| Author |
 Topic  |
|
Christina
Deerslayer
USA
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
May 27 2002
Status: offline
|
 Posted - March 31 2008 : 06:49:58 AM
|
| I am loving this thread. I can so identify with EVERYTHING people are saying! And Seamus, I have never heard a better description for those horrible Bluetooth headsets than the "big blue Cootie!" |
See this face? This is the face of a woman on the edge.
Whoopi Goldberg, "Jumping Jack Flash"
|
report to moderator  |
|
|
RedFraggle
Mohicanite
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
October 13 2006
Status: offline
|
Posted - March 31 2008 : 09:02:43 AM
|
quote:
Originally posted by Kaylynn44
Women that don't wash their hands after using the restroom. . .
I second that, and will extend the complaint to men too. My husband never washes his hands after going to the bathroom, which I find totally disgusting. (His argument, BTW, is that toilet paper creates a "barrier" that keeps your hands from getting dirty. Uh, no. And yuck.  ) I don't typically nag him, but this is one thing that I can't help laying into him for! 
And since we're talking about bathrooms: auto-flush toilets. Really, pushing down the flusher is much easier and more convenient than having to do the hokey-pokey in the bathroom stall just to get the toilet to flush. Auto-dispense paper towel machines are also annoying. They never want to work for me. My friends kid me that the dispenser must be able to sense that I have no soul, kind of like vampires and mirrors.  |
| report to moderator |
|
|
Christina
Deerslayer
USA
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
May 27 2002
Status: offline
|
Posted - March 31 2008 : 2:19:41 PM
|
| Hey Red, can we also add to the list the automatic faucets that have an electric eye that determines when you're positioned at the right place in front of the sink before it will dispense any water for you...and then gives you only about two seconds worth of water before shutting off again? |
See this face? This is the face of a woman on the edge.
Whoopi Goldberg, "Jumping Jack Flash"
|
| report to moderator |
|
|
Fitzhugh Williams
Mohicanland Statesman
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
July 17 2005
Status: offline
|
Posted - March 31 2008 : 2:23:54 PM
|
| You should really spend the weekend at a reenactment. Or better yet,four or more days. Port-a-johns only, no way to wash hands, no bath, drinking water from a spigot, probably connected to the lake, same clothes for the most part, sleeping in a tent with whatever else comes in there with you. But NO CELL PHONES!!! |
"Les deux pieds contre la muraille et la tete sous le robinet" |
| report to moderator |
|
|
Kaylynn44
Mohicanite
USA
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
July 13 2002
Status: offline
Donating Member |
Posted - March 31 2008 : 2:39:24 PM
|
I second that, and will extend the complaint to men too. My husband never washes his hands after going to the bathroom, which I find totally disgusting. (His argument, BTW, is that toilet paper creates a "barrier" that keeps your hands from getting dirty. Uh, no. And yuck.
Red,
Tell him that I said that he is wrong, wrong, wrong!!! I was going to mention about the guys too, but I didn't want any smart remark about how I know what the men do in the restroom, so I left it alone.
Port-a-johns only, no way to wash hands
Fitz,
That is what they make hand sanitizer for  And don't give me any baloney about not having hand sanitizer back then because they didn't have port-a-john's either. I actually think that you need to take your restroom breaks in the woods to make it more authentic, and when you are through, you need to go find a stream or pond or something to wash your hands.
Love,
Kay |
~ An Infinite Zephyr~
Some things never end
As long as goodness exists
Winds shall always soothe
www.cloudsbooks.com
|
| report to moderator |
|
|
Seamus
Guardian of Heaven's Gate
USA
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
May 19 2002
Status: offline
|
Posted - March 31 2008 : 3:00:28 PM
|
| You don't need to wash your hands if you don't pee on them! |
Life's journey is not to
arrive at the grave safely
in a well preserved body,
but rather to skid in sideways,
totally worn out, shouting
'...holy sh*t ...what a ride!'
~~Mavis Leyrer, Seattle
Seamus
~~Aim small, hit the b*****d right between the eyes!~~ |
| report to moderator |
|
|
Kaylynn44
Mohicanite
USA
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
July 13 2002
Status: offline
Donating Member |
Posted - March 31 2008 : 4:18:07 PM
|
You don't need to wash your hands if you don't pee on them!
Yes Seamus, but what about the fella that did pee on his hands and didn't wash them and now you have to touch that nasty door knob???
DO NOT try to argue with a woman because you WILL NOT win. 
One more pet peeve. I actually thought that this pet peeve was a thing of the past until I saw a couple of teenage boys today with pants on that are way too big for them and they were showing off their boxer shorts. I never understood this baggy jeans thing and I never will!!! 
Love,
Kay |
~ An Infinite Zephyr~
Some things never end
As long as goodness exists
Winds shall always soothe
www.cloudsbooks.com
|
| report to moderator |
|
|
Monadnock Guide
Council of Elders
USA
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
March 14 2005
Status: offline
|
Posted - March 31 2008 : 5:10:05 PM
|
| Washing your hands won't help, - you're still gonna need to touch that nasty doorknob anyway. At that point what's difference?? You're just "touching it" with clean hands, but not for much longer. ;) |
you can keep "The Change" |
| report to moderator |
|
|
Seamus
Guardian of Heaven's Gate
USA
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
May 19 2002
Status: offline
|
Posted - March 31 2008 : 5:48:42 PM
|
Kay--look for the wet spot on the knob before you grab it! Hahahaha!! If you see one, wait for someone to enter the restroom and start out. Without fail, they will hold the door for you. Just smile and say, "Thanks!"
Hey, I am with you bigtime on the baggy pants worn below the 'cheeks'....I am always tempted to walk up behind them and give 'em a yank. But (or is it "Butt..."??)I probably would lose my case before the Magistrate...! (How'd you know they were boxers?) |
Life's journey is not to
arrive at the grave safely
in a well preserved body,
but rather to skid in sideways,
totally worn out, shouting
'...holy sh*t ...what a ride!'
~~Mavis Leyrer, Seattle
Seamus
~~Aim small, hit the b*****d right between the eyes!~~ |
| report to moderator |
|
|
Hawkeye_Joe
Colonial Militia
USA
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
July 31 2003
Status: offline
|
Posted - March 31 2008 : 7:04:14 PM
|
| Hey, the cops love the baggy pants fad... it makes chasing down perps soooo much easier.... |
HAWK
"The scum of every nation gravitates to the frontier."
Benjamin Franklin 1750
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for
lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
Benjamin Franklin 1759
The existence of flamethrowers is proof that someone, somewhere, said to himself, "I want to set those people over there on fire, but I don't feel like walking over there to do it."
"Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented immigrant" is like calling a
drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist."
|
| report to moderator |
|
|
Kaylynn44
Mohicanite
USA
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
July 13 2002
Status: offline
Donating Member |
Posted - March 31 2008 : 7:11:19 PM
|
Hey, I am with you bigtime on the baggy pants worn below the 'cheeks'....I am always tempted to walk up behind them and give 'em a yank. But (or is it "Butt..."??)I probably would lose my case before the Magistrate...! (How'd you know they were boxers?)
Seamus,
You know the commercial where the women wonder if a guy is wearing boxers or briefs...... well, these kids didn't have to let anyone imagine, cause you could plainly see their underwear. At least one of them attempted to pull his pants up a time or two.
Washing your hands won't help, - you're still gonna need to touch that nasty doorknob anyway. At that point what's difference?? You're just "touching it" with clean hands, but not for much longer.
MG,
That is why I use a paper towel on a door knob, when I can. When I don't have one, I just bite the bullet and go ahead and touch the darn thing. I'm gonna start putting some Germ-X in my pocketbook so that I won't have to think about the ladies that don't wash their hands. I am beginning to think that the ladies wash their hands more than the men do though.
Love,
Kay |
~ An Infinite Zephyr~
Some things never end
As long as goodness exists
Winds shall always soothe
www.cloudsbooks.com
|
| report to moderator |
|
|
Monadnock Guide
Council of Elders
USA
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
March 14 2005
Status: offline
|
Posted - March 31 2008 : 7:56:13 PM
|
| Last week Kay I was at a super market and there was a young lady there just getting a cart, - before she touched the handle, she took out some kind of "wipe" and ran it over the handle. I'm here to tell ya' - she has "problem". ;) |
you can keep "The Change" |
| report to moderator |
|
|
Seamus
Guardian of Heaven's Gate
USA
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
May 19 2002
Status: offline
|
Posted - March 31 2008 : 8:15:24 PM
|
| Our grocery stores here have a stand of wipes and gel for the germophobes.....just inside the store doors. |
Life's journey is not to
arrive at the grave safely
in a well preserved body,
but rather to skid in sideways,
totally worn out, shouting
'...holy sh*t ...what a ride!'
~~Mavis Leyrer, Seattle
Seamus
~~Aim small, hit the b*****d right between the eyes!~~ |
| report to moderator |
|
|
Kaylynn44
Mohicanite
USA
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
July 13 2002
Status: offline
Donating Member |
Posted - March 31 2008 : 8:16:48 PM
|
Last week Kay I was at a super market and there was a young lady there just getting a cart, - before she touched the handle, she took out some kind of "wipe" and ran it over the handle. I'm here to tell ya' - she has "problem".
MG,
I'm not that bad yet, but I may have her problem one day.
Love,
Kay |
~ An Infinite Zephyr~
Some things never end
As long as goodness exists
Winds shall always soothe
www.cloudsbooks.com
|
| report to moderator |
|
|
Kaylynn44
Mohicanite
USA
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
July 13 2002
Status: offline
Donating Member |
Posted - March 31 2008 : 8:23:28 PM
|
Seamus,
Ours do too, but I have never used them. I guess that I have never thought about all of those germs on the grocery carts. Sheesh, I'm germophobic!!!  Go ahead, somebody say that one of their pet peeves are those crazy germophobes.
Love,
Kay |
~ An Infinite Zephyr~
Some things never end
As long as goodness exists
Winds shall always soothe
www.cloudsbooks.com
|
| report to moderator |
|
|
Seamus
Guardian of Heaven's Gate
USA
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
May 19 2002
Status: offline
|
Posted - March 31 2008 : 8:27:03 PM
|
| Naw...wouldn't do that, but I am sending you a carton of rubber gloves and a box of those little face masks the Chinese wear all over the place! |
Life's journey is not to
arrive at the grave safely
in a well preserved body,
but rather to skid in sideways,
totally worn out, shouting
'...holy sh*t ...what a ride!'
~~Mavis Leyrer, Seattle
Seamus
~~Aim small, hit the b*****d right between the eyes!~~ |
| report to moderator |
|
|
Kaylynn44
Mohicanite
USA
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
July 13 2002
Status: offline
Donating Member |
Posted - March 31 2008 : 8:31:56 PM
|
Thanks Seamus!!!
Love,
Kay |
~ An Infinite Zephyr~
Some things never end
As long as goodness exists
Winds shall always soothe
www.cloudsbooks.com
|
| report to moderator |
|
|
Monadnock Guide
Council of Elders
USA
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
March 14 2005
Status: offline
|
Posted - March 31 2008 : 8:42:32 PM
|
| OK, - 'nother problem solved, next? ;) |
you can keep "The Change" |
| report to moderator |
|
|
Fitzhugh Williams
Mohicanland Statesman
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
July 17 2005
Status: offline
|
Posted - March 31 2008 : 11:15:29 PM
|
I had a teacher once, in high school, who was germophobic. If you wanted to get out of class, you just laid a few potato chips on the floor, then waited until she was looking, and picked them up and ate them. She would send you to the nurse, who would send you back to class, and you just disappeared for the rest of the period.
And by the way, hand sanitizer leaves a bad taste on your steak when you rub in the seasoning, so it's best not to use it. |
"Les deux pieds contre la muraille et la tete sous le robinet" |
| report to moderator |
|
|
Obediah
Mohicanland Statesman
USA
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
August 16 2006
Status: offline
Donating Member |
Posted - March 31 2008 : 11:44:51 PM
|
quote:
Originally posted by Kaylynn44
One more pet peeve. I actually thought that this pet peeve was a thing of the past until I saw a couple of teenage boys today with pants on that are way too big for them and they were showing off their boxer shorts. I never understood this baggy jeans thing and I never will!!!
Love,
Kay
As I understand it, this "fad" started in prisons, where the biggest cons each have a "wife" who wear their pants low, so they can be pulled down easier and...well...you get the picture.  I wonder how many of these teenage dimwits would still go for that style if they knew the original reason for it? |
| report to moderator |
|
|
Irishgirl
Council of Elders
USA
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
February 14 2006
Status: offline
Donating Member |
Posted - April 01 2008 : 09:47:49 AM
|
quote:
Originally posted by RedFraggle
My husband never washes his hands after going to the bathroom, which I find totally disgusting.
Mine uses hand sanitizer when he "goes" which I find disgusting. That stuff is ok when you can't wash your hands but when at home and are right in front of the bathroom sink, then please use soap and water. I don't like hand sanitizer and just think the germs are still on the hands when you use it except they are "dead". He loves the stuff.
Agree with most of the other "peeves" especially folks talking on the cell phone whilst driving...IDIOTS
Oh, for the record....not a "germophobe" Feel for you Kay |
IG |
| report to moderator |
|
|
caitlin
Bumppos Tavern Patron
USA
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
May 17 2002
Status: offline
Donating Member |
Posted - April 01 2008 : 12:00:29 PM
|
quote:
Originally posted by Hawkeye_Joe
Hey, the cops love the baggy pants fad... it makes chasing down perps soooo much easier....
There was an email I got a while back about a "service" announcement for a school advocating school uniforms. They showed a kid in baggy pants and sweatshirt who proceeded to pull about 15 guns out left and right that were hidden in his baggy clothes. He even pulled a rifle out of the side of his pants. Very persuasive arguement.
Can't stand sideways baseball caps either... my nephews do it sometimes and I refuse them in the house unless they take them off. |
Jack McCall: "Should we shake hands or something, relieve the atmosphere. I mean how stupid do you think I am?"
Wild Bill Hickok: "I don't know, I just met you."
"A nation with no regard to it's past will have little future worth remembering."
A.Lincoln
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize that they were the big things"
|
| report to moderator |
|
|
Christina
Deerslayer
USA
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
May 27 2002
Status: offline
|
Posted - April 01 2008 : 12:04:43 PM
|
The baggy pants fad did start in prison, but not initially for the reason described above. It started with West Coast hip hop in the early '90s. The street talk was that when people went to jail, they were made to get rid of their shoelaces and belts as a matter of protocol (I guess because people can potentially hang themselves with those things). So a lot of guys who were in initial lockup had baggy pants and the prison uniforms were baggy as well. the trend carried out to the streets to gang bangers and others who were trying to, ridiculously, "keep it real." This is also why you sometimes saw people wearing sneakers without laces in them.
I used to cover pop music for years so read up on a lot of the trends. |
See this face? This is the face of a woman on the edge.
Whoopi Goldberg, "Jumping Jack Flash"
|
| report to moderator |
|
|
Obediah
Mohicanland Statesman
USA
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
August 16 2006
Status: offline
Donating Member |
Posted - April 01 2008 : 5:10:02 PM
|
quote:
Originally posted by caitlin
Can't stand sideways baseball caps either... my nephews do it sometimes and I refuse them in the house unless they take them off.
I've been told that this sideways cap stupidity has meanings also: if the bill points to 1 side, the wearer is selling drugs; if the bill points to the other side, the wearer is buying drugs. I just don't remember which side means which... Of course, I imagine some (aka a lot of) kids wear them like that because they thinks it looks cool. Every time I see a flat bill I'm always reminded of a commercial on TV a few short years ago in which Jeff Gordon is telling about winning a race & demands that the bill of his cap is curved (as it should be): "make sure your hat former does his job, otherwise you look like a dork!" |
| report to moderator |
|
|
Hawkeye_Joe
Colonial Militia
USA
Bumppo's Patron since [at least]:
July 31 2003
Status: offline
|
Posted - April 01 2008 : 5:31:12 PM
|
quote:
Originally posted by caitlin
quote:
Originally posted by Hawkeye_Joe
Hey, the cops love the baggy pants fad... it makes chasing down perps soooo much easier....
There was an email I got a while back about a "service" announcement for a school advocating school uniforms. They showed a kid in baggy pants and sweatshirt who proceeded to pull about 15 guns out left and right that were hidden in his baggy clothes. He even pulled a rifle out of the side of his pants. Very persuasive arguement.
Can't stand sideways baseball caps either... my nephews do it sometimes and I refuse them in the house unless they take them off.
Let him try to walk or run with guns in there, with no belt everything will just fall out the pants legs. I'll bet the kid with the 15 guns didn't do anything but stand there....trying to keep a Glock in yer tighty whities just don't work.... |
HAWK
"The scum of every nation gravitates to the frontier."
Benjamin Franklin 1750
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for
lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
Benjamin Franklin 1759
The existence of flamethrowers is proof that someone, somewhere, said to himself, "I want to set those people over there on fire, but I don't feel like walking over there to do it."
"Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented immigrant" is like calling a
drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist."
|
| report to moderator |
|
|
Topic |
|
![The Mohican Board! [Bumppo's Redux!]](images/wwwboard.gif "The Mohican Board! [Bumppo's Redux!]")
Pet Peeves
