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     greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 6925 Registered: 5-2001  |
People who constantly hijack threads..... | ||
| Grrrrrrrrrrr Citizen Username: Oldsctls67 Post Number: 404 Registered: 11-2002  |
Art, I sympathize. You can't say ANYTHING to ANYBODY in the Soapboxes. Whether you raise any valid points or not you are going to get shouted down by the pseudo-intelligentsia. | ||
| Hoops Citizen Username: Hoops Post Number: 934 Registered: 10-2004  |
"I don't believe in this diverse community that I would be criticized this way if I was from New York, Black, or Mexican, or handicapped, or Jewish, or this or that, you know, different then the rest of you guys who all look and sound alike... Boring, boring, boring!}" art - you sound really crazy right now. | ||
| Mayor McCheese Supporter Username: Mayor_mccheese Post Number: 1002 Registered: 7-2004  |
people who use the word "pal" | ||
| Robert Livingston Citizen Username: Rob_livingston Post Number: 1769 Registered: 7-2004  |
People who truly believe hitting a formatting key for, say, "italicize" or "14-point type" makes them some kind of artist, or unique in any way. Kind of sad, really. Did homeslice really compare himself to Picasso!? Talk about sounding crazy. | ||
| Mayor McCheese Supporter Username: Mayor_mccheese Post Number: 1003 Registered: 7-2004 |
"I know a lot more about you than you think…" about what? afros? | ||
| WendyP Citizen Username: Meandtheboys Post Number: 3283 Registered: 12-2004  |
Oy vey, yet another perfectly innocuous thread that's turned inexplicably ugly! | ||
| bets Supporter Username: Bets Post Number: 22827 Registered: 6-2001  |
I don't like the "pal" stuff either. | ||
| ajc Citizen Username: Ajc Post Number: 4876 Registered: 9-2001  |
OK, I'm moving on. Keep your Pet Peeve thread. You guys are no fun anymore anyway with all your likes and dislikes… and don’t follow me around either! What a bunch of stiffs! | ||
| Bajou Citizen Username: Bajou Post Number: 73 Registered: 2-2006 |
Well now I have read it all. Two adult people going on and on at each others throat over what?? Posting styles? You got to be kidding me. Cheese: Get over yourself and let people post the way they want (which goes for all the other people who find it sooo horrible) AJC: your style of posting is not your problem but your tone is. I happen to know, like and respect you but if you would ever address me as "pal" I'd have to scratch two out of the three. B | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 8898 Registered: 4-1997  |
 1925 Studebaker Paddy Wagon (is that Monster in the back?) | ||
| Lizziecat Citizen Username: Lizziecat Post Number: 1107 Registered: 5-2003 |
People who move here from Brooklyn or Manhattan or Hoboken and then complain because this isn't Brooklyn or Manhattan or Hoboken. | ||
| Lucy Supporter Username: Lucy Post Number: 3168 Registered: 5-2005  |
I think McCheese is so Hot Hot  | ||
| Lucy Supporter Username: Lucy Post Number: 3169 Registered: 5-2005 |
And I think ajc is wrong, wrong, wrong. And get rid of that afro | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 8899 Registered: 4-1997 |
This is the special edition ajc tag(I can't guarantee it will be around very long) \ ajc { text } | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 5982 Registered: 12-2001  |
Right on Lizziecat!it works, tee hee} My peeve, is the sense of entitlement so many people around here seem to carry like a badge. It goes back to the time I was driving along past the country club headed toward the village when the woman in front of me actually nosed her car through a line of middle school kids who were in the crosswalk on their way to the library. There was a teacher in the center of the road trying to hold up traffic and the woman ahead of me actually slowly moved her car into the crossing kids until they had no choice but to let her pass. I noted the make and model of the car and when I went to park behind Garubo's lo and behold said woman was pulling into her spot. She then proceeded to go TO THE FREAKING DINER. So whatever lunch she had was more important than the kids. And this was just the first in a long line of no-one-else-in-the-world-matters-right-now attitude. An attitude that belongs solely to emergency responders on their way to a call. Another one is the people who work retail around here. Most of them have as much respect for the customer as the aforementioned lady had for the kids. | ||
| yabbadabbadoo Citizen Username: Yabbadabbadoo Post Number: 338 Registered: 11-2003  |
People who take the time to balance their checkbooks while STANDING IN FRONT OF THE ATM!!!FF | ||
| Chially Citizen Username: Chially Post Number: 4 Registered: 1-2005 |
My pet peeve is when ajc posts about anything. | ||
| Innisowen Citizen Username: Innisowen Post Number: 1684 Registered: 3-2004 |
Wow, I go away for a couple of days after enjoying the pet peeves section, and what happens? Pudgy Pancake-boy with the bold lettering and big size fonts is at it again, gassing, bloviating, and passing those verbal farts in front of everyone. Maybe all those pancakes are having a harmful effect on that poster's physical and mental health. He really must have a lot of heartburn to have that much agita. Get rid of the gas, and maybe he'll get rid of his odd ways. One of my pet peeves is posters (like him) who try to intimidate verbally and use bravado to bring across their points. Empty suits, empty heads, but overly full stomachs, I expect. Perhaps fewer pancakes and less pudginess would make an improvement in that poster. | ||
| Innisowen Citizen Username: Innisowen Post Number: 1685 Registered: 3-2004 |
OK, Some more peeves. I am tired of people who talk about someone's getting a "high school degree." Since when have high schools awarded degrees? High schools award diplomas. I am real tired of those who continually say "at the end of the day..." I am equally tired of the equally tiring "no problem," and "no problemo." I peeve at "parameters," "paradigms," "enablers," "measures of performance, "value-add," and "value proposition" because they are so overused and are the first expressions thrown into business discussions by people who most often have no business discussing business. | ||
| Lucy Supporter Username: Lucy Post Number: 3171 Registered: 5-2005 |
I said it McCheese is hot hot hot!!!!! | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 5985 Registered: 12-2001 |
linguistically this one frosts my preserves... When you ask a floor salesperson at a major store, Macy's for example, where something is located and they say "if we have that it would be on the 4th floor." That makes me crazy. | ||
| ess Citizen Username: Ess Post Number: 1425 Registered: 11-2001 |
Innisowen - thank you so much for the use of the word "bloviating". LMAO! I would add to your list of business-related pet peeves: * Saying "out of pocket" instead of the more descriptive "out of the office" * Saying "net net"...anything. What the hell does that even mean? * People who waste valuable time in meetings reiterating someone else's point. And as far as the "no problem" issue - what ever happened to the tried and true "you're welcome"? But I love when people accurately use awesome words like "bloviating". I really admire that. | ||
| CLK Supporter Username: Clkelley Post Number: 2026 Registered: 6-2002  |
ess, see my post above about $3 words.(which Innis responded to, but I guess he doesn't mind peeving me off :-) I suppose I can make an exception for Innisowen. He doesn't irritate me, though I'm not sure why not. What we are talking about IS bloviating, by the way. I got this definition from a website that refuses to render properly in the editor, or I'd give a link:
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| CLK Supporter Username: Clkelley Post Number: 2027 Registered: 6-2002 |
(ps I've met Art C a few times and have enjoyed his company, and I go to his wife's salon to get my hair cut ... so I hope that saying that Innis is forgiven for his bloviating doesn't place me in the "anti-Art" category. Not at all!) | ||
| Tom Reingold Supporter Username: Noglider Post Number: 13008 Registered: 1-2003  |
Another language pet peeve: the misuse of the word "massive." It does not mean really big. It means really heavy.
Wrong! That hole leaves the building less massive than it formerly was. | ||
| Purplebug Citizen Username: Purplebug Post Number: 127 Registered: 10-2005 |
people who don't wipe down gym equipment after they have sweated all over it. | ||
| Rick B Citizen Username: Ruck1977 Post Number: 1018 Registered: 8-2003  |
people who "linger" in a public bathroom...just get out, your hair is fine dude! people who brush their teeth in said public bathroom while other people are taking care of business requirement #2... this might have been said b4...people who talk on their cell phones in the same said public bathroom the fact that a lot of the abrasive attacks have flooded over from the political soapbox into other areas of this message board that used to be so nice and so friendly. my own overuse of the Ellipsis ... (which up until about 2 seconds ago thought was called an ellipse...but it isn't) i can't believe this one hasn't come up...{doht...go away ellipsis!} but the use and overuse of the word "like" the fact that i can't change my username on this message board because i foolishly chose one that clearly represents my age...which results in, well, no need to get into all that... | ||
| mrmaplewood Citizen Username: Mrmaplewood Post Number: 312 Registered: 5-2001 |
People who double up on the word is. "The reason we are fighting in Iraq is,is that..." Anyone else notice this oddity taking hold? | ||
| Tom Reingold Supporter Username: Noglider Post Number: 13024 Registered: 1-2003 |
I noticed that many years ago, mrmaplewood, and yeah, it bugs me. Sometimes, people even triple it. "The thing is, is that ..." | ||
| Purplebug Citizen Username: Purplebug Post Number: 128 Registered: 10-2005 |
People who don't wear proper attire to work or to church. | ||
| ajc Citizen Username: Ajc Post Number: 4877 Registered: 9-2001 |
Dear CLK, Not to worry, I understand the "Anti-Art" mind-set... Listen, anyone who takes any of this on-line nonsense seriously is not living in the real world. Contrary to popular belief I have a very real and magical life, a beautiful wife and wonderful family, a good business for almost five decades, and then of course there's Maplewood on line.... I have to laugh sometimes at how so many people who engage me on-line get so caught up in the day to day drama of what I say and how I say it. I’m far from alone on this board. This forum is a chance for generally normal everyday people to express themselves in ways not otherwise possible in the real world. Can you imagine any of these cyberspace personalities actually saying anything like they do about me to my face? Not on your life! The truth is that being on-line gives many among us a chance to be stars in our own TV Soap series. Day after day the stories go on, and oh’ boy’ do we all love to play our roles. Then of course there’s always the defiant, the obnoxious, the naive, the immature, the insecure, the rude, and those who believe everything they say or do is so significant. I have to chuckle sometimes at how serious it all sounds… yet go to a F2F and everyone is so civil and friendly. It’s a wonderful world if you have a sense of humor and know the difference between what’s real and what’s fictional… Think about it, where else but at "Sbenois Industries" can someone be an important business tycoon and manage all those properties from an eye-in-the-sky? Where else but Maplewood can a “Strawberry” hold sway over so much political power and raise the ire of Democrats throughout the world? Yet in real life these are some of the nicest people you would ever want to meet. And then who else besides AJC can make Aunt Jemima Pancakes the center of such turbulence and controversy? Yes, the personalities, pseudonyms, political persuasions, and the poopy-heads are endless… So go forward CLK and be unafraid and undaunted by the insults and bias opinions of those blinded by the false power of their imaginary autonomy. This is Maplewood on line where reality is fantasy, and fiction is larger than life! Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! | ||
| BGS Citizen Username: Bgs Post Number: 778 Registered: 10-2003 |
Art - Nicely put - Happy Saint Patrick's Day to you and yours as well! ;-) BGS} | ||
| BGS Citizen Username: Bgs Post Number: 779 Registered: 10-2003 |
BACK TO PET PEEVES: people who brush their teeth in the office bathroom and do not wipe out the sink... people who take care of personal business in office bathroom and do not...oh never mind.... | ||
| Zoesky1 Citizen Username: Zoesky1 Post Number: 1412 Registered: 6-2003  |
Purplebug, what do you consider "proper attire" for "work"? Everyone's work environment is different. Do you really have a problem if I wear jeans to work? How does that affect you? Or were you specifically referring to your own workplace? WTF? In that case, who cares -- it's not like you're being judged by what other people wear. If they're not dressing appropriately, they're the ones who are going to get reprimanded or who look stupid. Again, how does that affect you? Does it somehow offend you if someone wears jeans? I'm not trying to single you out, but I just don't get how you could care what other people wear to work (church is another story....i could see how people would be offended if fellow worshippers turned up dressed like slobs). | ||
| Purplebug Citizen Username: Purplebug Post Number: 130 Registered: 10-2005 |
I was waiting...cause I knew somebody wanted to know something.  1st why is there a difference between being offended at work and being offended at church? In my specific place of business we have low cubicle walls so I see things I don't want to see. When someone doesn't dress appropriately, it hurts my eyes. When my eyes hurt I get a headache. I don't like headaches. I don't like t-shirts that are a couple of sizes two small where flesh starts bulging. I don't like having big boobs pushed into my face....I don't need to be breast fed(this applies to man boobs also). And I don't like pants that are too tight where I can give you a gynelogical exam just looking at you; or know the size of your package. It's gross. Now if the office was in the dark, like it was this morning, it would be great. But unfortunately, we have that nice fluro crap that makes everything look worse. Does that answer your WTF? | ||
| Purplebug Citizen Username: Purplebug Post Number: 131 Registered: 10-2005 |
People who show up to a party that was listed as black tie....in a jogging suit. Clothes that have the makers name PLASTERED over it. Example: JUICY, Hilfiger, GUESS, NIKE. But for some strange reason, I don't mind the icons: the guy on the horse (Polo), the crocodile (IZOD). Vegetarians that wear leather. The 'swish' that bald men have. You know when they take that one strand of hair from the right or left, and slick it around (up or down) to the other side. Be proud, either let it hang there, maybe decorate it, or just cut it all off. People trying to talk to you in the bathroom when you are using the toilet. "I'm busy!!!" | ||
| LilLB Citizen Username: Lillb Post Number: 1401 Registered: 10-2002  |
Similar to the peeve about people talking to you while you're in the bathroom stall...I hate when other people start talking to me in the locker room at the gym when either they're naked or I am. Here's a tip - if I'm not wearing any clothes, I'm really not up for a conversation (that doesn't include pillow talk of course  ) | ||
| CLK Supporter Username: Clkelley Post Number: 2029 Registered: 6-2002 |
I guess I don't care what people wear to church - I'm happy to see the pews filled. I wear nice tailored trousers to church myself, however. Art, thanks, and "peace out brother!!" and Happy St. Pat's to you too. And to Innis, who is Irish. Now lads, shake hands and call a truce.  <---A couple of frothy pints for all of ye, here on MOL where there's always good craic | ||
| Innisowen Citizen Username: Innisowen Post Number: 1692 Registered: 3-2004 |
Grand day to all of you, in the spirit of the saint of the most green of all isles. I have been spending my St Patrick's Day enjoying the first really sunny and slightly warm day that Southern Vermont has offered since October. And, by the way, hats off to AJC for a civil post written in a civilised way. |
