Things that irk you......

[CD Boogie]

The "Cash Me Ousside" teenager, who's getting rich thanks to a combination of sociopathic behavior and functional illiteracy.

Blame the example set by the POTUS

Also irksome, people who hit the door close button on an elevator in order to save two tenths of a second. Are you heading up to defuse a bomb? No? Then holster your finger, we'll all get there.

 

[Buck]

What does the first sentence mean? It was intended to mean something that it has become to refer to?

Talking about whatever, let alone a house, is meaningless. Games above .500 is a term of art related to sports. It means what people agree it means. I've never heard anybody object to it and I've heard/read plenty of references to a finishing 20 games above .500. People know what it means.

It means there is a difference between a poorly conceived term having a meaning and that poorly conceived term working its way into common use.
It is a poorly conceived term because it uses terms relevant to existing math principles that have defined meaning and attempts to use them for another meaning.
It is a bad term, which irks me.

 

[Starman]

Please re-read my post carefully. Exactly where did I say it was "just now starting to" be irksome? And even if I had, what's the big deal?

My educated guess is that the majority of things that irk folks here are intermediate- or long-term gripes; this thread (all of five days old) has provided a forum for those. Not sure why you chose to single me out.

Hell, Donald Trump, AKA ****o, pissed me off in the 1980s. I've been pissed off by White Castle hamburgers for almost 50 years.

And Brussels sprouts. God damn it.

 

[I Should Coco]

I've been pissed off by White Castle hamburgers for almost 50 years.

Usually it's the other end that gets irritated by White Castle burgers.

They don't call them sliders for nothin' ...

 

[Starman]

Usually it's the other end that gets irritated by White Castle burgers.

They don't call them sliders for nothin' ...

Well, that's the root cause. In 1967 our dad bought White Castle hamburgers for our family of four. It took us about four hours and a dozen bathroom stops to drive 100 miles.

Thinking they'd had time to improve, I tried them again in 1997. No good; another two-day attack of the ****s.

Somehow or other I deluded myself into thinking things might be better in 2007, so I tried them one more time.

Strike three, you're out. **** you, White Castle.

 

[Songbird]

Brussels sprouts are fine. Melt cheese on em amd they're better.

 

[HandsomeHarley]

High school softball teams with their chants.
Showing celebrities in the stands. I'm not watching their show just because they "coincidentally" are at the same game that their network is televising.

OMG yes! I detest celebrities, by and large, already. The LAST thing I want to see is some rich-bug ****tard in the stands. Hell, many of them get in for free, while we working-class slobs have to save up to go.

Add to that, the rich-bug snob actors who get to take batting practice with the team because, well, only because they're rich and famous. **** them.

Reason No. 3,548 to hate Los Angeles sports teams.

 

[Starman]

Brussels sprouts are fine. Melt cheese on em amd they're better.

Brussels sprouts are awesome when other people are eating 'em.

 

[Neutral Corner]

This is just now starting to **** you off? Hasn't this been "a thing" for about a year?

I had managed to completely evade any knowledge of this **** until someone here started a thread. I'm pretty good at avoiding stuff that I've decided is not worth my time. My ignorance of the Jenner/Kardashians is vast, for example.

 

[Riptide]

When Barnes and Noble asks you if you're a preferred member every ****ing time you buy something and when you say no, they tell you much you would have saved and ask if you want to sign up . Then they ask for your
Email address as if that's normal and you're forced to say you don't want to give it. All this bc you wanted to buy a ****ing magazine.

Raise your voice so everyone else in line can hear, and then say this:
"I'm just here to buy a magazine, OK? What's the ****ing problem?"

Pick your spots, yes. But all Millennials are fair game.

 

[CD Boogie]

OMG yes! I detest celebrities, by and large, already. The LAST thing I want to see is some rich-bug ****tard in the stands. Hell, many of them get in for free, while we working-class slobs have to save up to go.

Add to that, the rich-bug snob actors who get to take batting practice with the team because, well, only because they're rich and famous. **** them.

Reason No. 3,548 to hate Los Angeles sports teams.

And **** Tommy LaSorda!

 

[HandsomeHarley]

And **** Tommy LaSorda!

You're mother****ing right, **** Tommy LaSorda.

I get the "Fletch" reference (my favorite part of any movie I've ever seen).

Went to a Royals game a few years ago with a friend, and got there early to seek autographs. Out of a cab steps Tommy LaSorda (it was an Oakland/Kansas City Athletics tribute day or something, and Tommy thought he was a ballplayer once).

A group of about six guys walk up and ask politely for an autograph. He SCREAMS at us, "NO! I ONLY SIGN FOR KIDS!!!" My friend, trying to break the awkward tension, pipes up, " I was a kid once." But Tommy replies, "I DON'T CARE!!"

I can guaran-****ing-tee you that if cameras were around, that fat-ass, ****-sucking piece of **** would probably have hugged us all with smiles everywhere. But off camera, he is the biggest piece of **** who ever lived.

The biggest phony in pro sports, and the most overrated manager in baseball history (that Dodgers team of the 1970s should have won several world titles). No. 1 most hated sports personality of all time, and it isn't even close. He could have spent five seconds scribbling his name on a card and changed my view of him. Instead, he solidified it.

I hope he gets his fat ass stuck in the gates of hell and has to have help getting pushed through.

 

[SpeedTchr]

I'm gonna mark you down as a solid maybe for Tommy's tribute dinner.

 

[DanOregon]

I'd third the Lasorda sentiment - but he's about 92 stories above "irk" level. I never understood why people pretended to like the guy when they knew what a fake he was. I just hated him because he was the Dodgers manager before hearing how different he treated people away from the cameras.
And I hated him on the Baseball Bunch as well.

 

[JC]

You're mother****ing right, **** Tommy LaSorda.

I get the "Fletch" reference (my favorite part of any movie I've ever seen).

Went to a Royals game a few years ago with a friend, and got there early to seek autographs. Out of a cab steps Tommy LaSorda (it was an Oakland/Kansas City Athletics tribute day or something, and Tommy thought he was a ballplayer once).

A group of about six guys walk up and ask politely for an autograph. He SCREAMS at us, "NO! I ONLY SIGN FOR KIDS!!!" My friend, trying to break the awkward tension, pipes up, " I was a kid once." But Tommy replies, "I DON'T CARE!!"

I can guaran-****ing-tee you that if cameras were around, that fat-ass, ****-sucking piece of **** would probably have hugged us all with smiles everywhere. But off camera, he is the biggest piece of **** who ever lived.

The biggest phony in pro sports, and the most overrated manager in baseball history (that Dodgers team of the 1970s should have won several world titles). No. 1 most hated sports personality of all time, and it isn't even close. He could have spent five seconds scribbling his name on a card and changed my view of him. Instead, he solidified it.

I hope he gets his fat ass stuck in the gates of hell and has to have help getting pushed through.

He should only sign for kids, why does a grown man want an autograph from Lasorda?

 

[Batman]

Just for Harley, who probably paid Vlad for the hit:

 

[KJIM]

People who, when you agree to meet them at 5:30 for a social event, say, " I have been waiting for 20 minutes!" when you walk up at 5:27.

 

[CD Boogie]

He should only sign for kids, why does a grown man want an autograph from Lasorda?

So he can resell it to naive kids?

 

[dixiehack]

I can't imagine a child alive seeking out Tommy Lasorda's signature unless they get poked in the ribs by some geezer saying "Go get that guy's autograph." He might as well be the mailman to anyone under 25.

 

[cranberry]

Tommy Lasorda is a despicable old clown.