What are your pet peeves?

[Alex]

If you're going to attempt to insult me, make sense in the attempt.

In a confrontation with an angry man and his friend at a gas station over the weekend they called me, within seconds of each other, a "fat wop" and a "punk ass nig ger."

First of all. Who the hell says "wop" any more?

[Not Afraid]

Does my ass look punk in these jeans?

[Ponine]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

If you're going to attempt to insult me, make sense in the attempt.

In a confrontation with an angry man and his friend at a gas station over the weekend they called me, within seconds of each other, a "fat wop" and a "punk ass nig ger."

First of all. Who the hell says "wop" any more?

Can I just intergect that knowing you, neither of these 'insults" makes one damn bit of sense?

[Alex]

Well, I am fat.

[Moonliner]

You DON'T need to stop for an ambulance on the other side of a divided hiway.

If you are on a main road, don't just suddenly stop to let someone turn right off a side street.

Don't stop to dial your cell phone in the middle of the road.

You ARE allowed to actually go the speed limit. You can even go a little bit faster without fear of being flogged.

Your hi-beams have NO use in a densely populated area.

Thank you.

[Ponine]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Well, I am fat.

well, okay, if you say so.
But I reserve that word for people much, much larger than you. Or larger than me.... since I dont want to use that word on myself, i cant say it about you.

But.... yeah.... wop????

And what kind of description is punk?... I'm with NA...

[Alex]

Ok. This is thoroughly off topic but makes me curious.

What is your honest guess of my weight (don't worry about hurting my feelings and if anybody else has guesses to offer I'm interested; public or PM)?

[BarTopDancer]

Alex,

I have seen you in person, and while I don't even care to guess your weight (because numbers are misleading) you are not fat. Unless you gained a ton of weight between the last MA and now. No, you are not waif thin, but you are not fat.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

I realize this is a gold standard complaint, voiced many times before by many, many people, but I'm going to be peeved here anyway.

People who talk in movies. Bad. And, everyone pretty much (unless they're the ones talking during the movie) that it's bad.

But it also grates my cheese when people talk during the previews.

I don't mind gasps of giddy anticipation. I don't mind, "Oh, I was really hoping to see this!" I don't. In that way, I talk during the previews, too. Shared excitement gets my approval.

But people who carry on their unrelated conversations irritate the crap out of me. The trailers are, as far as I'm concerned, part of the movie going experience. Very likely, they'll be the best thing about the movie I've paid to see.

When the lights go down, zip it!

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

When the lights go down, zip it!

I'm so with you on this one.

Awhile back I went to a movie, it was late enough that no kids should have been there, yet almost as soon as the movie started people started yelling at the screen. Some of them even got up and danced, or sang along. It was very distracting. Fortunately I happened to have some toast with me that I was able to throw at them!