Pet peeves

[trysail]

I don't think Trysail likes liberals.
Just a crazy guess.
I love NPR, myself. I don't know where I'd be without it.

Nah. I don't mind liberals ( Beep... beep... beep. Warning... warning... warning. Undefined term !!! ). What I don't like is innumeracy, fiscal profligacy, vote-buying demagoguery, believers in free lunches and other people spending my money.

 

[Ekserb]

Nah. I don't mind liberals ( Beep... beep... beep. Warning... warning... warning. Undefined term !!! ). What I don't like is innumeracy, fiscal profligacy, vote-buying demagoguery, believers in free lunches and other people spending my money.

I've figured it out: Trysail is Jesse Jackson's online alter ego. If you read the quoted material (especially the part I bolded) with a Jackson accent, it all makes sense.

My peeve of the day: Jesus freaks. Can't stand 'em. When someone says to me, "Have a blessed day!" I just want to spin around and kick in their fucking teeth.

I fixed someone DSL today and they obliged me with, "God bless you for fixing this! We were lost without the internet!"

What ... the ... fuck?!? Do yourself a favor and next time your dog chews through the phone line, pray that god delivers the mutt unto the lord's doorstep so he won't do it again. And while you're down there on your knees, take a look at the cord before making a call to tech support — the fucking rotten section was right out in the open you blind fuck. I think that's "what Jesus would have done."™

 

[Ekserb]

People (men, on this site in particular), who post a comment on a woman's picture using phrases like "perfect composition," "great lighting," and/or "amazing use of symmetry!" These words apply about .001 percent of the time, and using them for low-quality porn just makes you sound desperate and stupid. Stop doing this. Now.

 

[monique1971]

I fixed someone DSL today and they obliged me with, "God bless you for fixing this! We were lost without the internet!"

For some reason, the thought of someone saying this made me laugh out loud. I don't really think God has much to do with the internet, or with the fact that Ekserb works for the DSL company.

I could be wrong, I suppose. I've heard He works in mysterious ways. God, that is, not Ekserb.

 

[Ekserb]

For some reason, the thought of someone saying this made me laugh out loud. I don't really think God has much to do with the internet, or with the fact that Ekserb works for the DSL company.

I could be wrong, I suppose. I've heard He works in mysterious ways. God, that is, not Ekserb.

God is always breaking people's internet (testing the faith, dontcha know). I'm here to clean up the mess.

 

[Ekserb]

I just read this on CNN.com (highlights mine):

Teenagers and young adults have adopted text-messaging as a second language. Americans 13 to 17 years of age sent or received an average of 1,742 text messages a month in the second quarter, according to Nielsen. And according to one survey commissioned by CTIA, 4 of 10 teenagers said they could text blindfolded.

Yeah. No shit. So could my dog. It's easy to type blindfolded when you don't have to spell anything correctly.

 

[Ekserb]

"Did someone just call me?"

If you see a number on your Missed Calls list and you don't recognize it, don't just call that number and ask, "Did someone just call me from this number?"

Check your voicemail first! Maybe it was a wrong number. Maybe they don't need a callback. Maybe they left an important message and then turned off their phone.

Even worse is that today's "youths" think that calling someone and not leaving a voice message is the same as asking for a callback.

Them: "Why didn't you return my call?"

Me: "I'm sorry. Did you ask me to call you?"

Them: "Dude, I called you!"

Sometimes I wish everyone under 25 would just die.

 

[Ekserb]

Enough!

I am pretty sick and tired of auto-play music on people's MySpace pages. First, it slows down the page load time, then I'm assaulted with whatever garbage they think is good music (and don't you know that no one seems to have the same taste in music as I do?).

Of course, this only happens after I've been viewing some low volume internet video, so my speakers are turned way up. Fuckers.

 

[Spankbank]

Of all the presidential politics, it all lies, even the hockey moms fake gosh darnits....they are all bastards and shes a ho.

 

[Pinktacokitty]

Grow Up

The geek dork counter guy at CVS when I buy condoms, and ky. He has to comment on how he likes the warming ky, fucking dork has never got laid, must like to use it jacking off.

 

[Ekserb]

Get it right!!!

These are wrong. If you know they're wrong, you're fine. If you can't see anything wrong with these phrases, look it up and learn, you fucking idiot.

• your so hot!
• this has peaked my curiosity
• I would of done it myself
• their going to the store in there car
• let me *quote* you on that
• let me _quote_ you on that
• i like to eat yes i said i like to eat and i like run on sentences

I know there are a thousand more, but these pissed me off today.

Okay, they pissed me off in the last hour. Hot holy FUCK, you people are stupid.

 

[Pinktacokitty]

These are wrong. If you know they're wrong, you're fine. If you can't see anything wrong with these phrases, look it up and learn, you fucking idiot.

• your so hot!
• this has peaked my curiosity
• I would of done it myself
• their going to the store in there car
• let me *quote* you on that
• let me _quote_ you on that
• i like to eat yes i said i like to eat and i like run on sentences

I know there are a thousand more, but these pissed me off today.

Okay, they pissed me off in the last hour. Hot holy FUCK, you people are stupid.

Something else that pisses me off, fucking english teachers on fucking sex sites.

 

[Daizie]

Eeep.

Please do not feed the English teachers. Or the Ekserbs.
And please, for the love of all that is holy, do not engage them in spelling wars!!

I haven't been here in so long. I missed you all. Well, maybe just Monique. And Trysail's multi-colored font usage. And Ekserb, only because I agree with him.

 

[Ekserb]

Something else that pisses me off, fucking english teachers on fucking sex sites.

So I guess you couldn't see anything wrong with what I typed in that post? Okay, got it.

 

[Pinktacokitty]

So I guess you couldn't see anything wrong with what I typed in that post? Okay, got it.

You are free to assume anything you would like.

 

[Ekserb]

You are free to assume anything you would like.

Just how long have you been waiting to use that little tidbit?

If you're going to attempt an insult, at least try to be original. Or funny. Or intelligent.

EDIT: I don't mean to suggest that you have to be any of these things - you're a pretty girl and all you have to be is pretty. Smart or funny have absolutely no bearing on your ability to woo the masses. Especially on this site. In fact, all you need to have here is the suspicion of a vagina and you're on top of the world.

See how I did that? I transformed this into another pet peeve!

 

[monique1971]

Hi Daizie! *smooch*

Here's my pet peeve....dampness and mold in my basement that will cost thousands of dollars to remedy. Okay, I guess that is not so much a peeve as simply a bad thing. Still. I am annoyed.

Ekserb, your so hot.

 

[Ekserb]

Ekserb, your so hot.

Your "fuck me all night long" card just lost half its value. Only half because I know you did that on purpose.

 

[PinkFurball]

So I thought this guy at work asked me out on Friday. I mean, I assumed it was supposed to be a date and all since i'd never spoken to him before and he told my friend he thought I was cute. We go to lunch today. Twenty minutes in he mentions he's dating someone else and this was never supposed to be a date. Just wanted a lunch buddy. Fucker.
I'm sorry. It was a date. It's fine if you're not feeling it or me or whatever. You know what you do when that happens? You say, "thanks for lunch, see you around." And don't ask me out again. My tears will dry up someday, I promise. Don't fucking insult my intelligence and tell me I made some crazy assumption that this was supposed to be some sort of "date" just cause you want an out.

 

[Daizie]

Ekserb, your so hot.

Mo'! http://img2.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/animated/anim_16.gif

Sorry about your mold problems. However, this made me laugh. A lot.

 

[trysail]

In all honesty, this doesn't really qualify as a pet peeve; in fact, it's an absolute impossibility since I'd never heard of anything like this before (and sincerely hope never to hear about anything like it again). The truth is I was so utterly appalled and astonished that I didn't know where else to post it. Unfortunately (for you), Pet Peeves "won" by default (don't take it personally, eh?)

Ahhhhh, humanity— thou art, well..., human. Sorry folks.
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Tanzanian Albino Girl Murdered in Ritual Killing, African Says
By Sarah McGregor

Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- An albino girl was murdered and dismembered in northern Tanzania on Oct. 19 in the latest ritual killing linked to witchcraft, the African reported.

The attackers fled with some of the primary school student's body parts, the Dar es Salaam-based newspaper said today, citing Joseph Mayala, a ward councilor for the town of Segese. Earlier that day, President Jakaya Kikwete met with albinos at a rally in Dar es Salaam and vowed to develop policies to protect them, the African added.

At least 47 witch doctors and middlemen have been arrested for the murder of more than 30 albinos in the east African country this year, according to Tanzania's Albino Society. Some Tanzanians believe potions made with albino body parts and blood can bring prosperity and good health.

 

[Ekserb]

Why would anything that comes out of that continent shock you?

"Oh, my GOD! Did you read this? It says they kill albinos and make soup from their body parts! How terrible! I can't believe ... wait. This was in Africa? Oh, okay. I can see that."

I mean, what did you expect. We took away their right to slaughter elephants for their ivory. They needed to kill something to restore "prosperity and good health."

 

[trysail]

I've mentioned this before; apparently, someone else finally noticed.

This is one small example of the fucking bullshit that goes on in D.C. (a horrid place to live not the least of which is due to the fact that it is full of self-important, arrogant, pompous asses). I've known for decades that the Smithsonian was corrupt and full of feather-bedding. It is one of those incredible rackets ( AARP, National Geographic and the World Bank are others ) that work very hard to keep the public from knowing of their royal lifestyles. The AARP, National Geographic and the Smithsonian should be stripped of their tax-exempt status ( AARP operates vast— and quite profitable— retail and insurance businesses; the Smithsonian's profit-making enterprises include both publishing and retail businesses. National Geographic may be the worst offender of all with its retailing and broadcasting empires ).

Lawrence Small is deserving of some "hard time."

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Smithsonian's New Chief Shares Pay Cuts, Lost Perks With Staff
By Kate Andersen

Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The top executive at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington is having to get by on a lot less these days.

Gone are the private chartered planes, the $1.2 million housing allowance, the designer upholstery and $2,000 chairs. Lucrative corporate-board memberships are off limits, too.

Instead, G. Wayne Clough, who took over as secretary of the world's largest museum complex in July, walks to work and flies coach. He makes barely half what his predecessor did, and 16 of his executives are having their pay slashed by as much as $80,000 each in five years.

``The Smithsonian's board of directors were disengaged,'' Senator Charles Grassley said of the free-spending ways that led to last year's resignation of Secretary Lawrence Small and four other top executives, under pressure from Congress.

Grassley had threatened to freeze funding after the Washington Post, an independent panel and the museum's inspector general reported on Small's spending habits. These included a $31,000 bill for designer Berkeley striped upholstery, a $2,535 tab for a chandelier cleaning, and a $4,000 heater for his lap pool, according to the Post, which obtained internal documents.

The threat was withdrawn after Small, a former president of Fannie Mae, stepped down, according to Jill Kozeny, a spokeswoman for Grassley, an Iowa Republican.

``We need to make the administration of the Smithsonian as good as the institution itself,'' Clough, 67, said in an interview. His goal is to modernize the Smithsonian, in part by digitizing its vast collection, and head the first capital- fundraising drive for the entire complex, which gets 70 percent of its $1 billion budget from the federal government.

New Management
His appointment was part of a management overhaul at the 162-year-old institution. Last month, the 17-member governing board elected Patty Stonesifer as its new chairwoman. She assumes the position in January.

Stonesifer, who recently left her position as chief executive of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will take over from Chairman Roger Sant in January. She'll fill a post created to boost oversight of the 19-museum complex, whose more than 136 million artifacts include everything from the 45.52 carat Hope Diamond to the Wright Flyer, the first successful airplane.

The museum's board also responded by cutting the pay and perks of top executives and prohibiting board memberships.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars were shaved off the secretary's pay -- Clough's base pay is $490,000 -- and other executives will have their compensation set in line with government salaries. Fearing a rapid exodus, the museum won't put the reductions into effect for five years.

Changed Philosophy
``We decided to change the compensation philosophy,'' said spokeswoman Linda St. Thomas. ``Instead of basing it on the private-sector market, we'll base it on federal salaries.''

Under the new rules, employees can no longer demand to stay at five-star hotels, use private car services when they travel short distances, or attend events such as concerts and music awards free.

Clough, a civil engineer who was president of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta for 14 years until 2008, said he often walks to work from his home along Washington's waterfront. He's also had to resign from all corporate boards.

He makes do with no housing allowance, and all his travel must be approved by the museum's chief financial officer. He said he prefers to fly coach anyway. ``If anybody wants to know what I'm paying for a flight, they are free to find out,'' he said.

`Lavish and Extravagant'
Small, 67, still sits on the boards of Marriott International Inc. and Chubb Corp. By the time he left, his annual salary was $916,000 and he earned millions more on outside work during his seven years at the helm, according to the independent panel's report.

A separate report by the museum's inspector general found ``no evidence of fraud or abuse,'' though it said some expenses ``might be considered lavish and extravagant.''

Small couldn't be reached for comment.

The governing board's decision to tap Clough as the Smithsonian's 12th secretary marks the return of a tradition: Small was the first secretary who wasn't a scientist or an academic. He was president of Fannie Mae from 1991 through 2000 and before that spent 27 years at Citicorp.

The capital-fundraising drive that Clough is planning will be the first for the entire institution, St. Thomas said, although many campaigns have been held for individual museums.

There had been talk of raising $1 billion during a five-to seven-year campaign. ``With the economy the way it is,'' said St. Thomas, ``Clough would never say that now.''

``The economy will affect us the way it does every nonprofit.''

 

[monique1971]

People who ask me, "Are you ready for Christmas yet?" They make Christmas sound like a hurricane that's due to make landfall on the 25th. Am I supposed to get batteries for my flashlight? Lay in a stock of bottled water?

 

[Ekserb]

I miss this thread so much I could cry.