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Also, when you are turning left out of a parking lot, and someone looking to turn left in to the parking lot stops short, waving you forward.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
Also, when you are turning left out of a parking lot, and someone looking to turn left in to the parking lot stops short, waving you forward.
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Agree big time. When it's your turn the best thing you can do is take your damn turn.
 
I hate when the garbage man refuses to dump mine twice when I am waiting for them with four extra trash bags an then he goes to the neighbors an honks an waits cause they did not take there's out. They are both Tahitians an I am white. White suppression in this country is becoming a problem. Do not believe it? Go try getting a taxi job in SLC from the Nigerian mafia whose making 90 grand a year each.
 
When the gym offers free t shirts for promotions and stuff, but then don't offer sizes big enough for my fat ***.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
Also, when you are turning left out of a parking lot, and someone looking to turn left in to the parking lot stops short, waving you forward.
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This one is worse than the stop sign one imo
 
SoberasHotRod said:
Also, when you are turning left out of a parking lot, and someone looking to turn left in to the parking lot stops short, waving you forward.
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Unless there is a seemingly endless line of cars turning left into the parking lot in which case it could be a nice little hookup. I love when drivers practice situational awareness. But sometimes you just gotta turn right and make that U-turn.
 
When people type a number in the millions as say $5MM instead of just $5M. I've asked people what the second "M" is for and they don't respond. You wouldn't do that for something in the thousands. I've never seen anyone say that car costs $54KK.

I also hate when people type an amount of money and put the "$" behind the number, like 150$.
 
I hate being called a commie by stupid internet forum trolls.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
Also, when you are turning left out of a parking lot, and someone looking to turn left in to the parking lot stops short, waving you forward.
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I'm constantly trying to explain to my fiancé that traffic works best when people act like robots and just follow he rules. She loves to randomly stop and "be nice" by letting people go first. Especially in parking lots. Arrrggghhh
 
Gameface said:
When people type a number in the millions as say $5MM instead of just $5M. I've asked people what the second "M" is for and they don't respond. You wouldn't do that for something in the thousands. I've never seen anyone say that car costs $54KK.

I also hate when people type an amount of money and put the "$" behind the number, like 150$.
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I don't care how they write out million as long as they cut the check.
 
Gameface said:
When people type a number in the millions as say $5MM instead of just $5M. I've asked people what the second "M" is for and they don't respond. You wouldn't do that for something in the thousands. I've never seen anyone say that car costs $54KK.

I also hate when people type an amount of money and put the "$" behind the number, like 150$.
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The M used to commonly be used to represent thousands (Roman numerals). So MM is 1000 thousands which is millions. I know because my dad used to use this and he had a hard time getting used to K for thousands. Which actually isn't entirely correct either of you think about it.
 
Also the money symbol following the amount is more common in other countries.
 
Darkwing Duck said:
MM is 2000...MMXVI is the current year.
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Is colloquial usage, not technical Roman numerals, to represent millions. My dad said that was commonplace where he worked as a printer to use M for 1000 and MM for "1000 thousands"or a million.
 
A supervisor was talking the day after the election. This guy is a complete tool and I don't like him very much. Anyway, he said during election night he was flipping between the conservative radio stations and the liberal radio stations. He said that because he like to pretend to be well informed. I stopped him and asked him what the liberal radio station was. Of course I knew what he was going to say because if all you ever do is listen to the conservative radio stations they will tell you that NPR is liberal propaganda. I said NPR is not a liberal station in the same sense that conservative talk radio is. He insisted that they were. I told him that politics is a very very small part of the programming on NPR and he continued to insist that NPR is the liberal equivalent of conservative talk radio.

Here's a list of the programs I typically find on NPR
Science Friday -- A show where they discuss some recent events in the science community
This American Life -- Narrative style storytelling, each week they chose a theme and bring you three stories based on that theme (for fans of the show I'm sure you can hear Ira Glass's voice right now)
Moth Radio -- People telling true stories about their life in front of a live audience with no notes or script
Radiolab -- Usually science and technology based
All things Considered -- News program (sure call this liberal if you want, but it's pretty damn straight laced news coverage)
To The Best of Our Knowledge (tee-tee-book.com) -- a theme based interview program. This week one of the themes is "Traditional Knowledge" And they start by saying that sometimes books are not the best way to learn, sometimes it is better to learn from our elders (yep, liberal scum, obviously)
On The Media -- coverers journalism, technology and the first amendment
They also broadcast BBC news

Anyway, I'd say less than 10% of what they talk about is politics and when they do they don't simply talk about how dumb conservatives are.

So anyway, pet peeve: People who think NPR is liberal radio
 
Gameface said:
A supervisor was talking the day after the election. This guy is a complete tool and I don't like him very much. Anyway, he said during election night he was flipping between the conservative radio stations and the liberal radio stations. He said that because he like to pretend to be well informed. I stopped him and asked him what the liberal radio station was. Of course I knew what he was going to say because if all you ever do is listen to the conservative radio stations they will tell you that NPR is liberal propaganda. I said NPR is not a liberal station in the same sense that conservative talk radio is. He insisted that they were. I told him that politics is a very very small part of the programming on NPR and he continued to insist that NPR is the liberal equivalent of conservative talk radio.

Here's a list of the programs I typically find on NPR
Science Friday -- A show where they discuss some recent events in the science community
This American Life -- Narrative style storytelling, each week they chose a theme and bring you three stories based on that theme (for fans of the show I'm sure you can hear Ira Glass's voice right now)
Moth Radio -- People telling true stories about their life in front of a live audience with no notes or script
Radiolab -- Usually science and technology based
All things Considered -- News program (sure call this liberal if you want, but it's pretty damn straight laced news coverage)
To The Best of Our Knowledge (tee-tee-book.com) -- a theme based interview program. This week one of the themes is "Traditional Knowledge" And they start by saying that sometimes books are not the best way to learn, sometimes it is better to learn from our elders (yep, liberal scum, obviously)
On The Media -- coverers journalism, technology and the first amendment
They also broadcast BBC news

Anyway, I'd say less than 10% of what they talk about is politics and when they do they don't simply talk about how dumb conservatives are.

So anyway, pet peeve: People who think NPR is liberal radio
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Pet peeve

People who don't admit that most if not all TV is liberal, except of course Fox news.

Yes, most of, if not all radio talk shows are right leaning.

Why is that?

Conservatives are out working. Liberals are at home watching TV.

Case closed.
 
Computer said:
Pet peeve

People who don't admit that most if not all TV is liberal, except of course Fox news.

Yes, most of, if not all radio talk shows are right leaning.

Why is that?

Conservatives are out working. Liberals are at home watching TV.

Case closed.
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Interesting point, I would like to learn more. Do you have any data to back that up?

Is that why liberal talk radio is almost non existent and conservative talk radio is everywhere? Is this news shows that you claim to be liberal being watched during the day or at night? Why is Fox news so popular in the day time?

Is Fox news a good news source? Do they have an agenda or a strong bias?

Do conservatives hold more jobs than liberals? Do you have evidence of that? Did Trump receive more or less of the unemployed vote? Does that include kids in school?

Ill leave the case open until you post evidence. I and others have posted some that prove otherwise. NPR has been accused of having a conservative bias quite often as well as a liberal bias. Do they have an agenda?

Is this a troll post?
 
LogGrad98 said:
The M used to commonly be used to represent thousands (Roman numerals). So MM is 1000 thousands which is millions. I know because my dad used to use this and he had a hard time getting used to K for thousands. Which actually isn't entirely correct either of you think about it.
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You mean I can't keep referring to white billionaires as the KKK?
 
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