HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dmarcher@acsu.buffalo.edu (Dave Archer)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Self-serve gas stations
Date: 25 Jul 92 03:33:57 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <1992Jul24.192834.23276@spool.cs.wisc.edu> slv@camembert.cs.wisc.edu (Scott L. Vandenberg) writes:
>be prohibitively long.
>
>PEEVE 1:  "You're all criminals, so pay before pumping the
>gas".

Quite annoying.  Further annoying that there's 2 main
chains around locally.  (The only ones likely to be open in
the middle of the night.)  One makes you pay first, the
other doesn't.  I normally go to the one that doesn't make
you pay first, but there's times you get stuck in a part of
town only has the pay first stations.  Quite annoying,
especially when you don't expect it.

>PEEVE 2:  This one really pisses me off. 
>In short, why the hell do we have to stand there and hold the damn
>handle?  Why have they disabled the mechanism used to keep it pumping?

Likely because of a self-serv gas station peeve of my own:

Peeve: The auto-shutoff damn near never works right.

Maybe it's just a local thing, or maybe it's just me, but
more often than not, I get one of those paranoid pumps that
shut off as soon as you pull the handle.  At least my gas
tank only holds 8 gallons so the math to figure out when to
stop before it overflows isn't terribly difficult.  (I
suppose I should peeve about that 8 gallon gas tank thing,
but I won't bother.)

Seems nearly nobody bothers to tell the cashiers about the
various defective things on a pump (burned out lights,
auto-shutoff not working right, etc.)  And of course, by
the time I get to one of these pumps, they're completely
screwed up.  (Sometimes the auto-shutoff won't work if you
hold it all the way, but if you hold it halfway it'll work,
just slower, but then there's times where they don't shut
off at all.)  Unfortunately, I'm getting so used to the
screwed up pumps that I sometimes forget to tell the
cashiers about them.

We just all need to get Mr. Fusion powered vehicles.
That'll teach 'em.

---

  Dave Archer  |  Internet: dmarcher@acsu.buffalo.edu
               |    Bitnet: V116KZND@UBVMS
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman)
Subject: Re: Oh, and one more ...
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 13:49:37 GMT
Organization: Holy Order of Quadra 950 Lust

In article <92203.210652JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu> Jenni Sheehey <JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>
>Peeve: It never would've worked for me.  I'm not 6'4" and innocent
>looking.

Shouldn't that have been "I'm not 6'4" *or* innocent looking?"

-- 
| _   ;/                                                          Dan Hillman
|(")_/   "I'm right and you're not."                   hillman@carina.unm.edu
|~~/                                                 University of New Mexico
|~/                                               Land of Fucking Enchantment
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From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: alt.peeves,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Oh, and one more ...
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 14:13:49 BST
Distribution: world
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller) writes:
> I'm *still* incredulous about the change of Stanford's mascot.  The teams
> from Stanford used to be known as the Indians -- a fine mascot, that, with
> implications of fierceness and pride, and a real slice of Americana to
> boot.
[...]
> So now the Stanford mascot is the Cardinal -- not the bird, which wouldn't
> be awkward and contrived enough, but the shade of red.

I thought you meant the data type.

Could be worse.  They could be the Stanford Pointers to Doubly-Linked Lists.


mathew
[ Shit, now everybody knows I've programmed in Modula-2. ]
-- 
Down, boy!  There's a good dogma.

Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: Re: Coming soon...
Reply-To: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Organization: PETA: People for the Eating of Tasty Activists
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 05:22:54 GMT

bill@wabwrld.UUCP (Mahmoud ibn-Purplehazi) writes:

>I have, through certain means which shall remain a secret, managed to 
>procure a picture of a certain Love Rhino.

	*I* am the *original* Love Rhino -- accept no substitutes, void
where prohibited by law, all prices include sales tax, etc...  If they are
of me, I shall always have a wonderful and logical explanation available,
and even if said explanation doesn't wash with you I am quite capable of
shouting, "Fuck off, asshole!" in short, clipped speech.  Watch the movie
"Terminator" to understand how this is done.

	Besides stealing Geoff's psuedonym, what else have you done to make
it worth my while to ignore you?  I cannot start a real killfile without
*something* worthwhile, and as of yet you haven't provided it.  Granted,
there is the lack of a peeve, but I'm willing to let this go because of
the suspense you've created here.  Always a good neighbor, the resident biker
and suspected redneck is always willing to allow his fellow Peevetown
residents a good chuckle at his own expense, despite being self-righteously
indignant about the whole thing (but never without an excuse).

	Besides, it's been a rough week at work and I'm presently well into
a glass of homebrew, so I'm abnormally mellow though fairly boiling over
with peeve material.  You have been warned.

>That picture will be posted 
>to this group as soon as I can get it scanned in.

	This had better be quick, then -- if my boss can't wait on me, then
I can't wait on you.  Expect hourly e-mail requests for a status report.


	Peeve: bosses who have problems, and promptly dump them on their
underlings as if *that* is the way to ensure they are taken care of to the
satisfaction of all involved.  I'd go on, but it tends to be compu-nerdy
in nature and I know few of you wish to hear about those peeves.  Perhaps
after the next glass or three I'll be willing to let loose.

--
<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. >
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
Subject: Land O' Goshen! (Was: Another Enema Zoo Blunder)
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
	<ATAYLOR.92Jul29103407@gauss.nmsu.edu>
	<1992Jul30.045832.1321@cs.yale.edu>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 20:43:25 GMT

<In article <1992Jul30.045832.1321@cs.yale.edu> elliott-bruce@CS.YALE.EDU (Bruce Elliott) writes:
<In article <ATAYLOR.92Jul29103407@gauss.nmsu.edu> ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:
<>	Wanna know how the Parking Dept. picked 5$ as a fee for
<>	parking stickers? D'yah spose they actually sat down
<>	and looked at their budget, figured out what they 
<>	needed, asked the B'dness Office for suggestions?
<>

<You guys are complaining about a $5 fee?  

	Yup.

<Is that for a whole year?  

	Yup.

<What a bargain!  

	Nope.

<Here at Yale, it costs $35 a month to park on campus.  If you
<are a student, it costs $60 a month.  The parking office is even talking
<about how generous they are because they haven't raised the rates from 
<last year.

	Hey, University of El Intercepted Paso, just down the road,
	charges almost that much; but they have to blow up a
	granite hill to make a parking lot, have I-10 for 
	one boundary and the city of El Paso for the other boundary.
	When land is scarce, the price per unit area naturally
	increases.

	But in Enema Zoo terms:
	How many thousands of acres of empty land are part of
	the Yale campus? How many square miles of empty desert
	surround the Yale campus?

	It is quite peeveful to have to pay for the right to park
	in a sandlot, yet be told "sorry, we can't afford any
	security for the sand---er--parking lots". Considering
	that at one point last year, a car was stolen every
	DAY from this campus (and none recovered; Mexico is
	1 class period (hour) down the Interstate) it's all
	just a bit much....


	It's even more peeveful to know that the Legislature,
	in its' finite wisdom, will in all probability cut
	the *instruction* budget by exactly the same amount
	of money that the parking fees bring in to the
	*physical* *plant* budget.

	"Ya got a new libarry, now ya want *books* as well"?
					-----anonymous Legislator
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: elliott-bruce@CS.YALE.EDU (Bruce Elliott)
Subject: Re: Micro Beards (was something else entirely) 
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 04:41:41 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.074621.9149@news.iastate.edu> z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
>
>	Peeve: The Moron Turbucular, or is it Mormon Tabernacle, Chior is
>making an appearance here in Ames.  The only thing I want to hear is
>Handel's "Messiah" from these people.  I'm not going. I'd rather travel 200
>miles to hear what I want than half a mile to hear nothing I like.  Stuff
>that into one of your wives, Brigham Young!
>
>

So what's the problem?  Is someone forcing you to attend?  Should all 
entertainment that you dislike be banned from Ames?  I'm sure there must
be a lot of people in Ames who want to hear the Mormon Tabernacle Choir,
otherwise the choir wouldn't have gone there.  I know if they came to New
Haven to sing, I would definitely want to attend.

[ begin musicnerd peeves ]

Peeve:  American professional choirs tend to have too much vibrato,           
especially in the women.  IMHO, the best choirs are German, though
they tend to use Germanic Latin.

Peeve:  Germanic Latin.  I'm much more used to Italianate Latin and the
Germanic stuff sounds weird to me.  Unfortunately, it is becoming trendy
in the US among choral conducting students to use Germanic Latin.  I've had
two conductors in the past year who insisted on it.

[ end musicnerd peeves ]

Alex Elliott
The Lemming.
elliott@minerva.cs.yale.edu
From: pwg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Goldberg)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: BDI On Board
Date: 24 Jul 92 10:19:29 GMT
Reply-To: pwg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Goldberg)
Organization: Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh U

In article <39563@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al
Crawford) writes:
>Hmmm, suspiciously familiar looking subject line, am I recycling?
>
>Anyway, I'm sure the topic of this peeve has come up before - those "Baby
>On Board" diamonds people hang in the rear windows of their cars.
      [...]

I saw a good cartoon in a back issue of Private Eye recently. It
depicted a driver making obscene gestures at other drivers and
generally conforming to the BDI driver stereotype, with a sticker in
his back windscreen saying "Driver who acts like there's a baby on
board".

>It's always puzzled me just how they *know* these little gems of
>information like "Oh, a baby is capable of withstanding much higher
>G-forces than an adult"? Do they have a big lab somewhere where they
>destruct test toddlers by firing them with an air cannon at walls or
>something? "18-month toddler, acceleration 25g, terminal velocity 300m/s.
>Target material - granite. Testing!"

You obviously read the wrong newspapers. There are plenty of stories
in the tabloids of the form "Toddler falls out of ninth floor window
onto concrete - and survives". I think the observations have been made
without recourse to experimental test, courtesy of those excessive
numbers of parents who don't take seriously the task of looking after
their offspring.

Paul.


Voltaire to Rousseau, on reading Rousseau's "Ode a la Poste'rite'":
"Mon ami, voila une lettre qui ne sera jamais recue a son addresse"
From: Claudio.Terrorist@ed.ac.uk (ObTerrorist)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Oh, and one more. . .
Date: 22 Jul 92 09:01:46 GMT
Reply-To: Claudio.Terrorist@ed.ac.uk (ObTerrorist)
Organization: The Exploding Hot Drink

In article <l6oltdINNo2@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> Geoff Miller writes:
> 
> It's amazing how few people know how to pronounce such a common name.
> Contrary to popular belief, it's "TAW-russ," not "TORR-us."  A "torus"
> is the geometric shape described by a donut, not the name of an astro-
> logical sign or a Ford.

Popular belief in Italy is that it's pronounced more like "tourus".
My Latin teacher also agreed on that.

[ The pronounciation above is approximate, because it seems that English
language does not contain the necessary sounds. It certainly does not
contain the sounds to pronounce my name correctly, and the "au" is
pronounced the same in both. There is an ObPeeve hidden somewhere in
this brackets ]

--
The ObTerrorist
From: booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Going to New York
Date: 30 Jul 92 01:44:08 GMT
Organization: Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, CA

In article <1992Jul27.220305.1362@cs.yale.edu> elliott-bruce@CS.YALE.EDU (Bruce Elliott) writes:
>
>Peeve:  Somehow I managed to get a mosquito bite while I was in Manhattan.
>Here I am in the most built up, overpopulated, over-paved areas in the
>world and I get bitten by a mosquito.  I should have just stayed in the
>swamps along the coast of Connecticut.


They commute in from Staten Island and Brooklyn. Both are, essentially,
swamps. They have something called a "wildlife refuge" in Brooklyn that
looks like a marsh, only its full of trash and tires. The only purpose
I have seen for the marsh is that teenagers can copulate in peace
except when the Hasidim show up on Yom Kippur to cast their sins upon
the water. I stay away that day. Last thing I need is to trip over
two copulating teenagers and catch a faceful of some guy's skipping
temple to go to a Yankees' game.

>!Peeve:  The friend I was in NYC with is going to grad school at UNM next
>week and wanted something that was totally unlike New Mexico food.  So we
>had lots of great sushi.


Get your friend in touch with the peevers at UNM. Maybe I will run into
him/her in the fall when I visit.

ER
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: yarvin@cs.yale.edu (Norman Yarvin)
Subject: Re: Trundling along, looking for the right bandwagon
Originator: yarvin@turquoise.CS.Yale.Edu
Organization: Yale Computer Science Department
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 06:39:25 GMT

donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
>Curtis probably just figures that reading a star trek novelization makes
>him an authority on science fiction...

Actually Curtis reads loads and loads of science fiction books.  For
instance, when we went on a vacation that promised to be somewhat boring, he
took along 15 or so, and bought another five along the way.  This was two
weeks' reading matter.

Of course, it's all fiction, and so suffers from the usual flaw of fiction:
it is not true.  Thus it contains only the author's extrapolations from his
own hallucinations about reality.  Reading such dreck is not conducive to
clear thought, as can easily be seen by looking at all the postings about
science fiction except this one and Steve Bougerolle's.  Each person prefers
the books whose author's hallucinations best match his own, and it's a real
catfight when they talk about which books are good.

--
Norman Yarvin						yarvin@cs.yale.edu
 "I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull
  that it nauseated me." -- Charles Darwin
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf)
Subject: Re: Chimpanzees/Olympic Games
Organization: /home/ludviga/cindy/.organization
Date: 31 Jul 92 16:48:00

Jenni Sheehey writes:
>Peeve: Some people actually believe this.  It really must irk the
people
>who spend years teaching primates to say things like "Sarah eat" in
sign
>language.

Peeve:  When i read this, i caught myself thinking "But 'Sarah' wasn't
taught sign language!  Sarah stuck little plastic shapes with magnets
glued on the back up on a metal board."  There are days i can't
BELIEVE the amount of brain space i have devoted to this garbage.

>Peeve: there are no other truly sentient species on the planet.

Come now.  You've been around Peevetown long enough; do you really
think there's _one_?

ObOlympicPeeve: Do we really need a nightly hour long wrap up on the
highlights of the day for the Norwegian Olympic team?  

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway

Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: serget@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Serge A Thill)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: more advertisements
Date: 21 Jul 92 23:46:42 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex

pwg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Goldberg) writes:
:
: I don't know whether news of the French farmers and lorry-drivers
: blockades of motorways or autoroutes or whatever the hell they call
: them, has been widely disseminated in the USA, but one
: widely-publicised consequence was that a large number of British
: tourists were stranded in their in their cars on said motorways during
: these proceedings.

This reminds me.

Anti-peeve: The French block their roads and the traffic jams are formed by
British cars.

Corollary: All peeves on French road-blocks I can remember were British.

Peeve: British farmers and lorry-drivers. Can you imagine them staging such
a show? 


Serge Thill.      E-mail: serget@cogs.susx.ac.uk
                  Other Networks: serget@syma.sussex.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: pld@cthulhu.hq.ileaf.com (Peter L. DeWolf)
Subject: Re: Drug testing and welfare
Reply-To: pld@ileaf.com
In-reply-to: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu's message of Sun, 26 Jul 1992 08:25:00 GMT
Organization: Interleaf, Inc.
	<92206.093638JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu> <14s8clINNs6o@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
	<1992Jul26.082500.16459@news.iastate.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 19:12:54 GMT

>>>>> On Sun, 26 Jul 1992 08:25:00 GMT, z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) said:

> 	I was once employed by a company that felt drug-testing was a
> Good Thing (tm).  Thus, after two months of hard work and outstanding
> reviews from my supervisors, some suit told me I had to piss in a bottle
> *while he watched* so they could assure that I was a good employee.

> 	I complied with most of it.  After pissing in the bottle, I
> turned around and pissed on this asshole's Italian suit.  I then tossed
> the bottle at him (oops!  Forgot the damn lid!) and told him that I was
> leaving his employ for another line of work.  It was the single most
> satisfying thing I've ever done, with the possible exception of various
> incidents involving high explosives.

That's truly great.  Congratulations!

My last job was at Motorola, which instituted a drug testing policy
after I joined them.  Being in debt, I couldn't afford to get fired
for refusing to take a test -- but I COULD find a better job and then
send a letter to Motorola's CEO explaining exactly why I had left.
(He never responded to that letter...)

When you think about it, a drug testing policy is a good way to drive
away some of your best employees: if you institute such a policy, some
people won't care.  Some will.  In this economy, of those who care,
which ones will leave?  Those who have no problem finding another job
-- the better employees.

I will never work for another company that thinks lifestyle testing is
an appropriate business activity.  If you find my on-the-job
performance to be acceptable, what possible business is it of yours
what I do off-the-job?

 - Peter
-- 
Peter L. DeWolf     |     Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu
pld@ileaf.com       |     R'lyeh wgah-nagl fhtagn.
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Subject: Re: Newbie Alert!
Reply-To: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
Organization: PETA: People for the Eating of Tasty Activists
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 06:14:26 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.051003.2323@cs.yale.edu> elliott-bruce@CS.YALE.EDU (Bruce Elliott) writes:
>In article <1992Jul29.165501.1365@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu> sac@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu writes:
>>
>>peeve: waking up after sleeping with some sufficiently protruding body part
>>resting firmly on the eyelid and having to deal with 20/100 vision through that
>>eye for most of the day.
>>
>
>This conjures up some really, um, unusual mental images.

	Whew!  And I thought I was the only one who envisioned the three
quarts of Kool Whip, the trampoline, and the yak.  It's good to know
I'm not alone...




--
<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: tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Bike Helmets
Keywords: bikes, safety, law
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:01:09 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University Colouring Book Software

pwg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Goldberg) writes:

>lights don't apply to them. Apparently it is in fact illegal even to
>get off your bike and walk it through a red light - you're still
>deemed to be a cyclist, not a pedestrian. (But this fact comes to me
>via word of mouth - perhaps it should be called "folklaw".)

No it's true. In the UK at least. The best part is that if you pick up
the bike and carry it you are now deemed to be a pedestrian. 

ObPeeve: Stupid laws.

ObPeeve: Children on bikes. The little fuckwits have no idea how to
behave on the roads.

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
From: hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman)
Subject: Re: The dickheads on rec.arts.movies
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 03:05:42 GMT
Organization: Holy Order of Quadra 950 Lust

In article <17112@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:
>
>When I was little, I watched "movies". Then I hung out with an older
>crowd who watched "films". There is a difference. Movies are fun and
>films are "good for you". 

When I was in college we would compromise. Half of the flicks would be
films, usually with subtitles, with such fascinating names as *Mon Frer
Injection de Bouf* (My Brother the Tractor Repairman) or some such rot.
Without fail, the subtitles would be white letters on a white background,
and only those who could understand idomatic French got the jokes. For
some reason, all of the French films had the *same* soundtrack; sort
of a jaunty accordion thing (but not They Might Be Giants). We'd sit down
to watch *My Tedious Life with Jacque* and sure enough, as soon as the
first dude came by wobbling by on his ObBicycle, there would go "that
goddamn French movie song."

The rest of the time we'd watch movies like *Redneck Zombies* ("They're
'shine drinkin', chaw spittin', cannibalistic kinfolk from Hell!").

!Peeve: *Redneck Zombies* is *so* bad that in one scene when a RZ is
attacking this guy the guy's shirt *changes*!

Peeve: Talking about movies with my mom. She bases her opinions of all
movies on what movie reviewers write. "No, I don't want to see that,
it got lousy reviews." Jesus! I can't think of any professions I have
less respect for (other than insurance salespeople, of course) than
movie critics. My philosophy is if the *idea* of the movie sounds cool
than I'll watch it. ("Mutant ants attack Albuquerque! Coooooolshit!!!")

d "i confess. i paid money to see *highlander 2*" h
-- 
| _   ;/                                                          Dan Hillman
|(")_/   "I'm right and you're not."                   hillman@carina.unm.edu
|~~/                                                 University of New Mexico
|~/                                               Land of Fucking Enchantment