What do you hate?

[Brian Cruz]

I hate it when I open up a can of Pringles and every single chip inside is broken! Arrgghh!

[Stinky Cat]

i hate it when imreally hungry and i look in my food pantry... and theres NOTHING THERE BUT HERBS AND SPICES!!AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[Trent Lane]

Grocery stores. Well, more the customers than the stores. People are so #$&^ ignorant it blows my mind...

[Calhoun07]

Ice storms. Nothing worse than having to drive on ice.

[DR. BELCH]

*food in my beard.

*fat/gristle in my meat.

*when someone else eats up all the burritos in the freezer and I get none.

*when I forget that there's a movie on I want to see, go to bed, and miss it.

*when I want to go out for a jog and the weather is miserable.

[Stinky Cat]

i love ice storms! i dont get many where i live so i love screwin' around i the street when its icy.... it really makes me mad when i go to quiznos and i get a meatball regular and all it is, is about three friggn meatballs bread and cheese! when i payed 5 bucks for it!!

[Roman Legion]

...aliasing and artifacts.

...stupid compilers that won't crunch obviously correct code, and make you attempt to recompile 30 times before they realize your code really *didn't* have any errors.

...spending five hours alternating between chanting incantations while spinning around in a swivle-chair and thwapping the computer with a rubber chicken while practicing voodoo.

...systems that spontaneously shut down.

...any Windows OS other than Win2000.

...not sleeping for 72 hours, and recieving the powers of dim vision, only to see short, bald men in lab coats walking around with sharp surgical instruments.

...being abducted by aliens.

...being haunted by ghosts.

...evil pixel pixies.

Romey
--Oh, and last but not least... the "Food Pellets" episode of P&tB.

[Calhoun07]

I got just the song for you, Romey....

Every OS Sucks (http://play.mp3.com/cgi-bin/play/play.cgi/AAIAQkTwEgDABG5vcm1QBAAAAFJbkQAAUQEAAABDndgRPHRyNe_yYcxq4jN0opr8IIM-/Every_OS_sucks.mp3)

[Roman Legion]

Originally posted by calhoun07
I got just the song for you, Romey....

Hmm... ironically, it's bringing up an Internal Sever Error, for me. =x

--Romey

[Calhoun07]

Oh, I tried. :confused: It takes you to the site the song is at...I guess the best thing to do from there is type "Every OS Sucks" in the search. Funny thing is the link works fine from my favorites list but as soon as I post it here, it's like it doesn't work right.

the site is www.mp3.com

[Stinky Cat]

romy? howd ya get a pic in your sig?[ok nevermind i just figured out its a smiley]

[Roman Legion]

Heh heh heh... nobbad, nobbad. Reminds me of the C64 days... dangit, we didn't *need* a monitor to see what we were doing... we had tv-out! Kids these days don't know how easy they have it...

Thankee!

Romey
--We now return you to "What do you hate?", already in progress! ;-)

[The Clown Prince]

I hate it when...

People run red lights when I'm in front of the line ready to go.

When I'm the only one in the drive through and it takes the fast food place 10 minutes to get me my food.

When Taco Bell, at least here in Oregon, no longer makes their Chili Cheese Burrito. My favorite food there.

When people I ride with in the car rip one and then am subjected to it for a rather uncomfortable period of time. In such a confined space it sucks!

The Clown Prince

[Failure]

Let's see...

I hate computers, first and foremost.

I hate people who press 12 on an elevator when 11 and 13 are already pressed.

Hearing other people's inane conversations, and having no way out.

People who blast their music at 2.00 am.

And a bunch of other things.

[Joe Tully]

-People who are too slow. This is a recurring problem in line for food/soda at the school's Dining Commons (fancy name for cafeteria)

-My allergies. My life would be so much more enjoyable without them.

-The people next door who turn the bass waaaaay up whenever they play their music. I can't wait for them to go deaf.

[James]

Journalists (Sorry DG!).... well newspapers more specifically and the power they wield.

When your computer declares the is no keyboard present when my eyes tell there is, and it's plugged in.

'Cybil' The worst comedy to crawl out of the US.

The right hand side of my room.

'Brazil' The movie - I've never been to the country but the one thing that must be going for it is that it can't be as drab and tiresome as this dire movie.

The Commadore 64. I was a speccy owner and the battle never ends. The same goes for the Atari ST.

Fireworks.

Supermarkets.

People who claim to talk to the dead - a long going debate I have with my family whether this popular daytime TV subject is a cash in or a type of therapy for the berieved.

People who believe their consumer rights entitle them to concessions they don't deserve (past experience in customer service brought that one up!)

Tattoos.

Chewing gum. After the accident with my tooth.

The colour orange.

[Danielle]

I hate when in the summer, people stare at me and ask, "Why the heck are you wearing a skirt?!"

I hate sloppy Chinese food.

I hate moldy Chinese food.

Heck, I hate Chinese food period.

I hate when people take advantage of my ignorance. (which actually happened once or twice on this board...*cough**cough*)

I hate hail. Actually, I love hail. Hail is a hard thing to feel emotions over.

I hate movies or musicals that have little, no, or a so-extravagant-it-cannot-by-any-means-be-real plot. Y'know, the ones that only have action, toilet jokes, or singing (Cats is a good example of that last one)

I hate imitations. There are certain imitations that are all right, like imitation shrimp, etc. I mean people who imitate other people, things, and even places. Like Harry Potter fans tattooing scars on their forehead. Or even worse, Brittney Spears fans wearing clothes that I would hate to wear on a windy day. :eek:

I hate obsessions. Like my own with decaf.

I hate tea with sugar.

I hate people who think they are the best at something, even if they are pretty good. There's always something one can learn from someone else. These people obviously don't get that.



O/T: I came on to post a message, and I noticed...What the heck is this? :dot: According to the little message-in-the-colon-thingie, it's Dot. Cute. :D

[kiddiesunshine]

...when my niece eats the last of the good cereal, leaving me with cheerios.
...when people hog the bathroom because they know i have to go.
--more to come

[Lonestarr]

- slow-walking (yet in good health) people

- people who make stupid comments to me or ask stupid questions

- being patronized

- being threatened

- obnoxious, soulless jerks who get off on the miseries of others

- racists (and racism)

- junk e-mail

I'm sure there's more stuff, which I will post later.

[Clayface]

Terrorists, politicians, and racists.

[Jowy Blight]

*when I forget that there's a movie on I want to see, go to bed, and miss it.

I'll second that. I also hate.......

- Stuck-up people who think they're better then you.

- Bullys who do nothing but make your life a living nightmare.

- When you stand in a long line for something, but when you get to the front, it's all sold out.

[Betaman8]

I hate Michael Eisner.

[Danielle]

Originally posted by Betaman8
I hate Michael Eisner.

Mike's not that bad....




Now, if we were talking about James Kellner...

[Fantasie117]

Let's see, I hate...

-the people in my school who vandalized the computers and ruined the library for every body. (There are 500 people in this school, not just you! Try something new: being nice)

-people who question the obvious (There are no other answers except the one! And they wonder why I give snippy answers. It's like what else am I going to tell you?)

-pop culture (ie N'Sync, Britney, BSB, those "teen dramas" on the WB)

That's all I can think of...for now.

[Maxie Zeus]

I hate:

* Slow traffic.

* Forgetting to tape TV shows.

* The guys who write the voice-overs for movie trailers.

* The guy who reads the tripe written for voice-over on movie trailers.

* Grading exams, papers, etc.

* Paying bills.

But I love it when people who've been away from the boards show up again. Nice to see you, SJJ! :D

[JustJack]

Hmmm...good question...I can come up with a few..

-People
-computers
-ignorant people(if Ignorance was bliss, then why aren't I happy?)
-McDonalds Chicken Nuggets(They stopped cooking them in my town!)
-Sonic. The restraunt? If you order a burger, you get bread, meat, and other assorted things in a bag. Basically you have to make the sandwich yourself...
-expensive restraunts
-close minded people
-my brothers cat...
-Hasbro & their colorful Batman fetish
-Hasbro & their hack-job they did with the POTA figures
-the fact that PokeMon is still getting very high ratings
-Ted Turner(I'll get you, Ted Turner!!!)
-cocky people
-Boy Bands(it's not so much that it's all bad music. Or that they're all..too...female-like? But.............YOU DON'T NEED 5 PEOPLE TO SING ONE SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
-Children with angry parents
-Angry Parents with stupid Children
-Parents who actually call into a network, complaining that a LATE NIGHT show, called "Adult Swim" is inappropriate for their kids...uhm.."late night"?
-angry people

.....................sure, some of those things may sound abit hypocritical of me("I Hate Angry People! GRR!")...but...eh'... :p

[Colin]

I hate...

...the people who drive 25 when the speed limit is 65
...the fact that people over the age of 65 and most likely are a danger to themselves and others are driving 25 in the 65...
...people who talk to me like I'm 5 years old
...people who think they know more than me when in reality they don't (no, I'm not a genius... but no one can know everything)
...Pennsylvania
...people who bring 20 items to the 12 items or less line in the store
...getting cut off in traffic and then having the person in that car blame YOU for it...


um... I'm sure there's more to add to the list... will let you know later =)

[The Mad Hatter]

Hey SJJ, I'm a journalist too! :p

I hate:

--People who insist that I give them preferential treatment in my articles just because they advertise in the newspaper I work for.

--The *&$#@?! cable box I have to use that is a pain in the butt to program, and refuses to let me watch one channel while I'm recording another.

--Willfully ignorant people. There's certainly no sin in not knowing something. There is a sin in absolutely, positively refusing to learn something new or consider a new perspective. (Not changing your own perspective, mind you, just considering it.)

--You know those ads in front of videos that advertise the movie's soundtrack by using scenes from the movie you're about to watch? That makes me violent.

--People, stores in particular, who pluralize things with an aphostrophe. "Come see our collection of video's and magazine's!"

--Excessive negativity.

--Family G... nah, I'd better not go there again.

[redDragon]

I hate....

- Safeway for not selling apple cinammon poptarts anymore.

- the fact that the library gets comics about once every blue moon.

- slow connections to the internet

- the boy bands and generally most pop

- people obsessed with being "popular"

- people who spam and are just obnoxious and rude to others

- teachers that make your intelligence level drop or talk to you like you're in a grade much lower than you really are.

That's all I can think of at the moment.

[Failure]

Originally posted by Colin

...Pennsylvania


Pennsylvania?

[Scythemantis]

Hoo boy...........................Maybe you should skip this reply.......

I hate gender stereotyping and anyone under the impression that women are supposed to be tender loving baby factories.

I also hate when people who hate rodents/insects/reptiles.I love all animals and can`t see anything the least bit unpleasant about any creature...I think even cockroaches are adorable,beautiful animals...since practically 99% of all humans hate some sort of animal,yes,I pretty much cant stand anyone.

I despise guns and gun owners. Every hunter I have ever known has been a hugely bloated drunken hick with a pickup truck and an ugly hat...how can they POSSIBLY see anything "masculine" or,for that matter,challenging in sneaking up on an unknowing animal and killing it instantly with their idiotic "superior technology?"

...I hate religious extremists who think everything is evil...I esspecially hate missionaries who go out and destroy other cultures for what they think is "right"...I have no problem with churches,but when they start forcing people to join them it just makes me think of some sort of virus. Dumb viro-churches...

Dog people.I dont HATE dog people but I dont much like dog people who think dogs are just the be-all end-all perfect companion.

People who can`t appreciate(sp?) fine art,surrealism and creativity,instead opting for what they think is "normal" and being just generally narrow-minded.

Preps.I hate people who organize themselves into "the populars" because they all dress alike in the same stupid clothes and makeup and hair and crap (its all pretty ugly and tacky to me). Do they even realize how close they are to Nazis? They also share similarities with the culture-devouring virus-churches.

I hate people who hit their children in public for having to go to the bathroom,being hungry,being thirsty or anything else beyond the children`s control.I hate hitting children PERIOD,but that would be the worst form of child-hitting.Stupid idiotic parents...shouldnt have kids if you dont love them every second of every day!

People who get a pet and then neglect it or take care of it all wrong,then wonder why it died and go out to do it all over again.If you dont love an animal enough to research everything about it so as to provide it with 100% perfect care dont get one!

Anybody who complains even ONCE about being offended by ANYTHING in a movie or television show,esspecially for religious reasons.If you dont like it,nobody is forcing you to watch it,you idiot,and plenty of things about your life probably offend tons of other cultures.The media is nothing but propoganda and art,leave it alone and pay attention to real life if it sickens you so much.Dumb sissies...

ALSO....

People who always think about themselves,people who chew with their mouths open,people who think theyre physically attractive (any vanity at all,really) people who brag,people who complain,people who whine,people who take everything for granted,people who dont share,people who take anything at all without asking,people who dont bathe,people who smoke,people who drink,people who bring crying babies into libraries/movie theatres/anywhere else,people who think humans are high on the food chain,people who value physical ability or looks above intelligence,people who dont treat children as equals,people who think bats make nests in hair,people who sue over outrageous sexual harrassment claims,people afraid of teeny tiny itsy bitsy barely visible spiders,people who hate cats,people who talk endlessly during movies,people with no respect for authority,authority figures with no respect for the people...

[thirty seven more paragraphs deleted here for space purposes]

[optimal321]

I hate:

-liking someone who doesn't like me

-the way girls always seem to chose arseholes over me

-grammatical errors

-pretty much everything about college. Where will i go, what major, how will i pay for it...?

-stupid people

-popularity. Not just in high school, but in media and entertainment also.

-getting hurt

-Joel Schumacher

There's probably more, but i can't think right now.

[Jimmy Kustes]

I hate disk drives that don't read

I hate programs that don't run

I hate customers

I hate stores that treat their customers poorly (like telling me they have something reserved and in stock then I drive out there and you know what happens)

I hate hypocrites

I hate my local newspaper

I hate chocolete-venilla Pop-Tarts

I hate toy commercials

I am a journalist and I like Smallville (only teenage drama I like), and gum!

Let me try :dot: can I get any other cartoon characters?

[NewMaxFranklin]

People who talk and talk and talk, without anything relevant to say. (I type and type and type, but that doesn't contribute to noise polution.) :dot: :dot: :dot: Those are cute. :D

[Brian Cruz]

Originally posted by The Mad Hatter
--Excessive negativity.

You must really hate this thread! :D

[Lodoss War Fan]

Originally posted by Stinky Cat
i hate it when imreally hungry and i look in my food pantry... and theres NOTHING THERE BUT HERBS AND SPICES!!AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!

lol :D You crack me up Stinky cat! you're one funny dude. :)

I hate it when I'm out in public and nature calls and I need to use the bathroom real bad! :( but the restrooms are out of order :mad:

I hate commericals during my favorite shows! :mad:

[Bird Boy]

idiots,

stupid employees that act like they know alot but don't really,

when you can't get past that video game because you suck..

When the net doesn't work (or any webpage for that matter)

When you get sick

So many others, but I don't wanna look too whiney.. :D

-BB

[Singin' Stray Cat]

Most of what I hate is related to driving. No one in Memphis knows how to drive, period. (I'm even including myself in this statement). Specifically, I can't stand:

- people who tailgate me, even though I'm driving well over the speed limit.

- people who park their cars across two or more lanes, or are too lazy to put their shopping carts away, so they just leave them in a parking space.

- people who never use their turn signal.

- SUVs. Those things never should have been invented as far as I'm concerned. They take up too much space, cost too much money, drink gasoline like it was water, and once inside them, ordinary men and women turn into obnoxious, overbearing, "get-the-hell-out-of-my-way-or-I'll-turn-you-into-street-pizza" type drivers. At least, that's the impression I get...

- jaywalkers. There seems to be a bunch up at the university, and they all seem to think that the crosswalks have some sort of deadly voodoo curse on them or something, because they never use them.

[The Mad Hatter]

You must really hate this thread! :D

But not as much as I hate football. Er, love football. (flashback to "Brain's Song" from Pinky and the Brain)

Yeah, I know it's a bit trendy to hate SUVs... but I hate 'em too. It would be different if the owners actually used them for sporty or utilitous things, but 95% don't. It's just a status symbol... a gas-guzzling status symbol. Because of them, the average car's gas mileage is LESS now than it was in 1980. What the heck is that crap? Surely, you can't tell me that with 20 years of technological advances, you can't design a car that's powerful AND gets decent gas mileage. Grrrr...

Oh, and I hate that my Wal-Mart has stopped carrying Ben & Jerry's ice cream. I want my hippie snacks, dammit!

[joker]

crowds
being touched
racism
school
hypocrits
sleep

[Failure]

Man, Sting Chameleon, is there anything you do like? :p

I thought of more stuff I hate...

1. idiots

2. tough guys

3. continually thinking of something clever to say 2 minutes after the topic's passed. This one really cheeses me off.

[Scythemantis]

Originally posted by Failure
Man, Sting Chameleon, is there anything you do like? :p


No.

Not a thing.

Nope.

Nuh-uh.

Ehhh...yyy....n...

No.

[BWDK]

Originally posted by Fantasie117
Let's see, I hate...
-pop culture (ie N'Sync, Britney, BSB, those "teen dramas" on the WB)



...Don't forget that Batman and Superman are also part of the pop culture. And BTW I like Britney. :o

[Alaskanbullworm]

I loathe it entirely when:
1. We get a forecast for 7 to 11 inches of snow, we only get 2, and we go to school.
2.We get a forecast for 7 to 11 inches of snow, we get 7 to 11 inches of snow, and we still go to school. This has happened numerous times before.
3.I have all of my homework done, the computer isn't working right, and there's nothing on TV.
4.Getting about 3 hours worth of homework every night, during the weekend, and during our breaks.

As you can see, all of these are school related, but I don't hate going to school. I just loathe these things.

[Jimmy Kustes]

About the driving.

I hate people who complain that old people drive too slow when they drive hazardly.

I hate drivers who go 100mph out of a parking space, you are going to cream someone!

I hate people that stop their cars over the crosswalk when the light is red!

I hate hate hate people who talk on cell phones when I am right in front of their face! :mad:

Then they explain to the caller what is going on! :eek:
"Yes, Becky I am beng stranggled by some dude. Um..McDonalds. Well, he is mad that I am talking about stupid things on my cell phone.."

[Danielle]

Originally posted by Failure

3. continually thinking of something clever to say 2 minutes after the topic's passed. This one really cheeses me off.


That one cheeses everybody off. It's another one of life miseries, and all you can do is live with it.

Some more things:

-Like Patrick Star, I hate when the weather forecasters predict something, like snow, and it doesn't or very hardely comes true (then again, since when were forecasters ever right?!)

-Of course, I ALSO hate it when the weather forecasters predict something, and they're RIGHT. They thing is, we *expect* them to be wrong, so when they're right, it was totally unexpected. Then again, we also expect forecasters to be RIGHT in some way, so when they're wrong, that's *also* unexpected. Either way, we're screwed.
(This is referring to the snow that fell last night, and I never got a down coat 'cause I thought it wouldn't snow for at least another week! Dang it, I'm freezing down here! :eek: )

[Stinky Cat]

speaking of driving... i ran over a baord with nails! this annoying kids who pretend they can do tricks on their skateboards took apart this ramp their dad made them then threw the top if it(nalis and all!) at my car!!!! im so friggin lucky i didnt hit the nails... but later that day they wouldnt get out of the street so i could get into my garage so i got up right behind one of them (about 1 foot, he didnt even notice) then honked the horn it was sooo funny i scared the crap out of him!!! but thats why i can say i hate the pesky kids on ym street...

[Failure]

Originally posted by Danielle
That one cheeses everybody off. It's another one of life miseries, and all you can do is live with it.

UNLESS... I could shift time so that I was about 3 minutes ahead of the curve. That would be awesome.

[Jowy Blight]

Not a thing.

Aww, C'mon, there's gotta be some thing you like.
:dot:

[Lonestarr]

- being touched

- people who don't cover their mouths when they cough

- people who talk during the movies

- being yelled at

[Danielle]

Originally posted by Failure


UNLESS... I could shift time so that I was about 3 minutes ahead of the curve. That would be awesome.


{pause}

You do that. ;)

[TuffyCatt]

Let's here's what I can think of right now:

-People who don't take my seriously, especially people who pretend to take me seriously, but really don't.

-People who think there's something wrong with me because I don't talk a lot.

-People who brag about themselves and use anything that they're good at to put people down.

-When my brother gets obsessed with something, and talks about it constantly, and then thinks I'm wierd because I don't like it as much as him.

-The lack of cherry pop tarts in my house right now.

-People who think cats are the evil stereotype society makes them out to be (the movie Cats and Dogs is a great example-the dogs are the sweet, adorable heroes and the cats don't care about anyone and want to take over the world)

-People at school who constantly complain about their bad grades, but don't even try to make them any better.

There are probably a lot more, but my brain is kind of working really slowly right now. :o

By the way this ( :dot: ) is cute! :)

P.S. I'm kinda enjoying this thread, I'm learning that I'm not the nitpicky person I thought I was, because a lot of people hate the same things I do... :)

[Fantasie117]

I was on the BBeyond forum, and I thought of another thing.

I thought of a great quote to use in the Quote Quiz, and when I tried to post it, I forgot it. Argh! It's very frustrating. I still can't remember what I wanted to use.

[Fish]

- Commercials during a show - any show but mostly 20 minutte cartoons because it makes you ist there for an hour instead of the 20 minuttes. Imagine how many more shows you could watch in an hour! My solution: show commercials *after* the show

- That I probably live in the only place in the whole US where I can't have DSL or any kind of highspeed internet!

- 56k Modems!

- Religious extremists. I don't mind belivers but I hate when they talk about it all the time and try to convince you even though you already told them that you are not interrested

- People who act like they are interrested in your hobby and then just wave you off when you get going on the subject

- When I tape over another ep on videotapes or miss the 5 first minuttes of a show or miss the last 5 minuttes of a show.

- Living in this place with 2000 houses and no people cuz they all sit inside and never come out. And the fact that there is NOTHING to do around here but go for a walk.

- my halfbrothers mom!

- toothaches

- american bread ; EWW!

- Cancellation of programs because an important sports even is up!

...that's all. And to be trendy I'll go with this :wakko: and say it is cute! :D


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[Scythemantis]

Originally posted by Jowy Blight


Aww, C'mon, there's gotta be some thing you like.
:dot:

Ok,heres the list of things I like:

-When stupid people are killed by their own stupidity.

-Cockroaches.

-When I find something dead and something crawls out of it.

-Fleas.Particularly "chigoe" fleas,the females of which burrow under the skin,swell to the size of a pea and die just after your skin has healed over them.

-Painfully bad monster movies.

-Silverfish.

-When an escaped snake eats an old lady`s little dog and she shrieks and shrieks at the "evil beast" and doesnt realize she could very easily save her stupid little dog with a simple harmless bop to the head on the reptile with a broom,but doesnt and then tries to sue the snake owner and loses.Haw haw haw.

-Tzetse flies.

-Chocolate...covered in salt.Good,healthy salt.

-When people get arrested for animal or child abuse and scream and struggle and whine thinking they did nothing wrong,and wind up losing everything they ever worked for and become outcasts to society and eventually hang themselves.Haw Haw Haw!

-Tapeworms.

-People who refuse to have kids.More power to them.Too many babies popping up everywhere.

-Leeches.

-Foods that were never meant to be deep fried but are.Someone ought to invent deep fried chocolate someday.With lotsa juicy dripping grease and succulent lard and salt.Good,healthy salt.Oh,and mayonaisse.Put mayonaisse on everything.Fluffy,heart clogging heaps of it.Mmm.

-Crab lice.

-Bitter,crotchety old men who "remember the good times" and hate just about everything.I can`t wait till I can be one.

-Demodex mites,which cause "goose-egg sized lumps in the skin filled with cheesy sebum (skin oils) and live mites." Delicious.

-Diseases.I`m fascinated by those too.I particularly like the flesh eating varieties.

-Guinea worms.SAVE THE GUINEA WORM!!!!!!!!

-Real-life hauntings.
MY dream house bleeds every midnight.

-Scorpions.

-When someone has just bought a brand new red sports car thinking theyre just dripping with sexiness and wind up wrecking it ten feet from the dealership.Haw,haw...HAW!!!!!!!

-Mange mites.

-Halloween.Its the one day of the year where I am perfectly content and noone cares if I cover myself in live spiders before going outside.It is also my birthday,but that`s just a bonus.

-Sheep-liver-flukes.

-Mutant frogs.Those rule.I want some as pets.Esspecially the ones with veiny pink little fetal frogs hanging out of their eyes and stomachs.

-Botfly maggots.

-Poison.Any kind of poison,esspecially those produced by animals like portuguese man O` wars...bless thier colonial,gas-filled little hides.

-When humans get eaten by animals.

-When hunters accidentally shoot eachother.

-Crazy people who wear strange things on their heads and hang around bus stations ranting and raving to themselves.

-Ironic punishments.

-Jar Jar Binks.

-Cookies.

I think i`m done.
:D

[Batgirl_2005]

HAHA! Finally somewhere to rant and NO ONE can get mad at me!!!! BWAHAAHAHAHA!!! :yakko: :dot: :wakko: (I love these little guys!)

~~ I hate Windows, Dell any computer except Macintosh.

~~ Star Wars in general.

~~ Guys. (Or men or whatever you choose to call them... personally I think the best word for them is... well I can't say it on here...)

~~ Liars. (Like Boy who said he didn't want to be obligated to any one girl and is now dating my best friend... I'm sorry but that's just wrong... no offense to my best friend... but she shouldn't have asked him out in the first place!!!)

~~ Evil older brothers.

~~ Raising your hand in class to ask a question then forgetting the question.

~~ Thinking of the PERFECT comeback days after a persun insults you.

~~ Sexist people.

~~ Racist people.

~~ Terrorists.

~~ That guy that does the Oxy Clean (or whatever that stuff is called) commercials.

~~ People who are rude, and stuck up.

~~ Cheerleaders. (well at least the ones at my school)

~~ Chinese food.

~~ People who say that one of my friends is a jerk and I shouldn't talk to him. (ARGH!!!!) :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

~~ People who smoke when I ask them POLITELY not to.

~~ Boy.

and there will be more... trust... there are many. many more.

[Karkull]

The FOX Network and Hasbro.

[Batman 80]

1. Conceited people
2. Prejudice people
3. Commercials during Football games
4. Bad Batman variants
5. Mary Kate and Ashely
6. Boy Groups
7. Deadlines
That's all I can think of for now.

[James]

Originally posted by Clayface
Terrorists, politicians, and racists.

You've missed out journalists, surely? ;)

There are clearly are more journalists on this board than I gave it credit for. I hope you are nice journalists and not evil ones... :D

I think I can narrow my list down to idiots and inanimate objects forged from spite...

[Danielle]

Originally posted by Karkull
The FOX Network and Hasbro.


I second the second and second the first and, what the heck, I'll secondeble the seconds and take the seconds from the lunch tray! :D And, according to this guy :wakko: (just found out about all these new smilies today...), I could also use some thirds.........and fourths.......and some fifteenths too, while you're at it.


Seriously, as Rhode Island is the official state of Hasbro (a Mr. Potato Head on practically every corner), I hereby disown my home state. Au revoir. (Hey, Sango! I know French! ;) )

[Scythemantis]

Originally posted by batchik


~~ Guys. (Or men or whatever you choose to call them... personally I think the best word for them is... well I can't say it on here...)



Girls (or women or whatever you choose to call them) are no different at all.Most men (and I say this as a male) are lying,cheating,ignorant,selfish,insensitive *****holes,but so are most women...every one of my mothers girlfriends has always been a complete idiot,and they all go out of there way to always (ALWAYS) insist that THEY are the ones who have been wronged by men,wronged by the world in general,and deserve to be rewarded in some way for their suffering,and if you dont agree,you get added to their list.True,they often ARE stuck with idiot men,but 9 times out of 10 it`s because the good guys know better.(same with men who get all the stupid slutty type women...they usually deserve them) and when they DO get a half decent guy,they treat him like crap,and what happens when they leave them for it? "OH! *sob* MEN ARE PIGS! PITY ME! *sniff*"

yyyyyyeccchhh.

[Danielle]

Originally posted by Sting chameleon


Girls (or women or whatever you choose to call them) are no different at all.Most men (and I say this as a male) are lying,cheating,ignorant,selfish,insensitive *****holes,but so are most women...every one of my mothers girlfriends has always been a complete idiot,and they all go out of there way to always (ALWAYS) insist that THEY are the ones who have been wronged by men,wronged by the world in general,and deserve to be rewarded in some way for their suffering,and if you dont agree,you get added to their list.True,they often ARE stuck with idiot men,but 9 times out of 10 it`s because the good guys know better.(same with men who get all the stupid slutty type women...they usually deserve them) and when they DO get a half decent guy,they treat him like crap,and what happens when they leave them for it? "OH! *sob* MEN ARE PIGS! PITY ME! *sniff*"



I'll pity you if you pity me for the little amount of sanity I have. :D ;)

I agree. Some guys, men, whatever are ignorant #%@$s, but women are the ones that drive the men's minds out of their heads. I'll admit it: I'm a woman. I never understood women. I never understood men either. I'm sort of stuck in the middle at the moment.

As my sister's history teacher once said, "Women are the reason men die young".

[The Flash]

.....Hilary Clinton.

[Jowy Blight]

I think i`m done.

*Reads Post*

..............................................Alright, that's uh, nice. :D

[Scythemantis]

Originally posted by Danielle


I'll pity you if you pity me for the little amount of sanity I have. :D ;)

I agree. Some guys, men, whatever are ignorant #%@$s, but women are the ones that drive the men's minds out of their heads. I'll admit it: I'm a woman. I never understood women. I never understood men either. I'm sort of stuck in the middle at the moment.

As my sister's history teacher once said, "Women are the reason men die young".


People are just generally lousy and like to place the blame on things that have nutn` to do with it like gender/race/age (yes,age...I cant stand the cruelty of children,and everyone says "theyre just kids" but I was NEVER like that,so its no excuse!)

Ah well,the more lousy people there are the better *WE* look! :D

[The Mad Hatter]

Nope, sorry. I'm an evil journalist. I'll routinely spice up reports on the city council's new zoning ordinances with, say, rants on how we should start a new religion with Carrot Top as the messiah or how no day should go by that we don't club to death a baby seal. Watch out! I'm an underpaid, inky wretch out to steal your soul! Muahahahaha!!

Ahem. Okay, I KNOW I'm going to regret asking this, but... what's the beef against journalists? I don't take offense one bit, I'm just curious.

[James]

Originally posted by The Mad Hatter
Nope, sorry. I'm an evil journalist. I'll routinely spice up reports on the city council's new zoning ordinances with, say, rants on how we should start a new religion with Carrot Top as the messiah or how no day should go by that we don't club to death a baby seal. Watch out! I'm an underpaid, inky wretch out to steal your soul! Muahahahaha!!

Ahem. Okay, I KNOW I'm going to regret asking this, but... what's the beef against journalists? I don't take offense one bit, I'm just curious.

LOL

I suppose after making such wild accusations, the least I could do is explain myself! :D

Well, I can't comment for the US, but in the UK, newspapers here are manipulative, currupt and inaccurate - they watch everyone and overturn every stone - no matter how trivial (and frequently hypocritical) the story may be. They watch, expose and most infuriatingly, judge what should be told and how it should be dealt with.

Over here, steming from the crisis in September, the newspapers have been diabolical. The old trick is a sure fire one to increase sales. Print scary stories which have no real backing on and in your paper, people have to buy the paper to see what they should be scared of. Anthrax fears (in the UK, one of the tabloids actually had a page you could cut out to remind you of what tactics you could take to survive a mass anthrax attack).

While TV programmes, commedians and the general public (and people on this board I imagine ;) ) have been accused of either mocking the tragedy or making money from it, the newspapers seem to go unscathed. For the interest of the public - not sales, of course - those patriotic journalists will go to the scene of the tragedy and milk it for all it's worth because they know it sells to be peoples morbid curiosity and fear. What annoys is that they pretend that this is for the good of the people - not to increase sales.

Feature journalists for magazines irritate me too - simply for the ego. Many interviews seem more interested in the interviewer rather than the source of the article. Editorials and commentary seem more interested these days in backslapping and in jokes than actual substance (SFX is one magazine at the moment which slips up on all these criticisms). Shut up and write about what you're meant to be writing. I'm not interested if the art editor guy (which in case we were desperate to see his ugly mush, is plastered on the page instead of anything pertaining relevance to the article) and how he hates Roger Moore. Just get on with the review.

Finally, I will end on the part that isn't the journalists fault. The idiots who listen and believe what they read. I'm fed up of papers having their own voice, a section normally labelled 'Voice Of The Mirror', or 'The Sun Says..' etc where they tell readers what they should think regarding legislation, politics, the war, life, slippers, matters of the forth dimension... It's irritating that they do it, but it's irritating that people listen and adopt this simplistic and often biased rhetoric. There's normally a reason a paper feels a way about something and it's normally a little more down to earth than the goodness of it's heart. The Daily Mail the other week suggested that decriminalising cannabis was wrong. Fine. I think I can make own mind up on this. Just tell the facts. It then went on to suggest that any such radical reforms such as this create anarchy... It even pointed at recent reforms in the homosexual ages of consent as an example of a reform that has gone too far.. what next? Was the change in constiutional change in womens rights a step towards anarchy? No. This sort of harsh, and in this case, right wing comments to me seems inproper in a paper.

So it's less individual journalists, just the state of the organs they function in. There seems little regulation with what papers can write and in recent months they have come out with stories which are there to increase sales, not inform people. I wait for the change that I hope will come and continue to sit back in a coil of fustration at those who read and the believe what simplistic truths the newspapers tell them to.

In the end, who watches the watchers?

There. I do hope I didn't offend anyone. Unless you work for the Daily Mail, Mirror, Sun or Star. :D

Peace.

[Sango]

I hate...

1. Myself
2. Having friends
3. Most people because they're stupid
4. When people walk really slowly in the halls in school and aren't considerate enough to step to the side to let you through when they stop and talk to their friends
5. Rednecks and their big trucks who try to hit me in the school parking lot everyday
6. I just hate school period...

And I noticed one that someone put earlier. I can't stand Mary-Kate and Ashley! Why are their faces everywhere in Wal-Mart??? And I don't think I can stand another Mary-Kate and Ashley marathon on Fox Family!!! Does anyone actually watch their crap or buy any of it?

I guess there are more things I hate, but I'll stop myself from writing more! :p

[LastSonofKrypton]

Jeez, this list could go on forever. So let's start with:

--People in general.
--The Batman Exclusionary Rule (when Batman is in an area, no one else is allowed to think!
--When the comic books/cartoons make Superman out to be an idiot!
--Work.
--Days of Our Lives (my wife's favorite soap opera)
--The Brady Bunch (one of my wife's favorite Nick at Nite shows).
--Being behind on schoolwork.
--Hanukkah and Christmas.
--The fact that I've accomplished pretty much nothing of real significance in my life.
--Lousy coffee.
--Boredom.
--Family get-togethers.
--Spam (both the supposedly edible and e-mail kind).
--Not losing weight.
--President George W. Bush
--John Ashcroft
--Bill Gates
--Knowing that Salma Hayek will never be madly in love with me and, even if she was, it wouldn't do me any good anyway because I'm married.
--Lack of money.
--Unrestrained positivity.
--Oh hell, my wife doesn't know I belong to this board and I'm not about to tell her so- a lot of my wife's friends!

Whew! Thanks, I feel better now! :bosko:

[Geezil]

I hate it when I'm surfing the cable channels and land on any random channel featuring one or any of the following (alleged) stand-up comics:

Carrot Top, Bob(cat) Goldthwait, Steven Wright (usually in flashback), and (especially) Mario Cantone.

IMHO, They Are Not Funny. Not a one.

[James]

Originally posted by Jowy Blight


*Reads Post*

..............................................Alright, that's uh, nice. :D

Off topic:

Jowy - Love that avatar!!

Wicked!! :D

FF7 4Ever!

(ahem, returning to status as mild mannered 26 year old)...

Back to topic.... :D

[Scythemantis]

Originally posted by Geezil
I hate it when I'm surfing the cable channels and land on any random channel featuring one or any of the following (alleged) stand-up comics:

Carrot Top, Bob(cat) Goldthwait, Steven Wright (usually in flashback), and (especially) Mario Cantone.

IMHO, They Are Not Funny. Not a one.

Steven wrights not funny?! Hes the only stand up comic I can stand at ALL! I mean,come on, "I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues in all the other museums"? That`s gold,man! I`ve never heard ANY other comedian say anything that seemed even remotely humorous or clever to me at all...is the "rant about everyday annoyances" thing still big? I never got why that was supposed to be funny...

[The Mad Hatter]

Aha, British journalists. I see your beef, and it's a juicy, 3/4 patty with cheddar and ranch seasoning.

Aside from the Guardian and the BBC, I don't have much respect for British journalism in general. You're right... it's vastly sensationalistic and, worse... inaccurate. Bias is one thing, but printing things that are false is unforgiveable.

As far as interviewers who put themselves in the interview... hm. That's a new one on me, that's not done very often in the US. True, there are a TON of websites where the reviewer will ramble on about his day, etc. It strikes me as ego sneaking into the material. I had no idea that serious magazines allowed that sort of writing in their magazines. Allowing a reviewer to loosen up and write in a relaxed way is good... check out the US Rolling Stone for good examples of that. But inserting yourself in the article, as you said, is annoying.

Milking tragedies... yup, happens here too. Not sure how US and UK compares on TV news, but it does happen here.

Now, as far as newspapers offering editorial stances... I don't mind that, as long as the language makes it clear that the newspaper is just offering their opinion. Reading other people's opinions is fine, it encourages thought. You may agree or disagree, but it encourages thought. Er, I hope. But I'll agree, if these newspapers are commanding people to vote for one person or another, that's over the line.

[oranthal]

i hate being lonely.

[Maxie Zeus]

Originally posted by The Mad Hatter
Now, as far as newspapers offering editorial stances... I don't mind that, as long as the language makes it clear that the newspaper is just offering their opinion. Reading other people's opinions is fine, it encourages thought. You may agree or disagree, but it encourages thought. Er, I hope. But I'll agree, if these newspapers are commanding people to vote for one person or another, that's over the line.

Well, I think you do get that over here, but worse: Loaded language (like the infamous "smart but conservative" tag that the New York Times always uses), the choice of interest groups to interview for reactions, the editorial decisions about what constitutes news and what doesn't. The pretensions to "objectivity" ill-disguise a media outlet's biases, and I think only serve to put the outlet into swamp of self-delusion: instead of filtering out their biases to achieve a kind of objectivity, they use their pretentions to objectivity to disclaim the presence of any bias in their reportage.

People ridicule FoxNews' absurd claim that "We report. You decide" without realizing the claim is intentionally absurd: as if *any* outlet in the media only "reports." Frankly, I prefer the British model, where the editorializing is upfront, and can be properly discounted.

Like SJJ, I don't mean this to upset any of my journalist friends around here. :D

[LastSonofKrypton]

Okay, I half-expected to be savaged over the following stuff I said I hated:


Originally posted by LastSonofKrypton

--President George W. Bush
--John Ashcroft
--Bill Gates


And the reason I expected being flamed was because it would have been well-deserved. For the record, I don't hate President Bush, John Ashcroft, or Bill Gates. I disagree with a lot of what President Bush and John Ashcroft are doing, but I don't hate them. I think Bill Gates and Microsoft have broken anti-trust laws and should be punished, but I don't hate them. Just so we're clear that I was just being stupid and didn't mean to say I hated them. I figure the only thing that saved me from a well-deserved flaming was the generous and understanding nature of the people on this board.

I still hate The Brady Bunch though. And I mean that! :bosko:

[Brian Cruz]

Luckily for us, we don't get much in the way of political debate around here. Although I'm sure we'd be able to do so in a resonably mature manner, too often it turns into "I hate liberals!" and "Republicans are evil!", etc. And all that does is cause people who are otherwise very friendly towards each other to suddenly become adversaries, and the quality of life on the boards quickly drops. This used to happen every once in a while on the Warner Bros. Club board, until we decided to just avoid politics (and religion) completely unless it's directly related to cartoons. And we all lived happily ever after. :)

[DR. BELCH]

--a former college journalist myself, and a decided paradox: loved my work and hated the people, esp. the pinheaded editors I worked under. That's a major part of why I got out of it. I sometimes think to be an editor one has to turn in one's brains and cojones at the payroll desk to make the promotion official.

A few more things for the "hate" list--
*upper-class girls who suffer from what I call the "Lady Chatterly Syndrome"--bored with their rich John Thomas-less boyfriends, they date a lower-class man looking for passion but feel he's never really good enough for her social circle, so she feels torn between two worlds, and the friction tears them apart.
*diet root beer
*shaving...and being asked to shave.
*coffee
*the TV ratings system
*Dr. Laura's laugh
*Michael Bolton
*sporting events, esp. televised
* that guy from the 7-Up ads. He was funny once, and now he just won't go away.
*the trend towards more eighties programming on Nick at Nite. Nothing against the decade, but I don't consider a show I watched when I was 13 a classic just yet.

[The Mad Hatter]

Going back to what Maxie said:

Well, I was making reference to the tone of pieces that are obviously labelled as editorials, but as far as actual "news" goes, you're exactly right. It's almost impossible to be a completely objective reporter, if not completely impossible. You're right, the decisions to decide what should be reported and what shouldn't, along with the choice of focus groups/sources, can have a huge affect on the story's bias. But it also goes deeper than that, into the wording of the story itself. Let's take a police report, in which one car hits another. One way: "Smith's SUV collided with Jones' car." Another way: "Smith's SUV rammed Jones' car." Both report the same thing with a different tone. The first sentence makes it seem like an accident, the second makes it into an attack.

The key, I think, is to try to be as fair as humanly possible. And, of course, we humans are fallible, so the author's perceptions are likely to slip in the story in subtle ways. Not to mention that pretty much every newspaper's political leanings tend to slip into their news coverage in some form or another. But you've got a point, pretentions toward objectivity are pretty ludicrous. Either it's a lofty goal that can't possibly be achieved, or it's a slick way to try to hide egregious biases (*coughcoughfoxcough*).

[The Dork Knight]

1. Britney Spears
2. Britney Spears
3. Christina Agulara
4. Christina Agulara
5. Britney Spears
6. Britney Spears
7. Christina Agulara
8. Christina Agulara
9. Britney Spears
10. Britney Spears

You can clearly see I hate Britney Spears and Christina Agulara.

[James]

Originally posted by The Mad Hatter
Going back to what Maxie said:

The key, I think, is to try to be as fair as humanly possible. And, of course, we humans are fallible, so the author's perceptions are likely to slip in the story in subtle ways. Not to mention that pretty much every newspaper's political leanings tend to slip into their news coverage in some form or another. But you've got a point, pretentions toward objectivity are pretty ludicrous. Either it's a lofty goal that can't possibly be achieved, or it's a slick way to try to hide egregious biases (*coughcoughfoxcough*).

I think however, the problem it trying to create an objective report or, even further, an objective newspaper, is that it's not generally what the public wants.

A great deal of people LIKE to be told what to think. They like to read an editorial that conforms to their political or philosophical outlook. That's why these paper's have a field day with sensationalised reporting - it's what many people want. I myself detest it. Possibly because the media has so much power in what people think, there really is no source that mediates or reports these glaring inaccuaracies and manipulative behaviour of these journals.

The only organ in the UK that cuts into the papers with any success is Private Eye, which as a satrical magazine independantly reports on the behind scenes of the papers and other media groups through their own sources and through thorough examination of the paper and it's past reports.

It's amazing quite how hypocritical papers can be within a day. One big event can suddenly change a papers entire opinion....!

[kiddiesunshine]

welcome back to the maclaughlin group.