Pet peeves

[rootsfan]

If you want to personally attack another poster without any repercussions, start your own board. Then you can boot off anyone who dares to object.

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To everyone else, sorry this got so derailed. Please carry on with ye olde pet peeves. I've wasted too much time on this exchange as it is.

 

[ShinigamiSama]

If you want to personally attack another poster without any repercussions, start your own board. Then you can boot off anyone who dares to object.

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To everyone else, sorry this got so derailed. Please carry on with ye olde pet peeves. I've wasted too much time on this exchange as it is.

LOL
I come back and check on this thread on this thread for the first time in a long to see ekky is exactly how I left him
good times

 

[Lorali82]

It's Halloween. My favorite part of Halloween is, undoubtedly, the candy corn. Sometimes, I like to break a handful of pieces into their respective tri-color portions and eat a bunch of the yellow or white parts at once. Sometimes, I like to smoosh them on a plate and run the smooth flat surfaces over my tongue. Candy corn is a good thing. It is not to be fucked with. And I expect to find it in abundance at my local supermarket from Oct. 1st through Oct. 31st. And then I expect to still find it in abundance, but half off.

And so, Brachs, I ask you, what the fuck is up with this "Indian Corn" shit you seem to be churning out this season? I enjoy chocolate. But not in my candy corn. Way to dick it up. Same goes for your "Candy Apple Corn" and your "Autumn Mix" melange bag of non-candy-corn shapes made out of candy corn materials. All of this crap is taking up valuable shelf space where the real candy corn is supposed to go. The real candy corn that I did not fucking find the last time I went grocery shopping (with the exception of the generic kind which comes in that cheap cellophane packaging that's impossible to open without inducing a massive fissure down the entire length of the bag and spilling half of its contents all over the car)! Fuck you, Brachs.

 

[monique1971]

It's Halloween. My favorite part of Halloween is, undoubtedly, the candy corn. Sometimes, I like to break a handful of pieces into their respective tri-color portions and eat a bunch of the yellow or white parts at once. Sometimes, I like to smoosh them on a plate and run the smooth flat surfaces over my tongue. Candy corn is a good thing. It is not to be fucked with. And I expect to find it in abundance at my local supermarket from Oct. 1st through Oct. 31st. And then I expect to still find it in abundance, but half off.

And so, Brachs, I ask you, what the fuck is up with this "Indian Corn" shit you seem to be churning out this season? I enjoy chocolate. But not in my candy corn. Way to dick it up. Same goes for your "Candy Apple Corn" and your "Autumn Mix" melange bag of non-candy-corn shapes made out of candy corn materials. All of this crap is taking up valuable shelf space where the real candy corn is supposed to go. The real candy corn that I did not fucking find the last time I went grocery shopping (with the exception of the generic kind which comes in that cheap cellophane packaging that's impossible to open without inducing a massive fissure down the entire length of the bag and spilling half of its contents all over the car)! Fuck you, Brachs.

Bravo, Lor. I miss ya.

 

[Hamletmaschine]

... Fuck you, Brachs.

I seriously want to fuck you now, after reading that.

And not just your tits, either. :wubwhip:

 

[ShinigamiSama]

It's Halloween. My favorite part of Halloween is, undoubtedly, the candy corn. Sometimes, I like to break a handful of pieces into their respective tri-color portions and eat a bunch of the yellow or white parts at once. Sometimes, I like to smoosh them on a plate and run the smooth flat surfaces over my tongue. Candy corn is a good thing. It is not to be fucked with. And I expect to find it in abundance at my local supermarket from Oct. 1st through Oct. 31st. And then I expect to still find it in abundance, but half off.

And so, Brachs, I ask you, what the fuck is up with this "Indian Corn" shit you seem to be churning out this season? I enjoy chocolate. But not in my candy corn. Way to dick it up. Same goes for your "Candy Apple Corn" and your "Autumn Mix" melange bag of non-candy-corn shapes made out of candy corn materials. All of this crap is taking up valuable shelf space where the real candy corn is supposed to go. The real candy corn that I did not fucking find the last time I went grocery shopping (with the exception of the generic kind which comes in that cheap cellophane packaging that's impossible to open without inducing a massive fissure down the entire length of the bag and spilling half of its contents all over the car)! Fuck you, Brachs.

http://shinigami.ca/stuffage/119376914483.jpg

I agree, candy corn shouldn't be fucked with in any way but this way

 

[Lorali82]

Bravo, Lor. I miss ya.

Thanks, Mo. I miss you too.

 

[Lorali82]

I seriously want to fuck you now, after reading that.

And not just your tits, either. :wubwhip:

I guess I could throw in some avid throat fucking too.

 

[Hamletmaschine]

I guess I could throw in some avid throat fucking too.

I think all your fuck-holes would get a workout today.

 

[monique1971]

Get a room, you two.

 

[trysail]

Ethanol Bust Makes Loser of Bush, Gates, Archer Daniels Midland
By Joe Carroll and Mario Parker

Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Ethanol, the centerpiece of President George W. Bush's plan to wean the U.S. from oil, is 2007's worst energy investment.

The corn-based fuel tumbled 57 percent from last year's record of $4.33 a gallon and drove crop prices to a 10-year high. Production in the U.S. tripled after Morgan Stanley, hedge fund firm D.E. Shaw & Co. and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla helped finance a building boom.

Even worse for investors and the Bush administration, energy experts contend ethanol isn't reducing oil demand. Scientists at Cornell University say making the fuel uses more energy than it creates, while the National Research Council warns ethanol production threatens scarce water supplies.

As oil nears $100 a barrel, ethanol markets are so depressed that distilleries are shutting from Iowa to Germany. An investor who put $10 million into ethanol on Dec. 31 now has $7.5 million, a loss of 25 percent. Florida and Georgia have banned sales during the summer, when the fuel may evaporate and create smog.

``I don't anticipate any sort of immediate rebound,'' says Barry Frazier, the 50-year-old president of Center Ethanol LLC in suburban St. Louis. ``It's going to take 12 to 24 months before the market is able to absorb the large amount of new capacity.''

The biggest producer, Archer Daniels Midland Co., may resort to exporting ethanol. Pacific Ethanol Inc., backed by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, dropped 63 percent in New York trading this year as profits collapsed. Record oil prices, which make blending of ethanol with gasoline more profitable for refiners, haven't stemmed the declines.

Bad Recipe
``Ethanol companies are near break-even at best,'' says Ron Oster, a principal at Broadpoint Capital Inc. in Albany, New York. ``That's not a good recipe when you have $100 oil.''

Corn has risen to $3.795 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade from less than $2.50 in September 2006. Ethanol on the exchange is little changed at $1.865 a gallon, after falling from a peak of $4.33 in June 2006.

The Bush energy plan triggered production by mandating increased use of so-called biofuels, such as corn-based ethanol. The administration proposed raising output in the next 10 years to five times the current target amount for 2012.

The U.S. Senate approved the increase and lengthened the time frame to 2022. The federal government has 20 separate laws and incentives to boost ethanol use, and 49 states offer additional subsidies and supports, according to the Energy Department in Washington.

Benefits Challenged
Scientists question the wisdom of using ethanol. Stanford University researchers say ethanol, originally added to gasoline in the 1970s to reduce tailpipe emissions, does nothing to improve the environment.

``It takes more energy to produce ethanol than it actually gives off,'' says David Pimentel, a Cornell University professor who has studied production of the fuel for two decades.

Ethanol is a form of alcohol indistinguishable from moonshine that's created by fermenting and distilling the starches from corn, sugar, wheat and other crops. Harvesting, crushing, fermenting and distilling corn requires 29 percent more energy than ethanol produces, says Pimentel, a professor of ecology and agriculture.

Michael Wang, an environmental engineer at the Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago, says Pimentel is wrong to include energy spent on making fertilizers and pesticides. Ethanol production results in a 33 percent gain in combustible energy, Wang says.

Fuel Rules
U.S. ethanol inventories swelled to a record 10.3 million barrels in August as production jumped 32 percent from a year earlier and demand growth slowed, the Energy Department said.

Restrictions on the time of year when ethanol can be used in Georgia and Florida are cutting annual demand by about 3 billion gallons, or about 71 million barrels, says Eitan Bernstein, an analyst at Friedman Billings Ramsey & Co. in Arlington, Virginia. The total is equal to 45 percent of current national demand. Gasoline use is 142 billion gallons a year.

Tennessee and Arizona are among states that waived or modified rules to permit more ethanol use. Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin in Atlanta has scheduled hearings for Nov. 27 and Nov. 28 to debate whether to relax fuel regulations. Florida is considering similar changes, says Matt Curran, chief of the state's Bureau of Petroleum Inspection.

`More Friendly' to Ethanol
``We're in the process of trying to make our laws more friendly to the ethanol producers,'' says Jill Stuckey, director of alternative fuels at the Georgia Environmental Facilities Authority.

Georgia and Florida may not increase ethanol use soon enough to deplete the growing supply, Bernstein says. Even with distilleries being canceled or scaled back, so many new mills are under construction that annual U.S. output may reach 11.3 billion gallons by the end of next year, he says.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels in 2005 declared the town of Reynolds ``BioTown U.S.A.,'' pledging to make the hamlet of 550 people a showcase for crop-based fuels.

Reynolds's municipal vehicles run on gasoline that's 85 percent ethanol and diesel made from soybeans. Residents received incentives to buy General Motors Corp. cars that can use more ethanol than conventional vehicles.

Closing Shop
Two years later, after ethanol prices tumbled to a 28-month low, VeraSun Energy Corp. of Brookings, South Dakota, halted work on a 110 million-gallon distillery in the town.

Five other projects have been canceled since Oct. 1, including an Alta, Iowa, mill for BioFuel Energy Corp., which sold shares to the public for the first time in June. The stock dropped 52 percent since the offering, wiping out more than $180 million in market value.

The abandoned projects represent 539 million gallons of annual ethanol output, equivalent to 8 percent of current U.S. capacity, according to William Blair & Co., the Chicago-based investment bank.

Kari Elassal, a spokeswoman for D.E. Shaw Group, didn't respond to a message seeking comment for this story. The New York-based firm's ethanol holdings include stock in VeraSun, U.S. BioEnergy and Sacramento-based Pacific Ethanol, which have declined an average of 55 percent this year.

Metalmark Capital LLC, which manages the Morgan Stanley Private Capital funds and controls 84 percent of ethanol maker Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings Inc., didn't respond to a telephone message seeking comment.

No Financing
Lenders have cut off funds for mills that weren't already under construction when prices began to drop, says Ron Miller, chief executive officer at Pekin, Illinois-based Aventine.

``Today it's very difficult if not impossible to get financing based upon these current margins,'' Miller said on an Oct. 31 conference call with analysts and investors.

As the price slump prompts more distillers to shelve new plants, production growth will slow, allowing demand to catch up with supply, says Mark Miller, an analyst at William Blair. New production will peak in May, then drop to an 18-month low by October 2008. Prices will begin to rebound in July, he said.

``Through the first half of 2008, the weak margin environment will continue,'' says Christoph Berg, managing director at Hamburg-based commodities researcher F.O. Licht. ``There are no real policy measures or easing of the feedstock markets on the horizon.''

Government Help
U.S. distillers' best hope for a recovery rests with attempts by farm-state lawmakers to increase the amount of ethanol in gasoline, Berg says.

Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives and Senate are negotiating on whether a final energy bill should include a Senate plan to increase the so-called renewable fuels mandate to 36 billion gallons a year, more than five times the amount produced now by all 131 U.S. mills.

``Long-term prospects for the industry depend very much on whether a new energy bill requires higher blending targets,'' Berg says. ``Any increase in the mandate would give a psychological lift to the ethanol market.''

Almost one-quarter of the $33.8 billion corn crop is devoted to ethanol, causing food companies to raise prices for tortillas, meat and soda-pop made from corn-based ingredients. Land prices climbed 13 percent in the central U.S. during the second quarter, the biggest increase in at least 27 years, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

Khosla Undaunted
Khosla, the Menlo Park, California-based venture capitalist who 25 years ago helped start Sun Microsystems Inc., is undaunted by this year's slump. He founded Range Fuels Inc., which is building a plant in Georgia that will make ethanol from wood chips.

So-called cellulosic ethanol production will create a ``Richter-scale change in the oil industry,'' Khosla said in an interview, adding the fuel will be cheaper to produce than oil. Range Fuels expects to be profitable at ethanol prices of $1.25 a gallon, he says, more than 50 cents below the current futures price.

As for this year's price plunge, Khosla says, ethanol is a commodity, and ``we have to assume that commodity prices will vary.''

 

[Lorali82]

Can someone please explain to me why "open rebellion on the sea" smells like patchouli? And black pepper?

Not to imply that artisanal soaps peeve me. I actually think they're awesome.

 

[Guest]

my pet peeve is when people get annoyed at others for flirting heavily on a porn board

so what if you feel you HAVE to read the posts.....just shut up about it, it's a PORN board so that means people are going to post pornographic things sometimes (or all the time).....just get over it.....really, put the people on ignore and SHUT THE FUCK UP!!

its a PORN board!!!

 

[ShinigamiSama]

my pet peeve is when people get annoyed at others for flirting heavily on a porn board

so what if you feel you HAVE to read the posts.....just shut up about it, it's a PORN board so that means people are going to post pornographic things sometimes (or all the time).....just get over it.....really, put the people on ignore and SHUT THE FUCK UP!!

its a PORN board!!!

we've got a similar problem on another board
people keep taking stuff seriously when its not even meant to be taken seriously

 

[trysail]

I know this is a very close to, if not an actual repeat. I apologize in advance for taking up your time needlessly, ... BUT, I have got to vent somewhere or I'm going to go nuts.


WHAT THE FUCK IS A.A.R.P. (for the acronym challenged- the American Association of Retired People- ostensibly a not-for profit association that is, in fact, very much "for profit" [of the folk running this masquerade- take a look at what they're paying themselves!]) doing selling mutual funds? I just saw an advertisement and I am enraged by the organization's hypocrisy and abuse of its membership. These people are operating one of the country's biggest rackets.

 

[trysail]

Not all that long ago, Maryland was essentially rural and agrarian. Regretfully, it became the epicenter of the growth of government. Over the course of my life, I have witnessed the cancerous growth of Washington, D.C. with my own eyes. In my youth, that city was a no-account, third rate backwater surrounded by some of the world's most gorgeous countryside. No educated, self-respecting person would have considered residing there. In a mere fifty years, it has become a gridlocked concrete megalopolis, destroying thousands and thousands of acres of farmland in the process. Washington's sewage, the runoff from its vast pavement, and its urbanization are largely responsible for the utter destruction of the Chesapeake Bay (take my word for it, the Chesapeake has been destroyed). The place has always attracted the worst elements of civilization- lobbyists, lawyers, influence peddlers, government apparatchiks, bureaucrats, meddlers and the blaberati- all feeding at the bottomless trough of government. Along the way, it became a hellhole.

 

[Ekserb]

In every sci-fi movie made since the invention of Cyalume Light Sticks, the liquid chemical that turns people into zombies, or gives the bad guy superhuman strength, or transforms household pets into raging, blood-thirsty monsters, is always glowing green. Always. Never glowing blue. Or red. Green.

Isn't this plot device tired by now? Doesn't everybody know that stuff is non-toxic? I mean, you can drink it and your piss glows green for fuck's sake. (I've seen it done, although I'm not vouching for its flavor.)

Just once I'd like to see the villain push an IV of what looks like water and start to wretch and heave, becoming the World's Baddest Ass without needing to have the contents of a chem-light in his bloodstream.

"Acting!"

"Genius!!"

(Bonus points if you know where that last obscure reference came from.)

 

[monique1971]

"Acting!"

"Genius!!"

(Bonus points if you know where that last obscure reference came from.)

Thank you! *dramatic bow*

 

[Ekserb]

Thank you! *dramatic bow*

Extra special bonus points if you name the actors in that skit. No cheating.

 

[monique1971]

Extra special bonus points if you name the actors in that skit. No cheating.

Jon Lovitz was one, but I can't remember the other.

 

[Ekserb]

Jon Lovitz was one, but I can't remember the other.

John Lithgow.

 

[BeingElly]

Just because I posted pics does not mean I want to talk dirty to every dude thats bored at work

Amen sista friend!

 

[monique1971]

John Lithgow.

I guess this means I don't get the extra special bonus points.

 

[Ekserb]

I guess this means I don't get the extra special bonus points.

Hey, you got the non-special bonus points. Don't get greedy.

 

[Ekserb]

Almost six months and no peeves? WTF?!?

When someone posts a question asking the women of Lit to chime in with their fantasies, this does not mean that every fucking male member has to respond to the first woman's post with "God, that was hot," or "Wanna chat on MSN?"

Listen you dry-humping, potato-chip-eating, living-in-your-parents'-basement fucktards, not everything requires your feedback.

There was one recent thread asking women about a topic, to which a single female responded, and then two pages of men decided it was incumbent upon them to tell her how amazing it was to read her story.