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Pet Peeves v. 5.0

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Enki said:
I'm not sure how this will translate into better success for you with connecting with women but it may have some bearing.

I'm old, out of shape, and of a generally rude temperament. I have many women in my real life and my online life that dig me. I engage their minds or their hearts their vaginas are a desert I don't have room for.

I'm not giving the main thing that may help, yet. Indifference, sangfroid, being cool, its all the same thing. Really wanting it makes it less attainable. I'm sure you could get gay guys with out even trying precisely because you are not even trying. If you wanted them they would scatter. I've started my thing with a pre-supposition that they sensed you wanted them and that they want someone who cares less than they do so that the man can steer the drama a bit before the woman ultimately conquers. Probably, I'm just imagining :)

Phone numbers are for future concerns. Casual sex involves getting you to their place or them to yours. Are you looking for casual sex or for a relationship. My opinion, relationships are unlikely in bars. Look at clubs in the sense of: volunteering, church, mensa, fraternal order of elks, what have you. Bar connections can be other than sex but its almost heading towards lottery odds.
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I am not sure what I'm looking for. I am just trying to talk to people more often instead of just huddling with the people I came to the bar with. What I want is for a woman to either NOT talk to me much at all or talk to me for a half hour and then not act weird when I text her a week later to see what she's up to.

In one of the cases in question, I went up to a group of gorgeous women at the bar, partly because mt roommate bet me I wouldn't. Once there, I introduced myself, made small talk, suggested they join us to hang out, and went back to my roommate and other friend.

20 minutes later, after we had left the bar to go for a smoke and returned, they decided to come chat for a bit and stayed for awhile. I exchanged numbers with one of them who appeared interested in both me and my roommate. I wouldn't say I was appearing "needy" or "wanting it." I'm just trying to be social and meet people and make conversation. I exchanged numbers because she seemed genuinely interested in hanging out with us, even asking if there was another good place to go (There wasn't, not in this town).

The next time I texted her simply seeing what she was up to, she brushed me off completely.
 
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Continuing my ten part series (These last few aren't all about drivving).

4) People who stand side by side on the escalator.

You've got to be fucking kidding me. Get the fuck out of my way you inconsiderate pieces of shit. :X:X
 
By far the biggest one for me! People who don't flush the toilet or wash their hands ever :x. You've called them out on it, yet they still continue to leave presents for you and spread their germs everywhere. I was wondering if I can do an intervention for this person. How can you be so unsanitary?
 
^ amen!

i have two today.

1. i hate it when the women on my floor sit quietly in the bathroom waiting for me to hurry up and pee so they can finish taking a shit! i'm super, duper pee-shy and it really annoys me when i get in the bathroom, sit down to take a wizz and a woman in the next stall coughs, then silently waits for me to finish. it's like a stand off. i'm waiting for her to wipe her ass and get the fuck out so i can pee and she's waiting for me to start peeing so she can finish taking a dump!

2. why must cyclists ride their bikes in the rode!? our community has a very nice 5.5 ft wide paved and marked bike path extending the length of 3 cities. isn't it safer for you to ride your bicycle there?! it's a pain in the ass on a 45 MPH road to come to a halt in the far right lane because you're riding your damn bike half-way into my lane!
 
Simona19 said:
By far the biggest one for me! People who don't flush the toilet or wash their hands ever :x. You've called them out on it, yet they still continue to leave presents for you and spread their germs everywhere. I was wondering if I can do an intervention for this person. How can you be so unsanitary?
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WTF? You personally KNOW and caught people who do this??? Ugh. That sucks.
 
3) People who walk down the staircase at a snails’ pace but insist on using the inside path.

Okay, so you're in no hurry yet you need to monopolize the fast route, forcing me to awkwardly dart around you to pass you? Why? If you don't have anywhere to be, get the fuck out of my way and use the outside path. Then, those of us who want to be somewhere can pas you easily on the inside.
 
I've probably already mentioned this, but stickers/labels stuck directly onto products where no thought has been put into the adhesive choice. Usually the adhesive sticks more onto the product than the material the label is made of, requiring extensive, time-consuming work to get the label and all the pain in the ass adhesive residue goo off. Makes me see red every time.
 
^If the product will hold up to it lighter fluid is excellent at removing tags. Not lighting it it just undoes adhesives very well. I'll have to ask a chemist how that works someday.

I seldom buy software in stores anymore but one of the most annoying of instore sticker problems was having a price sticker over the system requirements.

There is one local thriftstore that prices books and many other items in grease pencil. Grease pencil is not easily removed by any process I've found and is very ugly. One friend thought an iron over cloth might do it but I will not by grease penciled items to find out unless I see something that is a real treasure.
 
Those stickers can be a real "FUUUUUUUUUUU......" moment.

I've found spray can furniture polish to be quite decent at removing annoying sticky labels like the ones where the top layer peels off leaving paper like coating (:X) All I do is sparay a little polish on the lower layer & leave it for a moment, let it soak & the glue reacts a bit so you can wipe it off. No hard rubbing or scratching involved.
 
For items that can withstand being rubbed with WD40, WD40 is very effective at removing sticker residue.
 
Enki-- lighter fluid is basically just some sort of organic solvent, probably differs from brand to brand. If I had to guess, I'd probably say napthalene or something similar. Anyway, it works on the same principle as dissolving sugar in water, but with nonpolar rather than polar groups. The old guideline holds well: like dissolves like. WD40 is similar; it's just 'petroleum distillate' (i.e. mixed-length saturated hydrocarbon chains) with propane as a propellant. The former would be a more versatile solvent, but the latter would work better for highly nonpolar gunk. Most adhesives (IIRC) aren't that nonpolar though, usually some sort of poorly crosslinked acrylate or something. Now that I think of it, vinegar might work if it is in fact an acrylate-- methacrylates usually are broken down by concentrated acetic acid, so a vinegar soak might do the trick.

When the sticker is on, say, a wood bowl or a plastic widget (the last couple that I've dealt with were polypropylene I think), using solvents like that wouldn't be a good idea, and as a consumer why should I have to douse my product in organic solvent just to get rid of the crap that the retailer (usually) put on? Yes, I know that the original idea was as a theft deterrent, but c'mon.
 
...not sure it is a peeve but getting caught behind a big yellow school bus dropping off kids after school annoys me greatly. I swear these kids are often dropped off at every 4 or 5th house ( sometimes 1 AT A TIME! ) at the top of their parents' driveways these days.

When I was in grade school we all actually had to ( *gasp* ) walk from a few stops in larger groups home each day after school. And no, mommy or daddy was not waiting for any of us in their Audi Q4 if we had to walk more than a full suburban block.

These kids are going to grow up to be bigger snotty-nosed pussies than some of the people of my generation. ;)


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Noodle said:
...not sure it is a peeve but getting caught behind a big yellow school bus dropping off kids after school annoys me greatly. I swear these kids are often dropped off at every 4 or 5th house ( sometimes 1 AT A TIME! ) at the top of their parents' driveways these days.

When I was in grade school we all actually had to ( *gasp* ) walk from a few stops in larger groups home each day after school. And no, mommy or daddy was not waiting for any of us in their Audi Q4 if we had to walk more than a full suburban block.

These kids are going to grow up to be bigger snotty-nosed pussies than some of the people of my generation. ;)


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This is interesting - I was going to post the exact same post pretty much verbatim. If the school bus is going to make a big deal out of stopping for a minute with the stop sign out and red lights flashing, bring traffic to a halt on both sides of the road at a busy time of day, it shouldn't stop at every corner.
 
it super annoys me when people post replies that essentially say exactly the same thing someone already posted. if you have something to add but agree with something the person before you said, recognize what was already posted by saying, "i agree" and then add your extra tidbits!
 
it super annoys me when people post replies that essentially say exactly the same thing someone already posted. if you have something to add but agree with something the person before you said, recognize what was already posted by saying, "i agree" and then add your extra tidbits!

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