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clarinetgurl
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Posted: 25 March 2007 04:11 am |
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I HATE the sound of a vaccuum cleaner...
clar
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crcolt
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Posted: 28 March 2007 03:19 am |
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| I hate people who tailgate me. I got 2 tickets for speeding, both costing more than 100 dollars, and I aint' going over the speed limil again.
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Peter
Founder, caloriesperhour.com
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Posted: 28 March 2007 07:08 am |
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I've always hated it when I went through a fast food drive thru and asked for two ketchups and they gave me a handfull. So it really irked me when McDonald's started giving you only one ketchup packet for a small fries, two for a medium, and so on. If you wanted more they started charging you!
So one minute I'm frustrated by their waste, and the next they are charging for an extra ketchup when they'd always been giving me more than I wanted.
Of course they dropped the charges... now they are back to the waste!
Grrrr! 
Peter
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junetwin2
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Posted: 1 May 2007 03:08 am |
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oh yes I dont like tailgaters either, it is just very dangerous not to mention just plain stupid! there are times I feel like hitting the brakes ( when it is just me in the van ) and then if the tail gater hits me I will honestly tell the police that I thought an animal ran in front of me , hey Im insured , wonder if they are??
Also dont like people who lie.
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miss katz
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Posted: 1 May 2007 10:34 am |
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Peter wrote: I've always hated it when I went through a fast food drive thru and asked for two ketchups and they gave me a handfull. So it really irked me when McDonald's started giving you only one ketchup packet for a small fries, two for a medium, and so on. If you wanted more they started charging you!
So one minute I'm frustrated by their waste, and the next they are charging for an extra ketchup when they'd always been giving me more than I wanted.
Of course they dropped the charges... now they are back to the waste!
Grrrr!
Peter
I save all the extra ketchup packets they give me. I ask for two, but they give me four-it use to bother me, but then I started saving them. My pet peeve is rude people like the one's that try to skip me in line.
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SnazzyFlyer
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Posted: 1 May 2007 04:11 pm |
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I hate it when people stop at a green light to let other people make a left hand turn! People, the ones turning do not have the right of way, you do! I risk missing the green light because of them.
I also cannot stand it when people leave food crumbs on seats. Whenever I sit down somehwere in public I always have to brush the seat off beforehand.
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crcolt
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Posted: 1 May 2007 11:52 pm |
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| Gallitgar? says three people can make it thourgh a yellow light.
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junetwin2
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Posted: 2 May 2007 01:43 am |
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I remember a few years back when my children were in elementary school and they had a family fun night. Well some of us parents started talking about our children and hey I am honest my children are no saints and my 2 oldest ones had been in trouble quite a few times with the law , but as I started talking they would just stare at me in awe, but when I mentioned hey I know what your kids do, their mouths would almost hit the floor, either they thought I was stupid or they actually thought their kids did no wrong. Give me a break most of these kids hung out with my 2 oldest children. You can lecture your children til the cows come home and pray that they will heed your advice but in the long run they have to make thier own choices good or bad and then they have to deal with it. My 2 oldest have learned that lesson. in case anyone is wondering I have 5 children 3 girls and 2 boys ages are 24, 21,19, 18 and 3 
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crcolt
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Posted: 2 May 2007 05:31 pm |
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| 4 kids into their early 20's and late teens. And one 1 yr. after the terrible two's. God Bless You God Bless You.
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junetwin2
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Posted: 2 May 2007 05:53 pm |
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crcolt, Thankyou so much! I give God all the glory. 
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Peter
Founder, caloriesperhour.com
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Posted: 3 May 2007 06:07 am |
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miss katz wrote: I save all the extra ketchup packets they give me. I ask for two, but they give me four-it use to bother me, but then I started saving them.
I just read recently that the little packets of condiments given out by fast-food restaurants are intended for quick use and have few preservatives and so don't last well.
On the other hand, that probably makes them healthier! 
Peter
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miss katz
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Posted: 3 May 2007 07:44 am |
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Thanks peter, they tasted fine to me, then again I eat them within 2 weeks.  is that too bad? I'm a ketchupholic, if I weren't on a diet I'd drown my food in ketchup
Last edited on 3 May 2007 07:47 am by miss katz
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Peter
Founder, caloriesperhour.com
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Posted: 3 May 2007 07:53 am |
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I have a daughter like you! A little fries with your ketchup?
I think the article said that the ketchup turns dark when it gets bad.
Peter
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miss katz
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Posted: 4 May 2007 01:26 am |
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ha ha ha , it gets very bad, i get comments like that, sometimes I put the ketchup in my mouth then take a bite of my burger  I'm worse with salt. then again I tested as a non-taster on some test.
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nevd
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Posted: 22 May 2007 04:58 pm |
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Reading other people's pet peeves (only kidding...)
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zenobia
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Posted: 7 October 2007 04:21 pm |
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aaarrggggghhhhh!!!!!!!!
pet peeves, huh?
ok, i hate to say it, but it has been bugging me for a while.... first off, i must say that i am an awful speller. second, my grammar is not always perfect.... i do know this....
anyway, one of my biggest pet peeves (and why "pet peeve"? i don't get where "pet" comes from....) is when people spell "a lot" as one word. it's just one of those things....
remember when there was that thread that said soemthing about using light font and no paragraph breaks? i wanted to add the whole "alot"/"a lot" thing to that....
sorry.... end rant. oh, and i really do not like ads that flash....
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Peter
Founder, caloriesperhour.com
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Posted: 7 October 2007 10:32 pm |
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You can find that post via the Help button up above:
http://www.caloriesperhour.com/forums/forum17/1812.html
How about smokers that throw cigarette butts on the ground!
Peter
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Fatale
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Posted: 8 October 2007 03:54 pm |
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| being a legal immigreant - illigal immigration bothers me to no end ... (no, I better not say anything else)
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Ohm
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Posted: 8 October 2007 03:58 pm |
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| My pet peeve? I hate the actions of smokers who drop their cigarettes on winter evenings and don't bother to extinguish the glowing end. Little children (frequently MY little children) are attracted by the glowing ends, pick them up and burn their tiny fingers.
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1seekspie
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Posted: 8 October 2007 09:17 pm |
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I hate slow things! I'm a very impatient person and if things aren't happening: fast-fast-fast, I get angry......and you wouldn't like me......when I'm angry!
Seriously, you'd be so annoyed. I can't make good angry faces or really act all scary. Some people I know practically turn into the hulk when they get angry! Me...well.....I turn into a tiny #%@&! off chipmunk on crack.
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Peter
Founder, caloriesperhour.com
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Posted: 9 October 2007 12:50 am |
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1seekspie wrote: I hate slow things! I'm a very impatient person and if things aren't happening: fast-fast-fast, I get angry......and you wouldn't like me......when I'm angry!
I have to laugh at myself when I get impatient waiting for a copying machine to make 25 copies of something. I have to remember when they only made one copy at a time, so you had to go through the whole process 25 times!
We are all coming to expect everything to be fast.
Peter
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seminakedcats
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Posted: 9 October 2007 01:07 am |
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Zenobia took the first one I thought of! I can't stand it when people use a lot as one word! Makes me crazier than an incomplete sentence. HA!
June2win- I wouldn't lie about saying you saw an animal if someone hits you after you stomp on the breaks- you'll be on your own list!
Being a Type-A personality, I've got a list- I'll give the top 3:
Cab drivers that drive like idiots (or anyone for that matter)
People who think my time is less valuable than theirs (doctors come to mind)
The parents of children that scream their little heads off in public places for wanting something in a manner that leads me to believe their parents think it's possible to reason with a 2-year-old (e.g., they fail to just say no). 
Have a lovely day,
Kit
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Javan
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Posted: 12 October 2007 12:49 am |
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Cigarrette Butts (nuff said)
Tailgaters
Concert Talkers (I did not pay to hear about your day)
poor restaurant service
public nose pickers (Did your parents teach anything?)
Rude Cell Phone users
Airline Security Personnel (if we did not travel, you would not have a job)
People that use gym equipment and do not wipe it down after they are done.
Abusers of the welfare system
Drug addicts
Child Molesters
Children that go on shooting rampages (It is getting too frequent).
Political news.
Last edited on 12 October 2007 12:58 am by Javan
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Heavenseventeen
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Posted: 12 October 2007 03:29 am |
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People who walk soooooooooooooooooooooo slowly. I'm not saying we should all be sprinting but this isn't your living room so move it soldier!
People who spit on the pavement/sidewalk, or cough/sneeze without covering their mouths- it's so selfish!
People who stand by and let their children tell them what to do/hit them. I would NEVER have tried that with my parents.
People who start saying something but then say "oh...never mind, it wasn't important anyway" but if you insist then they do continue. If it's not important, don't bring it up in the first place.
People who moan about losing only one pound at weigh in day. I hear my aunt moaning to my mum saying "I've only lost 2lbs this week...what a wast of time". I want to tell her how lucky she was and can she imagine losing nothing for six months!
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clarinetgurl
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Posted: 15 October 2007 05:47 am |
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This is going to sound hypocritical--
But I ate when people talk about people who are gossips.
When someone comes up to me and says: So in so is horrible. she talks about people behind their back she is such a gossip yadda yaddah yaddah.
What do they think they are doing?
I hope since I am not talking about anyone particular, just the act in general, that it is not quite the same thing
CG
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monkey809
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Posted: 29 October 2007 11:01 pm |
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| I hate when people touch things on my desk when I am not in my office!!
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nevd
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Posted: 3 November 2007 06:34 pm |
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Zenobia took the first one I thought of! I can't stand it when people use a lot as one word!
Okay, I'm in!
I hate it when people use the word 'allot' a lot...
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DaniMae1
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Posted: 20 December 2007 11:10 am |
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Let's see...First I hate public schools. They tell the kids that if they are getting beat up that they can't defend themselves. They'll get suspended also.....No more dodge ball, too violent!!! I LOVED dodge ball! You can't send in baked goods for the class...to risky, might be poisoned!!! I could go on and on....
Next is people who talk really loud in public on their cell phones!! Grrrrr!!!!
People who stand around in a public place spouting off bad language like a sailor! Makes em look really idiotic.
People who buy groceries with food stamps and then pay for beer and cigaretts with cash. Get a job and pay for your own darn food!
Eating in a restaraunt when someone is in there with a screaming toddler. And the last is the local governments making places go "Smoke Free". I don't smoke but come on! Business owners should be able to have a smoking section if they darn well please. And lets not forget the big fat people (sorry) who sit there and whine about how bad the smoke is for them.
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Peter
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Posted: 20 December 2007 04:14 pm |
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The schools are afraid of law suits, as is everyone else in America. I hate that at the end of a TV ad for a drug you have to listen to all the possible side effects. A full page ad in Newsweek is followed by TWO pages of side effects. Isn't that why we go to doctors? So they can help us with that? It's all about law suits... only in America.
The first time I ever saw food stamps used I was about 20 and on a very tight budget. I was waiting in line behind someone that was buying a Sara Lee chocolate cake, a treat my wife and I would have loved to be able to afford. Then they paid for it with food stamps. Food stamps are fine, but I hate their abuse, too.
And don't get me started on cell phones. BTW, I think I'm the only one left in America without one!
Peter
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newstart
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Posted: 20 December 2007 05:00 pm |
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When I was 20, my husband and I were both in college and working and on a very tight budget, which would not have been so tight if we were not in college and available to work full time at higher paying jobs.
I, also, saw people in line at the store, using food stamps to buy groceries, among these a chocolate cake or ice cream, people much poorer than we, people who were working the best jobs they could get and who weren't going to college in hopes of a better future.
I just can't work up any indignation that a poor person may like to have a dessert, too, or that he might spend some of his cash on a six pack so he can have a beer after his meal that he needed food stamps to help pay for. The worst part of being poor is having to be ashamed of it, and having people around you feel it's their right to judge you.
Maybe that person in line would not have the food stamps if it were not taken in part from your pay check, but remember, it's taken from his paycheck, too, and someday it may be you that's benefitting. For instance, we all pay fica. Will you refuse to use the medicare that this will cover when you are just 5 years older than you are now, because the children of that poor couple on food stamps (for whose birthday the cake may have been purchased) are on a tight budget while they pay into fica?
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Peter
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Posted: 20 December 2007 05:48 pm |
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I wondered if I would get a reaction from my story about the cake, but I decided just to tell it like it happened. I couldn't afford that cake, and this person could... with the food stamps. It was hard to see, and remember it was the first time I had ever seen them used.
But I realize that cake is food, and it could have been the only sweet that person ever purchased on food stamps... for his mom's birthday.
(Though I will now spoil what seems to be a sympathetic statement of understanding and say that there were plenty of cheaper chocolate cakes in the supermarket... like the ones my wife and I would have been able to afford.)
Anyway, I did say that food stamps were a good thing. But I draw the line at liquor and cigarettes. It's a matter of being practical. The purpose of food stamps is to provide nourishment to keep people going strong while they get "back on their feet."
Peter
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newstart
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Posted: 20 December 2007 09:42 pm |
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I agree, but some people will never be able to get back on their feet. The paper mill towns that line the Connecticut and Androscoggin Rivers, where the mills shut down and the town never had anything but the mill. It's not a tourist attraction of any kind and no one wants to buy the houses and trailers of the former mill workers, many of whom still owe money on them. So they become prisoners of the towns that used to employ them, having to travel 10 or 20 miles one way to the towns where they might be able to work at minimum wage jobs just to keep from losing their homes, and their kids? college? military, if they can get in, offers them the best opportunity for a future, with training in a skill (eg mechanics, electrical, ccmputing, etc that they can get employed in later), but they are constantly bombarded with misinformation about a military career by those who were able to choose college and turn their noses up at the idea of serving their country or of learning a skill.
I imagine it's the same story for the people who lived and worked in the old mining towns, where the owners shut down the mines, and left.
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DaniMae1
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Posted: 20 December 2007 10:10 pm |
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| I live in in a big city and there is not much excuse for young able bodied people to be on food stamps when they have cell phones, big screen tv's from rent a center, drive new cars, and have kids by a bunch of different men. That's what peeves me. Not some poor (for real poor) person in some backwoods town, or some elderly person on a fixed income. I am speaking from experience from what I see everyday. And as for FICA, I should be able to take that money and put it in MY OWN account for the future. But no, I have to have thousands of dollars confiscated from my pay every week against my will. Don't get me started on taxes! Tax this tax that. The only taxes should be consumption taxes. In Virginia we have to pay taxes every year just to drive a car! The nicer the car, the higher the tax! What a racket they have going!!!
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random4180
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Posted: 9 January 2008 03:15 am |
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I hate "im-speak"- u kno wat im talkin bout....argh! maybe that's the english major in me but ugh...
I hate when people make fun of my food- I don't preach and I don't expect anyone to eat like I do, I don't care if you have veal while I eat tofu- really, I don't! my boyfriend is an omnivore and one of the things he appreciates about me is that I don't do that. but it simply drives me nuts if I say nothing about your food but you feel compelled to say "what's in that? nothing?" clearly it's something, I'm not eating air....my older sister does this constantly.
I hate when people have full-blown, non-urgent, should-be-kept-private conversations on their cell phone in public. I don't know what-his-name, don't care if he's sleeping you-know-who, and really don't want to know that you go to the same doctor and heard she has a whatchamacalit...
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fysh
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Posted: 10 January 2008 11:32 pm |
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Peter wrote: miss katz wrote: I save all the extra ketchup packets they give me. I ask for two, but they give me four-it use to bother me, but then I started saving them.
I just read recently that the little packets of condiments given out by fast-food restaurants are intended for quick use and have few preservatives and so don't last well.
On the other hand, that probably makes them healthier!
Peter
Peter, most of those little packets have been setting around for weeks or longer before you ever get them. They are packaged by the manufacturer, transported to a wholesale distributor and they use the FIFO method of distribution. Then it sets in the storage area of the food establishment for a long time before finally being distributed to the customers. Those little packets have more age on them than most people may think.
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Oreo
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Posted: 11 January 2008 12:28 am |
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| You never hear of anyone getting sick from them though. I think people are overly cautious when it comes to germs these days!! It's the whole lets disinfect everything so that our children have little immunity!
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Peter
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Posted: 11 January 2008 12:49 am |
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Oreo,
I think the concern was nutrition, not germs.
Peter
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Javan
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Posted: 21 January 2008 07:53 pm |
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Biggest Pet Peeve
And especially at this time of the year, is when people moan and groan about eating too much, have to go on a diet, etc. Whoa is me!
Get over it. If you are going to overindulge, don't complain. You did it yourself. If you want to lose weight, then go on a diet and exercise, and don't complain about it.
Sheesh, how hard is it?
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Peter
Founder, caloriesperhour.com
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Posted: 21 January 2008 11:19 pm |
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Javan wrote: If you are going to overindulge, don't complain. You did it yourself.
I always feel this way about people whining because they have hangovers.
Peter
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jonibug
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Posted: 22 January 2008 12:43 am |
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| My pet peeve is people who don't recycle. Here in America they give everyone plastic containers to put glass, paper, etc in. You simply take it out during trash day and they pick it up. With the ecology falling apart, it seems this is the very least we can do!
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terminalfr0st
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Posted: 24 January 2008 01:36 am |
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1. I'm a cashier, and I HAAAAATE it when people come through my checkout line and are talking on their cell phones! Sorry, but it's kind of rude.
2. I hate it when people cringe when they see my lip ring and go all "OMG EW THAT MUST HAVE HURT."
3. Dirty silverware, dishes, cups, plates, etc.
4. Ugly. Freaking. Shoes.
5. When I'm at the gym and there's LOADS of room around me but someone decides they absolutely must exercise right next to me.
6. Same goes for bathrooms, except it's not exercising.
7. When I'm going to my next class and the people in front of me are moving at the speed of frozen molasses.
8. "I know how you feel." No, you don't, you don't live my life.
9. People in a position of power who abuse their authority.
10. People who are entirely close-minded to classic rock music such as (not limited to) Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin -- if it were not for these artists, we would not have most of the music we have today.
11. When the school district says we have a half-day of school and they only let us out an hour earlier than usual.
12. On that note, when the weather is bad and instead of cancelling school, we get a 1-hour or 2-hour delay -- either cancel school altogether or make us go the whole day!
13. Those who feel they must absolutely outshine everyone at everything.
14. The word 'lard.'
15. When I clean all the snow off my car in the winter after I've parked somewhere. and then I press the button on my keyring so my lights flash and stuff, and find out it wasn't my car.
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jonibug
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Posted: 24 January 2008 01:40 am |
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15. When I clean all the snow off my car in the winter after I've parked somewhere. and then I press the button on my keyring so my lights flash and stuff, and find out it wasn't my car.
OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!! Taht is hysterical! Pardon me, but I just had to laugh at that one! LOL! What a frustration. On the other hand, you just made someone's day by cleaning their car off!!
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Peter
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Posted: 24 January 2008 03:08 am |
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jonibug,
If that's a pet peeve, it must mean you've done it a bunch of times!
Peter
P.S.
How about forum members who don't read the instructions I've spent so long writing. Or share where they live!
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jonibug
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Posted: 24 January 2008 03:41 am |
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| Who's done it a bunch? I'm a recyling MANIAC!!!!! Paper is the enemy! Just look at my desk! LOL!
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zenobia
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Posted: 24 January 2008 04:11 pm |
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terminalfr0st wrote: 1. I'm a cashier, and I HAAAAATE it when people come through my checkout line and are talking on their cell phones! Sorry, but it's kind of rude.
6. Same goes for bathrooms, except it's not exercising.
7. When I'm going to my next class and the people in front of me are moving at the speed of frozen molasses.
9. People in a position of power who abuse their authority.
10. People who are entirely close-minded to classic rock music such as (not limited to) Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin -- if it were not for these artists, we would not have most of the music we have today.
13. Those who feel they must absolutely outshine everyone at everything.
yup- spot on!!!
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Javan
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Posted: 24 January 2008 04:35 pm |
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We could go on forever about these....
I posted an article yesterday that could also be a pet peeve.
-When people say that they want to lose a lot weight and only each the mass-produced diet foods (fat-free this, low fat that, meal replacement shakes, etc.) and then wonder why they do not lose any weight...
I admit that I have converted my GF into a label reader. She hates that it takes 2x as long to shop, but she is not buying any junk now either.
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Peter
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Posted: 24 January 2008 04:46 pm |
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Javan wrote: -When people say that they want to lose a lot weight and only each the mass-produced diet foods (fat-free this, low fat that, meal replacement shakes, etc.) and then wonder why they do not lose any weight...
Nothing sounds more pure when it comes to eating well then a vegetarian. Right?
Not if they are living on the highly processed commercial products that fill the supermarkets.
Well, it may be better than the average American's diet, but it's not broccoli!
Peter
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Javan
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Posted: 24 January 2008 05:33 pm |
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So True!
We have become so addicted to this "short-cut" lifestyle, that it is hard for most of us to comprehend when things do not work out as advertised.
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terminalfr0st
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Posted: 25 January 2008 06:14 pm |
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I know I already posted fifteen pet peeves, but I realised I left out my biggest one!
It annoys me beyond ANYTHING when people consider themselves "animal rights activists" and "environmental activists" and they HAVE NOT DONE THEIR RESEARCH. Above anything, these are the things they say that I hate the most:
1. "Don't use so much paper! It kills trees." Actually, no, it doesn't. The trees were grown for that exact purpose on a tree farm and they are always planted back. It's not as if we're going and cutting down trees that never belonged to us.
2. "I support PeTA!" Enough said. Watch a show called "Penn and Teller: Bullsh*t!" and find the episode about PeTA. You will see why this bugs me.
3. "You should recycle everything, it's good for the environment." Au contraire, dear, but landfills (you know, TRASH, not recycling) are lined with clay that help things decompose. The gas from the decomposition is then collected and used to heat homes.
Yeah.
If you feel the need to snap at me for my views on it (it happens far too often)...just don't.
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Peter
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Posted: 25 January 2008 06:28 pm |
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terminalfr0st,
If by snapping at you you mean being rude, if they do that I'll edit or delete their post. But if someone wants to share a differing view or opinion, of course that's fine. That's what forums are for.
You note some positive points about landfills. Fine. But you don't say why this statement is not true:
"You should recycle everything, it's good for the environment."
For trash that can be recycled, isn't it better to do so? Doesn't it conserve energy to make new plastic shopping bags from old ones? New paper products from old ones?
Peter
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