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Shadow

Quote from: Ash on March 09, 2009, 08:47:30 PM
I also dislike it when people turn into a parking spot and don't bother to straighten their car out.  Their car will be parked at an angle in the parking space.
It takes 10 seconds to put it in reverse and straighten the car out in the parking spot.  But these people are just too lazy to be bothered.
One of my neighbors drives one of those huge Ford F150 trucks and he does that crap all the time.   :hatred:

This seems to happen more and more often. I don't recall seeing it that much 10 or 20 years ago, but these days I see it all the time. Just last week we went out to eat and as we were walking through the parking lot into the restaurant, I noticed at least five cars that were parked that way. Some were so bad, that it would have been extremely difficult for another driver to park in the adjacent spot. It just flat out annoys the hell out of me because as you said, it's just lazy as hell to not take a few seconds and straighten the vehicle. Its also indicative of a selfish/self absorbed mind set. These folks are not only lazy, I think they are so oblivious to what is going on around them that many of them are totally unaware of their craptastic parking skills.

It's when I see cars parked like this that I fantasize about having super powers. Now, I'd never damage their cars or harm their property, but I'd like to make it rather inconvenient for them to get back into their cars, say...by moving it to the roof of the closest building. :teddyr:
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Quote from: doggett on March 09, 2009, 09:21:39 PM
People who hate ST Voyager !!!

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(Incidentally, once I have met and gained the autograph of Jeri Ryan, I have a full set of 10  :teddyr:)
Where the hell is that soothing music coming from?

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Quote from: meQal on March 09, 2009, 10:21:51 PM
Chihuahua, or as I call them Tribble Dogs. If there ever was a breed of dog that needed euthanised in mass it's the Chihuahua. These yapping little walking crap factories need to be eradicated from the face of the Earth.

They're dogs? Really? I thought they were rodents!
Where the hell is that soothing music coming from?

schmendrik

Quote from: Shadow on March 10, 2009, 12:32:44 AM
Quote from: Ash on March 09, 2009, 08:47:30 PM
I also dislike it when people turn into a parking spot and don't bother to straighten their car out.  Their car will be parked at an angle in the parking space.
It takes 10 seconds to put it in reverse and straighten the car out in the parking spot.  But these people are just too lazy to be bothered.
One of my neighbors drives one of those huge Ford F150 trucks and he does that crap all the time.   :hatred:

This seems to happen more and more often. I don't recall seeing it that much 10 or 20 years ago, but these days I see it all the time. Just last week we went out to eat and as we were walking through the parking lot into the restaurant, I noticed at least five cars that were parked that way. Some were so bad, that it would have been extremely difficult for another driver to park in the adjacent spot. It just flat out annoys the hell out of me because as you said, it's just lazy as hell to not take a few seconds and straighten the vehicle. Its also indicative of a selfish/self absorbed mind set. These folks are not only lazy, I think they are so oblivious to what is going on around them that many of them are totally unaware of their craptastic parking skills.

It's when I see cars parked like this that I fantasize about having super powers. Now, I'd never damage their cars or harm their property, but I'd like to make it rather inconvenient for them to get back into their cars, say...by moving it to the roof of the closest building. :teddyr:

I once was listening to a radio DJ talk about his brand new car and how he was afraid to get a scratch on it, so he was parking it diagonally in the company parking garage. I was stunned to realize there are people who are so selfish they actually do that on purpose and don't think there's anything wrong with it.

ER

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. .. Or "Whatcha doin'?". I understand it when it's a kid and they really don't know, , but, when you're sitting in the break room with a newspaper in one hand and a lit cigarette in the other, , it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out.   
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Young horror fans who think the words "scary" and "gory" are synonyms.

People who say of older animation, "it's pretty good for its time," as if artists had suddenly gotten much better at drawing pictures since the 1930s.   (Saw this as a comment on Max Fleischer's GULLIVERS TRAVELS). :lookingup:
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Ash

#98

I dislike getting into a "vehicular clusterf**k".
I'm sure you've been in one of those before.

It's when you get into the middle of a group of 8-15 cars and are simply unable to escape from it. 
There are cars going slow in front so passing them is out of the question.
You can try to switch lanes but it won't matter because someone will be blocking you.  Or sometimes you can't switch lanes at all.
Aside from pulling over and coming to a complete stop, you are essentially trapped within this particular group of drivers.

In front and behind the group, there is no traffic, just open road.  But you can't get to it.  AHHHH!!   :hatred:

ghouck

What is with these A-holes I've been encountering lately? They are at a stop sign (there are no stoplights within 100 miles of where I live), and you see them stop, look both ways, , then start going through, then they LOOK IN THEIR MIRROR and STOP AGAIN. what the heck, as if they are doing it just to p**s the people behind them off. I watch a guy drive down the street and roll through EVERY stop sign. Then, I turn in behind him, and they make it a point to stop at the next sign, wait, start going, stop again, wait, look both ways again, roll forward a foot or two, stop again. What is with these morons, didn't their parents pay them enough attention when they were kids so they're looking for it now? We're also seem to have a bunch of these morons that go down the road at 40 in the 25 zone, but as they approach you, they gradually slow down to 5 F-ing mph apparently in an attempt to waste as much of your time as possible. I've had people do this to me, and also witnessed the person in front of me doing it. I think Gallager had it right: we all get issued a dart gun that fires a little flag that permanently sticks to someone's car that says "stupid", so everyone knows you are an idiot if you do enough stupid crap the people start pegging you, and if you have a dozen or so, you get a ticket, or maybe a public beating.
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Wag

I dislike things and people that spoof the "The 1st rule about Fight Club is....". It wasn't funny when Fight Club came out so it definitely isn't now, 10 years on.
Where the hell is that soothing music coming from?

Doggett

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Americans who claim that they're some how Irish, just because a few hundred years ago they had an Irish relative...

Americans poor attempts at an Irish accent.

Irish drunk jokes that appear in US sitcoms and movies

In fact, the US and Ireland should probably just stay away from each other.
                                             

If God exists, why did he make me an atheist? Thats His first mistake.

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The fact the Irish get one day in the States to themselves.  How about the Germans, Poles, etc...
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