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Pet peeves plague the United States
UPI ^ | 4/24/07 | Staff

Posted on 04/24/2007 7:10:34 AM PDT by Millee

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To: Xenalyte

OK, one more try! Non-sequitur due to the lack of the conjunction “or”..?


21 posted on 04/24/2007 9:27:02 AM PDT by Mugwump (Better Living Through Sarcasm)
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To: Millee
My Top 4 Peeves:
1) Littering.
2) Frivolous Lawsuits.
3) People who can't count.
22 posted on 04/24/2007 9:34:18 AM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: Mugwump

BINGO!!! Replace the comma with an “or” and the sentence would be unobjectionable.


23 posted on 04/24/2007 9:35:01 AM PDT by Xenalyte ("A cat can give birth to kittens in the oven. That don't make 'em biscuits." - Quanell X)
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To: AxelPaulsenJr
Or the "mods-by-proxy" who have to notify you if you've posted a duplicate thread.
24 posted on 04/24/2007 9:45:14 AM PDT by Millee (Tagline free since 10/20/06)
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To: Millee
2. Driving SLOW in the left lane (s/b #1, actually).
Worth repeating.
25 posted on 04/24/2007 11:41:06 AM PDT by Moleman
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To: Millee

People who cause traffic jams by gawking at an accident on the other side of the damn highway.

People who use the restaurant as the name of the food, i.e., “I had McDonald’s for lunch.”


26 posted on 04/24/2007 11:42:32 AM PDT by RockinRight (Proud FREDeralist.)
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To: Millee
LOL, I think you must be referring to this guy.


27 posted on 04/24/2007 11:43:40 AM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.)
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To: AxelPaulsenJr

LOL - perfect!!


28 posted on 04/24/2007 11:47:13 AM PDT by Millee (Tagline free since 10/20/06)
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To: RockinRight

How about those lovely folks who ask for Chicken McNuggets at a Wendy’s, Chick Fil’A or other such establishment.... They crack me up every time.


29 posted on 04/24/2007 11:49:28 AM PDT by Kaylee Frye
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To: Kaylee Frye

That annoys me too.


30 posted on 04/24/2007 11:51:25 AM PDT by RockinRight (Proud FREDeralist.)
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To: Millee
And lets not leave out the "Premature E-Zot-U-Lators"...the "IBTZ" people who litter threads with their personal proclamations of what should and should not be posted on FR.
31 posted on 04/24/2007 5:33:16 PM PDT by Tainan (Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
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To: Millee

Things that annoy, irritate, BUG me! And I run across this stuff all the time and it drives me crazy. What is bugging you? (Millee the article you posted wrapped it up really well ... generally, it’s people stepping all over other people with NO thought for anyone but themselves ... selfish, boorish, baseline idiots in other words!)

- people who spit in public all over the place and then I have to walk around their spit! It’s disgusting.

- used car commercials where the local owner does the whole commercial SCREAMING at you! I mute it or flip it, don’t they know that? Do they really think somebody is sitting through all that enthralled with his fantastic delivery?

- Networks that let you watch the first 1/2 hour of a movie uninterrupted and then increasingly add commercial breaks until you think you’ll go mad! Can’t even remember what movie you were watching by the last half hour. USA does this a lot.

- people who allow their children to run all over in public practicing their brat routine. (just in grocery store a few days ago and one family was just nightmarish! One child CRAWLING on the groceries on the shelf, the other one yelling ‘Gimmeeeeeeee!’ until daddy ‘gave’ him what he wanted ... unbelievable. I switched lanes.

- RUDE pickup truck drivers who feel they have the right to tailgate, or go screaming around you because you’re doing five over the speed limit and not 15!

- Advertising JUNK left in my yard and hanging on my door. One in particular is from a chip stone place and they leave a bag of the stuff with a note attached! What a waste and you can’t put it in recycling so in the kitchen trash it goes every month.

Ohhhhhh I’m sure I could go on and on but ... rant over for today.


32 posted on 07/04/2007 8:55:02 AM PDT by DancesWithCats
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To: Millee

1. Telemarketers
2. The phrase “ a whole nuther.”
3. Those stupid Burger King commercials.
4. Phones and Babies in the movie theater.


33 posted on 07/04/2007 9:01:54 AM PDT by senorita
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4. Phones and Babies in the movie theater.

... babies or children in restaurants that scream and throw cracker bits all over the place ... leave the babies home, huh? Babies screaming in planes ... sigh. Love babies. Love children. But don't expect them to sit and behave throughout a dinner which lasts an hour or two and disrupting everyone else's peace and quite that they're paying a good dollar to get!

34 posted on 07/04/2007 3:21:14 PM PDT by DancesWithCats
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