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[nimrod]

My biggest pet peeve of the week is the French teacher getting his head cut off for teaching his pupils about freedom of speech.

It's time the French people took a stance against this return to the Dark ages where women were treated as second class citizens and freedom of speech was banned.

[Moogmodule]

^^^
Agreed

[Normandie]

People in off-road vehicles or big trucks (e.g., Ford F150) who mince over railroad tracks.    They can't seriously be worried about their shocks. Just drive, already!

[Moogmodule]

People in off-road vehicles or big trucks (e.g., Ford F150) who mince over railroad tracks.    They can't seriously be worried about their shocks. Just drive, already!

  We say in Australia that most people driving big off road vehicles never take them further off road than the local shop car park.

[Moogmodule]

I was in Target and Kmart the other day and both are chock-full of Christmas stuff ...unbelievable 

There were hot cross buns for Easter literally in stores on Boxing Day 

[Normandie]

There were hot cross buns for Easter literally in stores on Boxing Day 

Yikes, that is seriously rushing things. 

We say in Australia that most people driving big off road vehicles never take them further off road than the local shop car park.

  That sounds like the folks in DC!

[Hello Goodbye]

That sounds like the folks in DC!

[Normandie]

This isn't a pet peeve per se, but I always roll my eyes when I see people driving in their cars, almost always alone, wearing a face mask. What, exactly, are they protecting themselves from? 

[Hello Goodbye]

^

The new B.1.1.7 strain of the coronavirus apparently loves riding as a passenger in cars...

[Normandie]

The store where I work part time has started taking receipt of Christmas merchandise. 

[Moogmodule]

^^^
There oughta be a law against that 

[Normandie]

Grrrrrr. I'm going to sound like a grouch, but  -- drivers who don't take the right of way when it is theirs. 

I grew up back East, where the right of way goes to whoever hits the accelerator first.    So it's hard to stifle a sigh of irritation when people sit at a stop sign and politely wave me on when it's actually their turn to go. (I'm terrible, I know.)

[Moogmodule]

Grrrrrr. I'm going to sound like a grouch, but  -- drivers who don't take the right of way when it is theirs. 

I grew up back East, where the right of way goes to whoever hits the accelerator first.    So it's hard to stifle a sigh of irritation when people sit at a stop sign and politely wave me on when it's actually their turn to go. (I'm terrible, I know.)

Oh yeah. That annoys me no end. I just refuse to move. Usually gesticulating semi offensively at them.

[Normandie]

I just refuse to move. Usually gesticulating semi offensively at them.

   Me too! So glad I'm not the only one. 

[nimrod]

Grrrrrr. I'm going to sound like a grouch, but  -- drivers who don't take the right of way when it is theirs. 

I grew up back East, where the right of way goes to whoever hits the accelerator first.    So it's hard to stifle a sigh of irritation when people sit at a stop sign and politely wave me on when it's actually their turn to go. (I'm terrible, I know.)

Be nice.
We all need to be kinder to each other on the roads.
Smile, drive carefully, and be safe.

[Moogmodule]

Be nice.
We all need to be kinder to each other on the roads.
Smile, drive carefully, and be safe.

…and gesticulate semi offensively 

[Normandie]

Be nice.
We all need to be kinder to each other on the roads.
Smile, drive carefully, and be safe.

I am nice. I smile, I drive carefully, and I'm safe. If people in this redneck state are too stupid to take the right of way when it's theirs, that's on them. <shrug>

[Normandie]

^^^^^

Just read that North Dakota leads the country (No. 1 out of all 50 states) in DUI arrests. Lovely. . .    How did I end up here again?

[Hello Goodbye]

I grew up back East, where the right of way goes to whoever hits the accelerator first.   

It's even worse today, Kathy.  This is what the Cross Bronx Expressway looks like today...

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdr-f3MZgqo" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdr-f3MZgqo</a>

I've got to get myself one of those Ford Falcon XB GT Coupes...





The last of the V8 Interceptors 

[Normandie]

It's even worse today, Kathy.  This is what the Cross Bronx Expressway looks like today...

Yikes! 

I am nice. I smile, I drive carefully, and I'm safe. If people in this redneck state are too stupid to take the right of way when it's theirs, that's on them. <shrug>

This has been bothering me. I hate the word "stupid," especially when used to refer to a person or group of persons. It's so unkind. I never let my kids say it, either, or "shut up." (We had a "Shut Up Cup" that required a depost of 25 cents whenever one of us slipped.)

So I'm retracting that particular word. I'm just crabby because I don't like North Dakota.