What gets your goat?

[fix-the-spade]

I never thought much about bicycles, haven't been on my bicycle in years. I rode a lot as a kid and never saw anyone with a helmet - many motorcyclists didn't even wear them - and I never saw any serious head injuries, even on over-the-handlebars wipe-outs on paved roads. (Front wheel meets rear wheel of the bike ahead gives a very quick and pretty spectacular trip over the bars. Maybe heads were just harder back then.) But then I was way out in the sticks, and even on the paved roads there wasn't much traffic.

Push bikes - are there bikes that don't have pedals, like the old scooters (think skateboards with a handle.) Why on earth would anyone want that?

I'll give your goat back now; I only got it by accident.

Cheers, I was wondering where it had got to...

yes, there are bikes with no pedals, usually ridden by small, small kids. Sort of a pre-stabiliser bike.

I live in a town centre, lot of bike, lot of cars, lot of face/car, face/lamp post, face/pavement interactions.

 

[the monopoly guy]

I hat emost of the videos on youtube, whitetrash, rap, rappers, teenagers who smoke, teenagers who do drugs, 2 year olds that think they know everything,teenagers who drink, people who drink and drive WITH THEIR KIDS IN THE CAR, anyhting found in a ceral box, cereal, white milk (I only drink ovaltine...), my old babysitter (apperently it was too damn hard for her to give me a glass of water instead of mkaing me drink some milk...*****), diet soda, diets in genereal, old people that drive SUVs, people the drive SUVs because they think they need the room when thats waht a mini-van is for, people who think they own the roads, ralph nader, jason statham, anybody that gives 2 flying fucks to hollywood tabloids, hollywood tabloids, turkey bacon, soy bacon, soy anything, myspace, facebook, social networking sites, dumbasses who don't think they need to buckle up, people that blame schools for their kids being fat...

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I hate London. It is Mecca for the self obsessed and self important. A place where people don't mind being ripped off on every purchase simply because they believe that London is culturally significant and that being there somehow makes them a worthwhile person. When in reality it is a consumerist nightmare with a bad knife crime problem.

 

[Gooble]

Sheer retardation-which basically covers everything that gets my goat, from retarded politians, to retarded gamers, to retarded events etc.

 

[BlazeTheVampire]

i hate how teenagers could think carrying around a knife can be deemed "cool", what is "cool" about getting stabbed? or going to prison because you acted in "self defense" when someone attacked you?
equally these stupid murders that happen because the victim looked at someone in "the wrong way", how exactly do you do that? whats the "right" way to look at someone then?
just stupid ppl and stupid thinking in general just grinds my gears and it makes me loose faith in humanity by the second.

Heh, I generally carry a knife.
However, rehearsals on campus generally run very late and I live in the dorm building on the opposite side of campus from the theatre. Most of the cast live in dorms that are closer to the theatre or live off campus, so it often happens that I'm walking across campus alone late at night. Thus, dad bought me a knife. We thought about pepper spray, but it gives me an immediate asthma attack, and if I have one of those, there won't be any running away involved.
It's not like I carry it with me to the grocery store and spin it around to show people how "cool" I am, lol.

And Saskwach,
Move. To Toledo. Now.
Just kidding, Toledo sucks.

Another thing that pisses me off: Every place in Toledo that's hiring but won't hire "just for the summer," meaning that I can't find a second job to save my life, even if I'm more qualified than the people they end up hiring. The video store on the corner did this to me and now I can't even go in there without getting pissed off because I know the stupid ditz ringing me up isn't as qualified to do so as I am. I know that sounds super self-righteous, and it pretty much is, but damn it I get like ten hours a week. My paycheck is about $100 every two weeks. THIS CAN'T PAY FOR COLLEGE! THIS CAN'T EVEN PAY RENT! OR CAR INSURANCE! Which is why I'm still stuck living with my parents!

/rant.

 

[crimsnsacrifice]

-welfare (aka social assistance). The system in Canada is...well...crap. Its ok if you keep procreating and bringing kids into the world that you cant take care of, we'll just give you more money! Keep wasting it on stupid crap, there's another cheque coming!
-canadian justice system. Where I live we have a BIG problem with inner city violence and repeat juvenile offenders. What gets done? Nothing. A few years back, a university student was beaten within an inch of his life by a some guy with a pipe or something blunt like that. Student now has severe brain damage and no longer will have the life he would have. The reason for this? "I thought he was someone else.." The sentence? Time served, and an apology.
-Socks with sandals.
-other people's children.
-teenagers. I dont care how hardcore you are and that you're "so hot" you can wear a skirt with your ass hanging out. Get a job. Grow up. Put on some clothes.
-Those sweaty, no-deoderant-wearing DDR kids that crowd around and hog the machine at the local arcade on "1 token tuesday". Yes I'm not some uber-pro, but I want to play. And I want you and your sweaty friends to go away while I do so.
-over ripe bananas.
-aggressive panhandlers. Come to Winnipeg. Walk down Portage Ave. Have fun.
-"scene kids". These 20-somethings that are "so much cooler than you are" since they shop at the salvation army AND american apparel, listen to "indie rock", and only talk to other "scene kids". Get over yourselves. You know damn well you love Kelly Clarkson and Justin Timberlake.
-People who assume one of my tattoos is "satanic". YES is is a pentacle. NO it does not mean I worship Satan. NO it does not mean I will conjur up a love spell for you.
-obligitory: racists/sexists/stupid people/pedophiles/loudmouth children on mic
-sweaty smelly feet
-junk mail
-email forwards
-facebook applications
-people who quit early in an online match (TAKE THE BEATING I AM PROVIDING)
-telephones

Well that was longer than I had anticipated. I'll stop now.

 

[werepossum]

I live in a town centre, lot of bike, lot of cars, lot of face/car, face/lamp post, face/pavement interactions.

If I were riding in town or mountain biking I'd definitely wear a helmet.

Illegal immigrants. I'm sorry your country sucks, but if you want to cross the border to get the rights of Americans, please do it legally. Or if you have no choice but come over, do so and apply for citizenship ASAP. Do not leech off of us.

Anyone who is famous for being rich/hot. Seriously, how much newsprint was given to Anna Nichole Smith's death as compared to Steve Erwin's? Now, who actually made a difference in their life?

People who hate Americans for being American. Hate stupidity, but realize that stupidity and American mean two different things. Not all Americans are stupid, and not all stupids are American.

You are my new hero.

 

[MechJaz]

There's plenty that gets my goat, grinds my gears, and pisses me off.
Most of it has already been said, so I'll skip all the other stuff and just say that I agree with most things people have said here.

now:
People that overuse parentheses. I do it and I can't stand it, and it really detracts from the flow of whatever you're reading/I'm writing.

Ignorance - it's been said before, but ignorance in the sense that the knowledge is available to be had, but the person/group refuses to make themselves more knowledgeable about a topic/group of people/whatever they claim to hate and keep right on to themselves being hateful, or at least ignorant.

People that adopt every possible internet/technological noun into a verb. "Google it, wikipedia it, text me, blog it >shudder<," and so on.

People whose sense of attenuation or the propriety of their self-controlled, environmental amplitudes is broken. For example, people who talk too loud (forgiving those with hearing problems that they didn't give to themselves), put four inch exhaust pipes on their car or truck and drive by at all hours of the night and day, come to think of it, people who ghetto-blast and won't even turn their music down at intersections when you have to wait beside them, people that turn their headphones so far up that you are stuck in the misery of their crappy taste in music.

A best friend's girlfriend that everyone hates and knows to be an icy *****, but refuses to be acknowledged by the friend.

Inept, lazy people that want me to do their jobs for them because they refuse to look or even try anything for themselves (tech support is my job). If you have a real problem, and you've tried, at least a little, then call. But I won't do your jobs for you, you lazy pricks.

Censorship - there are things I don't like or want to see, but that doesn't mean other people shouldn't be allowed to see/produce them.

Games with cheap difficulty built right in, or have inconsistent difficulty and ridiculous spikes thereof (I'm looking at you, Gears of War).

The fact that every time I get into a remotely intellectual conversation, my nerve, wits, and vocabulary leave me.

Thanks for listening.

 

[the monopoly guy]

if you didn't play this game or follow it upon its release you should probably stick your dick in a blender and hit the puree button.

this guy, and all his posts, and the fact it took him 12 posts to get panned, get my goat. I am not syaing the mods are bad, I am saying that people like this piss me off.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

It gets my goat when my shift at work starts on the same morning my last one ended...

 

[ShadeOfRed]

Stupid People.
People who say I need to speak more slowly.
People who say "Speaking more slowly," is improper grammar. Well, guess what? It IS correct.
People in general.
Orange Juice.
Homework.
My dad not shutting up about how I got into that private High School and how much it costs.
The fact I'll have more homework next year.
People who can't backup their beliefs or opinions when trying to convince someone to believe the same.
Firefox losing the spell check feature in the Beta.
Games that are released, but look like they're in Beta.
Graphic whores.
Gameplay whores.
Spoiler whores.
Long lists.
Anything written by me.
Boring books that are assigned for homework.
Books that are horribly crappy, but win some stupid award.
Learning another language during exams.
Exams.
Repeating items in long lists.
People who did it "For the lulz."
Rap music.
Xbox-live players.
My brother when he's playing Halo 3.
Mic spammers.
My graphics card.
Repeating items in long lists.
Mudkips.
Repeating items in long lists.
Did I say repeating items in long lists? I know I didn't. No, I'm SURE of it.
My short attention span. It's a wonder I finished this.

 

[BlazeTheVampire]

-People who assume one of my tattoos is "satanic". YES is is a pentacle. NO it does not mean I worship Satan. NO it does not mean I will conjur up a love spell for you.

Amen. I don't have a tattoo but I wear a pentacle and I get the same reaction. I also hate when people ask me for a tarot reading and freak out if the Death card appears. I had a girl run screaming across the room once, flipping my cards at me before she went. I didn't even care to tell her what the card actually meant at that point.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

-People who assume one of my tattoos is "satanic". YES is is a pentacle. NO it does not mean I worship Satan. NO it does not mean I will conjur up a love spell for you.

Amen. I don't have a tattoo but I wear a pentacle and I get the same reaction. I also hate when people ask me for a tarot reading and freak out if the Death card appears. I had a girl run screaming across the room once, flipping my cards at me before she went. I didn't even care to tell her what the card actually meant at that point.

hehe both the pentagram/pentacle are funny and i've mentioned what the actual real meaning behind it is

as for tarot that's an even odder story but it has nothing to do with fortune telling, as far as i can tell it has more to do with the knights templar and the freemasons than telling your future

as for the canadian justice system, yeah they've been trying to tweak and change the youth offenders act for a while, it's stupid retards and their precious little crotch fruit that are stopping anything serious from happening, they don't want their little snowflakes punished too much cause they're so precious and unique just like all the other kids

as for the welfare system, that's provincial and ontario doesn't allow the whole welfare baby factory anymore, if you can't/won't find a job they cut you off

 

[shatnershaman]

New goat getter for me is Konami for being a censoring *****.

 

[Duck Sandwich]

I didn't even care to tell her what the card actually meant at that point.

So what did the ol' Death card mean?

And now, more things I hate

-Turn-based RPG's, save for Paper Mario and Grandia
-The inevitability of irreversible consignment to eternal oblivion of death that we are all damned to suffer from the moment of our creation
- Personal experience assignments (Dammit, I haven't been betrayed by my best friend, which is what this assignment requires me to write about. Therefore, I'm screwed)
- People who tell me to walk slower
- Not being able to sleep when I need to the most
- When someone has a problem with you and they don't confront you about it, but resort to stabbing you in the back instead
- Oliver Cromwell
- My complete lack of charisma

 

[the monopoly guy]

not being able to sleep past 8 in the morning no matter how late I stay up, I could go to bed at 5 a.m. and I will wake up at 8 if I'm lucky, but most likely 7

paris hilton, Hilton hotels, any hotel for that matter and golf courses becuase they overcharge so much, no I don't wanna pay 3 dollars for a hot pocket adn the subsequent diahrea nor does anyone else save micheal moore or karl rove

people that take jokes too seriously

little dogs that yip nonstop and fit in peoples purse

people that stick dogs in their purses

people that drive with little yippy dogs in their laps

anyone that owns a little yippy dog (except pugs and dachsunds)

people that go "camping" in RVs-no camping is with tents and campfires and camptstoves, not satelite tv, beds, and microwaves you lazy twits

 

[PurpleRain]

People who say things like: "Baby Tiger Cub," "ATM Machine," or PIN Number." What does the N stand for you twit!

 

[TheKnifeJuggler]

My goat getter gets my goat.

People who you argue with constantly and don't know when to stop, and let their beliefs get too involved into an argument.
Also, people who have biases so big it makes my brain bleed. Which I suppose contributes to the first one.
Pretty much arguing with people who're too arrogant to realize I'm smarter then them. XD

Also, Family Guy, Rap music, Christian Rock, annoying Pop songs, people who complain about generation whatever, when people point out that the only reason I know the song I'm mumbling under my breath is because it was in Guitar Hero, and people who go on and on about stuff you really don't care about.

 

[AnGeL.SLayer]

Blah. This is just another hate thread.