2009? Things you can do without in 2010?

[Marigold2]

I just remembered another one:

commercials w/people who shout about their product.

Yes I know that car commercials, big, fat guy shouting on Sat mornings. Fred Martin superstore isn't it? I truly want to slug that moran. I could do without his 350 lbs yelling on the TV.

[smokey the elder]

There was a furniture store in Milwaukee (Kohler's? It was 20 years ago) with a guy that would scream all the time. I hate that.

Over-the-top media drama for every little thing. Not everything is a crisis of epic proportions.

Stoopid Wall St. fatcats that are totally tone-deaf and won't lend money to small business but have no compunctions about bonuses so high they need to be expressed in scientific notation.

Reality shows. *barf* Enuff, already.

[Christmas_Hamster]

How about pets dying. I lost my dog, 11 bettas, 2 gerbils, 4 hamsters and 5 rats this year. I could have done without that.

[momcat]

I'd love to see a permanent end to:

Inconsiderate cell phone users. I do not want to know their business and they talk too loud.
Technology "advancements"
Bratty kids
Homelessness
Servicemen and women fighting in the middle east


And most of all.....
SUMMER!!!!!!!!

[Medusa]

I'd love to see a permanent end to: most of all.....
SUMMER!!!!!!!!

Why? Have a heart! I'm freezing!

[Medusa]

Hearing people begin a sentence w/the word "Look!".

[RICHARD]

Dr Oz. and any Dr. on TV.

As much as I am an advocate for Health Care reform and stuff like that?

I can really do without the commercials telling me that there is a "hidden killer" lurking in my kitchen drain, on my toilet seat or the soil that I rake when I am doing yard work.

I'll probably die in a car accident with a transgendered Maylasian weightlifter that I bummed a ride from while I was at work-not some scary fungus that kills 3.1 people per million and lives in my sink.

I don't have time to be scared about stuff like that-I am more concerned about the U.S. medal count at the next Olympics!

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LOOK! Richard died in a car accident and who was he with?

[Laura's Babies]

My biggest thing right now is men walking around with their fat bellies hanging that wear their pants below that fat belly, thinking.... THAT is their waistline saying "Yes I do, I really only have a 32 inch waist!". Then they bend over and I get to see their crack! (NEWS FLASH!!!!You can NOT wear pants UNDER that big belly and not have them not push the back down so your crack shows and they act like you don't know it's showing or it don't offend people! )

Or they walk around with the crotch of their pants hanging so low that they look like a baby in a diaper that has a "load" in the back of that diaper. If you hear me snicker when you walk by, that is what I am thinking.."Time to change your diaper!"

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Hearing people begin a sentence w/the word "Look!".

Well, if the sentence is LOOK OUT!!! that would be ok.

I hate it when every one, like you know, over uses the word like. It's like they can't say a sentence like without saying well like you know what I mean, right?

[phesina]

Well, like YEAH, you know!

And you know what else I hate, that I could like do without in 2010, you know, is people putting "you know" in the middle of like just about everything they say, like sort of filler, you, know, like, well yeah, you know what I mean.. it's like just so over-used, you know?!

[davidpizzica]

I have four things I VERY WELL can do without! My heart problem (Atrial Fibrillation), diabetes, Essential tremors ( thought I had Parkinson's!), and my sleep apnea. All FOUR can leave right now!

[catland]

How about those really annoying internet ads? Like the ones promising that you can lose 30 pounds of belly fat by tomorrow afternoon.

[slick]

I am so deathly sick of all the renovation/design shows - I'm sorry, but I'm not even a fan of Extreme Home Edition or whatever it's called. I have no patience with someone on the telly telling what colour I should paint my walls or how I could transform my very small living space or how to put in a chimney or better yet, how my health can improve by changing my condo to "Phung Shway" or whatever that is. There should be a specific channel dedicated to those kinds of shows. OK, of my rant now.

Other things I can do without:
35 pounds
debt
bad drivers
disrespectful people
messy coworkers who don't clean up after themselves
Martha Stewart
Rachel Ray
Guy whomever he is on the Food Channel
Speaking about TV, I also hate all these big families coming out of the woodwork making a buck out of their daily lives. So you had 13 million kids - what makes you think that changing your kid's poopy diaper is something I'd like to entertain myself with??

OK, done for now