Things that frustrate us all

[Oddish]

Keep telling yourself that. You might even actually believe it in time.

But you want frustrating things, how about those traffic light sensors that don't work. So you sit there, and sit there, wondering "should I run the light, or throw it in reverse, or just wait a little longer and see if another car shows up and two cars are enough to trip the stupid thing..."

 

[JirinPanthosa]

In my opinion you take the quote in too narrow a context, JP. What Picard expressed there is the cornerstone of all social systems, from insects to humans: the rights of one person/being end exactly at the point where the next person's/being's rights begin. All rights without exception. We don't want an Orwell-ish society in which all are equal but some are more equal than others.

Which leads me to my frustration of the day: I found the remnants of a binge party on the ice of a nearby lake. Plenty of beakers and bottles for the police to take DNA-samples from, and plenty of shards and trash in which water birds got entangled and injured. I caught 2 ducks and a very rare merganser who all three had cut feet. If people think they can't live without boozing, why the bloody can't they tidy up their mess?!!

It certainly does not apply to people who dehumanize other people on social media being fired from their acting jobs because too many of the audience of their acting was being dehumanized.

Oddish is trying to codify the right to express hatred as a personal freedom of expression issue, even when nobody is being thrown in jail and the only consequences are people losing private sector jobs because their hatred has made employing them unprofitable.

Name a single conservative belief that has been restricted, that is not an expression of hatred or intolerance for a minority group. A single one. Nobody is being fired for saying we should lower taxes. Nobody is being fired for saying we should relax gun control, or cut entitlement programs. They're being fired for bullying minority groups, some of which have faced violence all their lives just for being who they are. Making that comparison is completely absurd.

 

[Oddish]

You are so far off it's not funny. I might resent things that affect me personally. But my statement regarding Picard does not pertain to that. It pertains to the rights of other people that are violated because people are so busy catering to certain "oppressed" minorities, it doesn't occur to them that other people have rights too. I'd mention these individuals specifically, but I know you'd just respond with more insults and accusations. You're too f***ing woke to care.

 

[Avro Arrow]

It pertains to the rights of other people that are violated because people are so busy catering to certain "oppressed" minorities

I don't know specifically who you are referring to here, but are you seriously denying the oppression of certain minority groups?

I'd mention these individuals specifically, but I know you'd just respond with more insults and accusations.

I have reviewed JirinPanthosa's post, and I'm not seeing where they have leveled any insults, either at you or anyone else. Just a reminder that if you feel there has been a violation of the flaming rule, please report the post, rather than respond to it in-thread.

You're too f***ing woke to care.

OTOH, your post is getting on the personal side (and I'm assuming based on the rest of your post that this was intended as an insult). You can respond to the points made without getting personal with the poster.

That being said, if you're unwilling to clarify what you're talking about, perhaps it is best just to move on.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

You are so far off it's not funny. I might resent things that affect me personally. But my statement regarding Picard does not pertain to that. It pertains to the rights of other people that are violated because people are so busy catering to certain "oppressed" minorities, it doesn't occur to them that other people have rights too. I'd mention these individuals specifically, but I know you'd just respond with more insults and accusations. You're too f***ing woke to care.

The air quotes around oppressed minorities like that's not a thing is adorable, and the way you turned caring about those issues into a negative while whining about how the white man is the true victim because his rights to carry out said oppression is restricted is classic, artisanal bigotry. Bravo. But by all means, carry on blaming the easy target of minorities for all your problems while continuing to make excuses for and supporting politicians who screw you over.

 

[Oddish]

That being said, if you're unwilling to clarify what you're talking about, perhaps it is best just to move on.

If you review my previous posts, I was trying to.

And Locutus... go ahead and twist my words. I could say that I was referring to blacks, business owners of all colors, and women until the sun turns into a red giant and incinerates the planet. But you will insist for just as long that I meant white men, white men, and white men. It's what you need to believe; it's what you will believe.

 

[Maurice]

[...]We don't want an Orwell-ish society[...]

Orwellian is the word you're looking for.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

On the subject of comments in bad taste, I've seen far too many of those lately. Does no one think before they hit "Reply"? If Marina had read and thought before she hit that button, I think she'd have reworded things. Describing what led to Texas' current situation in more neutral terms might be been a better tactic. For example, saying "you get what you pay for. Good infrastructure is supposed to withstand these colder temperatures, and Texas unwisely chose not to winterize its power grid," might have been taken better.

 

[Oddish]

It's nothing new. Before Katrina hit, the people in charge of the levees in New Orleans were advised to upgrade them; they chose not to. Stronger levees would have vastly reduced the damage, saving hundreds of lives and untold billions of dollars in damage.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

That's certainly a good example for failing to do something that's good for the majority, or in fact the whole community. Did the people who decided not to improove flood management give any reasons for their decision?

My "argh-moment" today is related to the New Orleans problem:
My ministery wants to build flood pools in order to give the water more space to spread on (the wider it is, the shallower it gets) and to protect the major towns. However, this comes at the cost of a handfull of smallholders. We offered them new houses in protected areas and good farm land to swap for their current one. Many have accepted but one or two haven't. Theoretically we could take their land by force (lawfully), but we hesitate to do it and still try to reason with them. However, these discussions keep us from building the protection for several tens of thousands of others. The next big flood could come any day.

What would you all do in such a case? Protect the minority that endangers the very lives of the majority or protect many by overruling few?

 

[Peach Wookiee]

It's nothing new. Before Katrina hit, the people in charge of the levees in New Orleans were advised to upgrade them; they chose not to. Stronger levees would have vastly reduced the damage, saving hundreds of lives and untold billions of dollars in damage.

Yeah, I know. I'm just really wishing Marina had been wiser with her words. She's not the first or last to be stupid with her posts.

 

[Kor]

I am frustrated by widespread mispronunciation of words, such as everybody pronouncing the name of the betta fish like the Greek letter beta... "bayyyyy-tuh."

Kor

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

the betta fish

Must be from Boston.

 

[Worf factor9]

Must be from Boston.

Or Rhoo-de Island.

 

[Oddish]

Or noo-kyoo-lur, for nuclear. Arghhh, drives me nuts.

 

[fireproof78]

WaRsh-ing-ton instead of Washington.

 

[Lady Mondegreen]

People parking their cars in the middle of the bike lane. Every damn day.

Or, on a very similar note, people walking down the middle of a bike lane/bike path with their earbuds turned up so loud they can't hear someone ringing a bell and shouting one foot behind them...

 

[JirinPanthosa]

The one thing that consistently ticks me off in traffic is when a merge is coming up, and a person behind you in the other lane tries to speed in front of you right before the merge.

This is risking a fender bender here. First, it's putting the pressure on me to make an adjustment to avoid the collision when he could have avoided it just by not clamping down the gas pedal. Second, he has no idea if he's directly in my blind spot so it might be difficult to see his car to begin with.

 

[Worf factor9]

The one thing that consistently ticks me off in traffic is when a merge is coming up, and a person behind you in the other lane tries to speed in front of you right before the merge.

This is risking a fender bender here. First, it's putting the pressure on me to make an adjustment to avoid the collision when he could have avoided it just by not clamping down the gas pedal. Second, he has no idea if he's directly in my blind spot so it might be difficult to see his car to begin with.

If I had a dime for every moron I have ever encountered on the road over the years...

And a lot of that was before they had "smart-phones" stuck into their ears. But, to be fair we always had the car stereo cranked up to 11.

Always look out "for the other guy."

Or gal putting on make up w/ the rear-view mirror.

 

[Oddish]

One of my driving pet peeves is when you have an arrow-less left turn, and heavy straight traffic... and the guy in front if you doesn't understand that sometimes, you have to go out in front of the stop line, get into the intersection, and shoot through when the light stops the traffic. They wait placidly behind the stop line for a break in traffic... and sometimes it doesn't come.