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I'll throw a pet peeve into the mix: lack of consideration on public transport. So I was in a cast recently, on crutches etc, and in the space of a weekend caught both a train and a bus where all of the seats were occupied. In neither instance did a single soul get up and offer me a seat. *fumes*
 
Related to this quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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So my peeve is....people who always act like they are persecuted whenever they are contradicted.
 
Redleader said:
Concerning nicknames...

1. Generic nicknames. A guy is both Italian and with a "greater surface area" than average. Therefore he is "The Boss." A girl has blone hair and tans a lot. Therefore, she is "Barbie." BE CREATIVE WHEN GIVING PEOPLE NICKNAMES! Seriously, one could fill a sports area with all of the men in america known as "The Boss."

2. When nicknames are person's real name + celebrity's last name. So your friend Amanda smokes crack and loses custody of her kids to her wigga boyfriend. Hmm, how about "Amanda Spears"? Ahhh.

3. When "Baby" is used as an actual name, without behing prefaced by "the," "your" or the like. "Come in tomorrow between 9 and 5 for great bargins on clothing for Baby." NO! "clothing for your baby!" This might be one that I need to have kids of my own for it to magically get better, but seriously this one makes my skin crawl.
4. People who buy an animal, give it a name, and then only call it "kitty" or "puppy" or "sweetie," and the original name fades over time. IF YOU WANT TO CALL YOUR CAT "KITTY," THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE NAMED IT KITTY!!
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haha,one of my old friends has a little brother and when he was younger they used to call him baby like it was his name...like "Wheres Baby?" or "Baby come here"
lol,he wasnt even a baby either,he was like 5-6 xD
 
A couple things:

When I go to a restaurant and am served water in a glass where I can get everything down in one gulp and then I have to struggle to try to get the server to bring me more water every time I want to take one fucking drink.

My neighbor keeps her door open when she smokes cigarettes because she doesn't want her apartment to smell too smoky, but instead would like for her neighbors to smell it every time they are in the hallway.
 
FFFFFJJJJJones 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.
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Psychological research shows that people are near ubiquitiously bad at reasoning through completely abstract problems like ones related to what you've posed, even with formal training in symbolic logic. If you cast questions into concrete domains with which they're familiar, people tend to do a lot better.

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.
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Almost. I'm going to pose this in the form of "if thens", 'cause I find them more intuitive.

Given If A then B (modus ponens(pwnZ3nZ?)), then necessarily If not B then not A (modus tollens).

ebola
 
rangrz said:
people who fail to see the humor and lulz in a bad situation, there is always something to laugh at, and it should be done, lest we all become too serious.
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Hell yeah man.
There's always gotta be that morally correct asshole who needs to shout, 'IT'S NOT FUNNNYYY!!!"
Well....maybe to you it isn't.
 
Paranoid people that lock and bolt the door ALL THE FUCKING TIME. I swear, i walk five minutes to the corner store, and even tho you're right there in the living room watching tv, you lock all four of the fucking locks? what the fuck are you doing in there?
 
Someone around me talking to a third person about something he\she obviously isn't interested in.

I guess all obvious communication flaws that never gets adressed.
There's this growing uncomfortable somthing filling up the room and I just want to scream my lungs out!
 
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I lock the door for safety not paranoia. When I was living alone, it was necessary. I also lock the car doors after exiting too.
 
^ i do too, i value my stuff

i'm guilty of the kitty thing. i named my cat jasmine but she doesn't respond to it very much. she responds more to kitkit and kitty, so that's what we call her. im not sure if it's the harsher "t" sound vs the soft sound of jasmine..
 
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