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I really really fucking hate the way at work, as kids or even adults pass through the shop, they think it's oh so hilarious to do a mock scratch on one of the decks, always with their hand against their ear in a "dj pose".

it's incredibly annoying and not funny even after the millionth time.

Furthermore I really hate when kids/tourists/adults fuck around and want to play records on the decks just for a laugh with no intention of buying anything. I don't want to be mr cranky record shop guy but for fuck's sake just leave the things alone!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 22 July 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Lucky that they aren't seeing it for the millionth time then, Ronan.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 22 July 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

(I live in Chicago, Mr. Jonny Jon Jon Jons-a-lot)

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 22 July 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

(I live in Chicago, Mr. Jonny Jon Jon Jons-a-lot)

People seem to be better about this in major metro areas, esp Europe.

― I CAN LEAD YOU THROUGH THE ZONE (ex machina), Thursday, 22 July 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

- Stupid Hip Hop lingo
- wallet-chains
- Ugg boots
- people who wear their polo shirts with the collar up (they should be shot on sight).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 22 July 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha ronan, you should get a bell on your door, and see how long it is before people saying "seconds out!" when it rings makes steam come out of your ears.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 22 July 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I said "even" Mark.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

People seem to be better about this in major metro areas, esp Europe.

You would think so, but nope.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, don't get me started. I really hate it when people look for discounts on stuff that's already pretty cheap in a FUCKING CHARITY SHOP! I mean, okay, I know that me and the volunteers make mistakes sometimes and price things too high, but I'm not talking about that. If someone comes into my shop and tells me that they've seen a book priced at €5 in my shop which is in the Hodges Figgis sale brand new for the same price, that's one thing. But to buy two books that are €6 each and then say 'can you do the two for a tenner?' It just pisses me off. No. I can't. That €2 makes a difference.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Please add solicitors to the list!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

It really, really annoys me when people don't snip through the tailor tacks before wearing their recently purchased garment. Pleats in skirts are meant to swing when you walk! Vents are meant to flap! And worst of all, why are you leaving on the sleeve of your jacket the label that says VERSACE or PIERRE CARDIN or just plain PURE NEW WOOL? IT IS NOT MEANT TO STAY THERE AFTER YOU HAVE MADE YOUR PURCHASE!

Also:
Being called by work when I am on holiday (by somebody in the department I left 6 months ago at that)
Jim Davidson
The smell of Lush

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

http://members.aol.com/crculver/music/lush.jpg
What do they smell like Madchen?

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i must not make jokes about dead people i must not make jokes about dead people i must not make jokes about dead people i must not make jokes about dead people i must not make jokes about dead people i must not make jokes about dead people i must not make jokes about dead people i must not make jokes about dead people i must not make jokes about dead people i must not make jokes about dead people i must not make jokes about dead people i must not make jokes about dead people

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I was just about to say that one of them in particular won't be smelling too sweet by now. I am bad.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 22 July 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

you are both *very* bad people

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 22 July 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

- People opening packages and eating stuff in supermarkets before they've paid for it.
- People who cut the line.
- People who whistle while walking down the street (seriously, cut that shit out!)
- The smell of clove cigarettes
- Needless air conditioning
- The expression "dude".
- The fact that women can blame moodiness/irritability/unreasonableness on hormoanal issues and/or the time of the month.
- "best of"/greatest hits compilations that tack on unreleased material so as to sucker in completists.
- The fact that tipping here in the US is not merit-based but rather an unspoken obligation.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 22 July 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

- People who whistle while walking down the street (seriously, cut that shit out!)

http://photos.friendster.com/photos/96/44/2674469/853487745531l.jpg

Do you know this man?

― gwilx (ex machina), Thursday, 22 July 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

You bad, bad girls! He'd have made the same joke about someone else, in happier times, believe me.

About 10 years ago I turned an about-to-be-obsolete diary into an address book where friends were filed according to their birthday and most wrote their entries themselves. A few years ago I picked it up and had a very low moment when I found Chris' entry.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 22 July 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

- That wanky melismatic R&B singing style as practiced by Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera and pretty much all boy bands.....(and recently that recently-deposed blonde on "Outback Jack")....it should be punishable by swift and merciless death, especially if its accompanied by needless gesticulation.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 22 July 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate everything alex in nyc hates. i hate pretty much everything, especially (right now):

people really obsessed with tv shows

people on low-carb diets that won't try like, moving

cell phones

my job, all jobs for that matter

― caitlin hell (caitxa), Friday, 23 July 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i guess i don't need to type [br]. oops!

― caitlin hell (caitxa), Friday, 23 July 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

When people toss off not-exactly-mainstream theories about things that happen to be well researched and backed-by-facts by simply invoking the phrase "conspiracy theory".

Turn to page 95 please. Facts alone do not a logical, coherent argument make. 'Well-researched' for me = try find something that contradicts your theory before looking for something that supports it.

-- fcussen (fcussen33...), July 22nd, 2004.

Why are you so concerned about debunking conspiracy theories? You're obviously just a puppet of the Jew-banker-Illuminati-Lizardmen Cabal!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 23 July 2004 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Well that was a good example of what I meant by "wooly thinking", accepting any theory that makes use of facts, regardless of how wacky the logic that links those facts is.

I hate them because they are defeatist and dangerous. Giving you all the reasons why the world is so shitty but no obligation to try make things better, basically a substitute for religion.

― fcussen (Burger), Friday, 23 July 2004 07:27 (twenty-one years ago)

People whose habitual expressions involve their mouth being open. Flycatching. It makes them look like cattle and disturbs me.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 23 July 2004 07:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate being sick at work. :-(

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 July 2004 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw Pink, you OK? In fact, work toilets (esp. for being sick in) are pretty hatable. Ewww seat spray.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 23 July 2004 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I was lucky, there was still bleach down the loo from the cleaners!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 July 2004 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate reading this thread and realizing that people hate things that I do or think.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Indeed. It always happens with this type of thread!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm with Pink and Mel. But really, you know, it's *their* problem.

― Ma$onic Boom (kate), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:14 (twenty-one years ago)

(i.e. the Hataz' problem, not ours.)

― Ma$onic Boom (kate), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone will invariably get pissed off with something you've done, but I figure we all got those annoying little quirks!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Indeed. At some points in yr life you have to decide if personality traits that annoy other people are gratuitous and, if so, whether you care enough about the people they annoy to attemmpt to change yourself.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

nah screw that! ;-)

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Well that was a good example of what I meant by "wooly thinking", accepting any theory that makes use of facts, regardless of how wacky the logic that links those facts is.
I hate them because they are defeatist and dangerous. Giving you all the reasons why the world is so shitty but no obligation to try make things better, basically a substitute for religion.

-- fcussen (fcussen33...), July 23rd, 2004.

i was joking...

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate the fact that since the lady I work with has left on maternity leave (I was s'posed to take over from her) I am now doing less of her job than before!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 July 2004 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I read it as:
< serious part >Why are you so concerned about debunking conspiracy theories? < /serious part > < not serious part >You're obviously just a puppet of the Jew-banker-Illuminati-Lizardmen Cabal! < /nsp >

― fcussen (Burger), Friday, 23 July 2004 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)

white rastas. people who use the term rasta to describe all jamaicans. dreadlocked jamaicans who call themselves rastas but have no idea who mussolini was.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 23 July 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Patriotism

― Nellie (nellskies), Friday, 23 July 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't understand this one:

"People who whistle while walking down the street (seriously, cut that shit out!)"

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 23 July 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

fair enough. i was just using it as an excuse to do the illuminati-lizardmen joke, that david icke lizardmen-control-the-world shit cracks me up.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 23 July 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

er...I don't really hate much at all, although many of the things alex mentioned do annoy me. here are some things that provoke in me a visceral reaction all out of proportion with how bothersome they actually should be:

- Law & Order and similar TV shows (on moral and aesthetic grounds)
- The Anti-Defamation League
- waiting for promised phone calls
- the cult of Howard Zinn
- sycophants in general (not mine obv.)
- when people are paid an honorarium to give a talk and simply extemporize in an unmemorable manner
- people telling me to "relax" (even if they are right)
- listening to priests, ministers, or rabbis speak at funerals
- jocular criticism
- myself when I oversleep weekday mornings
- the idea of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (the reality doesn't bother me as much)
- musical transitions on NPR (especially on "This American Life," where they threaten to spoil perfectly involving segments)
- Seinfeld (not so sure anymore about this one, it's been years since I subjected myself to it)
- Jessica Lange's acting
- critical writing that spends an inordinate number of words discussing how such-and-such a work of art is "underrated" or "misunderstood" (etc.) rather than just telling us how we might understand it (this bothers me all the more because it happens so often in writing i otherwise like)
- the staff of the Coolidge Corner theater ca. 2000-2001
- "i hated high school"
- nonsensical (or seemingly nonsensical) pricing policies at record, video, or book-stores
- the "gotta hear some fun-ky dixieland" breakdown in that Doobie Brothers song
- fun (obv)

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

appending "baby" to things one says, i.e. "it's the weekend, baby!" DIE.

― caitlin hell (caitxa), Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Law & Order and similar TV shows (on moral and aesthetic grounds)

*sniff*

caitlin, how about "dude"?

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Academia, hairdressers who don't listen, the movie Bottle Rocket, most television pundits, and Juicy Couture.

― daria g (daria g), Saturday, 24 July 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it possible to have seen every episode of Law and Order? 'Cause I would hate it if that happened.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 24 July 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

yes Kenan, it is. I can't think of the last time I saw a rerun that I hadn't already seen. This makes me very sad. I might have to switch to MASH.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Saturday, 24 July 2004 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate people who hate the lizard-men. How can one hate the lizard-men?

― Evanston Wade (EWW), Saturday, 24 July 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

yay sam is here! caitlin, how about "dude"?

or "bitchez"?

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 24 July 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, "dude". also bro/brah. ughhhh!

― caitlin hell (caitxa), Saturday, 24 July 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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