Pet Peeves

PP: Why is it that people who list their weight as "0 Lbs" are never remotely accurate, but if someone lists their age as "99" it's probably going to be in the ballpark if not actually believable?

Jet ski came about 15 feet from my kayak going 60mph. That god I had a boat made for the ocean or I would have been rolled over. We need an open season on jet skiers. I hear they taste like chicken

Thank you Pixie!

exactly! just move on...

Thumbs up!

PP: It's very simple, (unless you are blocked), to see how long someone has been a member on the site.

Why then, when you can see they are new, is it necessary to tell people that the issue they are posting about has been discussed xxx number of times, or how many threads about it already exist?

New people come to the forums. If you don't care to explain it for the 114th time, fine. Move the fuck on and someone else will. But your need to tell the new people how many times the topic has been discussed is far more annoying than their curiosity.

Immigrants who don't know how to drive, sixty miles an hour in the fats lanes on the freeways are driving me nuts and causing tons of accidents as people have to keep going around them.
Why are immigrants given drivers licenses without having to pass drivers ed?

That example is pretty egregious. Had the same thing happen with me a few years back, from a couple none the less. The fact that they lived frickin' 350 miles away shouldn't have been a reason for me not to answer within 5 minutes with plans to drop everything to drive up the next night, don't you agree?

I'm being flip, of course.

Just because someone sends an introduction email, that doesn't mean that they deserve an answer. Now, don't get me wrong. It's polite to give an answer back, even if it's a polite "no thanks". It's good for the soul. But don't do it because you owe them an answer, because you don't. If you choose to answer, do it because being polite makes you feel good about yourselves.

One more thing. The "why not?" question. That's virtually always a sign that they're looking for a confrontation. They're looking for an excuse to give one of those petulant "well, I didn't want to fuck you anyway" bullshit emails. There might be one person in a thousand that is really looking for guidance on how to improve themselves, but that's not the way to bet. Don't let the grumps drag you down. Be positive, cheerful and have fun on your journey.

Best of luck.

Not a peeve so much as a question (OK, maybe it is my peeve). Send me a birdie, and then every 48 hours ask "why didn't you respond?, was it my pics or my profile etc?".
How long is too long to get back to an unsolicited birdie? We usually both have to look at it to answer and that doesn't happen on a daily basis, especially when one of us is out of town. And isn't it considered bad form to ask why don't you like me? Doesn't no thanks constitute a complete response? (not to mention, we had not even said yes or no yet LOL)

I think Frank was Spanish American war.

Frank was a big offender in this area, with his perpetual claim of being 59 and then telling stories that made that impossible, such as the rank he had achieved when some aircraft arrived at Dover AFB in 1971.

But as always, Frank made it funny. Never deliberately, of course. He never seemed to understand the infallability of mathematics, almost as if he believed that some people born in 1950 would be 66 in 2016, but others might be only 59, and it wasnt really possible to determine how old anyone was based on such information.

I get pissed when people don't believe I'm a WWII veteran...

wasn't that Frank?

I had a pet peeve, but it ran away from home last summer. Didn't like the WalMart peeve kibble I'd been buying.

" if they are listed at 40 and they tell me they served in the first Gulf War"

But I got drafted at 13!!!

My other peeve is the "I was in special forces" guy that knows dick-all about the military. He has the television version down pat, but no idea what's taught at Ft Benning. I have to dig in once that starts, I just can't leave it alone. Sometimes even the wife will act like she's fascinated, asking them about jump school, SERE training & so forth, you know, cause everybody loves that shit. "So what year did you do BUDS? Did you do it in Little Creek or in San Diego? " is usually all it takes....

Sometimes you just have to pet the bitch to calm the peeve.

Welcome to the club.

My peeve is that lately the Open topic is nothing but peeves and bitchin ;-)

IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROPHECY

The gym where I work out is full of immigrants from all over the world. These people don't speak English and don't know the rules of the gym. You dot sit at a machine and text for ten minutes.

No one can explain that to them because there are twenty different languages being spoken at one time. Anyone speak Slovakian?

Yeah. I agree.

I get pissed when people don't believe I'm a WWII veteran...

I'm not saying that people sometimes get away with it. But people can only be 49 for so many years before they aren't fooling anyone.

Of course I don't check anyone's birth certificate, but if they are listed at 40 and they tell me they served in the first Gulf War, I'll know they are a liar. People betray their true age all the time. Some people don't notice or care. If I'm fed an impossibility, then yeah I'll notice.

What it really comes down to is - why does anyone do it, other than to be deceitful?

I've been down this road before with others. People can do what they like, and how people feel about it will range from aversion to indifference.

Nah.

Drivers license is better.

It has a picture...

So if the guy looks 62 I guess you will check his birth cert. Get real.

"So it's up to you if you want to be known as liars."

Winner winner chicken dinner!

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"states his age as 70 but his profile says he's 62. What's the harm."

Harm? None. But if we meet you and you've outright lied to us about who you are in order to secure a meeting, we will (and have) turn and leave.

So it's up to you if you want to be known as liars.

Having to stop drinking beer at the naked pool party so i can drive home. I want Scotty to beam me home so i can keep drinking!!!!!

"People who think they're the LS police". In another forum a member thought it was their place to point out that I guy states his age as 70 but his profile says he's 62. What's the harm. Women all day long cake their faces with make up, fake their boobs and hair, padded this and squeeze that in an attempt to appear younger or prettier or slimmer or sexier. What's up with that? Here's a guy that doesn't look or feel his age so he shaves a few years off his age. What's the harm? Some people need to mind their own business.