What little thing would you make illegal just because it pisses you off?

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GNTLGNT

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...people who roll their crap laden carts into a "12 items or less" checkout lane and THEN proceed to write a check!!!!!......I literally have to turn away and go stand in the peace and aromatic solitude of the store bakery to chill out before I curb stomp the dumb sh*t.....
 

osnafrank

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Illiteracy or abscence of basic Knowledge.

Every German has to know, who triggered WW2 and what happened in this Time.
Everyone has to know, the Name Enola Gay or Hiroshima
Everyone has to know, that the Big Bang Theory isn`t just a TV Show.

Sounds plausible, but the Reality is, People use Google etc. if they hear or read something
they never herad of before.
And they believe this, often Dubious Sources "It was o the Internet, it cant be wrong"
I heard this soooo often, it is Alarming how stupid People can be and how Unwordly.

Talking loudly and swearing on your cell phone in public about very personal things going on in your life. I can't count how many times a day while working I would hear folks loudly discussing personal things or arguing with someone on their cell phone while shopping.

That pisses me off too.
But these People are so Careless
I often heared People talking about Personal Problems, they talk always loud.
"I have no Money on my Account, couldn`t pay my Bills. Have no Electricity now.
Oh yes, my Adress is ******, my Phone Number is******
My IBAN is ****** ....you get it ?"
No, but i got it Idiot and my Smart Phone too.
 

Grandpa

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People with cars that don't have the mufflers done right and they hoon around so everyone looks at them because their cars are 2000 decibels.

I didn't see this, or I would've just quoted, but yes!

Also, I would make long story-telling punishable by death. As my dad used to say when someone started a story, "Tell me the ending, then I'll tell you whether I want to hear the rest or not." How is it that adults can tell the longest, boringest, most detailed stories and not know they're boring? I try not to talk a lot around people. Some of my friends think I'm shy or "quiet," but, no, I'm just trying not to be a bore. If it were illegal, maybe I would be able to eat lunch with coworkers or say hello to the Walmart cashier without hearing a story which starts before Christ was born and ends in 2019.

Now, most people would end this with, "Rant over," but that's a cliché. Stop saying it! I'll just stop typing and hope you'll stop repeating things even if it's legal.

Yes. Generally when you hear someone say, "But to make a long story short," it's far, far too late.

I'm tired and trying to thing of examples.

"Think," you moron. If you're so tired that you can't "thing" straight and post without typos, stop posting.

Talking loudly and swearing on your cell phone in public about very personal things going on in your life. I can't count how many times a day while working I would hear folks loudly discussing personal things or arguing with someone on their cell phone while shopping. Yo! The rest of us out there in the world don't want to hear about this crap!

Yes, a thousand times, yes.

People driving with their turn signals on for miles and miles and miles......:mad-new:

Irritating, but I'll take them over the ones who never use them.

Gum. I would just outlaw the existence of gum. Too many people chew it like cows and pop it. Sooooo not appealing.

Yes, a million times, yes! It's not the popping for me. It's the black splotches left on the sidewalks and roads, and then your tax dollars are at work trying to make the place less unappealing. And then of course, you step out of a Panera Bread place after meeting with friends, find yourself sticking to the pavement, find a big wad of that gunk in your shoe tread that once you get home, neither you nor your wife can get out without knives and solvents, and even then not completely and it makes you rage and weep for humanity. Speaking for a friend.

People using nail clippers in public. It's gross! They think it's okay to let their just-cut nail pieces fly around and land wherever. GROSS!

It drove me nuts when I saw a bank president do this in the courtroom. I am not kidding. If I hadn't been exempt from public service employment protection and serving at the pleasure of the judge, I would've sent a bent paper clip fired from a rubber band against his skull.

Hard-to-pronounce names. Come on parents, if 9 out of 10 people will not be able to pronounce the kid’s name... what were you thinking?

A bit of guilt here having a close one with the middle name of "Siobhan," although she likes it, and it's a bona fide Celtic spelling.

I had no trouble pronouncing "Melonye" when I saw it, but I'm looking at her, thinking, "Really? You or your parents wanted your name to have a base word of 'melon'???"

the word bae. using shorthand and not spelling things out properly as in "i c wut u mean".

My life is shorthand, and that crap slows my reading way down. Hey, I'm so glad you halved your time thumbing it (although with predictive text, that's questionable) and then doubled my time wading through it.

Waiting until you get to the counter to start even looking at the menu to decide what food to order for yourself, your spouse, and your three children.

Yes, a million times yes, as well as the people that the Giant points out who wait for the total at the register and then start fumbling for the checkbook.

Having videos that auto-play with audio on a website.

Yes, a gazllion times, yes! If I want to take a moment to look at news, why do you betray me by telling the rest of the world, "Hey!!! He's not working right now!!!!!!"


...people who roll their crap laden carts into a "12 items or less" checkout lane and THEN proceed to write a check!!!!!......I literally have to turn away and go stand in the peace and aromatic solitude of the store bakery to chill out before I curb stomp the dumb sh*t.....

The first cousin to that are aimless people. In stores, in airports, on the sidewalk. Sometimes just walking from Point A to Point B is dealing with a moving human obstacle course.

Grandpa
danie

I may or may not stop using the phrase "put on your big girl (boy) panties". :cold::laugh:

:lol:
 

Grandpa

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Un mas. I'm not a fan of feet. I mean, I'm glad we have such things to make walking easier, and there's nothing wrong with being comfortable and wearing sandals or going barefoot and all that, but why people take photographs of their bare feet to post for the world to see is beyond me. It's just that part of humanity I don't get.
 

kingricefan

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Un mas. I'm not a fan of feet. I mean, I'm glad we have such things to make walking easier, and there's nothing wrong with being comfortable and wearing sandals or going barefoot and all that, but why people take photographs of their bare feet to post for the world to see is beyond me. It's just that part of humanity I don't get.
Another reason I don't do Facebook. I don't care what someone's feet look like. I don't care what yummy-tasty-delicious meal they're having.
 

AnnaMarie

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Hard-to-pronounce names. Come on parents, if 9 out of 10 people will not be able to pronounce the kid’s name... what were you thinking?

I have a niece with a name that nobody can pronounce by it’s spelling, and some 20 years on I can’t even spell it.

Someone was giving their kid one of those names and I told her she must be a very patient and understanding person (she's not) because for the rest of her life she would be hearing people saying her child's name wrong.

Same when they "invent" a spelling. You have no right to be upset when people spell it wrong.