Things that I hate

[steph]

You know, there aren't any cockroaches where I live. Just sayin'. It's a nice place to live and one might consider moving to said place.

[Luet]

Ditto on the never having seen a cockroach. Yay for that! Although, in general I don't mind bugs that don't bite/sting me. I don't LOVE them but as long as it isn't harming me, my general response is to take a picture for identification/curiosity purposes and then move it outdoors (alive).

[Petra456]

Olives

What!? How!?

*adds to the list*

[Gravity Defier]

We should really keep track this time because I know there have been things besides this and Meg, but she's the only thing that ever sticks.

1) Meg Ryan
2) Olives



Now, let's see if I can remember this is here next time we find something to add.

[Syphon the Sun]

Cockroaches

Absolutely. They scare the hell out of me.

Watch out. We got some bad roaches, here.

[Eaquae Legit]

Aw, man, olives are awesome! Especially the big green ones stuffed with feta! Yesterday we went through the international food fair in town and bought a big container of mixed olives. Oh man they are so good.

[Gravity Defier]

Noooooooo. Stump-sy is going to be performing at Schubas Tavern on April 3rd and it's sold out. I suck for not paying better attention.

[Wil]

Groan.

[Eaquae Legit]

Groan.

Good job, Americans. (Not all of you, just these ones.)

I kind of figured any karmic debts were settled when Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed.

[steph]

I think if any of my friends were stupid enough to post crap like that, I would "unfriend" them.

[Rei]

I'd probably first take a strip out of them.

[Dr. Mobius]

You can't have my strip. I need it. I wouldn't mind too much if you turned it inside out, though.

That said, how many of those retards on facebook are anywhere near old enough to have even the slightest idea what they're talking about?

[neo-dragon]

Is it wrong to wish for localized micro earthquakes that destroyed just these people's homes?

[Luet]

Boo hiss. Woke up with a migraine. And a phone call letting me know that He is invited to the wedding I'm going to in a few weeks. Grr.

[Young Val]

I really, really, really hate working for the government.

I hate implementing programs with which I disagree. I hate the way the system inevitably rewards those who know how to abuse it and leaves those who are honest to languish. I hate being forced into a union to which I do not want to belong. I hate the waste, the WASTE of money. I hate the touchy-feely bullshit workshops management farms us through to give the illusion that they care. I hate that the office is set up in such a way that the overall mentality is one of laziness and passing the buck whenever possible. I hate that my job requires me to appear morally ambiguous when dealling with customer service calls. I HATE when people who don't qualify for the program and have some horribly fatal disease burst into tears of rage while on the phone with me and splutter out a horrifying "Well, I guess I'll just go lay down and die, then!" before hanging up on me.

I hate that there are NO CLEAR POLICIES for ANYTHING and anytime an even slightly varied situation crops up it takes a team of laywers and managers at least three freaking days of parsing poorly-written guidebooks line by freaking line to determine a course of action, and leave me to fend off all the pissed off people affected until they come up with a damn answer. An answer which is COMPLETELY nonsensical and ultimately unsatisfactory for everyone involved. BE DECISIVE, PEOPLE. IMPLEMENT PROGRAMS THAT ARE FISCALLY FEASIBLE, THAT ACTUALLY ASSIST PEOPLE IN NEED, THAT DON'T REWARD ASSHOLES WHO f*** WITH THE SYSTEM, AND MANAGE YOUR s***. MANAGE YOUR s***, PEOPLE. OH MY GOD.


I FREAKING HATE MY JOB. Screw public service! I cannot, cannot, cannot wait to get back to the private sector of business.

[Bean_wannabe]

OK, so the student finance site is seriously messed up.

After having to read through a bunch of legal stuff that says that they can send my information to whomever they please, it refuses to accept my passport expiry date.

So I click the 'help with this page' button. Which is not actually a button, just text and does nothing. So I logout to find the help. But the only page accessible is the login screen. So I try another website, which suggests just logging back in will fix it.

So I try to log in, and the 'server can't be found'. I refresh. Log in again. It just deletes the username without logging in. Try again, nothing. Go back to the login page, I get 'logging you in', immediately followed by 'logging you out'. Perfect.

Finally log in, go back to the personal info page (which has decided to delete all the info I put in earlier). Still won't accept my passport data.

Looks like I won't be going to uni this year afterall...

[starlooker]

*hugs Kelly for job-suckiness*

Your job sounds so much like D's former job (working at a call center for people with Medicare-like insurance plans). Life has been much better since he got laid off, sad as that is to say. I read a headline somewhere about how unemployment can be better for mental health than thankless, stressful jobs and that so, so fits his situation. Seriously, it was hell on earth.

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Things I hate:

Power struggles that I can't cleverly sidestep
Feeling ineffective and questioning my competency and knowing that others are, too.
Fatigue that stimulants can't allay
Having people mad at me for good reason, which I hate slightly more than
Having people mad at me for no good reason.

[Paul]

Groan.

Good job, Americans. (Not all of you, just these ones.)

I kind of figured any karmic debts were settled when Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed.

Well said EL,

Kinda reminds me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... P-sSeqPywI

even though she turns out to be a troll, this still really pisses me off (see link below...)
http://thedailywh.at/tag/tamtampamela/

[Mich]

Canned text responses.

Last time I chatted with Comcast over their live chat support, when I set up my account and got my internet service going, I was impressed enough by the fact that the customer support agent talked like a real person, taking a while for longer responses, didn't speak with legaleeze, didn't throw in advertisements other than standard "do you want to get this with your package?" (that's what she said), etc., that I figured it would be my go-to way of getting support, instead of calling, like I usually do.

So when I found there was no easy way to look at my service agreement online, or at least not one I could find, I used their live chat.

Guh. Copy-pasted responses, random advertisements that would appear less than a second after they last posted, assurance that they just needed to get the correct address to view it online followed by a phone number to call. I asked for clarification, "So there's no way to view it online?" and got weird, out-of-place responses, and out-of-place reassurances that they love working with customers like me.

...and I'm still waiting for any definite answer of if I can view my service agreement, aka my contract, online or not.

[CezeN]

I hate dancing at a party, and a friend go, "c'mon you're not dancing!" "loosen up".
I mean, I already have low dancing self-esteem - and shooting down my attempts to dance as not dancing isn't helping it.

I'm sorry, I can't do any of those moves that you girls do with your hips and butt and such. Or, really, any other moves you girls do. I'm sorry I don't move my hands that much. I'm sorry I can't just get super into the music like you guys magically seem to do. But hey, I bump my head and move my shoulders. Doesn't that count for something?

._.
----guy whos now practicing how to dance by himself

[Wil]

>I'm sorry, I can't do any of those moves that you girls do with your hips and butt and such. Or, really, any other moves you girls do.

>you girls do

>girls

Ur doin it rong.

[Mich]

So you say you, really, don't feel like dancing?

[CezeN]

Wow...

[zeroguy]

"loosen up"

"Drink more". But I guess you can't do that legally yet?

[CezeN]

"loosen up"

"Drink more". But I guess you can't do that legally yet?

I mean, alcohol tastes like monkey piss. It's hard for me to force myself to drink a lot of it--enough to get tipsy.

I just need to get comfortable enough dancing crazy-listening to how my body responds and doing whatever.

[mr_thebrain]

how many monkeys have you been a urinal for? cuz dude, that's some wrong s*** right there, and you have bigger problems than not wanting to dance.

booze does taste bad most of the time. i tend to drink a fuller, tastier beer. they cost more, but they're worth it.

and i don't like to dance at parties or clubs. i've found that i'm good at it to the point of being graceful. but i feel like a complete doof doing it. bump and grind is fun and easy, but unless you have someone to do it with consensually it can be awkward to say the least. slow dancing and polkas are pretty easy and fun, but you don't see those at parties.... ever. that leaves jumping around and looking like you're having a seizure all by yourself. and that makes me feel dumb. so i don't like doing it, so i don't.

no, i get all my dancing enjoyment out of my system when i'm at home, alone, with music on and shades drawn. i'll do a nice soft shoe, or something else enjoyable. but the enjoyment is gone the more people can see.

oh and now and then i'll do the snoopy dance when i'm super happy about something. but it has to be 100% spontaneous.

so you're not alone. and i'm 31, and married. so it really goes to show you that you don't need to dance and look stupid at parties unless you really want to.

[Syphon the Sun]

I've never been good at dancing, so by the time I was in college, I would just be intentionally bad (mowing the lawn, taking a shower, the sprinkler, throwing dice, the robot, climbing a rope, the shopping cart, etc.), which seemed to work out for me at the time.

[Mich]

I've never been good at dancing, so by the time I was in college, I would just be intentionally bad (mowing the lawn, taking a shower, the sprinkler, throwing dice, the robot, climbing a rope, the shopping cart, etc.), which seemed to work out for me at the time.

THE ROBOT IS A TIME-HONORED DANCE AND YOU WILL TAKE BACK THAT IMPLICATION, SIR.

[CezeN]

how many monkeys have you been a urinal for? cuz dude, that's some wrong s*** right there, and you have bigger problems than not wanting to dance.

booze does taste bad most of the time. i tend to drink a fuller, tastier beer. they cost more, but they're worth it.

and i don't like to dance at parties or clubs. i've found that i'm good at it to the point of being graceful. but i feel like a complete doof doing it. bump and grind is fun and easy, but unless you have someone to do it with consensually it can be awkward to say the least. slow dancing and polkas are pretty easy and fun, but you don't see those at parties.... ever. that leaves jumping around and looking like you're having a seizure all by yourself. and that makes me feel dumb. so i don't like doing it, so i don't.

no, i get all my dancing enjoyment out of my system when i'm at home, alone, with music on and shades drawn. i'll do a nice soft shoe, or something else enjoyable. but the enjoyment is gone the more people can see.

oh and now and then i'll do the snoopy dance when i'm super happy about something. but it has to be 100% spontaneous.

so you're not alone. and i'm 31, and married. so it really goes to show you that you don't need to dance and look stupid at parties unless you really want to.

I mean, not all people that dance and look stupid - look like that.
They simply look like they're having fun, cutting lose. I admire those people. They might be wasted, but still they look confident.

That's what I want to do.

Which means I need to stop being self-conscious about my dancing- and I'm doing that by dancing in the mirror in my room (like you) lol

I mean, I need to do something in between searching for girls to ask to bump and grind with.

[mr_thebrain]

Which means I need to stop being self-conscious about my dancing- and I'm doing that by dancing in the mirror in my room (like you) lol

this makes me think of the scene in napoleon dynamite when he's learning to dance in his room.

aaaaand now i'm picturing you as napoleon dynamite.


HAH funny image!

[zeroguy]

I mean, alcohol tastes like monkey piss.

That's pretty broad for alcoholic drinks. A lot of hard liquor I think doesn't taste much like anything but a slight burning, if you're doing shots.

And wine coolers, Ice, et al often don't even taste alcoholic.

(Oh, and please drink responsibly, don't turn into an alcoholic, plzkthx :)

[CezeN]

I'm woefully inexperienced in the ways of alcohol.

Please suggest to me any alcohol that tastes good, and I'll be sure to push my friends to get it - so I can mooch off them.

[Rei]

It all depends on which broad category catches your interest. I know that for beer, I tend to go to the pub and see what they have on tap that I don't recognise. Often for beer you can ask for a taste first, or a half-pint, if you are uncertain. Getting mixed drinks when out is also a good way to see what bases you like for drinks. My sister buys wine and other things based on how well designed the label is, which has done her surprisingly well.

I say this assuming that you are able to buy alcohol on your own (as I cannot recall your age). Either way, I do find that really is a better method than hoping your friends will have good taste, although they may well. Also, as I am sure you will agree, it isn't worth drinking something that really tastes awful. Sometimes I will taste something that I am not initially keen on, but I can see why another would find it good, and there it is sometimes worth pushing through. But sometimes something really does taste foul and everyone else is drinking it because they have no sense.

[CezeN]

I'm 19.

Also, I simply don't care enough about getting tipsy, having my inhibitions lowered, and essentially alcohol - to buy it myself.
In that sense, if I'm ever going to drink it, since I don't drink that much, I just mooch off them and they don't care.
In fact, they'd probably pay money to see me drunk...

However, when I do drink, I'm disgusted by the taste, and that just reinforces that I don't care enough about alcohol. It's a circular cycle(repetitiveness ftw).

[neo-dragon]

CezeN, sometimes it's alarming how much you remind me of myself.