What's bugging you? (2006)

[paul253]

The whole commercial thing in the NFL has bothered me for a while too. Also the game itself bothers me. When i see players running out of bounds instead of taking a hit and getting an extra 3 yards. Or when i see a make a tackle and do a little dance even though their team is down by 21 points.

[madcrewfan]

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The assumption that people who are dropped off in front of a store are too lazy to walk.

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When I can watch them hop out of the car and walk without the aid of a walker, cane, etc. and see them having no problems moving, they are too lazy. A lot of times it's Daddy dropping Mom and a bunch of kids too, and none of them has any problem walking.

[DuWayne Steurer]

The way people drive in parking lots, I don't blame parents at all for not wanting their kids walking from the car to the door.

[mothershipconnection]

The way people drive in parking lots,

The way people open their doors in parking lots. I can't imagine owning a car worth more than a few grand, because people will recklessly swing their doors open into other cars, especially kids. Parking spots are apparenly just too small when a nissan altima is close enough to the cars next to it to get dented up.

[pogokat]

people who complain on message boards

[madcrewfan]

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Parking spots are apparenly just too small when a nissan altima is close enough to the cars next to it to get dented up.

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I hear you there. I swear the parking stalls at the place I golf are about a foot smaller than a normal stall. All the cars are packed in like sardines and you have to be really careful not to dent the BMW or Escalade on either side of you. Good thing my car is only worth a few thousand dollars.

[mothershipconnection]

This may belong in the other thread about Enzyte, but here's my new beef : Leptopril.

So, it's supposed to be a "generic" version of an expensive diet pill. Well, actually there's no patent on the original because it's made of friggin' herbs. I wanted to know what the scam is - I always do this with informercially-sold pills. Here's the deal - it IS Leptoprin, the diet pill that's too strong for casual dieters. It's the same parent company that operates under multiple fronts with pharmaceutical-sounding names, this one is sold by their "Generix" branch.

 

I know we had a weight loss thread before, but I wanna give advice again. Don't buy diet pills, other than a multivitamin if you wanna call that a diet pill. All of these pills are scams, and you can get the same results from drinking black coffee which you can make for 50 cents a gallon.

 

Better yet, don't buy anything sold only on television, it will invariably be a scam. If nobody buys this crap, the ads will go away. There, my rant is over.

 

Oh yeah, one more thing: pop-up ads on mlb.com and team sites. Does MLB really need a few pennies of revenue from travel companies. Also, automatically playing that stupid talking Babe Ruth plaque commercial.

[sbrylski]

Better yet, don't buy anything sold only on television, it will invariably be a scam.

 

I bought this of the television once:

 

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000006NX9.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

 

I really did. And I'm satisfied.

[Brian the Automator]

[ When I can watch them hop out of the car and walk without the aid of a walker, cane, etc. and see them having no problems moving, they are too lazy. ]

 

I'm going to have to disagree. There are people who have conditions like early stages of degenerative arthritis and have other diseases that don't necessitate the use of a walker or cane, but limit a person in the number of steps they can take. There are also diseases where a person appears to be "normal", but are limited in the number of continuous steps they can take.

 

If a person gets dropped off at the front of the store, and then goes to grab a motorized cart inside the store, it will have appeared from your eyes as if the person was perfectly healthy, when in fact, they're riddled with pain.

 

This happened/is happening to my wife. Don't make the assumption that people are lazy. When people give people with not-so-visible handicaps dirty looks while they're in intense pain, it hurts their feelings in a way I hope you never experience.

[splitterpfj]

Pauly Shore......he always bugged me.

[madcrewfan]

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I'm going to have to disagree. There are people who have conditions like early stages of degenerative arthritis and have other diseases that don't necessitate the use of a walker or cane, but limit a person in the number of steps they can take. There are also diseases where a person appears to be "normal", but are limited in the number of continuous steps they can take.

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Which is fine. I know conditions like that exist. There's a golfer who has something like that they had a big story about a few years back because he wanted to play on the PGA Tour and they wouldn't let him use a cart. Casey Martin I think his name was. You know full well that some of those people are just straight up lazy and have no health problems at all though.

[Brian the Automator]

[ Which is fine. I know conditions like that exist. ]

 

In a previous post, you said that all people who get dropped in front of the store were 'lazy'. The problem is that when you stereotype people like that, feelings get hurt big time.

 

When my wife had to drive a cart around the grocery store because she could barely walk, yet had enough strength to stand up out of the cart and pick up something off the shelf, she got dirty looks... dirty looks from people who were thinking "she must be lazy"... which couldn't be further from the truth.

 

It's bad enough when you have a handicap. It's much worse when something thinks you're "lazy" just because there doesn't appear to be anything outwardly wrong with you.

[thablingster]

While we're kind of on the handicap thing, something that really bugs me is that so many people assume because you have glasses, your vision must be 20/20, and if it isn't you can get glasses which make your vision 20/20.

 

For every person who makes some snarky comment about my glasses and how I'm looking at something so closely, it frustrates me. I know I don't present as a person who is blind, but I'm close enough and I never will have perfect vision, and the fact I have strong glasses gives me the functioning vision I do have. When people sit there and assume because I have glasses I should be able to do this and I shouldn't be doing that, it gets annoying because they just don't understand.

[sbrylski]

My eyes bug me (thanks for the inspiration, bling). Wore contacts for years, then my eyes up and decided to not let me wear contacts anymore. I wear them for more than 5-6 hours and my eyes get bloodshot for a week and I'm blinking once a second. I've tried about 6 different kinds too, and nothing works. It especially sucks for sports.

[DougJones43]

I've tried about 6 different kinds too, and nothing works. It especially sucks for sports.

 

That's exactly how I am. I was on the Brewerfan softball team this year, and could barely make it through a 1-hour game with my contacts. I had to switch to my glasses a few times, which I don't like to do because of the sweat factor involved with sports. I'm also afraid I'll break them if I wear them while playing sports.

 

If I ever accumulate some money, I might like to try Lasik, but I'm afraid that if I do, my eyes might always bother me in a similar way to when I wear contacts.

[1992casey]

My cousin had Lasik backfire. I don't know all the details, but I do know she can't drive at night anymore.

[madcrewfan]

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In a previous post, you said that all people who get dropped in front of the store were 'lazy'. The problem is that when you stereotype people like that, feelings get hurt big time.

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I never used the word "all." Go back and check my posts. I'm careful not to do things like that, because I know the words like "all," "every," etc. encompass everyone or everything, and there are always exceptions to the rule. If I really need to spell it out for you, I have no problem with people who have disabilities (visible or not) getting dropped off in front of a store to make it easier on them. I do have a problem with those who are perfectly healthy doing it simply because they don't want to walk from the back of the parking lot. No, you cannot always tell who has a disability and who doesn't and thus it may be hard to differentiate the two. I have a problem with people who knowingly and willingly do this to avoid walking from the back of the parking lot. I think it's extremely rude and disrespectful to all customers, especially those who do have disabilities.

[homer]

Healthy people that park in handicap spots.

 

My mom has a fake hip and a fake knee and I always think of her when I see this happen. One time I was at Panera on Ogden in Milwaukee and this blond bimbo in a convertible Miata (or something like that) pulls into the handicap spot. She hops out and walks to the door and I say "You know that's a handicap spot" and she says "Yeah, I know" and I say "So are you mentally handicapped because I don't see anything physically wrong with you" and she says "I guess so". I'm not a very confrontational person, but I was glad I at least told this floosie off.

[mothershipconnection]

I'm also afraid I'll break them if I wear them while playing sports.

Only one way to fix that

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/1999/draft/news/1999/06/30/transactions_draft/t1_grant_all_01.jpg

[thablingster]

If I ever played competitive sports, I was so going to do that. lol

 

I looked into it for HS football, but our team completely sucked and the fact no one even came to offseason workouts was kind of a bummer so I decided not to join the team.

[TheEndless7]

Kevin Mench

 

Derrik Turnbow

 

Geremy Gonzalez

 

Dan Kolb.

[thefutureishere2006]

kevin mench bugs me....we just lost to the cubs of course something bugs me hah..

[DougJones43]

Only one way to fix that

 

http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/laugh.gif The only problem is I'd look more like Kurt Rambis than Ho Grant.

 

Perhaps I could pull of the Gagne look though...

 

http://www.endscore.com/blogimages/gagne_eric0118.jpg

[Brian the Automator]

[ I never used the word "all." Go back and check my posts. I'm careful not to do things like that, because I know the words like "all," "every," etc. encompass everyone or everything, and there are always exceptions to the rule. ]

 

You said this:

 

"When I can watch them hop out of the car and walk without the aid of a walker, cane, etc. and see them having no problems moving, they are too lazy."

 

Your blanket assumption that a person who fits that description is too lazy is a slap in the face to those with not outwardly-visible disabilities.

 

Of course, I agree with you that the majority of people who are getting dropped off in front of a store are probably not handicapped. However, lumping the people who are handicapped in that group is stereotyping.

 

And Homer, my wife's probably going to end up getting a handicapped tag for her car because she has degenerative arthritis in her ankles and knees. She's blond, although she doesn't drive a Miata. Would you make the same comment to her that you did to the "bimbo", or does she get a free pass because she drives a Kia?

 

Sorry to be so blunt, but this is an issue that is obviously near and dear to me. When my wife had surgery on her foot and had a walking cast that was basically invisible and chose to do things that "bug" people like taking the elevator up or down one story or get dropped off at the door, she got glares and poeple treated her like dirt. It's because people have these preconcieved notions about what a disabled person a supposed to "look like" that makes their pain even more intolerable.

[mothershipconnection]

One time I was at Panera on Ogden in Milwaukee and this blond bimbo in a convertible Miata (or something like that) pulls into the handicap spot.

I hate that. I used to work at a restaurant and we had one handicapped spot that was maybe 10 feet closer than our regular spots, which were never all filled and rarely half-filled (we did almost 100% delivery orders). I'd see people just hop into the store when you could see they had no handicapped tag and bounce back out. True, it wasn't often they took the spot from someone who needed it, because we only had maybe 4 cars come in per hour, but it irked me to see people so lazy in trying to save 4 seconds. One time, a coworker told a woman "you know that's the handicapped spot, right?" She replied that because the sign was only on the blacktop, and not on a post in front of the spot, it was not legal and we couldn't tell her not to park there. Essentially, she admitted to being lazy and not in need of the spot, and thumbed her nose at us.

I've also known a few people that drove their parents' or grandparents' cars, which had handicapped tags, and they'd park in handicapped spots at the university - because they could.