Post what you consider to be, "stupid shit."

[HEyHEY]

"Votive" candles.

Can't we just call em' "mini-candles"

[LaraMN]

1. Toilet paper with lotion.

It makes your ass all greasy.:mad:

[BigMcLargehuge]

3. I second that!

[WCGreen]

10. Give me the Wipes any day.....

Now that is the poor man's bidet.....

[BigMcLargehuge]

2. Croissants

THEY'RE FRIGGIN CRESCENT ROLLS!!!

[HEyHEY]

5. THAT'S what a crescent roll is?

I hear it in American movies all the time, but didn't know what it was...we're like 1/3 french, so we use the french terms whenever applicable. You know, cause of trudeau.

[BigMcLargehuge]

8. We use it too... but because the rethugs weren't smart enough

to rename them "Freedom pastries" or something. And the dumbest fucks who wouldn't know French if it bit them in the ass and started to construct a 1/1000 scale replica of the Maginot Line along their ass crack still manage to pronounce them "KWASAN".

CRESCENT ROLLS GODDAMN IT! CRESCENT ROLLS!

[HEyHEY]

11. Well, which is it?

Crestent rolls? Or Crescent rolls?

[BigMcLargehuge]

12. CRESCENT ROLLS!!!!

[mcscajun]

38. Croissants aren't crescent rolls...

...They only thing they have in common in their shape...and the fact that Croissant is French for "crescent" -- that's IT.

Hell...they aren't even the same size.

Crescent rolls are that bastardization of the Croissant produced by Pillsbury and the silly doughboy that show up on dinner tables, especially at holidays.

Croissants are large, flaky, buttery, browned, airy delights that live to hold sweet butter and various jams. They can also provide a tasty base for more savory items.

Then there's a throughly VILE thing called a croissant, which AIN'T -- it's served at places like McDonald's and Burger King to hold eggs, plastic cheese and pork products -- it's closer to bread than even a Pillsbury Crescent Roll. They've got NO business calling THAT a croissant.

Open confession: This has been a mini-rant by a food purist.

PS: I know French. :)

[mcscajun]

39. See post # 38

:)

[GirlinContempt]

45. No, they're croissants.

They're a french food, with a french name.

[yellowdogintexas]

58. no actually: a croissant is layers and layers of wonderful

flaky pastry with butter rolled into each and every layer.

a cresent roll is just ordinary roll dough cut in a triangle and rolled up like a crescent.

Croissants are Heavenly if made correctly...all puffy and light and full of buttery taste.

Cresent rolls are just hot bread.

[Fox Mulder]

4. Solar-powered flashlight.

[swag]

6. Decaf

You're welcome!

[lpbk2713]

7. Reality TV

Hey, I got yer reality right here.

[HEyHEY]

13. AMEN!FUCK I HATE THAT SHIT

[LaraMN]

9. I have to do it.

[JVS]

14. Votive candles used to make sense until secular use of them developed

These are votive candles



This is a context in which the candle's use no longer belongs with the term votive.

[nytemare]

15. The "I'm lovin' it" McDonald's commercials.

Arggggggggh

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[RandomKoolzip]

16. ....

[GirlinContempt]

46. NO SEX THREADS!

:P

[Initech]

17. New-Age Crap

Especially the music! :puke:

[Robeson]

21. I'm not sure I dig your Karma....

...:P

[MisterP]

62. let's sail away...

[southlandshari]

18. The popcorn smiley

:hide:

[BlueIris]

22. ...but...but I love that thing.

I know, I know, I'm not dissing your opinion, it's just that this is actually the only smilie I enjoy.

[southlandshari]

23. You?

How could you?

You know that thing is nothing but trouble for mods. And I thought you had changed your mind about us, darlin'!

:pals:

[BlueIris]

26. Well, I haven't actually used one yet.

I guess if it makes trouble for you, I could continue to avoid it.

[Robeson]

24. I'm with you BlueIris. I say we form a coalition of pro-popcorn smilie...

...people. :popcorn:

[BlueIris]

27. Just to be clear, I personally wouldn't want to use it to excess.

Sorry if that bores anyone.

[Robeson]

28. But you have to admit, its really cute....

...:-)

[BlueIris]

Yeah.

My favorite use of it will always be at the top of LBN posts about Bush/G.O.P. initiatives or projects that are going down in flames. So cute, yet so efficient, like me.

[maveric]

19. Religion!

Faith is one thing but religion is "stupid shit"!

[njdemocrat106]

20. Bottled water

Why pay for something that you can get out of a faucet? I've never bought bottled water and I don't think I ever will.

[BlueIris]

25. I confess: the magnetic ribbons, even the "blue" ones, BUG me.

Tons.

[bliss_eternal]

29. Inquiring about a child's age, and being told in months

instead of years.

When the child is still an infant/baby, no problem.

When he is walking, talking, past the age of two and is fully capable of unbuttoning a shirt to be breast fed, time to give the age in years...

jmo...

[BlueIris]

30. The "news scroll" at the bottom screen of any news channel.

Dumbest. "Innovation." Ever.

[yewberry]

31. Oy

Storebought tomato sauce (WHY??)
"Reality" TV
Fashion magazines and trends
Text messaging
Leather goods


And sign me up for the "popcorn-smilie-hater" brigade.
Die, you little f***er, DIE!

[Robeson]

32. I've never got the Text messaging thing....

...just can't figure that one out. By the time people type it out on their phone, they could have called the person, and actually told them what they wanted to say...

[yewberry]

34. Hey, my friend!

How are you? :pals:

You seem to have caught my return to DU after a few days...do you forgive my forsaking the boards for some much-needed reflection time?

[Robeson]

35. I was glad to see your name again!....

...and no problem on the much needed break. I've been feeling the same way lately. Glad you're back! :hug:

[yewberry]

36. You're the best, Robeson.

I just came back on and wasn't feeling exactly super about it--but you've made me feel so welcome and glad to be here.


Thanks so much.

[gmoney]

33. Movie soundtracks...

...that include songs NOT used in the movie, and leave OFF songs that WERE in the movie.

Current case in point... got the soundtrack to "Me, Myself & Irene" out of my library hoping for the Junior Brown song "Highway Patrol" which plays almost in its entirety at full volume over the opening credits. But it's not on the soundtrack CD... I guess because they didn't want to disrupt their "concept" of a soundtrack with nothing but Steely Dan covers.

Somehow, the version in the movie sounds better than the ones on Junior's own CDs (another example of stupid shit -- when songs sound better in a movie or in a video than they actually do on the official release)...

[philosophie_en_rose]

37. "I found love in a Kmart Store" Commercial

Twangy hillbilly music with a ridiculous concept... especially since it implies that you're finding love in Kmart's craptacular products.

[LaraMN]

54. No shit! I had that as an earworm yesterday! EVIL!!!

:mad:

[jmowreader]

40. Febreze ScentStories

In the annals of stupid shit, that's one of the dumbest.

It is supposedly some sort of aromatherapy thing. You get a device that looks like an old portable CD player and a thing that looks like a Zip disk to put in it. In the Zip disk is a nonwoven disk impregnated with five odors.

When you stick the Zip disk in the machine, it heats up one odor, lets it permeate your room for a preset period, then advances to the next odor.

One disc we sell a shitload of is "Relaxing In The Hammock." Supposedly these are the odors you'll smell when you're relaxing in a hammock...obviously they don't live in Fayetteville, where on certain days the most prominent odor you'll smell while relaxing in a hammock is the molten chicken fat coming off the Carolina By-Products rendering plant.

I'm waiting for the "Walking the Dog" disc, the one with the aromas of hot asphalt and dog shit, to come out.

[arwalden]

41. Astrology. Peta.

[NNadir]

42. The Republican Party.

The anti-nuclear power crowd is another group I find to engage in stupid shit.

[BlueIris]

60. See, for me, it's the Libertarian Party.

And I've read its entire party platform, so...it's not like my opinion is completely worthless. Talk about a bunch of people who DON'T have an answer.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

43. hummers..suvs...

your dick will not look bigger in them nor will you grow one if you buy an suv...

please dont turn this into a flamewar...its what I consider stupid shit...

[Zero Division]

50. Even worse - Modded SUVs or Hummers

As if they weren't ugly and stupid enough to begin with.

[RC]

69. How about bright Yellow ones with those spinning hubcaps?

[mcscajun]

44. "Frosty Paws" Ice Cream for Dogs -- and all the knock-offs of that.

Totally stupid shit.

[skygazer]

47. Toilet paper with pretty designs on it

You're using it to wipe your ass! Why does it need to be pretty?!

[jane_pippin]

48. Renouncing someone because they do one thing you disagree with

Oh, and packaged "pre-toasted" toast. (I swear I'm not making that one up.)

[dajoki]

49. banks with one teller open...

and everyone else pretending to be busy.:mad:

[deadparrot]

51. The pResident. nt

[Pharlo]

52. Tachometers in vehicles with automatic transmissions.

[Orsino]

53. Commas in subject lines...

...that make it sound as though I'm being called names. :-)

[BuelahWitch]

55. Cell phones

Hate 'em, don't own one, don't want one.

[RetroLounge]

56. Love

RL

[Zhade]

57. Intelligent Design and those who insist ID is science.

And the rest is too long for a post.

:evilgrin:

[BlueIris]

65. Oh, yeah. Those people don't need less Kool-aide...

they need MORE of it.

[WCGreen]

59. People Singing Happy Birthday at Reastaurants......

[bliss_eternal]

61. Ring tones...

If I want to hear a song, I'll play one. Don't need my phone to play goofy little versions of popular music.

:shrug:

[Tsiyu]

63. "Continental breakfast"

cheap donuts and coffee

:donut:

[Rabrrrrrr]

64. Are you sure you want the list?

[AntiCoup2K4]

66. Let's see......stupid shit.....

Well, that one was obvious enough


Here's the stupidity killing the Democratic party......

[chknltl]

67. The little thread thingy in older bandaids...

....wtf is it there for, a mini tourniquet???? Don't even try to convince me that it is placed there to ease the opening of the band-aid package...And don't get me started on packaging...Too late, I just did it to myself: PACKAGING: "Adult Proofing" is more like it!
Ever try to open a newly bought Play Station 2 remote "package" without damaging the contents or one of your fingers??? How about those individual blister packs for pills, stabbing them with a sharp knife sometimes helps, won't get them open any easier but it DOES help in other ways. Cd's and DVDs Do they really need to be triple wrapped and taped and boxed and etc.? For whose protection is this?
I think that there is a packaging conspiracy going on between the oil people and the pharmaceutical people. Stay with me here: Most of the new packaging problems are due to plastic, isn't plastic made from oil(!?!)... remember that little insight next time you reach for a pair of scissors in order to open up a fresh pack of bacon! The pharmaceutical link? Guess who is there to calm down an overly agitated America, an America who no longer can get shit opened in a timely manor! See, this rant, it's been about bush all along!

[Arugula Latte]

68. Thomas Kinkade "art", Precious Moments, Franklin Mint crap

Basically any crap they advertise in "Parade" magazine