What's your soapbox?

[Raggit]

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?


 

[Evil]

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.

[edmundito]

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? 

[Bad Voo-doo man]

hey, we americans don't ALWAYS eat stuff with sauce on it 

[Gilbert]

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.

[Babar]

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.

[DragonRose]

I tend to rant about Canadian Culture (we have one, gosh darn it!) and language.

[Tiki]

I'm a Grammar Nazi.

[Eggie]

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.

[Blackthorne]

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, 

You've obviously never had Buffalo Wings w/ Bleu Cheese Dressing!!!

Bt

[Indie Boy]

eggie "ur" annoyence with "ur" annoys me

[Blackthorne]

eggie your annoyence with "ur" annoys me

Your annoyance with Eggie's annoyance with "ur" perturbs me.

Bt

[Afflict]

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 !!!

[Kinoko]

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.

[Vince Twelve]

Since someone else has brought it up, horrendous spelling is one of them.

Uhh... It's "realize" and "no one."

Sorry, couldn't help myself.  Remember... affectionate...

[Al_Ninio]

"Realize" is the American spelling of "realise".
Affectionate!

[Kinoko]

BAM! ^_^

Yeah, I do have that awful habit of writing no one as 'noone'.  Gotta get that one out of my system.

[Vince Twelve]

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.

[Kinoko]

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.

[Vince Twelve]

"realizing"

... oh... err... nevermind