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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 05:40 PM
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Two kinds of pretentious assholery I despise:
1. Shitwits who wear their bluetooth headsets in public when they aren't on the phone

2. Fuckbags who wear sunglasses inside when they aren't welding.

Fer fuck's sake.

Just sayin'.
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 05:42 PM
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1. let me take off my shades to respond...
oh, wait, i'm getting a call. good thing i had my bluetooth headset in already.
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 05:43 PM
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2. Izzat what those things in people's ears are?
Edited on Thu Jul-19-07 05:43 PM by trof
I figured it was some kinda cellphone.
Yeah, dumb and show-off.
Like "I'm so important I have to be instantly in touch with everybody I know. WooHoo...looka my new toy."
twits
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 05:52 PM
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3. How about walking down the aisle at a store and you see somebody...
standing all alone yelling at ...welll..nothing (that you can see)

I DON'T KNOW....WHAT DO YOU THINK? I LIKE THE RED ONES BUT MARSHA KIND'A LIKES
THE BLUE ONES AND YOU KNOW HOW SHE CAN BE WHEN SHE DOESN't GET HER WA...

AhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhGGGGGgH!!!!!

Some day I'm going to lose it and stand 1 foot from these pricks and
just start screaming until the nice Men in their white coats come and.....
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 05:54 PM
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4. My issue is those Nextel Phones that BEEP constantly...
Like, people can't be bothered to just talk on the phone like a normal person...No, it's gotta be all cool, like walkie talkies. :mad:
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libnnc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 09:13 PM
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18. *BEEP*
Hate it too.

I hate a lot of things lately.
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 09:19 PM
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19. Oh my fucking God, I hate those things.
:mad:
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smtpgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 12:31 AM
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28. That is so uncool, I hate Nextels
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 05:55 PM
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5. during allergy season
Too much light bothers my eyes, so I will sometimes wear sunglasses indoors. I don't know why people freak out about it so much, particularly people I work with who have seen me do it EVERY year in the fall.

Plus, I've heard there's this herb that dialates eyes of people who imbibe it. :hippie:
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lost-in-nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 05:58 PM
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6. I agree
but tell us how you really feel...
get it out there!!!

nice mini rant
short and to the point!!!


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hi:



lost
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 06:20 PM
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7. Drugstore cowboys who wear Stetsons indoors nt
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 06:33 PM
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8. I think just assholes in general are bad
I would agree with you on those, but I try to avoid pretty much all assholes really.
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 08:01 PM
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12. We're all assholes at one time or another to someone.
It's kind of hard to avoid everyone. It's impossible to avoid yourself.

This isn't an attack. I'm not accusing you of being an asshole. Just making an observation that none of us is always sweetness and light, and none of us is always reasonable.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 08:23 PM
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13. OK, that's true
But this is a light subject. Oh, and I am always sweetness and light too.

:P
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smtpgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 12:36 AM
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31. I can be an asshole and I know it, just depends on what it is
Edited on Fri Jul-20-07 12:38 AM by smtpgirl
So TRUE

Being a ENFP I welcome the criticisim.
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libodem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 06:40 PM
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9. I need my shades inside
the sun never sets on someone who's cool. :)
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 06:41 PM
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10. I have been known, on occasion, to wear sunglasses indoors...
when I have forgotten my regular glasses in the car. :)
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 07:58 PM
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11. But do you also despise:
1. Fuckbags who wear their bluetooth headsets in public when they aren't on the phone, and

2. Shitwits who wear sunglasses inside when they aren't welding.

Just wondering.


Great rant, BTW.

:rofl:
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 08:25 PM
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14. play poker much?
i guess it's the price you must pay to relieve the pretentious assholes of their $$$$

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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 09:07 PM
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15. subcategory on #1 is people who work in a call center where
they are on the damn phone all the time anyway..like we actually have time to talk on our own phone. jeez

I crack up watching those bozos mostly men I might add striding around the office looking so self important because they have the latest toy tacked to the side of their head.

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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 09:08 PM
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16. i hate people who are late every fucking time. is that pretentious?
i don't know but, i fucking hate it. :grr:
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 09:13 PM
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17. How about people who wear their sunglasses....
hanging from their shirts when it is raining and pitch dark outside??? Because their shades have a mirror finish and they can probably enjoy their own reflection under the fluorescent lights???

Not to mention the cacaphony of rings, dings, ringtones and beeps of various kinds in the office when one is supposed to be concentrating on work.

:evilfrown:
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TheFriendlyAnarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 10:43 PM
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25. I don't have anywhere to put them :(
They get crushed in my pocket.
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mykpart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 09:25 PM
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20. Are all assholes pretentious?
Or are all pretentious people assholes?

Inquiring minds want to know. :rofl:
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Fox Mulder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 09:38 PM
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21. I sometimes wear sunglasses inside because...
Edited on Thu Jul-19-07 09:39 PM by Fox Mulder
fluorescent lighting hurts my eyes.

I don't think I'm a pretentious asshole. :shrug:
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stuntcat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 10:36 PM
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23. I do it because
because one of my eyes is crazy and people seem nicer to me when they can't see it. When I talked to people like cashiers or whatever I noticed them glance at my eye and look away and it makes me feel weird and different.. which is totally not bad but I've learned how it makes people act, most are great but it works better to look dumb for wearing sunglasses than dumb for having a crossed eye.
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Writer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 10:24 PM
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22. I'm going to get all indignant now...
because I have been guilty of #2. I mean, how can you say this? I wear sunglasses indoors all the time and IIIII'M not a pretentious asshole.

It's all about me! It's all about MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

;)
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Evoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 10:42 PM
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24. How about people who put tensor bandages on EVERYTHING.
Maybe not "pretentious" per se, but c'mon. You don't need a freakin tensor bandage for every single activity you do. If you twist your ankle or wrist or knee, fine.

Oh...and people who take longer than 2 minutes ordering a coffee and bring specifications as if the coffee guy is making you a fucking car. Its coffee, for fuck sakes. Brew the beans and drink the fucking thing already.
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Throd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-19-07 11:04 PM
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26. Some of us need sunglasses indoors
after ingesting seven beers, four Vicodins, 3/4 of a joint and something I found in an old coat I haven't worn in 8 years.
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smtpgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 12:29 AM
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27. Fuckbag, I like it!!!
But sometimes, I put my shades on halfway through my office hall before leaving for my next Help Desk call.

I have a big rear entrance that is nothing but glass, yes it is somewhat mirrored, but you can see the sun still.

The rear entrance glass is about 50 ft. wide.

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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 12:32 AM
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29. Just two? You're slipping!
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smtpgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 12:34 AM
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30. The most ass foolery thing is
Edited on Fri Jul-20-07 12:35 AM by smtpgirl
When your niece's best friend picks up in a Hummer!!!

My sister & I ragged on her shit for a while after that!!
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