably not. But Goodwill gets most if not all of it's merchandise by way of donations. They also get significant tax breaks and federal funding.


The thing that pisses me off is this: Goodwill... it is right there in its name... good will yet that isn't really the case. Many of the CEO's of Goodwill make huge salaries and I mean sometimes more than 500,000 a year. While paying some of their workers less than 22 cents an hour.

[MV/Liberace!]

yet another example of the scam that is organized charity. 


if one really wants to help the needy, i think it best not to do so through some shady "charitable" enterprise that skims off of the top.  do it directly, i say.


also on my charity shit list are the united way and red cross... both of which should be shut down, as far as i'm concerned.

[WildCard]

Maybe this isn't as bad as charities, but

I have noticed that on NPR's Science Friday, a significant number of guests will answer a question with a coordinating conjunction -- typically, the conjunction "so".  For instance, Ira Flatow might say, "What evidence is there to suggest that dolphins communicate complex thoughts to each other.?  The answer might begin, "So a lot of research indicates...."

-Ripped from another thread - " the movie reference corollary, I need an equation please."

I think NPR started it. but it's spreading! Anybody that starts a sentence with "so" gets slapped.

[MV/Liberace!]

I think NPR started it. but it's spreading! Anybody that starts a sentence with "so" gets slapped.

i've noticed a lot of the worthless hipster tech industry people i hear on podcasts are starting sentences with "so."  it's fucking insufferable.

[jazmunda]

i've noticed a lot of the worthless hipster tech industry people i hear on podcasts are starting sentences with "so."  it's fucking insufferable.

So in summary you don't like people that start their sentences with the word "so". So fucking what.

[stevesh]

Yet another pathetic publicity stunt from washed-up Jim Carrey to try to pump up his latest bomb-to-be. He now 'regrets' the violence in Kick-Ass 2, in the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy. I'm guessing this loser hypocrite cashed the check, though.

[onan]

Yet another pathetic publicity stunt from washed-up Jim Carrey to try to pump up his latest bomb-to-be. He now 'regrets' the violence in Kick-Ass 2, in the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy. I'm guessing this loser hypocrite cashed the check, though.

I am not so much annoyed by Carrey's back peddling (anyone for any reason can have second thoughts, but yeah publicly decrying... annoying) as I am by those that think Kick-Ass 2 has any bearing on actual violence.

[Sardondi]

Yet another pathetic publicity stunt from washed-up Jim Carrey to try to pump up his latest bomb-to-be. He now 'regrets' the violence in Kick-Ass 2, in the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy. I'm guessing this loser hypocrite cashed the check, though.

But I'm wondering why it is Carrey's moral sensitivity only extends to the point that it costs other people money. Now remind me, exactly how much money has Carrey returned to the producers of this film?

I think Carrey might want to check out a different moral compass, because the one uses is definitely several degrees off of true north. 
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Here's an off-the-wall one: an ammunition company in Idaho is promoting their products as particularly for fighting Muslims, since the projectiles are supposedly swathed in pork fat and, according to the company, will prevent Muslims killed with their bullets from entering paradise. And in a final classy touch, the company calls itself "Jihawg Ammo". http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2013/06/24/company-sells-pork-laced-bullets-to-fight-islamic-terrorists/

*sigh* You know, they've got the right to do this, and the right to publicize it. (Well, at least for the time being, but Obama's working on it.) But as my grandmother said, just because you can doesn't mean you should. Indeed, it seems there was this little thing called the Indian Mutiny which caused the Brits a huge amount of trouble in India back in the 1850's.

Now I'm hoping that the state of Muslim scientific literacy has advanced enough over the last 150 years that this publicity stunt will be seen for what it is, and Muslims won't react in such a way that pleases the ammo company owners. They would love nothing more than to have some impotent threats of death thrown their way in time for Christmas sales. After all, what's the point of getting the monopoly as the sole American infidel marketers of ammunition that Islam considers impure? But then I note that the Seattle CBS affiliate responsible for the story at the link actually goes to the trouble of quoting a Gonzaga professor who pontificates that there shouldn't be any problem with paradisical entry just because a Muslim got topped by an AK round slathered in swine rendering.

"So it's good that our viewers at CBS 13 know that pork fat won't really keep our Muslim friends from getting their 72 juicy, sweet pomegranate seeds.*  Boy, that was a close one, right folks? Okay, back to Brice and Courtney and the whole gang at Sunrise, Seattle!"......


If the owners of Jihawg Ammo were smart enough they'd say the company was a family business, owned now by two brothers, Izzy and Shlomo Silverstein, of Crown Heights, Brooklyn (and the Catskills every August). But I'm guessing the good ol' boys running there have to draw the line somewhere, and claiming to be dirty, Christ-killing Jews is probably it.



* Wait, they didn't tell you about that change either, man?

[RealCool Daddio]

Grown men wearing rubber bracelets, usually with some slogan written on them. 


In fact, if you are a male over thirty, you should not wear any jewelry at all, except for a simple wedding band.  If you do, you are a douchebag.  Grown man, wearing a necklace - you have yourself a douche.  Earrings - better believe that guy's a d-bag.  Elaborate wedding band, perhaps with a diamond in it?  Nice to meet you, Mr. Bag.

[jazmunda]

People in front of you in the checkout line of the supermarket whose partners are still shopping for extra stuff. If you're not finished shopping you shouldn't be lining up.

[ItsOver]

Checkers who feel it's part of their job to provide a commentary on your purchases.  You want a commentary from me?  You're about to go the way of the horse and buggy.  Thank goodness for self-checkout lines.

[stevesh]

Grown men wearing rubber bracelets, usually with some slogan written on them. 


In fact, if you are a male over thirty, you should not wear any jewelry at all, except for a simple wedding band.  If you do, you are a douchebag.  Grown man, wearing a necklace - you have yourself a douche.  Earrings - better believe that guy's a d-bag.  Elaborate wedding band, perhaps with a diamond in it?  Nice to meet you, Mr. Bag.

Same goes for ponytails.

[jazmunda]

Thank goodness for self-checkout lines.

Best invention ever.

Whenever I need change of $100 (which is rare), I buy a really cheap item and go through the self checkout line. Get my change without the dirty look, snarky comment or exclamation that they don't change/accept large bills.

[Eddie Coyle]

Grown men wearing rubber bracelets, usually with some slogan written on them. 


In fact, if you are a male over thirty, you should not wear any jewelry at all, except for a simple wedding band.  If you do, you are a douchebag.  Grown man, wearing a necklace - you have yourself a douche.  Earrings - better believe that guy's a d-bag.  Elaborate wedding band, perhaps with a diamond in it?  Nice to meet you, Mr. Bag.

             But dude, it's my "rock n roll" jewelry, with my sexy pentagram amulets, dude! It makes me edgy as fuuuuckk! Like my tribal tats. In Chinese. Or is Injun? I forget, but it was the best 2279.00 I ever spent.

           Yeah, if a guy is wearing that shit, you can safely assume he has been fitted for a dental dam.

[Eddie Coyle]

 
      Vintage T-shirts worn by hipsters, especially the dickheads who want to make it seem "they were there, man".

           If I see some 53 year old burn out walking down the street with a tattered AC/DC "Fly On The Wall '85" shirt. That guy is legit. A legit what? Well, that's subjective. But he was almost undoubtedly buying that shirt at the gig.
       

[ItsOver]

Best invention ever.

Whenever I need change of $100 (which is rare), I buy a really cheap item and go through the self checkout line. Get my change without the dirty look, snarky comment or exclamation that they don't change/accept large bills.

Great thing is you can use cash at the self-checkout without having to deal with a clueless checker who acts like you're giving them counterfeit bills.

[ItsOver]

             But dude, it's my "rock n roll" jewelry, with my sexy pentagram amulets, dude! It makes me edgy as fuuuuckk! Like my tribal tats. In Chinese. Or is Injun? I forget, but it was the best 2279.00 I ever spent.

           Yeah, if a guy is wearing that shit, you can safely assume he has been fitted for a dental dam.

I will just never get this tattoo fad.  Athletes who look like a wall of graffiti and women who look they've had one too many shore leave benders.  Do what you want but remember the rest of us may have look at you.  And no, it doesn't make you "different," it just makes you look stupid.

[onan]

I will just never get this tattoo fad.  Athletes who look like a wall of graffiti and women who look they've had one too many shore leave benders.  Do what you want but remember the rest of us may have look at you.  And no, it doesn't make you "different," it just makes you look stupid.

perfect summation.

[Eddie Coyle]

I will just never get this tattoo fad.  Athletes who look like a wall of graffiti and women who look they've had one too many shore leave benders.  Do what you want but remember the rest of us may have look at you.  And no, it doesn't make you "different," it just makes you look stupid.

The upbringing I had, we were told not to get "tats" because they were identifiers. The nail that stands out gets knocked down. Jailhouse tats being for people who got caught. Projecting their idiocy in ink.

         

[PB the Deplorable]

Wouldn't it be incredibly distracting - not to mention unappealing - during a shag session?  Ugh!

[Sardondi]

...Yeah, if a guy is wearing that shit, you can safely assume he has been fitted for a dental dam.

For every Olympics in the US, a good many federal law enforcement agents, particularly those from the hinterlands, get to do temporary Olympics security duty. It's hard work, but a great time for anyone who wants to party, because apparently the Olympic athletes not only are highly sexed themselves, but carry with them some massively powerful pheromone which makes everyone within a 50 mile radius of the Olympic village want to copulate like bunnies of every nation. So this one party-hearty ATF (as it was known then) agent gets the duty for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Now AIDS Terror and countermeasures was just getting going good in the major population centers, but not so much in the rural areas.

So this guy comes back to our sleepy little town after 3 weeks of pulling security and screwing 2-3 different women a day in LA. And we ask him his biggest impression of Los Angeles with the Olympics in town. He says, "I don't know if it would have been this way without the Olympics or not, but the biggest thing that happened to me was that I learned how to eat pussy through Saran Wrap." And he was very, very glad to get back where we didn't worry about that kind of stuff.

[Eddie Coyle]

For every Olympics in the US, a good many federal law enforcement agents, particularly those from the hinterlands, get to do temporary Olympics security duty. It's hard work, but a great time for anyone who wants to party, because apparently the Olympic athletes not only are highly sexed themselves, but carry with them some massively powerful pheromone which makes everyone within a 50 mile radius of the Olympic village want to copulate like bunnies of every nation. So this one party-hearty ATF (as it was known then) agent gets the duty for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Now AIDS Terror and countermeasures was just getting going good in the major population centers, but not so much in the rural areas.

So this guy comes back to our sleepy little town after 3 weeks of pulling security and screwing 2-3 different women a day in LA. And we ask him his biggest impression of Los Angeles with the Olympics in town. He says, "I don't know if it would have been this way without the Olympics or not, but the biggest thing that happened to me was that I learned how to eat pussy through Saran Wrap." And he was very, very glad to get back where we didn't worry about that kind of stuff.

1984 La La land? Holy smokes, one can only imagine the viri floating about. I mean that was the time and place where Earvin's Johnson wasn't so magical. But if you read Michael Fumento's "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS", it's worth noting that Magic hired as many lawyers as doctors in the weeks following his public disclosure.

             Makes sense that Atlanta got the '96 Olympics after all. CDC HQ being in the vicinity. And hell, by '96 the CDC was no longer busying itself with abducting and murdering black children for experiments!    I learned that from the Minister of Calypso. He'd never lie.

[jazmunda]

People who turn their left turn signal on once they are stationary at a red light and you have been stopped behind them for a minute or so. And then take forever to turn even after the light has turned amber and it is clear that no more cars are coming through the lights and hence you miss the light and have to wait another cycle until you can go. Fuckers.

Yes it happened to me this morning and I fully support road rage.

[b_dubb]

I will just never get this tattoo fad.  Athletes who look like a wall of graffiti and women who look they've had one too many shore leave benders.  Do what you want but remember the rest of us may have look at you.  And no, it doesn't make you "different," it just makes you look stupid.

since the economy in Dayton, OH has basically cratered and the city is in such a piss poor state that they've begun knocking down buildings i'm always surprised to see an old building that's been renovated to any extent.  it seems the business that's funding this renovation is either a restaurant or a tattoo parlor.  mostly tattoo parlors.  how the fuck can poverty stricken working poor pay for a ridiculous tattoo?  it suggests that there income is generated doing something that probably isn't helping the city recover.  or maybe it is.  but i hate tattoos too.  in the end it's just another uniform.  a stupid uniform you can't wash off.  and don't get me started on piercings. 


friends ... we live in an age of unintentional self parody

[EvB]

Is the Catskills in August still a thing?

Dirty Dancing - Time of my Life (Final Dance) - High Quality

[FightTheFuture]

since the economy in Dayton, OH has basically cratered and the city is in such a piss poor state that they've begun knocking down buildings i'm always surprised to see an old building that's been renovated to any extent.  it seems the business that's funding this renovation is either a restaurant or a tattoo parlor.  mostly tattoo parlors.  how the fuck can poverty stricken working poor pay for a ridiculous tattoo?  it suggests that there income is generated doing something that probably isn't helping the city recover.  or maybe it is.  but i hate tattoos too.  in the end it's just another uniform.  a stupid uniform you can't wash off.  and don't get me started on piercings. 


friends ... we live in an age of unintentional self parody

The times are definitely changing. In another life, I ran an adult night club. Back in those days, I wouldn't hire a girl if she had tats. They were considered trashy and unattractive. Guys didn't want to see it.


Today, you can't find a stripper ( not that I'm actively looking ) who isn't inked up tit to toe!

[Tinfoil Hat]

I feel old. When I was a kid, tattoos were for sailors, street-walkers and bikers. If a friend's mom or sister had a tattoo, the only polite response would've been to ask what ship she served on.

[West of the Rockies]

Well, I'll go against the current here and say I don't use the self-checkout stands -- that convenience ultimately puts somebody out of work -- maybe two somebodies:  the checker and the bagger. 

Maybe self-checkout reduces food costs (at least in theory).  I suppose the one-time manufacture and installation of these kiosks create a job for someone else.  Maybe the whole damn thing is a wash.  But what job is next to go?  Book sellers?  Movie ticket clerks (yeah, I know they've been an endangered species for a while).  We've sent loads of good jobs overseas and have largely become a retail/consumer society.  A lot of people have to tether together two or three part-time jobs to make a go of things. 

I'll go with a human interaction every time.

[Sardondi]

The upbringing I had, we were told not to get "tats" because they were identifiers. The nail that stands out gets knocked down. Jailhouse tats being for people who got caught. Projecting their idiocy in ink.

My raising held that tattoos were nothing but neon signs for the skin which 24 hours a day blinked out warnings: "Loser" "Sexual Deviant", "Alcoholic", "Thief" and so on. I don't remember tattoos ever having been discussed as a child, but my revulsion at them now is so strong that I must have been indoctrinated against them at a very young age by my mother or grandmother. Their teaching went deep, for even today I get the same feeling upon seeing even a beautiful tattoo as though I was in Frenchman's Bend and had unexpectedly come across one of the Snopes clan.

Or it could have been from just paying attention to the various customers who came into my grandfather's "general store". In those olden days of the late 50's, 60's and 70's, tattoos, teeth and English grammar could each instantaneously tell you almost everything you needed to know about any person's background, class, politics, religious preferences, and perhaps even sexual practices. I just cannot understand why anyone would want to put a tattoo even where only they could see the ravages gravity can wreak. And arm, hand or neck/throat tats strike me with almost physical force, and make me want to immediately find an anti-biotic hand wipe.

I realize I'm likely insulting (although unintentionally) several, perhaps many, people here. Sorry - I'm just telling you how I was raised...and how many people, probably over 40, still feel. I suspect many tat owners will grow to hate them as well as they age.

[West of the Rockies]

I heard once that tattoo ink is not regulated by the FDA and so can include as many as 17 different heavy metals and toxins (such as lead, arsenic, etc.).  Not a good reason to get a tattoo.  They also sag and fade with age, of course, and apparently have to be re-inked once in a while.  Plus, while a green barbed-wire tattoo around your bicep once perhaps suggested you were "authentic" or edgy, that tattoo can now be found on half the under-impressive male biceps in America. 

As Jimmy Buffett sang, "A permanent reminder of a temporary feeling...."