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Originally Posted by jillianleab

Heehee... you still have the lyrics wrong! :)

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

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Thanks for the right lyrics. I actually knew they didn't sound right when I wrote it, and I was going to come back and change it, but I forgot. Oh well, I guess I'm just as guilty as my friend who thought someone was going to poke their eyes out. LOL!

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Originally Posted by asking

I agree bullying is really bad. But I'm not sure this qualifies as a "pet peeve." :) This is serious stuff for kids.

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Yes yes.. true enough. But it makes me angry :)

My newest pet peeve, well it probably always has been, but the lack of education kids are getting these days. Not only at school, but I suspect some parents too. They don't know how to spell because all they do all day is text, they don't know if they are pregnant or not, or many times don't even know how they can get pregnant... probably because they were texting during that class, and they have absolutely no respect for their elders or any kind of authority!

I blame a lot of this on the media, poor parenting of all of these kids that are having babies at 14, and haven't got a clue, the way our schools are run and funded, and the total disregard for teaching children morality, and the basics they need to survive.

Okay, I just got myself mad again... lol

Breathe Starby. Remember, we do a great service to many of these kids by coming to AMHD and answering their questions. They don't always listen, or want to hear what we have to say, but at least they have somewhere to go to ask and learn what they obviously aren't being taught at school or at home.

We can't save the whole world, but we can help the few who come here with an open mind and are willing to listen.

So, chin up, big smile, and go change someone's life for the better. :)

This has been one of my greatest pet peeves... and I'm not sure why I didn't put this on here before. People who lie. Not just... lie like, "I...can't make dinner...because...I feel sick," lie... I'm going with absolutely RIDICULOUS and pathological lies.

Example 1:

I went to high school with a guy... who made up THESE lies:

Freshmen year: I used to be a ball boy for the Lakers

Truth: he works at the movie theater... concession stand.

Sophomore year: I'm a junior racer... I drive a porsche 911 turbo on the weekends... got a company to sponsor me... etc.

Truth: he drives a 97 honda accord... and it took him a week during junior year to learn how to drive manual.

Junior year: I got a BMW custom made and imported...

... one week later...

Me: um.. what happened to the beamer?
Him: oh, I wrecked it after 2 days, so my mom had it sent back.

Truth: there's... no need for this "truth" anymore. It's just sad.

Senior year: I started a new business... y'know, doing imports/exports... and it's going very well, our quarterly is looking good.

Truth:... he cleaned out his garage and sold stuff on eBay. Seriously. That was his business.

New one: member here arguing with me about pregnancy vitamins and how bad they are for you... apparently she claims she's 26, married to a doctor, is a journalist, has 7 degrees, and makes 10 mil a year... while on the other post, she's a 14 year old girl asking for help on a boy.

... why lie?

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Originally Posted by starbuck8

they don't know if they are pregnant or not, or many times don't even know how they can get pregnant...probably because they were texting during that class,

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I don't disagree but I have to share an anecdote I heard about a graduate student at a major university, in a molecular biology program. She also didn't know she was pregnant -- for several months. She was so busy working late at night in the lab, didn't pay much attention to her own body, just didn't notice. As I heard it, one of the women janitors commented on her obvious state and the grad student was like, who me? This was back in the early 80s. To me this is inconceivable (no pun intended :)), but obviously everybody's different.

I don't know why, but that kind of lying doesn't really get to me. I think I just find people like that unknowable, like they are not even people to me? I don't try to understand them or feel much when I realize that it's all lies. I'm more bothered by people who lie to hurt other people in some way, to bully or manipulate or evade responsibility.

Recently in atlanta... a 15 year old girl had a stomachache during her softball competition... coach took her to the hospital, found out she was in labor.

She apparently had NO idea... thought she was missing her period due to working out so much for softball... no one knew... she didn't show at all... etc.

Amazing! I'm just stunned by stories like that. How, what, why??

How can you not know you are that pregnant? How can anyone else not know? What planet are they all living on? Even a 6 month pregnancy (let's not even talk 8 or 9 months) is really obvious. I keep thinking these stories can't be true, that maybe she was just 2 months pregnant and it was a miscarriage. But I keep hearing them...

Are you sure this really happened?
Me and my boggled mind

I always wondered that too, but it was on the local news... so I'm going to have to assume it's true. She actually gave birth to a healthy baby... it's insane.

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Originally Posted by ISneezeFunny

new one: member here arguing with me about pregnancy vitamins and how bad they are for you...apparently she claims she's 26, married to a doctor, is a journalist, has 7 degrees, and makes 10 mil a year...while on the other post, she's a 14 year old girl asking for help on a boy.

...why lie?

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I've reported her post. Before I did I made the dumb mistake of rating her an agree by forgetting to click the disagree button. Hopefully something will be done by the mods.

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Originally Posted by asking

amazing! I'm just stunned by stories like that. how, what, why????

How can you not know you are that pregnant?! How can anyone else not know? What planet are they all living on? Even a 6 month pregnancy (let's not even talk 8 or 9 months) is really obvious. I keep thinking these stories can't be true, that maybe she was just 2 months pregnant and it was a miscarriage. But I keep hearing them...

Are you sure this really happened?
Me and my boggled mind

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So true... How can one not know.. The parents,adults around the pregnant teen, and the girl herself,how can no one know?

I remember there was a girl, 15 year old and we travelled on the same transport while this girl was being transferred to a rehab.

Just from the way the girl sat,I knew she was pregnant.This girl was more on the chubby side,but still the way she carried herself and sat was enough of a sign to guess she was pregnant.
All of us working at the rehab knew the moment we saw her that she was pregnant.

Guess what? The mother denied knowing anything about her daughter being pregnant.As that particular rehab did not cater to babies/children of addicts,she had to be transferred to another facility because of her pregnancy which the rehab Doc found out after a routine checkup.

My sister was 5 months pregnant with her 3rd child before she realized she was pregnant.

She has had SERIOUS problems with her "woman parts" though--getting periods that lasted 5 months to not getting a period for a year, that sort of thing--to the point of having a full hysterectomy at age 27. She hadn't gotten a period, but also didn't get morning sickness or anything like that, and none of the symptoms of her first two pregnacies. She knew she was pregnant when she felt the baby move.

So... I can see making it halfway into a pregnancy without knowing---but there's no WAY I can see making it to term. For god's sake, all those feet and elbows in your bladder would give it away if nothing else did.

I just did this...


When you write a really long post and then you look at the screen and you realise you had "Caps Lock" on

When someone sends you an email, and you have to scroll through a hundred email addresses, to get to the actual email! Grrrrrr! Delete... delete... delete!!

Bcc is there for a reason! I REALLY don't need to know everyone's friends, friends, friends, email address! :p

When you have to email a copy to yourself because BCC to everyone won't work.

But... I like showing off how many fwends I gots.

People who forward all that crap on to begin with--because it says that they'll have bad luck or good luck or will meet their lover or something good will happen or god will bless them or it's Un-American not to.

I've had email since 1992. There's very little I haven't already seen 5 times.

The ones that REALLY tick me off, though, are the ones from "friends and family just looking out for my welfare" that are extremely Christian. I am NOT going to convert back to Christianity for an email, for the Lady's sake!

The other thing I hate is people that spam MySpace bulletins constantly with every cute little YouTube or spam message they ever got. I don't CARE about your stupid music/gospel message/Muppet Show nostalgia!

Grrr.

Hehehehehehe what about the fake banking ones there are some sick cretins out there...

More of an annoyance than a pet peeve, and I suppose it's the fault of the person who can't type or spell... AND I suppose I should just back off those finding unique ways to make a buck...

But what about people who buy up domain names that are just slight misspellings from the real site you want to go to and then redirect you... its no big deal if I'm typing in a URL wrong for, uh, I don't know, some site that's a .gov or .edu and I type in .com or whatever and it redirects me to a site with searches related to the site I was looking for...

But my wife mistyped askjeeves a few months back (I think she typed in geeves) and next thing I know I'm hearing her yell for me to come because "honey, im on porn tube!"...

And I'm thinking to myself as I come to the office "well I sure as hell didnt upload a naughty video of you so you'd better ask your bf"... before I realize she was redirected to a porn site and couldn't get out. One of those "popup" type things where you have to hit control/alt/del to close the application because it won't let you "x" out.

To those of you who haven't had this happen, its annoying as heck, especially when you have other tabs open and don't really want to close your browser.

I get it. You're trying to make a buck off my ignorant spelling. Just don't direct me to something that might be offensive and then refuse to let me out without closing the app.

Kp,
I know what you mean,this happened to me while searching for a kids rhyme site,I am not sure what I misspelled but it took me to a site no parent would want to open while a child is waiting patiently for nursery rhymes.

And about the not being able to close it,I had to shut off the Pc,because the whole computer froze.

Hey I just found a pet peeve I didn't know I had: I hate it when companies publish only phone numbers with words in them, like "call us at 555-porkpies". I really don't like having to decipher the letters on the dial to figure out how to reach them. I know it's a minor thing but I do find it annoying.

I actually LIKE it when companies do that, NK. I can remember the phone number LATER then!

I guess I'm good with numbers. :)

Websites that make the back button reload the last page. Your in the middle of searching and go to one of these sites and then can never get back to the search results page. Grrrr.

Funny story about the misspelled website...

My hubby used to work for a real estate company. A Realtor wanted to create a free personal e-mail address. He told her to go to www.hotmail.com; she called back angry because she wound up on a porn site... www.hotmale.com! :)

Does anyone know the really nice country song by the name of "Daddy's Hands" Try entering that sometime! OMG! I sure found out where that one went! Sicko's!

LOL! Been there, done that. I can now spot a problem Google search a mile away. But I only really care at work (you can set search filters on Google), at home I don't care since not much shocks me.

Here's a pet peeve! Nothing shocks me anymore either! Not a darn thing! LOL! :p

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Originally Posted by jillianleab

Funny story about the misspelled website...

My hubby used to work for a real estate company. A Realtor wanted to create a free personal e-mail address. He told her to go to www.hotmail.com; she called back angry because she wound up on a porn site... www.hotmale.com! :)

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LMAO... now THAT is funny :)

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Originally Posted by NeedKarma

"call us at 555-porkpies".

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Am I the only one who is DYING to call 555-porkpies?

I worked at a company that had a receptionist who was the surrogate mother to all... nice, kind lady with a great sense of humor. One of the workers, after having this prank pulled on her, got her to call a number for free dog food. She was a dog lover and the worker told her to put it on speakerphone so she could help her through the process. She did this, of course, in front of the entire lab group that worked with her and knew her well.

Well... needless to say, 1-800-my-puppy was what the worker told her she was calling... instead it was 1-800-my-pu__y (you work it out) and connected her to a sultry woman's voice who was glad to entertain her for a minute by minute fee. It was beautiful. She turned three shades of red and smacked each of us at least once. Hard to run away when you're laughing hard.

Do you have the male version phone number? Would that me 1-800-my-pe__s? Hubby's on nights again. That's my pet peeve, companies that are open nights. :(

I'm lonely, I'm grumpy, I've had a bad day, well, some of it anyway.

I need a back massage, with some tingly oil. I want rose petals on the bed and satin sheets. I'll wear my lingerie, he'll wear his silk boxers, we'll put the kama sutra tape in the DVD and enjoy. This sucks! :( Right now I'd settle for some dirty talk. ;)

Really huge pet peeve right now, my hubby's boss.

Okay, vent over, I'm okay, really, I'll be fine.

So, how is everyone?

You know... being a night person personally, I LIKE companies that are open nights.

I freakin' HATE companies that are ONLY open 9-5. Like everyone ELSE doesn't have to work those hours too! Or, like the DMV, open 11-3, Monday through Thursday. Bah.

More companies should have hours for those of us that don't even get HOME until 7 PM.

Sounds like you need to find KP, Alty ;)

Hee, hee, yes, I do. KP! :)

Synnen, my hubby is a machinist, so he works at night, but the company isn't "open" per say. He works odd hours, for two weeks he works 7am until 4pm and then 2 weeks 4pm until 12:30am, it sucks. I hate it when he works nights. :(

This is his first night shift week, one more to go and then he's back on days, now days I like. :)

Having worked in a factory in the summer--even though he doesn't see you as much, I bet those 2 weeks are something of a relief to him, because of how hot it gets inside a machine shop.

I also worked "southern swing"--5 days of 'days', 2 days off, 6 days of evenings, 1 day off, 7 days of nights, 4 days off, and back to days for the same cycle. So just think---it COULD be worse!

That's true Synnen, it could be worse.

I've just had a really hard day, I could use his company right now.

At least I have you guys, I don't know what I'd do without all of you, especially when hubby is on nights. :)

Grrr I def agree with the company thing synny.

I work from 8am - 10pm Monday - Saturday. The ONLY day I have off... is Sunday.

When's the bank open? That's right. Also, when's my leasing office (who accepts my packages that come in the mail) open? That's right. Grr.

Altenweg:

Kind of hard to work on the hours starting at 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 etc. I'd say really difficult. Yep, I'd be pissed too.

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Allheart's Pet Peeves -

- People who are unkind - judgemental - can't put themselves in someone else's shoes for 5 seconds.

- People who don't like you because of the way you look

- People who take advantage of nice people and push them around

- People who ask "Did you get your hair cut" - You answer = "yes" and they say "oh". Hello!!! If you don't like it don't even bother asking.

- People who make life more difficult for others, when it doesn't have to be.

- People who mock you when you are in a crowd, becuase of their own insecurities.

- People who can't embrace differences of other people.

- People who know you are busy up to your eyeballs and mock you for working so hard and do all they can to distract you, because they are bored with their work.

- People who just can't understand that everyone has feelings, everyone hurts, and putting others down, is not the way to feel better about yourself.

- People who are spend so much time ridiculing others shortcomings, instead of taking the time, to work on their own shorcomings and trying to better themselves.

= Women who don't support other women. When a women gets promoted, there alwasy seems to be a group of women clucking " I wonder how she got that job". Argh!!!

- People who talk down to people.
- People who mistrust, genuine love, care and concern coming their way. Question it and reject it as "phony".

- People who find joy at other's misfortunes.

- People who are in such a rush, that they can't share a smile.

- People who get upset at the elderly because they are moving to slow in front of them. That will be all of us someday.

- And lastly - People who fail to realize that this life is temporary, and it won't matter what material things you have gained, what accomplishments you have achieved, what money you accumulated - because all of that will be left behind, and the only thing that will remain, is if you shared all the goodness in your heart, an embrace, a kind gesture or word, did you make a positive difference, or negative one. Did you lift someone's spirit, or break their spirit. Did you lend a hand when needed, or were to blind to see the need.
And did you count your blessings and be grateful or did you desire someone elses blessings. Did you dry a tear, or cause a tear? Did you realize how special you are and how special others are or could you only see faults?

And lastly :), and this is something that I do try and work on myself, is to have more understanding, to care for, and not get upset at those who do cause pet peeves, as they are the same as us, and may just have painful issues, or actual reasons they do the things they do.

Final thought - to make someone smile, can last for miles, causing a tear, could last for years.

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I realize this is a thread started back in the summer,but I had to comment on your post.

This is soooo compassionate,sooo caring,, sooo correct,my perception of you has gone up 100 fold.

Thank you for the 'gratitude' list you have helped me to write(in my personal journal)

Remembering the good and forgiving the bad.

:) KBC

I forgot about this thread! I'm glad it was brought up again! Who couldn't help but love our dear Allheart! We miss her! Come back and talk to us sweets! This just reminded me, we need to go back to the thread we started for you, and beg for you to come and say HI! :D