Things that annoy me

   / Things that annoy me #301  
snip>Cigarette butts also... I agree that I can use another entrance if I don't want their smoke yet they should be able to dispose of their own butts.
(An aside; am I littering if I toss the butt back out that came into my truck on my boot sole? ;))<snip

I agree 100%. Nothing pi*ses me off more than a smoker throwing their filter cigarette butts down in my yard, etc. I make it a practice when I see someone do that is to pick it up and hand it back to them. Or if they're sitting in their car, I just toss it into their back seat! Filters don't deteriorate like the old time cigarettes did. They'll be lying there for years.

Want to know why it chaps me so much? 'cause I smoke. And I don't do that in their yard nor in my own. Mine gets field stripped and the filters go in my pocket until I get to a trash can. If it's not too much trouble for me - then they can do the same.

By the same standards - I don't smoke in their house if they don't smoke in their house. Simple courtesy IMHO.
 
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   / Things that annoy me #302  
I agree 100%. Nothing pi*ses me off more than a smoker throwing their filter cigarette down in my yard, etc. I make it a practice when I see someone do that to pick it up and hand it to them. Or if they're sitting in their car, I just toss it into their back seat! Filter don't deteriorate like the old time cigarettes did. They'll be laying their for years.

Want to know why it chaps me so much? 'cause I smoke. And I don't do that in their yard nor in my own. Mine get field stripped and the filter goes in my pocket until I get to a trash can. If it's not too much trouble for me - then they can do the same.

By the same standards - I don't smoke in their house if they don't smoke in their house. Simple courtesy IMHO.

I used to smoke, and like you, I never threw down a butt. And I never smoked indoors, not even in my own home.

I have been to homes where there were no smokers, only to have them put out an ash tray for me and almost beg me to be comfortable enough to smoke in their house. It was so convenient to say "I won't smoke in my own home, so I sure don't want to smoke in yours. I only smoke outdoors."
 
   / Things that annoy me #303  
speaking of tiger direct. Before ordering usb-serial cable from them, i start up chat session and am assured it will work with windows 8. Of course, it doesn't. Start chat session on tiger site, after putting all the info in the form for 'what is your question' i have to repeat to support person, then wait.....wait......wait, and am provided with a phone number for the manufacture....:mad:
 
   / Things that annoy me #304  
If it worked under win7, it should have worked in Win8
 
   / Things that annoy me #305  
There should be a special Saturday morning roadside cleanup crew comprised of litterers and illegal dumpers. One lit cigarette butt tossed out on the freeway = 1 month of Saturday mornings with the length of community service scaled up from there. Orange Tyvek jackets labeled "LitterBug".

The big honking Chrysler keys. "Do you drive a Chrysler product or are you just happy to see me?" If you rent one ALL of the keys are bundled by a cable made of adamantium.

FALSE stories especially political, tearjerkers, and health warnings, that get forwarded or shared online as the truth. Easy to identify by the last paragraph admonishing the reader to forward/share OR ELSE. The integrity of the forwarder is always diminished by the act of forwarding.

Java, Flash, and similar "essential" "plug-ins" that persist in trying to trick you into installing useless, intrusive "toolbars" , etc. by requiring nearly daily "updates."

My excessive use of quotation marks in the previous sentence.

Republicans. The only thing worse is a Democrat.

Local news "reporting" the latest youtube video.

The first paragraph of 7 stories on the front page, or magazines with headlines for stories and hiding or neglecting a table of contents.

This FALSE story: Marie Antoinette, during one of the famines that occurred in France during the reign of her husband, Louis XVI: Upon being alerted that the people were suffering due to widespread bread shortages, the Queen replied, "Then let them eat brioche." In other words, SHE NEVER SAID "Let them eat cake."

The FALSE story I WAS TAUGHT IN SCHOOL that old windows are distorted because glass is amorphous and sags over time.

You might be getting the idea that I frown on BS.
 
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   / Things that annoy me #306  
>snip<There should be a special Saturday morning roadside cleanup crew comprised of litterers and illegal dumpers. One lit cigarette butt tossed out on the freeway = 1 month of Saturday mornings with the length of community service scaled up from there. Orange Tyvek jackets labeled "LitterBug".
<snip>




>snip<Republicans. The only thing worse is a Democrat.<snip>



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A] I always worry about that thrown cigarette but when I'm hauling dry hay.

B] A man after my own heart. Before we kill all of the lawyers we should hang every other politician; and make the other half work for a living.
 
   / Things that annoy me #307  
I have tried for 20 years to keep my neighbors from parking on the road right of way of my property. I get tired of trying to round them up and ask them to move their cars so I can mow. They have a similar road right of way in front of their house, but they never park there. They run a dry wall business out of their house (zoned residential) so their worker(s) all park in front of my house, rutting up the ditches and killing the grass. But no such thing for their ditches....

We had a similar problem when living in the city. The renter idiots next to us were two brothers who subleased a room to a drug dealer. The brother had two vehicles each, they brought home a 4x4 that had been rolled and totaled. One of their vehicles was a daily driver and they each had a 4x4. The lots were small, and parking four cars was problematic to say the least. With the totaled 4x4 and the drug dealers car they had six cars on a lot that could really only park 4-5. When Thursday rolled around, the girl friends showed up so there were now NINE cars at the house....

Now, they were at the T portion of an intersection which they parked in which is illegal, but what really ticked us off was that they would park in front of our mailbox and sometimes block our driveway. :mad::mad::mad:

With the mail box blocked we would not get mail. We called the POlice every time they blocked the mailbox and they got quite a few tickets. They should have had more because they were blocking the intersection. :rolleyes: IF they had parked in FRONT of our house it was no big deal. There was plenty of room and we would not have cared but they were too danged stupid and lazy to move the cars 20 feet. :mad::mad::mad:

Course there was always traffic because of the drug dealer.

Fast forward a year or two and the city FINALLY did something about all of the cars, especially the junker. That city is supposed to be so perfectly perfect in every way, but they would allow up to EIGHT unrelated people to live in a house! :rolleyes: The car issue finally got some action. I came home one day and all of the cars were gone except the drug dealers which was backed up to the garage door which was odd....

After the brothers got home, the POlice showed up. I went out and talked to one of the brothers. He asked if I had seen anyone at the house and I told him about the drug dealer. The brother told me that his room had been broken into and he had a stereo, rifle, cash, TV, and other things stolen. If you are going to live with a snake, expect to get bit. :rolleyes: Here is what really cracked me up, pun intended, the brother had dead bolts on his bedroom door. That might have been a sign. If you don't trust the people you live with, and have to put dead bolts on your bedroom door, ya might want to move. Here is a sign. :rolleyes::laughing::laughing::laughing:

One of the brothers was an EMT and I don't see how he could allow the dealer to live in his house. Just flat out dumb and stupid I guess.

Later,
Dan
 
   / Things that annoy me #308  
Java, Flash, and similar "essential" "plug-ins" that persist in trying to trick you into installing useless, intrusive "toolbars" , etc. by requiring nearly daily "updates."

Yeah, that one really gets me especially Java. You really need to keep Java up to date but those b^%$&)(^^ds like to install a "free" antivirus at the same time if you are not careful. Course, having two antivirus programs running can really mess up your system. I have had to clean up the kids systems a couple of times because they end up installing multiple antivirus programs.

Later,
Dan
 
   / Things that annoy me #309  
Flimsy drink carriers from Subway. I just dumped my drink getting it out of the car. McDonald's has the best drink carriers, you can darn near build with those things.
 
   / Things that annoy me #310  
Flimsy drink carriers from Subway. I just dumped my drink getting it out of the car. McDonald's has the best drink carriers, you can darn near build with those things.

The ones from Tim Hortons up here are super strong too.
 

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