Things that piss you off?

[Sarojaede]

i should own stock in the company, silver. but the truth is the majority of my back pain is not muscular. the muscular pain is secondary; relieving that helps to a degree.

i sincerely think i need a new chair in my campus office. somehow my good chair (not paid for by me, thank goodness) disappeared over the summer. [sighs]

 

[silverwhisper]

get 'em to spring for it, i say.

you know, i knew that: sorry.

ed

 

[Sarojaede]

ahhh...getting them to spring for it would be like getting blood from a stone.

besides, with the restructuring going on here, there may be no English department next year.

 

[silverwhisper]

aren't there any empty offices around? maybe it's in one of those?

ed

 

[Sarojaede]

empty offices are locked, hun, for security purposes and to keep any of our city's homeless from taking up residence in them.

 

[silverwhisper]

all right: i got nothin'.

ed

 

[Sarojaede]

all right: i got nothin'.

ed

[pats silver on the noggin]

'tis okay, hun.

i'll live with the ache in my back. i have for years now.

 

[silverwhisper]

i'd prefer to sit here and silently torture myself for being a sucky friend for not coming up w/ alternatives to that, thankyouverymuch. :>

ed

 

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[Hooper_X]

The wearing of basball caps in any orientation other than brim-straight-foward pisses me off to no end.

 

[Sarojaede]

Originally Posted by Sarojaede
That my back won't stop hurting.

I'm sorry to hear that. If I was closer I'd offer to give you a massage (no jokes from the penis gallery please...i can be a good boy sometimes)

Ah...Scaly, you are too kind, but the pain comes from an old injury. Four cracked vertebra have left me with pain for years, especially when the weather is damp or cold. But a massage would be nice as my muscles end up being strained because I compensate for the pain by tensing those up. [sighs]

(On a bright note, my back did stop hurting this afternoon, which was a very good thing for when I got home.)

Originally Posted by Sarojaede
besides, with the restructuring going on here, there may be no English department next year.

What are they doing?

Well, what aren't they doing. I'll send you a p.m. It's a long explanation.

 

[Sarojaede]

The wearing of basball caps in any orientation other than brim-straight-foward pisses me off to no end.

The wearing of them with the bill in the completely backwards orientation doesn't bother me nearly as much as the wearing of them at some angle between completely backwards and the brim-straight-forward. It is all I can do to not straighten them on my students' heads when they are cockeyed like that.

 

[Hooper_X]

The wearing of them with the bill in the completely backwards.

When kids wear their caps with the brim angled off to the side it merely looks stupid to me. When they have them backward, however, it just screams ASSHOLE.

 

[DarkstarNova]

What pisses me off?

The fact that the postal system can never deliver anything i NEED in a timely manner, but the bills come right on time..

The weather will be lovely all week long, until the weekend comes and I can actually go out, then it will turn to shit.

People that dont call when they are gonna be late.

 

[Hooper_X]

I thought of another one.

It makes me cringe when I see the word "definitely" misspelled "definately." If it was simply a typographical error, it wouldn't be a big deal. However, when I see someone consistently writing "definately," oblivious to the correct spelling of that very common word, I want to smack them. Doubly so, since anyone writing on a computer likely has access to multiple spell checkers. Likewise the, often pseudo-pedantic, use of the nonword "irregardless" makes me gnash my teeth in vexation.

 

[Hellfire75]

80 year old women in front of me on my way to work

 

[Sarojaede]

Hooper--Try having at least half your students use "are" for "our".

 

[Eilan]

Hooper--Try having at least half your students use "are" for "our".

Only half? You our lucky!

 

[Hooper_X]

What pisses me off?

The fact that the postal system can never deliver anything i NEED in a timely manner, but the bills come right on time...

I can appreciate this sentiment. For me, UPS is even worse. At least with the postal service, I know about what time they will deliver an item. Moreover, if I'm not home when they attempt delivery, I can simply pick it up at my local post office. UPS, on the other hand, delivers to residential customers when they damn well feel like it. Their policy seems to be. "stay home all day schmuck and if we get around to it we'll bring your package." Then, if you miss the delivery and they decline to simply leave the package, there's a whole series of hoops you have to jump through in order to get it from their, inevitably, far-flung distribution center. In their defense, you could just elect to have them attempt delivery again at the cost of another day of sitting around with your thumb up your ass.

 

[Sarojaede]

Only half? You our lucky!

[raises an eyebrown at Eilan]

Don't make me bite you!

 

[Eilan]

[raises an eyebrown at Eilan]

Don't make me bite you!

Oh, sorry. Let me try again.

U r lucky?

 

[Hooper_X]

Hooper--Try having at least half your students use "are" for "our".

Spoken or written? Surely you can't mean that your students are writing book reports entitled "Are Town: A Play in Three Acts, by Thornton Wilder."

The your, you're, there, their, they're thing irks me as well. Again, if these were esoteric seldom used words, it wouldn't be an issue.

 

[Sarojaede]

Oh, sorry. Let me try again.

U r lucky?

[brandishes a red pen at Eilan]

Actually, I get far too much of such things as "u" for "you" and "r" for "are" in my students papers as well.

 

[Eilan]

[brandishes a red pen at Eilan]

Actually, I get far too much of such things as "u" for "you" and "r" for "are" in my students papers as well.

I can't believe you'd use a red pen. You know how bad that is for my self-esteem!

 

[Sarojaede]

I can't believe you'd use a red pen. You know how bad that is for my self-esteem!

I'm reserving the red pen just for you.

Normally, I just use a black one.