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Joined: Apr 14 2006 Location: Lake Michigan Posts: 3332

Syd Lexia wrote:

S. McCracken wrote:

"Scawlups" is how morons pronouce "scal-ips".

You're just trying to antogonize me. I've never heard you pronounce it with the short A sound.

I've never heard anyone pronounce it as scawlups, always scallips. Then again, I don't live in a city that eats a lot of seafood. I hardly ever see scallops on the menu at a restaurant.

Posted: Sep 16 2007 08:14 pm

enshinkarateman wrote:

I've always practiced it "skal-aps", and have never heard anyone say "scawlops". Must be a Massachusetts/Texas thing.

I'm Texan, and I've never pronounced it "scawlops". Now I'm completely confused as to which pronunciation is legitimately correct. Let's just compromise and call them oysters.

As for stuff that pisses me off, I can't really think of anything that hasn't already been said. I guess one thing - and this might just be me being weird - is the sound people make when they chew. I just can't stand it, and it's a lot worse when you're around people who don't close their mouths when they chew. Also, gum smacking.

Oh, another thing. I tend to really hate kids. When I visit a certain friend of mine, there's a good chance that this eight-year-old will show up as well, usually totally unexpectedly. She will never shut up, and she insists on being around us. It's annoying because as a nineteen-year-old, I have a very non-kid-friendly sense of humor, and so I can't really play any games or watch anything that "won't be right for kids". Ever noticed that once you're not allowed to curse, it happens more often?

And on that note, there's this OTHER girl who's like twelve or something. She's well on her way to being an absolute bitch. She'll pick some arbitrary person and just hound them for the rest of the day. I was playing MegaMan and writing down one of those stupid grid passwords, and she came over and asked what I was writing (which in and of itself is a little nosy, but whatever), and I told her a password, and without a pause she says, in this mocking, patronizing tone, "Oh, you have a diiiiaary! How cute!" I gave her this look like "...Do I hit you now or what?"

That was a lot longer than I thought it'd be. I'm a hateful, bitter person, apparently.

Posted: Sep 16 2007 09:40 pm

I know what you mean. I ride the bus to and from high school, and the middle schoolers are picked up during the ride. Usually this isn't so bad, but lately there's been this annoying 7th grade girl on there. I was listening to my mp3 player (whose express purpose is to AVOID interacting with these pre-teen annoyances in the first place) and she asks "What are you listening to?". So, I tell her that I'm listening to Metallica, and turn away thinking that was the end of it. She then proceeds to ask, in an extremely drawn-out way, whether I'm planning to grow a moustache, beard, or unibrow. I said no to all of these, and she was about to go on to some other piece of fucktardery when my stop came up (thank God), and I got off the bus.

Also, I don't get the point of flip-flops. What's the point of a piece of styrofoam barely held on by a plastic strap? And the annoying sound that they make walking on any hard surface is barely tolerable.

Posted: Sep 16 2007 09:43 pm

Kids are annoying.

I hate stupid people on the phone, its my job to answer the phone all day long, and everyone that calls is either

*retarded
*inbred
*impaitent \ rude
*really really old and hard of hearing
*unable to speak using proper grammer
*unable to speak english
*on crack
*any combonation of the above.

I'd honestly have to say that working in customer service has given me a deep rooted loathing of my fellow human beings. Confused

Posted: Sep 16 2007 10:29 pm

Parents who let their little kids run around in stores. That really bugs me, as well as little kids who don't listen to their parents. And screaming, crying kids too.

Posted: Sep 16 2007 10:35 pm

I totally forgot about people who chew peanut brittle, breath heavy, and hack up mucus while on the phone.

Posted: Sep 16 2007 11:05 pm

I was at our local Southside Fall Festival (think state fair, but smaller and with less seedy and more corny), and I saw some 5th grade girl running around with a blow-up machine gun being chased by a 6 year old who was screaming "MOMMY!" in an increasingly annoying and high-pitched screech. The girl just kept on running around making comments to her brother/cousin/whatever that actually made her seem like a total bitch. And that's difficult for a 4th grader. So the 6 year old went on screaming and chasing for about a minute, and THEN the parents finally break off from their conversation/beer drinking to stop the annoying brats. And I guarantee you this was going on for 5 minutes before I walked up.

Posted: Sep 16 2007 11:12 pm

SSNintendo wrote:

Parents who let their little kids run around in stores. That really bugs me, as well as little kids who don't listen to their parents. And screaming, crying kids too.

You would've loved this one family to pieces today, then. Twice they came in, and both times they were screaming an just fucking things up.

Posted: Sep 17 2007 12:00 am

People who think I'm a misogynistic masochist because I liked "Last House on the Left" and "Saw".

People who think "From Dusk Till Dawn" is misogynistic.

Posted: Sep 17 2007 12:02 am

-fake people
-liars
-mcdonalds
-the show friends
-those stupid college frat guys w/the tribal tat around their arm and a shirt that is in a size made for their younger sister
-posers (i guess that falls into fake people but whatev)
-people who talk themselves bigger than they are to try to impress others
-guys who lie to try to impress chicks

hmmm.... im sure i hate more things but i will stop here.

Posted: Sep 17 2007 12:19 am

When I used to work in food service I had an irrational hatred of anyone who came up to my deli counter 5 minutes before we had to close. I normally wouldn't mind, but considering I had an hour's worth of cleaning ahead of me... Mad

I mean, you had all freaking day to get your deli meats. NOW, at 9:55 p.m., AFTER you've had dinner, it's time to shop for lunch meat? When I'm trying to shut my slicer down? I just don't get it.

EDIT: sorry for not introducing myself: longtime lurker first time poster. I posted here partially to see if my quotes and avatar worked.

Posted: Sep 17 2007 01:14 am

Grimmriffer wrote:

When I used to work in food service I had an irrational hatred of anyone who came up to my deli counter 5 minutes before we had to close.

I deal with this a lot at christmas (the timing, not the food service). I'll be closing up after working a 7a-11p shift, and at like 10:58 some frantic mother comes in looking for... whatever it is. But by that time, my shit is closed. I'm scheduled off at 11, and it just so happens that we close then, so I need to have everything done, right? Right.

Been threatened and everything over it. I just tell them to go shop somewhere else, like a 24 hour walmart.

Posted: Sep 17 2007 11:48 am

* people who are all like "I'm so hot because I work out at the gym 8 times a day, and my muscles are so symmetrical (but I can't even spell my own name)"
* girls who think that everyone wants to see their tits all the time... there's a time and a place... leave a little to the imagination!
* processed meats: salami, pepperoni... and other meats like bacon and steak
* people who think vegetarianism involves "being weird" and "having something wrong with you"
* Tebor
* missing the bus because the bastard bus driver drives by earlier than scheduled... schedules are created for a reason asshole!
* perfume/cologne... if you shower regularly then you shouldn't need to douse yourself in AXE body spray
* people who call Britney Spears fat... give me a break! What is she, a size 5 now?
* bag pipes

p.s. Tebor, I'm kidding! Laughing

Title: Wise Ass Joined: Jul 23 2007 Posts: 553

*Douchebag lawyers that hate video games (Jack Thompson, Joe Lieberman, etc.).
*Douchebag televangelists/pastors (Fred Phelps, Pat Robertson, etc.).
*Anyone who works at Fox News/G4/any channel owned by Viacom.
*Anytime that I go into a restaurant, and there is almost always this fucking little kid that won't stop crying.
*Anytime that I go into a restaurant, and when I ask for a Coca-Cola, the waiter/waitress is like "Is Pepsi okay?".
*People who knock on the door when there is a doorbell present.
*People who sing their favorite songs on the radio while they are driving.
*My local FOX station cuts to commercial too early during reruns of the Simpsons.
*The Parent's Television Council
*Any live action film based on an old cartoon.
*People who keep bitching about the PS3's high price.
*People who bring their cell phones to the theater and don't turn them off.
*Unprepared/nervous/stupid game show contestants.

Posted: Sep 17 2007 01:12 pm

worstamericanhero wrote:

*Any live action film based on an old cartoon.

That reminds me, when I was at the theater to see the Simpsons Movie, they had a trailer for the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie. Now, to be totally honest, I still thought maybe this movie wasn't destined for failure. Maybe they could take Alvin and pals in a new direction and not screw it up. This can still be cute. But the trailer - the first glimpse of the movie for anyone - centered around a poop joke. A POOP JOKE. Are you really so desperate for viewership that you have to appeal to the lowest common denominator? And if so, are you prepared to drag people's childhood memories through the mud with it?

And another thing that irks me - game reviewers who don't let go of the past. I know Diablo and Fallout were fun back in 1997, but it's ten years later. Not every game can be "just like Diablo", and when you mark a dungeon crawler down just because it doesn't live up to your unreasonable expectations, it gets very frustrating. I don't know if I'm explaining this one quite right. I'd need an example or something.

While checking Wikipedia to research the date Diablo and Fallout came out, for my last rant, I remembered another one - Wikipedia editors who insist on a citation for every single sentence. Also, you know what? Anything about a video game is going to be "original research". We don't need to ask an "expert" just to see what level you fight what boss in.

Posted: Sep 17 2007 01:48 pm

Bluey wrote:

worstamericanhero wrote:

*Any live action film based on an old cartoon.

That reminds me, when I was at the theater to see the Simpsons Movie, they had a trailer for the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie. Now, to be totally honest, I still thought maybe this movie wasn't destined for failure. Maybe they could take Alvin and pals in a new direction and not screw it up. This can still be cute. But the trailer - the first glimpse of the movie for anyone - centered around a poop joke. A POOP JOKE. Are you really so desperate for viewership that you have to appeal to the lowest common denominator? And if so, are you prepared to drag people's childhood memories through the mud with it?

And another thing that irks me - game reviewers who don't let go of the past. I know Diablo and Fallout were fun back in 1997, but it's ten years later. Not every game can be "just like Diablo", and when you mark a dungeon crawler down just because it doesn't live up to your unreasonable expectations, it gets very frustrating. I don't know if I'm explaining this one quite right. I'd need an example or something.

While checking Wikipedia to research the date Diablo and Fallout came out, for my last rant, I remembered another one - Wikipedia editors who insist on a citation for every single sentence. Also, you know what? Anything about a video game is going to be "original research". We don't need to ask an "expert" just to see what level you fight what boss in.

I thought the same fucking thing about alvin and the chipmunks Laughing

And regarding the coke "is pepsi ok?" question, I always want to get real angry and shout , NO THATS NOT OK! Mad

and see what they do. Smile

Joined: Feb 24 2006 Posts: 2578

Blackout Boy wrote:

And regarding the coke "is pepsi ok?" question, I always want to get real angry and shout , NO THATS NOT OK! Mad

and see what they do. Smile

There was a Robot Chicken sketch about that.

Joined: Sep 11 2007 Posts: 36

1 - Whenever there is some sort of scandal and then the media thinks it's so cute and clever to put the word "gate" after it. Like the nipplegate thing, Rathergate or Heaven's gate.

2 - When people say they need to itch the arm. You need to scratch your arm because it itches. You can't itch yourself.

3 - Minorities. Unless somehow I am part of said minority.

Posted: Sep 17 2007 02:27 pm

worstamericanhero wrote:

*People who sing their favorite songs on the radio while they are driving.

Why?

Title: Wise Ass Joined: Jul 23 2007 Posts: 553

Because they act like they are the fucking American Idol.

Posted: Sep 17 2007 04:28 pm

Tish Wrote:

Quote:

* girls who think that everyone wants to see their tits all the time... there's a time and a place... leave a little to the imagination!

And that time is all the time.

Posted: Sep 17 2007 07:27 pm

Girls who get tattoos on their breasts. Breasts are fucking perfect. Don't fuck with them.

Posted: Sep 17 2007 08:49 pm

- Women who get ridiculus breast jobs. Like the skinny chicks who were probably a B cup, and then get DDs, so it looks like they are smuggling basketballs under thier skin. Breasts are perfect and should move when you do. And, nipples should not always be pointing at the sky. In fact, unless you have an accident or had to have one or both breast removed due to cancer, you shouldn't be allowed to get implants in the first place.

- Shows that replace an actor for a different one for the same character! If you are losing a cast member then just create a new character!

- Trying to cram too much plot into an action film. We want to see explosions, we don't care why they're happening! If we want a deep story, we wouldn't be watching an action film!

Posted: Sep 17 2007 09:08 pm

Knyte wrote:

Shows that replace an actor for a different one for the same character! If you are losing a cast member then just create a new character!

In the last season of That 70s Show, Josh Meyers was cast a character named Randy who was added to the cast to help compensate for the loss of Topher Grace's Eric Forman and Ashton Kutcher's Michael Kelso. But that wasn't originally the plan. Originally, Josh Meyers was going to play Eric Forman, who had returned from Africa "a changed man". The producers then realized this idea was fucking retarded and abandoned it.

Posted: Sep 17 2007 09:41 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

Knyte wrote:

Shows that replace an actor for a different one for the same character! If you are losing a cast member then just create a new character!

In the last season of That 70s Show, Josh Meyers was cast a character named Randy who was added to the cast to help compensate for the loss of Topher Grace's Eric Forman and Ashton Kutcher's Michael Kelso. But that wasn't originally the plan. Originally, Josh Meyers was going to play Eric Forman, who had returned from Africa "a changed man". The producers then realized this idea was fucking retarded and abandoned it.

im so glad they dropped that idea.

I really, really, really, REALLY hate when my memory card decides to randomly lose my save spot in my game. Whatever the game is. It just really sucks ass. It sucks more when its GTA-whatever. I really hate that.