Aaaaahhhh. Thus far I've managed to avoid all that really arcane techonogical mumbo-jumbo, such as instant messaging and IRC. Email is as real-time as I'm willing to get with my pc.
yeah yeah keep your "NZM respectable face" on
heh if only these innocent NZMers knew what shennigans you try to rope (literally) me into
and all the times you've complemented me on how much you enjoy...
anyway
//It's not a problem for me, I'm quite happy as long as I'm not being licked. //
how does that tui add go???
i'm getting a bit worried about your knife fetish RP...
i think you've got a problem
now the first step is admitting you have a problem...
i know you can do it!!!
God, this topic is full of possibilities. I'll start with driving. (And yes, I do get an amount of pleasure from these annoyances - I drive around with a dictaphone into which I note every bit of insane driving -- it's all going into a database which is going to become the backend to my roadrage website, many years as it is in the making)...
1. People who forget the give way rules.
Give way to your right UNLESS you're going straight and the person to your right is turning. I get into this situation twice a day on my drive to work and home again, and it fills me with immense pleasure just sitting there waiting for the person I'm giving way to looking at me waiting for me to go, while I sit there and mouth to them 'you're going straight! I'm turning!'
2. Give way rules apply at public carpark entries/exits
Related to above. A car turning right into my supermarket carpark should be giving way to me, turning right out of it. But does anyone remember? Nooo. Whenever I feel the need to write the car off for insurance purposes, I'm just going to let myself get hit by someone one day (when there's no-one in the passenger seat, of course).
3. When there are two lanes to turn into, move into the one closest to you.
God, with this situation so common on so many Welly intersections, you'd think everyone would be aware of it. But no, people turning right think they can just swerve across into your lane, cutting you off, and giving you a glare should you have even decided to nudge in there in the first place.
//3. When there are two lanes to turn into, move into the one closest to you.
Then, there are those who think you are mental if you turn into the lane closest to you, and then promptly indicate to change lanes into the further away one....
- People who can't/won't merge. When two lanes merge into one but people still drive on the far right or far left side of the one remaining lane. I like to set an example and merge right into the middle of the lane.
- As a pedestrian when I'm waiting to cross over a road near an intersection (with no marked pedestrian crossing) and a car comes along and stops before the intersection and waits for me to cross. The fools! Don't they see that it's easier, safer and quicker for them to drive to the intersection and let me cross behind? In situations like this I like to use my mobility as a pedestrian and cross behind the overly polite car.
// Technicaly, road rules don't actually apply to carparks.
// It is private land, therefore not a road.
Technically, you're wrong. From the Rode Code...
"Entrances and exits to and from supermarkets, petrol stations, and other public parking areas such as airports and hospitals are therefore all regarded as intersections. "
People who cut me off are likely to have there door kicked in while i shout abuse at there sorry faces....seriously ive had an accident as a result of some old fuck who turned left while in the right lane without an indicator, i felt like punching his living daylights out.
I get annoyed about punctuation; particularly when people put apostrophes in the wrong place. People are more likely to put apostrophes in where there aren't supposed to be, rather than leave them out where they are. If in doubt, leave it out folks. "Its a good day" is far less annoying than "the cat scratched it's head."
I'm not going to go into grammar; besides, I've mellowed a bit.
But crap ads. Some really really shitty ads make me want to throw something. Same applies to about two in five videos shown on Juice. I never paid much attention to the term "generic" that a few people bandy about here, but since Juice went free to air I began to understand why there are so many cynics on these boards. I like pop. I'm a big pop fan. Most of my favourite bands are pop bands. But you switch on Juice at the wrong time, and five out of the eight or nine songs played will sound *exactly* the same. I never knew! After sitting through just two mindbogglingly boring vids, I can feel this wrath bubbling up inside me, and everything starts turning shades of red, and I desperately want to jump up and down and scream at the TV a la Aphex Twin. On occasion my flatmates have gingerly (but quickly) left the room.
I feel your apostraphe pain, sister. It particularly irks me in shop windows ("thousand's of great cd's - your gonna want them all!" and in other printed matter. And in Che Fu videos. Dude, you're a role model for the kids - please to be teaching them properly, thank you.
Argh! I can't handle the amount of apostrophe-abuse in society these days!!!! It's driving me insane. Driving out of Hokitika recently there was a sign reading 'Thank's for coming', and I nearly crashed my car into it....
and specially when thy don't even kno how to wr8 a full stop it gets really annoying and stuff ive seen a whole lot more ppl doin it lately they must b complete moronz k thx bye lol wtf bbq ttyl g2g
yes ! Go the all blacks !
go them ! go them very much ! go them all the way !
and I also share heather's frustration with incorrect use of apostrophes. ESPECIALLY when it's in print. that's just crazy. or signwriting.. you think that if your job is to write on walls all day at least you'd have the decency to know a possesion or a conjuction when you see it. if those are the right words. you know what I mean. I'm not a signwriter, after all. ahem.
// and I also share heather's frustration with incorrect use of apostrophes.
For an explanation of the problem, I called the National Center for Punctuation Control in Barnes, Wisconsin, where Don Shelter, chief of apostrophobic outbreaks, told me about a surprising development.
?Over the past few decades we?ve noticed a steady increase in the number of apostrophobes, or writers possessed of an irrational fear of apostrophes,? Shelter said. ?But only recently have we noted a parallel increase in the number of apostophiliacs, or writers possessed of an uncontrollable love of apostrophes.?
Writers suffering from the latter ailment, Shelter explained, are likely to use apostrophes without restraint or reason, as in Harley?s for sale, we bought three hammer?s, and other plural constructions.
Not really a 'litttle' thing but, the state of free to air television in this country.
I don't know if I really nead to go into great detail here, where to begin?, but shows like "Man in the Mask", "Who wants to be a Millionaire?", or horrble cheap shit local reality equivalents like "Going Straight" really dpress me. Just what do TVNZ think they're are doing? Utter crap - if this is the best they can do then I reckon the government should get rid of this state owned enterprise embarrasment. I havn't really sat down and watched them, just there existence sends me into a 'shame spiral'.
ghastly, ghastlly, NZ tv has never been worse - and it's no longer funny to see just how low it can get.
going straight - that is the funniest show for about 5 seconds and then you realise they're trying to be serious and have to turn off the TV from sheer embarrasment. 'World famous in ...' is another great example of 'how low can you go'. I can't believe this shit gets funding!
Girls/women who, when you pay them a compliment, twist it around so you are somehow putting them down. (ie "You're looking great today" "What are you saying?" "You look great.... what's wrong with that?" "So don't I look great normally?" etc etc ad infinitum).
I actually enjoy getting annoyed by this because it gives me great cause to rant and rave about the growing state of societal manipulation of males by females and their voracious, attention-consuming egos. Not that this is true for all females of course..... *saves self from being set upon*.
hahaha you'd be so lucky sunshine.
Women, all I know about them is this : they smell good and they're soft in all the right place's. That's it man outside of that I know nothing, nothing I tells ya.
//Girls/women who, when you pay them a compliment, twist it around
Yes. Oh God, yes. All those stupid dumb emotional mindgames combined with sheer bloodymindedness.
My main bugbear is with mood swings; primarily PMT. Everyone knows that a woman can be upset for no (external) reason. It's not a crime. It's just the way women find reasons to be upset, usually to do with their partners or family. The worst bit of all is the women who finally realise that they've blown it all out of proportion and they've got PMT or whatever, but they still refuse to back down, and will just keep making up more excuses to be upset, and stay upset.
...and then there are those that are simply barking mad.
Done, although I originally sent my phone number to that addy...do you mean to say you don't save all my emails religiously? Am I just some kind of fair-weather net friend that you just fob off when you don't need someone to laugh at all your jokes? Don't you like me? Huh? Well? Sulking now.
People that say "hey there Big Guy"....like I'm gonna turn around & say "hi there shorty".
(6ft.3/115kg for the record, like I don't know I'm bigger than 90% of the population.)
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<takes bait> ...IM system? internal ...
...IM system? internal monologue? intelligence meter? italian meatballs?
in this case IM = instant message, but ...
in this case IM = instant message,
but I think intelligence meter is fitting as well.
Aaaaahhhh. Thus far I've managed to ...
Aaaaahhhh. Thus far I've managed to avoid all that really arcane techonogical mumbo-jumbo, such as instant messaging and IRC. Email is as real-time as I'm willing to get with my pc.
// for me it is seeing people posting ...
// for me it is seeing people posting when they don't have their IM system open
but ... I'm busy posting!
The bar also works at times :D...
The bar also works at times :D
//I'm busy posting! as if we ever take ...
//I'm busy posting! as if we ever take that wee red busy sign seriously
// as if we ever take that wee red busy ...
// as if we ever take that wee red busy sign seriously
aha! exactly. so, on the odd occasion when I *am* busy: ping! ping!
not that anyone should ever feel hesitant about pinging me. *Particularly* if I'm busy. Any excuse...
People who PM in chat, especially when ...
People who PM in chat, especially when I know they both have messengers. Use messenger for your netsex dammit!
hey i keep that to chat mega!!! when ...
hey i keep that to chat mega!!!
when have i posted on NZM about the passionate love i have for another NZMer???
anyway *Jon_Jr licks RP looks much ...
anyway
*Jon_Jr licks RP
looks much better than
/me licks RP
* rottonpear cuts off Jon_jr's tounge....
* rottonpear cuts off Jon_jr's tounge.
It's not a problem for me, I'm quite ...
It's not a problem for me, I'm quite happy as long as I'm not being licked.
happy to give up???...
happy to give up???
yeah yeah keep your "NZM respectable ...
yeah yeah keep your "NZM respectable face" on
heh if only these innocent NZMers knew what shennigans you try to rope (literally) me into
and all the times you've complemented me on how much you enjoy...
anyway
//It's not a problem for me, I'm quite happy as long as I'm not being licked. //
how does that tui add go???
"yeah right"
//and all the times you've ...
//and all the times you've complemented me on how much you enjoy...
Kicking you in the nuts?
I think it's time for another round. *Ding*
//and all the times you've ...
//and all the times you've complemented me on how much you enjoy...
Kicking you in the nuts? //
well that too, you really are fixated in pleasuring and paining my nuts, should we really be discussing your dominatrix leanings here???
i'm getting a bit worried about your ...
i'm getting a bit worried about your knife fetish RP...
i think you've got a problem
now the first step is admitting you have a problem...
i know you can do it!!!
God, this topic is full of ...
God, this topic is full of possibilities. I'll start with driving. (And yes, I do get an amount of pleasure from these annoyances - I drive around with a dictaphone into which I note every bit of insane driving -- it's all going into a database which is going to become the backend to my roadrage website, many years as it is in the making)...
1. People who forget the give way rules.
Give way to your right UNLESS you're going straight and the person to your right is turning. I get into this situation twice a day on my drive to work and home again, and it fills me with immense pleasure just sitting there waiting for the person I'm giving way to looking at me waiting for me to go, while I sit there and mouth to them 'you're going straight! I'm turning!'
2. Give way rules apply at public carpark entries/exits
Related to above. A car turning right into my supermarket carpark should be giving way to me, turning right out of it. But does anyone remember? Nooo. Whenever I feel the need to write the car off for insurance purposes, I'm just going to let myself get hit by someone one day (when there's no-one in the passenger seat, of course).
3. When there are two lanes to turn into, move into the one closest to you.
God, with this situation so common on so many Welly intersections, you'd think everyone would be aware of it. But no, people turning right think they can just swerve across into your lane, cutting you off, and giving you a glare should you have even decided to nudge in there in the first place.
Again, I could go on, that's a good start...
//3. When there are two lanes to turn ...
//3. When there are two lanes to turn into, move into the one closest to you.
Then, there are those who think you are mental if you turn into the lane closest to you, and then promptly indicate to change lanes into the further away one....
Vehicular annoyances: - People who ...
Vehicular annoyances:
- People who can't/won't merge. When two lanes merge into one but people still drive on the far right or far left side of the one remaining lane. I like to set an example and merge right into the middle of the lane.
- As a pedestrian when I'm waiting to cross over a road near an intersection (with no marked pedestrian crossing) and a car comes along and stops before the intersection and waits for me to cross. The fools! Don't they see that it's easier, safer and quicker for them to drive to the intersection and let me cross behind? In situations like this I like to use my mobility as a pedestrian and cross behind the overly polite car.
Technicaly, road rules don't actually ...
Technicaly, road rules don't actually apply to carparks. It is private land, therefore not a road.
// Technicaly, road rules don't ...
// Technicaly, road rules don't actually apply to carparks.
// It is private land, therefore not a road.
Technically, you're wrong. From the Rode Code...
"Entrances and exits to and from supermarkets, petrol stations, and other public parking areas such as airports and hospitals are therefore all regarded as intersections. "
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a more in depth look at noizyboys ...
a more in depth look at noizyboys post.
People who cut me off are likely to have there door kicked in while i shout abuse at there sorry faces....seriously ive had an accident as a result of some old fuck who turned left while in the right lane without an indicator, i felt like punching his living daylights out.
I get annoyed about punctuation; ...
I get annoyed about punctuation; particularly when people put apostrophes in the wrong place. People are more likely to put apostrophes in where there aren't supposed to be, rather than leave them out where they are. If in doubt, leave it out folks. "Its a good day" is far less annoying than "the cat scratched it's head."
I'm not going to go into grammar; besides, I've mellowed a bit.
But crap ads. Some really really shitty ads make me want to throw something. Same applies to about two in five videos shown on Juice. I never paid much attention to the term "generic" that a few people bandy about here, but since Juice went free to air I began to understand why there are so many cynics on these boards. I like pop. I'm a big pop fan. Most of my favourite bands are pop bands. But you switch on Juice at the wrong time, and five out of the eight or nine songs played will sound *exactly* the same. I never knew! After sitting through just two mindbogglingly boring vids, I can feel this wrath bubbling up inside me, and everything starts turning shades of red, and I desperately want to jump up and down and scream at the TV a la Aphex Twin. On occasion my flatmates have gingerly (but quickly) left the room.
I feel your apostraphe pain, sister. ...
I feel your apostraphe pain, sister. It particularly irks me in shop windows ("thousand's of great cd's - your gonna want them all!" and in other printed matter. And in Che Fu videos. Dude, you're a role model for the kids - please to be teaching them properly, thank you.
Argh! I can't handle the amount of ...
Argh! I can't handle the amount of apostrophe-abuse in society these days!!!! It's driving me insane. Driving out of Hokitika recently there was a sign reading 'Thank's for coming', and I nearly crashed my car into it....
'would've been a bit'of'a bummer if ...
'would've been a bit'of'a bummer if you actually did aye??!!'
*hangs head* guilty guilty guilty ...
*hangs head* guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty. good thing i'm not in the writing biz or anything aye ;) (sorry tclak)
people txt typing on this forum!!...
people txt typing on this forum!!
and specially when thy don't even kno ...
and specially when thy don't even kno how to wr8 a full stop it gets really annoying and stuff ive seen a whole lot more ppl doin it lately they must b complete moronz k thx bye lol wtf bbq ttyl g2g
^*cringes*...
^*cringes*
= the kiwi staple "Go The ____!" ...
= the kiwi staple "Go The ____!"
yes ! Go the all blacks !
go them ! go them very much ! go them all the way !
and I also share heather's frustration with incorrect use of apostrophes. ESPECIALLY when it's in print. that's just crazy. or signwriting.. you think that if your job is to write on walls all day at least you'd have the decency to know a possesion or a conjuction when you see it. if those are the right words. you know what I mean. I'm not a signwriter, after all. ahem.
// and I also share heather's ...
// and I also share heather's frustration with incorrect use of apostrophes.
For an explanation of the problem, I called the National Center for Punctuation Control in Barnes, Wisconsin, where Don Shelter, chief of apostrophobic outbreaks, told me about a surprising development.
?Over the past few decades we?ve noticed a steady increase in the number of apostrophobes, or writers possessed of an irrational fear of apostrophes,? Shelter said. ?But only recently have we noted a parallel increase in the number of apostophiliacs, or writers possessed of an uncontrollable love of apostrophes.?
Writers suffering from the latter ailment, Shelter explained, are likely to use apostrophes without restraint or reason, as in Harley?s for sale, we bought three hammer?s, and other plural constructions.
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how ironic. moderators, feel free to ...
how ironic. moderators, feel free to apostrophise those question marks.
//feel free to apostrophise those ...
//feel free to apostrophise those question marks.
Nah. Works for me.
//ESPECIALLY when it's in ...
//ESPECIALLY when it's in print.
yeah, but missuse of apostrohies in a conversation is equally bad!
; )
Not really a 'litttle' thing but, the ...
Not really a 'litttle' thing but, the state of free to air television in this country.
I don't know if I really nead to go into great detail here, where to begin?, but shows like "Man in the Mask", "Who wants to be a Millionaire?", or horrble cheap shit local reality equivalents like "Going Straight" really dpress me. Just what do TVNZ think they're are doing? Utter crap - if this is the best they can do then I reckon the government should get rid of this state owned enterprise embarrasment. I havn't really sat down and watched them, just there existence sends me into a 'shame spiral'.
ghastly, ghastlly, NZ tv has never been worse - and it's no longer funny to see just how low it can get.
going straight - that is the funniest ...
going straight - that is the funniest show for about 5 seconds and then you realise they're trying to be serious and have to turn off the TV from sheer embarrasment. 'World famous in ...' is another great example of 'how low can you go'. I can't believe this shit gets funding!
I don't really ENJOY getting annoyed ...
I don't really ENJOY getting annoyed over anything.
people that pretend they don't ...
people that pretend they don't secretly enjoy a good old bitch about nothing. bet you don't read NW either? ;P (sorry tclak)
i always used to enjoy dissing ...
i always used to enjoy dissing kittenthlyer/slayer/insert gay badly spelt word here
but thats against the forum rules now...
Girls/women who, when you pay them a ...
Girls/women who, when you pay them a compliment, twist it around so you are somehow putting them down. (ie "You're looking great today" "What are you saying?" "You look great.... what's wrong with that?" "So don't I look great normally?" etc etc ad infinitum).
I actually enjoy getting annoyed by this because it gives me great cause to rant and rave about the growing state of societal manipulation of males by females and their voracious, attention-consuming egos. Not that this is true for all females of course..... *saves self from being set upon*.
hahaha you'd be so lucky ...
hahaha you'd be so lucky sunshine.
Women, all I know about them is this : they smell good and they're soft in all the right place's. That's it man outside of that I know nothing, nothing I tells ya.
//Girls/women who, when you pay them a ...
//Girls/women who, when you pay them a compliment, twist it around
Yes. Oh God, yes. All those stupid dumb emotional mindgames combined with sheer bloodymindedness.
My main bugbear is with mood swings; primarily PMT. Everyone knows that a woman can be upset for no (external) reason. It's not a crime. It's just the way women find reasons to be upset, usually to do with their partners or family. The worst bit of all is the women who finally realise that they've blown it all out of proportion and they've got PMT or whatever, but they still refuse to back down, and will just keep making up more excuses to be upset, and stay upset.
...and then there are those that are simply barking mad.
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ooo, and just to balance the ...
ooo, and just to balance the argument:
Men who sulk.
off topic... I'm in ak, but (due to ...
off topic... I'm in ak, but (due to 5.30am start for 6am check-in) have forgotten to bring phone numbers. please resend to the usual address ...
Done, although I originally sent my ...
Done, although I originally sent my phone number to that addy...do you mean to say you don't save all my emails religiously? Am I just some kind of fair-weather net friend that you just fob off when you don't need someone to laugh at all your jokes? Don't you like me? Huh? Well? Sulking now.
...arr, I oughta make ye walk the ...
...arr, I oughta make ye walk the plank! ...etc
"hard sell's" from shop assistants. ...
"hard sell's" from shop assistants. I'm the customer from hell.
People that say "hey there Big ...
People that say "hey there Big Guy"....like I'm gonna turn around & say "hi there shorty".
(6ft.3/115kg for the record, like I don't know I'm bigger than 90% of the population.)