pet peeves

[eye95]

Then you are talking with ignoramuses. I sell magazines. One out of 100 people call them clips.

However, that is an inapt analogy. These signs are directive and official. Not quite the same as ignorant people misusing a word.

Anyway, I don't need to play this foolishness with you anymore. I've made the point well enough. Moving on.


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[1245A Defender]

And,,,

Adds on this forum,,, enticing me to buy a FORD,,, in Spanish!!!

And,,, Adds on this forum,, with gross fotos of FUNGUS toes...

 

[JustaShooter]

People on forums that are supported by advertising but are otherwise free to use, complaining about seeing ads of any description, especially when all major browsers support ad blocking add-ons.

 

[davidmcbeth]

Adds on this forum,,, enticing me to buy a FORD,,, in Spanish!!!

And,,, Adds on this forum,, with gross fotos of FUNGUS toes...

Por qué no te gustan los Ford? Arreglar o reparar vehículos diarios?

Looks like immigration "reform" is dead ...
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/13/Boehner-No-conference-on-Senate-immigration-bill

 

[marshaul]

Then you are talking with ignoramuses. I sell magazines. One out of 100 people call them clips.

LOL.

eye95 loves to call BS on DMB (although I generally agree).

Now it's my turn: [size=+3]BS!!![/size]

 

[davidmcbeth]

Yes, if and when I found it necessary, preferable and prudent, as I do now.

Must make it hard for you ... given your computer:

http://cl.jroo.me/z3/o/L/z/d/a.aaa-Mini-laptop.jpg


Hey, get that animal off of it !

 

[DrakeZ07]

Pet peeves...

People who worship military veterans, and current military personal. I'm not just talking about the "Please Mister Butterbar, use your enormous appendage to slap my unworthy non-military status around so that I may worship the ground you walk on" type of people. But, the milder types as well. Let's make T.V. and Radio ads telling businesses to hire veterans first. Let's give monetary incentive to companies who hire vets. Lets make being a veteran a protected class, and give them better employment opportunities. It's not enough that Republicans, Democrats, Liberals, Conservatives, Libertarians, Constitutionalists, Americans in general, have a strange fetish for military veterans, and want to give them jobs over anyone else, NOPE! Let's give them FREE HEALTHCARE! All you need to do is spend three years in the military and get an honourable discharge, and boom, you get free college tuition, free healthcare for the rest of your life, G.I. bills and loans, Hiring preferential treatment, and tens of millions of people will act like you're a damn demi-god! Oh, you're not a veteran? I'm sorry, we're going to hire this person who was in the military as an infantryman for five or so years, and did a tour in Afghanistan, but has NO EXPERIENCE WHATSOEVER with the job type. You have six years experience doing this job type, have a good record, have a clean criminal record, have technical training, have college? Sorry, but we're looking for someone who has the type of integrity, and reliability that only Veterans have. Whats this? You're not a veteran, AND you want the government to give you free tuition for college?! You expect the American people to pay for free healthcare for you?! You ungrateful pig! Curse the liberals for wanting to tax Americans, Damn the Libertarians for wanting to cut military spending! etc.

Socialistic free healthcare, free college tuition, preferential treatment is only acceptable when its military veterans.

Another pet peeve...

People who justify provocative actions on the part of the U.S. in its past, and present. But go batsh*t insane when another country does the same thing. My mother, and some of my older family members can watch a show about the Bay of Pigs, and the Cuba crisis, and get raging mad at how the Cubans shot down a U.S. spy plane, or how Russia dared to put nukes in Cuba, or that North Vietnam won the Vietnam conflict. But, in the same breath, will justify how the U.S. had a right, and was acting correctly, by violating the sovereignty of Cuba with spy places, committing acts of espionage, and doing much of the instigating of the entire Cold War, and putting nukes in Turkey next to the Russian border. Never mind all that instigating, and assassination attempts, and nation-building, that has been the personal motto of the U.S. since 1945; All we need to know is that Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, Vietnam, DPRK, and our former Cold-war adversaries are evil! and we're the godliest good nation, and can do no wrong!

Third Pet peeve...

Supporters of Israel.
Stahp forcing your Judeo-Christian fetishes on the rest of the world by sending Billions of dollars, and military equipment, to a nation that is to the middle east, what Nazi-Germany was to Europe.

I like this pet peeve thread, its a good way to air out all of our hatreds under the banner of 'pet peeves'.

 

[Brace]

I'm deeply annoyed at the assumption that all suffering belies guilt. It's an intellectually lazy and socially toxic way of not having to feel bad about or responsible for the ills of the world. I mean, suppose you're walking past a homeless person. There are three broad kinds of emotional responses:

* "Damn, that sucks. It's a shame people can get that down on their luck and not have help to fall back on"
* "That person is gross and probably an alcoholic and a drug addict and a criminal and a lunatic, they deserve to be there, and thank goodness they are there otherwise I'd probably have to deal with them more harshly in some other context"
* Nothing, because you have other things to think about.

And even if you think the first thing it's worth noting you don't actually have to do anything. You can feel sympathy for a person and not help them because you have better uses of your time and money, there's nothing illogical or wrong about that. Just this instinct that every person who reveals in any way that the world is less than perfect must be in some way evil themselves, it's really revealing of the inner mind of the type of person who has it. It shows deep insecurities and a willingness to hurt others for the sake of maintaining a worldview or self-image or for the sake of asserting a right not to be inconvenienced, even if it means kicking sand in the face of someone who's already down.

 

[eye95]

The desire not to feel responsible for the problems of another stems from the government's willingness to take that responsibility (and our money) to solve those problems. "Are there no poor houses?"

I would say that the overwhelming number of people on the government dole are responsible for their predicament, but the government is enabling their unhelpful behavior.

That doesn't mean I won't help. I won't discuss my routine giving plan; that's between me and God. However, I will give you a pair of fer-instances that may be of use to others wondering how to handle some situations.

I was in Columbus for an RKBA event a few weeks back. I passed a person sitting (yes, sitting) on the ground with a sign propped up next to him stating that he was homeless and hungry. I simply handed him an untouched half-sub that I was just going to take home and eat later.

Two or three months ago, I was at Sonic in Huber Heights. As I was enjoying my lunch, I watched a young woman walk quite a distance to stand on the corner near the restaurant. I watched her standing there with a sign for a while. When I left, I made sure I drove by so I could read her sign. It went into some depth, kids at home, no money for food or rent, etc. I drove to the next grocery store, bought a bag full of groceries, drove back and handed it to her. Some of the groceries were perishable, so I put them in one of my insulated grocery bags. She got that too. Her long walk to the corner led me to believe that her current situation was not born of laziness, and the look of surprise and gratitude on her face convinced me that she was truly in need.

I filled the belly of the seated man, but am unsure whether I helped him. I am sure that I helped the standing woman.


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[OC for ME]

I'm deeply annoyed at the assumption that all suffering belies guilt. It's an intellectually lazy and socially toxic way of not having to feel bad about or responsible for the ills of the world. I mean, suppose you're walking past a homeless person. There are three broad kinds of emotional responses:

* "Damn, that sucks. It's a shame people can get that down on their luck and not have help to fall back on"
* "That person is gross and probably an alcoholic and a drug addict and a criminal and a lunatic, they deserve to be there, and thank goodness they are there otherwise I'd probably have to deal with them more harshly in some other context"
* Nothing, because you have other things to think about.

And even if you think the first thing it's worth noting you don't actually have to do anything. You can feel sympathy for a person and not help them because you have better uses of your time and money, there's nothing illogical or wrong about that. Just this instinct that every person who reveals in any way that the world is less than perfect must be in some way evil themselves, it's really revealing of the inner mind of the type of person who has it. It shows deep insecurities and a willingness to hurt others for the sake of maintaining a worldview or self-image or for the sake of asserting a right not to be inconvenienced, even if it means kicking sand in the face of someone who's already down.

Psychobabble BS.

 

[SFCRetired]

I'm a veteran. I don't expect to be worshiped and everything I got because of my status as a veteran, I earned. My pet peeve is the asshats who make claims about veterans "don't deserve this and don't deserve that" and who do not have the guts to face the long hours (I've been known to put in days in excess of 72 hours when the mission called for it), the separation from friends and family (unaccompanied tours are generally a year), the dangers (there are losses of service members even in peacetime), and the abysmal pay (remember that service members are on duty 24/7/365).

Yeah, I know I volunteered for it multiple times. I put in over twenty years and I'm damn proud of my service; just as my father (WWI veteran) was proud of his service. I'm also very proud of my son and daughter-in-law for their service.

Additional peeve: Any LEO that refers to me as a "civilian". I quit being a civilian at the age of seventeen when I donned Army green for the first time. Unless the LEO has also served in the military, he/she is the "civilian"; not me.

 

[JustaShooter]

I'm a veteran

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Additional peeve: Any LEO that refers to me as a "civilian". I quit being a civilian at the age of seventeen when I donned Army green for the first time.

And you resumed being a civilian the moment you retired from military service. Welcome back, and thank you for your service. (I don't just say that as a panacea, I truly mean it. My father served 28 years, father-in-law over 20, uncles and other relatives have also served. I grew up in and around military families and I know the sacrifices made by those serving in the military.)

 

[sudden valley gunner]

The desire not to feel responsible for the problems of another stems from the government's willingness to take that responsibility (and our money) to solve those problems. "Are there no poor houses?"

I would say that the overwhelming number of people on the government dole are responsible for their predicament, but the government is enabling their unhelpful behavior.

That doesn't mean I won't help. I won't discuss my routine giving plan; that's between me and God. However, I will give you a pair of fer-instances that may be of use to others wondering how to handle some situations.

I was in Columbus for an RKBA event a few weeks back. I passed a person sitting (yes, sitting) on the ground with a sign propped up next to him stating that he was homeless and hungry. I simply handed him an untouched half-sub that I was just going to take home and eat later.

Two or three months ago, I was at Sonic in Huber Heights. As I was enjoying my lunch, I watched a young woman walk quite a distance to stand on the corner near the restaurant. I watched her standing there with a sign for a while. When I left, I made sure I drove by so I could read her sign. It went into some depth, kids at home, no money for food or rent, etc. I drove to the next grocery store, bought a bag full of groceries, drove back and handed it to her. Some of the groceries were perishable, so I put them in one of my insulated grocery bags. She got that too. Her long walk to the corner led me to believe that her current situation was not born of laziness, and the look of surprise and gratitude on her face convinced me that she was truly in need.

I filled the belly of the seated man, but am unsure whether I helped him. I am sure that I helped the standing woman.


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+1 All done without the threat of violence to give to those in need! Kudos!

 

[Bernymac]

Anger, prejudice, hate against those that do not believe as you do and disguise them as "pet peeves".

 

[Brace]

The desire not to feel responsible for the problems of another stems from the government's willingness to take that responsibility (and our money) to solve those problems. "Are there no poor houses?"

I could see this contributing to complacency. People who think the state is omnipotent and supposed to handle everything should logically be less prone to handling anything themselves. I don't see that the maliciousness comes from that though. At least not directly. Maybe indirectly, eg "The state is perfect and helps all who pursue help. Therefore this person is suffering for no reason and also trying to tell me the state is imperfect and guilt trip me, so they can go to hell." Which is to say, liberals are as capable of the just world fallacy as anyone, cognitive biases don't have political parties.

 

[davidmcbeth]

I'd also like to point out that, in the event we were talking about a multi-lane highway (which we were not), there is a proper signal meaning "get over so I can pass", and I'll give a little hint: it's not tailgating.

If someone isn't knowledgeable and experienced enough to know that flashing one's lights is the proper signal, that someone isn't knowledgeable and experienced enough to really need to pass anyway. Self-evidently.

If you flash your lights at the guy and he doesn't get over, he's a dick and I'm right there with you. Frankly, though, if you tailgate him and he doesn't get over, well, you're still the dick for tailgating, and I have precisely zero sympathy.

For those who ignore the flashing of the lights, a polite bump usually gets the request across.

Dang it, move over ... hell ain't half full yet !!

 

[stealthyeliminator]

So, if someone is driving in the passing lane, refuses to move over, have you ever just passed on the right? I have, in an emergency. I try not to though, for general safety reasons.

 

[MAC702]

So, if someone is driving in the passing lane, refuses to move over, have you ever just passed on the right? ....

If I hadn't, I'd still be in Texas...

 

[Citizen]

If I hadn't, I'd still be in Texas...

(chuckle)

I guess those state road signs in Texas that say "Drive Friendly" are a little like the Bill of Rights. The mere existence of the BoR tells you all you need to know about government. The existence of those road signs in Texas tells you all you need to know about Texas drivers, eh?

 

[golddigger14s]

People who post state specific questions in the General thread.

BTW Drake, three years does not get you free health care for life. Only about 180 days after you get out. I did 21 years, and don't get free health care. I may not pay a lot dollar wise, but 21 years have done its' damage. I'm 60% disabled, and have a hard time walking. Military service takes a toll on the body, and I wasn't even blown up like some guys. If you want to bitch about a protected special class, turn your anger towards Senators and Congressmen. After only ONE term they get full pay, and health care for life.