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Pet Peeves ver. Fjones vs Redleader

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People who calls themselves vegetarians, but then say that they eat fish . Tonight I was cooking a dish which included crab meat, and knowing that my sister and her boyfriend are currently acting as vegetarians, I planned to make two identical dishes - one including the meat and one without...

Redleader: "Okay, so two vegetarian dishes and two non-vegetarian ones."
Sister: "Wait, Jack's coming too."
Sister's Boyfriend: "Jack's a vegetarian!"
Sister: "Ya, but Jack eats fish. I think he loves crab."
Redleader: "Jack is not a vegetarian."
Sister: "Yes he is!"
Redleader: "No, he wants both his political limelight and the ability to have crab meat in his belly."

Not that I want to introduce even more words into our language, but if vegan is going to be around, then we also need a word for "The only meat I eat is fish."

Or even worse, those who just eat meat not that often, but sometimes. But not often enough to not remain a "vegetarian." I guess it can be likened to people smoking socially, but claiming to be non-smokers. No, you're social somkers or social carnivoures.

Edit: Going on a late-evening trip to Wal-Mart and I haven't had any benzos today. I should be writing more later :)
 
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^^ lol @ the absurdity of that statement! :D

I hate running out of staples :p
This morning I went to staple something together, applied the pressure, and got nothin'. Gahh! Such an anti-climax!
 
couples who cant spend more than a minute apart
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i went to a festival recently and my friend was non stop texting her boyfriend and the whole time. the boyfriend was saying how agonizing it was being apart (they were only apart for 2 days!!!!) and how he missed her so dearly and what not.

i never even get to see her any more because shes attached at the hip to her boyfriend.
Now don't get me wrong, hes an awsome boyfriend to her and a swell guy in general, but really the fact that its not longer her or him its always them gets to me.
 
Another fast food one...

Going through the drive-thru at Long John's Silvers (to those not familiar, it's a low-grade seafood fastfood chain that is a weakness of mine), I place my order and am given a total. No other conversation occurs (no upselling, it was kind of nice). Then I pull around the corner to see two windows. There is a car tailgating me through the drive-thru at this point (how that order was placed so fast, I have no idea...). There is a woman in the first window and it's light is on, so I stop at it. Nothing happens. After a while, she opens it and says "I'm cleaning. Please pull to the second window." Now if I would have pulled to the second window 'on a hunch' and had been wrong, then the car behind me likely would have followed in suit, there would be confusion about backing up, that car could in turn crash into a car coming quickly forward around the drive-thru lane in a 'second window' mindset. Injuries could result, fights could break out, pregnent stomachs hit with flying pieces of battered fish, I might not have made it to the liquor store before it closed, etc. HORRIBLE THINGS COULD HAPPEN!

To all owners/managers of drive-thru resturaunts with two windows: MAKE IT CLEAR WHETHER YOU ARE USING A TWO- OR A ONE-WINDOW TECHNIQUE AT A GIVEN TIME!!!
 
Thizzerfershizzer said:
couples who cant spend more than a minute apart
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i went to a festival recently and my friend was non stop texting her boyfriend and the whole time. the boyfriend was saying how agonizing it was being apart (they were only apart for 2 days!!!!) and how he missed her so dearly and what not.

i never even get to see her any more because shes attached at the hip to her boyfriend.
Now don't get me wrong, hes an awsome boyfriend to her and a swell guy in general, but really the fact that its not longer her or him its always them gets to me.
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Oh fuck me I detest this soo much!

I have one friend, who CAN'T do ANYTHING without her annoying boyfriend. Now, i don't mind him, but the way she acts around him is so pathetic. Anyway, that's just her lol.

Once, she was at my house, on a *rare* night we caught up without him (ugh), and she spent the entire 9 hours (overnight) fighting with him via text and phone calls, because he was pissed off that she didnt go over to his at 12am, when he got home, even though she has no car, and he lived 45 minutes from me, and even though he had to get up at 6am the next day, and I had not seen her in six months. But nope, that wasn't good enough for him. And having to fucking listen to her pander to him and grovel, was sickening to the bone. Absolutely sickening.

Hence I don't see her anymore. I'm not friends with him, so frankly whenever i catch up with her, he doesn't need to be there constantly like a bad smell. :|

And honestly, if you are that clingy to your SO then something is wrong with you, if you can't go see a friend for a few hours without the other having a cry about it. If i am ever that sad, i hope my boyfriend shoots me. Lol seriously, it is pathetic.
 
...clingy? ...smothering?

I don't see this much anymore. Do people out of their teens and early twenties behave this way?
 
Noodle said:
...clingy? ...smothering?

I don't see this much anymore. Do people out of their teens and early twenties behave this way?
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Sadly, yes. I know a couple that is like that. He basically has to call her on the hour to update her on his plans.

"Hey babe. Yes, still planning on staynig overnight. We're playing poker. Yeah. Love you too. Bye."

An hour later...

"Hi babe. Yes, still planning on staying overnight ..."

WTF.
 
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footscrazy said:
'Intoxicated patrons
Intoxicated patrons cannot be served liquor in licensed venues at any time. The law requires an intoxicated person to be refused entry or removed from the venue immediately. Licensees and bar staff face court fines of up to $11,100 and $1,100 penalty notices for intoxication offences.'

'How can I tell if someone is intoxicated?
Under the Liquor Act, a person is “intoxicated” if:


(a) the person’s speech, balance, co-ordination or behaviour is noticeably affected, and

(b) it is reasonable in the circumstances to believe that the affected speech, balance, co-ordination or behaviour is the result of the consumption of liquor. '

This is in Aus. Every bar tender needs to get their Responsible Service of Alcohol certificate, basically a bullshit certificate which doesn't tell you anything you don't already know.
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Fair enough, if that's the law. But i don't think i have ever seen anybody refused to be served alcohol after 4 pints. I known for a fact that after said amount i am intoxicated, so are you only allowed to serve one drink or what? Sorry for keeping on, it just baffles me lol
 
Fjones said:
What do you mean? The law is that a bartender may not serve soemone who is obviously or noticeably drunk. It doesn't say the bartender has to conduct a BAC test. Serving someone who is drunk but not obviously so, is acceptable. At least as I udnerstand the law.
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It was not stated that they may not serve someone who is noticeably drunk. They said an intoxicated person, I'm trying to figure out the gauge of this argument.
 
Modern Art

Nothing pisses Redleader off like around 135 other things AND the fact that some* modern artists "steal credibility" through our post-modern-desiring culture. This one is best illustrated through (gasp) an examplatory diolague!

Redleader: "Looks like you just threw a few cans of paint down on a canvas, let some mouse-squirrels crawl all over it, and then hung it up."

Modern Artist: "No man, it's not like that at all. It's got meaning."

Passerby #1: "Oh wow. I can truly see the fall of the former USSR in that. The dark tones show the remorse of those with residual love for Mother Russia, whereas the bright colours show the effect that a liberated youth has on a booming nation. The colours clash yes, but they are as complementing as they are contasting. It's like...a hope. A hope that could have been."

Redleader: "Wow. I saw that girl earlier in the cafe reading a book about modern European histo...."

Modern Artist: "Yes! Somebody gets it! Finally!"

Passerby #2: "Oh my goodness, Honey look! He did a painting about the political turmoil in modern South Africa. The whites oppressed the blacks for generations, and then legal change in the 1990s turned the situation around. Whites are starving and blacks are working, and vice-versa. Look! I see it especially right there, that litle circle of darker and lighter tones, it's like a family generation that overcame racism and..."

Modern Artist: "Yes! Exactly! Well it's kind of a global condition really. South Africa, the former USSR - I paint to express the common themes in global politics. It's my passion."

Passerby #2: "Oh my god, let's find a restroom...I want to liberate the sperm from your..."

Redleader: "NO!!! JUST NO!!! YOU THREW RANDOM JUNK DOWN ON A CANVAS, DID NOT DO ANY TYPE OF WRITEUP ON WHAT IT ACTUALLY MEANT, AND THEN STOLE AND COMBINED IDEAS SUGGESTED ON YOU BY YOUR VIEWERS."

Modern Artist: "The political contest of the modern artist and his critic...I am the light and you are my complementary darkness...."

*"some" means "some." I am not targeting all modern artists with my peeve.
 
Dave said:
Nutrisystem. How anyone could be so lazy and/or unwilling to learn the first thing about nutrition that they need to pay someone a premium to feed them tiny portions of heavily processed 'food', essentially starving themselves, to lose weight? How has this company survived long enough to be able to afford as many bloody commercials as they do? Are there really that many lazy, gullible people out there?
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LOL I just posted something about it the other day in the health thread asking if it was a good program... i got an overwhelming "NO!" response... guess im one of those lazy people :D but i will own up to it.

Hmmmmm MY pet peeve for the moment is that I have to get my "girl-time" THIS WEEKEND which is Quadfest aka the biggest party weekend of the year at my college. Grrr....

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Releader I agree w\ u tho about some of that modern art... it looks like somethign a 5 year old can do and people pay out the ass for it??? i dont get it. Oh, and of course, the suggested "meaning" of the piece which is really not apparent at all.
 
Not a pet peeve, but I'd like to take this opportunity to bitch about my roommate/cousin.

He's the type of person who will leave the house for a week in the middle of remodeling the bathroom, with the water turned off, and get back and say "Where'd all the goddamn food go? Why'd you leave all those dirty dishes?"

He's the type of person who has a psycho ex-wife who will barge in the house and search through his room, and find a burnt up spoon where some crack had been cooked back, and he will then tell his ex (who converses with my mother regularly) that it was mine.

He's the type of person who will show up to work on the house drunk at 9am with a beer in hand and then fall asleep, and raise hell that afternoon asking me why the hell I left, we're supposed to be working.

Get your shit together, douchebag.
 
harley89 said:
Fair enough, if that's the law. But i don't think i have ever seen anybody refused to be served alcohol after 4 pints. I known for a fact that after said amount i am intoxicated, so are you only allowed to serve one drink or what? Sorry for keeping on, it just baffles me lol
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Come on Harley, don't you think you are deliberately missing the point here?

The bartenders are expected to use their discretion as best they can. They have a difficult job and everyone knows that. I would think they would only get in trouble if they serve a person who is so obviously drunk that no reasonable person would think otherwise.

I don't think the law is there to ask drunk drivers with a .11 BAC where they got their drinks and then go hassle the bartender who served the final drink.
 
Some people are so computer illiterate it boggles my mind.

My mother (who is am amazing person and I love dearly), says and does some baffling thigns on the computer. I am currently visiting her in town where I was born and raised.

Today I had to explain to her how the taskbar enables her to click back and forth among the various applications and windows she has open at any given moment.

Then we discussed defragmenting the hard drive. We noted that is was scheduled for 1 AM once a week. She said, "Oh, but I am often asleep and I turn the computer off at night. Does it need to be on for it to defragment?"


....................................


ARE YOU SERIOUS!??

I made a face and said, "How many things are computers able to do while they are OFF?"

She says, "I don't know, quite a few perhaps?"

She was being serious.

(She has used a computer for EIGHT YEARS and uses one at work every day).
 
harley89 said:
Fair enough, if that's the law. But i don't think i have ever seen anybody refused to be served alcohol after 4 pints. I known for a fact that after said amount i am intoxicated, so are you only allowed to serve one drink or what? Sorry for keeping on, it just baffles me lol
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It's if they're noticeably drunk. So if after 4 pints you were stumbling, falling asleep on the counter, spilling drinks etc you prob wouldn't get served. If on the other hand you 'felt' wasted but could still stand up straight, speak properly, then you'd most likely get served.

There's definitely some guesswork involved. Just last week for example my friend actually tripped and fell down the stairs but got booted out because they thought he was drunk :(
 
Fjones said:
Come on Harley, don't you think you are deliberately missing the point here?

The bartenders are expected to use their discretion as best they can. They have a difficult job and everyone knows that. I would think they would only get in trouble if they serve a person who is so obviously drunk that no reasonable person would think otherwise.

I don't think the law is there to ask drunk drivers with a .11 BAC where they got their drinks and then go hassle the bartender who served the final drink.
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its a catch 22, 1 drink gets you drunk, but how many people drink 1 drink per hour, at a bar?
I think they dont like us bartenders making any money. (but we still do!!)
 
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Thizzerfershizzer said:
couples who cant spend more than a minute apart
-_-
i went to a festival recently and my friend was non stop texting her boyfriend and the whole time. the boyfriend was saying how agonizing it was being apart (they were only apart for 2 days!!!!) and how he missed her so dearly and what not.

i never even get to see her any more because shes attached at the hip to her boyfriend.
Now don't get me wrong, hes an awsome boyfriend to her and a swell guy in general, but really the fact that its not longer her or him its always them gets to me.
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yeah you always see them at amusment parks wearing the same sweatshirt or pullovers.
 
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