blueberryale77
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Rassafrassin' inconsiderate dolt who walked away from the copy machine rather than fish out the paper jam like no one is going to know who did it, meanwhile it was you're freaking credit card statement...
Was there anything embarassing on Mr. Rassafrassin's credit card statement?
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Office gossip... whispered just too loudly for the person across the hall to ignore but just too quietly for them to understand who you're talking about... that goes on for 3 or 4 hours a day on a regular basis.
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I think I rant way too much, but since this thread is here for curmudgeons like me here are a few more from this morning...
- People who beep their horns the very second a traffic light turns green even when it's obvious that the person in front of them is waiting for a pedestrian to cross the street
- People who bring a gaggle of children into Dunkin Donuts at 8:45 in the morning when the line of business people who are almost late to work is already out the door and proceed to let said children run wild, bump into people, knock over displays and scream repeatedly at eardrum piercing volumes. Specifically I mean the two ladies in Highland Park, NJ who were apparently walking all the 8 year olds in the neighborhood to tennis camp this morning and had 5 toddlers with them for good measure. Yeah, you guys! :002_stongue:
- Filling out time sheets so my employer can bill our clients 4.5 times what I actually get paid for my time
- People who beep their horns the very second a traffic light turns green even when it's obvious that the person in front of them is waiting for a pedestrian to cross the street
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- New Jersey's affordable housing bureaucracy
- The fact that I'm working as a planner in New Jersey and thus have to deal with said bureaucracy
- Apartment hunting in greater NY
- The collective horribleness of lunch options near my office
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I can't stand when people break into my office, or for that matter the office above mine, so that all of a sudden the building security guard feels the need to come harass us every two hours about whether we're keeping our doors locked.
I also can't stand how freaking expensive apartments are in every place remotely near No Funswick that doesn't suck and the fact that on top of the obscene prices of apartments in NYC, Hoboken, etc. it's almost impossible to find one without a broker fee.
Above all, I just can't stand New Jersey anymore. Somebody find me a job in Baltimore, please!!! :002_ssad:
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Co-workers who get cold and turn up the thermostat so that everyone in the office has to bake with them
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Derek friggin' Jeter. Okay?
Talk about a pre-emptive strike! You won't need to be ranting about him after he goes 0-for-12 with 3 errors in the upcoming series with the O's!
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Bgfield, somewhere inside your car there is a public transit rider just screaming to get out!
Now on the subject of these late West Coast games, they've been very convenient for me this week because I've been working until almost 10:00 the past two nights! (Therein lies my rant.) -
*grumble*
Damn suburbanites.
Planning geek rant alert:
Minimum off-street parking requirements!
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I walk to work. today just had to travel for work.
Ah, cool. I wasn't trying to pick on anyone specific, just make a general point. I also have to use my car for work at times so I definitely know how much that stinks.
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How about a short non-rant? I love walking to work. Well, ok, sometimes it's a little tiny bit annoying when it's pouring down rain or something, but I get a little extra exercise, run into lots of people I know on the street, and my CO2 footprint at the moment might actually be lower than Jay Gibbons' batting average! It amuses me how people seem to hate traffic more than anything in the world and yet they continue to subject themselves to it by choice. Sure our urban form makes it fairly difficult to avoid it altogether, but I'm working on that. In the meantime, those of you who get frustrated by driving, please at least consider walking, biking or giving transit a try for some of your trips. It's good for the soul as well as the environment. If it's impossible to get anywhere without a car from where you currently live and driving annoys you, take that into consideration next time you move.
(steps down from soapbox)
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Does anyone in this country go through the public school system without knowing at least one teacher who gets arrested for this? I'm sure some percentage of them are bogus charges, but a lot have to be actually doing it to. What gives? My high school had two teachers who got arrested after I graduated, one who molested boys and one for the girls.
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Oh, and I also hate that whenever the Mets play at a different time than the O's, they suck.
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Anyone who takes up more than 1 parking space irritates me to no end. If you're that worried about your car getting dinged, just park farther away.
On a different not, if I hear the phrase "Oh, snap" one more time, I'm going to oh-snap someone's head off.
Me too. This past year I had to share an office with a girl who said that all the time and constantly used "yer mom" as a retort to everything. I ended up quitting my student job a month before school ended in part because I couldn't stand being in the office anymore.
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Tiny little trophy wives who drive giant SUVs in which they can't reach the pedals or see out the windshield and park them in two or more parking spaces
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PS- I got on this thread because I hate when my cat knocks over glasses of water on my furniture. She does it all the time, on purpose, because she would rather steal my water than drink what's in her bowl... and I even give her Brita water because the tap water in New Jersey really does taste like garbage.
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No, sorry man. If I'm at Applebee's and I get an $8 burger and my wife gets $5 soup, I shouldn't have to pay for my friends' and his wife's $15 steaks.
Exactly. If it's close, you don't grumble over a couple dollars, but there are some people out there who always order expensive things and expect others to pick up the tab for it. For example, one of my professors, who happens to be a filthy rich urban designer/land developer with a multi-million dollar house, took a group of grad students on an overnight field trip. He led them all to a very expensive restaurant even though several of them protested that it was beyond their budget. The students who were against it ended up going in and ordering a salad or a soup and drinking water because they couldn't afford anything else. The professor proceeded to order an expensive meal plus an appetizer and about 6 mixed drinks (he's a bit of a drinker) and then declare that they were going to split the bill evenly. They rebelled somewhat, but each of them still ended up paying much more than their share... and much more than they could reasonably afford on a starving grad student's part-time salary.
SOrry, that was a long rant.:002_stongue:
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I hope none of you guys get aressted.You will end up locked up with Paris!
Please be careful,I worry.
That's why I <3 public transportation (well one reason)... and you'd have to be really drunk... like you'd have to have done ashot for every bad baseball move Sam perlozz's made in his LIFE...... before you would get arrested for disorderly or anything on New Jersey Transit.
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Best drunken activity ever... watching the Skankees play the Red Sux with fans of both, laughing at all and doing shots with both sides. Well at least that's the best there is until the O's are good enough to BEAT one of them.:002_scry:
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Sorry to invade the thread for people who have time to have fun, but I just need to say that I hate grad school and I miss being drunk!!!
I'll join you guys for real in about 3 weeks.
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As a former Physics TA, most of the time the anal-retentive grading was required. We were handed a solution and given very exact directions as to how we could give points to the students. So, there was little we were allowed to do to show mercy.
I wish I had been a TA at your school. I once had to fight for my right to give lower than a B to a graduate student on a midterm essay that my mom, who teaches freshman composition at another school, said would have failed in her class. It wasn't an English class, but this paper was ridiculous. Apparently there are "unwritten rules" in some graduate programs.
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Things I want to rant about but don't have time because I have too much homework...
Excel
AutoCAD
Sketchup
ArcView GIS
Powerpoint
MS Word
Excel
SPSS
InDesign
PhotoShop
Excel (my very least favorite of all software in the world)
and any other computer applications I will have to use in the future...
Oh, and a special shoutout to Windows Vista, which doesn't work with several of these programs but its extremely difficult to buy a computer without it!
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Since I live in New Jersey, I watched the three games against the Yankees last weekend on the YES! Network (which only exists in the NYC metro area... NOT a reasonable place to own a Hummer... as if there is a reasonable place). They had this commercial where there's a guy in line at the grocery store buying a bunch of vegetables and organic tofu and the tofu won't scan on the cash register and there's a bigger, buffer guy in line behind him buying nothing but a ton of meat who gives him a dirty look. The tofu guy then storms out of the store with his cart full of vegetables, jumps in his car and drives straight to the Hummer dealer to buy himself a hideous gas guzzler. The voice over says "restore the balance." Unbelievable! I can't even come up with any commentary that would do that justice.
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J.J. Putz and Chien-Ming Wang, among others, would like to know if it's ok for them to post on the Orioles Hangout even though they're enemies.