What's yours?

Mine is varying by the hour at the moment, between a fragile point in traceroute somewhere near LA that is lagging us beyond belief, and a chicken voter on MudMagic who's gotta vote from behind a proxy for fear we'll find out who's down-voting the game.

Your turn..

Elitism!

I don't like elitism. Sometimes people are elitist about their race, sex, gender, religion, class, or political persuasion.

Then there's elitism in gaming which is even more annoying. People find reasons to be elitist about RP, PvP, pay for perks, free to play, and goats! I really hate the people who are elitist about goats.

Elitists are extremely stressed out people.

So are goats, from what I hear!

Add to my list:  voice mail systems  (to hear more about this, press 1)

having to vote

What kind of voting? On TMS? For crooked politicians? For GOATS??

Dishonesty. People who feel a need to denegrate especially in a loud obnoxious manner.

*cheers you on and adds to her list*  Doctors, MRIs and doppler scans, and prescription insurance coverage with claim forms that can't be understood by the average human.

Next!?

Unreliable people. Dirty restaurants. Ben Affleck.

--matt

people
especially pretentious ones.

People like Ben Affleck! Sweet.

--matt

I'll go with people, expecially those that are idiots and can't do the job they claimed they could do...

Oh, and people that do nothing but think they are important...

God, I could rant on that one but I won't. Not to imply I would be ranting at you.

To add to the list.

When the NY Rangers lose.

It's like one big hive mind here today. I assume you're referring to your friend and mine, Ben Affleck?

--matt

Heh, well, there's certainly a reason I fired him.

--matt

Avoid Ross's ("Home of the Magic Mountain" which we suggested might have been a reference to our waitress) in the Quad Cities.  Horrible place.  The service was horrible.  The food wasn't very good.  The waitress delivered my friend's to the wrong table and when she was flagged back, she just picked it up and brought it to him (not knowing whether or not the other people had spit in it or anything, she should have brought him a new meal).  The waitress never returned to our table after delivering our "food".  She never informed us of their free-refills policy (we learned that as we were leaving, it's only posted at the cash register and on the soda fountain (but she delivers the drinks full the first time so there was no way for us to know that).  It had all the ambiance of a highway diner crossed with a garage.

If cold, poor-tasting food, horrible service, and average prices appeal to you, Ross's is your pig sty! If not, keep moving...FAST!

2-way Nextel thingies. Cell phones. People who insist on using either in public restaurants where other people are trying to enjoy their meals WITHOUT OTHER PEOPLE YELLING INTO SOME STUPID MACHINE!!!111oneoneone

People who impatiently rush to the counter to order lunch, during the lunch rush, then stand there staring at the menu on the wall while the line backs out the door. Y'know, that menu they could see easily the moment they walked into the building.

People who order their lunch, take a half hour to find that one penny in the bottom of their 50-pound pocketbook and INSIST "oh - oh I have the change, just a sec" while the line backs out the door, and won't let me just hand them the change for their $12.91 order. Nope, they just gotta have that dime, the other 18 people waiting behind them can damned well wait that half hour til they find the penny.

People who put their diapered children on the countertop while they order. Do they have ANY idea how disgusting that is? I don't care how clean your kid's butt is. Get it OFF the lunch counter.

People who either don't ever use turn signals, or use them and don't turn them off when they're done shifting lanes.

The next door neighbor's kid's friends, who get the odd notion that parking in their driveway with the car doors all open, and their subwoofer blasting a hole in the ozone at 3000 decibles is fun for the whole neighborhood. ESPECIALLY since they have lousy taste in music.

The fire department, who conveniently forgets at least once a week that we have an agreement with them that they'll turn OFF their sirens half a block before they turn the corner into my driveway, so they can get to the senior housing behind my property, to tell the old bat in apartment 4G that no, her fan is NOT an exhaust fan, and yes, every time she uses it when she's cooking marinara sauce, the fire alarm WILL go off.

People who make fun of the disabled. Further, people who make fun of them, and expect everyone else to think they're being clever.

Avocados, eggplants, and artichokes.

Man, I'm with you up to a point, but I love Chasing Amy.

I'm trying to think of another movie I liked him in and am coming up blank, though.

Hah! I have to admit, I do too. *shame*

--matt

Unattentive parents.

Fundamentalists.

Shaking a pill bottle and forgetting to check that the cap is on tight and half of them now floating in the sink.



Carrot Tops eyebrows.

Fakes and copycats.

Liars, cheats and theives.

George bush.

My girl friend and I were catching a Red Sox - Yankees game at Fenway Park a couple of years ago. She was just returning to her seat from grabbing a couple of beers, when a gaggle of people come bustling down the stairs. One guys stumbles and bumps into her. The guy asks her if shes okay, my girl friend says its fine, brushes the whole incident off as she's just eager to sit and watch the game.

The woman in the seat next to us is wide eyed and mouth open rambling, 'Oh my god! Do you know who that was!'. My girl friend says no and I didn't really see what happened because I was paying attention to the game. The woman starts shouting, 'That's Ben Affleck'. The guy smiled, I said 'Hey', my girl friend din't care because the Sox were up to bat by then (we're a mixed team couple), and the guy and his entourage went to their seats.

The woman next to us wouldn't stopped carrying on the entire game about seeing Ben Affleck. Which leads me to my next pet peeve, Boston Red Sox fans.

I have heard that he was the bomb in Phantoms, yo. Having not watched the film, I am unable to confirm or deny the accuracy of this staement, however.

mentioning number three was unneeded, as it was already covered by your first two peeves.

This is why movie success is reported in dollars grossed rather than tickets sold-- ticket sales have been dropping by ~5%/year lately, but the total gross has been relatively constant thanks to ticket prices rising faster than inflation.

The movie industry isn't necessarily in trouble (DVD sales pick up the slack), but they're going to encounter the same issues that the music industry has hit in recent years-- you can still make plenty of money, but not the way you used to.

On top of that, salary issues are hurting, much like they do in sports. Back in the day, actors and actresses earned a very comfortable living, but nothing like what today's $20-25+M/picture stars receive. It's tough to lower box office prices when you pay $60M in total salary before a single set is built.

That's a common misconception promoted, unfortunately, by people in the games industry who are out of touch with reality.

Games are not even close to the size of the movie industry. When people say the games industry is larger than the movie industry, what they're doing is comparing apples and oranges. They're comparing box office revenue for movies to box sales for games. Makes no sense.

A more accurate comparison would be comparing box office revenues to arcade revenues, or box game sales to box movie sales (ie DVDs). In both cases, the movie industry crushes the games industry.

If you add up the total size of the movie industry and the total size of the games industry, the movie industry is still multiple times the size of the games industry. The difference is that the games industry is growing a lot faster.

--matt

Hey now, watch it, we hunt in packs.

I am totally with you on that one, and I'll raise you.

I actually used to like both the Red Sox and the Patriots, but their fans seem to think they divinely deserve every championship as well as national affection. The sheer amount of movies, tv shows, and movie stars constantly pimping New England sports teams has reached epic proportions and needs to stop.

Oh, I forgot they also have the Bruins. Friggin New England fans are out of control. At least they have the stinky Celtics to drag them down a bit.

You must not follow hockey much, Bruins suck and got rid their good players at the trade deadline. Why should Texas and NY teams have all the glory, go Pats ;p

People who tailgate when you are driving over the speed limit. The only thing more annoying is when you pull into to the slow lane, they continue going at the exact same speed you were going.

Sports fans jealous of New England's divinely appointed right to every national championship and its well deserved universal affection.

kitchens full of themed stuff - at the risk of offending anyone and their collection of 35,257 ceramic piglets or crystal cows or porcelain roosters - c'mon.. enough is enough is enough

AMC Pacers

People who check for text messages in a darkened theatre. Do they not realize that is the same as turning on a flashlight??? Can't these a$$holes go 2 hours without checking in with their buds?? And don't get me started about the dickheads whose cellphones ring while they're in the theatre & THEY ANSWER IT!!! I'm all for cellphone blocking hardware in all theatres & restaurants!!!  People got along just fine before cell phones were invented, & if they had to make a call, they used the public phone away from earshot of everyone else.  I also think there should be a device in cars that will block cell transmissions when the ignition is on.  You want to make a call, fine, pull over & turn off the engine, & quit endangering the public!!!