HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: Re: Packaging and stuff
Reply-To: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Organization: PETA: People for the Eating of Tasty Activists
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:16:01 GMT

fofp@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Holmes) writes:
>nesdoly@dvinci.USask.Ca (Mark Nesdoly) writes:
>>       
>>'NutherPeeve:  Women who complain about men leaving the seat on the toilet 
>>               up.  Is it so hard to turn around and look to see if the 
>>               seat is down?  
>
>Christ yes. Close to the first time I was in my ex's flat which she
>shared with four other women, I was presented with a set of Rules. One
>of these was that the toilet seat always had to be left down. Once when
>it wasn't, there was a Steward's Enquiry at breakfast.

	I had a similar incident happen to me.  I found that putting down
both the seat and the lid is the logical next step, and seems to annoy
the women more than it annoys me.  After being throoughly chewed out for
doing this, I just started pissing though the hole in the seat.  It put
a stop to *that* sort of bullshit real quick.

	And yes, I do clean the toilet.  I was a janitor for seven years,
and I can tell you honestly that toilets do not remain clean if you sit.


--
<Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 |"There'll be angels on Ariels in leather>
<z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu | and chrome, Ridin' down from heaven    >
<viking@iastate.edu      | just to carry me home." -- R. Thompson >
< ISU thinks I need more education, which they provide for a fee. >
From: Chiron
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Apology
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:52:44 GMT
Organization: Le Desordre du Chaos

I apologize. To everybody who felt concerned.

Peeve: Me.

--
Serge
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From: diana@wetware.com (CatWoman )
Subject: Re: Lakcwitz (was Re: Random Peeve)
Organization: Castle WetWare MouseCatcher
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 15:04:28 GMT

nolan@twg.com writes:

] In a previous peevish incarnation I spake:
] 
] Meself> I agree. Mike *smirk* is not a lakcwit. He's dyslexic. 'Splains lots.
] 
] diana@wetware.com (CatWoman ) writes:
] CW> Hey!  I resent THAT!!!  Gives us dyslexis a bad name, y'know!
] CW> Geoff!  Sic 'em!
] 
] Ah, delightful FelineFemale and Foe-of-Rodents, dyslexia's not the problem.
] Old Mike *smirk*'s too lackwitted to rise above his dyslexia. It's the
] WitlessDyslexia that's the problem

Okay, okay...it's backpedaling, but I'll accept it - it's
NOT the dyslexia - it's the witlesness...

But remember - us dyslexics MAY just decide to Untie and 
NOT Unite you...

] CW> Peeve:  I can't think of anything more clever to say.
] CW> Dyslexia does strange things to the thought processes
] CW> on output, also...
] 
] Are you sure it's the input? Maybe it's the mileage. Lookie me, f'rinstance.

Nah - it's been going on since I was in school.  My favorite
definition - the brain speaks VM, the eyes speak UNIX, and the
translation program has sector read errors...

Peeve: Being somewhat dyslexic.  Manifestation is mainly when
I try to read columns of numbers, since my parents taught me
to read very early.  Second most often is learning new things -
the brain goes into an infinite loop and does a panic core
fault if I try to learn something too quickly.  Unfortunately
I didn't realize this until just in the last 10 years, so I
have a pattern of thinking I can't learn, rather than a pattern
of HOW to learn...

More peeve: that my parents knew I was having trouble, even if
they weren't sure WHAT, and tried to keep me back a grade - and
the **&%)(*&% school system wouldn't let them, since because I
knew reading (by a method now used to TEACH dyslexics to read),
the school did NOT think I had a problem - just that I was "lazy"
or whatever.  So I came to believe they were right - and now
it's a CHORE to learn something new...ARRGH!
 
] Actually, Mr. Sybok reminds me a bit of another limpwick on a different
] gnuzfroop - a lad from somewhere in the southwest of the USA who spoke with
] pedal appendages in oral cavities and then attempted the good old weasel when
] caught with trousers around knees. The Kneeling Limpwick. Remember him?

Which one?  I can think of SEVERAL guys who fit this description,
spanning several different 'froops, but since I don't know their
physical location, I can't place any one in particular...

Diana
From: diana@wetware.com (CatWoman )
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Non-smoking busses
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:16:50 GMT
Organization: Castle WetWare MouseCatcher

Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford) writes:
] 
] However, despite the banning of smoking on the buses, travelling by single
] decker bus is *still* unpleasant for the same reason. The really peeving
] thing is that when, upon detecting the unpleasant odour, you spin round
] intent on (depending on the size of the smoker) either glaring angrily or
] doing the "Are you illiterate? Well, see this sign with the picture of the
] cigarette with a red bar through it? Guess what that means?"
] routine....there's no-one visibly smoking.
] 
] It's really bizarre. I reckon they must be either doing it very secretly
] (hiding beneath the seats?) or that since my nostrils are no longer
] assailed by smoke on the buses, their sensitivity has improved to the point
] where I can smell smokers at several metres distance (I can already do it
] at a metre or so, so maybe my range has extended?)

Something *I* have noticed while riding the busses 
around here, which are also posted as non-smoking,
that the smokers have this need to extract the laaast
possible atom of tar and nicotine from that last
cigarette before they board the bus - so they inhale
a DEEEEEP drag just outside the door of the bus, put
the cigarette itself somewhere (Usually just tossed
onto the street - bonus peeve) and HOOOOLD that drag
until they have to breath - usually right as they are
turning away from the coin box - so the smoke permeates
the WHOLE front of the bus. UGH!  YUCK!  Especially
since I sit fairly close to the front whenever I can
due to a tendency towards motion sickness - whenever
someone adds tobacco smoke to the mix, I can guarantee
I'll be green and nauseous by the time I get to my stop.

Bonus suggestion:  Let's legalize pot smoking for
commuters.  I can handle that smoke - and the bus
drivers probably wouldn't have a problem with 
rowdy passengers - they'd all be too mellowed!

Diana
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: potler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Laura Potler (GSFC))
Subject: Re: Drivers From Hell
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:21:40 GMT

In article <1b87e640.ARN239f@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> munnari!labtam!eyrie!prolix!dac writes:
>it and then get a fucking license. The taxi fares to and from
>work [$11.20 both ways - $22.40 a day] are killing me.

wouldn't that be $11.20 each way? $11.20 both ways, although true, implies
that that's what you paid for the whole trip.

peeve: people who are unclear about "this week" vs. "next week". it's really 
	not that complex. 

peeve: people who are unclear if they're on a 2 lane road or a 1 lane 
	road or a 4 lane road. a little more complex but still...

peeve: people who get uptight about getting people to say what they mean.

-l "what?" p


-- 
-lp  **********************************************************************
*   "the *ocean* is affected by the phases of the moon but men aren't?!"  * 
*							--Anne Tucker     *
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From: diana@wetware.com (CatWoman )
Subject: Re: Lakcwitz (was Re: Random Peeve)
Organization: Castle WetWare MouseCatcher
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 00:56:43 GMT

nolan@twg.com writes:

]minch@lotka.stanford.edu (Eric Minch) writes:
] |>
] |> By all means try it sometime, you pretentious lackwit:
] |> 
] 01sybok@ac.dal.ca writes:
] |>
] |>Hey! I resent that. I am not a lakcwit.
] |>
] |>Mike *smirk*
] |>
] 
] I agree. Mike *smirk* is not a lakcwit. He's dyslexic. 'Splains lots.

Hey!  I resent THAT!!!  Gives us dyslexis a bad name, y'know!
Geoff!  Sic 'em!

Peeve:  I can't think of anything more clever to say.
Dyslexia does strange things to the thought processes
on output, also...

] He's prolly also a limpwick.  'Splains more.

Not going to volunteer to find out - have enough
on my hands convincing the PYM that HeteroSeXuality
is NOT a DeathKult!

Diana
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr)
Subject: alt.alien.visitors, the ultimate anti-peeve
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 00:57:51 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

Quite some time ago, one of our peevers, who may not have been
al_crawford, mentioned alt.alien.visitors poster-child John
Winston.

I finally got around to subscribing to a.a.v, and I have to
thank Mssr Crawford for the hot tip. That place is a scream.

You may think some of us are, um, eccentric here in peevetown:
Believe me, we are purest amateurs over here.

One guy was talking about invisible fish, which sell for
20 000$ a pair. I suspect he bought some, and is now waiting
patiently in front of his aquarium, hoping they will
deign to manifest briefly. 

I wonder if his invisible cat has already eaten them?

The anti-peeve inherent to this post is the sheer entertainment
value of these space cadets, but like most peeve/!peeve pairings,
this one has a dark side. These poor bastards are really out
of touch, and it peeves me that (a)I am enjoying their stupidity
and (b)That most of them will never wake up, and become normal
well adjusted peeving loonies like us.

Sigh. It's sad when you feel guilty about laughing at the
sideshow freaks. Not because you shouldn't feel guilty, but
cause it's one more sign that I'm getting grown-up, and 26 
is too young to be old.

Regards, Charles
-- 
Within the span of the last few weeks I have heard elements of
separate threads which, in that they have been conjoined in time,
struck together to form a new chord within my hollow and echoing
gourd. --Unknown net.person
From: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Drivers From Hell
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 13:05:36 GMT
Reply-To: munnari!labtam!eyrie!prolix!dac
FollowUp-To: alt.peeves
 <1b808fa4.ARN230b@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> <1992Aug20.184145.300@hhcs.gov.au>
Keywords: 
Organization: More like Dis~, really.

In article <1992Aug20.184145.300@hhcs.gov.au>, Carl Makin writes:

> In article <1b808fa4.ARN230b@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au>, dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:
> 
> >> OBPeeve:  People driving along with one blinker going.  Just what
> >>           the HELL are they planning to do?
> 
> > Obviously you're part of the small clique of road users that
> > habitually uses both blinkers, flashing hazard style, to indicate
> > which way you -might- turn, eh? "Gives 'em a 50/50 chance!". Feh.
> 
> Must be a *very* small clique 'cause I've never seen that. 

Rooly trooly? So you're A *BLIND* wannabe Volvo driver! 

> Probably from around Pearce way.  I know it couldn't be you as
> you can't drive, indeed you have much difficulty in fitting into
> the poor Corolla.

My learners permit ran out on the 5th of August. I have to renew
it and then get a fucking license. The taxi fares to and from
work [$11.20 both ways - $22.40 a day] are killing me.

Peeve: licenses.

> > Thank ghod you don't drive a Volvo, Carl.
> 
> My Mazda suits me fine. <grin> 

Japcrap. [Yeah, I know, they were voted by Choice readership as
'least likely to cause trouble'. Don't proselytize.]

> Ahhhh Yes. Mr Wayne "Volvo 360, gloves and a hat" Myles.  (Shudder)

He'll get you for that. Maybe. 

> ObPeeve:  People who don't drive, in fact who have never even
> been in the right hand seat of a car who feel they have the ghod
> given right to dictate how you drive.  They're usually the same
> idiots (BDIs?) who ask you for a lift saying "It's not far out of
> your way is it?". 

Guilty as charged, bastard.

Dac
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From: alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Vrchoticky)
Subject: Re: ]<razy ]<atz (was: Packaging and Stuff)
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 16:29:11 GMT

geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:

>When I was in junior high school, I had a cat that would dutifully 
>report to the litter box upon hearing the call of nature.  So far,
>so good.
>
>Then she'd promptly turn and hang her ass out over the gunwale and
>let loose.

some of you may remember my report about the car drive with the small 
yippy dog. when that dog (a dachshund) was trained to be housebroken 
(many moons ago), she'd do something similar: walk up to the 
newspaper, put the front paws on the paper, and water the flowers 
on the carpet. 

then she'd turn and face us with that "see? i *did* do it right!" look.
btw. in german `dachshund look' is a word. it figures.

oh, right: the glasses were there. off i go. 

-alex

-- 
Alexander Vrchoticky             alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at
TU Vienna, CS/Real-Time Systems  +43/1/58801-8168
Organization: State Penn
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 22:52:30 EDT
From: Joy Haftel <JKH107@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Mall of America or whatever it is

In article <17477@autodesk.COM>, booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) says:
>
>In article <92226.194503JKH107@psuvm.psu.edu> JKH107@psuvm.psu.edu (Joy
>Haftel)
>writes:
>>My main peeve right now is the Mall of America, or whatever
>>it is they're calling this supermall that has just opened in

>It initially disgusted me until I found out where it was located.  Its
>in Minnesota. Minnesota is populated by Native AMericans (lived there
>for 30,000 years+) and various Caucasians of Viking extraction.  WHen I

[it is cold in MN]

It doesn't peeve me that the Minnesotans have a warm place to shop.
What peeves me is the glitzy, partylike opening of it.  There are
too many pathetic people in this country who center their social
lives around the local mall.  The worst offenders are those between
about twelve and sixteen years of age, but still.

Folks, the Mall of America is just a bunch of STORES.  They
are there to sell things.  I can't help but think that making
the opening of this mall a gala event is another advertising
ploy to try to get people to buy things they don't really need
at prices they can't really afford because the Mall Is The
Place to Be Because Ray Charles or Whoever is SInging There
So Heaven knows it must be K00L to spend your life there.

Peeve:  Of course heaven only knows it is kind of depressing
to even go to the mall around here anyways, seeing all the
empty windows where a store went out of business.  Not that
I feel too sorry for whomever siphoned all the capital out
of the business, but I do feel sorry for the people who used
to work there who are now presumably out of work.

Peeve:  That companies and individuals can live like royalty,
rack up a few gazillion dollars of debt, declare bankruptcy,
and still live in the style to which they have become accustomed.
There's no reason to be surprised that this COUNTRY has such
a deficit when it's still bailing fools out of their own folly.
I can feel sorry for Joe Schmo who can't pay his rent on time or
something, but Donald Trump and his ilk lack my sympathy.

Peeve:  Parents who read over my shoulder when I'm posting.

BonusPeeve:  Shirley Temple movies.  Particularly one called
"The Little Princess".  That movie was based on a book I knew
and loved as a child, but the movie messed it up.  Sara Crewe
*never* sang and danced in a military hospital, and her father
was really *dead*.  He wasn't supposed to be brought back to
life at the end.   And there was no adult romance in the book.
Usually movies made from books change a few things, but this
was REALLY glaringly different.

Peeve:  having the SO move halfway cross the country.

Joy Haftel               "And traveller's joy beguiles in autumn
JKH107@PSUVM                   Hearts that have lost their own."
                                    --A.E. Housman
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: tim@comphy.physics.orst.edu (Tim Mefford)
Subject: Re: Vacation Peeves
Reply-To: tim@physics.orst.edu (Tim Mefford)
Organization: Oregon State University - Univ. Computing Services
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:43:01 GMT

In article <BsurFM.MB9@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> hoff@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Wildfire) writes:
>I just got back from my vacation (?) to Seattle.  I'll have to remember

> *peeve: the weather.  When we drove down to Oregon, we brought with us the
>first rain they'd had in that area since the beginning of July, which meant
>we couldn't go to the beach.  In Seattle, it had been nineties until we got

You chose not to go to the beach.  In Oregon, you do *everything* in the
rain.  The 30 m.p.h. winds on the coast can be discouraging at times, though.

Evidently, you duplicated some of my recent travels.  Pity I didn't know.

I've laid the framework for future peeves today by entering a not guilty
plea on a recent speeding violation.

Today's truly peevesome experience was lunch.  The rather tight corner of
the world in which I live has a mere six restaurants accessible with any
convenience in a hurried lunch hour.  After these many years, I am sick
of everything on all their menus.  I considered today eating at an 
establishment I had not entered for 3 months.  One look at the menu had me
saying "Oh, God, THAT Again?" to every item.  I decided to expand the break
and venture afield in search of that spiritual cure-all known simply as
"lunch."

I searched my soul for a craving and, not surprisingly, I found quite a few.
Most of these being in the direction of Chinese food.  My primary goal was
pot stickers.  Succulent meat in a delicately steamed dough shell, without
a crusty browned spot, touched with vinegar and soy sauce.  As could be 
anticipated, the first restaurant had a sign denying their availability.
Surprisingly, though, they also had a sign saying, "No Han Bao, either!"
Hmm.  A doughy pastry with a meaty center flavored by almost sauce-like
seasoning.  Damn.  On to the next Chinese restaurant.
 
"Closed for Aug.    --- We'd be out of pot stickers even if we were open."

OK, forget Chinese food.  I'm running out of time.  I drive further afield.
Try the bakery downtown.

"Special Today: Spinich Lasagna"   ----- Oh, God, THAT Again?
"We're sorry, but we've raised our prices"  ----- Screw this.

So, having very little time, I ended up eating at Bob's Burgers, but
you know what really sounded good?  It's been hot up here today, I could
almost taste a cool slice of sushi hitting my tongue.  Some nicely chilled
akimaki, some of that stupid cucumber salad thay give you first, maybe some
green tea.  That would have been really good.  Even green tea ice cream would
have hit the spot.  I suppose a cool crisp shrimp and crab salad wouldn't 
have been bad either.

ObBob: Sands

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      Tim Mefford           |           "vidi, veni"      
  tim@physics.orst.edu      |    -Julius Caesar on Cleopatra
________________________________________________________________
From: tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Clothes that fit
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:50:06 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University Colouring Book Software

egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:

>BrooksidePeeve: Anna, the Polish nanny, is likely to be replaced by
>Margaret, the carrot-haired-Catholic.

No, Anna is the Catholic. Margaret just ran off with a priest. Still I
agree that I'd rather drool over Anna three times a week with a repeat
on Saturday.
T




-- 
Tony Cunningham, Insignia Solutions. 				   tjc@ed.ac.uk

Yes, I carry a grudge. If someone pokes me in the eye, I'll poke both of
their eyes. larry@psl.nmsu.edu (Larry Cunningham)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Newsgroups: alt.peeves

> is not too big. Reaching down... you SMEEEAARRR it all over yer butt.
> 
> AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGhhhhh! Where is one of those Euro-Squirters when 
> you need one!?!
> 
> The next forty sheets are spent trying to wipe the remnants from your
> backside... smearing everything into a thinner and thinner coating.
> And then.... no more sheetlets.



            And we thank you for sharing that. 

-reykjavik


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From: terri@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (St Theresa of the Net)
Subject: Re: Handwriting (was: Spelling Flame)
Organization: Computing Something Division
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 16:50:50 GMT

In article <24857@castle.ed.ac.uk> egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
>There was a jolly worrying article in the Torygraph recently about a woman
>who went deaf after drying some water from her ear with a cotton bud.
>The doctor they spoke to says he sees 2-3 people a day with problems caused
>this way. Apparently it's quite easy to dislodge them little hearing bones.
>From now on, my ears are staying dirty, and if that offends you, tough!
>
>(The manufacturers claim that the buds are for wiping snot from babies'
>noses)

Well, heavens. this sounds like a lawsuit just waiting to happen. if you
think those hearing bones (hammer, anvil, sturrup and screwdriver) are
fragile, you haven't seen anything if you SLAM A Q-TIP UP A KID'S NOSE TILL
IT HITS THEIR BRAINS. of course, it helps if it's been coated in some
hardening acrylic.

-- 
A little bit of uh huh and a whole lot of oh yeah.   \  (414)CRUSH-13
T. Flynn's Casa de Interesting: 1755 N Cambridge Ave #306 Milwaukee WI 53202    
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From: auerbach@doc.bmd.trw.com
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,alt.tasteless
Subject: Re: Drivers from Hell
Date: 12 Aug 92 08:33:18 MST
Distribution: usa

> In article <Bsrt5A.CLL@wpi.WPI.EDU>, padutton@wpi.WPI.EDU (Peter Alan Dutton) writes:
>>
>> 

[major yawnage deleted...]

>> This usage of lights seems to be a recent phenomenon in the Northeast.
>> I hope it doesn't catch on.
>> 

Bullshit!  I drove the Norhteast quite frequently while in the Navy back in
1972 while you were probably still a vague concept in parents hindbrains.
Flashing lights were SOP (standard operating procedure) for reminding slow
drivers in the left lane to move it. Used it all the time while driving I-95
and other highways.  Also, it used to be SOP to flash your lights after a semi
has passed you to let the semi driver know it was save to move over.  Don't see
that done to often anymore...

Utah (where I currently live) passed a law a few years back making it illegal
to ride the left lane, especially if someone else is comming up behind you. 
Utah used to be notorious for people like you driving three abreast at 55. 
Caused lots of real bad accidents. The new law has helped tremendously, but we
still get the occasional moron who insists on playing cop.

IN a related story, about two months ago I was stuck behind some old fart doing
25 in a 35 zone.  The dufus was bobbing his head back and forth, checking out
the sights and just not paying attention.  When I got the chance, I started
passing him and the shithead speeds up.  Pretty soon, we're doing 70 down this
road and I'm trying to figure out what the fuck his problem is.  I finally got
passed him and at the next stop sign, he sticks his head out and yells "Don't
you know the speed limit is 35?"  What do ya do with idiots like that?

The scary part is, the same thing happened a week later, same streach of road,
different old fart.  Where do these people come from?

Karl
From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Political Peeves
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:32:20 GMT
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA

In article <16ss22INN1d0@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> carolo@cse.ucsc.edu
(Carol Osterbrock) writes:
>>Peeve:  Republicans.  
>
>Hey!  I was told we wouldn't have to do politics on this newsgroup.

Well Carol, I guess politics will be polluting all the newsgroups until
the November Horror passes.  So, let's geta reasonable discussion going...

1. All politicians now in office should be voted out
2. People who don't want the job should be voted in
3. We should add an Amendment to the Constitution that says that, if you
   put a Bill before Congress and it doesn't pass, you have to pay the
   salaries and administrative costs incurred during its debate.

Howzat?

   don "reluctant Libertarian" baldwin
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