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22 September 2014
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HeyTrud said
Slow drivers!I drive daily in a city of close to 1 million people in it. City driving is NEVER fun, but nothing makes me angrier than people who drive UNDER the speed limit! They cause as many, if not more, accidents than people who speed do…I’m sure of it.
George Carlin: “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
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Mr. KiteI say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'.
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Offline georgiewood said
HeyTrud said
Slow drivers!I drive daily in a city of close to 1 million people in it. City driving is NEVER fun, but nothing makes me angrier than people who drive UNDER the speed limit! They cause as many, if not more, accidents than people who speed do…I’m sure of it.
George Carlin: “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
And everyone else is a bit crazy except for me and you, and I’m a little dubious about you 
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21 October 2014
Offline When you have two printers and none of them works, one doesn’t have ink and I don’t know what happens to the other. And it’s the same with everything, when others use it it works fine, but when I need it, it just *boom*. I only want to print my Beatles calendar, is that bad?
I better listen to “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over The Printers)” and “Cry for a Printer”.
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Offline Merch said
When you have two printers and none of them works, one doesn’t have ink and I don’t know what happens to the other. And it’s the same with everything, when others use it it works fine, but when I need it, it just *boom*. I only want to print my Beatles calendar, is that bad?I better listen to “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over The Printers)” and “Cry for a Printer”.
Or just the price of ink. I hate throwing a perfectly good printer away because 2 new ink cartridges cost three times more than a new printer. I have had mixed success with refilling them a bit more cheaply.
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Offline TV show episodes that have the plot of a main character possibly going to die yet you know fine well they are not. About as tense as an episode of ‘The History of Paint Brushes: 1878 to 1936’.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
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29 August 2013
Offline meanmistermustard said
TV show episodes that have the plot of a main character possibly going to die yet you know fine well they are not. About as tense as an episode of ‘The History of Paint Brushes: 1878 to 1936’.
I remember an old series
with James Garner in it that had the main character killed, I always thought that was amazing. Nichols I think it was back in the 70s.
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Offline Speaking of TV shows…
Having a season of a show end on a cliffhanger and then cancelling the show. Zag & I are really into Longmire. In the final episode of Season 3, the hero and the villain are only steps apart with guns pointed at each other. After the scene fades to black, a gun shot is heard. Then, the rectal cavities who head the A&E network decided to cancel the show despite it being loved by millions. Fortunately, thanks to those same millions angrily protesting, Netflix is picking up the show. They begin taping in March and Season 4 airs sometime this summer.
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Offline Printers. Mine can fall asleep so hard the network thinks its disconnected (its a Brother networked one), and the print subsystem tries to print from my fileserver which fails because the printer is still asleep. Sometimes the cable gets a bit loose at the hub, sometimes its just easier to cycle the power. Fortunately its a BW laser printer so replacement toner isn’t a big deal, and a new drum is good value. Colour printing is a rip off unless you’re a business who can afford a service contract for a big machine.
But my biggest pet peeve are those resealable bags for food products. There’s the stupid one with the tag that never adheres to the bag like it’s supposed to, and there’s the ziplock type ones which have a narrow edge that has to be cut and I inevitably either cut into the reseal edge or it’s so tight I can’t get the damn thing open with my fingers AARGH. 
I'm like Necko only I'm a bassist ukulele guitar synthesizer kazoo penguin and also everyone. Or is everyone me? Now I'm a confused bassist ukulele guitar synthesizer kazoo penguin everyone who is definitely not @Joe. This has been true for 2016 & 2017 
but I may have to get more specific in the future.
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29 August 2013
Offline Mobile phones. We just don’t get on:
- Everyone needs one nowadays so my family phone bill is now around triple what it was before we ‘needed’ them.
- Coverage and/or the battery always seem to fail at just the wrong moment.
- People expect you to be available all the time, at their convenience.
- Lots of people spend more time fiddling with their phones than communicating with the people around them, even when the people around them are the people they usually use the phone to communicate with.
And I know I probably said all that before, and yes, they can be great for emergencies – but not when you are stuck on the Stuart Highway in the back of beyond.
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1 November 2013
Offline Eating and sleeping. I wish those things were optional so that I don’t have to waste time eating and sleeping
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Offline Annadog40 said
Eating and sleeping. I wish those things were optional so that I don’t have to waste time eating and sleeping
I kind of like the eating part, I just don’t like cooking and cleaning up after which seem to take forever.
I have given up on sleeping lately, though becoming a zombie is not as attractive as current popular culture makes it out to be.
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The Beatles are English - They have influences from all over - but they are English
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I now have a mobile, its a cheap piece of plastic as i hate mobiles.
I like cooking, hate the cleaning up. Just got a George Foreman grill, which is fabulous, and a slow cooker which im looking forward to using. Sleeping i can give or take.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
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Offline chrisredditch said
Music Snobs
Agreed. I may have become one – I just called a clip in another thread awful, when I know that like anything there are people who will like it. I’m going to use the ‘lack of sleep / early in the day’ argument in my defence
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Offline trcanberra said
chrisredditch said
Music SnobsAgreed. I may have become one – I just called a clip in another thread awful, when I know that like anything there are people who will like it. I’m going to use the ‘lack of sleep / early in the day’ argument in my defence
Its fine calling music awful otherwise discussions would be bland. Opinions are good.
And just because some people find a song good doesnt mean it is, just that their hearing and taste in music is terrible. The rule is “if you (singular) like it its great and if you dont everyone else who does is totally wrong and needs to get their act together for liking such crap.”.
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Offline meanmistermustard said
The rule is “if you (singular) like it its great and if you dont everyone else who does is totally wrong and needs to get their act together for liking such crap.”.
Thanks for that, paulsbass…I mean, @meanmistermustard . Sorry, had a flashback.
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Offline meanmistermustard said
Sleeping i can give or take.
I’d give it at night, but would rather take it in the morning.
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Offline People who say they dislike The Beatles simply because everyone else likes them.
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trcanberraThe Beatles are English - They have influences from all over - but they are English
And also, people who say they like The Beatles simply because everyone else likes them.
