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Hell is bad neighbors...

2008-07-19T18:53:19Z

Neighbors who stand in their yards till all hours of the day and night screaming at a ton of kids.Cars pulling up honking at all hours of the day and night.Throwing their trash all over the neighborhood..And all their trashy friends on cell phones screaming their heads off..It sickens me to have to see this everyday..And for those who get pitbulls because your favorite rapper showed one in his video,you people look stupid....Just venting....

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Masturblogging

2008-07-19T18:11:19Z

Yes, tell us everything, how bored you are at work, what you had for lunch today, how your co-worker in the adjacent cubicle makes a smacking sound when he eats, all about what's in the glove compartment of your car, how you have to go grocery shopping this weekend (but you really don't want to) ... Tell us ALL about that weird dream that you had last night even though you can only remember a little bit of it, yes, tell us EVERYTHING ... here, the zenith of telecommunication technology, satellites and transcontinental fiber optic networks and the whole deal, and what for? So we can hack and slash through the tedious minutiae that make up the lives of borderline autistic, self-absorbed and self-satisfied narcissists with too much time on their hands.

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Do not read the following...

2008-07-17T07:06:25Z

http://realpoetry.tribe.net/thread/d3096db1-8d8e-4004-99e4-50e2991a22b7

Hot pokers are available in the lobby...

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Are you in the Top Ten?

2008-07-17T06:57:54Z

http://www.holytaco.com/2008/05/14/10-items-you-think-make-you-cool-but-dont/

Confess!

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Helping your fellow man

2008-07-09T00:41:15Z

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/01/hospital.death.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

NEW YORK (AP) -- City hospital officials said they were shocked by surveillance footage showing a woman falling from her chair, writhing on the floor and dying as workers failed to help for more than an hour.

Surveillance video shows a woman lying on the hospital floor for almost an hour before anyone helped her.

Esmin Green, 49, had been waiting in the emergency room for nearly 24 hours when she toppled from her seat at 5:32 a.m. June 19, falling face-down on the floor.
She was dead by 6:35, when someone on the medical staff, flagged down by a person in the waiting room, finally approached, nudged Green with her foot and gently prodded her shoulder, as if to wake her.
The staffer left and returned with someone wearing a white lab coat who examined her and summoned help.
Until the staffer's appearance, Green's collapse barely caused a ripple. Other patients waiting a few feet away didn't react. Security guards and a member of the hospital's staff appeared to notice her prone body at least three times but made no visible attempt to see whether she needed help. Watch the surveillance video »
One guard didn't even leave his chair, rolling it around a corner to stare at the body and then rolling away a few moments later.
Green, who had been involuntarily committed the previous morning and had waited overnight for a bed, stopped moving about half an hour after she collapsed.
The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, which runs the hospital, said six people have been fired as a result of the incident, including security personnel and members of the medical staff.
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• WABC: Woman dies in hospital waiting room
Green's medical records raised the possibility that someone might have tried to cover up the circumstances of the death.
They contained notations indicating that she was up and about during the time in which the video shows her dying on the floor.
"We are all shocked and distressed by this situation," HHC's president, Alan Aviles, said in a statement. "We express our deep regrets to the patient's family and will ensure a thorough investigation to answer any questions that remain."
Details of the death were disclosed by the hospital June 20, but the case largely remained unnoticed until the video became public.
The psychiatric unit at Kings County Hospital had been a subject of complaints by advocates for the mentally ill.
A state agency, the New York State Mental Hygiene Legal Service, filed a lawsuit a year ago, calling the psychiatric center "a chamber of filth, decay, indifference and danger."
Patients, the suit said, "are subjected to overcrowded and squalid conditions often accompanied by physical abuse and unnecessary and punitive injections of mind-altering drugs."
"From the moment a person steps through the doors," it added, "she is stripped of her freedom and dignity and literally forced to fight for the essentials of life."
The suit was especially critical of the hospital's emergency ward, saying it is so poorly staffed that patients are often marooned there for days while they wait to be evaluated.

Sometimes, the unit runs out of chairs, according to the lawsuit, forcing people to wait on foam mats or on the waiting room floor. The suit also claims that bathrooms are filthy and filled with flies, and that patients who complain too loudly are sometimes handcuffed, beaten or injected with psychotropic drugs.
The office of the city's medical examiner said it was still trying to determine why Green died. She had been brought to the hospital suffering from agitation and psychosis, city officials said.

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Hellavators

2008-05-08T15:45:30Z

Does anyone else hate being crammed into an elevator?
Polite hi, then you can't escape.
You glance up at the floors like you need to monitor the progress,
Or stare at the doors begging them to release you.
You can't stare at the people, though they are obviously the most interesting things in there.
And I mean, you might get to your floor, but then again - you might not.
You could be stuck pressed up against the wall of this torture cube for hours if the thing gets stuck
Breathing recycled air...

Elevators - where claustrophobia meets germophobia.

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oral hygiene

2008-05-02T20:46:31Z

Any theories on why some seemingly intelligent people obviously don't brush their f-ing teeth? Why, why, why?

I met a guy like this the other day at a really cool event, and I was just amazed at how he didn't notice (or didn't care) that he had all that nasty sh*t caked on his teeth. Hell is dirty people.

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Crosswalks

2008-05-02T17:37:34Z

Ok, this is actually an example of hell is *not* other people...unless it's the designers of this asinine crosswalk.

Anyway, there is a crosswalk across a busy 4-lane, 45 MPH highway on my way to work. There is no signal so pedestrians are at the mercy of 4 lanes of traffic to stop for them. This morning there was a guy waiting to cross and we all miraculouosly stopped for him. He (cautiously) ran across the crosswalk, waving his thanks to all of the motorists who were stopped.

I thought, "Now *that* guy knows how to get his ass across a crosswalk!"

He surely beats the heifer on her cell phone who sauntered across in front of me at a stop light the other day. She didn't have a walk signal and my light changed to green when she was about 1/4 way across. I waited until she got right in front of my car and then laid on my horn. he he he It was grand fun watching her jump out of her skin. :-)

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Holier than Thou

2008-04-30T13:53:47Z

Went to Eeyore's Birthday yesterday, an event clearly defined for the burner subculture. Wore a shirt and skirt that, when worn separately would not have stood out, but worn together made an outfit adequately befitting the event. The face painting helped too. Bumped into a couple from a hiking group I used to belong to, who looked my costume up and down and smirked, " Well, aren't YOU all Eeyored out".

The each wore khaki shorts and a t-shirt. They were the only people within my eyesight in streetclothes. They stood out because they WEREN'T in costume.

Hell is the clothes-minded

(pun intended)

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Shopping Carts

2008-04-22T19:03:01Z

I have the biggest pet peeve with people that refuse to walk an extra 25 feet to put a shopping cart into the cart drop off area. We could be at the end of the parking lot and we ALWAYS return the shopping carts either to the drop off area or back to the store. The walk really isn't that far.

Last night we went to grocery store and as we're about to pull into this spot, the asshole in the spot next to the spot we wanted just pushes his cart into that spot and gets in his car. It's obvious that we're waiting there for the spot as we have the front of my car in the spot wating for his stupid lazy wife to close her car door. The kicker was that there was a cart drop off two spaces away! My SO had to get out of the car and get the cart just so I could pull in.

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Victims! Oppressed! Abused!

2008-03-27T05:53:24Z

If there's one thing that pisses me off about other people, it's the helpless-abused-victim thing that some of them drag around like toilet paper on their shoes. There's this whole subset of people who believe that because they had fucked-up stuff happen to them as kids/teenagers/adults, their entire life is ruined and now they're just targets for more abuse. Have you ever noticed that these victims tend to attract/create more drama and bad things, almost as if it's a self-fulfilling prophecy?

Instead of understanding that they create their own reality, and they have a choice in how they react to bad shit, they just piss and moan and whine and complain about how awful it is to be them, and heap excuse after excuse onto their shitpile of why they're _______ (poor, angry, damaged, unloved, discriminated against, abused).

For example, this woman: (long thread, but very entertaining in a "trainwreck" sort of way. There's also a matching thread in the Harbin Hot Springers tribe, for more fun)

http://soakersbible.tribe.net/thread/5dcf2e80-56cb-42a7-80fb-db51efefca01#45c63f57-3274-4ff0-836d-8c93253da22e

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New tribe with a twist

2008-02-16T17:01:07Z

http://tribes.tribe.net/saysomethingintelligentthisweekorleave

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Appeals court: First Amendment protects forum trolls too

2008-02-12T05:48:26Z

Get out from under your bridge and do some reading!

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080207-appeals-court-first-amendment-protects-forum-trolls-too.html

Basically, it appears that the 1st Amendment is currently tinged slightly green...

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Hell is this wanker ....

2008-02-07T23:33:46Z

http://auschicks.tribe.net/thread/3f54ba46-a652-4090-9809-bb06d1a8755b

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The art gallerys will be next

2008-02-04T17:09:54Z

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hKJ582oyhDtrM5ZE9zD0t09KTwEAD8UJE87G0

It seems the police have seized the murals from A& F store in Virginia Beach for being obscene. They obviously haven’t been in and art gallery or museum in quite sometime

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Toxic Frenemies Suck.

2008-01-16T15:04:06Z

That is all.

They just SUCK!!!

grrrrrrr ....

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Imperial Buddhist Shopping Cart Bingo Jackpot

2008-01-05T13:44:10Z

Berkeley Bowl, Berkeley, California, today. Desperately rude people ramming into one another with shopping carts in the aisles, unthinkingly and agitatedly bumping people in wheelchairs (more than once?!) The parking lot had an altercation--someone upset that they can't get their organic raddicio home in time for the making of NYE vegan party dip? Yeah, the outside full of desperate SUV holiday grocery zealots, the inside? The same. In any case, I came away with such a bad taste in my mouth for people who are so desperately isolated from each other that they go shopping to feel connected by ramming each other with shopping carts.

Well, looks like everyone is following orders by shopping to save the regime here in a America:

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/20/bush-shopping/

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I'm disappointed in y'all!!!

2007-12-25T21:18:06Z

Come on! It's Christmas time! I really expected much more activity on this board during this time of year. Don't tell me you guys are letting that "good will towards man" crap get to you! :-)

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Snowbirds and RV's

2007-12-23T23:36:03Z

It must be getting cold, cause the old folks are starting to show up in droves here in the desert. I really think they are putting the border fence up at the wrong end of the state. At least that’s what I was thinking as I followed a behemoth RV down the road at 2.4 mph. I understand wanting to be warm (especially as I enter old age) but come on down and stay in one of our nice resorts and if you want to go some place take a freaking cab. Leave the greyhound/rv at home or parked by the freeway or hire someone with the reaction time of a living human to drive it.
I wonder if they realize that the amout of fuel it took to get hear from there they could have stayed home with the Grandkids and kept the house at 97 degrees all winter.

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Santa gets Groped!!!!!!!

2007-12-18T20:08:51Z

Sandrama Lamy, 33, of Danbury, was charged with sexual assault and breach of peace. She was released on a promise to appear in court on Jan. 3.

Police quickly found and identified Lamy because the woman was described as being on crutches, said Capt. Bob Myles.

A call seeking comment from Lamy was answered by a recording Tuesday morning. A woman later called back and said: "It's a false report and I don't have any idea."

Police did not give the name of the disconcerted Santa, but they said he is 65 and felt badly because children were waiting to see him. "He was apparently shocked and embarrassed by the whole incident," Myles said.

A man who teaches hundreds of prospective Santas a year — "Santa Tim" Connaghan, president of RealSantas.com — said he's never heard of a similar incident, though it's not unusual for adults to want to pose with Santa.

There's posing with Santa and there's posing with Santa, obviously.

Sandrama Lamy, a 33-year-old woman from Danbury of Connecticut, was charged with fourth-degree sexual assault on a man playing Santa Claus at the Danbury Fair Mall. On Saturday December 15, Sandrama Lamy went shopping at the mall and possibly was attracted by the Santa's performance. But don't know how, the woman managed to sit on the man's lap and consequently might have touch the man inappropriately.

Well, you can see why this might happen: I guess that's why they usually only let the kids sit in Santa's lap, eh?

A nice touch here:

Sandrama Lamy, 33, is said to have inappropriately touched a shopping centre Father

Christmas after sitting on his lap in Danbury, Connecticut over the weekend. The Santa, who asked not to be named, said: “I don’t know what the deal was. It was just bizarre.”

The alleged incident happened at the Danbury Fair mall on Saturday. Lama faces fourth-degree sexual assault and breach of peace charges, police said.

“The security officer at the mall said Santa Claus has been sexually assaulted,” Danbury Detective Lt. Thomas Michael said.

Lamy was released and is due to appear in court on January 3. She was unavailable for comment today (tue).

“Santa Tim” Connaghan, president of RealSantas.com, teaches hundreds of prospective Santas a year. He said it’s not unusual for adults to want to pose with Santa.

He told a US newspaper: “I’ve had some very nice ladies sit on my lap. “Once in a while they’ll say ‘I hope Mrs. Claus isn’t going to be upset.’

“You have to be discreet and kind and say ‘Oh no, she’ll be OK. You can sit here, but only for one photo.’”

So this Santa does have an eye for the ladies then: just not for our Sandrama Lamy then

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Taking it one step too far ...

2007-12-18T13:38:55Z

There's a shredder in my office and it jams if you put too much paper in. I started on Monday and noticed this immediately, to my annoyance, so I put a note on it as follows:

When you feed me, please keep it to 4 or less sheets or I jam up.

Thanks,
The Person After You

So someone, who obviously has sugar instead of blood running through their veins thought I was onto something and changed my message to this:

I'm a hungry little shredder but when you feed me make sure I have a balanced diet of only 4 sheets of paper at a time or I get terrible indigestion and get bloated and unwell. And you wouldn't want to make me a sick little shredder would you? Oh no!
Also, please change my nappy when it's full!

Thanks,

The (now) happy hungry little shredder.

Isn't that so annoying? Especially seeing as everyone will probably think that *I* did it as I was the one to put the initial note on it. I'll have to specifically mention it to people so I can tell them it wasn't me!

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Ho-ho .. shut the fuck up!

2007-12-14T04:57:46Z

A bloke at work is insisting on saying "have a merry christmas and a ho ho ho happy new year" to everyone on the phone. I can punch him for that can't I?

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One down

2007-10-22T19:33:07Z

Marcel Marceau has passed on. One less mime in the world is a good start.

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Travel Clothing

2007-10-20T00:46:27Z

I don't get out much, Which turns out to be a good thing. I took a trip up to the northwest this past week to visit old friends. I was shocked at the outfits people travel in. I understand the need for comfort, but come on. Your comfort should not cause nausea in others.....if you have more than 2 chins rethink the spandex. Comfortable clothes do not have to be stained, when the underarm stains turn brown its time to buy a new shirt. It seems the airlines are the new buslines.

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Christian Clown Busted For Kiddie Porn

2007-10-16T13:40:12Z

What a clown......................

The 57-year-old former law enforcement officer and juvenile councilor, was originally detained on June 11 at San Francisco International Airport while returning from the Philippines, where he says he performed at an orphanage called House of Joy. A routine inspection of his digital camera and phone uncovered a variety of images of naked pre-teen boys, according to his arrest report. When questioned about the images, Carlock reportedly told officers, "That's how they live."

Lifestyles aside, three of the boys featured in the photographs later gave sworn statements that Carlock came into their rooms at night and fondled their genitals. They further asserted that he sneaked out when they woke up. Those statements lead to a search warrant, which was executed on Sept. 28 and which uncovered at least "21 movies on six compact discs that contain child pornography," according to the affidavit.

For the past 10 years Carlock and his wife, who goes by the stage name Smilee, have been "clowning" for youngsters at orphanages across the world. According to their website, they "are available for vacation Bible schools, children's crusades, Sunday school, children's church, church parties... and more [which] can be used to present the gospel of Jesus Christ to your children." It also states that Klutzo is "an ordained minister (formerly with the Church of the Nazarene, currently with the Missionary Church International)."

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Hell in an elevator?

2007-10-06T19:48:23Z

http://ohyeah.tribe.net/thread/f76ce0a2-16dc-4d45-a77c-e0aaac56474c#dc5b5b22-7846-4046-a20b-a7f62f620389

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Walking and Talking

2007-10-01T21:33:01Z

It never ceases to amaze me how people walk around totally unaware of their surroundings. I was sitting at a stop sign and watched a man walking and talking on his cell phone approach the crosswalk. Being the courteous and thoughtful person that I am, I waited for him to cross. Being very involved in conversation he failed to notice the curb…….
The landing looked very painful.
He went down like a ton of bricks.
Then he got mad cause I was laughing.

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Stick figure warning signs

2007-09-24T21:53:13Z

Just think for each of these signs, There is a tragic yet probably funny story. I personally think Child vs. Tractor is a show stopper.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/tbone/warningsigns/gallery.html

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Does anyone want this tribe?

2007-09-15T03:33:12Z

I want to hand off the moderator position.

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Suicide

2007-09-15T01:47:12Z

Hell IS people who commit suicide and leave others behind to clean up the mess.

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Get out of my line of sight

2007-09-04T23:44:45Z

I take a late lunch. So today I'm sitting in this restaurant around 2:00 p.m. It's a pretty large restaurant and I'm the only one in there. I had finished my food and I was sitting blissfully staring out of the window across the room when this hairy old guy comes and sits right in my line of sight! He had the whole restaurant and he just had to sit there, facing me, in my line of sight.

If you're going to pull a stunt like that you'd better be about 26 years old and 6'2", 185 lbs, with blonde hair and blue eyes. If you're going to sit in my line of sight you'd better at least be HOT.

Really, is that so much to ask?

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Artistic endevor

2007-08-31T22:40:32Z

This will be a tough performance art peice to top
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=3&entry_id=19890#comments

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At my age...

2007-08-31T19:24:03Z

I can't believe that I actually had to resort to placing my hands over my ears and going "LA LA LA LA LA" at work!!

My nippleless co-worker strikes again. First she comes back by my cube and finds a nickle of the floor which she promptly places over her breast and asks, "How does this look?" To which my other co-worker responds, "OH GOD!" and I just roll my eyes.

Then nipless says to me, "I don't know why it embarrasses you so much when I talk about my breasts"
I say, "It doesn't embarrass me; it's just TMI"
Nipless: "Well, come November I'm having surgery to..."
Me, hands over ears: "LA LA LA LA LA"

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Stop signs

2007-08-28T06:24:32Z

Learn how to use them! All I ask of people is:
1. If you have one: STOP
2. If you are at a 4-way: Learn who has the damn ROW
3. If you don't have one and I do: Don't stop anyway and sit there and look at me stupidly.

Is it really so much to ask????

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When hell is yourself...

2007-08-25T22:37:04Z

Hell is when you leave all of your socks and undies in the hotel you just moved from.

Hell is having no choice in whether or not you're "going commando".

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Good Read

2007-08-23T20:57:34Z

http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0207GREETINGS

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Chicken, $2 extra

2007-08-23T18:11:19Z

If when I was a carnivore I had to pay $2 more for grilled chicken to be added to a salad; why is a salad not discounted that same $2 when as a vegetarian I ask to have it removed?

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Slow Movers

2007-08-23T17:50:51Z

Today....I stoped for a person waiting at the cross walk, She waited till both lanes of traffic came to a complete stop then proceeded to waddle at a snails pace stopping 3/4's of the way across to dig in her purse for her cell phone.......which she answered before proceeding. I timed the whole ordeal..... 4 minutes to cross a street. 240 seconds to cross 30 feet of road. I was just happy she didn't find a sandwich when she was looking for her phone.

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People who don't know how to walk on a sidewalk

2007-08-22T05:30:59Z

To the right people, to the right!! Don't come prancing towards me with your sequined stripper purse on my right side of the sidewalk and think I'm going to budge for you!!!

Or am I just crazy in thinking people should walk on a sidewalk to the right the way traffic flows?

Jay & Caz, please replace "right" with "left". :-)

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"you may or may not be in violation"

2007-08-19T02:54:35Z

I recently had an illness that kept me out of work for a total of 7 work days. the first day i called in sick and went to the doctor, who asked me not to go in to work until she approved. upon recovery, she wrote me a note covering the remaining 6 days.

i returned to work, submitted the paperwork and the HR person told me "I just need to inform you that you may or may not be in violation of your job, per the terms set forth in the handbook" which he then read to me. it essentially said "frequent or extended absences may or may not put you in violation of your job". when I asked him whether I was or not, he said he didn't know. I asked him when he would know, he said he couldn't say. i asked him what "violation of my job" meant anyway, but he didn't know that either.

he had just called me into his office to read me the page in the handbook, give me a copy of that page from the handbook, and to let me know that I may or may not be in violation of my job.

hell is H.R.

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A house full of grease

2007-08-15T23:26:56Z

Coming home to a dog, kitchen, living room floor, and couch full of used cooking grease. Then finding a giant pee stain on the floor to top it off.

Anyone want a dog?

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Hell is women who...

2007-08-15T03:36:25Z

cry at work. For fuck's sake! Unless someone has died, don't be crying at work. Especially don't be crying if you have too much work to do.

Also, don't tell me you're crying because you're:
1. Frustrated
2. Angry

Get over it; you're giving us all a bad name.

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Snip, snip, snip

2007-08-14T21:53:53Z

I hear snip, snip, snip.

Is that the snip, snip, snip of my nerves snapping or is it just my co-worker trimming her nails at her desk again? Ugh!!

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Hell is ... the French?

2007-08-14T02:51:02Z

Here's an interesting and true story from this very evening. My friend is an English doctor living in Spain, she goes 10-pin bowling with a group of friends every Thursday evening, this particularly bowling alley is near a tourist area and as such a lot of people from different countries visit. Tonight my friend, Sarah, was bowling with about 16 people on lanes 19 & 20, soon after they started bowling a group of around 20 French people aged between 45-65 started bowling on lanes 17 & 18. A few nods were exchanged but not a lot said until an elderly French gentleman tripped over and started to look a bit pale. His French companions went to see if he was alright and sat him down, he didn't look very well so they started calling for an ambulance. The manageress of the bowling alley came down and said she would get the local police as they are based very nearby.

The French stopped bowling and the English group realised something was up, my friend went to see if she could help and quickly diagnosed that the gentleman had had, or was having, a heart attack. She calmed him down and spoke in French to ask his companions to stand back and let him have some room. The police and paramedics arrived and, obviously, only spoke Spanish so she started translating and eventually got the gentleman into a wheelchair and into the manageress' office off the alley to give him medical treatment.

When she got back all of his French companions had decided to continue their game of bowling, they'd got a round of beers in and were carrying on like nothing had ever happened! Not even one of them asked her how he was and not one of them tried to accompany him to the office to keep him company.

The English bowlers were very shocked by what had happened and by the subsequent French behaviour. What does everyone here think of this? If you were bowling with a group of friends and one had a heart attack, would you carry on bowling two minutes later? Very strange!

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My Hell

2007-08-10T18:47:16Z

Hell is imaginary logic applied to irrational thoughts by impulsive people.

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Found this on CL and Feel It Belongs Here... :)

2007-08-10T00:45:43Z

Road Rage
Date: 2007-07-04, 7:24PM PDT

So, driving home from work today I have some fuckwad tailing me, just banging on the horn. I look in my rear view and it is some dork in a BMW or Mercedes or some other overpriced piece of shit. I can see dude's veins bulging in his forehead and literally I can see the specks of saliva splashing off the windshield and he is LEAAAANNNNNING over the steering wheel yelling at me as if this was going to help me hear him better.

By the looks of him, he is a pretty big dude. So, unluckily for me, I have to stop at a light. At this point, my girlfriend is kind of freaking out. I am probably, 5-7 or 5-8 with my hair standing up and don't weigh much more than a buck fifty, maybe 60 after a big meal. Never been much of a fighter, didn't really have to. I have to say, it kind of freaked me out. So, of course Mr Testosterone has to get out of his car and confront me. Like I said, he looked big, and when he got beside me, unfortunately again for me, he was probably 6-2 and maybe 200-220. Dressed in a pretty sharp suit with no jacket and his tie loosened. Probably had a pretty bad day as he proceeded to call me everything but an english speaking white man. On and on, if I was to get out of the car he'd beat my ass blah blah blah. Finally he called me a little cocksucker and then he told my GF that I was a bitch. LOL. The old bitch card.

So, I continued to look straight ahead, I rolled my window down, maybe a 1/3, not quite half and asked him if he was having a bad day. Without warning, Road Rage Guy punches at me. Fucking longest light in the history of Vancouver right here...sadly for him, his big fucking mitt hit most of my window--shaking his hand he yelled for me to get out of the car--LOL, here is where it gets funny.

I am still looking straight over my steering wheel. He takes one step closer to the car to open it as the light changes. Again, sadly for this fucking meathead, I had already locked the door, still looking ahead, I lunge through my partially opened window, grab him by his tie and pull him towards my car, frantically I rolled up my window and hit the gas, dragging this fuckwad through the intersection--have you ever seen a cursing, swearing salesman do a sidestep at 15 KM/H? I am still kind of laughing, and of course my GF thinks it is hilarious--I am still a little pissed off that I didn't hit 30 and drag this fucking monkey through the streets of Vancouver.

So, if you were the dork that assaulted me, too bad you are a such dick head, but I sincerely hope that you have another tie and pair of dress shoes, those shoes have to be scuffed the fuck up. I do admire your agility at running beside my car doing cross overs. Your football training probably saved your life.

* Location: Hiways and the Biways
* it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

posted in Hell is other people - 3 replies

Hell is people on the elevator

2007-08-10T00:37:06Z

This happens to me daily. I'm hustling to the elevator to catch it, and people inside just stare blankly at me as the doors close shut.
Argh!

posted in Hell is other people - 11 replies

Transportation

2007-08-10T00:31:30Z

Hell is undoubtedly:

An hour long bus ride home on a packed bus with no air conditioning in 100+ degree weather while the 8-year-old in front of you is engaged in mining, manufacturing, and distributing (pick, roll, and flick) his boogers.

posted in Hell is other people - 35 replies

Mall Parking

2007-08-07T09:49:59Z

Don't you love it when your forced to go to the mall on the weekend and there is not a single parking spot in sight. You eventually end up following some individual to their vehicle in hopes of getting one only to have them sit in the car with the door open for 8 minutes while they read a reciept. If it's this bad now I can't wait for christmans.

posted in Hell is other people - 16 replies

New mod

2007-08-05T08:56:34Z

Some of you may have noticed, I've taken over as mod. Don't worry; Caz is still alive and well and will remain a part of the tribe. I plan on being non-instrusive. My only rule is: Don't be an ass.

If you insist on being an ass, I'll boot you. However, I do believe in democracy so I'll put it to a vote if I think I need to boot anyone. If more people think you're an ass than not, then out you go. Vice versa, you get to stay until you become such an ass that the tide turns the other way.

If anyone is having any problems and thinks we need a "your an ass" vote, just let me know.

By the way, if I see any racial, ethnic, gender insults directed to another member of this tribe, your post will be deleted and so will you.

posted in Hell is other people - 24 replies

Hell is Tribe advertisements

2007-07-31T18:17:33Z

Has this been touched on? It annoys me that there are ads for Babies-R-Us on the Child-free board. And then I just saw some Christian stuff on this one. Can we please talk about Hell without being saved?!

posted in Hell is other people - 5 replies

Dykes™, Misogynist, and the U.S. Federal Court System

2007-07-31T17:45:40Z

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/13/BAGR7QVVIP1.DTL

Could Hell get any more marvelous?!

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Surely hell is ...

2007-07-30T20:39:19Z

... the harassment we have seen on this board of late?

This is my request for all harassment to stop, I will not listen to any "she/he started it" arguments and I will not have any further harassment. I will be sad to remove anyone from this Tribe for harassment but I do believe in sacrificing the few to save the many.

I thank you all in advance.

posted in Hell is other people - 4 replies

Mispronunciation

2007-07-29T10:01:49Z

Not just accents, regional differences, or names of countries we didn't know existed until last week--- I'm talking the serious mangling of perfectly good words for no reason other than stupidity or laziness.

nu-ku-lar.
Regardless of how you feel about Bush's politics, how do you fight the feeling that someone should just walk up , mid-speech, remove the microphone, and say "I'm sorry, but you are simply too stupid to hold this job"?. How can you hear something pronounced correctly ten thousand times and still get it wrong?

kwess-yun or kwess-un.
Gee, it was kwest-yun or kwest-chun (question) until about three years or so, when I began to hear the new, mangled version. What happened to the "t" all of a sudden? There's an L.A "radio personality" who bangs this one up about 40 times per hour, four hours a night, five nights a week.

reel-uh-ter or reel-uh-tor.
Hmm, where d'ya see that extra syllable in "realtor"?

ath-uh-leet.
Ditto. What, two syllables weren't good enough for ya? It's "athlete".

orien-tate.
"It's Joe's first day here--- we're gonna take him down to the conference room and orientate him. He'll get his badge after we get him orientated". Yeah, and when you're done, you can "orient" him as well. I don't know what that other one means.

con-ver-sate.
"Me & him was jus, you know, conversatin', and then the PO-lice come and picked us up, for nuthin".
That's ok, LaKeesha, you don't have to worry about using the correct words--- it's 2007--- the rest of us will just adapt and build that into our Diversity Program. You just keep right on speaking in whatever way you feel most comfortable.

x-presso.
Being really into coffee makes you look hip & smart. Except when you aren't.

posted in Hell is other people - 24 replies

Making alts based on spam...

2007-07-28T08:11:09Z

http://people.tribe.net/eb6210ba-4ef0-496a-818e-13b94ff61553

Let's hope it is only a fad...

posted in Hell is other people - 17 replies

Wrong Shoes

2007-07-28T08:00:18Z

* slap-slap-slap-slap-slide-drag *

Sorry, I can't move very fast because I'm wearing my "flip-flops".
I'm not on the beach, I'm not in the locker room. I'm in Home Depot. Or a restaurant. Or on the street.....2500 miles from the nearest beach.
I'm too lazy to wash my feet, and squeeze them into socks and real shoes.
This is one way I show the world "I don't have any real work to do". I just shuffle around at snail speed, doing nothing.
I'm a grown man, it's 11:00 a.m on a Tuesday, and I'm walking around in public in yellow rubber beach shoes designed for teenage girls. That's how "casual" and "laid back" I am.
Hey, sometimes I wear them with sweatpants that don't even have pockets, so I have to carry my car keys in my hand the whole time--- am I kewl or what?

ennggg-engggg-enggg-eng-engg
That's not my shoes, that's the engine on my purple, lime, fuschia, lemon and black Ninja Rocket Super Citrus XZL750 Plastic Japanese Transformer Motorcycle ----- that I ride wearing shorts, a tank shirt, and FLIP-FLOPS! Yay! Pretty kewl, huh? Yeah, my dad bought it for me after I totalled my tricked out Civic. The first one, I mean. Man, I love this thing! Leather, long pants, jeans, boots? Nah, I don't need all that shit. I've been riding a motorcycle for three weeks, man, and not one accident yet! Woo-hoo, watch me zip in and out of city traffic doing 75! I like dressing like this when I ride--- it makes me look like I'm really casual and laid back. [I'm pretty sure the chicks will still think I'm hot when my arms, legs, and feet are full of skin grafts. Woo-hooo, let's ride!!]

*CLUNK-CLUNK-CLUNK-CLUNK*
I'm 9 years old and I decided to wear Big Girl Shoes today (adult women's dress shoes that don't fit) because I think that's cool and my mom is too caught up in her own world to notice that it's really dumb, and annoying to other people, and unsafe for me. I'm teetering around and turning my ankle and clunking by you over & over, in the department store or grocery store, because, well, my mom's just stupid. If she were smarter, she'd tell me to play dress-up at home rather than in public.

*s-l-i-i-i-d-e- shuffle-s-l-i-i-i-i-d-e-shuffle*
Ahm too lazy ta put muh shoes all the way on my feets so I jus put the front part o'muh foot in and step on the back. Now da backa muh shoe done got all run-down and stepped-on. That means I can't pick up muh feets so I got to s-l-i-d-e 'em like dis. It don matter no way, cuz I move so slow mos' time. Got nowhere ta go. Jus to da mailbox, pick up da check. I aint gittin' out yo way----- you got to go 'round me. Ima stan right here in the hamburger aisle and take 'bout twelve mo minutes to shuffle down to the chicken wings on muh broke-down shoes. My son, right behine me, see? He wear hisn da same way. All muh shoes look like dis. Whatchoo lookin' at?

posted in Hell is other people - 9 replies

Go ahead...it's only the library...

2007-07-26T03:40:05Z

Here's an example that occurred yesterday at the library.

I was trying to study. Some kids were being loud and boisterous. I admonished them angrily. They then went into sullen, provocative mode. I objected to their behavior to the librarian...who then pointed out to me that I was in the "teen" section of the library...which I had not noticed, not being aware that such a thing even existed at this very small branch library. Therefore, while I might have been in my rights as a library patron to object to their nonesense, I might not have been correct in asserting that right in their section. I mean, I think I was but, obviously, I was in an area of the library that was designated for teenagers and it would seem that the librarians at the time feel that that means that standards that an adult familiar with libraries and the purposes of said libraries, unfamiliar with the new fangled "teenaged section" concept in librarying, was on unfamiliar social ground. So, who was right and who was wrong in this situation with regard to speech? No one really. I mean, next time I visit a library I'll be warily looking out to avoid the "teenage section" if at all possible and, presumably, when these teens grow up they won't be hanging out at the terminals in their section capping on one another and whinging about random trivia of teenage existence, etc, right?

What really irked me was that had the library branch actually deployed all their desks instead of having them turned the wrong way against one of the walls in the stacks, that I might have actually been at a station far away from the "teen section" Internet terminals. I mean, c'mon...these kids were playing MP3s from these terminals...and by the sounds of the lyrics the education they were garnering from their experience at the library was not for polite company. However, I didn't object to that to the librarian. Maybe next time.

Of course, the librarian, trying to accomodate me suggested that I sit right outside the "teen section"...which was right next to the "teen section". Um, thanx a lot. I'm complaining to you that these kids are being obnoxious and you are basically suggesting that the best solution is that I sit right outside the teen section and be provoked more and more by their antics? Good call there, Sparky.

Naturally, I went to the otherside of the library and sat in the kids section...where there were no kids and it was quiet. Well, maybe one big kid...but let's not get technical this time, okay.

posted in Hell is other people - 22 replies

The "innocent" voice

2007-07-23T15:29:54Z

is definitely hell.

You know the one. It's the voice that people use when they are asking something that's none of their business or making an "innocent" comment about someone to see if you will be agreeable to trashing that person. The voice is about 1 octave higher than the normal voice and is usually accompanied by a wide-eyed expression.

Examples:
"Who was your meeting with this morning?"
"So and So must not feel well today; she's not a friendly as usual"
"Did I see your car in the parking lot?" (When you usually take PT)
"Do you wear thong underwear?"

posted in Hell is other people - 4 replies

Hell is other people ... so what is heaven?

2007-07-15T03:20:46Z

This was one of the first topics on this Tribe way back when there appeared to only be two members, so now there's a few more of us what do we think now?

posted in Hell is other people - 10 replies

National "Do Not Play" List

2007-07-13T22:59:22Z

There are certain songs that everybody in the world has heard enough times and that should never be played again, whether on the radio, at social gatherings, in karaoke bars or as covers.

Here are some songs I propose for the list:

1. Stairway to Heaven (makes me tired just typing it.)
2. Dream On.
3. Welcome to the Jungle
4. Most everything by Lynyrd Skynnyrd
5. Most everything by Bob Seger
6. Ummm, I'm too tired to list any more of them. I will get back to you with more additions as I come up with them. I guess I am not in a bad enough mood now.

posted in Hell is other people - 59 replies

Note from tribe.net: please assign a moderator

2007-07-13T09:18:43Z

Hey there, "Hell is other people" members--

This Tribe doesn't have a moderator, but as a matter of policy, Tribe.net likes all groups to have a leader. Can you collectively choose someone to moderate your Tribe?

When you've reached consensus, have the new moderator send a note to help@tribe.net, with the words "Moderator Change –Hell is other people" in the subject header, letting us know that you've selected a new leader. Please be sure to include a link to this discussion thread!

Thanks--

TOU (Terms of Use) Guy

posted in Hell is other people - 27 replies

Honest opinions?

2007-07-09T08:07:14Z

http://somanythingsidliketosay.tribe.net/thread/26adfe1d-e239-4ec6-810d-e8990d8362f2

Weird, not weird?

posted in Hell is other people - 2 replies

Well ...

2007-07-09T08:05:22Z

This Tribe sounds like such a good idea but nobody is moderating it, should we get someone to breath some life into this Tribe and get whining again?

posted in Hell is other people - 46 replies

Coworkers from Hell

2007-07-06T18:31:16Z

I work with people who "read receipt" their email. "Read receipt" means that they get a confirmation of when you read the email. How sneaky is that? I had one psycho go off on me because I didn't reply back in a "timely fashion".

I share an office with a guy who listens to Counting Crows and Blues Traveler and eats at his desk. Chomp chomp chomp. Burp! Blues Traveler, shoot me now.

Then there are the dingdongs who keep burning microwave popcorn. They burn it to a crisp (usually by walking away and forgetting about it). And the smell of burnt popcorn spreads through the office. At least it's not as offensive as microwaved fish dishes.

posted in Hell is other people - 43 replies

The Semi-Purgatory of Pet Peeves

2007-06-30T23:37:52Z

Whose with me on the folks hiding behind cutsy pictures of animal friends and then losing their cool...anonymously? I mean, if it weren't for the fact that there was 99.99% that the alt was actually run by a human being and not actually by a cat I'm not sure whether they'd even qualify to actually participate in this tribe, right? What I mean is, in order for the tribe to be about >other< people, you have to actually be a person in the first place, right? Make sense?

Anyways, one can troll or frolic or what-have-you and get away with a lot on the Internet. Some folks do it more anonymously than others. But, like an involuntary blindfolded one-night stand, it can end up being...hell. Not that it can't be unpleasant with the blindfold off or anything, just that it would be less likely. But, let's make this an open ended discussion...

Of the moment, what's your pet peeve about other people?

posted in Hell is other people - 19 replies

A LIST OF PEOPLE I CAN REALLY DO WITHOUT! / Pet Peeves

2007-06-08T07:11:06Z

As I sat here today at work (boss was not here), I began a *short list* of people that just really irk me -- more so than just ordinary people, I guess. I feel like printing this out and taping it to the inside of my storm door glass... (keep in mind, the "?"s actually come out as bullet points on MS Word). Everyone is entitled to his/her views (including political/religious, etc.); likewise, I am entitled to mine. Please remember this before you send me a nasty email.
================
If you are any one of these on this list:

• do NOT even knock on my door.
• do NOT call me;
• do NOT send correspondence;
• do NOT send smoke signals;
• do NOT ask my support;
• do NOT ask my cooperation.

– in short, do NOT waste my time!

 Al Gore
 John Kerry
 Hillary Clinton
 Bill Clinton (but at least he seems jovial enough)
 Nancy Pelosi
 Larry Flint
 Baldwins (pick one)
 Jesse Jackson
 Louis Farrakhan
 Jane Fonda
 Sean Penn
 Bono
 Rions (Jr & Sr) [[local attys]]
 Traitors to this country who give aid and/or comfort to the enemy – that’s called TREASON.
 Barbara Streisand
 My ex (husband and various boyfriends)
 NEA
 The Union
 Children’s Services / Social Services
 BMV
 The global warming crowd
 ACLU
 Radical and ½ radical muslims
 Ungrateful people
 Religious zealots
 That group who believes The Holocaust never happened
 9-11 conspiracy people
 Conspiracy people in general
 People who don’t flush the toilet after they go
 White kids/adults who try to act black
 Children who refuse to respect parents and the parents that give them a pass because of past problems
 People who have more than one phone number
 People who don’t know their phone number
 Lottery ticket buyers
 Used car salesmen
 IRS
 Liberals
 Moderates (because they don’t stand for anything)
 Those with no political or social opinions
 Panhandlers
 GMAC
 Rabid vegans
 Mean, cruel people
 Alcoholics
 Drug addicts
 Sports addicts - Those who let their worship of one particular sports team rule their lives
 The “something for nothing” crowd
 People who own boats – I just don’t get it!
 People who buy mobile homes in a known tornado zone
 Kids who know how to dial 9-11 to complain about their parents justly punishing them, but don’t know their ABCs yet – AND the teachers who teach them this shit.
 Actual child abusers.
 Those who feel entitled to something from me because I am white and they may be black – I’m just as under-appreciated as you are. Get in line!
 The married who claim to be and act single in order to date/cheat
 Bad kissers – there just IS no excuse!
 Men with less than 6”
 Liberal college professors and school teachers
 School administrators
 The “peace at any price” crowd
 Kennedys
 Those who lie / cheat / steal for kicks or to support a drug/alcohol habit
 Enablers
 Illegal immigrants
 Immigrants who refuse to speak English and/or assimilate – and think WE should speak Spanish
 People who don’t really have any reason to hate or understanding on WHY they hate, GWB – they just do because someone else does. Ditto for any other conservative. I didn’t see YOU guys making the rough choices – Have some respect!
 People who can’t think for themselves
 People who refuse to spell things correctly or those who do not use homonyms correctly with regard to context.
 Dennis Kucinich
 Pedophiles
 Necrophiliacs
 Users
 Abusers
 Jehovas Witnesses
 Door to door salespeople who read the sign on my door that says “no solicitors” yet they try anyway – occurs to me I should just change it to “no sales”…

posted in Hell is other people - 29 replies

"I need to get married!"

2007-06-02T00:57:13Z

Yep, this guy needed to get married so badly that he flew from here to Europe with infectious TB, got married there, fled Italy when the police tried to question him, took Czech Airlines to Canada and then brought his TB back into the US so he could get treatment here for it. Of course, his new father-in-law works for the US Center for Disease Control...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/health/01cnd-tb.html

Maybe someone would have stopped him if he had infectious typhoid...

Enjoy!

posted in Hell is other people - 0 replies

"I'm so fat I have to have a 'special scooter' "

2007-05-26T16:25:54Z

Fat scooters and the people who ride them. A few days ago I was in a discount store, and although there were probably no more than twelve or so people shopping in that area, THREE of them were "significantly obese", and on those damn motorized "scooters". Now, maybe they had actual physical disabilities and coincidentally happened to be fat, but I do know a ton of people (LOL, that just slipped out) who collect "disability" checks and other "disability benefits", for being fat. Nothing else wrong. Just plain fucking fat. I used to live in a city where it was very kewl for the dykes to claim a "disability"--- you know, "i'm allergic to perfume", "I can't eat wheat", "my joints ache--- and no, it's not because I weigh 320". They were thrilled when scooters hit. I think about thirty of them ran, er, I mean, had someone else run, out to buy one. It just seems like the more available and affordable these scooter-things get, the more people there are who "have" to have them.

posted in Hell is other people - 13 replies

hungry sniffers

2007-05-24T20:31:07Z

so i'm sitting in the lunch room, trying to shovel some food down my gullet in the 30 minutes i'm given. and sometimes it's pizza from the store down the street. or sometimes a sandwich from the deli a little further on. or maybe some leftovers from last night - whatever. i generally don't get too fancy for lunch.

but no matter what it is, there's always some co-worker who comes into the break room and starts sniffing around, noisily. making disgusting sniffing sounds with their nose like they've got a cold and the snot's just running out of control. but of course they're making a big show about smelling the food that i'm eating. and they always want to know, "mmm - what's that you're eating? smells good!" and proceed to look over my shoulder, inspecting the food, getting their big sniffly noses closer and closer.

maybe they mean well - i don't know. maybe they're just hungry. but this sniffing and going on about the food i'm eating makes me all of a sudden very territorial about my food, like i have to defend it from this hungry invader. i instinctually want to curl my arms around the food and bare my teeth, to guard it.

ok, so i understand that these people have every right to smell my food. in fact, i'm sure they have little choice in the matter. if they just said they're hungry and want some food, i could at least tell them no. but why do they have to deliberately sniff loudly and in my direction - driving the point home that they're smelling my food? get your nose off my lunch, bitches!

posted in Hell is other people - 9 replies

Insincerity

2007-05-14T05:11:50Z

Wouldn't you rather have someone that dislikes you, is offended by you or is intimidated by you just say so, rather than being fake and a gigantenormous pussy about the entire issue?

I don't understand the ultrabrite, dynamite white - oh so fabulous - mwah - kissy kissy, tra la la mindset.

How would one speed up the demise of insincere people? They are really taking up too much space on the planet and must be destroyed as they are breathing my air -- AND YOURS! -- last I checked.

posted in Hell is other people - 24 replies

Hell is not having a moderator...

2007-05-14T02:55:03Z

...to kick out the asshole trolls.

posted in Hell is other people - 11 replies

Stop Forwarding Me Stuff

2007-05-13T04:57:17Z

Hell is the crap other people forward you in the form of sexist humor ("I am out of estrogen and I have a gun"), kids-say-the-darndest-things crapola, inspirational messages, warnings about internet viruses that will steal your soul, chain letters---I would love to read the most fucked up forwards you have received.

Just today, I got this from a co-worker:

Dear Dog and Cat,

When I say to "move", it means go someplace else, not switch positions

with each other so there are still two of you in the way.

The dishes with the paw prints are yours and contain your food. The

other dishes are mine and contain my food. (Please note, placing a paw

print in the middle of my plate & food does not stake a claim for it

becoming your food & dish, nor do I find that aesthetically pleasing
in the slightest.)

The stairway was not designed by NASCAR and is not a racetrack.
Beating me to the bottom is not the object. Tripping me doesn't help
because I fall faster than you can run.

I cannot buy anything bigger than a king size bed. I am very sorry
about this. Do not think I will continue to sleep on the couch to
ensure your comfort. Look at videos of dogs and cats sleeping. They
can actually curl up in a ball! . It is not necessary to sleep
perpendicular to each other stretched out to the fullest extent
possible. (I also know that sticking tails straight out and having
tongues hanging out the other end to maximize space used is nothing
but sarcasm.)

My compact discs are not miniature Frisbees.

For the last time, there is not a secret exit from the bathroom. If by

some miracle I beat you there and manage to get the door shut, it is not

necessary to claw, whine meow, try to turn the knob, or get your paw

under the edge and try to pull the door open. I must exit through the

same door I entered. (In addition, I have been using the bathroom for

years...canine or feline attendance is not mandatory.)

The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dogs or cats'
butt. I cannot stress this enough. It would be such a simple change
for you.

To pacify you I have posted the following message on our front door.....

Rules for Non-pet owners who visit and like to complain about our pets:

1. They live here; you don't.

2. If you don't want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture.

3. I like my pet better than I like most people.

4. To you it's an animal. To me he and/or she is an adopted son and/or
daughter who is short, hairy, walks on all fours and is speech
challenged.

Dogs and cats are better than kids.

They eat less, don't ask for money all the time, are easier to train,
usually come when called, never drive your car, don't hang out with
drug using friends, don't drink or smoke, don't worry about buying the
latest fashions, don't wear your clothes, don't need a gazillion
dollars for college, and if they get pregnant, you can sell the
results.

posted in Hell is other people - 9 replies

The Easily Offended

2007-05-12T18:57:47Z

God damn it! How can people expect you to hang around them when they get all bent out of shape by every off-hand remark you make? Certainly, I can be a pretty abrasive person by my own recognition, but usually it's on purpose. If I say something like, "That seems a little misguided." It isn't meant to say, "You're a fucking moron, bitch!" So don't act like it is! I firmly believe that direct communication is a good thing, but some people just can't take it. I guess they just need to find some kind of drama in their life.
I've met dozens of cool people that are pretty easy-going and aren't going to try to crucify you with every word you utter, but there are hundreds that I've met that have some kind of puritanical devotion to requiring niceties in all communication.
I think I'm allowed to say, "Ann Geddes is probably the worst photographical artist of the 20th & 21st century." I think I'm allowed to say, "No! Bette Midler's 'Bette of Roses' albumn is not acceptible music in my living room." Is you're emotional connection to babies dressed up like bumble-bees or old ladies singing not nearly as well as they used to (when they made shitty music with Barry Manelow)SO strong that you have to throw a huge fucking fit about personal expression? And if you do throw that fit, why does it make you more angry when I ask what you were trying to express? A socio-economic issue? A sense of danger in child-raising?...no...probably attempting to express that babies are cute...and that they look really cute dressed up like bees... I'd just like to express that I think hot bisexual chicks are pretty cute too, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to hang pictures of them in the living room... Okay...now I'm straying a bit into specifics...but still... I think I'm going make it a point to be a total bastard during all future 1st dates, so I can tell right up front what I'm dealing with...

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Hell is not understanding what a thread is about

2007-05-12T15:24:01Z

Can someone tell me what the previous thread is about?!

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hell is assholes like the poop, i mean, the pope...and other religious freaks

2007-05-12T04:27:15Z

What a bunch of hypocritical bullshit!!! How the fuck can the leader of the fucking Catholic church lecture anyone on power, wealth, sexual 'immorality,' corruption, or anything else?!

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Pope Criticizes Age of 'Hedonism'

In canonizing Brazilian saint, he cites media 'ridicule' of marriage, virginity
The Associated Press
Updated: 2:37 p.m. CT May 11, 2007

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Pope Benedict XVI castigated popular culture for promoting sexual immorality Friday as he canonized Brazil’s first native-born saint before hundreds of thousands of faithful and a sea of flags in the world’s largest Roman Catholic nation.

Holding up Friar Antonio de Sant’Anna Galvao as a model of rectitude and humility “in an age so full of hedonism,” Benedict said the world needs clear souls and pure minds, adding: “It is necessary to oppose those elements of the media that ridicule the sanctity of marriage and virginity before marriage.”

Benedict didn’t elaborate, but his message for Brazilian Catholics reflected his uneasiness with the impact of popular culture on young people.

Earlier this year, Benedict declared that “any trend to produce programs and products — including animated films and video games — which in the name of entertainment exalt violence and portray anti-social behavior or the trivialization of human sexuality is a perversion.”

Brazilian news media said the crowd reached about 1 million — as church officials had hoped for — although there were large empty spaces on the airfield in South America’s largest city.

5,000 miracle cures cited
Benedict pronounced the sainthood of Galvao, a Franciscan monk credited by the church with 5,000 miracle cures, while he sat on a throne of Brazilian hardwood, surrounded by Latin American bishops and choirs of hundreds.

Galvao is the first native-born saint from Brazil, home to more than 120 million of the planet’s 1.1 billion Catholics, and the 10th to be canonized by Benedict.

His canonization continues a push for saints in Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world that began under John Paul II, who sought role models as part of the church’s worldwide reach. John Paul canonized more saints than all of his predecessors combined.

“Do you realize how big this is?” asked Herminia Fernandes, who joined the multitude at the airfield for the open-air Mass. “It’s huge, this pope is visiting Brazil for the first time and at the same time he is giving us a saint. It’s a blessing.”

Galvao, who died in 1822, began a tradition among Brazilian Catholics of handing out tiny rice-paper pills, inscribed with a Latin prayer, to people seeking cures for everything from cancer to kidney stones.

Although doctors and even some Catholic clergy dismiss the pills as placebos or superstitious fakery, cloistered nuns still toil in the Sao Paulo monastery where Galvao is buried, preparing thousands of the pills for free daily distribution. Each one carries these words: “After birth, the Virgin remained intact. Mother of God, intercede on our behalf.”

Vatican certified two recent miracles
After canonizing Galvao, the pope hugged Sandra Grossi de Almeida, 37, and her son Enzo, 7. She is one of two Brazilian women certified by the Vatican as divinely inspired miracles justifying the sainthood. She had a uterine malformation that should have made it impossible for her to carry a child for more than four months, but after taking the pills, she gave birth to Enzo.

“I have faith,” Grossi recently told The Associated Press. “I believe in God, and the proof is right here.”

Benedict’s trip has so far focused on reinforcing church doctrine on abortion, sexual morality and euthanasia. At a rally Thursday night, he instructed young Catholics to avoid premarital sex, remain faithful once they are married and to promote life from “its beginning to natural end.”

The latter was — at least in part — a reference to abortion, the issue that has dominated Benedict’s first papal visit to Latin America.

The pope also warned against drug use, violence, corruption and the temptations of wealth and power — themes sure to resonate across the region.

Pope opposed Dylan performance
Benedict, now 80, a pianist and lover of Mozart, showed his suspicions about popular culture in the 1990s when he acknowledged publicly he was opposed to a performance by Bob Dylan for John Paul II in Bologna, Italy. He said Dylan and other rock performers at the event were committed to a different message than John Paul’s and he saw no reason for such so-called “prophets” to intervene.

The pope heads Friday evening to the shrine city of Aparecida, about 100 miles from Sao Paulo, where he will visit a drug treatment center Saturday and open a conference of Latin American and Caribbean bishops on Sunday.

Aparecida is the most important Catholic religious site in Brazil, home to the mammoth Basilica of Aparecida and the 3-foot statue of a black Virgin Mary called “Our Lady Who Appeared,” the patron saint of Brazil.

The statue was pulled from a river in the 18th century by poor fishermen who were not catching any fish, and then caught loads in their nets. Miracles were subsequently attributed to the statue, and so many pilgrims flocked to Aparecida that the church built the basilica and inaugurated it as a shrine in 1955.

© 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18611180/

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Rebates-and-switch

2007-05-08T22:56:25Z

Kingston RAM cards were on sale at Circuit City. The deal was that they're $70 each, with a $30-35 rebate. I bought two, and sent in the rebate.

Over a month and a half later, instead of a check, they sent me this.

http://hiop.tribe.net/photos/68036cc2-1000-456d-bae3-aff4c534029d

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Hell on Earth last night in the bar...

2007-05-04T09:57:54Z

Last night I was working behind the bar alone, taking food and drink orders, running the food to people at tables, while the place was packed with happy hour clientele, fans of the band that was playing, and a large private party.

The bar was lined up with people who were slamming drinks faster than I could make them (this bar uses fresh juice, which is squeezed or muddled as you watch - think mojito speed for every drink on the menu), and here's the part that pissed me off:

This one lawyer bitch, who is a semi-regular, who is also a bad tipper on a regular basis, orders a drink from me while i am delivering 5 plates of food to their table. We do not have table service for drinks. If I have time I do it to be nice, for nice people. I already have three drink orders ahead of hers, and so I do those and then deliver her damned drink to her. When it comes time for her to pay, she has to wait a little bit for me to get to her to close out the tab. I take orders one at a time, in the order I see people trying to get my attention or looking like they want another drink. On an $83 tab, she leaves me zippo. Nada. Zilch. Not a dime. Even though I waited on her all afternoon, giving excellent service until I was obviously swamped at the end. I told my manager about this, because I am supposed to report unhappy customers to him so he can either kiss their ass or do whatever he thinks is appropriate, and so he apologized to her and tried to explain what was already obvious...I didn't really want him to go talk to her, because I wasn't fishing for tips after she already told me in action she thought I deserved nothing. Later on she gave me a really bitchy look as she was leaving. If she ever shows her ugly face back in the bar when I am working, she'll most likely get regular service from me, as I try to remain professional under all circumstances, but who knows what i'll actually do if she has the balls to come back. If I was in her place, I wouldn't trust me to make a drink for her.

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People who follow/stalk you in Tribe

2007-04-30T00:39:19Z

Hell is clueless people who see your posts in other tribes, then check out your profile's tribe lists, and then join all your tribes--- even though they don't understand them. Invariably , they're the people who posted goofy, stupid shit in other tribes --- wasting space with posts others either ignored or posted "shut up" replies to---- and when they come into the new tribes, they do the same thing. They're the people known for posting off-topic, posting witty comebacks like "ha ha", starting threads that have no connection to the tribe's topic. Just like in the realtime world, they're the people who have nothing worthwhile to say---- and they like to say it as often as possible. So they follow you around and pretty soon, every time you visit one of YOUR tribes, erggghhhh, there's this idiot's pic and same old stupid comments. Arggghhhh, there's no escape from stupid people!

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You know you're dealing with...

2007-04-25T09:05:50Z

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/20/1087669819439.html

I wonder who is behind that ad campaign! Could it be a bunch of *ickheads?

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hell is when...

2007-03-31T02:42:39Z

you are unable to respond to a direct question
you cannot see the forest for the trees
love asks you to wait
or to shut up
or to go away

that's hell for me...

your version?

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Ultraculture Journal One

2007-03-30T19:19:08Z

www.ultraculture.org

Ultraculture Journal One is AVAILABLE NOW. UC1 collects under one cover the most volatile and direct transmission of the tantric traditions of India available in the English language, featuring groundbreaking work from culture-spanning masters like Ganesh Baba and Brion Gysin. Ultraculture steers away from mere syncretism to examine the attempts made to translate the teachings of the East into terms which genuinely speak to Western consciousness.

6" x 9", 418 pages, perfect bound, $23.

This is the "Beta" edition as the publication is currently awaiting an ISBN and barcode for distribution on Amazon and in stores; it is available to purchase now without a barcode in what is sure to soon be a limited collector's item...

It is also available as a $10 shareware download.

This issue includes:

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge on the holographic Garden of Eden

Brion Gysin’s travelogue of his journey to Alamut, the citadel of the Assassins

Lalitanath and Shivanath on the Magick Path of Tantra

Jason Louv’s essential guide to Western magick

Peter-R. Koenig on the occult career of David Bowie

Beat legend Ira Cohen on John Dee and the Kumbh Mela, the biggest religious festival in the world

Dave Lowe and Hans Plomp travel across India’s mountains and rivers without end

The psychedelic rantings of Ganesh Baba, the world’s most tripped-out guru

Johnny Templar broadcasts live from the tomb of Christian Rosenkreutz

Mordant Carnival on working with Loki, the Man With the Tattered Smile

Elijah casts a Spell to Open the Sky

Joel Biroco on the “War on Terror”

Prince Charming interviews Tibetan Tantric Adept Monica Dechen Gyalmo

New fiction from Jason Louv

New lyrics from the late Jhonn Balance of Coil and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

Treasure chests full of rituals, reviews and wish-granting genies

Cover by Nelson Evergreen

The first in a series, Ultraculture Journal promises to catalyze a twenty-first century actually worth living in.

Welcome to the psychedelic make-out party at the beginning of history.

www.ultraculture.org

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Hell is not being told until it's too late...

2007-03-18T06:09:51Z

Important stuff that no one bothered to tell you way back then:

1. Although the instructions appear to be written in English, they’re not.

2. Don’t worry, it only seems kinky the first few times.

3. He who laughs last , doesn’t get the joke.

4. A day without sunshine is like , well , night mostly.

5. Change is inevitable , except from machines that you put money into.

6. Everyone lies , but it doesn’t matter since nobody likes the truth.

7. The darkest hours come just before the dawn. If you , hypothetically wanted to run
around the block naked , well , that’s the time to do it.

8. Don’t ever test the depth of water with both feet.

9. The sooner you fall behind , the more time you have to catch up again.

10. A clear conscience is the first sign of Alzheimer’s.

11. If at first you don’t succeed , don’t run with the bulls again.

12. No one is listening until you make a mistake.

13. As a rule , you aren’t learning much if your lips are moving.

14. Those that live by the sword tend to get shot by those that don’t.

15. Try and try again , and if you don’t succeed destroy the evidence.

16. Just remember if the world didn’t suck , we’d all float off into space.

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It's very simple

2007-03-13T05:41:56Z

The more time I spend around humans - the more I love being with my dog!
I used to tell my mother when I grew up I wanted to be a hermit.
Getting there!

Thanks - that's all I wanted to say

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Right, but...

2007-03-09T03:43:33Z

...did you ever notice how it is mostly the same other people?

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