New peeve thread???

[RICHARD]

Oh I have so many. This time of year, the rudeness of people really gets to me. I also can't stand the fact that God and Jesus are being taken out of Christmas - Christmas is Christmas not the 'Sparkle Season!' We are celebrating the birth of Christ, if you don't like it, make up your own holiday!

I heard someone sing a song the other day and instead of the Feliz Navidad, they sang,


Fleas on my dog!

So I think I can get away with that until someone pays attention!!

[Lady's Human]

In regards to the elevator, there are some people who have a VERY difficult time with stairs, and you wouldn't know it to look at them. Maybe the person NEEDS the elevator. Is it THAT inconvenient to have to wait for one stop?

[JenBKR]

Oh Richard you crack me up

[slick]

God and Jesus are being taken out of Christmas

Jen, I agree with you and some might get down my throat about this but I just hate to see the word "Xmas". It's Christmas, folks.

[JenBKR]

Jen, I agree with you and some might get down my throat about this but I just hate to see the word "Xmas". It's Christmas, folks.

Yes me too! Thanks for bringing that up

[CathyBogart]

Jen, I agree with you and some might get down my throat about this but I just hate to see the word "Xmas". It's Christmas, folks.

And I hate the fact that nobody seems to care that it was a pagan holiday to begin with.

[JenBKR]

And I hate the fact that nobody seems to care that it was a pagan holiday to begin with.

Well, technically it wasn't actually a pagan holiday - Christmas was 'scheduled' at that time of year to overshadow the pagan holiday. They are actually two seperate holidays. No one knows when Jesus was actually born, but it is actually thought that He was born around springtime.

[zippy-kat]

Jen, I agree with you and some might get down my throat about this but I just hate to see the word "Xmas". It's Christmas, folks.

Late in reading this thread/posting this but actually, Xmas isn't meant to be an offensive term.

"This usage is nearly as old as Christianity itself, and its origins lie in the fact that the first letter in the Greek word for 'Christ' is 'chi,' and the Greek letter 'chi' is represented by a symbol similar to the letter 'X' in the modern Roman alphabet. Hence 'Xmas' is indeed perfectly legitimate abbreviation for the word 'Christmas' (just as 'Xian' is also sometimes used as an abbreviation of the word 'Christian')."

I had heard this before at Church but had to look it up to explain it (Snopes).


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Add me to the list of "No problem-ers." And I "take" money, too. (Technically, it just goes into their accout - much like a bank deposit - I don't sell anything.) I'll be more aware of this now.


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I LOATHE the "get her done" or "git 'er done" or whatever that saying is! *shudder*


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When I'm sick, we have "substitutes" that come in. These guys are suppose to know everything that I know about the industry, workings of the company, etc. (Not hard at all considering they are trained the same way as the full-timers, etc.) My boss's wife is the substitute for our office.

Recently, I was out for a week for my grandmother's funeral (which I ended up being too sick to go to - another story entirely). I came back to find not a d@mn thing done - the mail wasn't opened, no faxes were faxed, etc - the reason? She was in the hospital.

Ok. Well, I can certainly understand why she didn't do anything. But my boss was running his biz in the mornings and spending the afternoons at the hospital. Why didn't he do the faxing? HE DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO WORK THE FAX MACHINE! (He's only had a fax machine for 17 yrs.)

I assume he didn't know how to use a letter opener as well...

Edited to add:
I hope this post didn't come across as cold-hearted.

I can understand him being concerned about his wife being hospitalized and thus, perhaps his response was just a cop out. But if he wasn't in the right frame of mind to even fax documents, maybe he shouldn't have been in the office at all.

On the other hand, I've never seen him fax anything so it is quite possible that he doesn't know how.

There are some simple office procedures that people just need to learn.

[slick]

Late in reading this thread/posting this but actually, Xmas isn't meant to be an offensive term.
"This usage is nearly as old as Christianity itself, and its origins lie in the fact that the first letter in the Greek word for 'Christ' is 'chi,' and the Greek letter 'chi' is represented by a symbol similar to the letter 'X' in the modern Roman alphabet. Hence 'Xmas' is indeed perfectly legitimate abbreviation for the word 'Christmas' (just as 'Xian' is also sometimes used as an abbreviation of the word 'Christian')."
I had heard this before at Church but had to look it up to explain it (Snopes).

Smarty pants!!!!
I still prefer Christmas for person/religious reasons. Also, to me it just seems lazy to write Xmas instead of Christmas. Just like r instead of are, u instead of you, b4 instead of before....I hate those too.

Gee, I didn't think I had anything to complain about this week.

[zippy-kat]

LOL Is anyone watching 20/20? "Myths, Lies, and Nasty Behaviors" is the title and they're doing the top 10.

So far we've covered littering and cell phones... lol

[lady_zana]

Just like r instead of are, u instead of you, b4 instead of before....I hate those too.

Oh, me too! I hate all those "internet slang" words.....like l8er (later) and kewl (cool)........and all the others I can't think of right now.....

[areias]

In regards to the elevator, there are some people who have a VERY difficult time with stairs, and you wouldn't know it to look at them. Maybe the person NEEDS the elevator. Is it THAT inconvenient to have to wait for one stop?

In my case, it was at a college dorm. There was nothing wrong with these people. They have nothing in their hands, and I'm perhaps trying to get a class or get to work. The elevator is pretty slow anyway, and then it's about 10 steps up to get to the next floor. I don't see why they couldn't just walk up the darn stairs.

[Lady's Human]

In a college dorm I'll grant you your peeve. It's just that I've run into people complaining about that in situations where there was a reason for it, especially in hotels.

My peeve of the week? To all cashiers in stores.....I'm in the store you work for to purchase items and check out in a timely manner. I don't need to wait in line while you gossip with the other three cashiers about the latest events in the soap operas, and I'm sure the other 15 people in line at the three registers didn't need it either.

[gini]

My pet peeve today is this:

MATT DAMON MARRIES. GIRLFRIEND PREGNANT!!

It is EVERYWHERE. So is this a FIRST? This hasn't happened before?
Why can't they just announce the his marriage and say that they are also expecting a child?

AND SHE IS A BARTENDER? Oh Lord, NO!! Isn't that just awful? (I am joking here). If she was a computer tech they would probably never even mention her career.

I can't stand the media!

[Sevaede]

In a college dorm I'll grant you your peeve. It's just that I've run into people complaining about that in situations where there was a reason for it, especially in hotels.

My peeve of the week? To all cashiers in stores.....I'm in the store you work for to purchase items and check out in a timely manner. I don't need to wait in line while you gossip with the other three cashiers about the latest events in the soap operas, and I'm sure the other 15 people in line at the three registers didn't need it either.

You read my mind! This has happened to me so many times. I'll go to the grocery store and all the cashiers and baggers (I don't know their title.) will be sitting around, hanging all over their station, blabbing for a good ten minutes (or more) and not actually doing what they're getting paid to do.

It also irritates me when I am at the store and they ring up my items and just set them down (that part isn't irritating. I prefer to bag my own groceries, anyways.) but get irritated when I start bagging my own groceries! Most of them can't even do it right! They either overload the bag so it starts ripping before I can even double bag it or, for example, put my milk on top of my bread or eggs. Or, when I have breakables and they just toss or slam them.