HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Poasters unmasked
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:44:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: lynx.3#xj1pd
Organization: Atheists for the Development of a Better God

In article <1992Apr13.153731.8800@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> trytten@ahmeek.cps.msu.edu (Deborah Trytten) writes:
>In article <v1wjnk=@lynx.unm.edu>, baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin) writes:
>|> And it doesn't take a lot of effort to walk the 15 feet over to 
>|> where I was and say something about it. So, my peeve for the day is people
>|> who ignore some problem around them, especially someone who is in a 
>|> position to do something about it.
>I can tell you *exactly* what was up with this supervisor.
>She's chased all over the place by users.

	Like she's the only one with this problem. Anyone of the numerous
consultants around here had the exact same problem. "Hey! That's the guy
that helped me last night! Get him!"

>If she points it out, she may either lose time (while the server is rebooting)
>or have to help solve any problems that show up during the reboot.
	If she points it out, the exact same thing that happened when it
was pointed out to me happens again. So as not to inconvience her further,
while she was waiting for the other server to connect, she just has to say
"Hey! Chris! The servers down! Fix it." and I would walk over and fix it,
just like I did.

>Peeve: Users who chase you all over creation when you're trying to get
>your work done. 
	Amen! What is worse is that around here you don't even have to
be employed an just off duty to get haressed by the clueless. You just
have to appear to be getting something accomplished and they will plague
you. Before I started working as a consultant, the fact that I was able
to walk up to the machine and make it do something useful was enough for 
the flood of questions to start, despite the fact that a person who was
working was sitting just a few yards away.

>Peeve: Users who make no effort to solve their own problems.  RTFM!  RTFM!
>RTFM!  
AntiPeeve: Last year at GenCon I saw an RTFM button.
Peeve: I didn't buy one.
AntiPeeve: Dan said he'd make me one.
Peeve: That was months ago. Dan! Were's my button!

>Peeve:  System managers who are on duty and don't pay enough attention to
>know that their server is down. :-)
	I hope that you aren't referrring to me. I am nothing as lofty
as a system manager. I am but a lowly consultant. 

ObPeeve: Eating cold pizza for breakfast(This is really an AntiPeeve.)
and getting those nasty, discusting, sour cheese burps all day.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: pmmuggli@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Pauline M Muggli)
Subject: Re: Jeremy's amazing incredible feet!!!!!!
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 00:17:07 GMT

  Sonja Kueppers <SEK@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
 
>Peeve: When a manufacturer takes a perfectly good piece of clothing,
>and puts a stupid logo, seal, or patch on it.  I was unable to buy any
>comfy shirts at the GAP for over a year when this was trendy.

peeve:  socks with the logo anywhere but the bottom.  saw a pair
of socks with an alligator (izod) once.  ptui!
 
>Peeve2: When a manufacturer puts shoulder pads in an outfit in a secure
>way, so that those of us who prefer not to have shoulder pads in, say
>slouchy sweaters, have to perform surgery to remove them.

counter peeve:  when a shoulder pad is held in by two thin
threads.  upon first donning the item, one of thehreads breaks
and you now have a lump in very weird places.   a lump that
won't stay on the shoulder.
 
even if you like the shoulder pads in the outfit, it's nice to be
able to take them out when washing - especially with items that
have to air dry.

peeve:  wanting to wear a clean shirt only to find that the
shoulder pads are cold, clammy lumps sitting on top of your
shoulders.

anti peeve:  shoulder pads kept in by velcro.  (with the side
that snags on the pad of course.)

pauline
From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: $3.95 change
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:53:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: igor.1992Apr6.185342.16789
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, San Francisco

In article <1992Apr4.042201.29927@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
allane@moon.gas.unsw.OZ.AU.gas.unsw.OZ.AU (Allan Evans) writes:
>The bank machines that I use dispense $50 bills now. The $50 bill is becoming
>as ubiquitous as $20's and $10's have been... but many places still keep the
>same amount of change on hand that they did 20 years ago, even though prices 
>have quintupled.
>
>This peeves me.

Personally, I'm peeved by the fact that I CAN'T get a bill of denomination
smaller than $20, around here.

When I was in NY State over Christmas, I discovered (to my envy) that the
ATMs there often dispense $10 or even $5 bills.  Why can't we in California
have that service???

   don
From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Idle threats
Summary: bandy follows through
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:05:41 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia

In article <5428@catnip.berkeley.ca.us> poultry in motion writes:

> [ ... ]
>Phil, Phil, Phil.  Buy a summer-weight suit.  Much better suited to
>the climate around here.
>
> [ ... ]
>begin 666 sheepdog.jpg
> [ ... ] 
>end

I appreciate the thought, bandy, but as I have no JPEG viewer handy, I
couldn't apprehend the full visual impact of your new (though long-
threatened) sig.  Perhaps you could add to it a uuencoded display
program along with a shell script suitable to edit and decode your
sheepdog?  After all, the Rubicon's been crossed, the bridges have
been burned, and all that.

-- 
Rick Gordon      | "What in the hell are you talking about, or dont' you even
rickg@netcom.com | know?? You're compleetly mental, get the net!"  Gene Moreau
From: banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Jeremy's amazing incredible feet!!!!!!
Date: 7 Apr 92 19:43:00 GMT
Organization: Sun, Moon, and Stars
NNTP-Posting-Host: blagg

(Not Al Crawford) writes:
>No Jeff, it's further evidence that unlike you I don't list "paedophilia"
>amongst my hobbies and leisure activities.

That's right.  Your leisure time activity tends toward punishing
Capt. Blinky while fantacizing about Marcia in a cheerleader's outfit on
Brady Bunch reruns.

Remember, Al, sinful thoughts are still sinful.

drew
banta@abingdon.sun.com
--
Somehow, I have a problem taking a hurricane named "Bob" seriously ...
					-- Akkana Peck
From: Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Recession anti-peeves
Date: 6 Apr 92 11:18:54 GMT
Reply-To: Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford)
Organization: Penicuik People's Revolutionary Sheepdog Liberation Front

And lo, pwg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Goldberg) spake unto the masses saying:
>
> What's so peeveworthy about the recession? Consider the following fine
> characteristics:
>
> 1.) Cheaper houses, cheaper cars.

Cheaper everything. Everywhere has got a sale on (except, for some reason,
airlines :-( )

> 2.) Gives Labour a stick to beat the Tories.

Actually, although I'm not a Labour supporter I rather like the idea of
them getting in for two reasons...

1. Watching them squirm as they actually have to make *gasp* unpopular
   decisions. It's very easy for opposition parties to say "Oh, well we
   would have done X" but when they are actually faced with the choice of
   doing X or Y and choose the wrong one... Hopefully this'll cure a lot
   of people of the "Labour worship" that has developed during the last
   13 years where some people have become convinced that the minute Labour
   come to power everything will be sweetness and light.

2. It'll bring the Tories down several dozen pegs. They are going to be
   completely *unbearable* (*) if they get in again.

(*) Not that they aren't pretty unbearable already.

ObPolitiPeeve: Sir Nicholas Fairbairn. Somebody lock him in a rubber room,
will they? Apart from his 2nd rate Enoch Powell impression, the man should
be locked up for having such appalling taste in clothes. "Britain flooded
with aliens" he says? Hardly surprising - after seeing him in that tartan
clobber I'm sure I wasn't alone in wishing I hadn't been born in the same
country as him. Time to dig up details of my USAn ancestors.

ObPolitiBonusPeeve: That despite my bloodline (descended from William Ewart
Gladstone, dont'cha know) I'm utterly bored by politics.

ObScrittiPolitti: Wood Beez.

ObAirlinePeeve: Remember I was peeving about Thomas Cook telling me I
couldn't reserve a seat in advance? On Saturday I went into British Airways
office to check on this (I'm flying with BA). I left their office ten
minutes later with seat 42A booked outgoing and seat 32K booked incoming.
Apparently Thomas Cook were talking bollocks. They should go into politics.

--
		Not Al Crawford - Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk
 "Isn't it nice/Sugar and spice/Luring disco sheepdogs/To a life of vice."
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Period Peeves
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:22:23 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <20203@castle.ed.ac.uk> egev05@castle.ed.ac.uk (B A Page) writes:
>
>ObCastrationTool;  Burn 'em off with the current Etna lava-flow. 
>Eruption temperature at vent approx 1100 degrees celcius.  That should
>do it.

ObFollowup: Then ask the U.S. military to drop two ton blocks on it.
Laugh at their pathetic little-weenie attempts to fuck with Mother
Nature.

ObPeeve: I have never seen a lava flow.

Er


--
*"I mean it could make a big difference in your life if you thought that 
*you didn't need to depend on some musty old dogma thats riddled with
*translation problems, and started acting from the center of your own being."
*					-Owen Rowley
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: trytten@ahmeek.cps.msu.edu (Deborah Trytten)
Subject: Re: Gender assumptions
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Michigan State University
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 22:01:27 GMT

In article <31344@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford) writes:
>Another related peeve is the way we're always told it isn't safe for women
>out on the streets. Well, OK, so there's some truth in it but the ones they
>should *really* be trying to protect are young adult males. I'm ten times
>more likely to get beaten to a bleeding pulp by a gang of twenty or so
>glue-crazed casuals (*) while out for an evening stroll than any woman is
>to be assaulted. The aforementioned casuals might make suggestive remarks
>to any woman they pass but it's *me* that they'll try to turn into a human
>pizza! It would be more accurate to say that it isn't safe for *anyone* on
>the streets (with the possible exception of glue-crazed casuals).

I'm a woman, and under 5 feet tall.  I walk every single night, and
have for years.  In all this time, I've only had a couple of bad things
happen.  I've had a couple of beer bottles tossed out of cars at me, one
dog fight (I walk with my dog(s)), and witnessed a couple of petty
crimes (slashing of bicycle tires, nothing very intense).  Anytime
I tell anyone about any of these things I get the most peevesome response
of all:

What was a *woman* doing walking alone at night ?!?!

I'm careful.  I stay in my own neighborhood, I never walk without my
dogs, I stay on lighted streets, I know lots of the people whose homes
I walk by, I pay attention to my surroundings, and if I think I see trouble
I turn back.  Still, people seem to think that I should be dead bolted
into my apartment the minute the sun goes down.  I'm not a nun.  Why
should I be cloistered? 

Women are safer walking on the streets than men are.  So why do we get
all of this ridiculous bilge about the dangers of women being out alone.

I was at a friend's home this week while "Unsolved Mysteries" (a
T.V. program I frankly detest) was on.  They showed a story of two
teenage Swedish girls who were murdered while hitch hiking in California.
Throughout the whole story they showed the valient men who had given
the girls a ride and admonished them that hitch hiking is dangerous
for women.  The implication that these women *deserved* to be killed
for failing to listen to these well meaning, fatherly men was
disgusting.  No one deserves to be raped and murdered.  Not even if
they were alone after dark.  Not even if they were hitch hiking.

I'm not a big fan of conspiracy theories, but if I were I'd sure think
that there was a conspiracy to keep women locked in their homes.

And, just exactly why is it that a crime perpetrated against a woman
is more important and newsworthy than the same crime perpetrated against
a man?   It implies that men are disposable and women are somehow
special.  I resent being thought of as fragile, and I
resent the implication (exemplified best by the draft) that men
are disposable.

Debby
trytten@cps.msu.edu
From: bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (poultry in motion)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: pocquers (was Re: Smoking Surrogate)
Date: 9 Apr 92 23:03:39 GMT
Organization: The People's Number Four Cat Farm, Berkeley CA, USA

scooter@hirgon.hw.stratus.com (Maya the Bee) writes:

+In article <10210@cernvax.cern.ch>, steveb@cernvax.cern.ch (Steve Bougerolle) writes:
+> In <167C0BA2B.ELLBRUA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> ELLBRUA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Alex Elliott) writes:
+> 
+> >(*) ObPeeve:  Obnoxious midwesterners(**) who insist on saying
+> >              "pop" instead of "soda."
+> 
+> Out in the far west we say "pop" instead of "soda" as well.  (The far west



+	Both are wrong.  Everyone knows it's "tonic".


Goddamn yankee.
-- 
real address: bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us
last choice:  lll-winken!catnip.berkeley.ca.us!bandy

"It's not an adult feature unless someone's gooey at the end."
 -- Bill Hicks
From: scooter@hirgon.hw.stratus.com (Scott Jeffrey)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Smoking Surrogate
Date: 7 Apr 92 18:38:33 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

In article <ku3h0mINN3tc@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>, geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Tricky Gnosis) writes:
> 
> 
> More seriously, when is it not okay to stand up for yourself?  I'd think
> that would be a universal constant.

	Well, what I _meant_ to say was, "justifiable _fighting_".


> Speaking of dolls, I read somewhere that someone who was diving under the
> Santa Cruz Municipal Pier found a Ken doll on the bottom with his feet in
> a couple of tiny concrete blocks.
> 

	Heh.  He probably got behind on his payments on the Barbie Corvette,
the Barbie patio set, the Barbie playhouse, her bazillion outfits, etc.

Ob!Peeve:  Cheesecake.

scooter
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon)
Subject: Re: Gender assumptions
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 20:15:02 GMT
Organization: Netcom - SF Bay, Cal Northifornia 
Summary: Get Mr. Scearce a new drug
Followup-To: alt.peeves

In article <kuonc9INN7pf@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> bls writes:

>In article 8544@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov, dsc@gemini.tmc.edu (Doug S. Caprette Bldg. 28 > > > The "blame the victim" mentality upsets me to no end.
>
>Please don't be angry at us.  Most of us are just pawns of the dominant
>social mores, and can't help but adopt those attitudes as our own.

God, it makes my skin crawl when he starts talking like this.

ObLittleKnownFact: Mr. Scearce has quoted, nearly verbatim, the last
words of Charles Whitman before he begain bagging students and innocent
civilians from atop the Tower in Austin.

>Brian Scearce                               bls@sector7g.eng.sun.com

-- 
Rick Gordon        |  "The more things change, the more different 
rickg@netcom.com   |     they get." -- S. Krishna of Copenhagen
From: bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (Bandy Eals)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Vinyl Junkies
Date: 9 Apr 92 05:20:41 GMT
Organization: The People's Number Four Cat Farm, Berkeley CA, USA

Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford) writes:

+3.	Crackles and noise are part of the "ambience" of vinyl and add to
+	the warmth and natural quality of the sound.


+3.	Doesn't it strike you as a little odd that on one hand these people
+	go on and on about the purity and clarity of vinyl and how it
+	reproduces every frequency from something low enough to make your
+	bowels explode right up to something that a dog couldn't even heard
+	yet on the other hand they tell you that scratches, crackles and
+	other surface noise "contribute" to the vinyl experience. Sounds
+	like turning a bug into a feature to me.


It really is more simple to defeat them.

Just ask them "But what about live concerts?  Is there hiss and pop
and other surface noises during a live concert?

Peeve: Pseudo-science.

!Peeve: I had an [MIT-graduate EE] hardware-guy co-worker a long time
ago who believed that the LP was better, for the aforementioned
reason.  When we asked him about live concerts, he got very flustered.
Fun to watch.
-- 
real address: bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us
last choice:  lll-winken!catnip.berkeley.ca.us!bandy

"It's not an adult feature unless someone's gooey at the end."
 -- Bill Hicks
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering)
Subject: Re: QuasiKrautFussing (Was: Moronic left turn first signals)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 16:54:28 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

In article <ku6k2gINN73o@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> skod@trenco.Eng.Sun.COM (Scott Griffith, Sun Lumpyware) writes:
>
>Yeah, it's called an "ess-tsett", which is kinda like a B that's been
>dropped. But my favorite Germanic noun-assembly still has to be from
>the Heidelberg sheetfed letterpress we had in our family printshop
>when I was a kid- to wit: "Aktiengesellschaften SchellpreBenfabrik".
>
>Which means "high-speed printing press", near as I can tell. ...

Close.  I don't have a German dictionary with me at the moment, so the
best translation I can come up with is something like "Combined Businesses
for the Manufacture of High-Speed Presses."

ObWeapon: Panzerkampfwagen IV.

ljd
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: minch@lotka.stanford.edu (Eric Minch)
Subject: Re: Demographics again
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 16:52:55 GMT

Steve Bougerolle writes
<ellipsis>
> Being tall is very peeve-inducing at times. .
<ellipsis>
> Yeh, on balance I think I'm happy being tall.

With all the flying you do, you might mention:

* Big'n'TallPeeve: Seats on airplanes (or substitute your favorite mode  
of mass transportation) designed for shorties. 

Of course they're trying to cram as many of us in there as possible,  
but inevitably (especially on transoceanic flights) I encounter the

* UndeservingAndInconsiderateSpaceWastingPassengerAheadOfMePeeve: Why  
do they put tiny old folk and young folk in the bulkhead seats with  
plenty of legroom, while I (6'4") sit behind them? I know what's going  
to happen if there's a crash and we need people assisting via the  
emergency exit: Granny (or Sonny) is going to get trampled by panicky  
faster folk who can't wait politely for them to leave first. Of course  
the first thing Granny/Sonny does after buckling up is to recline the  
seat to its MAXIMALLY HORIZONTAL POSITION, notwithstanding the loud  
crunching sounds my patellae are making, and the grimace visible on my  
face because they're looking at it upside down FROM MY LAP! 

HypotheticalPeeve: What if I upgrade to Business or 1st Class? Then  
I'll sit in a big seat with lots of room. But how do they make these  
seats bigger? They make them w-i-i-d-e-r, to accommodate the generous  
butts of business and first class fatties.

YAHP: What if I do somehow manage to convince the seat-assigners that a  
strong silent tall man is a handy thing to have in the roomy bulkhead  
seat? Then they put Sonny behind me, and his hobby involves kicking the  
back of my seat. For seven hours. "Here's a lollipop, Sonny. Go play  
outdoors."

ParaPeeve: I think I heard someone do this last one already: the story  
involved one of those "ni-ni-ni-beep-beep-ni-ni" noisy handheld  
electronic games. Why aren't these important matters archived in the  
Peevetown FAQ?

Eric Minch             Any resemblance to the opinions of persons
Epistemic Artisan      or organizations other than myself--living,
Stanford Genetics      dead, or imaginary--is purely fortuitous.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: steveb@unixg.ubc.ca (Steve Bougerolle)
Subject: Re: Paying by check
Reply-To: steveb@erich.triumf.ca
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 16:03:48 GMT

In <1992Apr16.041408.283@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu> pjl@sunb4.cs.uiuc.edu (Paul Lucas) writes:

>	When you pay by check, you have to transfer money into your
>	checking account to cover it; why don't you just withdraw the
>	money instead?

Why do you transfer money to your chequing account??  Why not just leave it
there?  Do you have some sort of wimpy account which pays shitty interest?

Personally, my account pays the same rate as a savings account on any balance
over $1000 or so.  So I just leave all my money in it.  

Perhaps you need more money.

Or perhaps you should do business with a good Canadian bank instead of those
little nickel-store places you have on that side of the border.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sunday, 12 Apr 1992 20:56:59 EDT
From: Sonja Kueppers <SEK@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Lust from afar

In article <10246@cernvax.cern.ch>, steveb@cernvax.cern.ch (Steve Bougerolle)
says:
>
>In <167C5AA68.ELLBRUA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> ELLBRUA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (The
>Lemming) writes:
>
>>Peeve:  She is a student in the physics lab I teach so I can't date
>>        her, or even indicate my attraction.
>
>You're only a fucking TA.  Nobody cares if you date the women in your lab.
>Just don't start grading her on her abilities at giving head instead of
>her physics abilities.

My TA just got bitched out for "hitting on the girls in the class".

(How do I know this?  Because I was one of the girls he was supposedly
hitting on.  He told me about it.  I'm pretty sure he isn't romantically
interested in me; we just enjoy making fun of each other.  :-)

Peeve: People who assume that any two members of the opposite gender
who have a good time together want to have sex together.

-Sonja
------
SEK@psuvm.psu.edu SEK@PSUVM.BITNET
...the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our
dispositions and not on our circumstances.       - Martha Washington
From: steveb@cernvax.cern.ch (Steve Bougerolle)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Lust from afar
Date: 10 Apr 92 22:48:00 GMT
Organization: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

In <167C5AA68.ELLBRUA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> ELLBRUA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (The Lemming) writes:

>Peeve:  She is a student in the physics lab I teach so I can't date
>        her, or even indicate my attraction.

What?????

GET SOME PERSPECTIVE, DUDE!!!

You're only a fucking TA.  Nobody cares if you date the women in your lab.
Just don't start grading her on her abilities at giving head instead of
her physics abilities.

Christ, half the grad students at UBC (males, that is) met their girlfriends
in labs.

Peeve:  People who take themselves far too seriously.
-- 
_|\ |V| /|_  Steve Bougerolle, U. of British Columbia Physics Dept.
\  \| |/  /   and the OPAL experiment, CERN, Geneva CH
 >_______<    STEVEB@CERNVAX.UUCP  STEVEB@CERNVM.CERN.CH
     !        STEVEB@CERNVM.BITNET  45397::STEVEB (HEPnet)
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