- Any politician who claims to be "just a regular guy." I think Jon Stewart said it best.
"Don’t be the common man, be better than us! You want to be President? Be better than us. Lead us! We don’t know shit, we’ve been swept away by the Macarena, what the fuck do we know? Be better than us!"
I don't understand why people want their leaders to be like them. I guess they think that the politician will understand their needs better. But when it comes to the President of the United States, I want the exceptional man, not the common man.
- When the checkout lady at the grocery store is careless with my produce. Fruits are not as strong as vegetables. I don't care if you're throwing around the lettuce and the carrots, they will survive, but go easy on the apples!
- Unlimited self-checkout lanes. The Express self-checkout I like, but the unlimited is taking a good thing too far. If you have a full cart, the human beats the machine every time. The self-checkout takes more time, and requires more effort. The only reason for its existence is so that the grocery stores can increase profits by eliminating jobs. Boycott the unlimited self-checkout!
- Anyone who says "drama-king" The term is "drama-queen," even in reference to a male.
- Radio censors. I can't even listen music on the radio anymore. If you have to bleep out every other word, don't play the fucking song! I don't understand censorship. Do they think that the kids don't know what word was bleeped out? Do they think that kids can't handle hearing a swear-word on the radio? And censoring of non-cuss words is getting even worse. But the absolute worst is the "change the word and hope no one will notice." A perfect example is Three Days Grace - Never to late.
The line should go: "Still I hear you say, you want to end your life."
The censors modified it to: "Still I hear you say, you want to CHANGE your life."
The censors modified it to: "Still I hear you say, you want to CHANGE your life."
- Blue Turtle Shells. Anyone who plays Mario Kart knows what I'm talking about....
- The Detroit Lions Defense. Oh my holy god, what the fuck was that!? Turner is good, but he's not that good. TACKLE THE MOTHERFUCKER! A rookie QB? A rookie head coach? The Lions should be dominating! This was an embarrassingly bad defensive effort.
- Erasable pens. Pencil is erasable, pen is not. You can't have it both ways!
- Advertisements sent to me via text message. Get that shit off my phone! I don't want your plan, but even if I did, the fact that you sent it to me via text message automatically means I will not want it anymore. (Seinfeld voice) Who were the ad wizards who came up with that one?
I don't have anything else to rant about at the moment, but I have to add another entry to piss off Mike. So I'll just go with the old-reliable: MTV.
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Also: Auto-formatting. I had to post this several different times because the formatting eliminated all of returns between points. The extra space helps the post read better, and is easier to digest than than an uninterrupted block of text. Quit fucking around with my formatting!
And it still fucked it up! There is ONE RETURN between the centered text in the radio censors rant. It gave me 2 before, and none after.
You know what? Fuck it, I'm done. The messed up spacing stays. You guys will just have to live with the formatting.
Grace and I use the self-scan all the time! And we have a full cart!
Except it goes fast. Grace is the bagger, I'm the scanner. We're damn good at it too. I think we've got a second career if we want it. I know every button that touch screen like the back of my hand. And that's not an exageration! We are faster than the human and bagger. I'd race for money.
I refuse to be pissed off anymore. I would still hate you even if you posted ten at a time, so what's the point in being angry with you? None.
I think I completely agree with you on everything here...weird...well, except the self-checkout. Good post.
Except for the formatting...sheesh.
OK, I will an allow an exception for shopping with another person. I can see that it would work much more effciently in a two-person format.
For a single shopper though, avoid the self-checkout.
A Billion Things I Hate is quickly turning into my favorite post.
-Most people don't want a President that is an eliteist. By talking about how McCain can't count all of his houses, Obama can depict him as someone who is out of touch with America.
-Self checkout lanes are definitely a team effort - I personally hate them if I have more than 10 items.
What if you have just one item? I hate doing all the "hi, how are you?" greetings and bullshit interacting with the cashier. If I'm just buying a half dozen of eggs, I can scan that shit and be on my way without all that.
But more than 10, yeah, don't use the self-checkout.
As far as McCain having ten houses and not being able to count them being construed as being out of touch...I think that works back to Kevin's point. McCain should have so many houses he can't count! If he doesn't, what the hell is he doing with his money? Is he irresponsible with it? Will he be irresponsible with our nation's budget???
Our president should be better than that common folk. And that includes have a shit ton of houses. And if people are going to hold that against them, they are foolish and shouldn't be voting anyway.
Express (1o or less) self-checkout I like. It's the unlimited lanes that I don't like.
Did I really just type 1o instead of 10? I think I did....wow...that's pretty bad...
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