Lol I don't mind it. I don't really mind any of the courses, except maybe the course with the Cataquacks. Those things ALWAYS go for me!!

As for quitting the game early, I would have, too. Cheaters are so ridiculous... I mean, it just proves that they CAN'T win any other way. It shows everyone else how much they suck at the game.

On the other hand, I hate playing online on the DS against one other person, only to be winning fair and square, and the other person drops out because they don't want a loss on their record. It stops your game short, you don't get the win, and it's just poor sportsmanship. I hate sore losers.

And in that same vein, I hate playing Brawl against one of my friends. He openly owns up to the fact that if there is an extremely cheap move that a character has, he will practice with it for days and then use it to the fullest extent to irritate the other person and win. He doesn't care how fun or competitive the game is, just that he beats you, and he always does it with one move over and over again. It's not even fun playing against him.

Oh, and if you give him a taste of his own medicine and do the same thing to HIM, he gets really mad. ::) Go figure.

Yeah, cheapness stinks unless you can return it in spades :blooevil:. I'm guessing your friend uses Ike or Pit a lot? I guarantee you there's always a counter move or strategy around the most common cheap tactics. And if this person goes into the same pattern EVERY time, eventually you'll see where and when you can strike without leaving yourself open for too long. I always get a kick out of defeating other players who use the most popular fighters and tactics with a character that is labeled 'low tier.'

What bothers me in Brawl (and Melee before it) is that many players I would play with refuse to have items turned on(except final smashes in Brawl) and prefer Final Destination only for the most part. And I rarely see much variation in players' choices for fighters: Star Fox Characters and Fire Emblem characters are the most common picks from both Melee and Brawl (particularly the former).

:(Eh.

This new bus driver on my route who is so incredibly anal. Because in his mind if you're standing near the bus stop shelter and are not standing "directly" in front of the bus stop sign a few scant yards away, therefore you are in fact not waiting for a bus and thus he should be on his merry way.

Oh and when you do manage to flag him down and get on the bus, this guy will have the nerve to lecture you about your improper bus waiting habits. (And for someone like me who had been on their feet for eight hours a lecture is the last they want to deal with on the drive home.)

And no I am not being picky, every other driver on the route will stop if there are people in the general vicinity of the bus stop or shelter. Even if said people do not want to take particular bus and are waiting for a bus on a different route. (And believe me I have taken this route for a year and a half and that's the way it's always been.)

Because that is what you're supposed to do at an occupied bus stop...stop. (And if no one wants to take the bus, just wait ten seconds and then go!) The only time a driver should drive on by is when there are no people at the stop, end of discussion.

Well glad to get this off my chest, I know doesn't seem like much in the grand scheme of things but when you're tired even the little annoyances can seem like titanic ones.

And besides there isn't anything I can really do about it anyways, I could call the city and complain but really this doesn't seem like the kind of thing they would listen to. Besides I know this transit route well, this guy will more then likely be gone in a couple of months anyways.

You have my sympathy. I remember one incident years back when the driver pulled away from the bus stop while some guy was racing to catch up. We came to a traffic light maybe 50 yards further up the road and the guy caught up but the driver wouldn't let him board because the traffic light was not a bus stop. Give me a break; the driver saw him running when he pulled away from the stop to begin with. Couldn't he have waited another 10 seconds? Apparently not, and apparently he lacked the decency to open the door and let the man board, too. It's this lack of courtesy and common decency that ticks me off no end. There's no reason for it, none at all, and it's sad. :frankiemad:

When my TiVo goes to the wrong channel when I've programmed it to record something. Worse is when it goes to a channel and records something...um, completely unlike what I wanted.

Case in point: it was supposed to get Oldboy, an Asian film made famous by it's violent imagery. What I got was That's So Raven.

I would never trust TiVo or any similar service. I much prefer a DVR unit that doesn't rely on an outside signal for start, stop, and channel info.

Oh that also reminds of another jerky bus driver moment. Where one time I was on a bus where the driver stopped at a stop with a group of people, down the road was a mother and her young son running towards the bus, and the driver hurried on the other passengers and pulled away just as the Mother and Son got to the bus stop.

Thankfully in my neck of the woods these instances are more of the exception rather then the rule, and that I can proudly say that 99 percent of all the public transit personal I deal with on a daily bases, are totally awesome and are a credit to their profession.

It's the exception rather then the rule here as well. Unfortunately it's the exceptions that tend to stand out. Happily, once in awhile you meet an exception from the opposite end of the spectrum. There was one driver I recall who was a perfect example of this - courteous, friendly, helpful to anyone who needed a hand with their bags, and knew the area like the back of his hand. If you needed to know how to get from the next stop to X street or a particular address, or anything about connecting with the next bus on a different route, all you had to do was ask and you'd get concise, easy to remember information. A true gentleman, this guy. I wish I'd had the wit to get his name; he surely deserved a commendation or two for his efforts. Heck of an example for a lot of us to look up to. :frankiesmile:

Neighbors, who try to sneak on the farm for "free" animals. Like when me and my older sister found the door to the peacock pen wide open and all of them were loose. None were missing but, we're all sure that our neighbors tried to snatch a few. :frankiemad: :terrence: :edmad: >:(

I really hate fanfics that pretty hit you over the head with this piece-o'-crap message:

It's a good FLIPPIN' GREAT idea if you mindlessly pursure popularity at any price!

Seeing books about this message aimed at kids and teens make me a sad panda :macwor:

Yeah, I hear you. They're pretty lame, nothing but a form of wish fulfillment, just like most of the rest. "I can get everything I want by living vicariously through my really original OC or by using another character as my proxy!" Kind of sad when you think about it. Popularity is fun, true, but it's not worth sacrificing your dignity and being laughed at.

Srsly.

Sometimes it's so satisifying when the character/OC (Mary Sue or not) in question gets a karma sucker-punch to the face for being so shallow. I kind of like that plot-twist :slybendy: Or if the character succeeds in the conquest the the fanfic/story is epic fail and I usually have my own alternate ending - the character walks into the street without looking both ways gets hit by a bus (anyone who catches that reference gets a cookie) ;D.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy I believe?

Actually it was from the movie Mean Girls, but I get your point :)

Also, Mean Boy's friend Even Meaner Boy will not STFU >_>

These bloody markets! 500 points! I mean my houses are worth nothing, and is killing me financially; not to mention my retirement plans have gone slightly south. Look who suffers when the big guys (investors) get greedy! Yeah, I am a little put out right now!:frankiemad::terrence:

I don't blame you one bit. My investments have taken a beating this year too and these greedy lunatics are at least part of the problem. Do these people really need another million dollars when they already have 300 million? Why? Bragging rights, or something equally stupid? I understand the desire to acquire things and be comfortable and secure, and that requires money obviously, but beyond a certain point it's ridiculous. Does one really need to have a second Lear jet when the first one works fine and never gets used anyway? It's greed and stupidity, nothing more, and it hurts everybody. Not that the corporate bigwigs care. :frankiemad:

Would you believe me, if I told you that many people that call/email me about job opportunities are bogus? That's exactly what I've been getting, and today is no exception. This one dude kept calling me like 3-4 times. I usually do not respond to anyone with a phone number I'm familiar with, unless he/she leaves a message. This person did. He had a really thick Indian accent, and I couldn't really understand him. I did a search on the phone number, and I read something that immediately raised a red flag (saying that the 'recruiter' requires a SSN). Ugh. Then again, it was in an area I don't wish to relocate to, anyway.

Cancer.

It's just killed off Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright who composed classics like 'Paintbox' and rather appropriately 'Great Gig in the Sky'. Yeh cancer's already taken out too many people I loved and respected to mention and is still at it. They say every cancer may have its own viral trigger so maybe it's those viruses I really hate. I dunno. I suppose theres always got to be something to do that necessary work. I always think of the last scene of 'The Seventh Seal' if I get too morose about it all. Recommended b/w European Cinema!

Uber zealous forum mods and admins. (not anyone here.) THAT'S what ticks me off.

Yeah, I heard about Richard Wright. Sad - he was such a brilliant musician, and the world is certainly a poorer place for having been robbed of his talent.

Thanks for the clarification. ;) I take it that something irritating happened on another site?

Yuh. lol

Admin went ban happy. That's all I'll say. :P

my school and my father.

my school because everyone there feels like what im doing is very important, and must watch me. i dont like it when they do this. it just annoys me. then they laugh, i get mad, and everyone dies a little on the inside.

also my father. he yells at me for yelling at him because he insulted me. like ten times. along with the usual self centeredness and constant complaining because i wont do something for him that he easily could do for himself but wont.

I have two standing orders:

1. Don't ever take me for a fool.

2. Don't ever talk down to me - I don't care who you are (your rank or status)

When a little kid is crying and upset and his parents/other adults are laughing at him. You can hear the hurt and humiliation in the kid's voice when that happens. People who do that to their kids need counseling. My parents mocked and teased me all the time when I was a kid. That's why I threw tantrums; I wasn't a "bad" kid, I was hurt inside all the time. That's the worst feeling in the world when you're a kid, when your parents cruelly taunt you. I preferred being hit.

Oh, I HATE that. I was fortunate enough to have a very loving mother. Unfortunately, my dad never followed her influence. :frankiemad:

Mine didn't. Unfortunately, when I was a child, my parents hardly laughed at all, or even smiled very often that I can recall. I don't know why, really.

The only worse thing is parents that "act nice" in front of people they hate, and, go back home seething and whining about said people. That's what I have to live with. Not the worst, but, not CLOSE to being the best.

Oh my word, I'm reminded of something that irritated the living daylights out of me when I was growing up. My mother would be so good at getting really, really, really mad at my brother and I for some reason or other, yell and use offensive sarcasm and slam objects onto the table or slam cupboard doors and such. Then she'd turn to someone not involved in the situation and she'd be so sweet and nice to them. You could just tell she really wasn't as mad as she was pretending, she just wanted to scare us (or hurt our feelings). I remember one such time when I was a young teenager, maybe 13, and she was yelling at me and giving me a very raw piece of her mind. And then the phone rang...

"I am so disappointed in you, young lady!! You think you can just go about and think you can get away with it?? Well I've got news for you, you are to be grounded for the next month, no TV, no diary, no radio, you are to go to your room right this instant! Just wait 'till your father gets home! You're no where near hearing the end of this...!! "

*ring* *ring* *ring*

"I just can't believe.......!! ...Hello? =)"

Politics

I hate talking about them, I hate hearing about them, I hate discussing them with ANYONE. Politics bore the snot out of me even in movies. I understand how stupid that probably sounds considering our whole society and rules and everything is run by politics but I honestly just can't find reason to care.

I hate talking to anyone about it because they get so pissy about it and get too over agitated if you say the wrong thing about the wrong party, candidate or whatever. Hell, I like Obama but that's merely a personal feeling/image concept rather then his views and statements and what not.

I don't know much about it and frankly I don't want to know much about it, I just think all of this stuff are nothing more than ingredients for a good headache. Its boring, annoying and down right too consuming of people's time and personality. I feel people let it control them too much to the point of social insanity.

Why can't I sleep... if I don't fall asleep right this instant, I would be awake for another 17 hours because I need to drive my friends to the club!

< Log out and get to bed?
> That's a good idea..

It might come as a surprise, but you might be practicing politics...and not know it. A simple definition of politics is "who gets what, when and where." Politics does not have to take place on capital hill, or in a corporate boardroom. If there is a small group of friends, you can be sure there is a simple form of politics being practiced - regardless of a simple item to be had, or an issue on the agenda. Relationships with a significant other takes politicking to make it work. Okay, I am off my soapbox. Thanks for listening.:D

Which is a nice segway into my hatred for long winded lectures as a thing that ticks me off!8D

Thanks for putting that so much more politely than I could, Duck! Politics in the form of power-struggle or decisions about resources is all around us and we participate in it all the time. In particular I find the business of millions of people being represented in these entities known as nations and how they interact with each other and affect all our lives so grippingly fascinating i actually went to university to study it. So I kind of responded to Mr M's comments like a chef might if you said to him or her: 'I hate food. It's just a load of stuff you put in your mouth'.

its not so much of something that "ticks me off" but something i rather dont understand, is how people (my dad) can get to the point of almost yelling over something like putting cheese on a hamburger. its not like the people at fast food places are superhuman and can do no wrong. maybe im just more willing to accecpt something that happened than complain about it.

I got a package from eBay today. It is currently locked in my building's maintainence closet. I can't get to it until at least Monday. The mail system in this building sucks. :frankiemad:

:scribble: Youtube.

A1. When someone posts a Youtube video claiming to show a popular clip and then about around 10 seconds into the video, the video then suddenly shows something completely unrelated and obnoxious just for the sake of increasing the number of views.
A2. Misleading thumbnails or titles to increase views on the poster's channel.

B. User comments containing links to adult sites.

*coughrickrollcoughcough*

ive never had a problem with the A's, mainly because i can just look it up again after i get fooled. but B is annoying. actually, all comments are annoying, for the most part. its usually just a bunch of either:

A. flaming brigades

B. like you said, adult sites

C. people who just say "wow lol that was liek, ttly awsom." (yes i have done this, you can call me a hypocrite.)

D. arguments that only have the most basic of points to do with the video

E. just other stupidity


thats why i usually try not to read too many comments. can get me really ticked.

I just got a comment on one of my vids from a stranger saying something like "Cool video, check out mine!!" That is so freaking tacky.

Well, wasn't this special! I have both of my computers on right now. I'm watching the forum with my laptop and playing the Sims on my main system. Two minutes ago, the power flickered. The laptop ignores things like that; it switches instantly to the battery and nothing more happens. My main system rebooted. Fortunately I was only viewing the neighborhood at the time so I lost nothing other than the time it will take to restart the game, but it still fracks me off that I have to put up with a reboot and a restart for a dang power flicker that didn't last even one twentieth of a second. :frankiemad: