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Ugh, my last roommate did the same thing with her boyfriend... nevermind the fact that our other roommate and myself had specifically said we weren't comfortable having him around after he pulled a knife on someone else at our halloween party (then paced up and down our hall LICKING said knife and generally being a violent psychopath) she apparently decided it was totally cool to just let him hang around our living room watching TV all day and eating everything in the house. Without warning us. So glad I moved out of there. Recently, some of my Facebook friends have shown a disturbing trend of going off on bizarre angry tangents in the comment sections of random status updates... like my supervisor going on an essay-long screed about how much he loving detests fat people (many of my coworkers are fat AND we're all Facebook friends, so they all saw this), or a pregnant friend going off on someone's "yay vacation time" post about how she's a better person because she chose to have a baby instead of spending all her money having fun. It's one thing to blast your opinions all over your own stupid wall, but putting that poo poo on other peoples' posts where it'll be seen by all THEIR friends/family too? Why would anyone think that was appropriate?
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May 6, 2015 05:19
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Rurea posted:People that insist on telling you without provocation any time something unfortunate/mundane/stupid happened to them. Especially because its obvious they want a response from you to feel bad for them or comment or laugh or whatever. Oh?
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May 6, 2015 05:22
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*sigh*" Well I have no car for the rest of the week"
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May 6, 2015 07:53
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The word "fam." When did it start and why is anyone saying it.
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May 6, 2015 08:02
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CrotchDropJeans posted:I'm sorry man Thanks.  I try to forgive my folks as much as possible; kids don't exactly come with an owner's manual. They thought they were making me tougher, when all they did was shred me. I need to find another good therapist.Thread content: People who call you, offering 'computer services.' Why yes, of course I'm going to give all my access information to some man on the phone who barely speaks English. And yes, let me give you my credit card information, too. What could possibly go wrong?
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My mother was also raised by a Mommy Martyr, and she had to go through a lot of therapy to learn how to accept the fact that she didn't ruin her mother's life, that the problem was with my grandma and not her, and that she's a good person who is entitled to live their life without feeling like a burden. Children should never feel like they're a burden merely for existing.
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Khazar-khum posted:Thread content: People who call you, offering 'computer services.' Why yes, of course I'm going to give all my access information to some man on the phone who barely speaks English. And yes, let me give you my credit card information, too. What could possibly go wrong? I ran into a situation like this at work with an employee of a client, who got some kind of ransomware on their home PC. She was asking all these questions and brought up that she called the number that the ransomware gave her, and even allowed remote access into her PC before freaking out and shutting it off. It baffles me how clueless people can be when it comes to this stuff - she ended up taking her PC to a local repair place to get it cleaned, but goddamn that's idiotic. "Sure, let me just give some complete stranger access to my PC that has all my personal information, tax records, passwords, and everything else they could use to steal my identity and ruin my life!  "
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May 6, 2015 13:57
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May 6, 2015 15:27
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Rurea posted:People that insist on telling you without provocation any time something unfortunate/mundane/stupid happened to them. Especially because its obvious they want a response from you to feel bad for them or comment or laugh or whatever. My boss does this. She also interrupts 95% of my sentences to say, "Yeah yeah yeah" or "I KNOW....that's what I'm SAYING" Every single suggestion or comment or thought you express, she cuts you off to tell you that she's already thought of that/been there/done that. And she hasn't. She refers to herself as my "mama" (I'm almost 40), and today before she left for lunch, she told me to behave myself. And I share an office with her, and she sits behind me with an eye-line to my computer. I'm only typing this now because she's at lunch for 7 more minutes still. 
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Gestalt Intellect posted:The word "fam." When did it start and why is anyone saying it. Just relaxin' with the fam jam! #family #blessed
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May 7, 2015 01:57
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Currently experiencing this peeve: when I'm at work and someone calls me and asks for an email address or fax number so they can send me a document then say they'll call back to confirm if I received the document and they never send the document or call back. It's always overseas travel insurance companies that insist they need to send all this documentation before their client can be approved for a medical service (even though we'll do the tests upfront if the patient has a membership number / proof of insurance on them and we don't require pre-authorization) and then it never arrives and I never hear back from them. It happens at least a couple of times a week and does my head in.
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May 7, 2015 04:09
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People telling me to loving use my vote. Yeah, sure, I'll legitimise a lovely corrupt bureaucracy just because you want me to.
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May 7, 2015 12:18
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Rabbit Hill posted:She refers to herself as my "mama" (I'm almost 40), and today before she left for lunch, she told me to behave myself. Being a guy, its always funny watching old women trying to collect and mentor young women in the workplace. Especially the inevitable blow up when a girl doesn't take to it or a competing mother hen shows up.
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May 7, 2015 14:11
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Irish Joe posted:Being a guy, its always funny watching old women trying to collect and mentor young women in the workplace. Especially the inevitable blow up when a girl doesn't take to it or a competing mother hen shows up. I seriously hate that poo poo. It's great to have a mentor, but not one who infantilizes you in front of your goddamn colleagues. I'm sure as hell not going to call one of my co-workers "Mama" or let them coo over how young and inexperienced they think I am in front of everybody. Especially since I am 30 loving years old and have a PhD.
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CrotchDropJeans posted:I seriously hate that poo poo. It's great to have a mentor, but not one who infantilizes you in front of your goddamn colleagues. I'm sure as hell not going to call one of my co-workers "Mama" or let them coo over how young and inexperienced they think I am in front of everybody. Especially since I am 30 loving years old and have a PhD. I'm 32 and get called the 'juvenile' and 'child' by the older women in my Latin group. They also constantly 'teach' me about things from their day, as though I'm completely unaware of anything before 1982. I may not have been loving born when Steptoe & Son was first broadcast but I'm still aware of its existence.
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May 7, 2015 17:09
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Dr Scoofles posted:I'm 32 and get called the 'juvenile' and 'child' by the older women in my Latin group. They also constantly 'teach' me about things from their day, as though I'm completely unaware of anything before 1982. I may not have been loving born when Steptoe & Son was first broadcast but I'm still aware of its existence. Ugh I hate that too! One of them was dumbfounded to discover that I had a record collection. First of all, I'm old enough to have used them as a child, I'm not 14. Second of all, it's so common for people my age and younger to collect records that goddamn Target sells them. How do people not know this?
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May 7, 2015 17:41
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"You don't look like the kind of girl who would swear." Everyone loving swears. Just because I have a babyface doesn't mean I can't use bad words once in a while.
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May 7, 2015 19:03
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The inclination some people have to "Prove doctors WRONG!!!" Folks act like healthcare workers are all out to challenge them with western science instead of helping them recover from disease and injury. Sometimes it seems like the person actually believes their doctor wanted them to die or stay incapacitated for life.
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May 7, 2015 19:54
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Celery Face posted:"You don't look like the kind of girl who would swear."  I'm sorry
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May 7, 2015 20:37
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I've stopped reading articles on my phone because they always have that pop up that begs you to subscribe with the X button that doesn't work, is microscopic, or both. Really pop ups are annoying in general. If I like what I see, then I'll bookmark it. Stop harassing me.
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May 8, 2015 02:19
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Dr Scoofles posted:I'm 32 and get called the 'juvenile' and 'child' by the older women in my Latin group. They also constantly 'teach' me about things from their day, as though I'm completely unaware of anything before 1982. I may not have been loving born when Steptoe & Son was first broadcast but I'm still aware of its existence. I started my first real full time salaried job when I was 22. I got called a "baby" all the time and I HATED it, especially since I started at the same time at the same level and pay grade as someone in their 30s who was the worst offender for this. I'm sorry but if you're in your mid-30s doing the same job as someone fresh out of college I don't think you have any right to be condescending about it. HR's only age harassment policy only protected those 40 and above for being harassed by those younger than them, so I just had to put up with it  Pet peeves of mine: When you're sunburned and everyone has to point out that you're sunburned. No, I didn't notice my skin was bright red and painful, thanks for telling me! People with little dogs who let them get away with being aggressive shits because it's "cute" and "lol he thinks he's a big dog!!" If my 40 pound dog was snapping and snarling at anyone who walked by I'd get animal control called on my rear end immediately but since it's a tiny ankle biter it's suddenly ok? And when my dog barks back don't you dare lecture me on controlling my dog.
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Little dogs in general irk me. The bf has a westie, and it's cute as hell despite being a tiny loving thing, but he lets his mom raise it and she treats it like a goddamn stuffed toy. She refuses to discipline it and it yaps at every goddamn noise in the house. It jumps--literally it can jump up to your elbows and will NOT stop without a prolonged period of just ignoring it--and licks any exposed bit of skin obsessively. If you go near her food or touch or put your face near her neck she growls like a goddamn monster. She's completely undisciplined, and his mom won't let us take the dog back because she's attached to it now. So she will never be properly trained, even though my bf is actually quite good with dogs. She listens to the bf and his dad, but walks all over the mom. It's infuriating because she's a smart dog and deserves better but instead she gets treated like a little baby, and it drives me nuts. Little dogs ARE trainable, but they're primarily owned by little old ladies who just want a teddy bear. And don't get me started on breeders/puppy mills. If you have to spend multiple hundreds of dollars to "buy" a dog, I don't want to hear about it.
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Oh man, barky lil dogs. I have one and my peeve is other dog owners. Hear me out now! My border terrier Rufus has serious fear reactivity towards other dogs. He's that 'problem dog' people tut at as if he gets near another dog he barks, lunges, screams and cries like like kid from The Exorcist. I'm working with a dog behaviourist and my vet on this, he's on a strict training course and medication to help with his anxiety. I get up at 6.00am every day and drive way out into the country to walk him so I avoid most dog walkers. I do everything in my power to keep him calm and recondition his fear response, and yet somehow loving idiot dog owners still let their dogs off lead to run right up to us whilst shouting 'it's ok my dog is fiiiiiiine'. Well mine isn't you loving moron. Even when Rufus is in full on meltdown mode these idiots still let their dogs come closer 'to say hello'. I've literally stood and yelled 'go away go away go away!' at a man who still kept walking up to us. He just seem so massively confused that I was shouting at him and didn't understand that we wanted to be left alone. gently caress offff! I know my dog is poo poo and I do all I can to manage that. Other dog owners are annoying as gently caress.
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A relative of mine has a border terrier that acts like that too, and other dog owners are just as ignorant and get mad when their dog gets nipped or whatever while it's trying to hump the small freaking out dog. She also goes crazy if anyone even slightly shuffles their feet on the floor, so they warn people not to do that. What do the people (especially little kids) do the second they're alone with the dog? Shuffle the hell out of their feet. So yeah, I'd agree with your peeve of other dog owners - everyone thinks they're some dog behavior expert and that your warnings are just overreacting, and THEY know how to calm your dog down because they watched some Cesar Millan on animal planet or whatever.
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May 8, 2015 08:57
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grittyreboot posted:I've stopped reading articles on my phone because they always have that pop up that begs you to subscribe with the X button that doesn't work, is microscopic, or both. Cracked is horrible for this poo poo. No, fuckers, I will subscribe when you stop bombarding me with CLICK HERE TO GET ON OUR NEWSLETTER poo poo. People who respond to the truth of the day with what day is it for them. IE, today is Friday. But someone at work will pip up that it's their Thursday. NO, fucker, it's Friday. It's not my Friday, your Thursday, his Sunday and her Halloween. IT IS ONE loving DAY OF THE WEEK. Then again you can mostly tell the whiners who have never had to work weekends because that's how the days go to them. Also a huge peeve when someone says that they're busy, and then all you get are beeps from Facebook that they've gone up in levels on some game over and over, or they're posting various poo poo nonstop. You are not a 'social blogger warrior.' If you can't hang out because you're at the hospital, loving say so, don't flood my page with idiotic THANK GOD TODAY memes and game invites.
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Cowslips Warren posted:People who respond to the truth of the day with what day is it for them. IE, today is Friday. But someone at work will pip up that it's their Thursday. NO, fucker, it's Friday. It's not my Friday, your Thursday, his Sunday and her Halloween. IT IS ONE loving DAY OF THE WEEK. Then again you can mostly tell the whiners who have never had to work weekends because that's how the days go to them. I was going to post this yesterday too. There is someone on my facebook feed that starts their work weekend on Thursdays, and every Thursday without fail she posts "TGI(m)F!" where the m is "my". We get it, you have a long weekend, stop rubbing it in everyone's face. Friday is not synonymous with "end of the work week". It just happens to be that way for most people. Friday is still Friday and Thursday is still Thursday regardless of your work schedule.
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Cowslips Warren posted:People who respond to the truth of the day with what day is it for them. IE, today is Friday. But someone at work will pip up that it's their Thursday. NO, fucker, it's Friday. It's not my Friday, your Thursday, his Sunday and her Halloween. IT IS ONE loving DAY OF THE WEEK. Then again you can mostly tell the whiners who have never had to work weekends because that's how the days go to them. Cowslips Warren posted:Also a huge peeve when someone says that they're busy, and then all you get are beeps from Facebook that they've gone up in levels on some game over and over, or they're posting various poo poo nonstop. You are not a 'social blogger warrior.' If you can't hang out because you're at the hospital, loving say so, don't flood my page with idiotic THANK GOD TODAY memes and game invites.
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Maggie Fletcher posted:Little dogs in general irk me. The bf has a westie, and it's cute as hell despite being a tiny loving thing, but he lets his mom raise it and she treats it like a goddamn stuffed toy. She refuses to discipline it and it yaps at every goddamn noise in the house. It jumps--literally it can jump up to your elbows and will NOT stop without a prolonged period of just ignoring it--and licks any exposed bit of skin obsessively. If you go near her food or touch or put your face near her neck she growls like a goddamn monster. She's completely undisciplined, and his mom won't let us take the dog back because she's attached to it now. So she will never be properly trained, even though my bf is actually quite good with dogs. She listens to the bf and his dad, but walks all over the mom. It's infuriating because she's a smart dog and deserves better but instead she gets treated like a little baby, and it drives me nuts. Little dogs ARE trainable, but they're primarily owned by little old ladies who just want a teddy bear. UGH THANK YOU. I have a small dog, and I expect her to behave appropriately and I discipline her. She rarely barks, never lunges or bites, doesn't jump on people, and doesn't lick unless we literally offer our hand to her (okay, I do let her sleep at the foot of the bed, I'm not made of stone). I hate taking her out to play in the small dog park because it's invariably full of yappy purse rats lunging hysterically at her and me. The BYB thing burns me up too. I have a friend who got a six-week-old border collie on impulse off Craigslist while her husband was out of town. They have no backyard and were actively planning to get pregnant at the time, which they did (obv you can have a dog and a baby at the same time, but if you know you're going to have a baby in a year, why not get a puppy when the baby's walking around and sleeping through the night?). She's a loving dog trainer.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Cracked is horrible for this poo poo. No, fuckers, I will subscribe when you stop bombarding me with CLICK HERE TO GET ON OUR NEWSLETTER poo poo. And Pinterest. They will basically just straight up REFUSE to let you browse their site until you sign up/sign in.
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May 8, 2015 13:48
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Currently it's people using the terms "robbed" and "burglarized" interchangeably, which seems to be a pretty common thing? I briefly freaked out recently when I heard that a couple of neighbors had been robbed in their houses, until I discovered that the houses were simply burglarized. It's still obviously a cause for concern--somebody sneaked into their home and stole their poo poo--but it's not nearly as alarming as "somebody broke into our home and forced us at knife/gunpoint/whatever to give them our poo poo."
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May 12, 2015 05:20
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Guys, if you do a scientific presentation and you have graphs in it, label your axes. Also, if you have two graphs in the same page, showing the same quantity but from two different datasets so you can compare them, use the same scale for those two graphs! 
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May 12, 2015 07:02
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When people pronounce retching as reaching, so many people in this area just cannot get it right.
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May 12, 2015 09:45
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For some reason I get pissed off when people say "love letter to the genre."
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May 12, 2015 09:53
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The way Americans use the word "liberal". It's not the opposite of "conservative", that makes no sense!
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May 12, 2015 10:22
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Celery Face posted:"You don't look like the kind of girl who would swear." If you're small and cute and have a high-pitched voice, people will sometimes unconsciously think of you as a child, or at least "innocent". It's stupid and probably a little sexist, but it happens. My peeve now is teenagers. It's always something with these kids. I'm 27 and going back to school, and some of my classmates can be incredibly childish. When they're not bitching about what an rear end in a top hat one professor is for expecting them to show up on time for exams, they're getting bent out of shape over stupid bullshit. Also, one of them is apparently one of those homophobes who thinks they're super progressive because they're in favor of gay rights*. * as long as they can still call people "faggots" and don't have to see gay people being gay in public or talking about their partners or in any way reminding them that gay people exist
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Mikl posted:Guys, if you do a scientific presentation and you have graphs in it, label your axes. I don't know how this is so widespread. When you ask them what the axes are, most people will get indignant and say "it's obvious what I mean" or act like it doesn't matter. A graph is meaningless without axis labels (with units if necessary). Also make sure the two things you are comparing have a reason to be correlated to avoid meaningless graphs like "days since Hitler died" vs "# of autism diagnoses" etc. When I taught an intro astronomy lab, I got so many unlabeled plots, and the few people who did label them just said "x and y are correlated as shown in Figure 1" or something equally meaningless. I mean, they're right, but they are missing the entire point of the exercise by not explaining why they are correlated the way they are.
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I feel like an rear end in a top hat complaining about getting gifts, but I hate that thing people do where you mention offhandedly that you like something once, and that becomes Your Favorite Thing Ever Forever in their eyes and they deluge you with themed gifts around this thing you aren't really that into. Example: it was my birthday last week, and when my mother asked me what I'd like, I said that I needed a new cast iron pan or a pair of hiking boots, but if she wanted to get me something less practical (Mom is a known opponent of practical gifts) there's a perfume I'd really like. Instead I received a large assortment of random gifts themed after owls and Gone With The Wind (lest you think that this was a coded message to not ask for expensive poo poo, the gifts still had tags and were easily twice the price of the hiking boots, the most expensive item I asked for). I mentioned that I liked an owl motif tee shirt six or seven years ago before everything in creation had an owl with a mustache printed across it. I don't hate owls or anything, but I'm just not particularly into them, especially not poorly-made plastic knick-knacks. As for Gone With The Wind, I saw the movie when I was in fifth grade and absolutely loved it, prompting an avalanche of GWTW gifts that year. I am 30 now and have explained repeatedly that after I read the book in sixth grade I was horrified at how unabashedly, disgustingly racist it was and am no longer even remotely interested in owning memorabilia associated with it, but I still get at least one GWTW gift from somebody every year. I've heard my mom tell relatives and friends that I just absolutely love Gone With The Wind as recently as last year, and honestly it's pretty embarrassing. I've been trying to get my parents to stop buying me gifts in favor of doing something together as a family, like a hike or a museum or a new restaurant, but my mom is absolutely convinced that I will be hurt and offended and possibly stop loving her if she doesn't bury me in an avalanche of Gone With The Wind, owls, and a bunch of cheap prepackaged gifts from the clearance section at Sears. Last year I had her ready and agreed to make my Hanukkah present be a family visit to the aquarium, which we all enjoy, but at the last minute I got the ol' switcheroo and received a porcelain doll of Scarlett O'Hara (I have never collected dolls) and several of those matching scarf and glove sets you buy at department stores (I live in Georgia). When I asked her nicely what was up, she explained that since my brother and sister were still getting regular gifts she thought I'd be hurt if I got "nothing." Oh mom.
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grittyreboot posted:I've stopped reading articles on my phone because they always have that pop up that begs you to subscribe with the X button that doesn't work, is microscopic, or both. This, and developers that only make apps for certain mobile OSes - yes, I have a Windows phone, and yes, it sucks because I can't even get the loving Chrome browser on it as an alternative to IE. Plenty of other apps do the same thing (like Snapchat) where they decided to develop for Android and iOS, but decided Windows phones aren't worth the time. Sorry, not dropping $400+ on a phone just to get your stupid app, tell your retarded developers to expand their skill set and quit being lazy, vindictive assholes.
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I hate self-diagnosed autists even more than the next person but I think it's just as bad when people act like that anyone who claims to have it is self-diagnosed. The weird thing is, I often see it thrown at people who insinuate that having autism isn't sunshine and rainbows. In my experience, the idiots who self-diagnose act like it's a superpower and an excuse for being a socially retarded jerk. I got diagnosed at a young age, it's a lovely disorder and autistic people have the right to point out the struggles that come with it. The dirt-cheap bus passes are pretty awesome though, not gonna lie. Drivers who stop over the entire crosswalk. gently caress you, you're making it so I might get hit if I cross.
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Celery Face posted:gently caress you, you're making it so I might get hit if I cross. I feel you, but you're actually statistically more likely to be hit in a crosswalk than when jaywalking. The thinking is that people crossing at a crosswalk don't necessarily look as carefully to make sure it's clear, because people are supposed to stop, whereas if you're just darting across the road you want to be extra careful because there are no signs or markings showing drivers that someone might be crossing. But really you should always be careful when crossing the street. For me it's just people who drive like idiots. Tailgating me is one thing (albeit still extremely stupid and annoying), but accelerating like you're going to ram my car from behind in some idiotic attempt to intimidate me into going faster is another. It's actually kind of amazing that people have tried that poo poo, and not just on the highway, but on named streets with reasonable speed limits.
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