You know what I hate!!
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People who post on Facebook how they took a jog, fed the kids, cleaned the whole house, and now are about to spend quality time with their husband.
Lies! Girl...I know you in person and you haven't done any of that . Be real, you've binged watched Netflix all day and threw the kids some crackers.11 -
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crooked_left_hook wrote: »rhtexasgal wrote: »crooked_left_hook wrote: »I also hate when people don't pick up their dog's poop. One of the schools in my area had the students make these pictures and they hung them all over the corner where the bus stop is. There's about 100 of them hanging out there. It's amazing!
My neighbor's dog poos in MY yard, not his own. After much discussion with the neighbor "oh I'll pick it up" and then never does, we have started picking it up, putting it on a paper plate and leaving it on his front door step and even in front of his garage. Those poo plates miraculously disappear but he STILL won't pick up after his dog. Last time, we put the paper plate of poo on the hood of his car with a less than kind note ... waiting to see if anything happens with that!
Amazing! I would probably do the same thing. Maybe don't put it on a plate and put it right in front of the door...or multiple doors. Taking it off the plate will make it less visible so maybe he will step in it. You could also put it in the mailbox. Urban warfare at its best.
We had a group of people that liked to stop in front of our house at 4am when the bars let out and have really loud, drunken arguments on Thursday, Friday, AND Saturday. I think they worked there. After a couple weeks of yelling at them to be quiet my ex and I had decided we were over it. We went up on the roof of our building and started bombing them with eggs. That solved the problem
A group of freshmen moved into the house next to where I used to live (row house types). They fulfilled pretty much all stereotypes, including the loud partying EVERY.SINGLE.NIGHT. At first we tried talking to them during the day, asking nicely and usually with a vague 'yeah, sure'. Then we tried calling the police (not supposed to disturb the peace after 10pm), because we would have liked to sleep at least on weekday nights. That didn't help much either. So we changed our strategy
First person to leave in the morning (we're talking 2 houses, one left, one right, each with 2-3 flats, for a total of 9 people...), would ring their bell (as in, lean on it nonstop) until someone got up to open the door:
US: hey, sorry but could you tone it down a bit one weekday nights? Some of us have to work and really need to get some sleep...
THEM: yeah yeah yeah... going back to sleep.
Lather, rinse, repeat. Starting at 6am going all the way to noon. They were NOT getting any sleep and had to appear in class at 1pm (mandatory presence for the freshmen or they failed the class...). None of them ever came up with the idea of disconnecting the bell either...
Took us a week, but the parties stopped. We wouldn't even have minded Friday and Saturday nights. *Shrugs* Their loss for not wanting to talk to us like decent humans.15 -
Lonestar5715 wrote: »
I'm not the person who originally posted that, but to me it's more of an awareness issue. Listening to soft music while grocery shopping is not a problem as long as you can still hear the people around you. Many times people have ear buds in and cannot hear you behind them repeatedly saying, "Excuse me" as you're trying to get past them in the isle. Just my $0.02.4 -
Susieq_1994 wrote: »Jeannie3099 wrote: »People who just want to do nothing and then complain about their weight.
This. This drives me crazy. I run a weight loss competition type thing on Whatsapp (nothing big, just a bunch of friends trying to motivate each other) and my sister asked me if a friend of hers could join, so I agreed. So I add her in, and the conversation goes something like this:
Me: So, what sort of plan are you trying out to lose weight? Person A here is using low-carb, Person B is counting calories, Person C is (etc)...
New person: Wait, a plan? I don't have a plan.
Me: So how are you going to go about losing weight? Are you going to create a deficit by eating less? Maybe doing some exercise?
New person: But I don't WANT to eat less. And I'm too lazy to exercise. But I want to lose 10 kg...
Me: ... -goes off into a private chat with my sister and threatens to feed her to alligators for subjecting me to this-
Ugh annoying! My response would have been "Since this group is for people who actually intend to lose weight by trying not wishing, I don't think this is the group for you. You're welcome to come back if you have a change of mind. For now, I delete you."
I wish I was direct enough to say something like that! Instead, I inwardly cringe every time we have a group weigh in or talk about weight loss tactics that worked for us (i.e. some ways we found to help us stick to a deficit) and I know she's going to start up again. I'm just hoping that she'll either get on board or quietly fade away like several other members who couldn't stick with it did. I do my best to help people with adherence, suggesting small changes and encouraging them, but I'm not a miracle worker!1 -
TimothyFish wrote: »Susieq_1994 wrote: »Jeannie3099 wrote: »People who just want to do nothing and then complain about their weight.
This. This drives me crazy. I run a weight loss competition type thing on Whatsapp (nothing big, just a bunch of friends trying to motivate each other) and my sister asked me if a friend of hers could join, so I agreed. So I add her in, and the conversation goes something like this:
Me: So, what sort of plan are you trying out to lose weight? Person A here is using low-carb, Person B is counting calories, Person C is (etc)...
New person: Wait, a plan? I don't have a plan.
Me: So how are you going to go about losing weight? Are you going to create a deficit by eating less? Maybe doing some exercise?
New person: But I don't WANT to eat less. And I'm too lazy to exercise. But I want to lose 10 kg...
Me: ... -goes off into a private chat with my sister and threatens to feed her to alligators for subjecting me to this-
As frustrating as this may be, this really gets at the heart of why people are obese. No one wants to be overweight, but they have trouble convincing themselves to do the things they need to do to lose weight. If we could figure out how to help people do that, the world would be a lot thinner.
This is true, but I always tell people that they don't HAVE to make any broad, sweeping changes. For example, with this infuriating new member, I told her to try adding veggies to her meals to help her feel more full, so that it would crowd out higher-calorie foods and she won't have to feel hungry or suffer. She then informed me that she didn't want to go to the market and buy veggies, because her mom was the one who bought the food.0 -
I hate that my maintenance calories are nowhere near 5000. Because that's about the amount of calories that I can put away...13
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I hate those new-ish Dodge vehicles with the tail lights that go all the way across the back of the car/truck. No reason - they just annoy me.
And since we're talking about the grocery store - I hate it when the entire family goes to the store together. Mom, Dad, Grandma, 4 kids, a cousin or two, the neighbors and the dog ... and they're all standing around in the coffee aisle, having a discussion about powdered creamer vs. liquid creamer.3 -
JeepHair77 wrote: »I hate those new-ish Dodge vehicles with the tail lights that go all the way across the back of the car/truck. No reason - they just annoy me.
And since we're talking about the grocery store - I hate it when the entire family goes to the store together. Mom, Dad, Grandma, 4 kids, a cousin or two, the neighbors and the dog ... and they're all standing around in the coffee aisle, having a discussion about powdered creamer vs. liquid creamer.
This is Costco around my neighborhood EVERY weekend... So annoying!2 -
crooked_left_hook wrote: »I also HATE open floor plans in offices. I currently want to murder about 15 people who don't know how to use their indoor voices at work. The cacophony of conversations and phone calls happening are making it impossible to concentrate. After lunch I'm going to go hide in a closet with my lap top and very loud music to try and drown them out.
And no offense to the parents out there (I actually like kids), but I also hate when people bring their kids to work. It's work, not daycare, and your kids are highly distracting. We have flexible work hours so you can work from home if you have to keep your kids home! Especially if they are sick!!!
Rant complete. Must try and get some work done now...
Some people bring their kids to work?? Is this a thing? My kid would drive me to distraction at work. I'd get nothing done and spend all day chasing after her with colouring pencils or something to stop her getting bored. Also, I'm pretty sure I'd get sacked for it. My office would literally kill me. One time I had to drive into work to do someone a favour (on my day off!!!) and they were like "Oh.....you have your daughter with you......." even though I was literally on in the office for 5 minutes!!
Yes, I can see why that would suck!!!2 -
Chef_Barbell wrote: »JeepHair77 wrote: »I hate those new-ish Dodge vehicles with the tail lights that go all the way across the back of the car/truck. No reason - they just annoy me.
And since we're talking about the grocery store - I hate it when the entire family goes to the store together. Mom, Dad, Grandma, 4 kids, a cousin or two, the neighbors and the dog ... and they're all standing around in the coffee aisle, having a discussion about powdered creamer vs. liquid creamer.
This is Costco around my neighborhood EVERY weekend... So annoying!
That was all day, everywhere when I lived in NYC!1 -
fitbethlin wrote: »RaeBeeBaby wrote: »
Recently saw someone "fake" pick up the poo because other people were watching, but she didn't really pick it up. Poo-poo fail.
This is bringing up a lot of rage in me. I end up picking up my dog's poo AND some other dog's poo if I can grab it all in the same bag. I live in a city, downtown, where there are special dog poo bags and trashcans every half block! Why would you not even pick it up when it's only 6 inches from the station where the bags are dispensed?!?
In my neighborhood, we have geniuses that pick up and bag the poop, then LEAVE THE BAG THERE!0 -
People who go slow in the left lane, then get mad when you pass them on the right.4
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fitbethlin wrote: »RaeBeeBaby wrote: »
Recently saw someone "fake" pick up the poo because other people were watching, but she didn't really pick it up. Poo-poo fail.
This is bringing up a lot of rage in me. I end up picking up my dog's poo AND some other dog's poo if I can grab it all in the same bag. I live in a city, downtown, where there are special dog poo bags and trashcans every half block! Why would you not even pick it up when it's only 6 inches from the station where the bags are dispensed?!?
In my neighborhood, we have geniuses that pick up and bag the poop, then LEAVE THE BAG THERE!
*bangs head agains wall*2 -
mangrothian wrote: »ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken wrote: »
For a quick approximation, 1 cup is about equal to .25 liter.
...ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken wrote: »These are measurements for volume.
1 cup is 8 oz
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eta: oh! and if anyone is wondering, a measuring cup is eight fluid ounces, not weighed ounces.
If we want to get technical the liquid measuring cups are not the same as dry measuring cups.
Myself, I weigh measured liquid portions and stick to the gram weight. I hate dragging out a bunch of measuring tools!
https://cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/5450-dry-versus-liquid-measuring-cups
Unless you're Australian. Where a standard measuring cup sizes are the same for weight and volume, but still different to the US:
1 cup = 250mL
4 cups = 1 Litre
1 tablespoon = 15mL
1 tsp = 5mL
Yay for the metric system!
Mine is also related to food metrics. Americans, what the *goshdarnkitten* is a stick of butter? No where else uses it. I have no idea what it is. Related to this is volume-based amounts of butter. 1/4 cup of butter? So I'm meant to smoosh the butter into the quarter cup (which may be a different volume to yours) and then try and scrape it all out with as little residue in the cup as possible? I don't care if it's ounces or grams since my scale can do both, for the worlds sake, give us values in weights.
The other thing I hate at the moment is pedestrians who either:
a) don't know how to walk straight and keep to one side of the footpath, or
b) think its fine to stop dead in a peak hour crowd with people still walking behind them (I may have kneed a guy in the junk by accident because of it this morning, and the *kitten* tried to say it was all my fault).
The measures are the same in Canada. Though we do have sticks of butter or butter with paper that gives measurements for 1/4, 1/2 and a full cup. A stick is 1/4 of a brick of butter here. Our pints and gallons also follow the UK versions rather than the US versions. I live close to the border so I'm used to converting everything back and forth including temperature depending on what news I happen to watch. 1 -
crooked_left_hook wrote: »I also HATE open floor plans in offices. I currently want to murder about 15 people who don't know how to use their indoor voices at work. The cacophony of conversations and phone calls happening are making it impossible to concentrate. After lunch I'm going to go hide in a closet with my lap top and very loud music to try and drown them out.
And no offense to the parents out there (I actually like kids), but I also hate when people bring their kids to work. It's work, not daycare, and your kids are highly distracting. We have flexible work hours so you can work from home if you have to keep your kids home! Especially if they are sick!!!
Rant complete. Must try and get some work done now...
Some people bring their kids to work?? Is this a thing? My kid would drive me to distraction at work. I'd get nothing done and spend all day chasing after her with colouring pencils or something to stop her getting bored. Also, I'm pretty sure I'd get sacked for it. My office would literally kill me. One time I had to drive into work to do someone a favour (on my day off!!!) and they were like "Oh.....you have your daughter with you......." even though I was literally on in the office for 5 minutes!!
Yes, I can see why that would suck!!!
I hope not on a regular basis, but I've brought my kid to work a few times. Not when she was sick, but like, I work downtown, and once we had Nutcracker tickets in the evening. She came to work with me for the afternoon so that we could leave the office, have dinner, and go to the show right after. And her stepmom works nearby, so there have been a few occasions when we did a "trade-off" downtown, and my daughter spent a half a day with me at the office or something. If it's a school holiday and I CAN'T work at home for whatever reason, she would come to the office with me (although she's old enough now that I'd just leave her at home).
She's not a distraction, though. She likes to get hot chocolate out of the Keurig, watch a movie on my iPad, and get taken out somewhere for lunch. And I have an office with a door, so I just close it if she's here. I wouldn't have tried to do that when she was little enough to get bored and be a pain.2 -
Right now I'm hating rude customers, the cold, trees and stupid people.0
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It is illegal to not yield to a pedestrian right of way.
I think this is an American phenomenon. I've attempted to cross the street in other countries and it's very apparent nobody believes this.Chef_Barbell wrote: »JeepHair77 wrote: »I hate those new-ish Dodge vehicles with the tail lights that go all the way across the back of the car/truck. No reason - they just annoy me.
And since we're talking about the grocery store - I hate it when the entire family goes to the store together. Mom, Dad, Grandma, 4 kids, a cousin or two, the neighbors and the dog ... and they're all standing around in the coffee aisle, having a discussion about powdered creamer vs. liquid creamer.
This is Costco around my neighborhood EVERY weekend... So annoying!
Thanks, I forgot to add - I hate Costco! It's like an insane shopping frenzy every time.
He who purchases the most muffins and toilet paper wins!
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RaeBeeBaby wrote: »
It is illegal to not yield to a pedestrian right of way.
I think this is an American phenomenon. I've attempted to cross the street in other countries and it's very apparent nobody believes this.Chef_Barbell wrote: »JeepHair77 wrote: »I hate those new-ish Dodge vehicles with the tail lights that go all the way across the back of the car/truck. No reason - they just annoy me.
And since we're talking about the grocery store - I hate it when the entire family goes to the store together. Mom, Dad, Grandma, 4 kids, a cousin or two, the neighbors and the dog ... and they're all standing around in the coffee aisle, having a discussion about powdered creamer vs. liquid creamer.
This is Costco around my neighborhood EVERY weekend... So annoying!
Thanks, I forgot to add - I hate Costco! It's like an insane shopping frenzy every time.
He who purchases the most muffins and toilet paper wins!
:laugh: For real!! And don't get me started on the samples.1 -
I saw someone doing that today and walking against a red light, into traffic. He wasn't hit, but the drivers were honking. I yelled out to warn him and about 5 seconds later as he reached the curb he looked up and smiled. I think he thought I was just saying hi.RaeBeeBaby wrote: »Pedestrians (sorry, but usually teens) who take their sweet *kitten* time crossing the street while looking at their phones.
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fitbethlin wrote: »RaeBeeBaby wrote: »
Recently saw someone "fake" pick up the poo because other people were watching, but she didn't really pick it up. Poo-poo fail.
This is bringing up a lot of rage in me. I end up picking up my dog's poo AND some other dog's poo if I can grab it all in the same bag. I live in a city, downtown, where there are special dog poo bags and trashcans every half block! Why would you not even pick it up when it's only 6 inches from the station where the bags are dispensed?!?
In my neighborhood, we have geniuses that pick up and bag the poop, then LEAVE THE BAG THERE!
At our local nature reserve, people bag the poo (if someone else is around, otherwise they leave it) and then throw the bags in the trees despite the availability of bins
Lovely, not. In winter, all you can see is bags of various colours suspended from the branches. They might as well not bother; if they'd left it on the ground it disappears within a few days; in the trees it's there for months. Some people really are disgusting.
And why is it dog owners think that everyone loves their dogs as much as they do? I grew up with dogs but actually don't like them at all. And I hate owners who cannot control their animals - I don't want their dog's dirty paws all over me, or the snot from their nose all over me. And those who always say "Oh, s/he wouldn't hurt a fly" - this is such rubbish. Just because a dog hasn't hurt anyone up until that point, it doesn't mean to say that it won't hurt anyone in the future. My dad had a dog who, when my older sister was born, went from being a docile animal to being really vicious. He had to be rehomed.
And litter! Why throw it on the ground when there's a bin along the way????3 -
A certain political party here in the US.
And when people who are crossing the street run / jog halfway and then stop and slug-through the other half ... which is the half that is in front of my car.
But, mostly, a certain political party here in the US.4 -
HOA's that have really super strict rules about everything, EXCEPT the things that matter to me, like how about some adult only evening hours at the pool?!
Parents who think that their kids being really loud is ok no matter where they are.
Parents who ignore their kids crying while shopping, I remember being that poor bored, hungry or tired kid! Leave the store - tend to your child, that dress will just have to wait half an hour while you be a parent!
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people who don't use manners like it wouldn't kill you to be kind to other people.2
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Oh just remembered another one! People who start threads asking for help with their weight loss, or exercise plan etc, then get lots of helpful replies, but never come back, not even just to say 'thanks'.6
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youdoyou2016 wrote: »A certain political party here in the US.
And when people who are crossing the street run / jog halfway and then stop and slug-through the other half ... which is the half that is in front of my car.
But, mostly, a certain political party here in the US.
I suppose this comment could be applied to either political party...I wonder which one annoys you more...I certainly know which one annoys me
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Here's one that applies to MFP -
People who are constantly posting on their newsfeed about how bad they are eating, how often they are "cheating" (their words, not mine) and then justify.
"I couldn't help devouring an entire cheesecake, but it was _________ special event. I'm not going to beat myself up over it. Tomorrow's another day." Recycle. Repeat.
I'd like to beat you up for even posting that crap. That's the mentality that got you here in the first place. That being said, I totally need to go through my friend list and delete these repeat offenders. I'm here for support and motivation, not to condone people's lack of willpower.5 -
crooked_left_hook wrote: »youdoyou2016 wrote: »A certain political party here in the US.
And when people who are crossing the street run / jog halfway and then stop and slug-through the other half ... which is the half that is in front of my car.
But, mostly, a certain political party here in the US.
I suppose this comment could be applied to either political party...I wonder which one annoys you more...I certainly know which one annoys me
For me, it's the one associated with the disgraceful, willfully ignorant, incoherent lunatic.6 -
Hating things takes a lot of energy, but mysteriously burns no calories, gets me worked up, and changes nothing. Maybe I hate hating things.
Oh, and: On the "how much is a dash?" question. Darned good odds that if a recipe suggests a dash, pinch, sprinkle of something, it's a flavoring ingredient. So use however much gets you to the flavor you like. Cooking/baking goes beyond following recipes as if they were conveyer belts, delivering one to a solution. Only structural ingredients matter. Learn which those are - some will suprise you - and mess with the rest. It's more fun. 4 -
Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »Turn signals in cars that no one seems to use!! It's a flick of the hand, people. Lol
When it's obvious they did use the turn signal "at some point" but you've been behind them for 3 miles and they've been signalling a left turn the entire time4
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