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Originally posted by reloaderman:

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Originally posted by Gary Surko:
I hate cell phones. They are making America stupid.

What's with "texting", you have a phone right in your hand, call them and talk to them!
Cell phones are melting their brains!

Well, I asked my 15 yr old son the same question, "Why do you text someone when you could just call them up?" and he, for once, had a reasonable answer, "Well, especially with girls, when you text, you have time to review what you say before you send it."

He is such a deprived child, he was the only kid in his class, at least according to him who didn't have a cell phone "YEARS" ago, I said, "Tough, I'll get you one when I think you need one." and we negotiated one for his birthday present this year. Luckily he talked me into getting the "free texting" feature (only $5/month more....according to him) otherwise text messages were going to cost him 10 cents each or so......anyone care to guess how many texts (that's coming and going) he had in the first month? Keep in mind, this is a straight A student with multiple extra-curricular activities that occupy much of his after school daylight hours. BTW, he's a great kid and I love him to death, but he is a teenager....... ......and Daddy is getting dumber by the day, just ask him.

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Originally posted by CAelknuts:
I'm tired of liberals who degenerate to name calling and sarcasm instead of engaging their brains and having an intelligent debate about issues.

Let me know when you find one!!I would like to meet them.

Text messaging.....I can think of a bigger waste of anyones time, they sit there and text back and forth for an hr...........wake up stupid, call them and get your convo done in 20 seconds.

Loud inconsiderate people who talk across 3 sleeping people on a flight

Thread hi-jacking

Typer snipers, guys who think they know what they're talking about, but clearly they dont.........then they argue with known knowledgable people.

Arrogant, cocky, know-it-all people.....CANT STAND THEM!


I could go on & on.

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Originally posted by Gary Surko:
I hate cell phones. They are making America stupid.

If I didn't have to wear a pager, I probably wouldn't have a cell phone.

Combovers.

My ex-wife with her hand out all the time.

1. People who say OK, but... when you are talking to them. It's OK or it isn't.

2. "you know what I mean" and then they tell you again.

3. Most college athletes who can't speak at a fourth grade level. "I mean, like, you know, what I'm sayin is..., it's like..., the thing I'm sayin is...
Don't drop the last consonant. It makes you look like you attended classes at a carwash.

Rich
Y'unnerstan wat I'm sayin...?

I'm tired of finding, usually large ladies in the way. Go grocery shopping and there's two hippos in the aisle gabbing blocking the way. My wife knowing where I'm needing to go next in the kitchen and standing there.
Have you ever followed a woman up the sidewalk trying move around her and she moves into what ever side you are trying to pass her on. In a parking lot, a woman will go down the middle of the lane, preventing anybody going the opposite direction, or stopped in the middle of the turn out.
In many ways I find females to be the road blocks in life and there's some days I'd like to turn them into speed bumps.

Jim

I suppose it's because I'm getting old and grouchy but.....

I hate going to a movie anymore.

It's dark and the movie is getting good then all of a sudden there is some jackass kid texting!!!!

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Have you ever followed a woman up the sidewalk

yeah- got arrested.

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Originally posted by DLS:
I'm tired of liberals who degenerate to name calling and sarcasm instead of engaging their brains and having an intelligent debate about issues.

I'm tired of hearing this from shrill, whining, hysterical conservatives who seem to turn a deaf ear to their own cacophony.

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Originally posted by homebrewer:

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I'm tired of liberals who degenerate to name calling and sarcasm instead of engaging their brains and having an intelligent debate about issues.

One: Name-calling is all they can do.
Two: They have no brains to engage, so they revert to Number One...

You have a mirror in that run-down trailer you call home? Have a look in it and size up the situation.

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Originally posted by PBens:
People that slow down to 40 MPH while talking on their mobile phones. If you can't drive and talk at the same time then pull off the road.

It's UNLAWFUL now in this state, and a lot of others.

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Originally posted by Idaho Sharpshooter:
1. People who say OK, but... when you are talking to them. It's OK or it isn't.

2. "you know what I mean" and then they tell you again.

3. Most college athletes who can't speak at a fourth grade level. "I mean, like, you know, what I'm sayin is..., it's like..., the thing I'm sayin is...
Don't drop the last consonant. It makes you look like you attended classes at a carwash.

Rich
Y'unnerstan wat I'm sayin...?

Let me explain this one to you from a formal linguistics perspective:

When two people or a small group are engaged in discussion, they engage in what Paul Grice calls "the cooperative principles." The speaker looks for comprehension in the listener, and the listener indicates comprehension to the speaker.

In Canada, the speaker does this by ending a statement with "eh?" . . .

In America it's "you know" or "you hear what I'm sayin'?" (The latter is a Black discursive marker.)

The listener nods, "hmmm" "yeah" "ok" . . .

A secondary function of these discursive markers is validation of in-group identity, "Ya hear what I'm sayin'? You know what I mean?"

This is a verbal shorthand for, "You're in my group. We understand the context."

Dropping syllables, particularly the "g" at the end of gerunds, is called "ellipses" -- and appears often in informal speech, now in a lot of advertising:

"Got milk?" is an ellipses for "Do you have milk?"

Ellipses save time, indicate group solidarity, and mark a certain level of informality in the discourse.

Sarah Palin drops a lot of final consonants, and these days it's affected, in a conscious effort to appear part of the "folksy" in group.

If you think you don't do these things, you should have someone record your informal speech when you're not aware it's being recorded.

You'll be shocked, eh?

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I'm tired of finding, usually large ladies in the way. Go grocery shopping and there's two hippos in the aisle gabbing blocking the way.

I commented to a pair: "Add flashing lights and badges, you'd have a road-block."

One in CostCo . . . shopping cart at the END of her extended arm, across the aisle, she's standing w/ her back to the cart, picking samples off the free demo-tray.

Don'tcha just HATE people who take up six posts at the end of a thread, replying to everything?

Gatogordo, I picked up that the texting was "free" for $5 @ month.

Aint that something!

My wife texts too and It drives me crazy!

God Bless, Louis

Liberals.

I have now started to classify them as enemy combatants.

ANYTHING and EVERYTHING labled "TACTICAL". You just have to produce something in a brown, green or especially black color and then add the word "Tactical" on it, and people (read: lemmings) go crazy over it.
Tactical is the most overused, BS word in the English Language.

Congomike, +1 on that.

Camo and coverscents are a couple more things that turn my crank.
Camo ass wipes, camo underwear, coverscent chewing gum, shampoo, body wash. Hell when its 105 degrees F at 6:30 PM, you're soaking wet with sweat and your sitting in a tripod 15 yds away from a whitetail buck, he senses ya, even if he don't smell ya. Or the other extreme. I see guys get geared up with leafy wear camo, paint their faces, spray down with coverscent, wear a head net, then climb into a deer blind 150 to 200 yds away from a feeder and worry about superbuck bustin' them.
GWB

CongoMike - +100! Thank you! I can't read a friggin gun magazine anymore without some dumbass ad with SWAT, "Operators" and other nonsense tactical jargon adorning the opposing page. There seems to be this hysteria of shivering tactical obsession once someone mentions a AR, rail, black gun, etc. that turns into this frenzy of idiocricy! It is the most mind numbing common discussion I see any more. Plus you get those nutsacks who think either "Well, if I was in the military, I'd do this" as if there is such leniency, or "I'm not in, but I've built this AR so...the military needs this!" like a holiday inn syndrome. This is typically where the self titled Special Forces guys decide that they should chime in, in a very cryptic manner hoping someone will ask them about their operations. Sorry...this crap gets me rabid.
That being said, I can't stand those hand wringing metrosexuals who think the world revolves around their opinions, and the world should adapt to them. Oh wait...that's a liberal.

"American Rifleman"- an article per issue on any of the below:

a)Colt 1911

b)'03 Springfield

c) Thompson Sub Machine Gun

d)M1 Carbine

e)M1 Garand

There were no firearms invented or introduced after 1945...

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Originally posted by tin can:
"American Rifleman"- an article per issue on any of the below:

a)Colt 1911

b)'03 Springfield

c) Thompson Sub Machine Gun

d)M1 Carbine

e)M1 Garand

There were no firearms invented or introduced after 1945...

Liberal inflated superiority complex.
The feeling that if you are conservative so you are stupid and mean.

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Originally posted by DLS:
I'm tired of liberals who degenerate to name calling and sarcasm instead of engaging their brains and having an intelligent debate about issues.

JD,

it's like ebonics or Kwanza if I place it in your context or sub-group?

It appears to bear a closer relationship to people of sub-standard intelligence or an eighth grade education attempting to communicate with others with limited imaginations and vocabularies. I would expect these people also consider it proper to belch or fart in mixed company and wear baseball caps inside Church.

Sixty years ago most Junior High Schools in this country offered seventh graders the choice of Latin, German, or Spanish as a language class.
Today, most universities have to offer Freshmen remedial English, English as a second language, etc.

You may choose to view it as a quaint colloquial means of bonding.

It is closer to the truth to see it as the grammatical equivalent of offering excrement as "post-processed food".

We live in a world that has "wazzup" as a legitimate way of asking how you are doing.

Sad...

Rich

Rich.......wazzup with my redbirds

styrofoam coffee cups and powdered creamer.

It's gone beyond I really get tired of ...

It's gotten to the point I can no longer watch a televised NASCAR race because of the color commentators tiresome and repetitive use of any permutation of the phrase, "I'm onna tell ya what." And it doesn't seem to matter what network or person. Except I've never heard Mike Joy say it. Ever.

And now, in a case of one-ups-manship, they have started using the word 'here' in every sentence.

Kane is going low around Bush HERE.

Hamlin is heading to the pits HERE.

Which would be fine if they were pointing to a specific place with the telestrater. But these good-old-boys are using it as a crutch just like the phrase, you know? It's maddening.

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Originally posted by youngoutdoors:

My wife texts too and It drives me crazy!

God Bless, Louis

you realize of course,that you have 616 "texts" of your own here,right?

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Originally posted by tin can:
"American Rifleman"- an article per issue on any of the below:

a)Colt 1911

b)'03 Springfield

c) Thompson Sub Machine Gun

d)M1 Carbine

e)M1 Garand

There were no firearms invented or introduced after 1945...

that and is seems like 99 out of 100 gun magazines now have to put either a Colt 1911 or an AR on both the front and back covers. Its like they are unaware that any other type of firearm exists

Iaxedya.....three words I think it should be.....I asked you

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Originally posted by ted thorn:
Iaxedya.....three words I think it should be.....I asked you

Agreed- however, "axed" might be come by honestly, I've seen "asked" spelled "axed" in some examples of early modern English, so it *may* have been proper usage at one time, maybe originally so.

But I know what you mean

Iaxedya,
Made me think of the fact that the Ms. Ebonics USA pagent had to be canceled, seems they couldn't get a contestant from "I de ho".
GWB

Geedubya,

one more and I start telling Longhorn jokes.

Okay, since you axededme...

Do you know why the real reason they installed artificial turf in the football stadium? Keeps the cheer leaders from grazing during halftime.

yeahlike wazzupwitdat...

Rich

Side-by-side baby strollers. Ever try to dodge a "Hummer" on the sidewalk? With all those "brats" shouda' just got a hummer in the first place.....Or visa-versa

How 'bout people who reply to a post, quoting somebody elses entire post?!?!?!
You know the ones....where theres usually bickering involved and 2 guys quote each other so that you read the posts about 15 times in 3 replies
Or the ones who quote a post that has 10 pictures in it, up here at work its like dial-up, so thats something I really need to wait for, a post(s) that have the same pictures 4 times.

SHEESH

Young guys who want everybody to know what color combination their boxers are.

I have been updated. My nephew (23) has informed me that the new bare midriff has caught on with fat girls. They now call that disgusting forty pounds hanging over the tight pants a "Pumpkin Roll".

Rich

Banks & bankers who seem to think THEY own MY money
Lying, self serving politicians
Dogs that bark for hours on end
Uncontrolled children & screaming babies on flights
Taking anti malarials & probiotics to counter the side effects of the anti malarials
Not being able to buy the right spares for my 1980 Jeep Wagoneer

Cleavage on women that looks like the plumber's butt crack.

Paris Hilton on the "news"

The guy in front of you at airport security who tries to go through the metal detector with his shoes, belt, and cell phone

Paris Hilton on the "news"