Time to expose some pet peeves:
1.) Educated people should be able to spell or at least utilize a spell checker before they submit a document or ad, yet multiple times a day their irreverence or ignorance is revealed by spelling and grammar errors.
2.) Many people are selfish to the point of being offensive.
3.) Dog owners that do pick up their dog's waste should find a receptacle for the baggie, rather than just depositing it alongside the sidewalk or trail as though they were going to pick it back up on the way back, but don't. This is almost as bad as those dog owners that don't pick up their dog's waste at all.
4.) Why are all the good shows on the same nights and times? This forces recording of the shows, which the producers don't like, but they just about bring it on themselves.
5.) I definitely dislike the people hanging around the supermarket doors that want contributions for some political cause. Why do they think that the customers there are any more politically motivated than, say Home Depot?
6.) I can't stand people that can't even take a breath before everything that occurs is put on Facebook. They take pics of their meals, and even their parking space, and Facebook 'em to share. I certainly don't care, nor do I believe anyone does. I was never too keen on Facebook anyway, and only had an account to watch over my kids' pages. I have since deactivated it because my kids are grown (?).
7.) I hate calling someplace that has options for me to choose on my phone, and the first one is English. Why not have that be the default ?
AS PROMISED: "The lighter side..." and free erudite opinions (and whines and gripes, that may not be politically correct), hyperboles and advice (on current events as well as topics for the digerati), and even some temporary(?) insanities too (daily risibility exercises)!... And the Picture-Of-The-Week:
Picoftheweek
My Statement
"Let me emphatically say that I am not anti-Facebook (Fleecebook), anti-smart phone, anti-Microsoft, anti-Apple, anti-Google or anti-Internet. I do believe, though, that the consumer is being ripped off of his privacy, identity and purchase history. We are being herded into a Facebook corner where what we "Like" and where we go physically and on the net will be scrutinized and sold numerous times to actually corrode and erode our culture while tempting us only with convenience, high tech and flashing video screens. The unsuspecting consumers need to be aware..." - Gary Lapman
Quote of Note
“If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”-W.C. Fields
"For the strength of the Wolf is in the Pack, and the strength of the Pack is in the Wolf." - Rudyard Kipling
"For the strength of the Wolf is in the Pack, and the strength of the Pack is in the Wolf." - Rudyard Kipling
“Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, but only character endures.” - Matthew McConaughey
"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him"
"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason" - Jerry Seinfeld
"Fleecebook is free, you (and your identity) is the product!" - Gary Lapman
"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves." - Eric Sevareid
"'Smart' phones are only smart for the cell phone providers!" - Gary Lapman
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.” -Albert Einstein
"Technology creates the illusion of companionship without the intimacy of friendship." - unknown
"No worry, there's an app for that..." - Gary Lapman
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