Things that I hate

[CezeN]

My friend's abusive girlfriend. Except she only really abuses me. Alot. I have welts all over me.

ummmm

*insert picture of you kicking her*

That solves your problem.

[Luet]

Can someone delete that picture? It's pretty offensive.

[Graff^]

I'm with Luet on that one.

[Graff^]

My friend's abusive girlfriend. Except she only really abuses me. Alot. I have welts all over me.

ummmm

*insert picture of you kicking her*

That solves your problem.

I tried deflecting such blows and lightly tapping her with a foam sword. Only once did I hurt her enough to leave a red mark, and that was me throwing smarties.

[powerfulcheese04]

Regular people health insurance.

What the f*** does this "statement of benefits" mean?! What is this "negotiated discount"? What is this deductible/patient responsibility nonsense? And why is the a $129 charge for a visit to a hospital I didn't go to (but my labwork did)?

I'm paying $160 a month for health insurance, and I still have to pay $171.50 for my routine lady care last month?


ETA: I have definitely paid more in insurance this year than the $475 my appointment "costs" before "negotiated discounts" applied.

[Eaquae Legit]

"Happy babies begin at Walmart!"

Eff?

1. Walmart is not that happy.
2. People are having sex in the aisles?

[Game Room Wannabe]

"Happy babies begin at Walmart!"

Eff?

1. Walmart is not that happy.
2. People are having sex in the aisles?

1. They sell baby supplies there.
2. They sell coffins there.



No seriously... sex in the aisles? WHA? I don't think BABIES need to see that...

[Eaquae Legit]

I should clarify: it was an ad for baby supplies. But that is not the image that the line bought to my mind.

[elfprince13]

the weather.

[megxers]

+ Having to be outside for 5+ hours with no notice in 80+ degree weather.

+Macbook=Macbrick.

[Young Val]

I just almost had a freaking heart attack when I saw how many calories are in one cup of uncooked Israeli couscous. Counting calories SUCKS!

[Gravity Defier]

I'd like to remain ignorant of my caloric intake;because ignorance is bliss and I start gaining weight when I track it, and I've been eating like a pig this week.

Breakfast has been a banana or Honey Bunches of Oats with Almonds. Lunch today is yogurt, almonds, walnuts, grapes, Granny Smith apple, pineapple, and pasta. The only thing to change throughout the week has been the non-fruit/nut bit. That sounds all fine and dandy but then I go home and eat dinner, which has been kind of junkish lately.

Oink oink.

Bah, whatever. I woke up in my acceptable lb range but I still hate calories and food.

[Young Val]

I'd like to remain ignorant of my caloric intake;because ignorance is bliss and I start gaining weight when I track it, and I've been eating like a pig this week.

Breakfast has been a banana or Honey Bunches of Oats with Almonds. Lunch today is yogurt, almonds, walnuts, grapes, Granny Smith apple, pineapple, and pasta. The only thing to change throughout the week has been the non-fruit/nut bit. That sounds all fine and dandy but then I go home and eat dinner, which has been kind of junkish lately.

Oink oink.

Bah, whatever. I woke up in my acceptable lb range but I still hate calories and food.

I was against counting calories for SO LONG. I kicked and screamed. I did not want to be a slave to calorie counting! I wanted to eat what I wanted to eat, damnit!

So I did. And I haven't lost any of the weight in my post-college, post-break up slump. Not a pound of it.

Counting calories and regular exercise are the only things that work for me. I tried for a long, long time to just eat healthy foods (which, pretty much everything I put in my mouth is healthy. I never eat processed foods, everything is cooked from scratch, organic, with a healthy balance of proteins, carbs, and fats. And contrary to photographic evidence that suggests otherwise, I really don't bake all that often). But even on an entirely local, organic, produce-heavy diet I'd rarely do more than lose 5 pounds or so and plateau. In part because I was still eating WAY TOO MUCH and in part because I was half-assing my infrequent work outs.

I know loads of people who can just cut back a little bit and be fine, but it doesn't work for me. I always over eat. I have to plan all my meals ahead, keep a food journal of everything that goes into my mouth, and divvy up those damn calories with the same fierce tenderness I put toward my budget each month. And it works. So I do it.

[Rei]

Drawing from another thread, I hate gender stereotypes.




Even more, I hate having to be so very careful about keeping sufficiently on the correct side of the divide.

[Jayelle]

Drawing from another thread, I hate gender stereotypes.

Amen. It gets insanely annoying when you have kids.

[Gravity Defier]

I hate both being an introvert and feeling guilty over being an introvert (I get the sense I'm an extreme one).

But I feel like my space is being invaded with my mom's boyfriend here, which has ruined the calming effect achieved by being left alone last night and having the house to myself all morning and afternoon. With him here, the whole atmosphere feels different to me (strained) and the whole house feels exponentially smaller.

I'm trying to read or think and there's this constant need for small talk but if I go to my room to be alone, I'm being rude. So I stay in the front but remain quiet -because outside of work, I am only talkative around people I'm really comfortable with- and I'm being rude because of that.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry for being a freak who only wants to be surrounded by the people of my choosing. I'm sorry when, in my private non-professional life, I completely shut down around anyone who isn't part of that group. I can't help it and trying to fight it just makes me emotionally exhausted.

[CezeN]

I hate mosquito bites.
Scratch that.
I hate mosquitos.
Scratch that.
I hate all bugs in general.

Seriously, I know it'd f*** up the food chain certain ways, but I still wish there was a way I could kill off all the bugs on this planet. Every single annoying one.
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I also hate how insignificantly I've physically grown over the past for years. I mean, I might have grown like an inch and I've gained about 15 pounds, but all in all I haven't really changed.

It's really quite annoying.

[Sonikku13]

A long list of digits, like the million digits of the decimal expansion of sqrt(2). How am I supposed to memorize this?

[megxers]

I hate how meeting in person sometimes destroys close online friendships. One of my former online buddies and I have barely spoken in 7 months because of it. She just had this mean, bitter edge to her that didn't come across online, but in person, I wanted to slap her.

I am also starting to hate how I keep postponing my move-out date to closer to my actual end of lease. SOMEDAY I WILL LEAVE, i swear

I also hate the trouble spots that just won't lose those pounds. No matter what kind of diet you are on or that you can run faster than you could when you were like, 13.

[Gravity Defier]

I also hate the trouble spots that just won't lose those pounds. No matter what kind of diet you are on or that you can run faster than you could when you were like, 13.

This. So much, this.

Meagan, I'm going to just go ahead and elect you my spokesperson on life since you've been hitting all the big stuff for me lately.

[elfprince13]

Hitting my finger with a nailgun.

[Mich]

How when I try to be smart things tell me I should have been picky, and when I'm picky things tell me I should have been more impulsive.

Just got a new job, my first real job, in a supposedly really hard market. I got it by a) proving my ability to adapt and learn many things quickly, b) being an overall likable and extremely easy-going guy, c) saying that, if I got the job, I would feel too guilty to take up another job offer, even if it was a prospectively better one, and d) being willing to take the job extremely quickly, moving and everything so that I can get in and working.

Naturally, c) is coming back to bite me in the ass. I haven't applied yet, but a bunch of people are telling me to, because I fit the qualifications, it pays about 60k a year, and is for a company listed on the Wall Street Journal's "top 20 companies to work for" or something like that. However, it would require me to move out of my new lease (so finding someone to take it over would be a fun task) plus, you know, that whole guilt thing.

I'm going to apply, mostly in the hopes they'll turn me down and I'll feel safe again. But if I get it... I don't know what I'll do.

[Rei]

I hear that, although I've had no luck at getting any offers from anywhere else than where I'm at. Which is acceptable. But the longer I am where I am, the more uncertain I feel about the place and wish I were somewhere more in my element.

Good luck on the applying, and hopefully one way or another it'll be really clear if you should stay or go.

[Mich]

I hear that, although I've had no luck at getting any offers from anywhere else than where I'm at. Which is acceptable. But the longer I am where I am, the more uncertain I feel about the place and wish I were somewhere more in my element.

Good luck on the applying, and hopefully one way or another it'll be really clear if you should stay or go.

It would blow my mind if I got it, told my boss I was going to turn it down, and she was like "don't be an idiot!" This would be the best of all worlds.

Anyway, I've applied. We'll see how it goes.

[Rei]

That would be absolutely splendid, indeed!

I'm trying another place this evening. Gonna try a different strategy, and while it may be a failing one, I'm hoping that a frank proposal to work until January might work. If it doesn't, it doesn't matter; but if it does, that would be great.

[zeroguy]

So-called "vacations" where I visit family. I really need to remember to come back more than a day before I'm supposed to go back to work, so I have a day to actually take a break before working again.... Just catching up on pweb has taken a majority of the remaining free time I had today.

[Gravity Defier]

What DY has become (and I am certainly part of the problem). I'm not sure this is a wise move on my part but I'm frustrated.

In the past 3 days I have:
-Been asked to decipher who they're to, what they mean, etc. I think I know most of them but I can't be 100% sure and even if I could, why would I want to?

-(This one I am guilty of and will henceforth try to avoid like the plague) Watched it be used to deliver a message that -right, wrong, agree, disagree- would have been best done privately.

-Had one I wrote misinterpreted. Actually, that's been happening constantly and isn't restricted to DY. In any event, let's not make assumptions about who I'm writing to or what I'm writing about.

-Had one proclaimed to not be to me, just to be safe, even though I didn't ask if it was and in fact, knew it wasn't. Um, thanks? If I have to worry that something as potentially meaningful as it was is only going to be delivered to me via a questionable, hidden post, it ceases to be meaningful.



I am so turned off of the idea of writing those now, and reading them, I fully expect someone to bitch me out (even if it's just me) if I venture in again for the foreseeable future.

ETA: I still hate Confessions with a passion. (Though, to be honest, I used it recently. Oh no, probably just made at least one person curious there. Don't ask.)

[starlooker]

Feeling like a headache is coming on.

Part of me hates being completely out of touch with the pweb rumor mill -- and then I see posts like Alea's ^^^ and it becomes, if not a thing I love, at least a thing I am comfortably neutral with.

[ValentineNicole]

Not getting enough sleep.
Not being able to wash my hair post-highlights.
People that judge me without knowing me or knowing a situation.
Not being able to make solid plans yet for this weekend, despite having to turn down offers last weekend.
Diets.

[Syphon the Sun]

That I'm 31 pages into my article and still not even close to being done with it. Seriously, I originally planned 25 pages and it's looking like it'll be 50+. (I blame the Justice Department for overriding the legislative findings in its defense of the Act by adopting Jack Balkin's outrageous tax argument.)

[ValentineNicole]

Being so damn hot.
$70 electric bills for only 2 weeks of running the AC (and 2 of being out of town)

[ValentineNicole]

Pweb likes to double post my stuff, and log me off randomly, and have other glitches.

[Jeesh_girl15]

For some reason, I thought we had an Annoying Song in My Head thread, but I couldn't find it.

So I hate when there is an annoying song in your head that you can't get out, no matter what you try or how many other songs you try listening to. For example, through out my whole soccer practice this evening, I had the Jonas L.A. song in my head.

[Graff^]

Now that you mention it I think I remember that thread.

I hate humidity and that my mom has to read the book I got of the library before I can read it. She's the slowest reader known to man. She had better hurry up with my BTK book

[Mich]

At the moment, iPhones.

My code is pristine. It works on all browsers, looks identical across all of them, has several neat little tricks, and makes the client very, very happy.

So thank you, boss, for owning an iPhone, so we could load up my most recent page and find that the nifty-little Javascript that you've used hundreds of times before for some reason disagrees with my code when interpreted via iPhone.

There's no reason for it. But, for some reason, all of that text that scrolls up and down when you mouseover the little arrows ("Let's just use a frame if it's being this stupid about it." "No.") goes behind everything else when we check it on the iPhone. And I DON'T KNOW WHY. It's not the poorly-thought-out nested tables, though that's what every professional will tell me, because that's what I spent all day today testing to make sure. It shouldn't be my CSS, because why would CSS mess up Javascript? AND WHY ONLY ON THE IPHONE?

And my boss acting as if it's my fault that I didn't know it wouldn't work on an iPhone, despite me not owning one and all of the iPhone compatibility sites checking out, does not make me feel better.

/rant