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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: beet1e on October 18, 2005, 06:57:37 AM
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- Maps on which UP is not North
- People eating off the shelves in supermarkets before they’ve paid
- Sentences which start with “So…”
- Split infinitives
- People who eat meals with their elbows on the table
- At roundabouts, drivers in the left lane who signal right, but are really going straight on
- Coming down to and dealing with a kitchen sink full of greasy dishes in dirty water, that have been “left to soak”
- Being thanked for “my time” – oh the sincerity – not
- The gaggle of young mothers who arrive at the local Starbucks with a fleet of push chairs, and use the place as a creche, leaving behind a huge mess for someone else to clear up
- the way those same women use a glottal stop to pronounce the word “chocolate”, ie. choc’late
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check your wiring and the conduits bud, I think there may be a short circuit.
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Originally posted by storch
check your wiring and the conduits bud, I think there may be a short circuit.
Naw, it`s just a feminist issue with Beet. He feels left out. :)
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10 things i hate...
1. everyone who hate USA
2. people who come to USA and can't speak english
3. illegal aliens who sneak into my bueatiful country
4. duke university basketball team
5. loserville university basketball team
6. people that use the words "stress", and "drama" and whine about how life sucks.
7. terrorists
8. raygay music
9. criminals
10. 'napolean dynomite', 'kung fu enter the fist', and 'A.I.'
there are more but these came to my mind first
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Sooo (this one's for you, Beet) MiniDud, non-french people who hate the USA are ok in your book? Man you've got a lot of possible friends over the world those days :aok
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deselys... you mean people who have never met us hate us?
they buy our music and movies tho.... strange.
I really envy beetle tho that those are the most annoying things that enter his life.
lazs
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hate is a strong word
think it would take much bigger issues to use that term
as in:
I HATE cancer...
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What's a split infinitive?
Why do you go to Starbucks?
You sir, are DOOMED!
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Originally posted by Eagler
hate is a strong word
think it would take much bigger issues to use that term
as in:
I HATE cancer...
hate (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=hate&x=21&y=14) i guess can be a "strong" word. Along with "love" and what else? Anyway i don't view words as strong or soft. They are just words. I do hate cancer too but doesn't everybody? stuff like that shouldn't count because everyone hates it. next time i will say "things i am intensly hostile about" if it makes you people feel better. :aok
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Soo,
Why do elbows bother you so much?
:aok
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Odd.. for a gun hater, Beetle's using a lotta bullets lately.
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...Driving on the left
...Steering wheel on the right (wrong) side
...Chutney
...Kidney pie
...dropping the H like in History
...spelling Aluminum with a superfluous 'I'
...saying 'zed' instead of the proper 'zee'
...the whole royal thing
...Cockney Rhyming Slang
...Ham and Pork Custard
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Originally posted by megadud
10 things i hate...
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2. people who come to USA and can't speak english
3. illegal aliens who sneak into my bueatiful country
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Yes, thank god for the numerous locals with high education standards that spell things right too!
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Originally posted by Saintaw
Yes, thank god for the numerous locals with high education standards that spell things right too!
i might not be able to spell the language but damit i can speak it! :furious :furious :mad:
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Like people from Kentucky and Tennessee?
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
...Driving on the left
...Steering wheel on the right (wrong) side
...Chutney
...Kidney pie
...dropping the H like in History
...spelling Aluminum with a superfluous 'I'
...saying 'zed' instead of the proper 'zee'
...the whole royal thing
...Cockney Rhyming Slang
...Ham and Pork Custard
You forgot tight pommies (as in never pay fpr anything).
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""Ten pet hates ""
why do you hate pets, i like pets.
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I'm going to really drive you nuts. I have no choice but to completely harass you about your split infinitive issues. I want you to clearly understand how silly it is to unjustifiably hate split infinitives. I think you should be forced to laboriously write over and over "to bodly go where no man has gone before" so as to quickly elimiate your predjudice.
:rofl
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Originally posted by beet1e
- People who eat meals with their elbows on the table
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Never quite understood why this would bother anyone. So what?
Does it bother you because some old woman once told you not to do it so now you are acting like an old lady yourself.
Why should I care where someone places their elbows, as long as they arent in my plate?
dago
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(http://www.wonkette.com/images/this%20kitten%20reminds%20me%20of%20moby.jpg)
I hate them so much, I kill one every hour.
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:rofl .......:rofl :rofl :rofl
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Split infinitives? This has to be a joke. Anybody pompous enough to have issue with split infinitives died almost 200 years ago.
By the way, isn't "I allready know" a split infinitive?
But I agree, eating with elbows on the table is rude.
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Originally posted by beet1e
- Sentences which start with “So…”
- Split infinitives
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So... for those of you who were wondering. (I know I was.)
From the AskOxford (http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutgrammar/splitinfinitives) Frequently Asked Questions:
What is a split infinitive, and why should I avoid using one?
This is a split infinitive:
To boldly go where no man has gone before!
The infinitive is to go, and it has been 'split' by the adverb boldly. Split infinitives have been the cause of much controversy among teachers and grammarians, but the notion that they are ungrammatical is simply a myth: in his famous book Modern English Usage, Henry Fowler listed them among 'superstitions'!
Split infinitives are frequently poor style, but they are not strictly bad grammar. In the example above, to avoid the split infinitive would result either in weakness (to go boldly) or over-formality (boldly to go): either would ruin the rhythmic force and rhetorical pattern of the original. It is probably good practice to avoid split infinitives in formal writing, but clumsy attempts to avoid them simply by shuffling adverbs about can create far worse sentences.
My personal pet peeve... the improper use of the apostrophe.
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Negative Suave, infinitive's always begin with "to". To already know is the greatest lie.
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Originally posted by Magic
My personal pet peeve... the proper use of the apostrophe.
So if it peeve's you when people use apstrophe's properly, I will use them im'properly.
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Originally posted by crowMAW
I'm going to really drive you nuts. I have no choice but to completely harass you about your split infinitive issues. I want you to clearly understand how silly it is to unjustifiably hate split infinitives. I think you should be forced to laboriously write over and over "to bodly go where no man has gone before" so as to quickly elimiate your predjudice.
:rofl
nicely put, crowmaw!
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
So if it peeve's you when people use apstrophe's properly, I will use them im'properly.
LOL, got me... original post has been edited.
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Why can't we disagree in a more friendly manner?
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My pet peeves
* People who need to spend hours fishing for the exact change while checking out at the supermarket.
* The use of "winningest".
* Commercial breaks in the middle of sporting events.
* Referees allowing blatant crooked feeds in scrums (what is this, Rugby League?).
* Shop assistants who chat wth their co-workers when I am waiting to be served.
* Paying full toll in the Harbour Tunnel & Bridge even though I am on a motorbike.
* Poor manners, especially the inability to say please and thank you.
* Websites that only work in IE
* "Reality" "TV"
* Clients who don't know what they want (but still want you to do it for them!).
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I don't hate cancer.
I believe shakespeare was not afraid to deftly split an infinitive.
Infinitives do not always begin with "to"... Off the top of my head, I can think of bestemmiare, wiederausgraben, encouilir, kataphugein and inseminare as infinitves that do not begin with "to".
I do hate folks who can't figure out what an apostrophe's for.
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1. nose pickers
2. booger eaters
3. politicians
4. lawyers
5. FAA ramp rats
6. IRS auditors
7. mouthy fat black chicks
8. network TV
9. yappy little dogs
10. Nosepickin booger eatin network tv talking head ex-judge liberal political lawyers working for the GAO and the FAA and married to mouthy fat black chicks with yappy little dogs sitting in the seats in front of you on a 14 hour flight.
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But Dinger, are those English words? Translate them to English if they are not. ALL spanish verbs are infinitives, correr=to run pintar=to paint lavar=to wash etc etc.
Nevermind, they are normally preceded by "to" though.
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- Little Yippie Dogs
- Pot Bellied Pigs
- Parakeets
- Iguanas
- More than 2 cats
- Fish
- Ants (ala ant farms)
- Hamsters
- Turtles
- Tarantulas
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My biggest...........
Roundabouts, instead of intersections.
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farters bother me more than nose pickers.
lazs
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MP8 doesn't like you guys. Who would care for a spider as a pet? I would have a bat for a pet, they eat all the bugs around your house, it's better then a citronella candle!
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Someone is taking all the fun outta this thread. :D
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gekkos make excellent insect control pets. the hard poop pellets vacuum up very easily as well.
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Yeah but they don't fly! Then again they do change colour and have a sticky tounge....i'm getting both.
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Originally posted by storch
gekkos make excellent insect control pets. the hard poop pellets vacuum up very easily as well.
Plus, you'll save money on your car insurance.
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Originally posted by Hangtime
Plus, you'll save money on your car insurance.
not true. I saved money on my car insurance by switching to allstate.
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I've revisited this thread over the last few days.... hoping for some inspiration to respond.... yet, I can't think of a single one.
I've got probably 20 minutes invested into this thread, and.... nada.... nothing. Not one thing.
Trippin' me out.
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My pet peeve, people named NASH.
What then?
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1. Toyota Corollas.
2. Toyota Corollas driven by middle-aged women.
3. Toyota Corollas driven by middle-aged asian women.
4. Dork teenagers driving daddy's BMWobbly.
5. Barney and anything purple that giggles uncontrollably.
6. Cooked peas.
7. Anal retentive individuals in positions that can cause me annoyance.
8. Majority of the idiots in the DMV information line.
9. Spinach in any form.
10. Runny eggs and burned bacon.
My regards,
Widewing
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1- Dish water coffee
2- Mean unfriendly people
3- Simple humor...not dumb humor like Top Secret, but simple
4- Red Lights
5- Interstates
6-Teenagers
7-Forgetting stuff
8-Being blown off (slang for someone not meeting you at a planned time)
9-Mushrooms
10-Criminals of any sort
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It's enculer you doofus.
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Originally posted by Widewing
7. Anal retentive individuals in positions that can cause me annoyance.
Yeah I hate pages 21 thru 38 in the karma sutra too.