You know what I hate...?

[Aeridus]

I've never heard of tuques.

I can't stand people who pull way up for a left turn at a stop sign while I'm waiting to make a right turn... I can't fucking see past them and it's usually a freaking SUV that does it. >.<

[Nithos]

I'm sick of drama queens, especially when it's in public, where people are trying to unwind. Had two parties in a row turn kind of sour because of one person's unwillingness to leave well enough alone until he could deal with his angst issues on his own time. On the up side, I spent a lot of time getting to know a friend of a friend because of this, and I talked her in to naming her new moped Bukakke! so it wasn't all bad.

[Xnapalmxmorningx]

I'm on the boat with the dislike of small screaming children.
I also hate people who cannot seem to undersatnd how to return calls.
I despise playing phone tag and many of my friends seem to not understand how to use a phone.

[Indigo Violent]

I've never heard of tuques.

It's okay, it's not your fault you're not Canadian.

[Tellner]

What used to bother me for the longest time was guys who wore baggy pants that sagged so you could almost or could see their buttcracks.

It doesn't bother me any more... because it hasn't had the chance to! It went "out of fashion" in my area years ago!

Unfortunately it's still in fashion around here. The Wall Street Journal had an article(soul-sucking registration probably required) about baggy pants and how much trouble they can be if you are trying to do crime.

[Honor]

I've only seen it as "toque".

Evidently a lot of folks spell it that way, although a 'toque' is actually a whole different kind of hat. Two kinds, really. Both the currently popular high-top "chef" hat and a certain type of female hat with a small unturned brim are both 'toques'.


And the ass=pants are still popular here, too. Unfortunately, for reasons I don't fully understand, it's illegal to shoot the people wearing their pants that way.

[Putaro]

I've always called them "chimp pants" because they make your legs look short like a chimpanzee's.

We went to buy pants for the boy (3 years old) the other day and everything in his size at the store was that style. He really needed a new pair that day so we wound up buying him a pair from the girl's section instead (shhh...don't tell him )

[JohnnyTwoEyes]

whenever I see some kid walking around with his pants really low and his crack showing I always want to see if I can toss a penny in it.

[Spiral Zer0]

I don't like pedophiles or closeminded people.

that's about it.

[UncolaMan]

whenever I see some kid walking around with his pants really low and his crack showing I always want to see if I can toss a penny in it.

Damn! You too?

[The Oblivion Man]

I have a real problem with the healthist attitude that's been going on in the U.S. for a while, and is starting to make it's way here. Don't drink? Fine, your choice. Don't smoke? Again, cool as long as you don't expect me to stop enjoying it just because you don't. However, if we come to a point where you're trying to make me feel guilty or ignorant for enjoying something you don't, then we're going to have issues. You've looked at the risks and decided to live a certain way. I did the same. I'm perfectly comfortable with the possibility of not living to fifty because of my habits, and being treated like some child who knows not what they do is insulting as all hell.

[LindaH]

See, I don't mind valley girl talk as long as it's used in moderation, and I adore it when used ironically. There's a girl in one of my classes who used "like" after almost every word. It drove me nuts. She didn't even realize she was doing it either.

my darling Matt uses "you know?" a lot.. sometimes several times in a sentence. he knows about it and tries not to but...

[JohnnyTwoEyes]

I have a real problem with the healthist attitude that's been going on in the U.S. for a while, and is starting to make it's way here. Don't drink? Fine, your choice. Don't smoke? Again, cool as long as you don't expect me to stop enjoying it just because you don't. However, if we come to a point where you're trying to make me feel guilty or ignorant for enjoying something you don't, then we're going to have issues. You've looked at the risks and decided to live a certain way. I did the same. I'm perfectly comfortable with the possibility of not living to fifty because of my habits, and being treated like some child who knows not what they do is insulting as all hell.

I had my cousin screaming at me for "ruining her christmas" because apparently I doomed myself to instant lung cancer when I decided to enjoy a cigar on christmas eve.

You don't even pull cigar smoke into your lungs.

[Honor]

I was just going to say that another thing (not person) I hate is Nancy Grace. Dipshit annoying idiot bitch just about single handedly ruined the entire concept (and reality) of Court TV for me.

Bu then OM mentioned:

I have a real problem with the healthist attitude that's been going on in the U.S. for a while, and is starting to make it's way here. Don't drink? Fine, your choice. Don't smoke? Again, cool as long as you don't expect me to stop enjoying it just because you don't. However, if we come to a point where you're trying to make me feel guilty or ignorant for enjoying something you don't, then we're going to have issues. You've looked at the risks and decided to live a certain way. I did the same. I'm perfectly comfortable with the possibility of not living to fifty because of my habits, and being treated like some child who knows not what they do is insulting as all hell.

The part of this that I don't like is that certain concerns have decided that certain kinds of lies are prefectly ok, so long as they serve the noble "greater good" of liberating human beings from the evils of cigarette smoke.

Rather than repeat myself here, I'll link to two of my articles on this subject instead, republished in my LJ... This one covers a lot of the statistics they lie about in depth, while this one uses the smoke-nazi's own data and statistics to 'prove' that, if I'd smoked a pack of cigarettes a day, from age five on up, my life expectancy would be 75, rather than 82 if I had never smoked a cigarette.

The bullshit about wsecond hand smoke gets me the most. "Please don't smoke here, I don't like the way it smells." would be just fine, and I'd be just fine taking it somewhere else... But then they "guardians of the people" decide that it'd be better to lie about the "health risks" of "second hand smoke", so that they can induce some anger and paranoia and wrath, so that -the public- will come after the smokers themselves, like angry villiagers with pitchforks... If, by the smoke-nazi's own statistics, a pack a day for seventy years will take seven years off your life, just how much damage is, say, 1/20th of one cigarette, once a week, from "second hand smoke" going to do? Not nearly as much as breathing exhaust fumes from crossing a busy street once a week, I'll wager.

Anyway. Evil Fucktard Bastriches.

And while we're on that subject...

Well. Anyway, right now what I hate is the mere idea that people cannot have a good time without alcohol. (Yes, non-drinker here. :O!!!) And I hate being told by my parents that people will hate my parties if we don't serve alcohol. God forbid they enjoy spending time with me, talking, eating... the things I used to do at parties. :/

Sorry... But your parents are right. You choose not to drink, that's fine. But most people are uneasy around people who don't drink -at all-. It's an excess, just like drinking all the time... And while I'm not saying you're this way, drunks are usually not nearly as smug and preachy as abstainers.

If you (generic you) invite me to a party, I may or may not drink... Statistically, I guess I have about three or four guinesses, about once every two or three weeks... But if you invite me to a party and tell me "There will be absolutely no drinking!" I'm probably going to be busy that night... Not because I can't have a good time without drinking, but because there's just no reason for that kind of extremeism.

By the way.. When you say:

God forbid they enjoy spending time with me, talking, eating... the things I used to do at parties. :/

Your extremeism, prejudice, and ignorance (on this subject) are showing. Nothing about having a glass of wine or beer prevents anyone from talking, eating, socializing, enjoying the company of others, or even speaking in an intelligent and intellectual way on complex, weighty issues. It's not as if people go from in-control to dancing naked on the table at the first sip of wine.

Oh... And welcome.

*strap-on-rape!*

[The Oblivion Man]

Honor, I'm honestly at a loss for words...I really shouldn't be feeling turned on by all of that, should I? I'm aware the realities of sec-smoke, and reserve a special level of anger for those who do such things. I just tend to keep it to myself, since most people have been so conditioned by advertisements that trying to inform them of any of this tends to result in them looking at you as though you've just told them you're the Archduke of lower Mongolia, in other words completely insane.

[JohnnyTwoEyes]

I get a lot of flack for my smoking for a couple reasons. But first of all, here's what I smoke:
Djarum Black clove cigarettes (and NO, I'm not a goth because I smoke black cigarettes. Stop asking.), about a pack a month.
Cigars (usually a Los Blancos Connecticut Shade), maybe one a month.
Pipes (using very nice aromatic tobacco), a couple bowls a month.

Given this information, we can assume that the smoking I do stems not from addiction, but from pleasure. The fact that I don't lung any of it (not even the cigarettes) compounds this.

However, much of the time when I smoke a cigarette there's someone there to tell me that it's going to kill me. When I smoke a pipe, I'm accused of being a pot-smoking hippie, despite the fact that, unlike marijuana, my pipe tobacco smells GOOD. It gets really annoying to have cops stopping to stare at you a bit just because you're under 50 and smoke a pipe.

Here's where things get fun. I have a group of friends that now love spending time with me BECAUSE I smoke. We can sit around with some pipes and cigars and really enjoy ourselves. Two of my friends now have pipes of their own, and they all occasionally buy cigars.

Will all this shorten my life? Probably not. I remember reading a statistic in some cigar magazine (which one doesn't come to mind) that was basically complaining that cigar and pipe smokers (which tend to never lung the smoke) get lumped into the same category as people who smoke a couple packs a day of cigarettes. They pulled up the data from the only study they could find that did make that separation, and it said that people who smoke a pipe or cigar tend to live LONGER than people who don't smoke at all. They might be pulling stats out of their ass (which is the common place for stats to be birthed), but it was an interesting read.

But I'm definitely more at a risk of dying because of all my other problems, the ones that make me swallow handfuls of medications a day, than if I smoked three packs a day.

One last thing, I HATE those Truth commercials. "Whaa, the tobacco companies try to downplay that their product causes cancer." 1. It doesn't CAUSE cancer, it just increases your chances of getting cancer. Cause implies that it happens all the time, which it doesn't. Secondly, yes they are going to downplay that their products increase your chances of getting cancer. Candy companies downplay that their products can help lead to the development of diabetes, firearm companies downplay that kids can accidentally shoot themselves. Hell, companies that make bleach downplay that drinking it will kill you. Grow a spine and find REAL faults with a company instead of digging up sand and claiming that it's shit.

[Putaro]

I hate lousy food. I hate food products that are made to fit the stupid nutritional advice of the moment so that retards can gorge without feeling guilty. "Fat-free" cake and ice cream, indeed. Get quality food and eat less of it!

And as for health nazis, helmet laws and the rest - you realize it's all being justified as keeping health insurance premiums down. Next will come any hazardous sports, like scuba diving or rock climbing.

[The Oblivion Man]

And as for health nazis, helmet laws and the rest - you realize it's all being justified as keeping health insurance premiums down. Next will come any hazardous sports, like scuba diving or rock climbing.

Good guess, but no. Judging by current rumblings, fatty foods and strong perfumes are next on the "I personally don't like it, so let's make laws against it" chopping block.

[Lowky]

And as for health nazis, helmet laws and the rest - you realize it's all being justified as keeping health insurance premiums down. Next will come any hazardous sports, like scuba diving or rock climbing.

Good guess, but no. Judging by current rumblings, fatty foods and strong perfumes are next on the "I personally don't like it, so let's make laws against it" chopping block.

Actually on the strong perfume front. I have to say that some people need to tone it down. We had someone at my office that wore so much/so strong, that it would trigger my asthma. I have no problem with people wearing perfume, but when it starts to become detrimental to my health....

I am glad that most department stores got a clue and stopped spraying it at anybody and everybody htat walked in. Now they hand you a scented card. If interested inquire about it if not, at least it's not a face/lungfull.

As for fatty foods, If you want to be a fat bastard (and Yes I can say people are fat bastards because I am a fat bastard), enjoy the way your food tastes etc. Eat what/when you want. Just take responsibility for your actions. McDonalds didn't make you fat cause you ate 3 big macs a day. The fact you ate 3 big macs loaded in calories made you fat. It was you eating it. McDonalds never once put a gun to your head and said eat this or else.

If I wanted an overprotective mom, I could have had one. I shouldn't need the government acting as a parent. Parent's are supposed to be a Parent. Stop trying to "protect" me.

Helmet laws, would I ride without one, never. Should everyone be forced to wear a helmet? No! But I also shouldn't have to pay for your medical bills on medicare/caid when you get injured and didn't wear adequate protection. Same goes for seat belts, etc.

[Indigo Violent]

But most people are uneasy around people who don't drink -at all-.

Isn't that their problem?

It's an excess, just like drinking all the time...

How? How is not doing something, just because it's something socially acceptable and often expected, as bad as never being able to go without a drink?

And while I'm not saying you're this way, drunks are usually not nearly as smug and preachy as abstainers.

I have met a surprising number of people who can't deal with the fact that I don't get drunk.

If you (generic you) invite me to a party, I may or may not drink...Not because I can't have a good time without drinking, but because there's just no reason for that kind of extremeism.

What if she's a recovering alcoholic and can't be around booze without lapsing? What if a lot of her friends can't seem to partake without getting heavily drunk and she doesn't like that atmosphere?

Nothing about having a glass of wine or beer prevents anyone from talking, eating, socializing, enjoying the company of others, or even speaking in an intelligent and intellectual way on complex, weighty issues.

This is perfectly true; however a lot of people consider the purpose of a party to get drunk and do nothing else. If vzg wishes to indicate that hers will not be that kind of party, that's up to her. Of course it's equally your right to decide not to attend teetotaler parties, but what's your problem with her deciding what she does and doesn't do presumably in her own home?

Oh... And welcome.

*strap-on-rape!*

Now that I do like to see.