HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Vrchoticky)
Subject: Re: QuasiKrautFussing
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Dept. for Realtime Systems, AUSTRIA
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 17:43:24 GMT

dmunroe@gollum.wr.tek.com (David Munroe) writes:

>When you get one of those little instruction booklets printed in several
>languages, it's interesting to compare the different texts side by side.

sorry, dave. comparing languages on the basis of little instruction 
booklets is about as meaningful as judging the quality of a town's
water supply from the concentration of toxic substances in the sewage. 


peeve: german translations of italian instruction booklets. obviously 
    those responsible for producing those translations think that it
    is sufficient to ask grand-daddy, who after all fought at the 
    isonzo battle in world war one, and therefore *must* know german. 

anti-peeve: german translations of italian instruction booklets.
    funfunfun.

-alex

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From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Sole on Ice
Date: 13 Apr 92 23:26:19 GMT
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park, Ca.
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In article <1992Apr13.214225.6653@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com 
(Don Baldwin) writes:

>>I don't understand this.  For one thing, I've never seen the sense of 
>>this form of protest.  If someone kills himself in protest of something, `
>>he'd obviously be playing into the hands of those against whom he's
>>protesting -- there'd be one fewer dissenting voice for them to contend 
>>with!  And there'd be a concomitant improvement in the gene pool as well.

>OK Geoff, now you have me curious:  what form of protest do you approve
>of?


Hey, I never said that I DISapproved of *this* one!  People who piss and
moan about the "American War Machine" can torch themselves to their
hearts' content as far as I care.  I'd even be willing to chip in for gas.
(Heh -- sounds like something I could've said during my high school joyriding
days!)

But politics aside, from the standpoint of practicality vs. sheer stupidity, 
I'd have to rule out anything self destructive.  Killing oneself as a form of
protest is not only a bit extreme, it smacks of childish tantrum-behavior
like threatening to hold your breath until you turn blue.

Protester:  "If America doesn't unilaterally disarm *right now,* I'm 
             going to set myself on fire!" 
 
Geoff:      "Promise?  Wait right here for a moment while I grab my gas can
	     and run across the street to that Chevron station.  I won't be 
	     a minute!"

I wish the athlete's foot fungi residing between my toes would all decide
to go on a terminal hunger strike in protest against the use of Desenex.
That would just break my heart, y'know?

Beyond that, I don't much care for disruptive forms of protests like blocking 
the traffic on the Bay Bridge during commute hours, because that's the kind of
thing causes grief for those who aren't even involved.  It also shows bad
headwork, because inconveniencing other people isn't the sort of thing that
wins support for one's cause.  It only serves to cause alienation, and to
illustrate the immaturity, arrogance and smallmindedness of those who'd
stoop to such tactics.

I'd also have to say that I'm against anything destructive, like when City 
Hall got trashed after the Dan White trial.  That didn't cause anything
useful, and it no doubt turned a lot of Silent Majority types against the
cause of those who rioted.   How about a nice, quiet sit-in, or even a noisy
rally?  I wouldn't even mind the noise, as long as the protesters stayed out
of everyone else's way.

ObWeapon:  a squad of Korean riot policemen with tear gas, truncheons and
	   those rectangular Lucite shields with the vision slits in them.



Geoff


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From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: April 9 (d. all of the above)
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:46:24 GMT
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In article <1992Apr13.153146.24974@acs.ucalgary.ca> parr@acs.ucalgary.ca 
(Charles Parr) writes:

>  But lawyers, and People Who Do Not Move Over To The Left When I
>  Flash My Highbeams, on the other hand, should receive this
>  treatment often...

Er, you're from Alberta; you mean "people who don't move over to the 
*right?*"


>  What is it that lurks within the hearts of Aires K-car owners
>  that they are driven to such behaviour? Do they really believe
>  that I will not beat them unto death with a tiedown strap,
>  and then serve them  to their family (all unknowing) as soup?


You've noticed that too, eh?  I made the observation years ago that for
some as-yet undetermined reason, old people in North America tend to drive
Chrysler products -- usually, but not always, Darts/Valiants and K-cars.

Another thing I've noticed is that these are among a group of specific
automobiles that are habitually driven slowly, no matter *who* is at the
wheel.  My most recent addition to this evolving list of Cars To Avoid 
Getting Stuck Behind is the Hyundai Excel.  



Geoff


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From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Quayle, bullies, 'n things (was Re: Lemon Gin, Rape)
Date: 7 Apr 92 20:55:34 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <ku1d2dINNpu@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Tricky Gnosis) writes:
>*Active listening?!?*  What the hell kind of Sensitive, New Age psychobable
>horseshit is that?  Listening is by definition a passive activity, is it
>not?

Not really. 

Passive listening: listener stares blankly at talker, periodically takes
a downward dip. After a short period of time, snoring can be heard.

Active listening: listener looks interestedly at talker, periodically
makes a little noise ("Yup." "Uh-huh" "You don't say...") to let
the talker know listener is listening. After a short period of time,
listener asks an intelligent question.

All-Too-Active listening: Listener stares fixedly at talker's breasts,
periodically lunging forward. After a short period of time, the listener
either gets slapped or asked back home for a martini or three.

Peeve: Confusion about communication styles.

!Peeve: A good martini, a good nap, a good conversation.

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
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From: allane@earth.gas.unsw.OZ.AU.gas.unsw.OZ.AU (Allan Evans)
Subject: Trudeau ( was: Re: Lemon Gin, Rape )
Summary: Trudeau, Jesus, and Turkey Basting.
Organization: University of New South Wales
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 00:45:13 GMT

In article geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) reminisces:
> 
> In article allane@moon.gas.unsw.OZ.AU (Allan Evans) writes:
> 
> >> Is it true that the Stones' song "Five Into One" is about the band's 
> >> relationship with Margaret Trudeau?
> >                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >Probably true, but you're showing your age. Brian Mulroney and his wife Mila
> >have been living it up in Ottawa since 1984 (however this may change...).
> 
> I didn't say Trudeau was *still in power,* fer cryin' out loud!  Mother
> of sweating Jesus!  I know about Bill the Conqueror, too, (Norman, is that
> you?), but I've never been accused of being around since 1066 because of
> that!

I know that. It's just that "The ex-main harlot" has become a bit of a passing
memory for most people. Bill made a few changes that lasted; giving
Mick Jagger dick-warts can hardly be seen as a long-lasting effect (although
at the rate the Stones are going they may be with us for a while). The mother
of sweating Jesus probably deserves more recognition though, I mean being the
first artificial insemination cantidate and all, and this long before turkey
basters were invented.

Note that I can't call Marg the "ex-first harlot" because that would be the
ex-Governor Generals wife. 

Al
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From: Bill.Berbenich@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bill Berbenich)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Where'd he get his name?
Date: 14 Apr 92 03:05:33 GMT
Organization: Unbelieveably Nice Characters

What I wanna know is - Where did Nosy get his name?
How about Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way?
And where did Booter get her name?

About the GIFs - I want to see all of the wimyn of alt.peeves.  How many of
you wimyn are in your 20s?

From his new posting place,
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From: carolo@cse.ucsc.edu (Carol Osterbrock)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Short gals--->Tall guys
Date: 10 Apr 92 04:55:53 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)

In article <9APR199200292053@rigel.tamu.edu> rwb7054@rigel.tamu.edu (BARRETT, ROBERT WAMBLE, JR) writes:
>

[...]

>Peeve: Short girls(under 5'4") who go out with the guys who are 6'10"
>
>Why don't they look for someone a little more their size?  All the girls
>that I could ask out, of course are dating the 7-footers!!!
>Heck, that's a foot and a half difference.  They almost need a stepladder
>to kiss the guy goodnight!!!

Yeah, NO KIDDING.  Why don't those little short gals leave some of the
big ones for us women who can see over the steering wheel?  Never mind
the kiss goodnight, the poor guy must get a major back injury trying
to do a 69.

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carolo@cse.ucsc.edu    *         And a short time to be there...
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From: minch@lotka.stanford.edu (Eric Minch)
Subject: Re: Gender assumptions
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 00:46:01 GMT

Gender? Did you say GENDER? When you actually meant SEX?
*Objects* have gender; *people* have *SEX*! 
(And a good thing, too!)

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.
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From: hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman)
Subject: Re: Towns Named After Game Shows (Was: PREscriptions, subsiDIARY...)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 06:33:49 GMT
Organization: The All New Ice Capades Jeff Dahlmer on Ice

In article <3290@equinox.unr.edu> malc@pyramid.unr.edu (Malcolm L. Carlock) writes:
>
>Don't forget Santa Claus, AZ, somewhere between Las Vegas (NV) and Tucson.
>
>Peeve:  The place has always been closed down whenever I've driven past it,
>	so I've never had a chance to grill the owner regarding what the
>	place was all about.  Anyone know?

Isn't it *obvious*? The place is a weigh station. 

ObWeapon: Easter Bunny PEZ dispensers at sixty yards.

Peeve: I was going to write "sixty meters" but I figured somebody would, like,
y'know, have a spaz.

d "have a spaz. take two, they're small" h

-- 
"I used to be an extravert until I decided I hated people. I hate parties, I
 hate classes and I hate going to the supermarket."   -- Melissa Paterson
From: trytten@ahmeek.cps.msu.edu (Deborah Trytten)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Poasters unmasked
Date: 13 Apr 92 15:37:31 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University, CPS Department

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'm a system manager for a research group.  I'm also a researcher in
the group.  At the moment, I'm working 10 hours a week as a manager and
spending the remainder of my waking hours working madly on my thesis.
I can tell you *exactly* what was up with this supervisor.

She's chased all over the place by users.
She came to your lab to hide out and try to get some of her own work done.
When she gets there, she notices a problem.
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.
Therefore, since no one is being inconvenienced, she does her own work.

How do I know this?  Well....

Peeve: Users who chase you all over creation when you're trying to get
your work done. 

Peeve: People who think that just because I'm a system manager and am present
in a lab that I am the system manager for that lab.   Of course these same
people don't understand that even though I might be the manager for that lab
that I *still* might not be on duty at that point.  I'm not paid enough to
be on duty around the clock.  Trust me.

Peeve: Users who make no effort to solve their own problems.  RTFM!  RTFM!
RTFM!  

Peeve: People who can't understand how I can possibly work when every single
service that is available in the lab isn't up and running in perfect condition.
(hint: if I couldn't work when some services are not available--I'd never get
a chance to work at all)

Peeve:  System managers who are on duty and don't pay enough attention to
know that their server is down. :-)

!Peeve:  I love doing managerial work, and I love doing research.  Not too
many people get to spend their life doing things they love to do.

Deb
trytten@cps.msu.edu
From: cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: PREscriptions, subsiDIARY...
Date: 7 Apr 1992 16:39:29 GMT
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
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In article <31155@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford) writes:
>
>AntiPeeve: Worcestershire sauce.

For the purpose of the coming anecdote, the Kingdom of Vegetarians in tres
partes sunt divisa(*):

Moral Vegetarians: stuck-up artfags who won't eat meat because "all
	creatures are equal in the eyes of the Great Spirit," or some such
	puffheaded cultoid babble.  But they use antibiotics.

Health Vegetarians: paranoid misfits who think a good steak every now and
	then will clog their arteries and kill them purple-faced and dead by
	the age of fifty.  Meanwhile the Inuit of the Frozen North eat
	nothing but blubbery seal meat and have no heart disease whatsoever,
	confirming my suspicion that it's not the cow-slabs that do you in,
	it's the worrying.

Squeamish Vegetarians: people who, to quote one, "wouldn't mind massacring
	the big hairy fuckers with rusty razor blades, so long as I don't
	have to eat their dead bodies."  Often people who came by their
	phobia when they moved away from home and found even the relatively
	tame red gooiness of raw hamburger beyond their intestinal fortitude.

Now, by some odd coincidence, I got in a conversation with one of the latter
clan, on the subject of Worcestershire sauce.  He informed me that he used
to put the stuff on everything he ate, until one day he looked at the
ingredient list on the back.

I always read the ingredients before I chow down.  It's a neurosis.
Inherited, I believe, from my parents, who are lovable-but-batty organic
food freaks.  This particular paranoia has saved my chunks more than once; I
highly recommend it, even to the sane.  A fine collection-starter.

Worcestershire sauce contains rotted anchovies.  The poor man lost his lunch.

This is definitely a story with a moral, now that I think about it.  Sorry.

c
(*) Yes, I know.  My Latin is atrocious & contaminated with Spanish.  Alas.
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From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
Subject: Commercials (again)
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 18:05:23 GMT
Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow

Yes, I know I've done this before, but every time that I think that TV
advertising can't possibly get any worse, it does.  This really peeves me.
See below:

o There's a new dog food out called "Kibbles and Bits - Lean".  Now aside 
  from the peevesomeness of having to put my DOG on a diet, the advertisers
  thought that it would be really cute to show a dog "leaning" over in one
  direction or another, while the voice-over says "Leeeean to the left, 
  leeeean to the right".  The problem is, the dog is facing me and it's
  leaning the WRONG WAY!  The stupid advertisers have the dog leaning to
  MY left (its own right) and to MY right.  Gad, how inane.

o Along these same lines, there's a commercial for Colombian coffee that
  shows a bunch of rich passengers on a cruise ship.  An announcement comes
  over the ship's intercom stating that lobster is being served in such-and-
  such a lounge.  They all look bored and continue sitting.  Then announcement
  comes on about champagne and caviar being served elsewhere, and they 
  continue reading and doing their crosswords.  Finally, they announce that
  Colombian coffee is being served in the port-side lounge.  They all get up
  and move off, supposedly to participate in slurping down this nectar.  The
  next shot is of the ship, and it lists to show that everyone has gone there
  at once, but it lists to starboard.  I love it.

o Twinkies Light.  'nuff said.

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From: mather@sees.bangor.ac.uk (Tories Out!)
Subject: A Nightmare on Downing Street, Part IV
Organization: Centre for Applied Obfuscation.
Followup-To: alt.peeves
Keywords: doom, gloom, new dark age, oppression
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 11:52:02 GMT


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Peeve:  The Tories have won the General Election.

Further elaboration is unnecessary.

Cheers,

Paul.

-- 
e-mail: p.mather@sees.bangor.ac.uk

If your mailer can't reach me, I'm obviously not worth talking to.

"Time we left this [country] today..."

		--- Hawkwind
From: JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu (Jenni Sheehey)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Lawyers not Chemists
Date: 11 Apr 92 00:28:01 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

In article <1992Apr10.112953.995@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu>, sac@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu says:
>
>In article <!8qj2+@lynx.unm.edu>, hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:
>>
>> Sounds like *you* studied something that people are willing to pay you to
>> know. Try graduating from college with a B.A. in psycholology (with a thesis
>> on Jungian archetypes) and see how many companies are beating down *your*
>> door to pay you minimum wage.
>
>For the life of me though I can't see why anyone would connsider studying, in
>detail, the inane, alchemeic (Ijust invented that word. Pretty good, huh?),
>unsubstantiated psychobabbles that are euphemistically called "soft" sciences.

Peeve: people saying that they can't imagine why anyone would do some
thing.  They're admitting right there that they haven't tried it, and
thus don't know what they're talking about.

>Hence the degree Bachelor's of the Arts as opposed to Bachelor's of Science.

Bachelor of Sciences degrees are available in psychology, too.  They
usually just mean that you have to take more stat (yech!) and maybe some
extra bio.  (and less of other things)

>But in my case I have acquired the ability to advance the scope of human
>knowledge in useful and meaningful ways; ways that canbe and are applied
>to the common good of large numbers of people.

Peeve: People who don't realize what the world would be like if all of
the mentally ill people were running about.

RelatedPeeve: People who don't realize just how many of those people
there would be if psychology/psychiatry were as much bunk as they say.
I mean, the depressed ones would probably take care of themselves for
you, but the paranoid delusionals and schizophrenics and manic
depressives would be everywhere.  Not to mention the garden variety
phobic that would cause a 4 car accident because a dog ran across the
road, the vets that are still dealing with combat stress disorder, and
all of the decent, productive people that wouldn't be nearly so decent
or productive if they had been left to their own...

>I'm sorry to say that very few *real* jobs exist for one with an advanced
>degree in psychology.

Yeah, you tell me that someday when you're paying someone $150/hour to deal
with that mass of twisted thinking you call your mind.

                                                 --Jenni
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From: allane@earth.gas.unsw.OZ.AU.gas.unsw.OZ.AU (Allan Evans)
Subject: Re: PREscriptions, subsiDIARY...
Summary: AusSpeak
Organization: University of New South Wales
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 04:45:04 GMT

In article bandy@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (poultry in motion) writes:
> allane@moon.gas.unsw.OZ.AU.gas.unsw.OZ.AU (Allan Evans) writes:
> 
> >1) Beer is not pronounced the same. It is pronounced Bee-ah.
>     There are no words that end with an R sound in AusSpeak 
> 
> Unless they end in a vowel sound and proceed a word that begins in
> a vowel sound: "Peetzer iz my favorite dish."
> 

Definately not. I was derided for saying "i-dear" instead of "idea" the
other day (even though many Americans add a much more emphatic R to the
end than I).  I don't recall any Australian every adding an R to 
anything... even to pizza.

The above sentence would likely be pronounced:

"Peetzah iz my favourite dish"

ObPeeve: they don't sell antacid tablets (like Tums) in 7-11's over here, 
only $7 bottles of Eno. Doesn't *anyone* get a fucking upset stomach here
or what????? If they do sell them, and the four "convenience" stores that
I went to just happened to be out (and manned by non-english speaking
employees) it wouldn't surprise me.

Al
in Oz
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