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Things Which Annoy You

A few years ago they introduced the idea that in Toronto, Canada (alone) there would now be a 5 cent charge for ANY plastic bag.
That law was dropped, but most grocery stores decided to keep charging that 5 cents anyway.
I am so angry, that I am now defeating the purpose.
From now on, ANYTHING that goes into that 5 cent bag goes straight to landfill instead of being recycled properly.
Want me to recycle? STOP charging me that 5 cent fee!!!
(I'M SERIOUS!!!)
 
Yeziknoradio said:
A few years ago they introduced the idea that in Toronto, Canada (alone) there would now be a 5 cent charge for ANY plastic bag.
That law was dropped, but most grocery stores decided to keep charging that 5 cents anyway. I am so angry, that I am now defeating the purpose. From now on, ANYTHING that goes into that 5 cent bag goes straight to landfill instead of being recycled properly. Want me to recycle? STOP charging me that 5 cent fee!!! (I'M SERIOUS!!!)
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Sounds crooked to me too. Here's another injustice: the NY Port Authority's pledge to drop fees for crossing then-newly built bridges, once construction costs were paid. It never happened. Instead, fees have increased for 80 years, in some cases to nearly $9 per crossing, or, in a few cases, per round trip.

You might also share my "annoyance", no, OUTRAGE at the raiding of the Social Security fund by congress for projects having nothing to do with Social Security.

Somebody say AMEN!
 
WA government making a Catch-22 on drivers at times - either toll Interstate 90 from Seattle to Bellevue, or increase the gas tax EVEN MORE to 10 more cents a gallon! They've already tolled SR-520 from Seattle to Bellevue to pay for a new bridge and our CROOKED government wants to toll I-90 as well. No, seriously, just no.

And we have the highest gas tax in the nation...

-crainbebo
 
Mister Yeziknoradio, the cities that have banned plastic bags require the stores to charge customers extra for the paper bags that used to be given to them. In most cities, customers are forced to pay either five or ten cents for a paper bag, but in Monterey---the same city that hosted the 1967 pop festival that Eric Burdon sang about---the fee is twenty-five cents! Buy enough groceries to fill eight bags and you'll be taxed an extra two dollars! Yikes!
 
Another thing that annoys me is a major mistake in a movie. I get annoyed a lot. Here is the latest example: Mrs. LARR and I saw the new Lone Ranger movie. Think Captain Jack Sparrow as a Comanche. The opening scene takes place in 1933 and shows a young boy in a cowboy outfit looking at dioramas in a Wild West exhibit at a carnival. In the background, Tumbling Tumbleweeds is playing. That song was written by Bob Nolan in 1934. Nolan and Roy Rogers formed the Sons of the Pioneers that same year and the song became their first hit, in December 1934. Disney could afford $250,000,000 to make the movie but they couldn't pay a few bucks for a fact-checker? The first Austin Powers movie opened with Guess Who's American Woman---a 1970 song in a scene that takes place in 1969! I could give thousands of similar examples of movie mistakes---or you could go to moviemistakes.com. And yes, I've frequently contributed to that site. If I can notice all these mistakes, why can't the people who make the fershlugginer movies notice them?
 
Next complaint. (Don't stop me---I'm on a roll right now!) I am really tired of hearing the Cavalry charge, the Addams Family theme, the Green Acres theme, and the Day-O chant (from a song about banana pickers!) blasted from the loudspeakers several times during every baseball game. The Cavalry charge is particularly stupid because there are no troops charging over a hill to do battle with the Paiutes or the Japanese---there's a guy standing at home plate, trying to hit a baseball. A trumpet fanfare followed by the yelling of "Charge!" is really ridiculous. (By the way, the last Cavalry charge took place on January 16, 1942; the story is at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/o...st-cavalry-charge-by-the-us-army-8557345.html )
 
Dollar stores that now charge more than a dollar for anything.
Stop calling it a dollar store already!!!
 
Four years ago, one of our local chains, 99¢ Only, raised prices. Some of the things they sell were two for 99¢ or three for 99¢ but most were 99¢ each. As expenses rose, the chain's profit margin was shrinking but they couldn't really raise prices. They wound up adding a ".99" to everything. The stores are still known as 99¢ Only but the price of everything is now 99.99¢. But look at it this way: If you buy 100 items, you pay just $99.99 (plus tax) instead of the $100 you might pay at a regular Dollar Store!

Another baseball-related complaint: Vaudeville entertainer Jack Norworth wrote Take Me Out To The Ball Game in 1908 and it is really stupid to sing the song while we're already at a ball game. By the way, the confection is Cracker Jack---if you have to sing the fershlugginer song, don't say "Cracker Jacks." And why do we sing God Bless America at baseball games? That makes about as much sense as a congregation at a church service singing Take Me Out To The Ball Game!

The complete lyrics of Norworth's song are at http://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/po_stmo.shtml
 
Another annoyer - Movies that have talking that is really really soft, and then music or SFX that is REALLY REALLY LOUD!! I have to turn my stereo up or down several times during the darn movie!

-crainbebo
 
STUPID PEOPLE.

So in Connecticut it's been in the 90s for the past several days with very high humidity. It's so bad that if you take a deep breath you start coughing. So that's what I had to put up with, with my job as a shopping cart pusher. Anyway I worked until 2:30PM yesterday, went home showered, took a nap, and went out for dinner in Bristol. So after dinner when I'm back in Southington I decide to get a movie from REDBOX and as I'm driving past my work and I see lots of police cars and ambulances in front of the store. When I get home with my movie from the WALMART REDBOX I message my coworker on Facebook and asked him about the police cars and ambulances. He told me that

"AN ELDERLY MAN LOCKED HIS WIFE IN THE CAR WITH THE WINDOWS ROLLED UP AND SHE PASSED OUT!"
 
Wouldn't it have been nice to add to that story: THE ELDERLY MAN'S WIFE ROLLED THE WINDOW DOWN AND THEN SHE WAS FINE. Apparently there were two stupid people involved in that incident!

On July 13 the Hollywood Bowl will host an outdoor screening of Grease; Didi Conn and Sha Na Na will also perform. The event is advertised as a "Grease sing-a-long." Kmart and many other stores promote their "lay-a-way" services. And of course there is a bathroom cleaner called "Lime-A-Way." Most of those hyphens are not necessary! "Singalong" (or, if you just have to have a hyphen, "Sing-along") and "layaway" and "Lime-Away" work just fine.
 
Ok, two more that just happened to me in the last couple of minutes.
1. I admit that when this one happens I'm spending way too much time on the computer, but it's annoying anyway. Entercom's streams seem to have a time limit on them. When you've been listening for an hour and 15 minutes or so, a voice comes on and says "Hey, still listening? Click the button on your player to return to your station." Then the stream comes back on, but if you don't click the button within about 30 seconds, the stream disappears. When this happens, I usually just wait for it to disappear then refresh the page, then I'm good for another hour or so. Fortunately, I haven't had to refresh a second time, since I'm usually done long before it times out again, though that might have happened to me today had I not changed stations. Regardless, just let me listen as long as I want, without making me click a button every hour.
2. My aunt just commented on a photo that my mom uploaded to Facebook and tagged me in yesterday. I was reading another part of this board while not logged in, with my phone sitting next to me on the desk. It unlocked itself at the notification as it always does. I looked to see what the notification was, and it was the comment. This one wasn't bad, but I've had some that are a lot worse. VoiceOver reads the comment, but is also counting time until the phone locks itself again, and it sometimes locks in the middle of reading a comment. You'd think that Apple would make sure that the screen wouldn't lock when VoiceOver is reading a notification.
 
Encore, Starz, HBO etc networks airing CHRISTMAS movies in July. Really? Don't you have 2,000 other movies that you could show, not just "Arthur's Christmas" or some other crap like that in SUMMER?

Yeah, I understand Christmas in July, but that's way too much...

-crainbebo
 
Going to Denny's and forgetting your 20% off coupon like I did last night. (I have 2 actually. One from a coupon book that gets mailed to all the residents in Southington and one Denny's sent me via email for being a member of their Reward's Club).

Picking up a copy of HotelCoupons.Com Magazine and finding a coupon for the hotel you're going to be staying at in King of Prussia, PA and reading the fine print that the coupon is not good for advanced reservations and only valid for walk-ins.
 
Heavy rain...unless I'm home with no plans to go anywhere any time soon.
Late night sounds good! Yeah...rain heavy at that time instead!! 8)
 
MarcB said:
TV commercials that ruin cool songs. I just saw a commercial on COX Cable for Broad Street Pizza in Meriden, CT and they took the song "Another One Bites The Dust" and remade it as "Another One Bites The Crust."
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Pop song music beds in commercials have always annoyed me, especially on TV. One from archives: the FIGURINES spot of the '70s, sung to the tune of Tangerine.
 
I've complained many times---sorry I can't give you the exact number---about all the idiotic commercials that use old rock songs. The songs are forever ruined for me once I hear them in a commercial. Elvis Presley's Viva Las Vegas became "Viva Viagra." The Isley Brothers' That Lady is used in an ad showing a woman dancing with a fershlugginer mop! The Temptations' Get Ready, with its line about "Start making love to you," is used in an ad for JCPenney fashions for schoolkids! YMCA became "P-E-P-S-I." Can't any ad agency hire someone to write a new jingle? Is it their goal to ruin every pop song ever recorded?

We've mentioned misleading sale prices. On the JCPenney website --- http://www.jcpenney.com/dotcom/jewe...ry/cat.jump?id=cat100260185&N=789&Nao=48&pN=3 ---there are some amazing sales. And what makes them amazing? Here are some examples:

Lab-Created Ruby & Sapphire 2-Tone Heart Pendant Sterling Silver
$120 original, $130 sale

Diamond-Accent & Lab-Created Ruby Heart Pendant
$120 original, $130 sale

Lab-Created Ruby & White Sapphire Heart Pendant Sterling Silver
$75 original, $95 sale

Golly gee, if only I had known about these sale prices in time for Mothers Day!
 
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