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After reading that, admittedly more than once, I feel that something really bad is going to happen.

Teachers who complain about students being late to class or who use their phones during class and then the same teacher comes to staff meetings late and proceeds to use their cell phone. Lame. Any respect I may have once had is now gone.

People who go to gigs and talk constantly and loudly. Look...I get it, you think your conversation is more important than the music, but nobody but you cares about whatever pointless drivel you want to go on and on about. So, instead of ruining it for others around you...just go to the bar, stand at the back or better yet...don't go to live music. Meet your friends in a bar instead or invite them to your pad.

People who pass (driving) on the right. Unless you are in the UK, Australia, NZ (British commonwealth)...the right lane is the slow lane. The person who is irritatingly just sitting in the middle lane is being obnoxious, but by speeding up and passing on the right you are being equally as obnoxious, but also dangerous to those who decide to move over to let people pass ON THE LEFT.

Something we agree on... common ground.

Man, there are a lot of teachers who do just that. It's embarrassing and annoying.

You might appreciate this one:

There is a training class for teachers. The class is about something like Project Based Learning or Inquiry and it's all about the importance of having the kids discover things on their own. The teacher is the guide on the side rather than the sage on the stage. They talk about how terrible it is to lecture. Meanwhile, there is only obligatory moments of interaction and discovery in the class and the administrators spend almost the entire time "lecturing" teachers about how they should not "lecture" when teaching. LOL

Teachers that don't teach, is a problem for me.

Hurricane Barry?

Half of this board.

People that like their own posts.

LOL

I agree.

ROBO calls

Yep...and, those same people who lecture on and on about how the ones doing the learning are those doing the talking (essentially telling teachers to engage students in dialogue and seminars more than old school teaching at the front of the room, yet they are doing the exact thing they are telling us we shouldn't be doing)!.

All the products that have “tamper proof” and/or “child proof” seals that are damn close to “open proof”.

That was awesome!

Alright, now I'm #triggered -- packaging!

Why do I need a chainsaw to open a pack of Super Glue?

Why is the pillow I ordered from Sam's Club packed in a box, double the size, with 12 yards of bubble wrap?

Why, when it's glass, is there virtually no bubble wrap, and it's all on top of the box with none on the bottom?

Why is there so much tape, on every corner where cardboard meets, to protect my electronics part? Surgery finished, box is open, part is been tumbling around in a half sheet of the comics section for 3000 miles.

Why is the ultra-breakable packed in the cheapest cardboard known to man?

And yeah, the stupid tamper-proof seals... Shrink wrapped so tightly that the only choice to open is a Chef's knife. Can't tell you how many times I've pondered the simple question. "Would I rather have tainted peroxide by pulling the shortest straw in a once per billion tampering scheme... or live the rest of my life with one digit missing from my hand?"

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Every time I try to open a box of Milkbone Flav-O-Snacks for my pup, I think that there is no way the big shots at Milkbone have dogs or if they do, purchase their own product. There's no opening that box without mangling it.

The packaging addition is a good one. I get frustrated as hell w/some of them. I bought a new set of table and chairs for our pool area and all the hardware was on this sheet of cardboard w/a rigid plastic cover. It said "Open Here." I did as instructed and washers and small screws went flying all over the garage floor. That got on my damn nerves.

Continuing my grocery rant, if I may ... I recently tried to buy a box of Cheezits because Cheezits and peanut butter is a favorite snack of mine. Heck, sometimes its lunch. Anyway, when I looked for the plain Cheezits it looked something like this:



I looked for the plain Cheezits for about a minute amongst the 20 or so varieties they had before flipping off the shelf - yes, I gave the finger to a shelf - and walked away. I grabbed some Ritz crackers on the way by, which were, miraculously, plain old Ritz crackers.

I ran into the same thing searching for Maxwell House "Original Roast", which was nowhere to be found. There was a wide variety of flavors, in caffeinated, decaf, and half-caff, but none of their signature brand. I bought Folgers. Take that, Kraft Foods.

And whatever happened to regular Aquafresh toothpaste in the pump container? Its gone, that's what happened to it, because people liked it.

This one goes beyond grating my nerves. It's downright disgusting.

These dumb-ass challenges like the Tide Pod Challenge and the Ice Cream challenge and then posting the acts on Facebook.

Aggressive drivers...

not to be confused with people who want to go fast... if it's on an open road and the conditions are ok, zoom on by brother, I don't care... out on an open road, I'm pretty comfy going about +8.. if you want to go +15 or 20... have at it. I'd rather have you in front of me so the cops peg you first.

but in traffic, on urban or suburban streets, in between stop lights, if you are changing lanes all the time and racing back and forth, cutting people off.. then you are an idiot.

There can only be two reasons people do this:

1. You are late and you think your recklessness to get somewhere on time is greater of greater priority than everybody elses desire to get where they are going at all.

or

2. You think driving on a public road is some kind of a sport to be won by getting the best time...

as my daughter is 15 and on her learners permit, I have re-learned just what impatient a-holes a lot of people can be... she's a beginner, she has all of about 15 hours of road driving under her belt. She is extra cautious, she goes the speed limit, she waits for a little extra distance to make a right on red, she does everything a little slower and more deliberately than she will once she gets more comfortable... we have had people whip around her on the shoulder while she was trying to make a right on red, pass her on a double yellow line when she was actually going the speed limit, honk at her if she doesn't pull out when the light turns green like it's a drag race, pass her on a 3-lane road when she was going to speed limit in the right lane then intentionally cut back in front of her very close and sharply (even though there was no need) just to prove a point... A-holes, each and every one of them..

If you think the Cheez-its are bad, try , well also try getting Cheetos flaming hot by mistake one time.

Try looking for chocolate frosting, I just want Chocolate frosting, but the idea of "dark chocolate", or fudge in the frosting makes me cringe.

milk choc, would be fine, that's about as regular as you can get, "(IF)" you can find it, but I don't want double chocolate, the idea of more than normal chocolate makes me cringe, I dunno, maybe there's some bad experience I don't remember.

On the Tamper proof packaging.

Probably we have some imbecille (to thank), who decided to put Cyanide in Tylenol pills in the EARLY 1980's I wanna say 1982, maybe late 81,

and this was publicized, and continually happened, around the country, for a period of time, and the Cyanide would kill the people who took the pills, more than once.

You go 8 over? I do about 3 mph over the speed limit. Wife gripes about it. She says I should drive 6 or 7 over.

I reply "We have a 1 hour drive. If you're afraid we'll be late, you should've gotten ready 3 minutes earlier, because that is what an additional 3 mph will save us. And if we get pulled over for speeding, it will take 20 minutes for the cop, I'll have a fine, and our insurance will go up. Is it worth it?"

Can't remember if I read it here or heard it elsewhere, but reportedly the traffic cops' credo is "+8, you're great; +9, you're mine."

No!

When you drive fast it just feels like you're flying.

For instance, a simple calculation:

It's 140 miles from Cleveland to Columbus.

If you drive 70 MPH, it's exactly two hours (120 minutes)
If you drive 60 MPH (which is a mile per minute), it's 140 minutes.

At 70 MPH you get there only 20 minutes quicker. At 60 MPH, it feels like you're plodding along as cars pass you the entire trip; it feels like the drive will take all day.

Must have been some powerful stuff to kill people multiple times. LOL

I hate when incompetant idiots work at Subway.

They just made me the most nasty ass sandwich in the entire universe.

Who in their right mind wants to eat a 6 inch sandwich made of 10 slices of salami, half a gallon of mayonaise and 2 large unmelted wedges of mozzarella cheese?

And I tried to tell them I dont want that. And the dumb kid is like "It has to have it"

I didnt want to hurt her feelings, so I paid for it, threw it in the garbage and went to Wendys.

LOL

Could have clarified, +8 on interstates and highways, +3-5 on other suburban and country roads.

Mission Accomplished!

Tell the truth - were you buying cake frosting because you were frosting a cake you baked, or was it to eat straight out of the container? Because, come on, cake frosting is delicious. Its like when I pass by the Cool Whip display at the grocery. I'm always tempted to buy one and just pound the whole container when I get home. One of these days, Alice ...

I have this experience in the convienence store when all I want are some plain potato chips and they have every weird flavor ever invented and not regular potato chips. OR I just want plain something and all they have is flaming hot. Everything has to be flaming hot these days. Who actually eats that aside from 14 year old girls?

Since I'm on the food rants today....pickled onions need to go away. I dont know when this became so trendy in restaurants, but its nasty.

I was at a mexican restaurant the other week, and all I wanted was some basic beef tacos. Well, they put some pickled onions on it, and it was like biting into a taco made of pickle juice. That was so gross. Those two flavor profiles do not go together.

So every time I order Mexican food somewhere I have to tell them to leave off the pickled onions. I dont know when this became such a thing.

I've never had pickled onions. Doesn't sound good.

I don't like pickles on my food. Recently, my wife and I called in a takeout order for some sandwiches and fries. I specifically said "no pickle" and the girl repeated the entire order including "no pickle." My wife picks it up and when she gets home, I discover that not only is there a pickle on my sandwich, but there is an oozing long pickle on top of my fries, which made them mushy and disgusting.

We will not be ordering from there again.

Sounds about as delicious as a caramelized pickle.

Its all the rage in ATL mexican restaurants. But only recently. Its so gross. I love sauteed/grilled onions and veggies on tacos. But just no to the pickled stuff.

All that pink stuff below is pickled. That A LOT of pickle juice on a taco. Who's gonna eat that?

I only like pickles when they're almost still cucumbers; still crunchy and just a little bit pickled. Hard to find.

I’m a speeder at times, I’ll admit. Nothing crazy, unless I’m driving from El Paso to Carlsbad, New Mexico, which I have done MANY times. 100 is not out of the question there. Lol. If anyone’s ever driven it, they will understand. Slow ass drivers annoy me, but never enough to cause an outward rage. I may be be zapping someone with an imaginary laser beam, but no physical harm done.

j/c

Job-related rant:

I appreciate your patronage, but if you're ill, please stay home. There is nothing heroic about showing up to a public place with almost 1K people, and struggling for 2.5 hours to keep from coughing your pathogens all over a bunch of strangers.

And if your cough can be controlled with a lozenge, PLEASE UNWRAP IT BEFORE THE PERFORMANCE OR DURING APPLAUSE. But no- instead, folks in the front row will wait until the quietest, most delicate passage in the whole piece, THEN START TO UNWRAP IT SUPER-SLOWLY... which is never quieter. It's still just as loud, but it now lasts 10 times longer than if they'd just ripped it open fast.

Electronic devices: this began with pagers in the 90's, and has only gotten worse since.

Once, we played this piece by Charles Ives called "The Unanswered Question." As the strings play long, slowly-changing notes (denoting the passage of Time and the dull, unimaginative multitudes), a lone trumpet sounds the question from the back of the hall. The woodwinds are the so-called 'experts,' (read: fools) who give their various discordant answers and theories. The trumpet sounds the question 3 more times, with the 'experts' getting increasingly agitated and annoyed. After they screech their final answer, the trumpet sounds the question one last time. The piece ends with us strings fading, fading, fading... fad-

[90's digital ringtone] "la cucaracha, la cucaracha
ya no puede caminar.... la cucaracha, la cucaracha
ya no puede caminar.... la cucaracha, la cucaracha
ya no puede caminar...."



I wanted to leap over the edge of the stage and throttle that moron.
And if this annoyed tf outta me, I wonder how it was for the other patrons sitting nearby?

#pitchforksandpyres