Little things that get to you

[HowardRoark]

Speaking of merging……..once a flight lands, it would seem rather obvious the most efficient method to get passengers off the aircraft is to wait your turn and, in an orderly manner, get out of your seat and quickly walk off the jet.

The people who for some reason think they can get ahead of the line should be institutionalized for their stupidity. I am not opposed to body checking in this circumstance.

[Iron Mike]

also irregardless

I heard Chris Matthews say this the other day. Irregardless of my feelings for the man, I was shocked that a guy who is paid to talk on T.V. used the word.

I LOLed.

People using lol and rofl (should be stricken from every lexicon)

Oooops, sorry.

[oregonpackfan]

People who drive too fast and too slow bother me. The "too fast" people definitely put themselves and others at risk.

The "too slow" people who drive 10+ miles below the speed limit are almost as hazardous as the fast drivers because everyone is trying to get around them.

I cringe when I think of my 84 year old mother-in-law who still is driving. Though most of her driving is to the grocery store and church in her small Oregon town, she does drive about twice a month to the Portland Metro area. I doubt she drives anywhere near the speed limit.

[falco]

People who drive too fast and too slow bother me. The "too fast" people definitely put themselves and others at risk.

The "too slow" people who drive 10+ miles below the speed limit are almost as hazardous as the fast drivers because everyone is trying to get around them.

I cringe when I think of my 84 year old mother-in-law who still is driving. Though most of her driving is to the grocery store and church in her small Oregon town, she does drive about twice a month to the Portland Metro area. I doubt she drives anywhere near the speed limit.

george carlin once commented that a person's opinion of someone while driving was as follows:

people going faster than you - fucking maniacs
people going slower than you - fucking assholes

its all in perception i guess

[Iron Mike]

People who drive too fast and too slow bother me.

I'm on the opposite side of the coin.....the drivers that bother me are the ones who will be in a line of cars averaging, say 70 m.p.h., and feel like life's not worth living unless they are traveling 71 m.p.h. The next ten miles are spent with them in the passing lane of a four-lane highway with them barely passing the cars in the right lane, all the while holding up 10-12 cars behind them that would like to drive 75 m.p.h.

Jesus H. Christ, couldn't you just reduce your speed 1 m.p.h. and let the passing lane be for cars that actually are PASSING you?

[SkinBasket]

Speaking of merging……..once a flight lands, it would seem rather obvious the most efficient method to get passengers off the aircraft is to wait your turn and, in an orderly manner, get out of your seat and quickly walk off the jet.

The people who for some reason think they can get ahead of the line should be institutionalized for their stupidity. I am not opposed to body checking in this circumstance.

Unfortunately it seems the elderly are the most to blame for this. They have an unnatural fear of being left behind for dead or something and are always the one's trying to board before their zone or not letting people ahead of them deplane before they amble their old decrepit ass up the aisle.

[Iron Mike]

Speaking of merging……..once a flight lands, it would seem rather obvious the most efficient method to get passengers off the aircraft is to wait your turn and, in an orderly manner, get out of your seat and quickly walk off the jet.

The people who for some reason think they can get ahead of the line should be institutionalized for their stupidity. I am not opposed to body checking in this circumstance.

Unfortunately it seems the elderly are the most to blame for this. They have an unnatural fear of being left behind for dead or something and are always the one's trying to board before their zone or not letting people ahead of them deplane before they amble their old decrepit ass up the aisle.

Hmmm....it seems to me that the ratio of idiots trying to get to the front of the cabin to deplane generally is in direct proportion to the amount of extraneous crap that they've managed to stuff in the overhead storage.

[GBRulz]

Speaking of merging……..once a flight lands, it would seem rather obvious the most efficient method to get passengers off the aircraft is to wait your turn and, in an orderly manner, get out of your seat and quickly walk off the jet.

The people who for some reason think they can get ahead of the line should be institutionalized for their stupidity. I am not opposed to body checking in this circumstance.

People who also hold up the line (and security lines for that matter) because they are too lazy to check bags and have carry-ons in three different overhead bins also fall into that category.

[Partial]

Add to that people who don't use the 1 and 1 rule when merging two lines into one at stadiums. They don't seem to realize that being a cock is still going to get you parked right next to the person you just pissed off by acting like there's only one parking spot left in the south lot.

Oooo, that is the worst. That might take the cake. People do that all the GD time.

[Iron Mike]

Who's been to the convenience store lately and gotten behind the person that will purchase scratch-off tickets, stand at the counter and scratch them off, then trade in the winners for more scratch-offs?

OMFG. The convenience store is like a convention for people who piss me off. Have you ever seen someone at the convenience store buying doughnuts and a soda with FOOD STAMPS?????

[MJZiggy]

That's why I don't go anywhere near there unless I'm traveling.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Out of curiosity, what is going to take the place of Java?

It will lose its market share, but it won't be replaced. That's why I said it will be like COBOL. There are so many huge, backend applications that use COBOL. Applications that would cost a fortune to replace. COBOL programmers are set until retirement (our company is looking for MORE COBOL programmers for our huge, old backend application). People will predict Java's demise, but it will hang around for a long time--although at some point it's going to lose market share.

[Zool]

Yesterday I was the only car merging. Its a 6 lane and there was no one within 1000 feet of this car in either direction.

Then it should have been easy to merge in front or behind him, no?

Right I had to either accelerate or decelerate when the moron had 2 lanes open to his left.

[Partial]

Out of curiosity, what is going to take the place of Java?

It will lose its market share, but it won't be replaced. That's why I said it will be like COBOL. There are so many huge, backend applications that use COBOL. Applications that would cost a fortune to replace. COBOL programmers are set until retirement (our company is looking for MORE COBOL programmers for our huge, old backend application). People will predict Java's demise, but it will hang around for a long time--although at some point it's going to lose market share.

I simply don't see that happening any time soon, though. If anything I'd think its growing. Why do you think its going to begin fading away when the web is just getting rolling and Java plays such a crucial role in web development??

[Tyrone Bigguns]

According to Career Builder, my company has more employees than Siemens Power Generation about 20%.

Yet, we don't see you posting the name of your company.

Who said anything about power generation.