What's bugging you? (2006)

[thefutureishere2006]

i watched united 93 last night, even the look on those actor terrorists p'd me off.

[NeedMoreFans]

The "ESPN Sucks" thread from the MLB forum sparked this one....

 

The national sports media focusing on the same 2 or 3 stories for months, even over the course of several years.

 

This really started to bug me Sunday before and during the Eagles/Cowboys game. Before the game (during the Packer game), they kept game breaking not to games in progress, but to TO warming up in Philly. Then when the game started and the Cowboys had the ball, they always made sure the audience knew where TO was on the field, by putting a little arrow with his name next to it. I don't care! He's one of their starting WR's, correct? Then he should be on the field. I don't need Fox to tell me that he is on the field.

 

Then Sportscenter on Monday. Uff duh. They talked about 2 topics the whole show...TO and the Yankees losing (versus the Tigers winning). It got so bad, I turned it off. We all heard the same story from New York last year when the Yankees lost, so do we need to hear it again? I would have much rather have heard about the upcoming LCS's, but was forced to listen to stuff about Torre and Steinbrenner (until I turned it off).

[splitterpfj]

People who cannot answer yes or no bug me. What are you so afraid of?

[1992casey]

How about that plastic packaging that would be best opened with a chainsaw? I've broken scissors and knives, and I've cut myself on that stuff.

 

In stores, I now ask an employee to open those things for me. What's sad is that once I get to the car, I'll end up looking at what's inside and end up walking right back in to return the mangled mess.

 

Of course, I'm out of luck when I order something through the mail and have to deal with this stuff at home.

[And That]

How about people stealing my quotes for their signatures? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

 

Agree wholeheartedly about that plastic. What really irks me is that companies are just as likely to put an inexpensive item in it as they are to put a really expensive item in it. I've actually bought scissors that came in that hardened plastic mess - it's like they are just taunting you sometimes.

[laserbomb]

The "musical" introduction for Sunday Night Football on NBC: Pink.

 

Also, their epic theme music definitely sounds important but it always reminds me of the chorus to that "gypsys, tramps and thieves" song by Cher. I hadn't thought of that song for at least a decade until NBC took over.

 

I moved to east central Indiana for the year for work purposes and coming here from Madison was like stepping back from a 9 or 10 in the Restaurant category, to a 5 at best. We haven't figured out how to recreate Med Cafe in our kitchen yet so we bake a lot of cookies, and the first few months have seen some fairly rapid weight gain. And that's even considering that finding cheese curds and brats around here is out of the question.

 

Also I've seen officers here border on abusing their powers to bend traffic to their will, on a couple occasions (siren on, drive through a slow clot of traffic, siren off a block later; and siren on, right turn from left-turn lane, siren off half a block later).

 

There are definitely bright sides, among other things my rent is about a third of what it'd be for the same place in Madison or Milwaukee, but this thread isn't about the bright side.

[M Skjellyfetti]

Charter Communications.

 

They decided to take ESPN Deportes out of our "sports tier" package and put it in the "Latino tier" (which we would have to pay $5 extra/month for, and I don't speak Spanish or watch VHUno or any other Spanish channels). So not only did they take away a service and continue to charge us the same rate agreed to months ago (when we were getting 1 more channel than we currently are getting), they also didn't notify us at all. What's more, all this happened smack dab in the middle of the only reason I really want ESPN Deportes: UEFA Champions League matches. So I'm very angry at them right now, and I'll be angry at Americans/ESPN too for watching/showing pool/poker/Strongman/spelling bees, but very little soccer.

[1992casey]

Anti-bacterial products are what's bugging me today. It's almost impossible to find many cleaning products in a "non-antibacterial" form anymore.

 

I'm not a fan of capriciously banning things, but this stuff has got to go. People are much better off with regular, old fashioned soap.

[brewers19]

Building off of Casey's...

 

People who think taking antibiotics is the appropriate treatment for any type of sickness, especially viral infections such as a cold. Antibiotics are drugs that kill bacteria; viruses are neither bacteria nor even living things. The only thing that it does is help bacteria develop a resistance to the antibiotic.

[OglivieHomePerm]

The stupid plastic wrappers that are put on rental DVDs. 50% of the time, the disc won't play on my DVD player. There has to be a better way to protect the disc than this.

[BoneDaddyKool]

watching Cold Pizza and having to listen to Skip Bayless.

[Brian the Automator]

People who tailgate you until you move over, and then proceed to go slower then you after you move over.

 

It's called cruise control.

[1992casey]

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People who tailgate you until you move over, and then proceed to go slower then you after you move over.

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There are a bunch of variations of that one, such as hurrying to get into traffic in front of me, then going slower than I desire, even when there was plenty of room to simply let me go by in the first place.

[pogokat]

My favorite is the guy who flies up behind you in the left lane when you are passing someone and flashes his lights at you...obviously, you cant get over because theres a car beside you...

 

once past the car, you turn on your blinker to move to the right and the guy has already swerved next to you...

 

for all this, the guy usually gives you the finger...or pulls in front and jams the brakes

[1992casey]

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People who think taking antibiotics is the appropriate treatment for any type of sickness, especially viral infections such as a cold. Antibiotics are drugs that kill bacteria; viruses are neither bacteria nor even living things. The only thing that it does is help bacteria develop a resistance to the antibiotic.

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Exactly. Antibiotics are for infections. They're almost certainly appropriate for a horrible toothache, for example. And when you do get an antibiotic, finish the bottle (unless it causes some unexpected side-effect or unless it's one of the few cases where you're directed otherwise.)

 

The issue with the cleaning products is probably worse. At least pills require a prescription. The cleaning stuff is thrust on the public as if it's something good, and since the concept sounds logical, people buy it.

[bork]

I'm really getting bugged by the "non-apology" trend. I see this everywhere now. People (often celebrities or politicians) get caught doing or saying something wrong. They say something like "I'm sorry if I offended anyone".

 

So you're not sorry for what you did or said, just sorry that people are offended. That's not an apology.

[Brian the Automator]

[ There are a bunch of variations of that one, such as hurrying to get into traffic in front of me, then going slower than I desire, even when there was plenty of room to simply let me go by in the first place. ]

 

Or the person that speeds up when you pull out a modest distance in front of them in traffic so that it appears that you cut them off. I know people look for an excuse to get angry sometimes, but that's ridiculous.

 

Also the people who are turning left, but don't hug the yellow line so you can't get around them until they turn...

 

...or the people that appear that they're trying to negotiate a mortgage in the bank drive-thru, when you just want to deposit a check.

 

...evanescence.

[1992casey]

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for all this, the guy usually gives you the finger...or pulls in front and jams the brakes

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The irony, of course, is that when all this is happening, you're probably already going 10 over the limit.

[Brian the Automator]

[ for all this, the guy usually gives you the finger...or pulls in front and jams the brakes ]

 

You probably made him 6 seconds late for his anger management meeting.

[NeedMoreFans]

I don't know if this has happened to anyone else, but back in the summer I was driving through the Marquette Interchange construction, in the right lane- left lane wide open- and the guy behind me flashed his lights at me. I sort of gestured towards the open lane and he got over and passed me. Both of us then proceeded to exit at the next ramp, and he flashed a car while on the off ramp.

 

I'm glad this thread got bumped back up...'tis quite enjoyable.

[DougJones43]

What bothers me more than any other traffic related experience:

During heavy freeway traffic, when people getting onto the freeway go zooming past everybody all the way down their merge lane (passing up many opportunities to actually join the freeway traffic), then get stuck at the end of the merge lane and everybody else needs to slow down to let that person in.

 

You haven't found a secret, traffic-free lane that nobody else sees! It's the merge lane! It ends! Join traffic when you see an opening instead of trying to get ahead of everyone and then getting stuck!

 

I believe this is one of the primary causes of freeway traffic jams.

 

Whew. It felt good to get that out.

[hawing]

It bugs me that every cold I catch goes straight to my larynx, rendering me unable to speak for a while. The longest I have gone without an audible voice is four days - that was about 5-6 years ago. This time it was more like 2 1/2 days.

Then I get an ugly cough that takes a couple of weeks to go away. So just as I'm feeling relatively better, I sound ugly and everyone who hears me says, "boy, you sound terrible."

 

(For the record, I'm not seeking antibiotics for this; and I go out of my way to buy non-anti-bacterial hand soap.)

[splitterpfj]

One thing that gets me sometimes is the overzealous clerk going for the upsell when I'm checking out.

 

Would you like the extended warranty?

 

No.

 

Would you like to save 10% by putting this on our store card?

 

No.

 

Are you a member of our club?

 

No.

 

If you buy three of these, they're cheaper.

 

I only need one thanks.

 

How about...

 

HEY, would you just gimme my change already?!

[TheBwaz]

I want to throw in a variation on the road gripe.

 

When you are driving, in the right hand lane, with acres of space behind you, and some numbskull speeds past you, gets in front of you and then immediately slows down to turn right.

 

I call it "Morning on Capitol in Brookfield".

[splitterpfj]

All of these voicemails from politicians, telling me to vote or the most dire possible things will happen to my country.

 

Wow, Mr Feingold, Mr Magnum, Mr Doyle, Mr Green, etc, etc....ok, thank you, I realize the election takes place tomorrow.