the airing of grievances.

[MMP]

Keep tailgating, keep honking, keep flashing your brights....I'm reloading.

If you have more than 10 items, get in the correct lane.

MJ is DEAD....who cares?

No one wants to listen to a medley of your lick in the guitar store.

Handle your own business, stay out of mine.

If you want people to mind their own business, don't shout yours for everyone to hear.

The Handicap parking is for people who really have a hard time walking or moving about, not for someone to drive their handicapped relative to wait in the car while someone else RUNS into the store.

[Gris]

She came backstage, started partying with them, and that was that.

Ooooo, looks like they knew what they were talking (singing) about: "Ee-ee-vil woman, ee-ee-vil woman..."

[elicross]

Two - to the people behind me at the show. I paid around £150 for travel, accommodation and a ticket to listen to Bruce Springsteen at Hyde Park, not you drunken idiots shouting "BROOOOCE". Yes, it's something fans do. Yes, I do it too. However, yelling this and "COME ON BRUCE!" every FIVE FUCKING SECONDS during slow songs like Racing In The Street will NOT persuade him to speed up. It's a quiet-ish, slow, sad song. You can yell and sing along and dance like drunken morons all you want during Dancing In The Dark or whatever, but WHEN THE BAND DECIDE TO DO A SLOW SONG, LET THEM DO A SLOW SONG.

Reminds me of the drunken idiots you can hear on Simon & Garfunkel's "The Concert in the Park" yelling "WOOOOOOOO!!!"

...during "The Sound of Silence."

[ch willie]

Wait a cotton pickin minute.

Yeah, someone got offended.
I'M a primate!
Maybe a higher functioning primate, but still...

Apologies. I thought we were in a simian-free zone.

[Cygnus X1]

Apologies. I thought we were in a simian-free zone.

Oh, Fugg!


jr was right!
May I address the court?

[Fripperton]

[chuckocaster]

new ones:

1. metallica is now on the "hawk", the classic rock statin. i know some might be cheering, no offense to them or the band, but i don't want to listen to them on that station.

2. the hawk. yep, same station. i DO NOT need to hear stairway and hotel california EVERYDAY, along with the other 60 songs you play! i love the old stuff, but maybe an album cut here and there? or maybe everywhere?

[Stonefreefuzz1]

For me it's Bruce Springsteen and Bono

[refin]

People who walk out in the road (in traffic),assuming you will stop.......

[Gris]

People who walk out in the road (in traffic),assuming you will stop.......

Stay away from NH, lol!

[Frat Rettle]

Triple A batteries.
If the device can't fit a 9 volt or a Double A battery then it is too small.

I feel so much better now.

[elicross]

I used to have a laser pointer that used AAAA batteries! I didn't even know there was such a thing. I had to order replacements online from batteries.com.

[Jonnda]

Why the hell would any one design a guitar bridge with a string spread of 2-3/32"? I really like the Baby Grand bridge concept, but come on people, round up to 2-1/8"! I just know the designer wanted to f@$%! around with the person who only has a ruler that is marked down to eighths and feels compelled to get the neck width taper just right.

Shure, I know a great equation that will tell me the width at any didtance from the nut... but without a ruler that measures in 10ths of an inch, i can't use the data practically.

it's all a conspiracy to sell more rulers I tells ya! I blame STUART, the Society to Undermine Annoy and Ruthlessly Torment (it's a reference to the cartoon "Doug").

[elicross]

Since you bring it up, why did I have to learn the metric system in elementary school? The whole world was going to move to it, but are we using it now? No, we are not!

And on the other side of the coin...why aren't we using it? I had to learn it all those years ago -- so why do I have to have twice as many Allen wrenches today? Why do I have to worry about which Callaham block to buy? Why do I have to measure my string spacing and do a bunch of online research before I know I'm getting the right part?!

I say we start a new movement to switch to the metric system. We can get in line right behind health care reform...environmental protection...the economy...and those guys who want to get rid of the penny.

[Jonnda]

Naw, I like my inches. I just like them in decimal form. I learned it in my high school manufacturing class. It is a beautiful thing.

My problem with the metric system is this:
centimeters are too small
Decimeters are no replacement for a foot, but no one uses this term anyway
Meter, respectable legnth
kilometer is also too small

I will admit that Ferinheight is just odd, even thugh that is what I am now used to, as a kid Celsius made more sense as I could relate it to the state of water.

But if you think our current system sucks, wait till you try to fix a car that has a random British Standard Whitworth sized bolt. Neither your metric or SAE wrenches are going to save you. Or take Pozidriv, yeah it's an improvement over Phillips head- but nobody commonly carries a full set of Pozidriv drivers, and not everyone knows what the difference is so the average joe will always strip the rusted screw with the Pozidriv head.

[rudutch]

Henry Louis Gates....

I'l leave it at that

[Jonnda]

Thomas Midgley, Jr....

I'll leave it at that.


edit: no, actually to save y'all the trouble of looking him up- all his well meaning inventions i know of killed people and destroyed the environment. One of his own inventions did him in, ironically.

[chuckocaster]

"hey guys, check this out!" a redneck's famous last words.

[Stonefreefuzz1]

a new one to add... Know it all's!