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'That' person who annoys you.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    urahonky wrote: »
    Also from way back on the first page the person who sat next to a person who sniffled all the time. I sat next to a woman in my old job that coughed at least once a minute all day, every day for the 5 months I worked there. You can't get pissed at someone for having a medical condition but oh god every day I prayed for one of us to die.

    Oh sweet Jesus that would be annoying. I was up on the 2nd floor working on a computer in the classified area (it's too damn quiet in there) and this lady sitting in the room cleared her throat once or twice a minute.

    Since I was up there for 3 hours I was nearly in tears... I wanted to say something, but didn't.

    We had a teacher in my highschool with a chronic smoker's cough. One day, the teacher I was an assistant for (yay for free periods during the day) didn't have anything for me to do so I was passed on to the smoker. The constant coughs during her lecture to her students was vile.

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  • KruiteKruite Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    People that try to argue that there is a "debate" between Evolution and Intelligent Design; more so if they refer to mathematicians saying that it is improbable for random mutations to develop advanced organs.

    If you don't know basic genetics or micro biology, then you probably shouldn't be trying to argue this in the first place.

    To comment on "that guy" that thinks he's the shit; I was in the middle school band with one such person playing drums, and everyone thought he was the "best drummer". Asshole couldn't keep tempo or do the more difficult drum rolls correctly (the ones where you play 32nd notes). There were tryouts for the jazz band and only one spot for drummer. I naturally tried out along with mr douche bag and company, and when I got the part I was labeled as "suck up". c'est la vie

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  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2008
    Evigilant wrote: »
    People who take the elevator up or down 1 floor. I can understand if you are handicap or morbidly fat, but this happened to me today, again. Someone who was decently in shape took the elevator from the 12th floor to the 11th floor.

    On taller buildings, the stairwells are often locked such that you can get into them from anywhere, but only out at the bottom.

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  • jibjibjibjib Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Doc wrote: »
    Evigilant wrote: »
    People who take the elevator up or down 1 floor. I can understand if you are handicap or morbidly fat, but this happened to me today, again. Someone who was decently in shape took the elevator from the 12th floor to the 11th floor.

    On taller buildings, the stairwells are often locked such that you can get into them from anywhere, but only out at the bottom.

    yeah, i can see both sides of this, but it has to be an exception. For instance, one time i walked up 7 flights of stairs to my floor, only to realize that the lock on the 7th floor door was jammed, so my only option was to go to the 6th and ride the elevator up. I was sweaty, tired and pissed off, and of course as soon as i got on, some smart ass on the elevator said "dude, one floor? seriously?"

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  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Henroid wrote: »
    urahonky wrote: »
    Also from way back on the first page the person who sat next to a person who sniffled all the time. I sat next to a woman in my old job that coughed at least once a minute all day, every day for the 5 months I worked there. You can't get pissed at someone for having a medical condition but oh god every day I prayed for one of us to die.

    Oh sweet Jesus that would be annoying. I was up on the 2nd floor working on a computer in the classified area (it's too damn quiet in there) and this lady sitting in the room cleared her throat once or twice a minute.

    Since I was up there for 3 hours I was nearly in tears... I wanted to say something, but didn't.

    We had a teacher in my highschool with a chronic smoker's cough. One day, the teacher I was an assistant for (yay for free periods during the day) didn't have anything for me to do so I was passed on to the smoker. The constant coughs during her lecture to her students was vile.

    I had a teacher in high school that had severe halitosis and would tell everyone to "SHUT UP!" unless he asked them a question, was so glad when he retired.

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  • TheCrumblyCrackerTheCrumblyCracker Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    People that think Indie always means good.

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  • BolthornBolthorn Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Evigilant wrote: »
    People who take the elevator up or down 1 floor. I can understand if you are handicap or morbidly fat, but this happened to me today, again. Someone who was decently in shape took the elevator from the 12th floor to the 11th floor.

    I see that a lot here. We only have four floors. I used to be on the third floor and I took the stairs. It's not that bad really. I'm now on the second floor and it amazes me how as I'm coming out of the stairwell I'll see the people getting off the elevator that I just saw get on it from the first floor. I can't help but chuckle. That may make me a smug prick, but I don't care.

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  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    That lady who comes in day after day and asks me what they had for lunch today. I don't know motherfucker, I don't eat lunch at work because you're all fat, disgusting slobs. I've told you this 18 motherfucking-million times.

    Coincidentally, 9/10 of the time it's Chinese food.

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  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    ugh, like the calm down one, when someone says 'chill out!'

    to me this translates as 'I understand that you are upset right now, but to me this doesn't matter as I view your feelings as invalid especially about what is surely a small and unimportant issue.

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  • wazillawazilla Having a late dinner Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    ugh, like the calm down one, when someone says 'chill out!'

    to me this translates as 'I understand that you are upset right now, but to me this doesn't matter as I view your feelings as invalid especially about what is surely a small and unimportant issue.

    "Why are you being so crabby right now?"

    "What? I'm not."

    "I WAS JUST ASKING A QUESTION! GOD!"

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  • ShadowenShadowen Snores in the morning LoserdomRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Mine isn't bad. I seem to generate some internal blindness field, so people will ignore me as long as I ignore them. (This has had some negative effects--my yearly review, which is the only time we get raises, is two months overdue and no one seems to notice. I'm considering waiting long enough my attendance average goes up before I bring this to their attention, though.) There is, however, a woman who works in the same department as me. She's a nice lady. She lieks some of the same stuff I do--movies, and so on. She's a good worker. She's a bit of a geek, even.

    However, she has a very slight speech impediment that makes her sound like a mouth-breather and a voice that could shatter glass and a cackle that makes her sound like the bastard daughter of the Wicked Witch of the West by The Joker. Combined with a few annoying vocal habits--a tendency to say "Baahh" (as if she's from the South, and she was born and raised in Canada) instead of "Bye" when she's done on the phone, for example--she is transformed from a decent coworker to someone who makes you want to curl up under your desk with your portable music player of choice on full blast.

    I'm horribly shallow.

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  • Whiniest Man On EarthWhiniest Man On Earth Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Door-to-door solicitors universally annoy me, but I just had an encounter with a woman from AT&T who was particularly annoying. She wouldn't accept that I didn't watch TV because she could see a TV in my living room behind me. I told her I only watched movies and played video games, and she still tried to sell me on paying for their overpriced-as-fuck U-Verse service. This went on for about five minutes.

    The worst part is that they always seem to come right after I get home from work and want to eat. Who thinks it's a good idea to unleash their door-to-door service during dinner hours?

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    defrag wrote: »
    Door-to-door solicitors universally annoy me, but I just had an encounter with a woman from AT&T who was particularly annoying. She wouldn't accept that I didn't watch TV because she could see a TV in my living room behind me. I told her I only watched movies and played video games, and she still tried to sell me on paying for their overpriced-as-fuck U-Verse service. This went on for about five minutes.

    The worst part is that they always seem to come right after I get home from work and want to eat. Who thinks it's a good idea to unleash their door-to-door service during dinner hours?
    Same with telemarketers. If they ever ring you, it's when you're eating dinner.

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  • QonasQonas Detroit, MIRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    jibjib wrote: »
    -People who proclaim themselves atheists because they don't believe in "men in the sky", as if that's what religious people actually believed and there's nothing deeper to it than that.


    Also:

    -People who either believe ONLY in evolution, or ONLY in intelligent design. Guess what? THEY'RE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE.

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  • DukiDuki Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Qonas wrote: »
    jibjib wrote: »
    -People who proclaim themselves atheists because they don't believe in "men in the sky", as if that's what religious people actually believed and there's nothing deeper to it than that.


    Also:

    -People who either believe ONLY in evolution, or ONLY in intelligent design. Guess what? THEY'RE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE.

    Yes they are.

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  • MahnmutMahnmut Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Duki wrote: »
    Qonas wrote: »
    jibjib wrote: »
    -People who proclaim themselves atheists because they don't believe in "men in the sky", as if that's what religious people actually believed and there's nothing deeper to it than that.


    Also:

    -People who either believe ONLY in evolution, or ONLY in intelligent design. Guess what? THEY'RE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE.

    Yes they are.

    I think he's using some special definition of Intelligent Design -- something like the Catholic Church's position on evolution, say.

    The Intelligent Design that's at issue in the American school system from time to time? Yeah, totally not consistent with evolution. That's the point of Intelligent Design.

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I've heard arguments that there could be some "creator" that created some lifeforms, then set off evolution. Not that I believe a single word of it, but I suppose this may be what Qonas was thinking of.

    As an aside, I'd be more willing to believe in multiple gods rather than a single one. A single God sounds too much like feature bloat. I like to apply the Unix philosophy to everything - do one thing, and do it well.

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  • AcetaldehydeAcetaldehyde Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Cyvros wrote: »
    Same with telemarketers. If they ever ring you, it's when you're eating dinner.

    The telemarketers that call my house usually do it at a time that is most inopportune for either me, my father or both of us. They call around 9-10 am, and only on weekdays. Either my father has just come home from working a night-shift, which he does all the time, or he is at work, and I have the unusual day off, and I am probably sleeping and dreaming about chasing cars or something.

    I guess there is the times when they call and there's noone around, but that doesn't annoy me quite as much. What I don't get is: How many people do they reach, that are willing to talk to them, at 9-10 am? On a weekday?

    So I hate them.

    Oh, and pretentious people.

    FUCK pretentious people!

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  • AJAlkaline40AJAlkaline40 __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    jibjib wrote: »
    -people who proclaim themselves atheists because they don't believe in "men in the sky", as if that's what religious people actually believed, and there's nothing deeper to it than that.

    I have to admit to saying that to people sometimes. The reason is not that I think religious people are actually that daft, but I find it important to point out that a religious position is equivalently logically defensible to such a statement.

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    For instance, I goad people who believe that a being so incredibly powerful and complex that it could fashion the entire depths of the cosmos also cares where I put my penis.

    Also, evolution and religion are not mutually exclusive, but evolution via natural selection and the "theory" of intelligent design are mutually exclusive.

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  • LoveIsUnityLoveIsUnity Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    defrag wrote: »
    Door-to-door solicitors universally annoy me, but I just had an encounter with a woman from AT&T who was particularly annoying. She wouldn't accept that I didn't watch TV because she could see a TV in my living room behind me. I told her I only watched movies and played video games, and she still tried to sell me on paying for their overpriced-as-fuck U-Verse service. This went on for about five minutes.

    The worst part is that they always seem to come right after I get home from work and want to eat. Who thinks it's a good idea to unleash their door-to-door service during dinner hours?

    This very thing happened to me, albeit in a different fashion. I used to get telemarketers from my ISP call up and offer me a "special deal" on a cable plan that was only 60 dollars a month. I told them I didn't watch TV, but they wouldn't believe me since "I use them for cable" already. Apparently, they don't bother to make a distinction between cable TV and cable internet.

    Also, one time, the telemarkter called me a snob because I told him I liked to read instead of watching TV.

    In addition, I'm vegan, and all of the people who fight with me over what I can and cannot eat can go fuck themselves. I can understand not knowing that vegans don't eat fish, but don't try to fight with me when I tell you I don't eat seafood.

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  • BamaBama Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    For instance, I goad people who believe that a being so incredibly powerful and complex that it could fashion the entire depths of the cosmos also cares where I put my penis.
    What makes you think that you understand the motives and interests of a being that powerful and complex any better than they do?

    --

    Talk of arguments over religion has reminded me of one thing that ticks me off: people who get all high and mighty about their arguments being based on logic and/or science, but then have glaring logical or scientific errors in those arguments. It's one thing to get tripped up by some of the finer points of formal logic or science, but it's another thing to make those mistakes while insisting that your argument is the only logical/scientific position.

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  • AJAlkaline40AJAlkaline40 __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    defrag wrote: »
    Door-to-door solicitors universally annoy me, but I just had an encounter with a woman from AT&T who was particularly annoying. She wouldn't accept that I didn't watch TV because she could see a TV in my living room behind me. I told her I only watched movies and played video games, and she still tried to sell me on paying for their overpriced-as-fuck U-Verse service. This went on for about five minutes.

    The worst part is that they always seem to come right after I get home from work and want to eat. Who thinks it's a good idea to unleash their door-to-door service during dinner hours?

    When I get my own place, I'm going to have a very large screen TV in full view of the door and a surround sound speaker system. When a solicitor comes to my door I'm going to play hardcore pornography on it, and blast the sound. See how they react to that.

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  • JohnnyCacheJohnnyCache Starting Defense Place at the tableRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Qonas wrote: »
    jibjib wrote: »
    -People who proclaim themselves atheists because they don't believe in "men in the sky", as if that's what religious people actually believed and there's nothing deeper to it than that.

    Also:

    -People who either believe ONLY in evolution, or ONLY in intelligent design. Guess what? THEY'RE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE.

    Evolution and intelligent design are expressly mutually exclusive. It's the avowed purpose of the ID movement and ID also stands against the fundamental random nature of evolution.

    Now, evolution and religion aren't exclusive.

    I hate people that push organic food.

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  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I hate that guy who brings religion into a thread that is not about religion.

    Don't be that guy.

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  • AJAlkaline40AJAlkaline40 __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    Bama wrote: »
    For instance, I goad people who believe that a being so incredibly powerful and complex that it could fashion the entire depths of the cosmos also cares where I put my penis.
    What makes you think that you understand the motives and interests of a being that powerful and complex any better than they do?
    No, no, you're perfectly right. Conceivably my penis is of extreme importance to an all powerful being, and I've no right to tell anyone otherwise. It's just that the scope comparison defies human logic, which, while saying nothing of potentially vastly different supreme being logic, is the only logic I have available to me. The evidence supporting the idea that my penis has astronomical consequences has really grown, though, I hear they've discovered a new galactic cluster that is truly a spitting image of my genitals.
    EDIT: I'm sorry Crimson, I won't talk about it any more.

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  • TaximesTaximes Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I hate people that push organic food.

    But the poor grocery stockboy has to get the cart from the backroom to the organic aisle somehow...

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  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Over attentive waitstaff.
    Under attentive waitstaff.

    Teenagers. All of them. Sorry guys, but the 99.9% of you that are complete tards ruin it for the .1% of you.
    Seriously. I really, really hate you. No offense.

    You ruin my evenings out with my wife constantly. There are 3 rows of empty seats at the movie and you choose to sit right next to us, attempt to talk to me like you know me, and then the coup de grace, all of you little snot demons pull out face-meltingly bright cellphones and start texting. TO EACH OTHER. While TALKING. TO EACH OTHER.

    Seriously. NO.

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  • JohnnyCacheJohnnyCache Starting Defense Place at the tableRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I hate people that won't concede that some of the stuff in the old testament was clearly put there by well-intentioned priests that just wanted people to stop killing themselves with lukewarm pork and shellfish and a2m and soforth.

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  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Ludious wrote: »
    Over attentive waitstaff.
    Under attentive waitstaff.

    Teenagers. All of them. Sorry guys, but the 99.9% of you that are complete tards ruin it for the .1% of you.
    Seriously. I really, really hate you. No offense.

    You ruin my evenings out with my wife constantly. There are 3 rows of empty seats at the movie and you choose to sit right next to us, attempt to talk to me like you know me, and then the coup de grace, all of you little snot demons pull out face-meltingly bright cellphones and start texting. TO EACH OTHER. While TALKING. TO EACH OTHER.

    Seriously. NO.

    I hate people who make broad generalisations about age groups based on anecdotal evidence, and then have the balls to say 'No offence' as if that actually makes it not offensive.

    In fact, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say I hate people who hate things I like.

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  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Hate me all you want. Anecdotal evidence is valid to the victim of the aforementioned anecdotal evidence.

    Every time I have ever had a moviegoing experience ruined for me, it was by a group of teenagers. EVERY. TIME.

    Besides, I would say that any teenager that could hold a coherent conversation on these here forums, probably doesn't qualify for my hatred, and will probably avoid my ire and wrath. However, that being said, the group of humans known as "teenagers" can still be qualified as a group I "hate".

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  • JohnnyCacheJohnnyCache Starting Defense Place at the tableRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I hate polite teenagers who don't have the sense to rebel and talk shit and fuck with old people in theatres while still young enough to have fun doing so.

    Don't waste your youth, kids, be assholes while you can.
    Ludious wrote: »
    Hate me all you want. Anecdotal evidence is valid to the victim of the aforementioned anecdotal evidence.

    Every time I have ever had a moviegoing experience ruined for me, it was by a group of teenagers. EVERY. TIME.

    Besides, I would say that any teenager that could hold a coherent conversation on these here forums, probably doesn't qualify for my hatred, and will probably avoid my ire and wrath. However, that being said, the group of humans known as "teenagers" can still be qualified as a group I "hate".


    Really? Every. Time?

    You've never had a movie runied by old people that keep going "Ehh? WHATD HE SAY? I CANT HEAR. WHO IS THAT GUY. WHAT IS GOING ON WHY IS HE DOING THAT?"

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  • AJAlkaline40AJAlkaline40 __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    Ludious wrote: »
    Over attentive waitstaff.
    Under attentive waitstaff.

    Teenagers. All of them. Sorry guys, but the 99.9% of you that are complete tards ruin it for the .1% of you.
    Seriously. I really, really hate you. No offense.

    You ruin my evenings out with my wife constantly. There are 3 rows of empty seats at the movie and you choose to sit right next to us, attempt to talk to me like you know me, and then the coup de grace, all of you little snot demons pull out face-meltingly bright cellphones and start texting. TO EACH OTHER. While TALKING. TO EACH OTHER.

    Seriously. NO.

    I hate people who make broad generalisations about age groups based on anecdotal evidence, and then have the balls to say 'No offence' as if that actually makes it not offensive.

    In fact, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say I hate people who hate things I like.

    To be fair, I hate teenagers and I still am one.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Ludious wrote: »
    Over attentive waitstaff.
    Under attentive waitstaff.

    Teenagers. All of them. Sorry guys, but the 99.9% of you that are complete tards ruin it for the .1% of you.
    Seriously. I really, really hate you. No offense.

    You ruin my evenings out with my wife constantly. There are 3 rows of empty seats at the movie and you choose to sit right next to us, attempt to talk to me like you know me, and then the coup de grace, all of you little snot demons pull out face-meltingly bright cellphones and start texting. TO EACH OTHER. While TALKING. TO EACH OTHER.

    Seriously. NO.

    I hate people who make broad generalisations about age groups based on anecdotal evidence, and then have the balls to say 'No offence' as if that actually makes it not offensive.

    In fact, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say I hate people who hate things I like.

    I hate people who hate on people for saying what they hate.

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  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I hate polite teenagers who don't have the sense to rebel and talk shit and fuck with old people in theatres while still young enough to have fun doing so.

    Don't waste your youth, kids, be assholes while you can.
    Ludious wrote: »
    Hate me all you want. Anecdotal evidence is valid to the victim of the aforementioned anecdotal evidence.

    Every time I have ever had a moviegoing experience ruined for me, it was by a group of teenagers. EVERY. TIME.

    Besides, I would say that any teenager that could hold a coherent conversation on these here forums, probably doesn't qualify for my hatred, and will probably avoid my ire and wrath. However, that being said, the group of humans known as "teenagers" can still be qualified as a group I "hate".


    Really? Every. Time?

    You've never had a movie runied by old people that keep going "Ehh? WHATD HE SAY? I CANT HEAR. WHO IS THAT GUY. WHAT IS GOING ON WHY IS HE DOING THAT?"

    Nope. Not even once. I'm not saying that to be difficult either. Small children are less of an annoyance at the movies than teenagers. At least on the rare occasion I've witnessed a child's outburst, there is still some level of innocence and lack of manners to explain it. Teenagers are just inconsiderate. Come on. You know it's true.

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  • ErgandarErgandar Registered User regular
    edited August 2008

    To be fair, I hate teenagers and I still am one.

    As a 15 year old, I solidly concur.

    (excluding of course, friends)

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  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    See, they know what I'm talking about.

    Good teenagers are kinda like Blade.

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  • AJAlkaline40AJAlkaline40 __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    Ergandar wrote: »

    To be fair, I hate teenagers and I still am one.

    As a 15 year old, I solidly concur.

    (excluding of course, friends)

    No, I hate them so much that I don't have any friends.

    I mean, it couldn't possibly be the other way around....no siree....uh-uh....

    I'm so lonely.

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  • MahnmutMahnmut Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    KalTorak wrote: »
    Ludious wrote: »
    Over attentive waitstaff.
    Under attentive waitstaff.

    Teenagers. All of them. Sorry guys, but the 99.9% of you that are complete tards ruin it for the .1% of you.
    Seriously. I really, really hate you. No offense.

    You ruin my evenings out with my wife constantly. There are 3 rows of empty seats at the movie and you choose to sit right next to us, attempt to talk to me like you know me, and then the coup de grace, all of you little snot demons pull out face-meltingly bright cellphones and start texting. TO EACH OTHER. While TALKING. TO EACH OTHER.

    Seriously. NO.

    I hate people who make broad generalisations about age groups based on anecdotal evidence, and then have the balls to say 'No offence' as if that actually makes it not offensive.

    In fact, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say I hate people who hate things I like.

    I hate people who hate on people for saying what they hate.

    I hate people who

    ...invoke infinite regress!

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  • AJAlkaline40AJAlkaline40 __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    Mahnmut wrote: »
    KalTorak wrote: »
    Ludious wrote: »
    Over attentive waitstaff.
    Under attentive waitstaff.

    Teenagers. All of them. Sorry guys, but the 99.9% of you that are complete tards ruin it for the .1% of you.
    Seriously. I really, really hate you. No offense.

    You ruin my evenings out with my wife constantly. There are 3 rows of empty seats at the movie and you choose to sit right next to us, attempt to talk to me like you know me, and then the coup de grace, all of you little snot demons pull out face-meltingly bright cellphones and start texting. TO EACH OTHER. While TALKING. TO EACH OTHER.

    Seriously. NO.

    I hate people who make broad generalisations about age groups based on anecdotal evidence, and then have the balls to say 'No offence' as if that actually makes it not offensive.

    In fact, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say I hate people who hate things I like.

    I hate people who hate on people for saying what they hate.

    I hate people who

    ...invoke infinite regress!

    public static String hate(String h)
    {
    if (h == null) n = "I hate";
    else String n = h + "people who hate";
    return hate(n);
    }

    EDIT: Damn, actually that doesn't work. Whatever you get the idea.

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  • ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited August 2008
    It's you.

    Tycho wrote:
    It is safe to say that we were both pleasantly surprised by the movie Equilibrium. Perhaps him more than me, but I'm still just learning to enjoy movies that don't have French titles.

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    Tycho wrote:
    Now, this is not to say that absolutely every human being when presented with Equilibrium will fall to their knees and begin to worship it, or burst into extemporaneous song. Indeed, I was cautioned just before I went by (the powerful) Mach5, who linked me to the review he'd done on the film with a desperate urgency. You are welcome to read what he as written, as well as gauge the freshness of the movie at Rotten Tomatoes, as they will stand in contrast to anything I write here. Trying to argue about a movie is, as I told Mr. 5, like trying to argue whether or not chocolate tastes good.

    I am not, myself, terribly fond of chocolate. I think the color unseemly, and this suspicion underpins everything I believe about it. That conversation is over already, you can tell me that you had some chocolate syrup on some ice cream, and that was quite tasty, or you bought an exotic truffle from a Chocolatier and you thought it would kill you it was so good. I don't care. How you can eat something that color is beyond me.

    It is the same thing with Equilibrium. I firmly believe that objectivity is mythological in this context, people just like some things or don't like them, and then they craft elaborate mechanisms after the fact to explain why or why not. Many reviewers, for instance, get really caught up on some of the material the film uses for inspiration - classic dystopian works like F451 or Brave New World - and believe it isn't treated the way it should be. I don't know if somebody told them it wasn't an action movie, or what, but this narrative quality compares favorably with most, if not all, movies of the genre. I don't know if you've seen Commando. It's not Proust. Nor is Equilibrium Orwell. It takes what it needs to and hurtles forward.

    The cries of "Matrix Ripoff" were predictable, but sort of sad. To paint The Matrix as some kind of solitary, unaided fundamental of modern sci-fi action without recognizing the liberal plunder of Gibson, Stephenson, and Woo is laughable. I don't want to hear it. You don't have to hate Equilibrium to like The Matrix, or vice-versa. They aren't sporting teams, they're fucking action movies. And if you think that Gun-Kata, the fighting style of the Grammaton Clericks is somehow derivative of The Matrix, then you are an alien being from another planet. Who knows how, or why, but they pulled off two of the most inventive action scenes I've ever witnessed. I actually covered my mouth with my hand and stopped breathing.

    I guess it depends why you're going to it. I expected sci-fi lite with inventive action scenes, and pow, direct hit. If you're expecting 1984: The Movie it is not for you, and if you're expecting a big-budget special effects spectacular this is not for you.

    (CW)TB out.

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    Gabe wrote:
    If you don't like Equilibrium I'd say you are just too fancy for your own good. That's understandable though, I mean every one is fancy about something. Tycho won't read a book if the author's name is bigger than the title. I think Thomas Kinkade is a fucking hack. If all the moms between the ages of forty and sixty were to disappear tomorrow the man would never sell another print. I am sure that everyone feels like they are an expert on something and that only the best of that thing will suffice. The problem is that most people who review things are the very people who seem to have the most hang ups about that thing. This makes their reviews worthless to the rest of us who simply enjoy watching movies or reading books. So Mr. Moviereviewerman, you think Equilibrium had a "derivative, punch-the-keyboard plot." You think it was "crude, but occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, merely for its sheer ridiculousness." You think that a movie like Equilibrium is just too far below your standards. Well I bet you twenty bucks you have a painting in your house that you bought because it matched your couch, how fucking pedestrian.

    Well Samus won the contest this week by a landslide. She ended up with over twelve thousand votes. Yuna was the closest with about eleven thousand. Kara has played the wife card and asked that I make a Yuna picture as well. I figure her vote counts for about a thousand so lets call it a tie and I'll do both.

    -Gabe out

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