So what do you preach about? What are your pet peves? What area are you most persuasive in? Politics? Religion? Lawn fertilizers?
My big soap box usually deals with politics. I have a lot of soap boxes, but I won't list them all now.
It has been a long time since I posted here, so I decided, insted of creating a "hi, how's it going" topic, I'd create something of moderate interest. BTW, how IS it going?
:)
I hate when people have like twenty keychains and one key. I give huge lectures on why people shouldn't carry a ton of keychains. I once got a girl with keychains a cubit in length to give up her obcession and now she has one keychain. I was proud. It's like rehab.
I hate it that Americans must eat everything with a sauce/dressing/gravy... and food doesn't taste that great without them. Can't they make the food taste good and eat things without sauce for once? :P
hey, we americans don't ALWAYS eat stuff with sauce on it ;)
Well since most american food were made from frozen "fresh" ingredients, it's hard to make them tasty without some sort of treatment or sauce, etc.
I find tissue paper with chat masalla an excellent snack. I even find carrots with chat masalla an excellent snack. Just dump chat masalla on anything and I will eat it.
My soapbox (Checks up dictionary.com)? Ahhh.... I don't think I have a soapbox. My opinions are my own, and only need to be told when someone asks. I let people do what they want and laugh at them quietly. If someone says something I know is incorrect, I correct them.
I tend to rant about Canadian Culture (we have one, gosh darn it!) and language.
I'm a Grammar Nazi.
Writing 'Your' as 'ur'. It just really annoys me.
"It's two extra fucking letters!!" and so on...
EDIT: Oh yeah, also; My views on movies like The Matrix and Ghost in the Shell.
Quote from: netmonkey on Thu 03/03/2005 03:31:40
I hate it that Americans must eat everything with a sauce/dressing/gravy... and food doesn't taste that great without them. Can't they make the food taste good and eat things without sauce for once?Ã, :P
You've obviously never had Buffalo Wings w/ Bleu Cheese Dressing!!!
Bt
eggie "ur" annoyence with "ur" annoys me
Quote from: Potter on Thu 03/03/2005 20:41:06
eggie your annoyence with "ur" annoys me
Your annoyance with Eggie's annoyance with "ur" perturbs me.
Bt
Quote from: Eggie on Thu 03/03/2005 16:37:47
Writing 'Your' as 'ur'. It just really annoys me.
"It's two extra fucking letters!!" and so on...
EDIT: Oh yeah, also; My views on movies like The Matrix and Ghost in the Shell.
dont get me started... you get worked up all about;
- nutin
- swearing bout nutin
- wait dis will tick you off.. :) lewks like it hehe lewks like lewk has the same amount of letters as look
and i still spell it wrong... <mama wud be proud> more or less dats da Question!!
look i told u dont get me started..
Its all UR fault <the irony kills me>
Let me do my pet peeves...
Just getting on the nerves of other ppls pet peeves like people that get annoyed when you
press the levator button 50 times... or all the floor buttons. Just love it and when lil kids do
it i can just adopt them. See the ppls faces they get all freaked over nothing.
Other peeves wud huv 2 b.. saying details details alike i dont care
and then correcting ppl. lata on they get so confused.
theres to many !!!
I have too many. I basically adopt anything as my soapbox, even if I've never seriously thought about it before. I ADORE debating. A lot of my friends probably don't realise I mean it in an affectionate way.
Of course, sometimes I don't mean it in an affectionate way.
Since someone else has brought it up, horrendous spelling is one of them. I don't really bother making comments about it anymore because noone ever changes and there are just too many people out there doing it. Plus, it usually just means I can't read something so it gives me one less post in a thread to read.
Quote from: Kinoko on Thu 03/03/2005 23:57:41
Since someone else has brought it up, horrendous spelling is one of them.
Uhh... It's "realize" and "no one."
:P Sorry, couldn't help myself. Remember... affectionate...
"Realize" is the American spelling of "realise".
Affectionate! :D
BAM! ^_^
Yeah, I do have that awful habit of writing no one as 'noone'. Gotta get that one out of my system.
Hehe, well, you want to come to Japan and teach English? Then get used to teaching and using American English, 'cause that's all they want...
BAM!
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Ok, you got me good... :-[ Damn, gotta quit trying to be such a smart ass. It's much easier to be a dumb ass -- less fact checking involved.
But the American English thing is true... All the Brits and Aussies around here complain about having to write color and not colour, etc. We just tell them they need to practice their "real English" and not that outdated "Queen's English" crap.
I'm not gonna like it, but I know how to do it so I should be alright once I get there (or, if). I'm not gonna write it when I don't have to though :)
Incidentally, I do use 'z's instead of 's's in some words anyway. We come across American spelling a lot in Australia so you just pick it up without realising sometimes.
"realizing"
... oh... err... nevermind
Also, whenever I see this in a post
QuoteThis post was automatically edited for txt-style spelling
I
generally* think to myself "This person is a huge moron." It probably comes from feeling that having a computer filter fix your typing is the ultimate scarlett letter.
Bt
* generally meaning most of the time. Yes, there are a few times when I see it, I disregard it.
Actually, I always wonder exactly what that thing fixes, because you still see "txt style spelling" everywhere. What specific things is it editing?
It changes the letter "r" to the word "are," "u" becomes "you," and a few others, as well. It just becomes annoying when you actually want to write just the letter.
Not so much preaching, but in real life I have a tendancy to argue about anything. Even when I know full well that I'm wrong. One of my friends is the same. I'd argue that the sky is vermillion, and he'd argue that the sky is chartreuse. As soon as one of caves, the other would probably change his arguement to "The sky is taupe".
I main topics to rant about are usually movies, music, law/prisons, and philosophy/religion. However, I try my best to avoid arguing with people online, since it usually serves no purpose other than making both parties look incredibly dumb. Although, if it's a subject that I do feel strongly about, I will go all out and voice my opinions on it. When I do, it's not for the sake of an argument, it's always my true feelings on the topic, no matter how absurd or extremist they seem.
Ok, my real (read: non-attempting-to-make-fun-of-someone) response to this topic:
I don't get up on too many soapboxes. I'm not a terribly argumentative person, and I'd like to think that I'm pretty good at admitting that I'm wrong when I am. I wouldn't know though. It hasn't happened yet. I'll let you know if it does. ;)
The one thing I will argue about is gay rights. And it's a big issue in America right now. I just haven't heard one good reason that we're going out of our way to deny rights and equal treatment to gay couples. Yet we're doing it, and doing it actively and publicly. It really makes me angry, and I won't say anymore about it. But there you have it. The one thing that always manages to pull me onto a soapbox.
Quote from: Blackthorne on Fri 04/03/2005 00:40:51
Also, whenever I see this in a post
QuoteThis post was automatically edited for txt-style spelling
I generally* think to myself "This person is a huge moron." It probably comes from feeling that having a computer filter fix your typing is the ultimate scarlett letter.
Bt
* generally meaning most of the time. Yes, there are a few times when I see it, I disregard it.
I wish I could type everything in word, and spell and grammar check it, and think about it, and think about it some more, and then I'm finally able to paste the line on
IRC: "Hello, everyone."
seriously, I've heard myths of people who type in word, then copy and paste their text. this is the ultimate flaw of the internet, because you're obviously typing with an image. your identity is fakely formatted for others to make fun of you for being a grammer (misspelled on purpose :D) freak. Maybe you mean serious business, but most of us are just laughing out loud when we type these paragraphs.
Anyway, while it's 3:45 in the morning I'll say that bad homework sometimes can be like hanging out with a person who is annoying and you really hate, but you have to do it anyway. Then, when you finally stop hanging out, you get yelled at for doing it all wrong. The only consolation you get is that you get to hang out with homework again the next week. Do you ever have a class that you hate more than anything in the world? (for those who are/were in school).
This post was not filtered through the computer. It comes straight from netmonkey's warped late-night mind.