Pet Peeves

[YOhio]

Yep. Or when I am swiping my credit card at a store and it asks me to select debit vs. credit and then when I am done the checker asks again "debit or credit?".

Now you're just making stuff up.

[Tim]

Regarding #7, do you reach into the garbage can a lot?

People that close their open mic or lessons with "in the name of thy son" is probably my biggest pet peeve. In silent protest I never say amen.

I always say, somewhat loudly, too, "not MY son!"

Tim

[LA Ute]

Pet peeves:
#18 Especially when I delivered pizza, people who swear that their dog "wouldn't hurt a flea." I've been bitten more times than I can remember. The real peeve though is when people see my reaction around dogs and scoff, "are you scared of dogs?" My reaction is always the same, "no, I'm not afraid; I don't like or trust them, and if yours makes a move towards me, you will not like my reaction."

People who act like dog owners and dog lovers are beneath respect.

[SeattleUte]

People who quote and tell stories about their small children.

[SeattleUte]

Parents who make up allergies for their children.

[cougjunkie]

People who quote and tell stories about their small children.

My son needs to qualify to graduate from toddler to pre-school by age three or his high priced day care/pre-school with the multi-year waiting period and conviently situated in our building will ask him to leave. His lack of potty training is the lone obstacle. His third birthday is April 9. So my wife bought one of these potty train your kid in three days manuals from the web. The lady who wrote it has six kids and has had scores of foster kids she has potty trained and claims to have successfully assisted in potty training thousands of others all in three days. She has also been close to children of her many siblings and cousins and seen multiple mistakes and failures (they sound to me like Mormons). She is also available for consultations via e-mail. Apparently this is a cottage industry.

Speaks volumes.

[Tim]

#13 Those belonging to the emperor or that from a long way off look like flies

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#17 The present classification.

Nice Borges references. In case any of you haven't read The Analytical Language of John Wilkins, you're missing out. It's a mind-blow. http://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/...hnWilkins.html

[wuapinmon]

People who act like dog owners and dog lovers are beneath respect.

Well, I respect people's dogs. I don't hurt them unless they come at me. When dog owners respect others, they are sure to properly restrain them. Loving people is normal; anthropomorphizing a pet is becoming normal, but I don't understand it. I've had pets. They were dear to me, but, people have primacy.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that animals are property, not people. No matter how you dress it, what you teach it, how much it looks at you for those puppy-dog eyes, it's still an animal, and if I were starving I wouldn't think twice about making a stew from the parts I couldn't roast.

[Brian]

Speaks volumes.

oath breaker.

[wuapinmon]

Nice Borges references. In case any of you haven't read The Analytical Language of John Wilkins, you're missing out. It's a mind-blow. http://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/...hnWilkins.html

Good job, Tim. Almost anything by Borges, my master, will change your life.

I recommend:

"The Circular Ruins"
"The South"
"Three Versions of Judas"
"The Dead Man"
"The Immortal"
"Chess"
and
"Pierre Menard, author of the Quijote"

[Jeff Lebowski]

Now you're just making stuff up.

Pissy little doggie.

[Donuthole]

#8 When I answer my phone "Dr. Williams" and the person on the other end says, "Is this Mr. Williams?" Then I say, "No it's Dr. Williams" and they say, "Is this John M. Williams?" I answer, "Yes, that's me," then they start their spiel with, "Mr. Williams....."

I just told you twice that it's Dr. Williams. I went to school for 12 years and I earned that title and I plan to use it, in all my vanity, every day of my life. With that said, I don't make co-workers, staff, neighbors, or anyone else call me Dr. Williams.....I have my students call me "don Mac." Dr. Williams is for people I don't know or people who insist on using my last name when speaking to me.

I purposely call people like you "Mr." just because it presses your buttons. Truthfully, I get a bit giddy when people ask me to call them "Dr.", and look for the next opportunity to call them "Mr." or "Mrs.".

[il Padrino Ute]

I purposely call people like you "Mr." just because it presses your buttons. Truthfully, I get a bit giddy when people ask me to call them "Dr.", and look for the next opportunity to call them "Mr." or "Mrs.".

Call 'em Doc. That will often get the response you want.

[Donuthole]

Call 'em Doc. That will often get the response you want.

The day I insist on people calling me "counselor" is the day I'll start calling PhDs "Dr.". Though to be quite honest, i'll play the same games with an M.D. I just don't find them as insistent on being called "Dr."

[YOhio]

I purposely call people like you "Mr." just because it presses your buttons. Truthfully, I get a bit giddy when people ask me to call them "Dr.", and look for the next opportunity to call them "Mr." or "Mrs.".

Jehovah Witnesses always do this to missionaries. I always thought it was kind of funny.