Your irrational pet peeves

[Shyster]

Yokozuna Hakuho is too darn good, or everyone else in sumo is too darn bad. Imagine a hockey league where 29 of the 30 teams are staffed with clones of players from the Pens’ 2003 lineup. Imagine the 30th team is made up of 12 clones of Mario at forward, 6 clones of Nick Lindstrom on D, and two clones of Patrick Roy tending goal (all clones in their physical prime). That’s how good Hakuho is in relation to the other guys in sumo. He’s only 28 and if he wants to (or the Sumo Association lets him) he will easily break Taiho’s record of 32 tournament wins (Hakuho has 27). It’s obvious from watching his sumo that Hakuho is intentionally leaving himself more open in matches and is intentionally creating opportunities for the other wrestlers to beat him. It’s like the above 30th hockey team deciding that in order to give the 29 other teams a chance they will only shoot on the backhand or only take shots outside the blue line. What’s even worse is that the dud crop of opposition (including the other Yokozuna, Harumafuji) is still mostly incapable of beating him. In the last four tournaments, even intentionally fighting like crap he still went 15–0, 15–0, 13–2, and 14–1 and won each one.

[PensFanInDC]

Totally

[Tim Thomasen]

Apparently everyone is supposed to care that one idiotic NFL player picked on another?

When the idiotic player threatens the player and sending him racial text messages and phone messages on top of other things, yeah where supposed to care because Incognito clearly crossed the line.

[shafnutz05]

All of the abbreviations women use on those Mommy message boards. "lo", "sahm", "oh"....wtf?

[viva la ben]

kwim?

[viva la ben]

Shad, if you are going on mommy message boards you will be annoyed, just say no.

[shafnutz05]

Shad, if you are going on mommy message boards you will be annoyed, just say no.

I was Googling something related to our daughter, and those sites came up first.

[eddysnake]

Shad, if you are going on mommy message boards you will be annoyed, just say no.

:lol:

I was Googling something related to our daughter, and those sites came up first.

From prior postings, I just don't believe you. I think an intervention may be needed

[PensFanInDC]

Shad, if you are going on mommy message boards you will be annoyed, just say no.

:lol:

I was Googling something related to our daughter, and those sites came up first.

They Always Will. Tread Lightly Lol

[Jim]

Apparently everyone is supposed to care that one idiotic NFL player picked on another?

When the idiotic player threatens the player and sending him racial text messages and phone messages on top of other things, yeah where supposed to care because Incognito clearly crossed the line.

Nope... still don't care.

[shmenguin]

All of the abbreviations women use on those Mommy message boards. "lo", "sahm", "oh"....wtf?

i have my doubts that "milf" would ever be in that forum's lexicon.

[KennyTheKangaroo]

women that group together on the internet are way more entitled and judgemental than they are in real life. which is saying something.

[newarenanow]

All of the abbreviations women use on those Mommy message boards. "lo", "sahm", "oh"....wtf?

Did you purposely use wtf?

[Shyster]

We need a new form of computer keyboard set up for writers and not programmers. I recognize that programmers and administrators regularly use keys like the pipe (|), backslash (\), curly brackets ({}), and dumb caret (^), but those keys have no typographic function whatsoever. How about a writer's keyboard that replaces them with worthier symbols like the en-dash (–), em-dash (—), pilcrow (¶), section symbol (§), single/double prime (′ ″), dimension sign (×), or ellipsis (…)?

[Idoit40fans]

ellipsis key?

[ExPatriatePen]

We need a new form of computer keyboard set up for writers and not programmers. I recognize that programmers and administrators regularly use keys like the pipe (|), backslash (\), curly brackets ({}), and dumb caret (^), but those keys have no typographic function whatsoever. How about a writer's keyboard that replaces them with worthier symbols like the en-dash (–), em-dash (—), pilcrow (¶), section symbol (§), single/double prime (′ ″), dimension sign (×), or ellipsis (…)?

When writers start developing computer items you'll probably get that.

Until then, those of us who developed things that were computer related, understandably developed them to suit our own specific requirements.

(I'm wrote this with my tongue firmly implanted in cheek)

[Shyster]

ellipsis key?

While an ellipsis is basically three periods in a row, typographically speaking it's a separate symbol. It's also a separate Unicode symbol (U+2026).

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

You know if you type three periods in a row it is an ellipsis. Or are you just too lazy to hit an additional two key strokes? :pop:

[PensFanInDC]

<facebook user> likes his own status

[FreeCandy44]

You know if you type three periods in a row it is an ellipsis. Or are you just too lazy to hit an additional two key strokes? :pop:

So.........


What are you getting at?

[Crankshaft]

I saw this joke on reddit this morning but it really is true. Crossfit must be the exact opposite of the Fight Club because the first rule of Crossfit is to never shut the **** up about Crossfit.

[Crankshaft]

I would post the r/standupshots submission but it's not censored.

[Willie Kool]

Not really irrational, but pickup trucks without mudflaps - there should be a law requiring them.

[PghSkins]

Long breaks with no Pens game. Seems like it has been an entire offseason since they have played.

[Jim]

"lake effect"... I think the local weathermen get a quarter or something each time they say it.