Pet Peeves ver. Fjones vs Redleader

[harley89]

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.

I am not deliberately missing the point, i was simply enquiring.

End of arguement, i really can't be bothered to explain myself. It's my pet peeve, no one elses. Carry on thread.

 

[harley89]

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

Yeah i understand it's hard to gauge for a bartender, i understand now, i was just trying to figure out the law (I live in Wales, so they may be different). Maybe because I'm the sort of drinker who doesn't seem drunk even when I'm plastered lol

 

[mariacallas]

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.

Hahahahaha. This picture is especially dedicated to you my dear Redleader I got a good chuckle out of it!

 

[Fjones]

My pet peeve of the day -- People who sell fake pills. I have no fucking clue what I had this weekend at spring massive, but fuck, these were the most miserable pieces of shit ever. Why is it so difficult to find legit stuff these adys? Grrrr!!!!!!

 

[Fjones]

Traffic jams make me want to go absolutely insane.

I left NYC at 1:30 PM Saturday. It is 4 miles from where I grew up to the other end of the Holland Tunnel. It took TWO FUCKING HOURS to get there. TWO HOURS! What the fuck! This was because they had the 6 lanes outside of the tunnel closed down to 2 lanes--on a Saturday afternoon? Who the fuck decides to do construction at that time? And when I finally got ti it, they weren't even doing any work, they just had cones set up! I was about to go completely insane!!

But that wasn't even the worst part of the trip. 40 miles later, I hit a WORSE traffic jam. All lanes of the NJ turnpike were closed down because of a car accident. This one took THREE hours. S0 5 hours and 30 minutes I had gone all of 60 miles. By the time it was all said and done it took me almost 8 hours to reach Baltimore from NYC. AAAAAAAAARgh! I never want to drive anywhere again ever! I just hate the feeling of absolute helplessness when stuck in one of those traffic jams where there are miles ahead of you, no highway exit, and your car goes minutes at a time without moving. Three hours to get to the next exit no a highway is just frustrating beyond belief.

As a result of all this crap I didn't get to spring massive until 3 AM and it started shutting down around 5:30. I did have a good time there though so I guess the day wasn't a total loss.

The delays could have been lessened slightly if people would GET A FUCKING EZ Pass! Once we got off the highway there was an extensive delay asp people paid their toll. There are FOUR cash lanes and ONE EZ Pass lane. WHAT THE FUCK!??

People should get a fucking EZ Pass! It saves time and money and makes highway traffic move a lot faster. Why don't they encourage EZ Pass use by making FOUR EZ Pass lane and ONE cash lane? And the cash lane is $50 dollars more than the EZ Pass lane. Watch how fucking fast people get an EZ Pass then!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Dave]

My pet peeve of the day -- People who sell fake pills. I have no fucking clue what I had this weekend at spring massive, but fuck, these were the most miserable pieces of shit ever. Why is it so difficult to find legit stuff these adys? Grrrr!!!!!!

Bikers. That's why. Pills went to shit in my city less than a month after the bikers showed up in force. The best you can get now unless you are independently connected are E pills that are 90% meth and maybe some caffeine.

My peeve-- children that squeal. Not cry, not yell, but that squeal that hits just the right frequency to make your ears feel that someone is jabbing an icepick in both your ears. It doesn't even have to be that loud to bother me, but unfortunately it usually is.

I was treated to this on the bus ride home today, and my left ear is still ringing. I've never wanted to hit a toddler before... and I guess I didn't now either. But I did envision an untimely head-explosion that made me feel better.

 

[Fjones]

Bikers eh? that sucks. Well, I am going to continue this discussion on the ecstasy forum or the trip reports or pill testing Q and A, because I am really baffled and I would like some input. I expected the marquis reagent to turn Orange when I got home and tested them, but it did not. I am stumped.

Oh, and I agree with you about the babies, though, my pet peeve would just be babies in general.

Another pet peeve is mine is when people repeated the same worthless hackneyed garbage sayings about having kids when I tell I am not ever having kids.

"But you can't imagine the joy children bring until you have them!"

are you fucking kidding me? Seriously, if one more person says that I might just lose my shit completely on that unfortunate person. Don't fucking tell ME what will or won't bring joy to my life! I have about 1000 things I want to do in life, and having kids falls somewhere around number 1000 on that list. I don't like kids, I find the notion of being a parent to be the least desirable thing on the planet, and we do NOT need any more kids born to parents who don't want them or are not qualified to be parents.

Wouldn't you think my MOTHER of all people would understand this? Christ, she has known me my whole life! It's not like I am some stranger who she thinks might enjoy being a parent.

 

[mrs_mia_wallace]

^I was very adamant when I was younger (now I want children) that I did not want kids... and everyone gave me that same bullshit. Honestly, there are some people in this world who are not supposed to have kids--I am probably one of them. But why people feel the need to convince people who do not want children that having children is sooo amazing is beyond me. Don't we have enough bad parents who don't want their kids in this world? (no offense fjones, that was not directed at your possible parenting skills).

I hate these stupid versions of low-fat, sugar free, whatever low/free already HEALTHY foods. Low fat tofu? What the fuck that shit is DISGUSTING and should not be made. Sugar free soy milk? Also DISGUSTING and should not exist. If they want to make low fat butter or sugar free fudge or something I don't fucking care, but do make disgusting verisons of the healthy foods I like (that I then buy on accident becasue I'm in a rush )

 

[claire22]

Ugh I am definitely one that does not wish to have children.
All the girls @ my high school said they wanted four kids and wanted their first ones in their early twenties?? WHAT!

 

[Khadijah]

losing my license is my # pet peeve right now.See if i make it til september sentencing date w/out commiting suicide first

 

[AmorRoark]

Facebook. Everyone and their mother uses the fucking 'status' feature to make snarky comments about others in our classes. Examples?

Dumb Bitch #1: thinks some people just need to get their acts together. okay, maybe just one.

Is she talking about herself? Is she talking about someone from her personal life? Is she talking about a classmate? WHO KNOWS? WHO FUCKING CARES?

Asshole #1: PS - don't brag about being the "first one" to see a funny YouTube video. that doesn't make you any cooler than anyone else. In fact, it probably makes you LESS cool than everyone else.

WOW.

SAME Asshole #1: Here's a hint: if you read the cases, you typically won't crash and burn in front of 75 of your peers

Probably 30+ people talked in class that day. Nice job making everyone who read that feel like they fucked up. That class is impossible and I'm sure everyone feels like shit afterwards. Nice job looking like a stuck up twat.

SAME ASSHOLE #1: PS everyone: if your newsfeed is constantly filling my homepage with stupid information about every step of your wedding planning process, i'm going to "hide" you - and not feel guilty about it at ALL.

Well I guess at least you're being a little more specific now. Jesus.

Dumb Bitch #2 "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt"

Of course someone replies with "are you talking about me?"

And her reply OF COURSE is

Dumb Bitch #2: I am talking about a lot of people. I will refrain from naming names at this point in time.

YEAH YOU'RE NOT NAMING NAMES BECAUSE YOU'RE SUCH A BITCH. Thanks. Everyone feels so much better now because of your dumbass cattiness.

Dumb Bitch #3: I think people need to learn to plan better. In between oral arguments and finals is not when you will find your best performances.

Dumb Bitch #3: thinks we should vacate the front row...

Well at least you're focusing your bitchiness to like 4 or 5 individiduals. How couragous of you. 8(

That's not even the worse of it. People are part of facebook groups ENTIRELY devoted to talking shit about people while they're in class. They specifically talk shit about 3 - 4 individuals like EVERY FUCKING DAY. I turned down being part of such a ridiculous 'group' because I refuse to be in something of such amazingly awful activity. These people are such a toxic waste of space.

I swear, this might not seem like a lot but my school is small as hell. We have the same people in every class so the cattiness is completely out of control. It's like high school all over again. No, that's right, it's WORSE because nobody I knew put up with such fucking play school buillshit at my high school. Such fucking children.

Maybe I should just delete my facebook account. 8( 8(

 

[randycaver]

people aren't supposed to act like that in law school. jfc.

just delete your facebook account.. i deleted my myspace today and i feel free.

 

[Dave]

Facebook is more trouble than it's worth. I am so glad that I deleted my account. Anyone who won't keep you in the loop without Facebook is no friend.

 

[Fjones]

Facebook is so annoying. People make the most idiotic status updates with the most mundane and irrelevant information. The spelling and grammar is atrocious. People flood my inbox with all kinds of stupid messages or applications. People send me E-mail there instead of to my actual E-mail address, and until I turned it off, people would facebook IM me instead of using my real IM account.

It has some uses, but much of it is worthless and annoying.

 

[justsomeguy]

Hey redleader, what modern artists in particular are you thinking of?

 

[RedLeader]

Hey redleader, what modern artists in particular are you thinking of?

My ex-girlfriend stands out She's an artist by trade, has been for several years now, and she totally does this.

Okay, I'll keep her privacy respected as well as I can, but this occured with her right before we broke up. Years ago, she was finishing up her undergrad studio art degree, and was paniced as she felt unable to submit her "final project" at a level which would earn her a top mark.

It basically went like this:

Ex: I mean I have all of these ideas in my mind. Colours and shapes I want to put into form, but I just don't know how to write about it in the complementary paper required.

Redleader (as a sucker): Don't worry about that, just do your thing and we can deal with the paper later.

Ex: Thanks, sweetie.

::time passes::

Redleader: Okay, so I see you've spent the past week working really hard on this creation. What the fuck is that? Do you have any ideas what you think it means? I mean, just to help us start working on your paper?

Ex: Well definately about sceince. And about how scientific thought and art can clash.

Redleader: Okay. Hmm how about anonymous political topic where science and art do clash.

Ex: Wow ya, I get ya.

Redleader: blah, blah, blah

Ex: Like, I didn't realise this before, but totally. You hit the nail on the head.

Redleader: I feel like I just threw a hammer at a bed of nails... Okay, sweetie, that it is. Let's go to the computer lab.

::time passes::

Redleader (the sucker): Okay there, I just wrote you a beautiful theory. Of course I spent hours and hours teaching myself new themes about such political topic, while you just threw random jibberish on a canvas, alas...

Ex: It's like....I felt that inside, but I didn't know how to put it into words.

Redleader: Of course not, you didn't take the time to educate yourself about the topic of choice, not that you had one in the first place even,...

::we break up shortly thereafter::

She got a great mark on the paper, and went on to use the theory which I largely had developed when she described her work hung in various art shows. The work sold for an amount which I won't say, but honestly...

It's not famous modern artists I am necessarily attacking (Jackson Pollock IS one, though. Don't even get me started...). It's more the ones who are trying to make it, but don't have the research ability to really unite their work with a strong and well-expressed message. I see it a lot in local art shows/festivals - an artist puts up a bunch of "visual jibberish," has a bunch of wine and cheese at a small-time function where such work is displayed, and then rips ideas off from intellectual/academic types that talk at said show.

Low-level modern artist: Welcome to my....shhsshhow. The wine's free!"

Redleader (trying to impress date): Well if I were to write a paper about this, I'd probablly make up some bullshit about fill in the topic.

Date (trying to impress Redleader): Well if I were to be in the same class, but that one over there instead was mine, well my paper would be about fill in the topic.

::time passes::

Low and behold, the artist goes on to steal our random jibberish, add a few of his personalised descriptive words into the mix, and exponentially increase the selling potential of his work.

*note again, as I said above, I am not attacking all modern artists. Just some.

 

[RedLeader]

Okay, I HATE when people write in (or *twitter*) or whatever things to news agents, which are completely and totally obvious, yet they are still posted. For example, I am watching CNN today, and they are talking about swine flu:

CNN: Okay, so ______ from ______ says "The thing that scares me about swine flu is that unlike regular flu, it can be passed easier and therefore could more easily become a pandemic."

NO SHIT!!!!

That's what they've been putting on the news for the past 72 hours. That's the main theme of this. Not only does it baffle me that someone would actually write such a thing to CNN thinking it would make it on, but that CNN actually did put it on live television.

Or on my local news, they did a story about colds/flus being passed around the workplace, and premptive measures which people can take. The twitter comment:

______ from ______ says "I always carry anti-bacterial lotion with me, so that when I touch common things at work, I can immediately apply it."

WOW! TRULY AN EINSTEIN OF THE 21ST CENTURY.

I mean are there actually people out there thinking oh my goodness, I never thought of that. I'm going to the grocery before work tomorrow to buy some hand santizer!

If there are, I just want to cry.

 

[Fjones]

All of this antibacterial crap is what is causing problems in the first place. Everything is antibacterial now, even though it isn't necessaryandn ever was, so we kill off the weak stains and generate superbacteria that we cannot fight off.

Or something to that effect. I am nto a scientist. Don't quote me.

 

[mariacallas]

Maybe I should just delete my facebook account. 8( 8(

Nooooooo!!! Why not just remove from your friend list (although Im not entirely sure this might have some good results, some of those catty immature people might get butthurt ..) But if you're not really close to them, or cant really stand them, you dont really need to have them amongst your FB friends right?

 

[RedLeader]

When you're watching a television program on a given channel, and there is a commercial break. But then, after a few commercials, the channel presents their own advertisement for a different program, present or future, also on their network. USUALLY, this an indication that the program you are watching is going to come on after this is over. For years, it was like an unwritten rule. But then NO, just as I either turn my volume back up or stop fast-forwarding my taped program, another freaking commercial comes on. AHHHHH!