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28 January 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Chicago Lawn Chair Parking Spot Dibs

Chicago Lawn Chair Parking Spot Dibs

I made this video nine years ago. You still see this going on today. Love the opening letter: LISTEN YOU MOTHER F*CKING *SSHOLE. WE DIDN’T CLEAR OUR PARKING SPOT FOR FOUR DAYS FOR YOUR ROYAL ASSES BUT FOR ARES OURS Lawn chairs and other junk in the snow-filled streets in Chicago – “Mine All Mine” [...]

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31 May 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Rob’s Annoyance of the Week: Elected Officals Wasting Tax Dollars to Plaster Their Name All Over the Place

When elected official plaster their names all over bridges and welcome signs and whatnot, that takes work and money paid for by tax dollars. Then, when a new mayor/governor is elected, they have to pay to for it again to replace or repaint the signs. Bah. If the mayor gets to put his name on [...]

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12 March 2008 ~ 5 Comments

Rob’s Minor Annoyance of the Week: Anderson Cooper & Erica Hill’s Nightly Flirtation Bit

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03 February 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Rob’s Minor Annoyance of the Week: No “Regular Pulp” Orange Juice

I was at Trader Joe’s today and was looking to pick up some orange juice. I didn’t want “no pulp” and I didn’t want “extra pulp”. I just wanted a regular amount of pulp, like we used to get in the old days when we didn’t worry about pulp. Well, all they had was lots [...]

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25 November 2007 ~ 1 Comment

Rob’s Minor Annoyance of the Week: People paying with a check in front of you in line

Come on, lady! Do you have to pay with a check? It’s 2007. Get a debit card! Withdraw some cash from an ATM (there’s always one within 50 feet of you in 2007). And do you have to write sooooo slow, dot every “i”, cross every “t”, and balance your checkbook as you do this. [...]

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17 October 2007 ~ 3 Comments

Rob’s Ultra Minor Annoyance of the Week: No stray fries at the bottom of your fast food bag

Everyone knows that it is every man, woman, and child’s God-given right to have some extra stray fries at the bottom of your fast food bag. It doesn’t matter if the fast food is from Wendy’s, McDonald’s, Jack-in-the-Box or that Hawaiian Burger Joint – Big Kahuna Burger, the simple rule is this: when you are [...]

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02 October 2007 ~ 1 Comment

Rob’s Ultra-Ultra-Minor Annoyance of the Week: Speed bumps making you think that the approaching car is flashing his brights at you

You know what I mean? You’re driving along at night, maybe in a neighborhood that you don’t know. All of a sudden, an approaching car apparently flashes his bright headlights at you. Do I have my brights on? Is he warning me of something? Is he being a jerk? Should I flash him back? Oh, [...]

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25 August 2007 ~ 4 Comments

Rob’s Minor Annoyance of the Week: Bands who have more “Best Of …” and “Greatest Hits” albums than studio albums

The studio album as a great artistic piece of work is becoming rarer and rarer. There are good ones out there, but they are not the ones that sell and make the Billboard Hot 100. iTunes, music sharing, and manufactured artists are mostly to blame. And can you believe that Hilary Duff has a “greatest [...]

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09 August 2007 ~ 2 Comments

Rob’s Annoyance of the Week: “It Works on My Machine!”

For this week’s “Annoyance” entry, non-software developers beware, you might not feel my pain or understand what I’m talking about. This is a cliche joke in the software world, but it is SO TRUE! Basically, the IWOMM syndrome a happens when a developer commits new code that relies on something specific to the offender’s computer [...]

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29 July 2007 ~ 1 Comment

Rob’s Minor Annoyance of the Week: Having to go the the bathroom really bad when wearing button-fly pants that are hard to unbutton

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