Pet Peeves

[Beebers]

I'm tired of all the stories on the news and in the newspaper about how people in America are too fat. It seems like there's something about that every day, and they always make it sound like it's some big new thing.
Erin

But it IS a new thing. When I was growing up in the '60s you never, ever saw so many heavy people. An overweight person really stood out in the crowd - there just weren't very many of them. We had one - ONE - overweight child in our entire elementary school. I'm GLAD it's covered as much as it is. Americans sit around too much, eat too much, and consume too many items full of additives, high fructose corn syrup (which, since the 1970s, is a filler in almost everything and is not recognized or processed by our insulin) and artificial ingredients. Diabetes is running rampant. If you don't think that's serious, think again. You do not want diabetes. And, what's more, whose generation will have to pay for all the medical maintenance and care resultant from this? Yours. Mine is already footing the **** bill for much of it. Get ready.

It is not a judgmental issue. No one is judging anyone. It's a health issue, and it's real. Sorry it makes you grouchy, but it needs to be dealt with and news coverage is one way to do that. Cheer up, stay healthy.

And, if one still thinks this is not a new issue: The American Stretcher Company, for the first time in its very long history, has had to Supersize its standard-issue stretchers and gurneys, both the size itself and the weight capacity.

 

[Don'tLiveonMoon]

Well, new as in we didn't hear the same thing on the news yesterday and the day before and the day before. Generationally, yeah, it's a change from years before, but I'm getting tired of the extent to which the news hammers it into the ground. It's like you can get away with practically anything in this day and age except being a few pounds overweight. I'm not saying it's not a problem, but I don't see why it has to be headline news several times a week.
Erin

 

[punkNpuppets]

my pet peeves are the following

1) Hippies - i know i know, yeah, im against bush and stuff but still, hippies bother me. because, ima get a lil' stereotypical here - they go and protest for animal rights but then they go and protest for abortion, so to them its wrong to kill animals but its ok to kill babies, cuz thats "women's rights". and most of the time theyre pretty stuck up and only talk in big words and cant have any real fun.

2) People who are wayyyy too PC

3) Cops that abuse their power

 

[Whatever]

I dislike Communists- look what they did to East Germany.

 

[HeraLirambar]

I am feeling very opinionated today.

my pet peeves are the following

1) Hippies - i know i know, yeah, im against bush and stuff but still, hippies bother me. because, ima get a lil' stereotypical here - they go and protest for animal rights but then they go and protest for abortion, so to them its wrong to kill animals but its ok to kill babies, cuz thats "women's rights". and most of the time theyre pretty stuck up and only talk in big words and cant have any real fun.

I'm not sure how I feel about killing and eating animals, because where do we draw the line? People from different nations and religions eat all different animals! Which one is right? At first I used to say "It's natural; animals eat other animals in nature all the time" but now I don't know how much I want to think of humans as animals. And I'm just talking about eating them! As for hunting them and wearing them- I find that to be pointless and sometimes ridiculous. It would make sense if someone was living in the wild and had to kill animal and use its fur for warmth... but otherwise it's just silly. So the whole concept of hunting is a pet peeve of mine, and I hate fur too.

Abortion! Okay, at first I was pro-choice, then I was pro-life. Then I just heard so much about that I stopped caring. Recently, I learned that there are times when having a baby will actually kill the mother, but she'll live if she has an abortion. This is the only time I think abortion should be allowed. I don't think this is a pet peeve, but I had to get that off my chest. I'm not saying this is the way it's gotta be, but it's just my opinion.

2) People who are wayyyy too PC

People act like computers? J/K! I totally agree with ya on that.

3) Cops that abuse their power

Yeah, just heard on the news about some cops who beat a man to death. They were trying to subdue him, I think, but they must've overdone it.
But something I hate as much as people in positions of authority who abuse their power is people who show no respect for people in positions of authority. Happens all the time at my school.


I also hate how people say "That is so gay!" when they don't like something. Wait, did I mention that already? 'Cause I REALLY hate it.

 

[Whatever]

On the abortion issue, I think it should be allowed if the child is brain damaged and will not survive birth. That happened to one of my mom's friends. Like, it didn't have a brain at all or something. It really upsets my mom to think about it even now.

 

[Beebers]

On the abortion issue, I think it should be allowed if the child is brain damaged and will not survive birth. That happened to one of my mom's friends. Like, it didn't have a brain at all or something. It really upsets my mom to think about it even now.

We have a friend to whom that happened, the child had no brain, only the brain stem. The option must always be available, exercised wisely and with care. It should be remembered that the fight for this option was long and hard, and that women will turn to dangerous and illegal options if it is not available safely, as they have since the beginning of time.

It should, however, never be employed late-term, or, as in the current case in the U.K., because of correctable birth defects. (That is a cleft-palate case, which is difficult but quite correctable. That should never have happened.)

 

[Fozzie54]

Some of mine:

- I hate it when people push the signal button to cross the street at a light, then cross when there's no traffic instead of waiting for the actual "Walk" signal, making those of us who are driving wait for the "Walk" signal to go away even though there's no one there to cross...

-I hate it when people come into the animal shelter where I volunteer and say, "My last cat got hit by a car cause we live by a busy road and we're here to get another cat" and when I ask them if they think they should keep the new cat inside they say, "No. Why would I do that?"

-People who judge me just because I love animals but still eat meat (Amen to those of you who have already mentioned this!)

-People who talk with their mouth full... gross.

-Those "Price rollback" tags at Walmart that claim an item used to be a higher price. When you watch every penny you spend like I do and monitor prices closely, you discover that half of those are an outright lie. (E.g. they say english muffins used to be 88 cents but now they're 66 cents, but I remember when they used to be 50 cents).

-People who blame their pets for bad behavior when it's their fault that they never trained them properly

-People who want you to do their work for them

-Mandatory fees for services you'll never use

-Age discrimination

 

[AndyWan Kenobi]

-Those "Price rollback" tags at Walmart that claim an item used to be a higher price. When you watch every penny you spend like I do and monitor prices closely, you discover that half of those are an outright lie. (E.g. they say english muffins used to be 88 cents but now they're 66 cents, but I remember when they used to be 50 cents).

Yeah, that's a good one. I was at the grocery store on Sunday night after being away for a week, and there was a "price decline" sign that said Wheat Chex was now 2 for $5.00! Wowsers! Trouble is, it's been 2 for $4.00 for the last year or so. I know, because I buy it all the time. Where's the price decline?

 

[Fozzie54]

Yeah, that's a good one. I was at the grocery store on Sunday night after being away for a week, and there was a "price decline" sign that said Wheat Chex was now 2 for $5.00! Wowsers! Trouble is, it's been 2 for $4.00 for the last year or so. I know, because I buy it all the time. Where's the price decline?

I actually saw one at Walmart the other day that said the item was now $2.52, but the Price Rollback sign said it used to be $1.77!! Now that's more accurate about how much they're ripping us off! Guess the employee who mixed up those signs is in some trouble....