Golden parachutes-An executive runs a business into the ground and escapes just before they fold with millions of dollars.

I've been in retail service of some kind for a long time and although I've seen a lot of people who lie or stretch the truth here is one that is especially irritating.
This particular couple never bought groceries or paid for a meal. They would call or go from restaurant to restaurant, fast food and pizza mostly, and complain that what they got there last night was undercooked, tasted bad, or the wrong order. They would get coupons for free food. Although often you can't do anything even though you know they are liars I finally got conclusive proof that they were making it up. Once I did I called all the local restaurants and talked to the managers about how they worked their scam. They got no more free food from me and hopefully the rest followed suit. (BTW, the money they saved went to buy drugs.)

Parents who don't even try to control their kids in public. It almost seems that some parents feel that once they are out in public someone else should watch the kids. Don't get me wrong sometimes kids act up but as long as the parent(s) are trying to do something to solve the problem I'm fine with that.

Pro teams and owners who give athletes 4th and 5th chances. Hell even for a criminal it's 3 strikes and you're out.

So many more. What gets to you.

A couple off the top of my head:

People who believe their position on an issue/topic is correct who don't bother to research the other side (and often even their own side) and dismiss the other position with name calling or categorizing.

Walmart's lead time to get get "seasonal" items on the shelf. Try to buy a swimsuit in July when they are already putting winter coats on the rack... Just one of many reasons that I don't shop there.

Coupled with rav's comment: that the solution to nearly every child's behavioral problems is drugs rather than discipline.

I am certain there will be more to come...

Scratchy toilet paper.

Okay, down the road from my apartment is an abortion clinic at a busy intersection. Every morning there is an old lady standing out there on the corner holding a 2'x3' anti-abortion poster (she's got a rotation of about 7 or 8 posters). Most of the time she is holding this very graphic sign of a just aborted, bloodied infant sized baby, or sometimes she'll hold the poster with the almost recognizable but not quite developed aborted baby, again all bloodied, laying on a hospital tray. I don't have a problem with somebody standing up for what they believe in, and trying to force your beliefs on someone else.. I'm easy going and can let that slide, but when I have to start my morning drive off by looking at this shit I have a real problem with it.

I can't ignore them. She is on the corner where I make a right turn so I have to look to make sure I don't hit the curb, or her. Lately I've been blocking my sight of the sign with a middle finger while making the turn, but her signs really piss me off and I really want those graphic posters gone and for her to use the posters with just text.

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Originally posted by Glassman:
Scratchy toilet paper.

Yeah the kind that every workplace in America buys.

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Originally posted by Skip:
Coupled with rav's comment: that the solution to nearly every child's behavioral problems is drugs rather than discipline.

Giving a kid a pill takes 20 seconds. Giving them real discipline requires an adjustment in lifestyle and sacrifing of yourself as a parent.

Not suprising most "parents" would rather just stuff drugs down the kids throat. ADD may be a real disease but I guarantee you 90% of the people being treated for it really just need to have their butt tore up and to learn what the word "NO" means.

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Originally posted by TenTimes:
Most of the time she is holding this very graphic sign of a just aborted, bloodied infant sized baby,

Lately I've been blocking my sight of the sign with a middle finger while making the turn,

2 distinct forms of free speech. Got to love America!

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Originally posted by Crazy Carl:
Not suprising most "parents" would rather just stuff drugs down the kids throat. ADD may be a real disease but I guarantee you 90% of the people being treated for it really just need to have their butt tore up and to learn what the word "NO" means.

Similar to mine:

Obese people who think when they acquire a problem (like diabetes, HBP, ...) that they will just take a pill to solve it while doing nothing about the underlying cause (their obesity) AND thinking that they have a right to these pills and someone else ought to pay for them.

Watching a football game with my daughter (12) and having to endure the countless Viagra and Cialis commercials.


Good thread. I think I could come up with a lot.

Everybody and their brother requesting your SS# to use their services (telephone company, electric company, bank, etc). I even had to use it to have a part for my kitchen stove shipped in from Canada. That's insane. If any of you have the older style card, check out the phrase right on the front: Not for identification purposes. By law you are only required to use it for one thing: to collect Social Security benefits.

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Originally posted by BuckeyeArt:
Watching a football game with my daughter (12) and having to endure the countless Viagra and Cialis commercials.

With a number of little ones in my house, this one is also incredibly irritating.

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Originally posted by BuckeyeArt:
Watching a football game with my daughter (12) and having to endure the countless Viagra and Cialis commercials.

Another one of the many things that make me scratch my head. What does and doesn't get censored I will never understand.

Viagra, etc should only be able to advertise after 10 or 11 at night. I'd rather a 12yr old hear a curse word than watch those types of commercials.

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Originally posted by Crazy Carl:
I'd rather a 12yr old hear a curse word than watch those types of commercials.

That's sometimes not a problem during an OSU game.

Gian

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Originally posted by Sportz Genius:
Gian

Flattered.

hypocrites who say they hate know-it-alls, and then proceed to tell you how they know it all