We haven't had a good bitch fest here in a while. Let it out. We can just make this topic a running list of things that annoy us.

Bitch away.

-- Anonymous, January 02, 2000

Answers

I get annoyed by some attitudes - People obsessed with dates and with time, and with the chronological ages of themselves and others. People obsessed with their own and others' external appearances (whether they think they're hotties or think they're ugly). People obsessed with how smart they think they are compared to others. People who are just self-obsessed, period, and are always comparing themselves to other people in order to find ways to feel superior and/or beat themselves up for not being "good enough."

And yes, when I see some of these attitudes rise (and fall) in my own head, I find myself annoying. So then I remember to get over it already and not get so annoyed with myself and other people for just being human (and therefore perfectly imperfect).

If this makes any sense. :)

Happy New Year, Beth -

-- Anonymous, January 02, 2000

People with web sites who rant about ignorant people, and then spell a lot wrong. Hellooo retards! It's A LOT, not alot. Get it right or stop ranting about retards because in my book you're the biggest one of all.

People who think they're better than people and but on this front. The people who always say "Don't mess with me, especially not on this subject." It just bugged a bit.

All this stupid Y2K huppla. Why didn't computer programers think about this 10 or 15 years ago? They knew this was coming up, it didn't just sneek up on us. Also, the people who think the world is ending by comets hitting us. Why would comets rain down on us just because ONE calender says it's 2000?

-- Anonymous, January 02, 2000

People who turn their negative attitude into a spectator sport for the masses are grating on my nerves. I don't mean forums like this, where the topic given is 'bitch fest'. I mean all the other arenas of online life.

Since I put parts of my life online for public consumption, I guess I should expect this one, but it catches me by suprise, every time. I get annoyed when people read my site, make erroneous assumptions by extrapolating something that they have misread, and then judge me by their own assumption.

Actually, I get pretty annoyed at any sort of public judgement. Write anything you want about other people on your own site, but please, please, keep it off of the public mailing lists. It drives me nuts to open up my elist mail files and find messages *about* other people in list mail, unless it is of the "guess what..something wonderful happened to X today!" variety.

-- Anonymous, January 02, 2000

Post-feminists!

Well, I just watched this episode of Politically Incorrect about young women's rejection of feminism and found it immensely frustrating. This quite from Susannah Breslin pretty much sums up the attitude of the show:

"Well, I think the reality of times suggested earlier is feminism is dead. And whether or not that feminist movement ever got off the ground in fact is questionable. It had a seriously boring set of politics that all women were supposed to adhere to. And 35 years later, women are essentially bored with it."

-- Anonymous, January 02, 2000

Oops. That link should have been this.

-- Anonymous, January 02, 2000

The relative dearth of web sites about San Mateo, CA is currently grating on my nerves.

The city web site isn't very informative. Ditto the chamber of commerce. The local newspaper sold its soul to one of those large warehouse newspaper sites and the Visitor/Tourism site is a bit on the thin side, but getting closer to what I wanted. That is, a history of the town and a description of what it's like to live there, not a disjointed list of links of organizations and phone numbers.

I don't want phone numbers. I want pictures and maps and info on where it's good to live and all that jazz.

Also annoying -- the dearth of apartments that accept pets for something resembling a reasonable price.

I'm sick of all these "2 cats max" places.

What the hell am I supposed to do? Dump a couple of mine in the trash and hope they make it? No wonder so many irresponsible people dump their pets when they move -- trying to find a place to house them is like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

Grr. Argh. Cats and dogs are just furry people too y'know. Gah.

Grumble, growl grunt.

Oh and I forgot the people downstairs.

They and their latin rhumba albums played loud very early in the am can kiss my fat ole behind.

I'm sick of catching their bass.

I want a house dammit.

Heck. I wanna be out of debt enough so I can get a house.

House is good. Then all my kitties would be safe.

-- Anonymous, January 02, 2000

I'm quite annoyed by people who complain excessively about bad spelling or grammar while making many spelling and grammar errors themselves. A good example would be someone who bitched about "a lot" being spelled as "alot" but then, in the same rant, misspelled "hoopla," "programmers," "sneak," and "calendar." Check your own sentences before you pick on someone else's, please.

I feel much better now. Thanks ever so.

-- Anonymous, January 02, 2000

My children. Are acting like little heathens and I completely wish that school didnt' have such long ass vacations.

Sanctimonious people. Just because I belong to your church you old battleaxe, that doesn't give you the right to send a damn form letter berating me for my lack of Sunday School attendance.

My bitch of a sister-in-law who insists that SHE tries to talk to me but I just ignore her.

Stupid people who screw up and get put in jail.

-- Anonymous, January 02, 2000

Sick people who come to work to make sure that they spread their cold virus to their co-workers rather than use a freakin' sick day.

-- Anonymous, January 02, 2000

People who are in a huge rush for a draft of some document, then sit on it for weeks. People who can't be satisfied and seem to be proud of that fact (flash fantasy: I am King of the Cannibal Isles and someone tells me, "I'm very demanding." I smile and say, "No, you're my lunch.")

-- Anonymous, January 03, 2000

People who think that because someone's from the South, that they deduct ten I.Q. points from the person.--Al of Nova Notes.

-- Anonymous, January 03, 2000

Working in retail, a small little new england candle shoppe, this past christmas season has worked my nerves. I am amazed at how many people were rude, crass and just plain freakin lazy when it came to their purchases. One woman actually had the balls to call and ask that she can bring her purchases back so that we can wrap them for her-- two days before christmas. Or the people who just purchased two votive candles and ask if we wrap them because they are a gift. Cheap gift, if you ask me. Just for the record we don't wrap.

Those who could not fathom the fact we are out of boxes just days before the big holiday are my runners up for favorites. No matter how much you explain, they just don't get it.

My favorite example of the holiday shopper this year has been the post-holiday shopper. We have a huge sale where all the jar and votive candles are on sale. There are two huge signs in the window that say this it spells out exactly what is on sale. People read the sign come in. Stare blankly at the walls of jars. And ask, "What's on sale?"

That is my rant. I needed to let that out. Thank goodness Christmas is only once a year. m

-- Anonymous, January 03, 2000

Guess what, I still hate SUVs. And bad drivers. And people who can't park inside the lines like that dork in the work lot this morning. Luckily there were plenty of other places so I didn't have to stay mad for long, but still.

My mother in law the big hateful selfish bitch who spent New Years with her daughter's family and is all irritated because other relatives who partied with them didn't stay at the house but at a motel. Despite the fact that said people wouldn't have had a bed to sleep in. Oh, what a vale of tears for her.

We have to go visit said mother in law for our late Christmas gift exchange, in January. Thinking about this is giving me hives.

Children in general. Children at New Years Eve parties. New Years is a quintessencly adult holiday, or it should be. Grr.

and I know I can't spell "quintessence".

-- Anonymous, January 03, 2000

Let's see...

Dry Winter skin.

My neighbors dogs who yap non-stop.

People who think it's so much closer for us to come to their house, but never come to our house because it's too far away. Hello! Same Distance!

Y2K mania! Get over it!

Not being able to eat everything I want and stay thin. Yuck, diet time again!

-- Anonymous, January 03, 2000

Managers who don't give their employees opportunities to grow. Dumb people who think they're intelligent. People who argue just for the sake of arguing. Parents who use strollers as battering rams in a crowd. People who panicked about Y2K and are now trying to return everything they stockpiled. Tailgaters. Clients who don't want to pay for the kind of Web site they want to build. Drivers who speed past everyone in a merge lane and then try to cut in at the front of the line. Politicians who claim "the Holy Bible" as their favorite book and "Jesus Christ" as their biggest influence. Friends who insist that I'll like South Park if I "just watch it once."

-- Anonymous, January 03, 2000

* People who are full of self pity. "Oh poor me, I have no money / boyfriend / I hate my job"

-- Anonymous, January 03, 2000

Hey, I'm one of those self-pitying people. Ain't it awful how folks have no sympathy for the self-pitying? Sigh, my lot is a hard one.

-- Anonymous, January 04, 2000

Tailgaters. People who think that the indicator is an optional extra. People who think that beinga safe driver is to drive 15 miles per hour under the speed limit. Arseholes who don't have their animals spayed and then either dump their extras or kill them themselves. People in general who contribute to there being a need for the SPCA to kill quite so many animals every year. People who assume that there is nothing worth doing or having outside the geographical borders of their town/state/country/continent. People who are threatened by other people being good at their job and try every trick in the book to win the attention back and don't understand that a) their job is not my objective as it's even more shitty, and b) I don't actually want any of the attention, I just want to be able to do my job as an adult rather than having to watch out for 50 year old stuck in highschool and jealous as hell Fuckwits!

flames.. flames, licking up the side of my face...!

A.

-- Anonymous, January 04, 2000