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Post by ♥Comet..Adie♥ on Oct 9, 2007 23:58:53 GMT
@comsie That's hilarious. ;D Wonder if the guy will delete his account? ;D hope. xD unless they re serious.. >>
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Post by GoldenFlither on Oct 10, 2007 2:09:21 GMT
... Oh boy. You won't like me. Though now I do it just for the fun of annoying my elementary school friends. I always apologized, sometimes for no particular reason, in the eighth grade. Probably because I was trying to recover myself from that horrible attitude I maintained all through the seventh grade. Now, anytime I see old friends from my elementary school, I randomly say "sorry" to them just for fun. ^^ Brings back old times.
There's obviously nothing wrong with apologizing. I mean, sure, if it were as annoying as I was three years ago, then it's understandable to get irritated.
*cough* Anyways, rambling session over.
My pet peeve? Hm.. good question. The first thing that pops into my head is people who use a swear word (i.e: the "F" word) as a word that pops up at least three times in every single sentence. Honestly, I know people who make every other word some form of swear word when they speak. It bugs me. I tease people about getting them a dictionary and find some other words to use.
By the way, this thread comes to good use for me. I write for my school newspaper, and sometimes I'm asked to write things called "Rants." For those who don't know, it's just rambling on about something that annoys you or something need be discussed as an issue. In fact, I'm crediting JAM for her his idea, since I've decided to expand on it in the next monthly issue.
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Post by The J.A.M., a.k.a. Numbuh i on Oct 10, 2007 3:21:00 GMT
Um...if you're referring to me, thanks, but...I happen to be a masculine type male
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Post by dex on Oct 11, 2007 20:17:58 GMT
People who say words they don't know the definition to. That makes me so mad.
Also, people who hear the complete explanation of something, yet STILL ask completely obvious questions about it.
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Post by NumbuhInfinity on Oct 11, 2007 20:44:46 GMT
My pet peeve is people making pet peeves threads, and people who reply to pet peeves thread to tell other people their pet peeve.
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Post by thesuki on Oct 12, 2007 2:53:30 GMT
Have you ever read a story summary that actually makes your eye twitch? Lately, that even happens with just the phrase "forbidden love".
*twitch*
See? See? That sort of thing is used SOOOO lightly. What's forbidding it? It might be a tad unorthidox or not quite what peopel within the universe would expect, or even somethign their parents would disapprove of, but I have never seen that phrase used for any couple that could in any way actually be called forbidden.
Also Lizzie-haters. I dont' care if they like my fics, if it turns out they think Lizzie should "die because she's controlling and annoying", yet like characters like 86 and Tommy, they need to go to Shipper Hell, where all the most horribly non-whatever-they-like couples are blissfully in canon.
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Post by agentarizonan on Oct 12, 2007 4:59:16 GMT
Here's some more:
I'm going to bring up the people that want to limit the First Amendment and have stricter gun control laws, which is an attack on the Second Amendment. People need to know that they shouldn't spaz out over someone wearing a shirt depicting the president in a negative way or a shirt with a mug shot of Che the Revolutionary on it. And how's stricter gun control going to help us?
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Post by SAVE_US.WBTC on Oct 12, 2007 5:43:30 GMT
I say combine the First and Second Amendments, to create the right to bear arms against the press. Well, I somewhat agree. I am a First Amendment absolutist, and believe it trumps even the interest in public safety and civil rights. Though in the case of the former, stricter gun control laws would allow for more free speech without the danger of violent retaliation for espousing controversial or inflammatory beliefs.
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Post by thesuki on Oct 12, 2007 6:11:09 GMT
Well, I somewhat agree. I am a First Amendment absolutist, and believe it trumps even the interest in public safety and civil rights. Apparently, you haven't paid attention to the recognized eceptions to the right of Free Speech, such as defamation, breach of the peace, incitement to crime, "fighting words," and sedition. As for civil rights, you're crossing your arguments. The First Amendment is the basis for many civil rights, and has been a huge factor for some such as Martain Luther King Junior. It has never been put on task for repressing civil rights. Texas vs Johnson 1989, the Supreme Court ruled that flag burning is a civil right to free speech, as it is a type of symbolic speech. There is nothing "absolutist" about it unless you only look at the most superficial definition without regard to the many cases throughout history that more finely defined it.
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Post by NumbuhInfinity on Oct 12, 2007 18:45:20 GMT
In before political discussion screwing up the thread.
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Post by thesuki on Oct 12, 2007 19:41:11 GMT
The legal defininng of the Consitution isn't political. It's legal.
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Post by SAVE_US.WBTC on Oct 12, 2007 19:48:39 GMT
I am in law school, and have studied these exceptions to the First Amendment, and have found they are narrow enough, though I would have come out differently on the "fighting words" reasoning. Under that case (Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire), speech is not protected if it incites a reasonable person to a violent response. The "reasonable person" standard is used a lot in the law, and I would say a reasonable person does not respond to speech with violence in the first place. When I talk about the First Amendment in the context of civil rights, I was referring to the tide of ultra-sensitive political correctness that has taken over this country. A prime example, and another pet peeve of mine, is the Indian mascot debate. Pro sports teams, and especially universities and high schools, are under pressure to change nicknames such as Indians, Braves, Chiefs, and Redskins since they are offensive to Indians (who we now have to call "Native Americans"). A bill here in California would have banned the use of such names and mascots, but it didn't pass. Why should traditions that have been in place for sometimes over 100 years be destroyed based on something perceived as racist (okay, so "Redskins" might be offensive, I'll give them that one), but is in fact neutral, or even meant as a symbol of pride (i.e. "Braves")? There isn't even any room for discussing context or depiction. How is this as offensive as this? And it also leads down a slippery slope. Next people will be banging down Notre Dame's doors because they find the name Fightin' Irish, with their leprechaun logo, offensive. People of Scandinavian descent will complain about the gross misrepresentation of culture by schools who use Viking mascots because Vikings never wore horned helmets. People of Greek descent may complain about the use of Spartans and Trojans. Those in parts of South America may take offense at my old high school logo, the Gaucho. Where will it end?
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Post by RohaHat on Oct 13, 2007 13:56:22 GMT
D:
I have a high voice, but I can make myself sound VERY high pitched. (So high it's actually kind of hard to hear.) I also talk about twice the speed of normal comprehension. Or something. I don't think that made sense. >.<
One thing I hate is when I insult someone, they reply with something completely unrelated, claim they're better then throw my insult back at me.
For example, yesterday we had a fire drill (at least I could tell it was a fire drill, if it wasn't my english teacher wouldn't have been so concerned about our uniform before we left the "burning" building) and when we were lining up in the playground outside, two of the popular girls were stood in front of me. Now, recently, in some random other lesson near the begining of the week, everyone ahd been loud and stuff and the teacher was asking for quiet, and I sometimes get kind of annoyed when I'm quiet but everyone else isn't, so I do tend to yell shut up. This one time, I yelled it in a weird tone, more like "SHUDDUP." Everyone actually found it quite funny and they're now throwing the word/phrase around, and will often say "Roz, shuddup! HAHAHAHA" for no reason. They say it about as frequently as I type the xD face. Anyway, the two girls in front of me were at it again, and our conversation then went something like this (I have bad memory.):
Girls: "*random shuddup like comment*" Me: "That's really old, y'know" Girls: "Huh?" Me: "It's old, it just isn't funny anymore." Girls: "Shuddup, Roz!" (or something like that.) "*laugh*" Me: *sigh* "Simple things please simple minds..." Girls: "What?" Me: *look* "You heard me." Girls: *look at each other* "Oh yeah? What's your geography level?" Me: *thinking fast* "7." Girls: "8! Hah!" Me: "So?" (I only thought afterwards that I should've mentioned that it's irrelevant) Girls: "Yeah, you're just your simple things please simple minds. *cue laughter*" (or something, I forgot. >.<)
God dammit, how I hate them... I think my actual geography level is 6... ah well.
Another thing I hate is when my sister JUST COMES INTO MY ROOM TO ANNOY ME. She did that yesterday, her hands were wet, she waltzed in and planted them on my hair. I hit her and yelled at her. She hit me back. >.<
I also hate it when she hangs about in enemy territory, so to speak. We argue and fight with a lot of the girls/kids down my street and out and around, but often when I've yelled to her a gazillion times to come on, she'll hang back and hit them, thus aggravating her. I AM SURROUNDED BY IDIOTS. MYSELF ONLY SOMETIMES INCLUDED. They're more idiots than me. GAH.
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Post by GoldenFlither on Oct 13, 2007 18:57:05 GMT
*dies* I'm so sorry! I knew that; I promise. Sorry about that. Last post modified.
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Another pet peeve: texting.
I've got nothing against texting in general. It's when people use it at wrong times for wrong purposes. A friend of mine comes over and, instead of us sharing a nice conversation, she whips out her cell phone and starts texting to her boyfriend, or whoever else.
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Post by thesuki on Oct 13, 2007 19:00:49 GMT
The fact that you need to have a credit card for, like, 50 years to establish any kind of credit and be able to buy a house. ><
Not even thinking about getting a house until my score is over 750. That'll be about my age by then.
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