20 things that bug me

Pet peeves and annoyances

Everyone has things that get on their nerves. Things that really bug them.  Here's a list of some of mine:

  1. People not taking responsibility for their actions or behavior
  2. People who use arrogance as a debate tactic
  3. People who think they have leverage when they do not
  4. People lacking self control
  5. Passive/aggressive people.
  6. People who let the slightest obstacle stimey them.
  7. People who think other people should take care of them.
  8. People who worry too much about what other people make
  9. People who resent or feel excessive envy towards those who are materially wealthier
  10. People who think that anyone who has done better than them are just "luckier"
  11. People who think those that disagree with them are automatically either ignorant or stupid
  12. People who are unable to recognize that there are often multiple, legitimate points of view
  13. People who think that multiple points of view are always equally legitimate
  14. People who think they are more sophisticated because they make no value judgements due to seeing "shades of gray"
  15. People who never see shades of gray
  16. People who are stymied into inaction due to shades of gray
  17. People who regularly use moral equivalence arguments
  18. People who think it is always up to "someone else" to fix something.
  19. People who think arguing passionately or loudly is the same as arguing effectively.
  20. People who advocate a position without having any real knowledge of history or of human nature.

Those are real general things.  The quickest way to get on my nerves is to argue on a site like JoeUser.com (because it's a free site we provide) that my opinions (whatever they are on whatever issue) are costing  "me" sales.  As if my day job is the sum of my life and that my company is just me as opposed to being dozens of people.    That annoys me because the argument essentially implies that I should have no opinions, especially controversal ones, because my only point to exist is to make stuff not to express myself. OTHER people can express themselves but not me.  Which is hogwash and something I find deeply offensive.  But that's for a different article. ;)

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Whew, that was a mouthful!

I can honestly say I am guilty of a few of those, as I am sure so can many others. (well the honest ones at least, will admit to it!)

Still without them, JU would be boring and very quiet!
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send me.


This has obviously gone way over my head!!!!!!!

I missed something didn't I??????????????
Reply #5 Top
Seems you have an anon bot spamming your blog.
Reply #6 Top
So, basically people just bug you.

~Zoo
Reply #7 Top
I do believe someone has been tweaked. I feel flattered. which is nice. non?
Reply #8 Top
~whew~ (ducks and runs and hopes she doesnt find herself exiled for the above comment.)


Mistress Jennifer be ere an stands ready with her cat o 9 tails te protect yer! Ye be a brave lass an all!

Myself, I'd have a second persona


Who is going to know? I agree with LW, create a new persona - say what you like when you like. (but then I am new here and do not know the history here, so don't pay too much attention to me!) ::
Reply #9 Top
Bare Grace Misery

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Sweet boy, come in
I am the dark side of you
Die for my sins
Like the One once did
Cinnamon bed
For your unashamed appetite
A figurante
This dance will hurt like hell
Oh, bare grace misery
Just a child without a fairytale am I
Dark but so lovely
A Little Match Girl freezing in the snow
Love lying, enticing
(Bare grace misery)
Crowning the moment
(Bare grace misery)
This is what I am
Bare grace for the end of days
Romantic scent
Spoiled Lucrece lies warm for you
There`s no such priest
That can pray me to heaven
When done with me
Forget if you think I feel ashamed
A wild thing
Never felt sorry for anything
Love lying...

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Reply #10 Top
Fellow citizens, we have been called to leadership in a period of consequence. We have entered a great ideological conflict we did nothing to invite. We see great changes in science and commerce that will influence all our lives. And sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore.

Yet the destination of history is determined by human action, and every great movement of history comes to a point of choosing.

Lincoln could have accepted peace at the cost of disunity and continued slavery. Martin Luther King could have stopped at Birmingham or at Selma, and achieved only half a victory over segregation. The United States could have accepted the permanent division of Europe, and been complicit in the oppression of others.

Today, having come far in our own historical journey, we must decide: Will we turn back, or finish well?

Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage. Like Americans before us, we will show that courage and we will finish well.

We will lead freedom\'s advance. We will compete and excel in the global economy. We will renew the defining moral commitments of this land. And so we move forward -- optimistic about our country, faithful to its cause, and confident of victories to come.

-- President Bush


link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU-qfQEGDEg
Reply #11 Top
I think it's ok for you to piss a few people off now and then. I mean, really, this isn't Oprah and you aren't Tom Cruse jumping like a monkey on her couch. Pissing a couple of people off is not going to cost you a multi-million dollar deal with Paramount.
Reply #12 Top
You're entitled to an opinion, just as we all are; you're entitled to let it be known, just like we all do; you're entitled to defend yourself and your beliefs and your opinions, just like we all do. Now whomever disagrees with this, just because you own a business like Stardock, and this Website which you let the citizens use for free, doesn't mean they should piss all over you and then say I'm a future customer, etc. That's hogwash! Just like they have the right to go elsewhere and refuse to use your service, you have the right to deny them too.
Reply #13 Top
Draginol you sound like a very angry and unhappy person with the way you are carrying on like this.
Reply #14 Top
Draginol you sound like a very angry and unhappy person with the way you are carrying on like this.


Oh get off his case you indignant sounding twit!

We all write a rant every now and then; the man is allowed to say how he feels occasionally as we all are. Who are you to decide that he is an “unhappy person” or is "carrying on?"

He is entitled to blog and express the same way we all do. Just because he owns the site does not mean he is not allowed to say boo!

I second what FS said:

You're entitled to an opinion, just as we all are; you're entitled to let it be known, just like we all do; you're entitled to defend yourself and your beliefs and your opinions, just like we all do. Now whomever disagrees with this, just because you own a business like Stardock, and this Website which you let the citizens use for free, doesn't mean they should piss all over you and then say I'm a future customer, etc. That's hogwash! Just like they have the right to go elsewhere and refuse to use your service, you have the right to deny them too.


The points he listed are quite valid! I am guilty of at least 3 of them that I know of. (Probably more, truth be known!)

How about you SUE? How many will you honestly admit to?

You don't like it? Then lump it and leave you self righteous whining little miss prissy pants!



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"Truthiness is tearing apart our country...

It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty. People love the President because he's certain of his choices as a leader, even if the facts that back him up don't seem to exist. It's the fact that he's certain that is very appealing to a certain section of the country. I really feel a dichotomy in the American populace. What is important? What you want to be true, or what is true?...

Truthiness is 'What I say is right, and [nothing] anyone else says could possibly be true.' It's not only that I feel it to be true, but that I feel it to be true. There's not only an emotional quality, but there's a selfish quality."

link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZy9OhEcLLc
Reply #16 Top
Likewise potential customers stumbling onto a site like this, seeing someone act like a jack***, and then finding he or she owned the company linked to the site wouldn't view it too favorable as well. They would probably think that person is a d**k and wonder if they'd get the same treatment as a customer.


Just because you might not agree with Brad doesn't mean he's a jackass. I don't agree with him very often, but he almost always thinks out his view, doesn't just "shoot from the hip." And the fact remains, you don't like it, go away. It's all been said by everyone else here.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Monday he is deeply troubled by the success of terrorist groups in \"manipulating the media\" to influence Westerners.

\"That\'s the thing that keeps me up at night,\" he said during a question-and-answer session with about 200 naval aviators and other Navy personnel at this flight training base for Navy and Marine pilots.

Rumsfeld was asked whether the criticism he draws as Pentagon chief and a leading advocate of the war in Iraq is an impediment to performing his job. He said it was not and he knows from history that wars are normally unpopular with many Americans. \"I expect that,\" he said. \"I understand that.\"

\"What bothers me the most is how clever the enemy is,\" he continued, launching an extensive broadside at Islamic extremist groups which he said are trying to undermine Western support for the war on terror.

\"They are actively manipulating the media in this country\" by, for example, falsely blaming U.S. troops for civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, he said.

\"They can lie with impunity,\" he said, while U.S. troops are held to a high standard of conduct.

Rumsfeld often complains about what he calls the terrorists\' success in persuading Westerners that the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are part of a crusade against Islam. In his remarks at Fallon he did not offer any new examples of media manipulation; he put unusual emphasis, however, on the negative impact it is having on Americans in an era of 24-hour news.

\"The enemy is so much better at communicating,\" he added. \"I wish we were better at countering that because the constant drumbeat of things they say - all of which are not true - is harmful. It\'s cumulative. And it does weaken people\'s will and lessen their determination, and raise questions in their minds as to whether the cost is worth it,\" he said alluding to Americans and other Westerners.

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Reply #18 Top

Well, my opinions, on whatever subject don't seem to be costing me economically and even if they were, it's not measurable.  Sure, it gets tempting to lash out at the anonymous trolls but to what end? I mean, why should I care what some anonymous troll that calls itself "confusia" thinks?

A blog is a place to vent.  Should I create a new persona for the purposes of political debate? Probably from a business point of view but making money has never been the motivation to do what I do.  I've always just wanted to live how I want to live and as long as I can do that, I'm a happy camper.

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A reply that doesnt have anything to do with the topic, but geez, JU is looking GOOD!!! Neat work!!   
Reply #20 Top
Probably from a business point of view but making money has never been the motivation to do what I do.


Well maybe, but the biggest problem isn't the fact that you own joeuser. It's that people know you own joeuser. By dissassociating your personal views from your corporate policy statements you'd be less open to morons criticising you purely because you're a wealthy self-made man.

Because that's the problem really. No one likes the nouveau riche because they actually manage to rise rapidly in life and everyone assumes they did it through getting dirty. It doesn't help that you're a known conservative, a group that has a certain reputation for dubious business deals.

Disassociate your political views from your economic reality and you'll find people are more likely to take your opinions on their merits.

After all you already have three different accounts so you can post on things however you like; it'd hardly be a change to add a fourth one. Sure, anyone who's read your stuff would recognise your 'voice', but I'm sure the regulars would refrain from spreading the secret.
Reply #21 Top
Confusia, Spike, and Sue are all the same person whose real name is chicken shit.
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Because that's the problem really. No one likes the nouveau riche because they actually manage to rise rapidly in life and everyone assumes they did it through getting dirty. It doesn't help that you're a known conservative, a group that has a certain reputation for dubious business deals.

Very very few people who become wealthy do so through playing "dirty".  Those who do think that you have to do unsavory things to become wealthy in the United States are, in my experience, just envious people who are looking for excuses for why they haven't done better despite thinking they're better people.

Becoming wealthy isn't that hard. You just have to make some sacrifices and think ahead.  Almost every day I see decisions people make that are contrary to having more assets. They think short-term or myopic.  But that's for a different topic.

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Well, my opinions, on whatever subject don't seem to be costing me economically and even if they were, it's not measurable.


I can tell you that you are not quite accurate, at least from my perspective. Your opinions and commentary have driven me to your products. I want to support anyone or any group whose ideals are similar to my own. Someone has to fight the good fight against the idiots; the rest of us need to support them.
Reply #25 Top
Those who do think that you have to do unsavory things to become wealthy in the United States are, in my experience, just envious people who are looking for excuses for why they haven't done better despite thinking they're better people.


Of course. I guess it's a matter of how much you're willing to tolerate those folks just so's you can have a political opinion here. If they don't know who you are they probably won't bother with all the asinine anti-Brad Wardell campaigns and just focus on your arguments. Just look at say Bakerstreet - he doesn't get anywhere near as many personal attacks and yet he's vastly more prolific.