Pet Peeves

FastEddieB said:
"Around six thousand people a year wind up in emergency rooms with lacerations and puncture wounds caused by clamshell/oyster packaging. Some injuries are caused by the jagged edges of half-opened, hard-plastic wrappers. Others occur when the a frustrated consumers use tools such as knives, scissors or wire cutters.Jan 18, 2009"
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You do have to be smarter than the tool... or at least it helps, anyway. :)
 
I hate people! I brought in a couple boxes of donuts for the students the other day and a couple of them bitched about the lack of their "favorite" kind. Well buddy! I got news for you.....next time go buy your own friggin donuts and you can have whatever kind you like!
 
Acrodustertoo said:
I hate people! I brought in a couple boxes of donuts for the students the other day and a couple of them bitched about the lack of their "favorite" kind. Well buddy! I got news for you.....next time go buy your own friggin donuts and you can have whatever kind you like!
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But did the donuts get cut in half?
 
Acrodustertoo said:
I hate people! I brought in a couple boxes of donuts for the students the other day and a couple of them bitched about the lack of their "favorite" kind. Well buddy! I got news for you.....next time go buy your own friggin donuts and you can have whatever kind you like!
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Our church used to provide a wide assortment of donuts (along with coffee) in the atrium before services. Then some people started getting nasty with the volunteer servers when their favorite donuts were gone or not available. Really nasty, calling them names, etc. So, the Sr Pastor talked about it the next Sunday before the sermon, and told the congregation all donuts from now on will be plain glazed donuts, and if anyone has an issue with it they were to speak with him directly. Gotta love petty hypocrites.
 
Bill Jennings said:
Our church used to provide a wide assortment of donuts (along with coffee) in the atrium before services. Then some people started getting nasty with the volunteer servers when their favorite donuts were gone or not available. Really nasty, calling them names, etc. So, the Sr Pastor talked about it the next Sunday before the sermon, and told the congregation all donuts from now on will be plain glazed donuts, and if anyone has an issue with it they were to speak with him directly. Gotta love petty hypocrites.
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I hope that he had some words to say about proper behavior as a Christian, and how being nasty and calling volunteers names over donuts is not it.
 
Bill Jennings said:
Our church used to provide a wide assortment of donuts (along with coffee) in the atrium before services. Then some people started getting nasty with the volunteer servers when their favorite donuts were gone or not available. Really nasty, calling them names, etc. So, the Sr Pastor talked about it the next Sunday before the sermon, and told the congregation all donuts from now on will be plain glazed donuts, and if anyone has an issue with it they were to speak with him directly. Gotta love petty hypocrites.
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It is amazing that in todays society that people will ***** about something that is free! They should be put in the blockade out front for all to see!
 
Ted DuPuis said:
I hope that he had some words to say about proper behavior as a Christian, and how being nasty and calling volunteers names over donuts is not it.
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He certainly did, and also said that any further mistreatment of the volunteers would result in the permanent termination of donuts/coffee before service. Amazing that one has to do this before a church crowd, but ...

Acrodustertoo said:
It is amazing that in todays society that people will ***** about something that is free! They should be put in the blockade out front for all to see!
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Not exactly free, as the donut service comes out of the general budget which is supported by tithes and offerings, but still...
 
This discussion brings up a long standing peeve of mine. I generally do not eat donuts. I rarely eat donuts. But when I do, it is a donut that I really like, such as an apple fritter or fruit filled Danish. I do not feel entitled to free donuts (or free food in general) and I do not feel entitled to a particular type of donut when free donuts are supplied.

But - let's say there are two apple fritters in the couple dozen or so donut assortment. If you want the apple fritter, TAKE THE WHOLE THING, don't cut it in half thinking that you are doing me a favor by saving a piece. I don't want a compromised donut. I either want the donut, or not. Period. End of discussion.

This scenario actually is fairly rare, as the donut suppliers typically go with the Class B and C donuts, and do not splurge on the Class A. And I prefer it that way, as it takes the pressure off me.
 
Acrodustertoo said:
I hate people! I brought in a couple boxes of donuts for the students the other day and a couple of them bitched about the lack of their "favorite" kind. Well buddy! I got news for you.....next time go buy your own friggin donuts and you can have whatever kind you like!
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Next time wrap them in clamshell packaging and hand out boxcutters!
 
Next time this is going to be me!
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Sac Arrow said:
...If you want the apple fritter, TAKE THE WHOLE THING, don't cut it in half thinking that you are doing me a favor by saving a piece. ...
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Yeah - this works most places, except the drug dealer, I mean, donut shop next to my office. Their apple fritters are larger than Domino's medium pizzas. And no, I'm not exaggerating - they feed 4 people! And I can eat more than my share of donuts ... but not Lora's apple fritter ... just can't do it.
 
gkainz said:
Yeah - this works most places, except the drug dealer, I mean, donut shop next to my office. Their apple fritters are larger than Domino's medium pizzas. And no, I'm not exaggerating - they feed 4 people! And I can eat more than my share of donuts ... but not Lora's apple fritter ... just can't do it.
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In my part of the world we would call that a cake, not a donut.
 
If you want to bother my wife, cut a cake or a pie unevenly. It'll ramp up her OCD levels to "want to kill". LOL.
 
Captains who rest their hand on the flap or gear lever before I call for it implying I should call for. I know when to add gear and/or flaps.
 
jordane93 said:
Captains who rest their hand on the flap or gear lever before I call for it implying I should call for. I know when to add gear and/or flaps.
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Heh - welcome to the airlines, man. Just wait until you're a Captain and have an FO do that crap. What I do is sit there and wait forever to make the configuration change - just to let them sweat it out.
 
kayoh190 said:
Heh - welcome to the airlines, man. Just wait until you're a Captain and have an FO do that crap. What I do is sit there and wait forever to make the configuration change - just to let them sweat it out.
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Dude! I would have slapped their hand off if I was you. Then they ask me "do you want flaps 20" and I just say no.
 
Threefingeredjack said:
Complaints about the position of the toilet seat. Hey! I had to lift it up, all you need to do is give it a nudge and gravity will do the rest.
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Simple fix - just put it down, sprinkle some warm water over the top of the lid from the sink each time and don't tell them it's water, will not take long and they will be glad it's up.
 
denverpilot said:
If you want to bother my wife, cut a cake or a pie unevenly. It'll ramp up her OCD levels to "want to kill". LOL.
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unevenly as in 13 equally distributed slices of cake, or 12 evenly distributed slices of cake plus one tiny little sliver? :)
 
jordane93 said:
Captains who rest their hand on the flap or gear lever before I call for it implying I should call for. I know when to add gear and/or flaps.
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"Descent checklist? Ready for it? Now? How about now? Ready? Pant, pant."

"I Will Call For It When I Am Good and Ready"
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
"Descent checklist? Ready for it? Now? How about now? Ready? Pant, pant."

"I Will Call For It When I Am Good and Ready"
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Luckily they are pretty good at letting me call for the checklists. Sometimes if we get busy and forget to run it, he'll ask if I want it.
 
gkainz said:
unevenly as in 13 equally distributed slices of cake, or 12 evenly distributed slices of cake plus one tiny little sliver? :)
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Like these.

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Let'sgoflying! said:
"Descent checklist? Ready for it? Now? How about now? Ready? Pant, pant."

"I Will Call For It When I Am Good and Ready"
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"You want checklists? You want checklists?!"

"I think I'm entitled to them."

"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE CHECKLISTS!!!"
 
I will happily eat half a donut if it is there in the box, especially if it is a plain glazed one. I'm a donut purist.
 
Everskyward said:
I will happily eat half a donut if it is there in the box, especially if it is a plain glazed one. I'm a donut purist.
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Which half? Some people look at a whole donut and see two halves.
 
I hate music! Well let me be clear, I hate the crap that these millenials listen to. I love music, good music where someone or a group of someone's created something beautiful and meaningful. This crap today is just terrible, if it was floating in my toilet it wouldn't be worth the cost of water to flush it. It seems that these youngsters cannot do a damn thing without their ****ty music blaring at obnoxious levels because they have hearing damage from walking around with their ear buds/ear muffs on for three years strait thinking they look cool when in reality they look like a poser chump who needs to be taken out back and have some decency beat into them with a rake! I spend half my day yelling at these clowns yo turn their crap off, they cannot be listening to their vile smut while in school, it is nothing but f word after f word. Then when it is turned off they just stare at me with their Bambi eyes cause they cannot function without their "beats". Going yo be a long life for these sensitive little gangster wannabe cuties.

Rant off.
 
Acrodustertoo said:
I hate music! Well let me be clear, I hate the crap that these millenials listen to. I love music, good music where someone or a group of someone's created something beautiful and meaningful. This crap today is just terrible, if it was floating in my toilet it wouldn't be worth the cost of water to flush it. It seems that these youngsters cannot do a damn thing without their ****ty music blaring at obnoxious levels because they have hearing damage from walking around with their ear buds/ear muffs on for three years strait thinking they look cool when in reality they look like a poser chump who needs to be taken out back and have some decency beat into them with a rake! I spend half my day yelling at these clowns yo turn their crap off, they cannot be listening to their vile smut while in school, it is nothing but f word after f word. Then when it is turned off they just stare at me with their Bambi eyes cause they cannot function without their "beats". Going yo be a long life for these sensitive little gangster wannabe cuties.

Rant off.
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I bet there was someone on the Pilgrims of America forum making this same rant about your generation's music ;)
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
I bet there was someone on the Pilgrims of America forum making this same rant about your generation's music ;)
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During my day, they were trying to ban cannibal corpse(I've seen them in concert three times!) and Body Count. Oh how times have changed. That kind of stuff(in perspective) is the norm now and more vile wretch is played daily on the radio.
 
Acrodustertoo said:
During my day, they were trying to ban cannibal corpse(I've seen them in concert three times!) and Body Count. Oh how times have changed. That kind of stuff(in perspective) is the norm now and more vile wretch is played daily on the radio.
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I like that stuff.
There is a lot of lame music but there is still a lot of good metal.
Look at some of slipknots live stuff. I know the masks and they are popular but they can play

 
SixPapaCharlie said:
I like that stuff.
There is a lot of lame music but there is still a lot of good metal.
Look at some of slipknots live stuff. I know the masks and they are popular but they can play

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They would be better if they were called Overkill!
Actually, I have been big into megadeth the last few years. Their live albums are insane! Dave sure can play, his solo's give me a tingly sensation in my loins. I had most of their albums as a kid but their live stuff is so much better.
 
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