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Gameface said:
Flying the flag at half-mast for days or weeks at a time.

I think flying the flag at half-mast is a tremendous honor. If it is done to pay respect to someone who has died I think three days is the maximum and should be reserved only for people at the highest tier of national importance. I think one day should be the norm. Supreme court justice dies of old age, one day. The wife of the guy who was president five presidents ago, one day. If the death is shocking and constitutes a national tragedy then lower the flag for three days.

If the flag is lowered for a national tragedy that involves significant loss of life then I believe the maximum should be one week. And it should only remain lowered as a sign that the nation is in mourning. If the tragedy is something that we take note of and move on with our lives as normal then it should only be lowered for one to three days.

After the attacks in Paris I think the flag was lowered for a couple weeks. I'm glad we showed our respect and our solidarity with the people of France. I think three days was adequate.

I get that this is really not an important issue. But it is a huge pet peeve of mine. I feel that lowering the flag for any old unfortunate occurrence diminishes the significance of the act. Leaving it lowered for an excessive amount of time diminishes the significance. It seems we're getting to the point where we might as well just leave the flag at half-mast permanently. If more than 10% of the time the flag is being flown at half-mast it really doesn't mean anything. We could just make flagpoles half as tall and save ourselves the trouble.
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Good post and I agree completely.
 
moevillini said:
I agree in part.

I think it should be 3 days for Nancy Reagan and Justice Scalia - - or at least 2 days.
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I had to give the computer back to my husband and didn't get to finish my post.

I think one day is too short - why bother? Two to three days should be a minimum, and generally speaking one week the maximum unless it is a true national tragedy. To me, that would be something like 9/11 or the assassination of a President.

The normal death of a former President should be one week, maybe the same for a former First Lady, I'm not sure. Other lower office holders should max out at 3 days.


My own pet peeve - it's a double:
1) Pedestrians who cross diagonal rather than just going straight across. Of course, they're also the ones who plod along rather than walking at a reasonable pace.

2) Impatient drivers who try to "nudge" pedestrians across the street by entering the intersection as soon as the pedestrian begins to cross

3) exceptions for #2 in the event the pedestrian is the type described in #1
 
When people hold the inside of the steering wheel when making a turn.

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Okay, here's a big one of mine.

MsSerp and I love to go out to great restaurants. At some Italian places, they'll bring some tremendous breads...with butter...in the wrapped up foil...like these...

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...and the butter is hard as a rock. WTF. How am I supposed to be able to spread this out on my bread? I get some on a butter knife and try to spread it and it tears the bread all apart, barely even spreading. Keep this **** in the fridge and then get it out every so often to soften some, restaurateurs.
 
Cunning Linguist said:
Okay, here's a big one of mine.

MsSerp and I love to go out to great restaurants. At some Italian places, they'll bring some tremendous breads...with butter...in the wrapped up foil...like these...

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...and the butter is hard as a rock. WTF. How am I supposed to be able to spread this out on my bread? I get some on a butter knife and try to spread it and it tears the bread all apart, barely even spreading. Keep this **** in the fridge and then get it out every so often to soften some, restaurateurs.
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Really good one
 
The cyber security radio commercial that plays all the time on 1280, the one that talks about Hansel and Gretel and how bad guys are following the trail of bread crumbs you leave behind on the internet in order to steal your identity/do other bad things to you. Listen Einsteins, the whole point of the Hansel and Gretel story is that the trail of breadcrumbs DIDN'T WORK! The birds ate the breadcrumbs. That's why the kids got lost over the woods and couldn't find their way home.
 
colton said:
The cyber security radio commercial that plays all the time on 1280, the one that talks about Hansel and Gretel and how bad guys are following the trail of bread crumbs you leave behind on the internet in order to steal your identity/do other bad things to you. Listen Einsteins, the whole point of the Hansel and Gretel story is that the trail of breadcrumbs DIDN'T WORK! The birds ate the breadcrumbs. That's why the kids got lost over the woods and couldn't find their way home.
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Lol.
Colton all fired up
 
Here's a few of mine:

1. Forced, repetitive displays of patriotism, including playing National Anthem before every sporting event and, each Jazz game, introducing someone from military along with attendant standing up and clapping/cheering (only come to find that these sort of things are actually paid adverts by the military). I love my country, but don't feel the need to genuflect to it before every single sporting event. While some might appreciate the opportunity, I see it as a rote gesture long devoid of significant meaning through overuse. Plus, just because someone serves in or has served in the military, that makes him/her, in my view, no more or less deserving of our praise than any number of people doing any number of other things. I find this whole military hagiography culture to be unseemly; if there's any institution that absolutely requires our constant vigilance and critical eye, it is the military (not to diminish the important things it does do).

2. Hollywood double standards. One example. Overweight, often fat, older men are constantly paired in age-inappropriate relationships with much younger and inevitably slim women. A younger male is rarely paired with an older female, while a slim males is almost never paired with an overweight female. Aside from Mike and Molly, Hollywood apparently feels that overweight women do not merit love, romance or sex, but overweight men, hell yes, and most of it with younger and slim women.

3. Another hollywood, romantic comedies that follow the same script: 1. mutual antagonism of male and female lead who have absolutely nothing in common, 2. growing rapproachment, 3. consumation, 4. falling out, 5. crisis that brings them together, 6. declare love, film over. Missing is #7 where they inevitably break up because they still have nothing in common and no basis for any kind of a long-term stable relationship.

4. Another hollywood, fast living big city folk who ends up in a fish out of water situation in some rural area. Initially hates it, but over times is charmed by the quirky yet endearing characters, alls in love with the local hottie/hunk, leaves and goes back to city live, decides that the city life is to fast materialistic, etc., and returns back to rural area to his/her love and all the quircky characters he/she has come to appreciate.
 
jimmy eat jazz said:
Here's a few of mine:

1. Forced, repetitive displays of patriotism, including playing National Anthem before every sporting event and, each Jazz game, introducing someone from military along with attendant standing up and clapping/cheering (only come to find that these sort of things are actually paid adverts by the military). I love my country, but don't feel the need to genuflect to it before every single sporting event. While some might appreciate the opportunity, I see it as a rote gesture long devoid of significant meaning through overuse. Plus, just because someone serves in or has served in the military, that makes him/her, in my view, no more or less deserving of our praise than any number of people doing any number of other things. I find this whole military hagiography culture to be unseemly; if there's any institution that absolutely requires our constant vigilance and critical eye, it is the military (not to diminish the important things it does do).

2. Hollywood double standards. One example. Overweight, often fat, older men are constantly paired in age-inappropriate relationships with much younger and inevitably slim women. A younger male is rarely paired with an older female, while a slim males is almost never paired with an overweight female. Aside from Mike and Molly, Hollywood apparently feels that overweight women do not merit love, romance or sex, but overweight men, hell yes, and most of it with younger and slim women.

3. Another hollywood, romantic comedies that follow the same script: 1. mutual antagonism of male and female lead who have absolutely nothing in common, 2. growing rapproachment, 3. consumation, 4. falling out, 5. crisis that brings them together, 6. declare love, film over. Missing is #7 where they inevitably break up because they still have nothing in common and no basis for any kind of a long-term stable relationship.

4. Another hollywood, fast living big city folk who ends up in a fish out of water situation in some rural area. Initially hates it, but over times is charmed by the quirky yet endearing characters, alls in love with the local hottie/hunk, leaves and goes back to city live, decides that the city life is to fast materialistic, etc., and returns back to rural area to his/her love and all the quircky characters he/she has come to appreciate.
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Lol.

jimmy eat jazz all fired up.
 
Hollywood just has too many things to be peeved about.

One of my biggest pet peeves is that when I am not sure what I said is correct grammaticaly or even makes sense. Been happening a lot lately.
 
colton said:
The cyber security radio commercial that plays all the time on 1280, the one that talks about Hansel and Gretel and how bad guys are following the trail of bread crumbs you leave behind on the internet in order to steal your identity/do other bad things to you. Listen Einsteins, the whole point of the Hansel and Gretel story is that the trail of breadcrumbs DIDN'T WORK! The birds ate the breadcrumbs. That's why the kids got lost over the woods and couldn't find their way home.
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I just hate irrational commercials. I'm always surprised that they obviously made it through various levels of approval without someone catching the absurdity.

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My wife and kids saying, "there's nothing to eat here... "... when you couldn't possibly put another thing in the fridge/freezer/pantry.

Lazy asses..
 
My kids and their homework.

Dad, what do they mean by Antiequilic Quadrilateral?

I bought you google.. use it.
 
^it's really more like "what's a triangle." Tbh

*used google myself "mathematical terms" for simulated post quality.
 
Well done peeks
 
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