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Old 04-18-2007, 10:34 AM   #101
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The cigarette butt flick. Why is this accepted as a proper disposal method??? I am astounded by the amount of people that do this. And especially the @ssholes who get offended when you call them on it. Is it that tough to snub it out and throw it in a garbage can that is ten feet away...

I HATE IT!!!
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Old 04-18-2007, 11:41 AM   #102
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-People who can't walk another 20 feet and put their shopping cart away, and instead leave it in a parking spot against the other cars bumper or door.

- people who take a really long time to turn right and do it from the middle of the road, when they could've moved over a bit and not held up other people.

- people who drive under the speed limit

- people who think everyone in their general vicinity is interested in what they are talking about on their cell phone. also blue tooth phones.

- racists

- being on the wrong side of a one-sided argument with an unreasonable person

- hearing the phrase "it worked yesterday"

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Old 04-18-2007, 12:04 PM   #103
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In no particular order:

-carts blocking isles in grocery stores,
-people who lick their fingers while eating (or for any reason),
-Hollywood gossip shows,
The following people's public personas (since I don't know them personally):
-Ezra Levant,
-Nancy Grace and Glenn Beck,
-Don Cherry,
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Old 04-18-2007, 12:29 PM   #104
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-Spoons and/or forks scraping on a bowl/plate. Literally makes we want to punch the wall. And I have.
-This lady's cell phone at work. God it has the most annoying ring, and it rings every 30 mins. It's not, but it reminds me of the American Idol theme.

Various transit rants:
-While walking away/to the platform, there is always some who needs a smoke, and blows it in everyone else's face.
-Hugeass strollers during rush hour. Yesterday this lady had one of them sports strollers. With her standing behind it, it took up the entire horizontal width from door to door.
-People who just stand in the way, taking up space, oblivious to everyone around them. If there are people trying to get on the train behind you, and there is space in front of you, keep moving. RACISM COMING UP, BE PREPARED TO ATTACK ME FOR BEING RACIST: It seems asian people are guilty of this morso than others
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Old 04-18-2007, 12:41 PM   #105
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Students who don't use a spell checker. It takes 2 seconds!


People who don't wave after you let them into your lane. I hate that--and nobody does it here. It makes me a very angry driver.
Yuppers on both counts.

Regarding papers, I am not perfect either.....but wow. Just wow. I mark undergrad papers, and I believe to be in this program people already have to have a degree (pretty sure), or at the very least, they already have at least 2-3 years of post-secondary education. But that does not stop them from:

-not using spell check, like you stated;
-mixing up words like their/there, were/where etc on a continual basis;
-routinely thinking that a paragraph can be one sentence (we are talking multiple, multiple times in an essay);
-Thinking that it is ok to have one sentence be 1/2 a page in length - I mean, as long as you have thrown in some commas and semi-colons randomly for good measure, you are fine!
-people who think, despite being warned not to use it, that wikipedia is a scholary resource;
-people who cite literally every sentence;
-people who use "big words" just because, well they think they can;
-people who...well I have absolutely no idea what they are trying to say?

Ok, I'll stop now. Like I said I am not perfect either....but at least I know what a period is for instance (not me, but a colleague last year had someone write multiple paragraphs in a paper with absolutely no periods/commas/etc in them).

And as for people not waving - it takes 2 seconds! Yeesh.

(and people who will point out grammar mistakes in my post Ha, so there!)
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Old 04-18-2007, 12:43 PM   #106
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-Spoons and/or forks scraping on a bowl/plate. Literally makes we want to punch the wall. And I have.
- People with anger issues...

Now excuse me while I try and eat this very last string of spaghetti with a spoon...
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Old 04-18-2007, 12:44 PM   #107
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People who pronounce "Salsa" like "Saltsa," and people who say "EYE-talian" instead of "Italian." Same goes for "EYE-raqi" and "EYE-ranian." They're all wrong. Learn to talk!
TIE-yota. There's not even an 'I' there....
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Old 04-18-2007, 01:33 PM   #108
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When people sign forum posts like they're an email.

We can all see who you are by looking to the left. We dont need you to sign your posts at the bottom every time you write one.

This really drives me nuts when it's a back-and-forth conversation, and they're signing off on every other post.
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Old 04-18-2007, 01:38 PM   #109
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-the dirty hits by the Nashville Predators....
-when the Flames make the playoffs and the Oilers don't..
-the US Media because they glorify everything in their country and don't seem to care about showing what goes on in the rest of the world.
-when people are more than 10 mins late and don't call
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Old 04-18-2007, 01:40 PM   #110
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People who smoke in their cars when there are kids in it.

People who let their kids get overweight and moving on to obese, due to their own negligence
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Old 04-18-2007, 06:58 PM   #111
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People who drive slow (below the speed limit ) in the fast lane

Elderly drivers (see above )
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Old 04-18-2007, 07:22 PM   #112
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Pants. Seriously, 1 day a week I walk around the house in my boxxers, I take a shower and get cleaned up and just don't put pants on.
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Old 04-18-2007, 08:02 PM   #113
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The sales dude at work who continually interupts people who are having a conversation. Get a clue: office door closed, two people in the office, speaker phone in play. No, you can't walk in and ask me about some deal you're working on. Wait until I'm $#&% done or just send me an email.
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Old 04-19-2007, 01:31 AM   #114
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One more, then I'm done. Please drive in the lane that's going to exit, if that is indeed what you intend to do. I can't read your mind. I don't know that when you go ripping by me in the left lane that you intend to swerve perilously across 4 lanes of traffic three seconds before your exit.
Some gum smaking punk in a rice rocket nearly took off the front end of my vehicle and 2 others as he did a California lane change on the Deerfoot this past sumer. Chased him for a couple of kilometers before I got close enough to get his license plate number. I then phoned the police and passed that info along. Would loved to have seen his face when the cops showed up at his door
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Old 04-19-2007, 02:55 AM   #115
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People who think driving between 90-105 km/h in the fast lane on Deerfoot is an acceptable practice.

People who pass in the left lane on Highway 2 because they're going 111 and the dude in front of them is going 109 .. they pull out and take half a minute to go by. ARGH I honestly just want to pull up beside them and gently nudge their car off the road.

Basically people who think roads exist merely to get them from one place to another. It's OUR road, not YOUR road, you oblivious twat.

People who, after finding out that you're a musician, go on a rant for 5 minutes on who the best (guitar/drum/bass/whatever) player in the world is. Yes, it's great you like Jimi Hendrix, thanks for sharing that with me. Most of the time, they're also presenting this incredibly interesting information in the "you should think so too" fashion.
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Old 04-19-2007, 07:03 AM   #116
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BC'ers who think their province is sooo much better, with nicer weather and that Albertans are all red necks.
Oh and those panhandlers that trick you by just stopping you to ask a question and then luanch into a massively long story. Always seem to be drywallers in from Saskatchewan too for some reason.
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Old 04-19-2007, 07:59 AM   #117
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-People who just stand in the way, taking up space, oblivious to everyone around them. If there are people trying to get on the train behind you, and there is space in front of you, keep moving. RACISM COMING UP, BE PREPARED TO ATTACK ME FOR BEING RACIST: It seems asian people are guilty of this morso than others
I think that has to do with the fact that commuter trains and subways in Asia tend to be free-for-alls where everyone gets on and off the train as if they are in a mosh pit.
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Old 04-19-2007, 10:29 AM   #118
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People who don't know the difference between a merge and a yield
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Old 04-19-2007, 10:38 AM   #119
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The misuse of the word literally.

Examples:
"I literally laughed my head off"
"Drugs literally tore my parents apart"

The thing that bugs me most about it is that they are using the word literally in the exact opposite way its intended to be used. They use it to enhance the metaphorical meaning instead of to negate it.

Edit thought of another:
I also loathe the term "rate of speed". You hear this on the news a lot. For example, "two cars were travelling on the highway at high rates of speed". Speed is already a rate. Rate of speed is acceleration, not speed. Why can't they just say "two cars were travelling at high speeds"? They try to make it official sounding and newsworthy by making their phrase more verbose, but they really change the meaning of the sentence.

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Old 04-19-2007, 11:10 AM   #120
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Grammer Nazis
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