People in your own personal Gulag

[Chickenman Testa]

Now that the summer weather and long wait for football to start has people more than ornery, let’s really let it out. Give me persons or things you’d throw into your personal gulag in Siberia - to subside on cold gruel and spend the rest of their miserable lives at hard labor in bitter cold or amongst swarms of biting insects and mud as the weather warmed. I’ll start with a few:

- People who call themselves “Influencers”
- The annoying “what’s a Computer?” girl
- Penn State/Big 10/Football related - Mushmouf, Delany, Lou Ann Simon, One-eyed Louie, Witvoet, Lemonnier, Dave Parry, Emmert, Dan Bernstein
- people who ride those dumb new rideshare scooters on sidewalks

 

[anon_xdc8rmuek44eq]

Now that the summer weather and long wait for football to start has people more than ornery, let’s really let it out. Give me persons or things you’d throw into your personal gulag in Siberia - to subside on cold gruel and spend the rest of their miserable lives at hard labor in bitter cold or amongst swarms of biting insects and mud as the weather warmed. I’ll start with a few:

- People who call themselves “Influencers”
- The annoying “what’s a Computer?” girl
- Penn State/Big 10/Football related - Mushmouf, Delany, Lou Ann Simon, One-eyed Louie, Witvoet, Lemonnier, Dave Parry, Emmert, Dan Bernstein
- people who ride those dumb new rideshare scooters on sidewalks

What about ‘thought leaders’?

 

[LionDeNittany]

Now that the summer weather and long wait for football to start has people more than ornery, let’s really let it out. Give me persons or things you’d throw into your personal gulag in Siberia - to subside on cold gruel and spend the rest of their miserable lives at hard labor in bitter cold or amongst swarms of biting insects and mud as the weather warmed. I’ll start with a few:

- People who call themselves “Influencers”
- The annoying “what’s a Computer?” girl
- Penn State/Big 10/Football related - Mushmouf, Delany, Lou Ann Simon, One-eyed Louie, Witvoet, Lemonnier, Dave Parry, Emmert, Dan Bernstein
- people who ride those dumb new rideshare scooters on sidewalks

I think the term "influencer" is used more by others than the "influencer" themselves. But agree.

I would like to add to this list anyone who throws the term "Nazi" around loosely.

LdN

 

[WDLion]

Now that the summer weather and long wait for football to start has people more than ornery, let’s really let it out. Give me persons or things you’d throw into your personal gulag in Siberia - to subside on cold gruel and spend the rest of their miserable lives at hard labor in bitter cold or amongst swarms of biting insects and mud as the weather warmed. I’ll start with a few:

- People who call themselves “Influencers”
- The annoying “what’s a Computer?” girl
- Penn State/Big 10/Football related - Mushmouf, Delany, Lou Ann Simon, One-eyed Louie, Witvoet, Lemonnier, Dave Parry, Emmert, Dan Bernstein
- people who ride those dumb new rideshare scooters on sidewalks

Talking heads and experts. Sports. political or any subject.

 

[Obliviax]

Saw a guy who labeled himself a "futurist" the other day. Annoying.

• People that talk too loudly on their mobile in public places (that would be me)
• People that walk abreast with their family at the airport, with their three year old dragging a suitcase, blocking everyone
• People that don't understand, like driving, you walk on the right.
• People that say they can predict was a 17 year old football recruit will do (or any 17 year old, for that matter)
• People that let their hotel door slam when leaving for the airport at 4am
• People that bash you with their backpack when boarding a plan and turning to talk to someone
• Terrorists
• McDonalds when their ice cream machine isn't working (seems like they need new machines)
• Litter and litterers
• Fines for not recycling properly
• People that think the Police are infallible or completely corrupt
• Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN (still enjoying HNN's morning host though)
• People that bully in the name of fighting bullies (or so they say)
• 85% of twitter, facebook and instagram
• 95% of movies hollywood has put out the lasts three years (looking at you Mamma Mia2, Blockers and anything with 2, 3 or more in their name)
• Birkenstalks

Feels like Festivus.

 

[Nitwit]

People on the beach who back up into you when the tide is coming in instead of leapfrogging. Look at the tide table before you plop all your crap on the beach, shoobie!

 

[royboy]

A few:

Dan LeBetard -- easy enough not to watch, but I just don't get how anyone likes him
SportsCenter anchors who shout at me
Movie makers who have forgotten how to tell good stories and just go with Superhero, Special Effect, loud noises

 

[Obliviax]

A few:

Dan LeBetard -- easy enough not to watch, but I just don't get how anyone likes him
SportsCenter anchors who shout at me
Movie makers who have forgotten how to tell good stories and just go with Superhero, Special Effect, loud noises

Second that. I simply can no longer stand these debate shows. I tried to watch Around the Horn last night as I dozed off in my hotel room. It was awful. These two idiots criticizing players is absurd. They just look for words to use that make them seem snarky and funny. It is just so way overdone now...and a big part of why ESPN is failing.

 

[Chickenman Testa]

Saw a guy who labeled himself a "futurist" the other day. Annoying.

• People that talk too loudly on their mobile in public places (that would be me)
• People that walk abreast with their family at the airport, with their three year old dragging a suitcase, blocking everyone
• People that don't understand, like driving, you walk on the right.
• People that say they can predict was a 17 year old football recruit will do (or any 17 year old, for that matter)
• People that let their hotel door slam when leaving for the airport at 4am
• People that bash you with their backpack when boarding a plan and turning to talk to someone
• Terrorists
• McDonalds when their ice cream machine isn't working (seems like they need new machines)
• Litter and litterers
• Fines for not recycling properly
• People that think the Police are infallible or completely corrupt
• Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN (still enjoying HNN's morning host though)
• People that bully in the name of fighting bullies (or so they say)
• 85% of twitter, facebook and instagram
• 95% of movies hollywood has put out the lasts three years (looking at you Mamma Mia2, Blockers and anything with 2, 3 or more in their name)
• Birkenstalks

Feels like Festivus.

Several excellent candidates. My job for them would be carrying around large rocks in an endless circle

 

[lobo lion]

I think the term "influencer" is used more by others than the "influencer" themselves. But agree.

I would like to add to this list anyone who throws the term "Nazi" around loosely.

LdN

with one exception, I trust:

 

[Nitt1300]

535 members of Congress
whoever started twitter- and everybody who uses it (except CJF)
all "singers" who use autotuned

oh, and people who don't put their shopping carts away properly in the parking lot- I hate those people too

 

[Lionguy32]

• People who use any terminology related to body shaming, fat shaming, skinny shaming, parent shaming and any other forms of public shaming
• People who use the term "cultural appropriation"

 

[BobPSU92]

Me. I hate me.

 

[Sharkies]

Vicky Triponey and Karen Peetz

 

[BobPSU92]

• People that think the Police are infallible or completely corrupt

They are infallible. Corrupt? That’s ridiculous.

 

[lionville]

• People who can't get through a red light without pulling out their phone and doing whatever, and then sit there when the light turns green.
• The Administration, athletic dept. and some coaches at the University of Notre Dame. (This one is personal. Unfortunately, I cannot provide the reasons behind it)
• The freaking deer that jumped the fence and raided my garden in the past 2 nights. Those ba$tards ate everything.

 

[Vic Vaselino]

Now that the summer weather and long wait for football to start has people more than ornery, let’s really let it out. Give me persons or things you’d throw into your personal gulag in Siberia - to subside on cold gruel and spend the rest of their miserable lives at hard labor in bitter cold or amongst swarms of biting insects and mud as the weather warmed. I’ll start with a few:

- People who call themselves “Influencers”
- The annoying “what’s a Computer?” girl
- Penn State/Big 10/Football related - Mushmouf, Delany, Lou Ann Simon, One-eyed Louie, Witvoet, Lemonnier, Dave Parry, Emmert, Dan Bernstein
- people who ride those dumb new rideshare scooters on sidewalks

The Dutch.

 

[Elwood Blues]

A few:

Dan LeBetard -- easy enough not to watch, but I just don't get how anyone likes him
SportsCenter anchors who shout at me
Movie makers who have forgotten how to tell good stories and just go with Superhero, Special Effect, loud noises

This! The only time I listen to LeBetard is when the radio is already tuned to ESPN when I turn it on, and I listen for a few minutes just marveling at how gawd-awful it is. Their whole schtick is to make dumb jokes, 3 or 4 people in the room laugh uproariously, and if a caller says anything negative about the bit of the day, they play LeBetard's dad saying "you don't get the show." There's nothing to get. It sucks. Caught a nice little rant the other day about how evil and racist this country is ... always like a heavy dose of MSNBC with my ESPN.

Mike & Mike has also fallen apart since Greenie left ... it's gotten more and more LeBetard like. The other day they spent hours debating whether a hot dog is a sandwich.

 

[IANit]

Me. I hate me.

What about people who don't use tongs?

 

[odshowtime]

People from the 70s that wrote their names on their records piss me off.

 

[nittanyfan333]

- Anyone (left or right) that doesn't have the decency to at least listen to the other side, and be open to ideas and opinions other than their own
- People who don't use turn signals
- People who drive with their high beams on at all times (somehow has become standard here in NC)
- People who smoke in the car with their kids
- Every news network show producer and creator that involves commentators yelling at eachother, and consequently those people who try to yell over each other
- People who believe that their opinion about anything is the gospel truth, and anyone that doesn't have the same opinion is wrong.

 

[PSU Mike]

Coffee/beverage service area hogs. You get 12 seconds. Take what you need, and finish up elsewhere. None of this plant yourself in the middle of 3 carafes of dairy, blocking napkins, sweetener, stirs, straws, lids only to add one packet, stir, sip, add another, pull out a napkin, change stirrers, reach for a lid, do a false step back, step forward again, pop off lid, search for the right dairy, add a splash, re-stir, put lid back on, grab a napkin to blot the drip down the side, turn to your partner, ask where he’s sitting, pull one last packet of sweetener for the purse, then back into me on your away from the area 3:15 later.

 

[royboy]

Coffee/beverage service area hogs. You get 12 seconds. Take what you need, and finish up elsewhere. None of this plant yourself in the middle of 3 carafes of dairy, blocking napkins, sweetener, stirs, straws, lids only to add one packet, stir, sip, add another, pull out a napkin, change stirrers, reach for a lid, do a false step back, step forward again, pop off lid, search for the right dairy, add a splash, re-stir, put lid back on, grab a napkin to blot the drip down the side, turn to your partner, ask where he’s sitting, pull one last packet of sweetener for the purse, then back into me on your away from the area 3:15 later.

ha....you've had some experience with this.. nice rant

 

[wex18]

You've waited 10 minutes with just 2-3 items in the checkout line of a grocery store. Just as someone lines up behind you with a full cart, the next register over opens up. The person who just arrived rushes over to the newly opened register, leaving you and your 2-3 items still waiting.

 

[BobPSU92]

What about people who don't use tongs?

They’re second on the list behind me.

 

[BobPSU92]

- Anyone (left or right) that doesn't have the decency to at least listen to the other side, and be open to ideas and opinions other than their own
- People who don't use turn signals
- People who drive with their high beams on at all times (somehow has become standard here in NC)
- People who smoke in the car with their kids
- Every news network show producer and creator that involves commentators yelling at eachother, and consequently those people who try to yell over each other
- People who believe that their opinion about anything is the gospel truth, and anyone that doesn't have the same opinion is wrong.

I’m O.K. with women driving with their high beams on at all times.

 

[SUPERTODD]

4 The Taliban
3 Pitt fans
2 George Soros
1 Notre Dame

 

[gregoryj95]

• people who make lists using bullet points
• anyone who doesn't quote the post they are responding to
• Decembrists

 

[mlv5000]

People on the beach who back up into you when the tide is coming in instead of leapfrogging. Look at the tide table before you plop all your crap on the beach, shoobie!

An addendum - those people who waltz in front of the clearly delineated ocean-front crowd line and who then proceed to plop their crap in front - at 1 PM - when everyone has already been there enjoying themselves for hours while you nursed a hangover.

 

[We Are . . .]

• People who let their dog crap on the sidewalk and don't clean it up.
• Speaking of dogs, people whose 15 pound dog lunges, snarls, and snaps at my 70 pound dog and then get upset when my 70 pound dog says, "Get off my lawn."
• People who think everyone within a four block radius needs to listen to their lousy choice in music.
• People who water their lawns at noon when it's 90 degrees out.
  
• Football announcers who always bring up the sanctions when Penn State is playing.
• Young punks who need to get off my lawn.

 

[MJG-90]

Every person in my neighborhood that refuses to fertilize their beauty strip, weed their shrubs, put down the proper amount of mulch, pressure wash their filthy siding and park in proper parking zones.

I'd have the pool all to myself if that was the case.

 

[Nittany Ziggy]

Several excellent candidates. My job for them would be carrying around large rocks in an endless circle

One of them has to be tasked with pissing in the gruel!

 

[Connorpozlee]

- John Tavares (though being a Toronto Maple Leaf sounds an awful lot like being in a gulag).
- Phil Collins and all members of Styx, Journey, and REO Speedwagon.
- People who refuse to go at a four-way stop, allowing me to go first when I was clearly the last to arrive.
- The lady at my local deli counter who can’t seem to understand what thin means, can’t remember that a full pound is not the same as the half pound I ordered, and takes painfully long to give me the wrong thing.
- Political “pundits” who ignorantly present one side of a situation, thus alienating their party from the bulk of Americans, who can recognize that they are just presenting talking points.
- BobPSU92, for his own sake.

 

[Cosmos]

Now that the summer weather and long wait for football to start has people more than ornery, let’s really let it out. Give me persons or things you’d throw into your personal gulag in Siberia - to subside on cold gruel and spend the rest of their miserable lives at hard labor in bitter cold or amongst swarms of biting insects and mud as the weather warmed. I’ll start with a few:

- People who call themselves “Influencers”
- The annoying “what’s a Computer?” girl
- Penn State/Big 10/Football related - Mushmouf, Delany, Lou Ann Simon, One-eyed Louie, Witvoet, Lemonnier, Dave Parry, Emmert, Dan Bernstein
- people who ride those dumb new rideshare scooters on sidewalks

My pet peeves...
1. While shopping. People who leave their freaking shopping carts in the middle of the aisle while they go to graze on the shelves. My reaction: slam the shopping cart into theirs and say, "Excuse you." The reaction is priceless.
2. People who exit parking lots right in the middle so you cannot turn in.
3. People who whip pass you only to slam on the brakes a few feet ahead at the traffic light.

This is all about being aware of your surroundings and unfortunately, many people are in a coma.

 

[CF LION]

The Dutch.

....and people who are intolerant of other people's cultures..

 

[artsandletters]

Now that the summer weather and long wait for football to start has people more than ornery, let’s really let it out. Give me persons or things you’d throw into your personal gulag in Siberia - to subside on cold gruel and spend the rest of their miserable lives at hard labor in bitter cold or amongst swarms of biting insects and mud as the weather warmed. I’ll start with a few:

- People who call themselves “Influencers”
- The annoying “what’s a Computer?” girl
- Penn State/Big 10/Football related - Mushmouf, Delany, Lou Ann Simon, One-eyed Louie, Witvoet, Lemonnier, Dave Parry, Emmert, Dan Bernstein
- people who ride those dumb new rideshare scooters on sidewalks

Trump and his kids.
All of Trump’s staff, current or former.
Anyone appointed by Trump.
All the numbskulls at the Test Board who support Trump.
It’s touch and go, case by case, for anyone who voted for the POS.

People who push an already pushed elevator button.
People who push both the up and down elevator buttons.

There’s so many more so, in general ...

People, mainly white men.

 

[Cosmos]

....and people who are intolerant of other people's cultures..

People who come here and are intolerant of our culture and feel it's their right to 'line jump' without so much as a bye your leave. Thank you.

 

[Cosmos]

Trump and his kids.
All of Trump’s staff, current or former.
Anyone appointed by Trump.
All the numbskulls at the Test Board who support Trump.
It’s touch and go, case by case, for anyone who voted for the POS.

People who push an already pushed elevator button.
People who push both the up and down elevator buttons.

There’s so many more so, in general ...

People, mainly white men.

You.
And people who rush to get onto the elevator before they let people get off. And that is probably you. Thanks for playing.

 

[CF LION]

People who come here and are intolerant of our culture and feel it's their right to 'line jump' without so much as a bye your leave. Thank you.

Not a fan of Austin Powers, huh?

 

[Fox Chapel Lion II]

Coffee/beverage service area hogs. You get 12 seconds. Take what you need, and finish up elsewhere. None of this plant yourself in the middle of 3 carafes of dairy, blocking napkins, sweetener, stirs, straws, lids only to add one packet, stir, sip, add another, pull out a napkin, change stirrers, reach for a lid, do a false step back, step forward again, pop off lid, search for the right dairy, add a splash, re-stir, put lid back on, grab a napkin to blot the drip down the side, turn to your partner, ask where he’s sitting, pull one last packet of sweetener for the purse, then back into me on your away from the area 3:15 later.

You got that right.

You get your coffee and ONE ingredient of your own choice.

Then get the hell away from the counter and keep the line moving.