Grumpy Old Men

[GeneralHankerchief]

The entire American obsession with celebrities. Seriously, we have several magazines, at least one TV channel (VH1 is rapidly degrading into an E! type network), and regular sections in newspapers, normal TV channels, and radio shows about them.

Enough already, we don't care who got into a fight with who, who's getting sued by who, who went where for lunch, and who's promoting for what product line. Just stick to making movies, acting, being funny, looking pretty, or singing. And for goodness sakes, if you're a celebrity strictly because you're either rich for no reason or because you're associated with a more famous celebrity, then do me a favor and hide under a rock. Preferably one in Antarctica.

This is also directed at the *#%! press that reports this *#%! as news. ENOUGH ALREADY!!!

[Kongamato]

I've got more!

The Ozzie Guillen fiasco. Are skins so thin that one raw, un-PC statement might get one of the best managers in pro ball fired? How many people haven't said things like what he says? He's just being himself, a regular guy. Could that possibly be one of the things that makes him a good manager? His real "crime" was insulting a sportswriter, and therefore all of the media and the ESPN talking heads have to stick up for him and they won't let the story die. The media shouldn't be a united front. Laugh it off.

[naut]

People who can't take lossing, and whinge about it. Please learn to lose gracefully.

[discovery1]

People who leave their turn signles on. I hate that. Just rolling down the street in a straight line, not turning yet telling the whole world they are about to.

Also any new age cultist. NO, THERE IS NOThING MAGICAL ABOUT THE MAYA PYRAMIDS!

Oh yeah, that I don't have access to a car in this town where you need one to go ANYWHERE. I'm not even sure the bus network covers the whole town. The one I went on barely went halfway across the city.

And that the handbook with all the bus routes costs 25 cents.

[Somebody Else]

London. Three things. Expensive, exceedingly irritating to travel within and anyone who lives here expects everyone else to come to them.

[naut]

Lawn Mowing!

[GeneralHankerchief]

Hey, don't knock lawn mowing. Until recently it was my only source of income.

[Crazed Rabbit]

The recent spat of ads in Washington, hacked up like a wad of mucous from the same cretins who gave us 'Say Wa' as a tourism slogan, about smoking:
http://www.unfilteredtv.com/view/tobacco_ads.php
(Look at the first two movies)[Only if you're not quesy]

They are disgusting and so outrageous it makes me want to spend $50 to buy a carton and chain smoke them all, just to spite them. Or send donations to tobacco companies. Or stop calling lung cancer 'Geoffery's Disease'*.

And idiots who move to Washington from Cali and then try to change Washington into the new Cali, which makes you wonder why the (@#&$(*ers left Cali in the first place. Especially when they move somewhere and then complain and call in constantly about 'speeders' on the roads near them, when it has been that way for years.

Crazed Rabbit

*A cookie to whomsoever first gets this reference.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Lawn mowing is sort of fun, except when you accidentally run over part of the garden, a rock, metal rod, or large stick, oooooo or my personal favorite a tomoto cage hidden by tall-grass which subsequently gets caught in one of the wheels on your mower deck and then makes the engine spew smoke and makes you think you killed the blades.

Other than those things I do enjoy it though, seriously...

[Avicenna]

People who can't take lossing, and whinge about it. Please learn to lose gracefully.

Even worse are the spoilt brats.

These special individuals do not whinge about losing. No, they never ever ever ever lose, according to them. You simply cannot reason with them, they have to be correct.

[naut]

Even worse are the spoilt brats.

These special individuals do not whinge about losing. No, they never ever ever ever lose, according to them. You simply cannot reason with them, they have to be correct.

Or those who can't win gracefully, when they win they brag and brag and brag. Stop rubbing it in, WHO CARES you won, WOOPDY FREEKIN DOO!!

@ Those who enjoy lawn mowing:

Imagine mowing a large lawn (approx 50-75m squared), with one of these: (Imagine a Strimmer )



EDIT: Crazed Rabbit, those are bad, the ones they show here in Aus are graphic! But not that graphic!

EDIT2: Flippin' Caps Lock, and its close proximaty to the shift button. It forced me to edit twice!!!

(Deleted hotlink pic - Beirut)

[spmetla]

Siblings who get pets to take care right before they leave on vacation for two months!!! I wake up every freaking more to feed my brother's damn fighting cocks, pig, and dogs!!!

People who cruise through the supermarket at a crawl but take up the whole damn aisle and don't let up by!

People who leave a out of date computer at my house for two years and then get irritated when it doesn't work anymore!

People chatting on cell phones or their passengers at a red light and need to be honked at to know the damn light turned gree 5 seconds ago!

[Aenlic]

As a certified and card-carrying Grumpy Old Man, my biggest pet peeve is Grumpy Old Men.

[naut]

As a certified and card-carrying Grumpy Old Man, my biggest pet peeve is Grumpy Old Men.

[Patriarch of Constantinople]

People who can't take lossing, and whinge about it. Please learn to lose gracefully.

EVEN worse then brats and poor sports: Trash talkers. god i hate them. they think its funny to be rasict and stupid behind a headset. i mean its fun to trashtalk on games but these people abuse it. and its mostly kids. yes kids. somehow most kids at age 7-8 can recite every swearword without missing a beat. they whine and call you names.