What Are Our Major, Minor Irritants?

[monkeyboy]

You know what sucks? When you have a sneeze and at the last minute is goes away. Pisses me off.

[HighPlainsDrifter]

You know what sucks? When you have a sneeze and at the last minute is goes away. Pisses me off.

Solution: if you feel the sneeze is about to go away, pinch the bridge of your nose, right about where cartilage meets bone. Usually gives a tickle that'll make you sneeze

[Major Danby]

You know what sucks? When you have a sneeze and at the last minute is goes away. Pisses me off.

Solution: if you feel the sneeze is about to go away, pinch the bridge of your nose, right about where cartilage meets bone. Usually gives a tickle that'll make you sneeze

looking at something bright usually works for me!

[alt.mobius]

...the bridge of your nose, right about where cartilage meets bone....

in medical terms this is called "the sneeze button"

[alt.mobius]

New major irratant: the word "chillax" anyone who uses this word, no matter what their age, is immediately labelded a douche in my book.

[Drebin]

New major irratant: the word "chillax" anyone who uses this word, no matter what their age, is immediately labelded a douche in my book.

Chilla.....No that's too lame, even for me.

[Gorrck]

Minor: people who slurp their coffee/tea/soup

Major: people who come into work sick and snort every few seconds in an attempt to clear the iceberg sized chunk of phlegm that is blocking their sinuses.

[Macho]

In a library or bookstore when someone talks FULL VOLUME on their cell phone. Talking at all on a phone in one of those 2 places is not too acceptable to me, but at 90 decibels is appalling. I was about to punch this one dude the other day, only he was about 300 lbs and I'm sure I would have been smashed into the small trash can at the end of the bookshelf had I done that.

[KnobTwister]

Snow plowing. Getting to be major.

Where I live, snow falls enough to warrant many of these huge salt spreader/plow trucks. It's good to be able to get where you need to go when we face the way-too-often heavy snows, but when those things go by my drive, they hurl a lot of heay snow:



They do damage. I pick my frickin mailbox out of the ditch just about every day now. It's better now that I've gotten the 'tear away' model - at least I just have to pick the damn thing up out of the snow. The last one we had was completely destroyed.

Also, when the snows finally end, the damage that the plows do to the roads is exposed. They create some big ass potholes and the repairs only result in bad bumpy roads. I love driving in the south because the roads are usually so smooth.

[El Santo]

I've got a friend that I've known forever in town that had problems with the plow taking out his mailbox.

His dad was one of those old-school...always working outside on anything kind of guy. The mailbox got taken out twice by the plows. The mailbox wasn't too close to the road...it was obviously just the plow not really watching out for it. So then he put's the plow on a metal pole. Next time it snows...it's still standing...but bent terribly. Had to remove it. So now my friend's dad is really flying off the handle about it. Now it's a grudge. So he goes to the hardware store and gets a bag or two of cement...one of those really wide cast-iron pipes for a furnace....and a post-hole digger.

You get the picture. This thing was IN THERE. Buried it as deep as he could. Filled the pipe AND the hole with cement.
The next time it snowed he got up really early. My friend said he just sat looking out the window. Then he hears the plow coming and he's watching intently. The plow gets all the way up to the mailbox and BANG. Nailed it. The plow's speed was cut almost to zero and it spun out. The old guy was ecstatic. The mailbox was still fucked...but he'd proved his point. After he re-set it...every time it snowed you could see that the plow left a WIDE AREA in front of it..unplowed.

[KnobTwister]

I've got a friend that I've known forever in town that had problems with the plow taking out his mailbox.

His dad was one of those old-school...always working outside on anything kind of guy. The mailbox got taken out twice by the plows. The mailbox wasn't too close to the road...it was obviously just the plow not really watching out for it.

Sounds like your friend's problem was with a careless driver.

But the thing is - the plow doesn't even have to hit the mailbox to take it out - and most often it doesn't. If you have one of the huge plows coming fast down a county road, with a wet(ish) snow - it's picking up hundreds of pounds snow every second. That heavy snow in all its concentration gets thrown to the side of the road - right into mailbox country. There's almost nothing you can do. It's going to take it out like a golfer takes a golf ball out of a sand trap - the club/plow wedge never even touches the ball/box. Sucks and there's not much I can do about it but hope for no more fucking snow.

[Rockstar Aimz]

This thread is turning into a major irritant.

[alt.mobius]

thought we already had a thread about snowplws...

[Tuxedo T-shirt]

Minor: When people who cross the street in front of you, especially jaywalkers fucking slow down to a crawl while they look at you stopped in the middle of the goddamn road while they cross. I don't understand why people walk slow in the first place - don't you motherfuckers have things to do?

Major: People at our condo place who don't clean up after their dogs. We have little stations all over the place with baggies and little trashcans so that you can clean up your dog shit, and yet, somehow, dogshit is fucking everywhere, including sometimes within 5-10 feet of the baggie receptacles. Assholes.

[Not_RMR]

count me as an asshole then. I refuse to pick up dogshit. I mean it's dog shit...they shit outside....it's where they shit. It helps the grass grow too right.