What's your pet peeve in RL?

[Aksannyi]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

There's only so much a brown bag can cover.

[Raydeus]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

She is actually surprisingly good looking. But probably spent too much time with her brothers or some other tomboy stereotype like that.

If I ever dated a woman like her I'd feel like I was with a guy dressed as a woman instead (or I would treat her like another dude with no room for anything else.) So no, it wouldn't work for me AT ALL.

[Yygdrasil]

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She is actually surprisingly good looking.

Now I'm confused as to what exactly you're complaining about. First you say she looks like a pirate... and now this. Are you secretly into pirate chicks? I mean so far you're drawing youself into a corner.

[Yellow Mage]

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Basically, she makes Ray feel emasculated, and Ray just cannot have that in his girls.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Basically, she makes Ray feel emasculated, and Ray just cannot have that in his girls.

I'm not saying marry the girl... I'm saying rock the proverbial pirate ship with her and maybe ask her to open that jar of pickles in the fridge before she leaves.

[Raydeus]

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I never said she looked like a pirate, just that behaved like one.

And I'm just not the kind of guy who does it just because he has the chance.

Although it's odd how it would be seen as me feeling my manhood threatened by a manly woman. If anything it would be my straightness that could be threatened seeing I'd feel like I'm doing it with another guy.

[Aksannyi]

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maybe ask her to open that jar of pickles in the fridge before she leaves.

[Ketaru]

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When I was in college, one of the campus clubs would show recent movies on Fridays and Saturdays. But one night every semester, they had a porn night. One such feature they showed was simply called Pirates. Apparently there's a niche out there for even that.

[Yygdrasil]

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When I was in college, one of the campus clubs would show recent movies on Fridays and Saturdays. But one night every semester, they had a porn night. One such feature they showed was simply called Pirates. Apparently there's a niche out there for even that.

"ARG!!!! GET TO THE POOP DECK!!!"
"THEY BE STEALIN MY BOOTY!!!"
"HOIST THE MAST!!!"

...and all that?

[Yellow Mage]

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I think I've heard of that one actually. Was it the Pirates of the Caribbean rip-off where the ship is burning down around some people that are tied to a mast and the person coming to rescue them decides to have sex with one of them before untying them?

[Raydeus]

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So they were showing

the classics?

[KingOfZeal]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

This also goes for "S Something St" vs. "Something St S" (and as these things are supposed to match 100% correctly, I don't know who the hell is putting them in the system wrong in the first place) and either total omission of the 4-digit zip code extension or it being completely wrong.

One thing I noticed moving from Wisconsin and Tennessee is that both of these could be 100% correct. I know I grew up on S. Carpenter St. here in Wisconsin, but lived off Broadway St. E when I lived in Memphis. I think it depends more on the region than anything, though I agree that having the direction after the street name doesn't sound as right.

[Aksannyi]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

I know it's correct either way depending on where you live, the problem is, if it's written one way on a document, it has to be that way in the system. I don't care which it is, as long as the two fucking things match exactly. When they don't, I am not happy about it.

The "AV" thing pisses me off because it's just blatantly wrong and clearly laziness on someone's part. So that one is definitely more of a peeve, but the past few days, it seems people have put shit in the system wrong just to spite me or something.

[Armando]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

When I was in college, one of the campus clubs would show recent movies on Fridays and Saturdays. But one night every semester, they had a porn night. One such feature they showed was simply called Pirates. Apparently there's a niche out there for even that

Nothing beats the Ring parody I saw in the "Alternative" section of a nearby video club. "Before you turn gay, you see The Hole."

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Why can't I get cute pretty girls hitting on me?

Its not all its cracked up to be, trust me.

A pretty girl coming to you is like shopping in a dollar store - the stuff is a dollar for a reason; she's single and seeking you out for a reason. The soda and candy might be fine; the start of the relationship and the sex might be great - but everything else is deeply flawed and she's hoping you'll be the one that's the great catch because she's not.

She's just pretty.

And the dollar store girl won't accept your retail-priced life for long. She's the one looking for a bargain and hoping you feel lucky to have found her. Once the defects of her dollar price-tag start shining through, she's going to expect more out of you than is realistic. And then her little neuroses come out to play, how every guy ever has treated her bad, how she was hoping you'd be her knight.

In fact, she might start you out on stuff like that early on. If so, BEWARE

Here's some supplemental material for that situation, please listen to Ben Folds and Captain Kirk. I only repost this song for the benefit of others

At this point, I'd take my chances on the cute, tomboyish girl, because she's single under completely different circumstances. Other guys are intimidated because she's a bit more assertive and works out a little bit more than you. So what? I wouldn't mind a girl that had some thoughts and initiative of her own for a change.

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That aside, I just can't do the whole retail greeting each time someone opens the fucking door and walks in. It doesn't make anyone feel special when you do it and the longer I have to work, the more I need my voice. I'll say hello when they look like they need help.

Its not like I ignore my customers, but when you just gave me a bunch of 360 games to sort and shelve, I can't wish everyone a happy holiday. And when I do ask if they need help, I ask in a way that they can't just blow me off with "just lookin'."

I mean, if I ask "Is there a particular Wii game you're looking for when they're leaning over to look, they can't exactly lie with the "just looking" thing. Plus people just want to get the in and the hell out right now, no need to bullshit the employees.