What do you hate?

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

You would think so, but nope.

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.

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

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

Do you know this man?

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.

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!

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...

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

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.

- 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)

*sniff*

caitlin, how about "dude"?

or "bitchez"?