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I absolutely despise this "me me me" culture we seem to have nowadays.

Decent manners appear unfortunately to have gone mostly out the window.

That and mobile phones, I hate seeing "mobile phone zombies" everywhere. Even when people are sitting together in restaurants etc. one of them is usually glued to a phone, how about having an actual conversation with the person who has taken time out of their schedule to physically be with you?

Oh, and automated phone help-lines which ask you for a million security details, then you finally get to talk to an actual person (sometimes) who asks you all the same bloody details all over again! And at the end of all that you are no better off because the so called "helper" at the end of the phone really knows not much more about the product than you already know yourself!

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The automated phone lines thing brought back a disturbing memory...

My wife was doing a transfer of funds over the phone and the bank was asking her a bunch of the security questions. At one point I heard her say, "What?" and then the call ended shortly thereafter. I asked her how it went and she said, "Alright, until they asked me (a personal question that they never would have known the answer to) and then, confused, I answered, and they said, "Correct. The funds have been transferred." But how did they know the answer?"

She was adamant that she had never given them that information.

I didn't know what to think. I mean, she married me, so there could be some undiagnosed illness there, but . . .

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This movie has 90% of my pet peeves. It's awesome.


"People who use 'rock star' as an adjective." "The Kardashians" . . .

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I'll quote George Carlin.

"I don't have pet peeves I have major psychotic hatreds."

For me, red lights and traffic.

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Brian Yuzna's Society springs to mind.

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How every culture embarces and perpetuates mediocrity and then wonders why it collapses.Our bloated sense of entitlement.How fast our techology is moving ahead of our ability to control it.Note to world: you are not a friend if you sit across from me and spend the majority of your time on your pad or phone. If I am out with you thats because I choose to engage with you here and now. If you don't want that, move on. Understand??Anyone who knocks on my door unexpected.That thing with the tentacles that keeps trying to push through my floor boards.

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Extravagant and breathtaking editions of any book that scarcely merited the cheapest paperback treatment in the first place. For example, Brother Odd by Dean Koontz bound in sapphires and the oiled skin from a virgin’s unsullied breast. Meanwhile, I can only buy Torture Garden printed on the shoddiest paper imaginable next to toilet tissue. When will there be a leather and silk clad edition of Les Chants de Maldoror? Not until two weeks after I’m dead, that’s when…

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nil

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People who ask "Where are you going?" or "What are your plans?" like you're supposed to know :) I'm going nowhere, hahahaha.

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Receding hairlines, especially mine. I am currently taking pills that prevent hair loss.