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9 Things I Hate About Everyone #1 (permalink) Fri May 19, 2006 12:19 pm   9 Things I Hate About Everyone
 

Hello!

9 Things I Hate About Everyone

1. People who point at their wrist while asking for the time... I know where my watch is pal, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?

2. People who are willing to get off their ass to search the entire room for the T.V. remote because they refuse to walk to the T.V. and change the channel manually.

3. When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too". Damn right! What good is cake if you can't eat it?

4. When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they? Gonna kick their asses!

5. When people say, while watching a film, "Did you see that?" No, Loser, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the damn floor.

6. People who ask "Can I ask you a question?".... Didn't really give me a choice there, did ya, Sunshine?

7. When something is "new and improved!"...Which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it, so it couldn't be new.

8. When people say "life is short". What the hell? Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever experiences!! What can you do that's longer?

9. When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here, Dumb-ass?
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9 Things I Hate About Everyone #2 (permalink) Fri May 19, 2006 13:56 pm   9 Things I Hate About Everyone
 

Hello brucewilliss!

Really an interesting list! Do you have an other one in which you catalogue points of things you like about everyone?
Or do you have 10 things now you hate about everyone? :roll:

Regards

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9 Things I Hate About Everyone #3 (permalink) Fri May 19, 2006 14:13 pm   9 Things I Hate About Everyone
 

Hi Michael

I think "Bruce" probably does have a Number 10 for his list of things he hates now:
Forum software that automatically inserts "use another word" when your vocabulary gets "too colorful". :lol:

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9 Things I Hate About Everyone #4 (permalink) Fri May 19, 2006 14:28 pm   9 Things I Hate About Everyone
 

Hi Amy!

Let?s make this forum more attractive for Bruce giving him a word which the forum don?t change:

"Slubberdegullian Druggel"!!!!! :lol:

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9 Things I Hate About Everyone #5 (permalink) Fri May 19, 2006 16:12 pm   9 Things I Hate About Everyone
 

Exactly, Michael! :D

For variety, Bruce could also use the word " supercalifragilisticexpialidocious " ! :lol:

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9 Things I Hate About Everyone #6 (permalink) Fri May 19, 2006 19:08 pm   9 Things I Hate About Everyone
 

Hi Amy!

Yankee wrote:
"supercalifragilisticexpialidicious"


:shock: :lol: This must be Buisiness English. I have no clue what it means! But I think I?ll suggest it at the next spelling contest as the word of the year! :lol:

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9 Things I Hate About Everyone #7 (permalink) Fri May 19, 2006 20:01 pm   9 Things I Hate About Everyone
 

Hi Michael

No, it's not Business English, it's actually an invented word and is the name of a song from the old musical (movie), Mary Poppins. The word became so well known that it can now be found in dictionaries. It's an adjective and means "fantastically good".

Hmmmm... maybe it's not such a good choice of words for Bruce's "hate list" after all... much too positive. :lol:

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Longest words #8 (permalink) Fri May 19, 2006 20:07 pm   Longest words
 

Fan of Arabian horses wrote:
Hi Amy!

Yankee wrote:
"supercalifragilisticexpialidicious"


:shock: :lol: This must be Buisiness English. I have no clue what it means! But I think I?ll suggest it at the next spelling contest as the word of the year! :lol:

Michael

And how's the following word for a spelling contest, Michael?

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. It's the name of a small town in Wales. And... it's not the longest town name in the world. Thailand has a town whose name has 163 letters:

Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokphopnop-
paratrajathaniburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarnavatarnsathit-
sakkattiyavisanukamprasit
.

Sorry, Amy, though Mary Poppins' song name is a good one for games.*

Though I'm not clairvoyant (at least not consciously), I can see brucewiliss' next item on his list: People who desperately try to outsmart other people :) ...

*Edit: I didn't know it could be found in dictionaries, Amy :o ! How interesting!
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9 Things I Hate About Everyone #9 (permalink) Fri May 19, 2006 21:43 pm   9 Things I Hate About Everyone
 

Hi Amy! Hi Conchita!

Amy, sorry, concerning musicals (movies) I am afraid of having to admit that I?m a real barbarian. :oops: About brucewilliss I feel used to mention that there will be hope because he didn?t dispute having a like list until now. 8) And as you can see in my quoting you it?s really a good spelling test for pupil from a downer class of a genies shool. :lol:

Conchita, the two town names seemed to be more usable for pupil from upper classes of the genies school. What I liked to see were the advise boards to these two towns at the street, especially to the town in Thailand. :lol: Perhaps brucewilliss is a manufactorer of advise boards. So I knew a point for his like list. :wink:

Liked to know what Bruce said about the reaction of his topic.

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Longest words #10 (permalink) Fri May 19, 2006 22:30 pm   Longest words
 

Fan of Arabian horses wrote:
What I liked to see were the advise boards to these two towns at the street, especially to the town in Thailand. :lol: Perhaps brucewilliss is a manufactorer of advise boards. So I knew a point for his like list. :wink:

I don't know about road signs, but you can have a look at their railway station sign here:

www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch.com/

By the way, the name translates as "The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave".

Some say SMILES is the longest word because there is a MILE between the first and last letters!
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9 Things I Hate About Everyone #11 (permalink) Sat May 20, 2006 9:01 am   9 Things I Hate About Everyone
 

Hi Conchita!

Thanks for your very educational advice to an interesting web site. Unfortunately I don?t have a sound card in my computer. Only to hear the name of the Welsh town seems to require the procurement of one.

About their railway station sign: it suggests to be similar to the Dome of Cologne. Noone will ever be able to make a photography of them alone. That is really great, isn?it? :D

By the way: which is deeper cup or plate? :?

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9 Things I Hate About Everyone #12 (permalink) Sat May 20, 2006 15:08 pm   9 Things I Hate About Everyone
 

Fan of Arabian horses wrote:
By the way: which is deeper cup or plate? :?

Hmm... is it a riddle? Normally, I would say a cup, since a plate is a flat dish, but it's probably the other way round, if it's a puzzle. Well, I'm curious now! :)
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9 Things I Hate About Everyone #13 (permalink) Sat May 20, 2006 16:58 pm   9 Things I Hate About Everyone
 

Hi Conchita!

You?re right. it?s a riddle straight translated into English! So it?s a bit irritateing! :oops:

Perhaps this is a bit easier:

What is deeper: CUP ODER PLATE?

Can you guess it now? :roll:

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9 Things I Hate About Everyone #14 (permalink) Sat May 20, 2006 17:07 pm   9 Things I Hate About Everyone
 

Hmmmm.... Michael, I'm mystified, too.... Since Conchita said "cup", I'll guess "plate".;) But I have no idea why that would be true. :?

Maybe we should try some riddles straight from English. :D

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9 Things I Hate About Everyone #15 (permalink) Sat May 20, 2006 17:42 pm   9 Things I Hate About Everyone
 

Try as I might, I just can't solve the riddle. :? So I give up!

It'd better be a good one, Michael :P !
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