What's your pet peeve in RL?

[TheGrandMom]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

/em pries Feba's nose out of her ass crack!

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Today in a neighboring county something awesome happened. Up to six schools from elementary to high school got to do a live teleconference via satellite with our astronauts on the international space station. Until today, I had no envy of today's students - my generation kinda got the trauma with getting to watch the Challenger blow up - but to see how far we've come in space and in technology is something I find inspirational.

I wanted to go, but sadly, I don't even have a kid to use to scam my way in.

And our Commander-in-Grief, President Obama, announces today that he's nixing the Constellation program.

Set us back in technological progress and the space race?
Crush the inspiration some students just got today?
Wipe his ass on part of JFK's legacy?

Yes, he can.

We're talking about stuff that inspired us for generations. Stuff that influenced our technology, our pop culture (which also inspired some technological innovation, Star Trek is having a hard time keeping up with what we have now) and more.

Ugh. Everything this guy touches turns to shit.

[Yellow Mage]

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the space race

Didn't that end, like, four decades ago? Last time I checked there haven't been very many "giant leaps" since getting to the moon. The most we hear of recently either involves some advancement in engineering, the ISS, the Hubble (which is ten days away from having been launched two decades ago), or something unmanned (with good reason) entirely. Unless there has been something I have been missing for my past lifetime that would constitute a "space race," in which case, by all means, please enlighten me.



Not saying that I don't disapprove, in the name of all that is cool, of canceling that program, and, heck, of how underwhelming this presidency in general has been (even after factoring out the crap we should've seen coming), but your rather snide commentary on the matter makes you seem no better than the same kind of sensational journalist that you yourself despise.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Not saying that I don't disapprove, in the name of all that is cool, of canceling that program, and, heck, of how underwhelming this presidency in general has been (even after factoring out the crap we should've seen coming), but your rather snide commentary on the matter makes you seem no better than the same kind of sensational journalist that you yourself despise.

Its one thing to turn the other cheek, but its another to be a pushover. Peaceful protests are fine and there are lines to drawn in how things are said, but I don't believe for a second that means I have to play nice when I know the other side will not. I'll be voting, no doubt, first year I won't vote democrat at all. I learned my lesson.

Playing nice isn't how you deal with people that do not and will never listen. Obama seems to think playing nice works in foreign policy, but does the opposite domestically and blows off the allies we have.

Really, what's it going to take. Does the other shoe really have to drop? Can we afford a second term with this guy?

[Yellow Mage]

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but I don't believe for a second that means I have to play nice when I know the other side will not.

Because an eye for an eye makes everybody happy, especially if they started it!

[Feba]

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Can we afford a second term with this guy?

Who would you rather see in office?

[cidbahamut]

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Pet Peeve: Being a computer nerd and an office worker. Carpel tunnel is going to kill me one of these days. It's really flaring up today, goddamn.

I feel your pain.
Weeks of your arms screaming at you that no, you cannot afford to come home after a long day at work and spend time on the computer relaxing because your wrists will jump up and beat you to death with their nerve endings. Yeah, it's not fun at all, which is why I'm looking into getting a different ergonomic keyboard tonight, and possibly a trackball if I can find one that isn't a pile of ass or made by Kensington.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Who would you rather see in office?

We can worry about that after Pelosi and Reid are gone, but I certainly don't want Gingrich or Romney if they're going to pander as they clearly have recently. Definitely not Palin, just because she's the opposite of Obama doesn't change the fact she's just as big a moron as he is. Its cool she doesn't back down, but that's about it. Coburn isn't even in the running, he just needs to be voted out of congress if he's going to play nice so much.

I hear Herman Cain might go for it. He's the only one I like so far out of the potentials. He's definitely on my side of the issues and has a spine and a brain to boot.

[Solymir]

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I'll be voting, no doubt, first year I won't vote democrat at all. I learned my lesson.

You think anyone not Democrat has it together and won't use their position for someone else's agenda?

If you had said "I'm going to look closer at each candidates platform, and political history" I would have wholeheartedly agree with you. That is what you should always do. Why people vote for or against someone just because they beloing to a particular party is beyond my little mind's comprehension.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Peeve: Ordering a coffee from Dunkin Donuts (starbucks... fanagle a bagel... whereever the hell you buy your coffee) drive-thru, driving off and realizing once you hit the road that it tastes awful.

This always happens to me when I don't have enough time to turn around, go back to the window and throw the coffee back at them.

Note: Before you start flaming me for being a terrible person... I only did that once...it was an ICED coffee... and I knew the guy. Good times. *sigh*

[TheGrandMom]

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lol @ edit Back in the day we called it Drunken Dounts because it and Taco Hell were 'the' places to be at 2am.

[Mezlo]

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Who would you rather see in office?

Your turtle.

[Satori]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

My pet peeve in RL today is.

When the hairstylist gets "Scissor Happy" and leaves me almost bald with the exception of some sticking up fringe bit that makes me look like a cross between a My little pony and Tin Tin.

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

My pet peeve in RL today is.

When the hairstylist gets "Scissor Happy" and leaves me almost bald with the exception of some sticking up fringe bit that makes me look like a cross between a My little pony and Tin Tin.

This is why you go to a barber and not a stylist.

[Feba]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Your turtle.

In the modern world, President Mortimer would be too slow to act.