which characteristic you really can't stand in other people?

Not knowing how to cook. Followed further down by not knowing how to clean a house. Or repair a puncture / change a tire. Or write a thankyou letter. In other words, basic life skills.

point taken.

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point re: confidence taken that is

Ha, you should probably never meet me, paulhw. I'm no good at basic life skills.

I read above post as "not knowing how to puncture a tire."

basic life skill

laurel, did your bike get stolen? :(

No, Tracer's did! Anger and sadness.

so low

Changing a tyre is a basic life skill? I guess that's me and Larry David fucked then.

how/why is writing a thank you letter a 'basic life skill'?

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xxpost That and knowing all about shoes. (hahahaha Laurel, I am just kidding!)

Not knowing how to cook. Followed further down by not knowing how to clean a house. Or repair a puncture / change a tire. Or write a thankyou letter. In other words, basic life skills.

-- paulhw, Tuesday, August 7, 2007 3:54 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

what if you know HOW to write a thank you note but are just too LAZY to actually DO it?

"not knowing how to puncture a tire.

haha, me too. Helpful though when you hatin'.

same with cleaning i guess. i have no fucking idea how to change a tire though that is what AAA is for i thought.

i guess paulhw and i can't be friends.

I can change a tire, but prefer not to.

I just did a spot of house cleaning so Paulhw wouldn't hate me.

he sounds a bit uptight anyways, i'm probably better off.

I hate the way the tire-changing gear and the spare are stowed in really hard-to-get-to compartments in the car. I always have the back of my stationwagon crammed with gear, and to get out the spare I have to take everything out and lift up the floor panel. Grrr!

i can't stand that characteristic in cars

The bolt holding my spare tire has been rounded off completely and is impossible to take off with normal tools. So my idea of 'changing a tire' is running the flat one to Discount Tire for free repair.

i think my answer to this is, i am willing to put up with most people's personality flaws if they will put up with mine.

I distrust anyone who says Henry James is "boring."

To return briefly to tire-changing—I hate the designer of the donut spare! WTF, you ungenerous car manufacturers!

The Golden Bowl is somewhat hard going. I loved a lot of the earlier books.

people who are older than, oh let's say 27 or so, who are still massively consumed with the status of their perceived hipness. It was annoying before, but really. You are old. Stop it.

ok i really cant stand people who call 27 "old"

I think they're kind of cute.

The great thing about age is... IT WILL GET YOU, TOO, IN THE END!!!

hey I'm 31.

lol 27 is so young! hip is annoying at any age.

ummm... oh the Golden Bowl - that was a ridiculous movie. they took the meaning of Metaphor to a new level. it was always like "::gasp::! the Golden Bowl, it has CRACKED!"

I am a curmudgeonly son of a bitch though.

Not knowing how to cook.

this is me. i'm a bachelor. fuck off.

cooking hyper-snobs really annoy me actually - and dissuade me from bothering to try cooking for myself sometimes.
once i managed to make poutine with chicken and peas (it was delicious) and i caught static from some of my friends for not doing the gravy from scratch and cutting my own fries. like what the hell - i didn't raise and slaughter the chicken either but as soon as i did the gravy and fries myself i know this is what they'd throw in my face next. fuck a cooking snob!

i know i'm a total 3 step meal person. i don't feel great about it but i certainly hope people can stand it

i love cooking when i have time, but yeah, i'm very amateurish at it. i won't cook with my sister cos she YELLS at me for the inefficient way i chop things. do it yourself then! i don't like when she does that, but i still love her.

Amy's cream of mushroom soup straight out of the can with a slosh of Marsala makes a yummy and elegant gravy.

My husband can never eat plain roast chicken. He always has to tart it up, hence the emergency gravy knowledge.

yeah I get a lot of tongue-clucking and eye-rolling when I try to help with the cooking.

people who think it's okay to TUG ON THE BACK OF MY PANTS to get my attention while i'm serving another table.

ok. well, its a total myth that big dogs need to run around 24/7. the two dogs ive lived with over the past 10 years both easily exceed 100lbs (a bull mastiff and a great dane)and both are the laziest mfs you could ever meet. they like walks like any dog but if they have to go outside for anything else you can see that look on their face like 'are you really going to make me get out bed??' and they both average 20+ hours sleep a day too. both of these dogs have large yards which rarely get used for more than poops and pees. dogs are so much more about being your friend and playing than wanting to run through fields all day long. yeah, there are breeds of dog, big and small, that need a yard. duh. anyway, owning a big dog in a city = sense of entitlement/animal abuse and you might as well be running dog fights is pretty fucking insulting besides being incredibly stupid but what the hell else am i supposed to expect from a kenan post?

You make a good point, and I take it back.

I do think people should not be allowed to have children in the city, though.

hahahaha!

being too much like me

people who think it's okay to TUG ON THE BACK OF MY PANTS to get my attention while i'm serving another table.

What the fuck???? That call for "accidentally" spilling whatever beverage you have in your hand all over them because you wheel around so quickly.

calls.

i would enjoy witnessing this 'tug and spill' scenario at an eatery

I accidentally did that once - had a drink tray that had some spilled water on it, spun around to see who was poking me for attention, dumped a little bit of the water on a woman's head.

Bitch whined and moaned until the whole table was comped.

I used to share a house with a cooking snob, she used to make me feel really crap for not being able to cook. But that's because we went out for a couple of months and she dumped me. And I had really low self-esteem at the time so anything I wasn't very good at made me feel like shit, especially if she was giving me a hard time about it. Now I am free to not know how to cook and not care about it! Hurrah.

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Buttered toast is one of the most divine foods on earth and one that even you can master, Colonel.