WTF: Help me understand this recent cultural phenomena

[kornkob]

The sensible compromise is defintely part of the deal, yeah. But I can't count the number of times some ****** has slamed past me grumbling profanities as I try to do the math and figure out if the 'sale' on the 30 oz bag of widgets is really cheaper than buying 2 of the 15 oz bags or not. (grocery stores are really bad about this--- larger volumes in groceries often end up costing as much or more than the smaller versions).

And yeah--- I see the same thing in drivers. I love being on the freeway and sitting in the middle lane in rush hour changing lanes, cutting people off and generally trying to 'get ahead' only to pass them latter. Slow and steady, folks, that's what gets me to my desination safe and stress free. (never mind the fact that all that lane changing and cutting people off is a big part of WHY the traffic get so narled up for so long--- when people just f-ing play nice traffic works)

 

[Bobby_M]

Along the lines of new rock, how can someone actually pay the Red Hot Chili Peppers money for the music they are putting out?

"Hey-o, listen to what I say-o?"

Are you friggin' kidding me?????

And I like it better when it was called Mary Jane's Last Dance. Same progression and verse melody.

 

[todd_k]

And I like it better when it was called Mary Jane's Last Dance. Same progression and verse melody.

that's exactly what I thought when I heard it! At first I thought why are they playing this on a new rock station but then I realized the RHCP's just ripped off Petty.

 

[desiderata]

I love being on the freeway and sitting in the middle lane in rush hour changing lanes, cutting people off and generally trying to 'get ahead' only to pass them latter.

Yeah, this doesn't work. Haven't we all seen the opening traffic scene of the movie "Office Space"?

 

[z987k]

I don't know, I don't live in an area with super congested traffic, but people who drive slow and steady tend to get to their destinations a half hour behind me. I can do a lot in that time.

 

[david_42]

Lorena, you missed the BIG one: After they have finished paying, THEN they pull out the accordion of expired coupons and try to apply them!

 

[Yooper]

Ok, I'm showing my age here, but I got another one-

WTF is up with all these people under 25 with all these piercings? I think some are cool, even sexy- but some are just gross. A fat chick with a belly button piercing? Raise your hand if that's sexy! Or the guy with the eyebrow piercing that has it on a chain attached to the piercing on his cheek. Am I supposed to think that's hot?

And when you rent a dirty movie??? (I've heard this). All these piercings! This one woman had 3 in her, um, personal zone (We are not in a not-work-safe forum here). All I could think of as the scene progressed was, "I bet she can't even feel that. Her piercings are bigger." Oh, crap. Now I have to moderate myself.

 

[cha ngo]

Ok, I'm showing my age here,
And when you rent a dirty movie??? (I've heard this). All I could think of as the scene progressed was, "I bet she can't even feel that. Her piercings are bigger."

Ummmm yeah.

 

[olllllo]

Yeah hate that about that. Please go on.

 

[Fingers]

Okay, now this is going WAY too far. You brew beer, wine, watch sports and hunt, and now you're going to tell us you watch THOSE movies? That's just too much, Yooper. You're either a fat, lonely guy who plays too many computer games and has no friends or a reward for a reborn holy man.

Worst..... mental........ picture...... ever.........

 

[desiderata]

WTF is up with all these people under 25 with all these piercings? I think some are cool, even sexy- but some are just gross.

Okay, Cheesefood, photoshop a belly button piercing in your avatar and lets see if she has a change of heart.

 

[EvilTOJ]

Dear Frys Electronics and CostCo(and other businesses that do this crap),

I must say, I really love your store, and I love your merchandise. I shop at your stores frequently, as you have good deals, and you treat your employees better than Wal*mart(although that's like saying you're taller than Danny DeVito). But why why WHY must you subject me to this idiocy just after I've spent half my paycheck in your lovely, cavernous business: The line to get out of the store. Yea, a frickin' LINE to get OUT of the store! AFTER I've paid! WTF!?!?

Yea, you know what I'm talking about, that #*&@# stupid line where some myopic 63 year old scans through $462 worth of merchandise to see if the shoplifting fairies left me a present under my legitimate groceries. I AM NOT A THIEF!! I BUY ALL MY CRAP, WHY MUST YOU SUBJECT ME TO THIS TORTURE? I know you don't have sensormatics, those magnetic towers that look for errant magnetic fields that come with EVERYTHING nowadays, I guess because paying someone $7.05 an hour to scan through my two foot receipt and 250 lbs of groceries in two seconds is SOOO much more effective! So how would you know if I'd sneaked a flashcard or a 12-pak of watermelons out of the store under my jacket? Huh? Huh? Huh?

SO here's what I'll do. After I've paid, I'll just hide some items in my jacket, and see what you do. After all, they are MINE now, I paid for them. Will you try and stop me? Will you nitpick my reciept, see there's a home tracheotomy kit missing from my bags, and question me on where it is, or (most likely) will you just draw a happyface for my kids with your highlighter on the reciept? What do you think of THOSE apples? Should I demand a replacement for my "missing" home tracheotomy kit isn't in my basket after you scan my receipt? We shall see, won't we? Better yet, just buy some ****ing Sensormatics so you poor jackasses that have to stare at us as we exit the store can actually do something semi-useful if someone sets it off.



I have issues.

 

[Cheesefood]

WTF is up with earlobe stretching?

I'm all cool with piercings. I've had my ears pierced several times, my nipple pierced and my tongue pierced. I have two tattoos. I don't understand earlobe stretching. Do people think it looks cool? What happens if you no longer like them?

 

[Fingers]

I've had my ears pierced several times, my nipple pierced and my tongue pierced.

Yeah, those freakin' weirdos getting their ears all stretched..... uhhhhhh.....






Nipple and tongue? Ears several times? You don't don't have one of those things stuck through your... nevermind.

We'll just point and laugh at the strange people.




!

 

[Cheesefood]

Nipple and tongue? Ears several times? You don't don't have one of those things stuck through your... nevermind.

We'll just point and laugh at the strange people.
!

Ear in HS and college, Nipple on a dare. Tongue, just to see what it felt like. Middle of my cest while I was in college too.

 

[feedthebear]

I don't understand it either. But my wife is happy to be paid by kids who want it done. She says she only has problems doing it to people when they get undressed behind the curtain, she walks back there and realizes she needs assistance because of the person's anatomy.

I don't know if this is Utah only, but WTF is up with the latest anti-tobacco ad campaign, "Warriors Against Tobacco"?

That is the *** **** stupidest name that I have heard of. I quit 5 years ago and just hearing, "Warriors Against Tobacco" makes me want to light up out of spite.

I didn't think anyone would come up with a dumber slogan than "Just Say No."

 

[Ryanh1801]

I don't understand all this **** either and im only 21. I am from a small town in West Texas and well we will just say moving to a big city was major culture shock. At work i have people that speak "English" yet i can not understand a damn word they say. When did talking like an uneducated fool become popular?

 

[olllllo]

Ok people.

It's a VIN or a PIN.
It's not a VIN number or a PIN number.

In other words, it's not a Personal Identification Number number or a Vehicle Identification Number number.

CDL, not CDL license.
VAT, not VAT tax.

 

[LouT]

Here are a few of my WTFs:
(1) People wearing pajama pants out and around - I see them at airports, grocery stores, fast food, etc. WTF?!
(2) Someone mentioned the self service check out line. WTF is up with having 8 of them, and only 3 of them working? Better yet, WTF is the story with having 8 of them, and only one or two real life cashiers on a freaking Saturday or Sunday mid-day. Finally, if I am the clusterf&ck that understands computers but can't figure out that I have to hit "cancel" on the keypad to get my ATM card to run as credit instead of debit, the gal that comes to help me shouldn't treat me like an idiot - it's my first time at your store and it's not like there was a sign right there telling me how to make the transaction go through! I'm more frustrated than you are, honey!
(3) I can't remember, I just got so worked up over 1 & 2!!!

 

[Yooper]

I got another involving stores- (I do go other places, believe it or not). You buy something, pay for your gas, whatever, and the clerk says, "here you go" and gives you your bags. I say, "Thank you." They say, "No problem".

Then I leave the store, look at my husband and say, "I just thanked THEM for allowing me to buy something in the store!!!!"

WTF happened to the clerk saying, "Thank you" when you buy something?????

 

[TheJadedDog]

Ok people.

It's a VIN or a PIN.
It's not a VIN number or a PIN number.

In other words, it's not a Personal Identification Number number or a Vehicle Identification Number number.

CDL, not CDL license.
VAT, not VAT tax.

That drives me crazy too.

 

[LouT]

Oh, I thought of another one, not the one I spaced out last night though:
WTF is up with short people taking the exit row seats on the airplane -- have some courtesy, the 5'8" and shorter folks have as much or more room in a regular seat as we 6'2"+ have in an exit row seat. If you're under about 5'10, don't "upgrade" to exit row, please, leave it for the tall folks!
WTF is up with these 14-18 year old girls with the slutty myspace pictures? WTF is up with their parents, more specifically. I see the pictures of girls my 14 year old son talks to on Myspace, and I thank God for blessing me with sons.

 

[Cheesefood]

WTF is up with going to a concert and the singer expecting the CROWD to sing the song? Seriously! Who's getting paid here? I paid to hear YOU sing the song, not for you to point the mic at the crowd and expect US to sing it.

Lazy *******.

 

[Pedro-]

WTF is up with going to a concert and the singer expecting the CROWD to sing the song? Seriously! Who's getting paid here? I paid to hear YOU sing the song, not for you to point the mic at the crowd and expect US to sing it.

Lazy *******.

Every once and a while is really cool. But i've been to concerts where the singer sang TWO WORDS in a song! The entire song was sung by the crowd!

What the hell!

$80/ticket after 'service fee' and 'venue fee' and taxes, $25 to park, $10 for sh|t beer (i'm still convinced venues buy beer that is sold lower in alcohol so you buy even more expensive sh|t tasting beer), and gas money to get there and we get this?

 

[Pedro-]

WTF is with people who don't believe in the "Martini Lunch"? Why did it all of a sudden become wrong to drink at lunchtime? If the ten hour workday has become the norm, why take away the mid-day snack?

THANK YOU!

and whatever happened to the bottle of 12yr in the second drawer on the right?

 

[Pedro-]

WTF is with Madd's campaign against drinking, period? I am so sick of rights being away. Enforce the laws we have. I want to start a new group, DAMM, drinkers against mad mothers.

I am all against drunk driving. My brother was killed by one. But don't try to take my beer from me lady!

What is up with everyone in general wanting to treat symptoms and not problems? Lately it's all about CONTROL, CONTROL, CONTROL! Isn't that the basis of the friggin US? People are responsible enough to handle things themselves?

Every d@mn irresposible drunk I've known (many in my family included) find root problems in depression and self loathing. No maybe they aren't the guy in the corner at the bar who after 3 pints whines about the one who got away or how the divorce ruined their life at 18, but that doesn't mean they aren't constantly hating themselves or running away from something they've done. It's not the beer that throws them over the edge!

You can't cure HIV by fighting the cold that kills people after AIDS sets in! yeesh!

Quit trying to control someone else's life and lend them a friggin hand when they need one!

[/rant]

(Now we can talk about the uncle who ran himself over with his own truck while taking a leak):rockin:

 

[homebrewer_99]

WTF is with Madd's campaign against drinking, period? I am so sick of rights being away. Enforce the laws we have. I want to start a new group, DAMM, drinkers against mad mothers.

I am all against drunk driving. My brother was killed by one. But don't try to take my beer from me lady!

HEY!!! That's mine! You can't do that!!!

I'm the president of DDAMMADD - Drunk Drivers Against Mad Mothers Against Drunk Drivers!!!

 

[homebrewer_99]

Ok people.

It's a VIN or a PIN.
It's not a VIN number or a PIN number.

In other words, it's not a Personal Identification Number number or a Vehicle Identification Number number.

CDL, not CDL license.
VAT, not VAT tax.

...and "scampi" is Italian for "shrimp"...There's no such meal called "Shrimp Shrimp".

It p1sses me off that I get no shrimp with my Chcken Scampi too!!

 

[olllllo]

...and "scampi" is Italian for "shrimp"...There's no such meal called "Shrimp Shrimp".

It p1sses me off that I get no shrimp with my Chcken Scampi too!!

We have a Table Mesa Rd here and a Picacho Peak.

Table Table Road.
Peak Peak.

 

[brewman !]

Ok, I had to jump in when it got to motorcycles, WTH is with earsplitting straight pipes? I appreciate the low rumble of a well tuned exhaust as much as any gear-head, but what's up with the guy on the two cylider harley with 3 foot long 4 inch headers whacking the throttle while we wait at the stoplight??? I got a car with decent insulation and all the windows up and the damn sound waves are crushing my head.
AND it not just harleys either. some dumbs**t nearby has a crotch rocekt and I SWEAR he cut open the can and just pulled out the packing and put it back together. It sounds like a coffee can with some pennies rattling around. BUT LOUD
AND it's not just street bikes, what's with the off road spodes that think a 105 dB can on their 525 makes them any faster?? The best thing they could do to be faster is lose the damn beer gut.

k. I feel better.

AMEN BROTHER ! Great post !