Here you can list whatever complaint you currently are nurturing without any real depth or intelligence. Here's mine.
I hate it when other people wear their hats at odd angles. To me, this makes the statement, "I am incapable of correctly operating a hat. Clearly, I am a ***** moron."
The Teletubbies creep me out. This show has no educational value at all, all it teaches kids is how to look at the TV. I was profoundly disappointed to see that the TV's in their stomachs do not actually broadcast any shows. Also, they all seem alike to me, so how anyone can just pick the purple one and say "THAT'S the gay one!" is beyond me. I'm watching it right now, and for the past seven minutes and 27 seconds they've been walking around in circles and saying, "Uh-oh." I pity the actors in those suits.
No one in my dorm room ever flushes the urinal. I'm sure Martha Stewart leaves puddles of fecal matter brewing all over her house.
I am not entertained by baseball. I wish ESPN would go back to normal.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
I can not write thesis statements. They are stupid. (please pick up on the humor there)
I hate sleeping.
Purple is the snootiest color in the spectrum.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
My complaints, as opposed to those who annoy me, are all entirely rational.
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
The gay one has a purse.
"I am incapable of correctly operating a hat." hahaha
Ditto
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Their TVs do occasionally show something.
Frankly, it's even creepier when this happens, as all the other tubbies stand around transfixed by the one who is suddenly producing images, as though they were watching an alien spawn break through its skin.
Which, actually, would be less disturbing.
Be glad this does not happen more often.
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
quote:I hate sleeping.
Well, at least you don't hate being awake.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
I think we should make the police dress up like superheroes and give them super personalities. They wouldn't have any actual super powers- they'd just shoot them (the criminals). But it would make the news a lot more interesting.
This is more of a suggestion than a complaint, but, damn, it sure is irrational.
[ October 02, 2003, 03:03 PM: Message edited by: Book ]
Posted by Fitz (Member # 4803) on :
I love sleeping. I wish there were more hours in a day, only so I could spend them sleeping.
Sleeping is one of those words that loses meaning very quickly when you keep repeating it.
Sleeping sleeping sleeping sleeping sleeping... and so on.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
I also think that one thing that would make Sesame Street better would be a blood feud of some kind.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
Why is it that they don’t sell stamps in the mail room? Does this make any sense? I thought not. We have to mail stuff and pick stuff up in the mail room, but to get the things we need to do so we need to go over to the main office. Whoever thought of that is a genius. This way we can all get plenty of exercise when we mail stuff. Maybe it’ll be like a scavenger hunt, the main office will give us a clue about where the next stop is on our journey. Or maybe I should call it a quest; you never know, we may reach spiritual enlightenment from sending mail. Or maybe our phone bill will just go unpaid.
Hobbes Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
Well this is a dumb thread....
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Hobbes Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
Huh?
Posted by ana kata (Member # 5666) on :
I'm so bummed! Anna posted in some thread that I had just posted in, to ask me to get into parachat, cause she's at work where she doesn't have AIM, and it was 3 hours later by the time I saw it, and so she was gone already, and now I have to wait for the REGULAR TIME to talk to Anna after I was all excited about getting to talk to her early. This is SO UNFAIR!!!!!
Posted by Jexxster (Member # 5293) on :
I am sick and tired of my rear view mirror. Sure, it is there for safety and all, but it is exactly, perfectly in my line of sight unless I slouch. It is like stupid car manufacturers are trying to force bad posture on me.
Posted by MaureenJanay (Member # 2935) on :
Why are you driving from the middle seat?
Posted by Jexxster (Member # 5293) on :
Umm, I mean it is in my line of sight when I look slightly to the right.
Posted by Happy Camper (Member # 5076) on :
It really bothers me when people wear sunglasses on top of thier heads. I'm not sure why. Oh, and don't get me started on capri pants.
Posted by Head Ditch Digger (Member # 5085) on :
What really gets my goat is a bunch of grown people sitting around complaining about things that they cannot or are unwilling to change.
Posted by MaureenJanay (Member # 2935) on :
Hey Jexx, was that banging head aimed at me or you?
Posted by Jexxster (Member # 5293) on :
That was me banging my own head due to my lack of clarity (even though I knew you were teasing).
Oh, and you know what else I hate? Pharmacology. I really, truly, deeply, with all my heart hate it. I know it is important, but, wow, I hate it.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I have a problem listening to people eat. Sometimes at breakfast, when I can't turn on any background music, rather than listen to my roommate crunch not-soggy-enough cereal, I'll leave the room. What's worse is the roommate who sniffs and smacks while eating. But I realize this is irrational on my part and so I don't say anything rude, I mean, they're just eating.
But the worst is when they use eating and drinking sounds effects on the radio. You know what I'm talking about - the opening-the-pop-can sound, follwed by the glug glug glug, followed by a satisfied "Ah!" I start twitching everytime I hear it.
Posted by MaureenJanay (Member # 2935) on :
My mother eats so noisily, I swear she's trying to draw attention to the fact that she's eating. Cereal is the worst. She scrapes the spoon against the bottom of the bowl as she is getting some cereal, like she's scooping up some remaining oatmeal or something, brings it to her mouth and slurps it off, chewing loudly, I don't know how she does it. Then she taps the spoon onto the side of the bowl before getting another bite. My husband and I just sit there, looking at each other and getting nauseous.
Annie, you probably don't like the Carl's Jr. commercials then. Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
i can't stand my roommate. but that isn't really irrational. today she decided to take all the food that my parents sent me out of the box it came in and put it in the shared food box we have. it's MY food, dammit. and earlier i walked in the room to find that the dirty dishes that were on my chair were now on my bed. argh. why the hell is she messing with my stuff? and she's been listening to bruce springsteen for the past week. LOUDLY.
Posted by MaureenJanay (Member # 2935) on :
I once had a roommate that ate my Klondike bars. Now that's going too far. And when I bought Eggos she'd eat one, leaving an uneven number. What am I gonna do with one
(pauses to beat child for touching the keyboard)
waffle???
Posted by Paul Goldner (Member # 1910) on :
I hate people who don't like baseball.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
One of my little brothers stole my fruit snacks this morning and I can't get any of them to admit it. That bag of fruit snacks was imPORTant to me!!
I hate the first week of school in music theory because it's all just review. It bugs me. I know this stuff, could we please get on with it?
I hate it when my conductor thinks I'm more talented than I am. Especially when this conductor is my mentor and someone I want to impress. Why do you want me to sit in the middle of the section? Oh, you think I'm a good sight reader? HA!! No pressure or anything!!
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
My English teacher is driving me crazy. We had this test over Anna Karenina, and afterwords we went over the answers and stuff. Almost everyone in the class had an answer for one of the questions that had been marked wrong. It was right. My English teacher insisted that it was wrong, and said she would talk to the other English teacher, the one who has taught this class for several years, and see what the other teacher said. My best friend is in that class. They were told that the answer key was wrong, and we were right, and their grades were changed accordingly. Today, my English teacher told us that she and the other teacher were in complete agreement about the answer to that question, and we all had it wrong.
I am so aggravated. I don't appreciate being lied to, especially not when the only reason she's lying is that she feels like her honor's at stake. I used to respect her, now I don't respect her, or trust her. Why do people do things like that? It was obvious we were going to find it out, it wouldn't have degraded her in our eyes to admit she was wrong, but lying to us sure does.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
This actually sounds like a rational complaint!! You have every right to be perturbed!! Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
I hate that homework keeps me away from Hatrack. Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
What instrument do you play, Narnia? I used to be a music major. Viola.
Posted by Mr.Funny (Member # 4467) on :
Don't get me started on viola jokes... Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
bw, I don't get it. Both teachers use the same tests?
If the key is wrong, can't one of you find evidence for this in the text?
Is it possible that your teacher is not lying to you, but that your teacher talked with the other teacher and ended up convincing the other teacher, or that the other teacher was mistaken in answering your friend's class, or that your friend misremembered/misinterpreted? It's hard to imagine a professional lying over a single question.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
hehehe! Good viola jokes.
I'm a singer actually...I'm majoring in music ed, so I'm in our (nationally acclaimed *ahem*) Chamber Choir. I also play the piano.
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
HDD...I know that complaining doesn't change anything, but when it is about something I can't do anything about, it sure makes me feel better to complain about it.
Annie...That's not irrational at all. Listening to people eat drives me up a wall sometimes, especially if they engage in excessive smacking or the food is moist (bananas, for example). It also makes me crazy when people mangle their fried eggs before they eat them; if they wanted their eggs scrambled, they should make them that way or order them that way.
And on the subject of teachers who lie...Sorry, no offense meant to anyone, but teachers do lie sometimes, and then they can get vindictive when they are called on it. In college I took a cultural anthropology class that had one required text and one supplemental text listed on the syllabus. The professor assured the class several times during the semester that we would not be tested on the material in the supplemental text. Come the day for the final, half the questions on the blessed thing were on material from - you guessed it - the supplemental text. I had not missed a class, so he had not made a change in policy when I wasn't there. To make things worse, when I asked him about it, he told me that if I said one more word about it, he wouldn't allow me to take the final and he would fail me in the class.
Oh, and this was the same guy who told me - in the same class, in front of everyone - that I was lying when I said that my grandmother's house had a basement after he claimed that houses in California never, ever have basements. I don't know what his trip was, but he needed to come down from it.
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
quote: I hate it when other people wear their hats at odd angles. To me, this makes the statement, "I am incapable of correctly operating a hat. Clearly, I am a ***** moron."
If you can wear it incorrectly correctly, it can provide shade and act as a bandana.
I can't stand it when I accidentally leave my cheez-it's cover open and then they're stale the next day.
I hate it when I have a kink in my kneck that the chiropractor can't fix.
I hate baseball.
I hate it when porn pops up when I'm browsing an otherwise innocent site.
I hate my ISP.
I hate it when I have something hard stuck in my nose and the only way to get it out is to pick, and I broke my finger. I just have to sit and wait for it to dry and fall out and snort mercilessly, trying to not let it go down the wrong end.
I hate Pepsi Blue.
Posted by tonguetied&twisted (Member # 5159) on :
I hate being a worrier.
I hate waiting for guys to call.
I hate complaining. Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
I can't sleep. It happened before but never that hard. A week with erratic sleep drives me down, and I don't wanna think anout what will happen when it willl be two, three weeks... Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
I hate blowing my nose or whiping my butt with single-ply toilet paper. Gah! I just washed my hands for ten minutes...
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
Just reading that makes me want to go shower.
Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
my roommate has the window open and the fan going when it's like 50 outside. GAAAAHHHHH!
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
there's a CENTIPEDE IN MY OFFICE!!!
Posted by Zan (Member # 4888) on :
Why doesn't my son understand that diaper changes would be much easier on the both of us if he would stop kicking his legs so much.
Posted by ana kata (Member # 5666) on :
I can't remember who a lot of the people on my AIM buddy list are. I suppose I could message them when they're online and say "Hey! How do I know you? What the heck are you doing on my buddy list?", but that seems rather rude. I could say hi and try to wing it until I guessed who they were. I could wait in ignorance until they message me, or I see them in the chatroom again. But I just want to know!!!! Occasionally I ask someone else if they've ever heard of this or that name on my list but the answer invariably seems to be no. Is someone sneaking on my computer while I'm asleep and adding random aimnames? <eyes everyone suspiciously> Who ARE you people?
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
um, if you have trillian, you can rename people. i used to have that problem.
and i've asked. i had olivet on for months without being able to remember who she was until i asked.
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
I hate all of these threads entitled "The ____ Thread." They should all go away. They piss me off.
The End.
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
i hate when people try to solve my problems. i'm not looking for solutions, i just want to complain.
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
Icarus, I heard it from two different people. Today my teacher told us that yes, the other class got credit for it but she still thought the other answer was correct, so we weren't. She said if we could find overwhelming evidence to prove our point she would give us credit. This was said with the implication that we would have to find a sentence that said, "they were not this, they were that," using exactly the same words found on the test.
Posted by ana kata (Member # 5666) on :
celia, I SO agree! PARTICULARLY when my complaint is irrational to begin with!
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
Sometimes teachers do aggravating things because they're stupid, not because they're lying.
My eighth grade science teacher was really a farmer at heart. (Just like my seventh grade science teacher was a roofer). He wasn't too bright. On one exam, one of his questions asked us to list three extinct birds.
My first two were something like Dodo and passenger pigeon. My third was Elephant Bird. Now I knew I hadn't heard that in class. I couldn't remember him mentioning three extinct birds in class, but from years of reading science books on my own I was familiar with a number of extinct birds and I put that one down.
I got it wrong. He had never heard of the Elephant Bird, and didn't care to be educated. When I asked what the right answer was, he said, "parrots."
"Parrots?"
Yeah, apparently some parrots are extinct. Well, duh. Using that logic, I could have named any group of birds at all and I'm sure some species or subspecies would be extinct. But put something really legitimate like Elephant Bird (or, I'm sure, Moa) and it's wrong.
UofUlawguy
Posted by tonguetied&twisted (Member # 5159) on :
I hate being irrational!
Why am I such a pessimist? ::sigh::
Posted by wieczorek (Member # 5565) on :
If you really want to make an optimist a pessimist just say that a glass can only stay half full until it evaporates Posted by ikantspel (Member # 5752) on :
quote: If you really want to make an optimist a pessimist just say that a glass can only stay half full until it evaporates
This reminds of a joke I came up with. An optimist will look at this glass and say it's half full. A pessimist will say its half empty. A drunk will say "it's 3/4 full you ass" and smash a beer bottle over your head.
Posted by wieczorek (Member # 5565) on :
Then maybe the drunk was actually just more precise...hmmm...
Posted by ikantspel (Member # 5752) on :
Nope. The glass was filled exactly half way.(forgot to mention that) *smashes beer bottle over Weiczorek's head*
[ October 04, 2003, 08:21 AM: Message edited by: ikantspel ]
Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
The hall in my dorm smells like drunk people.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
quote: It really bothers me when people wear sunglasses on top of thier heads. I'm not sure why. Oh, and don't get me started on capri pants.
Do you also fall into the category of people who hate tennis playing people who tied their sweaters around their shoulders?
I hate the fact that Ontario wasted time and money on a non-counting, province wide high school election! The point of this was to make more young people aware of what it means to vote. Howevre this kind of died in my school since my idiot principal completely neglected to tell any of the students in the school that were were "voting". Thursay morning we find out five minutes before we're supposed to be learning how to make an informed, well-educated "decision". It would have taken a two minute announcement. It makes me SO VERY ANGRY. Everyone was heading to the cafeteria saying things like "I think I'll vote _______ because I like blue." Luckily I had been following the election because I can vote next year (if I ever become a citizen...).
Wow. I'm happy to tell someone about this.
Posted by Happy Camper (Member # 5076) on :
quote:Do you also fall into the category of people who hate tennis playing people who tied their sweaters around their shoulders?
well, no, I don't. I might, but I don't think I watch enough tennis for that sort of behavior to grate on me.
I also just had to add another thing that bugs me, which is people using one word when they mean another. For instance someone mentioned Jason Mraz, who I think has the line in one of his songs "if you've got the poison, I've got the remedy". Now in a general sense, I suppose that could work, but I think he intended it to mean antidote specifically. Lots of other times one word is switched for another, but this is the only one I can think of at the moment.
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