Things That Annoy You

[Yorkshire pud]

On the highway, two cars, one in each lane, going the same speed, 5 miles under, for 20 miles. I had a gun, why didn't I use it?

Lane discipline eh? Doncha love it?

[UnscreenedCaller]

reminded me of this ol game...

This is exactly what I'm talking about. I'd forgo the extra cupholders I never use and a usb port for one of these jobbies. I swear it wouldn't be used indiscriminately, only, for example on people who enjoy coming right up to the bumper of my car before swerving off and as I have a lead foot, it's not because I'm going slow, it's because they're assholes in trucks. Blip blip - bye bye.

[UnscreenedCaller]

(sigh) Not exactly rejection, nothing so straightforward as that. Pass the Glum.

Sorry about the glums, Bob. I hope they pass very soon.

[MV/Liberace!]

Just once I would like to enter a shopping establishment without having to hear The Finer Things by Steve Winwood. Just once.

[chefist]

Just once I would like to enter a shopping establishment without having to hear The Finer Things by Steve Winwood. Just once.

Did you travel back to 1989-1990 where the lower FM stations were considered the "Steve Winwood Adult Contemporary Stations"?

BTW glad you are posting...missed ya! 

[pate]

My dessert "option" is frozen Easter chocolaytes, Chocolate Dry Milk, Sharp Cheddar Cheese & either Captian's Wafers or Saltines.

Grrr.

Perhaps I have some raisons, golden raisons or currents to dull the edge.

Only Thyme will tell...

[BobGrau]

Sorry about the glums, Bob. I hope they pass very soon.

I was going to heroically reply "'tis but a scratch!" but to be honest it's more of an itch.

[Eddie Coyle]

  How the opening credits of The Fall Guy revealed the ending of Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry.

[jazmunda]

American tourists are the worst. The worst. Present company excepted. Come to think of it you'd all be bad too. Can I borrow your gun onan?

[Juan]

American tourists are the worst. The worst.

Living in a tourist destination, I have to agree.

[BellBoy]

Living in a tourist destination, I have to agree.

Living as an American Ex-Pat in a tourist destination, I also must shamefully agree. They embarrass the shit out of me 

[Treading Water]

  How the opening credits of The Fall Guy revealed the ending of Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry.

Ha!

Like the av from Dragnet.      Barnaby West(Wagon Train).... I thought he died, but he's a professor now. Wow.

[chinaclipper]

American tourists are the worst. The worst. Present company excepted. Come to think of it you'd all be bad too. Can I borrow your gun onan?

agree.  but do tell why and how to improve.

[albrecht]

American tourists are the worst. The worst. Present company excepted. Come to think of it you'd all be bad too. Can I borrow your gun onan?

Russian with their new money are pretty bad but I still say our cousins the English are the worst. Sure the Germans will steal your chair by laying towels on it. Sure, the Americans dress ridiculously and think talking louder will make the foreigner (that we still think they are, even in their country) understand but the English will be more sunburnt in odd patterns, often shirtless, as flabby as us Americans, and usually much, much drunker. I love them. Think John Candy in "Summer Rental" but who wants to fight over soccer and drink more. And it is far easier for the Brits to go places so they can go on a boozing "holiday" for less than $100, those poor people in Spain, Prague, etc dealing with them nightly... Americans, for the most part, don't have the vacation time or $ (or inclination) to travel overseas, as much. So vacation in America (still can be funny) or in Mexico/Caribbean (in which cases you are usually, due to the economic disparities and/or cartels in an exclusive gringo zone.)

[Psicloptopus]

People who let their dogs bark, and bark, and bark, for no reason.

What do you mean (you)"people"?

[Eddie Coyle]

Ha!

Like the av from Dragnet.      Barnaby West(Wagon Train).... I thought he died, but he's a professor now. Wow.

   Legit gripe! Fall Guy came on in '81 and 6 year old Coyle watched it all the time...a few years later, Dirty Mary was on a Saturday morning matinee and as I watched the final scenes, it hit me. That's the Charger that crashes into the train. Suspense gone.

    Thanks, for some reason that Dragnet episode popped into my head today. That and the "punk" episode of Quincy are too funny to parody.

     Barnaby West qualifies for that "Ain't they dead, oh, they're not?" thread.

[Evil Twin Of Zen]

This is exactly what I'm talking about. I'd forgo the extra cupholders I never use and a usb port for one of these jobbies. I swear it wouldn't be used indiscriminately, only, for example on people who enjoy coming right up to the bumper of my car before swerving off and as I have a lead foot, it's not because I'm going slow, it's because they're assholes in trucks. Blip blip - bye bye.

i prefer older model cars. on most of them, you can put a small stainless steel ball in the door seam where it meets the roof of the car. that sucker will pick up speed as it rolls toward the trunk/rear fender seam and drop off the back of the car.

did you know that police frown on aircraft landing lights being mounted on a car trunk. not to mention the aeroflash strobes... but we knew that already yes? 

[wr250]

i prefer older model cars. on most of them, you can put a small stainless steel ball in the door seam where it meets the roof of the car. that sucker will pick up speed as it rolls toward the trunk/rear fender seam and drop off the back of the car.

did you know that police frown on aircraft landing lights being mounted on a car trunk. not to mention the aeroflash strobes... but we knew that already yes? 

they frown much more heavily if the landing lights are forward facing.

[FightTheFuture]

American tourists are the worst. The worst. Present company excepted. Come to think of it you'd all be bad too. Can I borrow your gun onan?

ALL tourists are highly annoying. We get 20 million+ of them every year and I hate every one of them.

[PB the Deplorable]

American tourists are the worst. The worst. Present company excepted. Come to think of it you'd all be bad too. Can I borrow your gun onan?

Living in a tourist destination, I have to agree.

Living as an American Ex-Pat in a tourist destination, I also must shamefully agree. They embarrass the shit out of me 

agree...

Where do y'all live that you don't get any German tourists or - obnoxiously new on the scene - tourists from the Chinese People's Republic?

Actually, the American tourists are the worst here where I live too, but when *I* leave the country a certain percentage of the Germans are the worst of my fellow tourists, with some (a smaller percentage) of the French and Brits not that far behind...

[PB the Deplorable]

One day I should tell the story of a friend and I leaving a half dozen drunk shave-headed asshole Brit tourists scattered on the ground in an alley...

[pate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPj6viIBmU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxVf8_aeFS4

[b_dubb]

American tourists are the worst. The worst. Present company excepted. Come to think of it you'd all be bad too. Can I borrow your gun onan?

Went to the Bahamas when I was 18 and the vast gap between the very wealthy and the very poor was really shocking. That put a sour note on the whole trip. Especially when I saw a cop slap the shit out of a bum who picked up a cigarette a tourist had discarded and take a drag. That experience really turned me off to traveling.

If you're going to visit another country be a traveller and not a tourist.  Life is not a checklist of things to do. Well I suppose it could be but that is just sad in my opinion.

Jazmunda ... Which nation's plumbing were you tormenting this time?

[FightTheFuture]

One day I should tell the story of a friend and I leaving a half dozen drunk shave-headed asshole Brit tourists scattered on the ground in an alley...

I could talk all day long about how obnoxious british tourists are. Oh, the stories I have.

[jazmunda]

Jazmunda ... Which nation's plumbing were you tormenting this time?

The French. Their plumbing folded as expected when confronted with the derrière of jaz. 

I was mostly in rural France so I didn't experience the tourist side until I arrived in Paris at the tail end of the trip.

[PB the Deplorable]

... the tail end of the trip.

I see what you did there

[jazmunda]

I see what you did there

He he. I was tossing up using "pardon the pun" but I knew that the smart ones would pick it straight away. 

[aldousburbank]

Some news outlets are still referring to the assdink who shot the VA reporter and cameraman as the "alleged" shooter. Ok, dude videotaped, facebooked, and tweeted himself doing it, in addition to the incident being telecast live. Stupid.

[trostol]

Some news outlets are still referring to the assdink who shot the VA reporter and cameraman as the "alleged" shooter. Ok, dude videotaped, facebooked, and tweeted himself doing it, in addition to the incident being telecast live. Stupid.

yeah i saw that and couldnt put myself sitting through and watching him shoot those people

[PB the Deplorable]

Some news outlets are still referring to the assdink who shot the VA reporter and cameraman as the "alleged" shooter. Ok, dude videotaped, facebooked, and tweeted himself doing it, in addition to the incident being telecast live. Stupid.

They're pretty face news readers, not thinking 'journalists'.

Their attorneys would tell them that when an OJ Jury finds him not guilty, or some POS DA lets him off on a lesser plea for sumpthin else, he could go back and sue for 'defamation'... not that its likely in this case but who knows anymore..