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Songs that are filled with personal emotions, extreme literal meanings to the lyrics or sung in the first person.

Sadly, these types of songs sell.
 
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When the light turns red for no reason, and you have to wait for all the invisible cars to clear out.
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Ahhh that is chronic when you're coming home from a rave at 5am on a Sunday morning, and alllll you want to do is get home and relax! 8)

mrs_mia_wallace said:
Right now: the fact that I tell myself I'll take a five minute break from my work and go on bluelight... and then somehow two hours go by?
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Haha this is my partner's number 1 pet peeve in the universe =D
Sorry darling...!
 
When a couple who have had a toxic relationship for at least 2 years and are going through a divorce bring a child into the world. Wear a condom.
 
The fact that my INSANELY gorgeous, smart, funny, kind, and SCOTTISH (with a super strong accent <3) is gay..... :(

and that I haven't asked for "extra help" in this class earlier on spent more Mondays doing one on one tutoring with him...... 8)
 
People who are difficult and argumentative and try to pretend they are not. They usually will write a lengthy reply to an ongoing debate or discussion, and then close it with, "But I don't want to talk about this any more, arguing isn't my thing." or some bullshit like that.

If you want to get another word in, then do so, and expect a response. if you want to stop talking about it, then do not reply to the last post or message or E-mail or text, and simply say, "I don't want to talk about this any more."

But don't do both. That's just rude and hypocritical and contradictory.
 
Excessive use of "LOL." Can we please reserve this hackneyed initialism for things that are actually funny, or better yet, things that are actually funny enough that they might merit actual laughing out loud? Why do people have to use it as punctuation? We have plenty of punctuation marks.

Why do some people start and end a sentence with LOL? Most of the time, the statement isn't even funny, nor is the situation or anything about the post at all.

Here is a classic example. The following facebook status update boggles my mind --

"____________ is sick on the couch lol... thank you (School name) for notifying me that there is no school. I mean I don't go there anymore lol. but thanks lol."

ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS? THREE instances of "LOL" in a completely mundane and pointless sentence about being sick and having snowy weather?

WHAT
THE
FUCK!?????????

What the fuck is possibly funny or amusing about any part of that sentence?
 
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Faliure to understand what the converse means, and that the converse is not always true.

If all A are B, IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT ALL B ARE A!

If A causes/implies/leads to/means B, again, that DOES NOT mean that B causes/implies/leads to/means A.

This sounds simple enough, but for some reason lots of people are unaware.

Many people, even here on BL, ty to defeat an "All A are B" argument by loudly pointing out that not all B are A.

When soemone says All A are B, he is not saying ANYTHING about B, he is saying something about A. If you wish to defeat his argument, you cannot do it by talking about B.
 
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People who answer "good" to generic "How are you?" questions in retail. Yes, the question is generic, but the answer does not also have to be. I always try and answer these briefly, but truthfully. Again, though, I must be alone in this, or things like the following wouldn't happen (as did a few hours ago):

Barista: How are you?
Redleader: Pretty horrible.
Barista: That's good what can i...oh wait, what?????? :confused look:

When driving, concerning red lights:

1)People that drive very fast up to them and then slam on their breaks. Why?? It's uncomfortable, wastes gasoline, etc.

2) If the car in front moves up 1cm, every car behind also moves up 1cm. Why???
 
Well, I hesitate to use LOL, but that part about the barista did make me laugh. You described it very well, I could picture the barista stopping mid sentence with a look of total confusion.

I hate the "how are you" altogether. I don't like answering it at all. I deal with this by letting the other person say something first. Then, no matter what he or she says, I respond, "Hi."

Regarding the red lights, I do not understand. What is the alternative, riding the brakes for a few hundred feet until reaching the light? I won't accelerate towards a red light but I am not going to apply my brakes prematurely either.
 
Fjones said:
Faliure to understand what the converse means, and that the converse is not always true.

If all A are B, IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT ALL B ARE A!

If A causes/implies/leads to/means B, again, that DOES NOT mean that B causes/implies/leads to/means A.

This sounds simple enough, but for some reason lots of people are unaware.

Many people, even here on BL, ty to defeat an "All A are B" argument by loudly pointing out that not all B are A.

WHen soemone says All A are B, he is not saying ANYTHING about B, he is saying something about A. If you wish to defeat his argument, you cannot do it by talking about B.
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I tutored a MATH1xx:Intro to Logic course once, and I blame that for a large part of my anger problems even to the current day.
 
I would love to teach that class. I wish it were mandatory. There would a dramatic reduction in arguments and a dramatic increase in productivity if people knew how to discuss and debate without committing logical fallacies.
 
Redleader said:
People who answer "good" to generic "How are you?" questions in retail. Yes, the question is generic, but the answer does not also have to be. I always try and answer these briefly, but truthfully. Again, though, I must be alone in this, or things like the following wouldn't happen (as did a few hours ago):

Barista: How are you?
Redleader: Pretty horrible.
Barista: That's good what can i...oh wait, what?????? :confused look:

When driving, concerning red lights:

1)People that drive very fast up to them and then slam on their breaks. Why?? It's uncomfortable, wastes gasoline, etc.

2) If the car in front moves up 1cm, every car behind also moves up 1cm. Why???
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The generic "how are you" question is something that I avoided until I moved to VA where apparently if you don't say it and respond with simply "good" or some other generic response you're rude. So now, I say it, and hate it.

I used to just respond great, thanks, without asking how they were, since both parties know that neither cares.

:|

I agree wholeheartedly with 1) and 2) is amusing

LOL!!!=D
 
When television sportscasters are over-zealous in making comments about players or teams having "good sportsmanship."

Football caster: "See, running the ball in the last few plays, despite the quarterback's near-record stats...now that's just classic, true sportsmanship there." "Oh look at him helping the downed player from the other team up. That is a world-class athelete there, true sportsmanship, wouldn't you agree?"




I don't like it when TV newscasters villianize 'bad weather.'

Caster ("Kathryn"): "Up to Tom now in the chopper."
Tom: "Ya, Kathryn, I can really see those darkened thunderheads now. They're only like 5 minutes away. Everyone needs to run and hide immediately in their shelters, as I do NOT think that the clouds are here with a warm welcome!"
 
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Fjones said:
I would love to teach that class. I wish it were mandatory. There would a dramatic reduction in arguments and a dramatic increase in productivity if people knew how to discuss and debate without committing logical fallacies.
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I said that, only being the tutor instead. I thought that it was just that people weren't being taught right, that as you said, all it took was....

Then on day 1, I realized that I overestimated the mental capabilities of the average college student. It's not possible, people make the same mistakes on day 100 as on day 1, and there's really nothing you can do but....umm....smoke up and pop a benzo before each session like I did 8o
 
Say you have five seconds of film of someone walking:

The person walks forward on the first two.

The third one shows the second one in reverse.

The fourth one is the second one again.

The fifth carries the person forward.

This type of effect....ahhhh! This is often done in tv to mimic some lame type of dance step, along with dumb editing music or sound effects. Sometimes the second and third steps are done several times. It drives me insane!!!
 
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When someone says "your" when s/he shouldn't, as no ownership is going on.

Q: Do you want me to tape your race while you're gone?
A: You can tape the race I want to watch. It's not mine, though. I don't own anything about it.

I mean one could say "Do you want me to tape your favorite driver in that race going on today?" "Do you want me to tape your desired television selection while you're gone?" But not the above.
 
people who are assholes and say "that's just how I am. I'm not sorry for it."

Well, then, congratulations, on being a complete asshole. Your mother must be so proud of her asshole, crackhead, no good son.


Whoops...got a little personal there at the end.
 
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