Kevin's Watch

Yikes. . . a whole weekend with people like that!

aliantha wrote:

DukkhaWaynhim wrote:I really dislike it when people finish every sentence using interrogative prosity.

Prosity is the tonality that can be imparted to what you are saying... so essentially, I hate it when people end everything like it's a question? Even when it's not? It's really annoying? Especially when done constantly?

dw

Oh lordy. Last year I worked at the partners' retreat with these women from the marketing office? And the two of them would communicate like that? Where every sentence they said to each other? Ended with that tonal uplift? I thought I was going to have to kill them? You know?

Were they speaking Japanese?

people assuming because i met them once in passing that i should remember them. and getting irked if i don't.

DukkhaWaynhim wrote:I really dislike it when people finish every sentence using interrogative prosity.

Prosity is the tonality that can be imparted to what you are saying... so essentially, I hate it when people end everything like it's a question? Even when it's not? It's really annoying? Especially when done constantly?

dw

I hate it when I think I know the spelling of a word, use it, then find out after the fact that I spelled it wrong. The word is spelled prosody. My wife is the linguist, not I.... though I've read Donaldson, and she can't get more than 25 pages into LFB? No justice in the world...

I don't have any Pet peeves..

Thats because I don't have any pets.
and if I don't have any pets, they don't pee on things..

Hey Look!! Halley's Comet!!

/runs

Emotional Leper wrote:

aliantha wrote:

DukkhaWaynhim wrote:I really dislike it when people finish every sentence using interrogative prosity.

Prosity is the tonality that can be imparted to what you are saying... so essentially, I hate it when people end everything like it's a question? Even when it's not? It's really annoying? Especially when done constantly?

dw

Oh lordy. Last year I worked at the partners' retreat with these women from the marketing office? And the two of them would communicate like that? Where every sentence they said to each other? Ended with that tonal uplift? I thought I was going to have to kill them? You know?

Were they speaking Japanese?

Unfortunately, no.

And dw, you're forgiven for the misspelling. But just this once.

pets allowed to roam the neighborhood using my front lawn as their bathroom.

and julie not allowing me to sic our dog on them.

Announcements over the PA at my dorm when I'm trying to take a nap.
Neighbors who think that 4am is a good time to walk around drunk and shouting.
Fizz-less soda.

the trains blowing their horns long time in the wee hours of night.

Dear Idiot in the red sports car:

You cannot suddenly jam your foot on the gas to back up without looking behind you, just because you've decided the light is taking too long to turn green.

You almost hit me, you stupid @#$%^&*(&*.


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Dear Idiot in the grey van:

Don't suddenly decide to move into my line without looking - you cut me off, you jerk!

the mass of humanity deciding turn signals are not to be used.

Humanity's general inability to merge correctly onto a highway.

traffic backed up because someone put a car on the road that needed to be scrapped.

Semi drivers not looking before changing lanes and almost crushing people and NOT CARING.

This applies to when i'm in Detroit...you rotten bastards who are doing 90 in front of me, talking on your cell phone, then cut across three lanes, nearly get me killed so you can get off the exit.

My all time favorite is the ginormous SUV driven by a tiny little bird of a woman who is simultaneously applying makeup, sipping $tarbucks, talking on a handsfree, and scolding her Eddie-Bauer carseated spawn over her shoulder, while drifting in and out of lanes... with an environmental license plate! I don't know whether to laugh, cry, or just nudge her into the concrete median wall with my car. Maybe all three...

dw

Wow. . . I think I saw her on the road this afternoon!

storm wrote:This applies to when i'm in Detroit...you rotten bastards who are doing 90 in front of me, talking on your cell phone, then cut across three lanes, nearly get me killed so you can get off the exit.

Was that you?!

I think the alcohol is working. . . I actually giggled when I read this.

Wyldewode wrote:I think the alcohol is working. . . I actually giggled when I read this.

I guess I should stop letting the blowup doll drive?