Pet-Peeve Thread 4: More peeve than you can handle.

[J. Agamemnon]

Keep it up and I'll take a year off out of spite!

Hear that Ice? He has the secret to Immortality.

 

[thee great one]

Gotta disagree here. A lot of the fun of UC from the time I joined for a couple years onward were how VVD's antics - on-site and off - made it feel more like an actual gang of friends than just another message board.

(To me)

:sure:

If you say so.

 

[Joe Kalicki]

What makes it seem like an actual gang of friends is having you guys spend the weekend in my apartment.

 

[thee great one]

What makes it seem like an actual gang of friends is having you guys spend the weekend in my apartment.

And going to White Castle.

 

[Joe Kalicki]

And going to White Castle.

You and your White Castle!

Every day, "let's go to White Castle!"

You can't even get on a train on time.

 

[thee great one]

You and your White Castle!

Every day, "let's go to White Castle!"

You can't even get on a train on time.

I got on the train on time. The time just happened to be 3 hours away!

 

[Joe Kalicki]

I got on the train on time. The time just happened to be 3 hours away!

Maybe you should have set your watch ahead.

 

[thee great one]

Maybe you should have set your watch ahead.

I still have time, my clock is fast.

 

[J. Agamemnon]

I still have time, my clock is fast.

:lol::lol::lol::lol:

 

[Planet-man]

You know what?

I will ****ing strangle....

- The next person who uses "down on my knees/beggin' please" as a song lyric
- The next commercial that describes something that sounds like "auto-lease extended financing" as an event that is in some large way mythical, something out of a dream, more important than Christmas, something the commercial protagonist will go to cartoonish lengths to prove he JUST! CAN'T! BELIEVE IT!
- The next person who calls into a radio call-in show, says hi and then asks the host "How are you doing?" as if the clock wasn't ticking and they weren't the sixth person to ask on the air
- The next and likely any future person who tries to prove that "life isn't a television show" with the foolproof argument of "all your problems don't get solved in thirty minutes". DO YOU NOT EVEN OWN A TELEVISION? DO YOU ONLY WATCH SITCOMS FROM THE 70s? Oh, and guess what? Throw in "...or twenty-two, without commercials" as some sort of dig and you get beaten within an inch of your life before you're strangled.
- "The only reason I didn't like that new movie was because it was too long".
- TV channels that make a montage of clips from shows and then air it five times an hour. The same one.
- A few things that people who aren't from Canada, or even Canadians who aren't from Toronto probably wouldn't get
- "Coffee-Culture"
- *I debunk somebody's bull**** generalization*... "Well, that's the exception that proves the rule!"
- 16-person-hockey-matches getting twice as much time per week on our local outdoor rink as free-roaming pleasure skating, which dozens of people of all ages can participate in

 

[Gemini]

Planet-Man you so crazy

 

[moonmaster]

You know what?

I will ****ing strangle....

- The next person who uses "down on my knees/beggin' please" as a song lyric

I guess so.

- The next commercial that describes something that sounds like "auto-lease extended financing" as an event that is in some large way mythical, something out of a dream, more important than Christmas, something the commercial protagonist will go to cartoonish lengths to prove he JUST! CAN'T! BELIEVE IT!

Meh. I've grown used to it.

- The next person who calls into a radio call-in show, says hi and then asks the host "How are you doing?" as if the clock wasn't ticking and they weren't the sixth person to ask on the air

I have no idea what you're talking about.

- The next and likely any future person who tries to prove that "life isn't a television show" with the foolproof argument of "all your problems don't get solved in thirty minutes". DO YOU NOT EVEN OWN A TELEVISION? DO YOU ONLY WATCH SITCOMS FROM THE 70s? Oh, and guess what? Throw in "...or twenty-two, without commercials" as some sort of dig and you get beaten within an inch of your life before you're strangled.

Yeah, this too. I don't know.

- "The only reason I didn't like that new movie was because it was too long".

YES. There's a brilliant quote from Roger Ebert that I can't remember at the moment about how no movie can be too long if it can justify it.

- TV channels that make a montage of clips from shows and then air it five times an hour. The same one.

YES.

- A few things that people who aren't from Canada, or even Canadians who aren't from Toronto probably wouldn't get

Okay.

- "Coffee-Culture"

YESYESYES.

I believe I've expressed my thoughts on this here before: people love to proudly talk about their absolute dependence on and obsession with coffee because it's a socially accepted form of addiction, and people want to be able to say that they're addicted and flawed without being socially ostracized.

- *I debunk somebody's bull**** generalization*... "Well, that's the exception that proves the rule!"

Okay.

- 16-person-hockey-matches getting twice as much time per week on our local outdoor rink as free-roaming pleasure skating, which dozens of people of all ages can participate in

Isn't this one of those Canadian things you were talking about?

Also: OMG LAME.

 

[TwilightEL]

Fun fact! The phrase "exception that proves the rule" was coined way back when the word "proves" meant something completely different. It would be more true to the original intent of the phrase to say "exception that probes the rule."

Know your etymology!

 

[Ultimate Houde]

You know what?

I will ****ing strangle....

RANDOM VIOLENCE!

- The next person who uses "down on my knees/beggin' please" as a song lyric

I got down on my knees, beggin please and ask Sexynurse this morning.

To make me pancakes.

She's doing it right now.

- The next commercial that describes something that sounds like "auto-lease extended financing" as an event that is in some large way mythical, something out of a dream, more important than Christmas, something the commercial protagonist will go to cartoonish lengths to prove he JUST! CAN'T! BELIEVE IT!

This seems like an odd thing to get bent out of shape on, but hey, I'm all for it.

- The next person who calls into a radio call-in show, says hi and then asks the host "How are you doing?" as if the clock wasn't ticking and they weren't the sixth person to ask on the air

OMG! BEING POLITE! Those commie pinko bastards!

- The next and likely any future person who tries to prove that "life isn't a television show" with the foolproof argument of "all your problems don't get solved in thirty minutes". DO YOU NOT EVEN OWN A TELEVISION? DO YOU ONLY WATCH SITCOMS FROM THE 70s? Oh, and guess what? Throw in "...or twenty-two, without commercials" as some sort of dig and you get beaten within an inch of your life before you're strangled.

This makes no sense.

7th Heaven was an hour long, that's how long it takes to solve issues.

- "The only reason I didn't like that new movie was because it was too long".

That's a valid argument! If a movie is long enough and it makes you lose interest at any point in that time frame, then yes, THE MOVIE WAS TOO LONG FOR THAT PERSON!

- TV channels that make a montage of clips from shows and then air it five times an hour. The same one.

How dare they advertise.

And how dare they do that when you are watching. Some people flick. Or have TiVO. I personally flick through all the channels instead. Drives Sexynurse crazy.

- A few things that people who aren't from Canada, or even Canadians who aren't from Toronto probably wouldn't get

How dare people not understand my culture?

- "Coffee-Culture"

And here you are, being racist against another culture. But, as a purebreed Hot Chocolate Culture person, I agree with you. THIS. IS. MARSHMALLOWS!

- *I debunk somebody's bull**** generalization*... "Well, that's the exception that proves the rule!"

I'm confused on this one.

I'm skipping it.

- 16-person-hockey-matches getting twice as much time per week on our local outdoor rink as free-roaming pleasure skating, which dozens of people of all ages can participate in

That makes sense. The hockey matches make them more money than the free skate. They need money to be open all those other times.

 

[Planet-man]

YES. There's a brilliant quote from Roger Ebert that I can't remember at the moment about how no movie can be too long if it can justify it.

YESYESYES.

I believe I've expressed my thoughts on this here before: people love to proudly talk about their absolute dependence on and obsession with coffee because it's a socially accepted form of addiction, and people want to be able to say that they're addicted and flawed without being socially ostracized.

Exactly.

Isn't this one of those Canadian things you were talking about?

Don't most neighbourhoods in most parts of the free world have various public ice-rinks?

Fun fact! The phrase "exception that proves the rule" was coined way back when the word "proves" meant something completely different. It would be more true to the original intent of the phrase to say "exception that probes the rule."

Know your etymology!

:shock:

This is a revelation.

I got down on my knees, beggin please and ask Sexynurse this morning.

To make me pancakes.

She's doing it right now.

As long as you don't throw that into a lazily-written hit song.

OMG! BEING POLITE! Those commie pinko bastards!

Well, as I've said before, I think the whole "how're you doing" thing as a formality is not polite or sensical when it's used between people who aren't going to have a conversation about it, because everybody just says "fine" even if they're borderline-suicidal.

But that isn't even the issue. Most of these radio hosts actually SAY ON THE AIR AHEAD OF TIME that league of callers starting with the formality "how're you doing" wastes tons of air time that could be used to answer more calls.

That's a valid argument! If a movie is long enough and it makes you lose interest at any point in that time frame, then yes, THE MOVIE WAS TOO LONG FOR THAT PERSON!

NO.

It wasn't INTERESTING ENOUGH.

That has NOTHING TO DO WITH LENGTH.

How dare they advertise.

In an insanely annoying way that makes you sick of the shows they're advertising and more likely to mute the TV throughout all the rest of the paid commercials?

Yeah.

How dare people not understand my culture?

No, I expected that so a I didn't bother posting them because I'm aware people wouldn't understand them.

And here you are, being racist against another culture. But, as a purebreed Hot Chocolate Culture person, I agree with you. THIS. IS. MARSHMALLOWS!

Look to the cookie, Houde. Look to the cookie.

That makes sense. The hockey matches make them more money than the free skate. They need money to be open all those other times.

The hockey matches don't make them any money at all. It's a municipally run public rink fueled by tax dollars that would make the exact same amount if it was public skating all the time.

 

[moonmaster]

Don't most neighbourhoods in most parts of the free world have various public ice-rinks?

If you asked me where the ice-rink in my area was, I would have no idea. I think there's an indoor one somewhere around here, but I may be thinking of the roller-rink that I went to in the 7th grade. I can't say I know anyone who ever plays hockey or ice-skates.

 

[Hellsbuttmonkey]

How dare people not understand my culture?

I didn't think lumberjacks who ride moose aboot their loghuts qualified as a culture, but there we go.......

 

[Gemini]

The hockey matches don't make them any money at all. It's a municipally run public rink fueled by tax dollars that would make the exact same amount if it was public skating all the time.

This isn't necessarily true, icetime is paid for and reserved by league/team sponsors. Free skate is usually only available when there is a repetitive hole in the booking schedule.

Well atleast in the community centre I used to work at, tax dollars (actually it was mostly money taken from the province's cut of casino profits) only paid for a portion of the bank book. Several parts of the centre had to bring in money: the bingo hall, the racquet centre, hockey rink, lounge, etc. to keep the centre afloat.

If you want free-skating whenever you want, I imagine you can find a local park that has converted it's field into an outdoor rink, lots of parks around where I live do this.

 

[J. Agamemnon]

What funny about the cookie statement is that the cookie we're supposed to look to made Seinfeld sick.

 

[Planet-man]

This isn't necessarily true, icetime is paid for and reserved by league/team sponsors. Free skate is usually only available when there is a repetitive hole in the booking schedule.

Well atleast in the community centre I used to work at, tax dollars (actually it was mostly money taken from the province's cut of casino profits) only paid for a portion of the bank book. Several parts of the centre had to bring in money: the bingo hall, the racquet centre, hockey rink, lounge, etc. to keep the centre afloat.

If you want free-skating whenever you want, I imagine you can find a local park that has converted it's field into an outdoor rink, lots of parks around where I live do this.

:lol::cry:

Exactly.

That's what the rink is.