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caty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-07-07 08:01 PM
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What Makes You Cringe?
The sound of certain people's voices (bush) makes me cringe.
The thought of a spider crawling over me makes me cringe.
Sometimes people send email pictures of really gory scenes that make me cringe.

I know there are more---I'll post again when they come to mind.

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WhollyHeretic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-07-07 08:03 PM
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1. Forks scraping on a plate
Bush's voice
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-07-07 08:08 PM
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2. Styrofoam!
Ick! I hate the sound of it!
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QMPMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-07-07 08:36 PM
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3. Anything to do with birds. Sounds, pictures, feathers.... anything.
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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-07-07 08:38 PM
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4. chewing on tinfoil, sucking a wooden popsicle stick,
certain memories and ants. I hate ants.
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-07-07 08:40 PM
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6. Have to agree with the foil one!
The thought makes me cringe!
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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-07-07 08:43 PM
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7. I can't even remember when I learned that chewing on foil
is foul beyond belief. Maybe I was born with the knowledge.
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Generic Brad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-07-07 08:39 PM
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5. Seeing people lean over railings on tall buildings and look-outs
That gives me the heebie jeebies.
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FedUpWithIt All Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-07-07 09:02 PM
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8. People's insensitivity.
Edited on Sun Jan-07-07 09:03 PM by FedUpWithIt All


The sound of teeth scraping on..well anything.

And the WORST...people who eat and slurp and smack with their mouths open. Makes me downright homicidal.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-07-07 09:08 PM
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9. i don't know why it does, but hubby somehow gets a paper napkin...
into his mouth, i never see him do it, but then he pulls it out over a sit down dinner in a restaurant like some illusionist, one long dry paper strand x(

also when he chews tinfoil, but he pays for that one cause it creeps him out too :rofl:
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Rosemary2205 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 01:58 PM
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30. All involve how the herd acts around powered wheelchairs.
they start walking the way they drive. They see you coming in a powered wheelchair and just when you get to them they decide to dart out in front of you real quick or decide to go from 60 to zero in 2 steps and expect you not to crash into the back of their legs - or stand around right in the middle of the damn hallway yacking and look at you like you are the problem when you need to get by.
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Rosemary2205 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 01:58 PM
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31. ooops sorry, I thought I had gone back to the END - wrong location.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 02:26 PM
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33. heh-heh...
:hi:
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-07-07 09:12 PM
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10. cotton...
...in aspirin bottles. Makes my skin crawl to have to touch it.
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caty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 03:40 PM
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34. I've heard of that before,
but I don't know why it would bother anyone. To me it is just cotton in a bottle. The fact that aspirin dust might be on it shouldn't bother anyone if they are willing to swallow the aspirin. So, what about it makes you cringe? I would just like to understand it.
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GenDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 06:19 PM
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44. I don't like it either....
it may not be 100% cotton...it feels funny when I pull it out--slippery and squeaky or something. I get it out of the bottle quick and throw it away.
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 07:15 PM
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49. It's the feel of the cotton...
...it creeps me out. It's not the aspirin dust, either. I have no problem with things made out of cotton, so who knows?
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mwdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 08:14 PM
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51. ...and pulling cotton material through your teeth.
For some reason, that is the thing that creeps me out more than anything else.:shrug:
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-07-07 09:23 PM
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11. I cringe every time B*sh answers a tough question with:
"It's mah job ta tell th'Murrikan people... {fill in the blank}.
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 09:41 PM
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57. and every time he hesitates and hems and haws
while waiting for whoever is feeding him his lines through his earpiece to come through for him. Truly cringeworthy.
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CactusJock Donating Member (67 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-07-07 09:30 PM
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12. my cringe sound is velcro
i was given a wallet with a velcro fastener and had to throw it away. then i had to pretend to the giver that i'd lost it.

i wonder if there's a common link in the cringe sounds. styrofoam and velcro and (the classic) nails-on-blackboard are all annoyingly high pitched and random, maybe that's the essence of cringe...
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-07-07 09:32 PM
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13. Admitting that I'm American. n/t
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caty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-07-07 10:08 PM
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14. Awww---don't blame America
Blame incompetent, power hungry, greedy government leadership.:banghead:
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-07-07 10:13 PM
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15. Touching unglazed raw porcelain.
It sends chills up my back just thinking about it.
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LaraMN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 11:35 AM
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26. That drives me nuts.
At a store I worked at years ago, some of my male coworkers would come into my department with terra cotta pots and scratch them around me, because I would flip out. I can't stand touching anything remotely chalky like that. Nail files drive me nuts, too.
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Zorra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-07-07 10:21 PM
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16. When I see or hear the word "president" before the word "bush". n/t
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yewberry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-07-07 10:26 PM
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17. Flies, the sound of the Blue Angels,
animal cruelty of any kind, the way my fingertips feel rubbing against each other after washing a lot of dishes.

Yeeks.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 12:19 AM
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18. hearing people talking about their denal woes
Edited on Mon Jan-08-07 12:20 AM by Skittles
*CRINGE*
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 12:20 AM
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19. the thought of having to wake up to go to work tomorrow
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 12:29 AM
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20. A dry popsicle stick on the tongue
*shudder*
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JustABozoOnThisBus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 07:23 AM
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21. Any thread that deals with circumcision ...
.. ow! (crosses leg)
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Guava Jelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 07:28 AM
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22. right wingers
:mad:
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 11:23 AM
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23. Chewing with one's mouth open. Smacking, slurping and sucking food
out of your teeth. There's always someone in the office who thinks that you want to hear them mouth breath and chew at the same time. Extra cringe points if you mouth breath, smack and chew with you mouth open and your tongue flies out of your mouth like a horse! Yay! Classy!
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Rosemary2205 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 01:54 PM
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29. I call one of my co-workers "Darth vader" for that
the only time he breaths in is when he's drinking and it echoes around inside the cup. It's truly annoying.
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 09:36 AM
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64. Oh my,
:scared: That's really creepy.
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bluethruandthru Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 11:31 AM
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24. Seeing an animal hurt..
or evening thinking about it! Drinking from styrofoam cups.
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idgiehkt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 11:34 AM
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25. honestly
some of my own behavior lately. I've cringed so much lately it feels more like a twitch.
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AzDar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 01:42 PM
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27. Dental drills and EELS....(not necessarily together). n/t
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Drum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 01:49 PM
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28. Vonage commercials.
And lima beans.
Surgery scenes on "House."

:freak:
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GenDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 02:23 PM
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32. Socks that get twisted
so the heel is on the top of your foot. Worn out socks that don't stay up or that have a hole where a toe may try to sneak out. Socks that feel funny inside my shoes or sneakers. I have a sock fetish :shrug: what can I say?
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MsKandice01 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 03:41 PM
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35. The buzzing of any flying insect...
It seriously drives me to insanity.
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usaftmo Donating Member (606 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 04:35 PM
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36. The stupidity of the sheeple who vote republican.
Republican = The rich get richer while everyone else gets poorer

Democrat = The rich start paying their fair share to everyone else

With the exception of the wealthy, it makes my blood boil when someone votes republican.

Ok, I'll get off my soapbox now...
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Phoonzang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 04:42 PM
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37. Oh...alot of things.
People chewing gum loudly and popping it, people smacking food, repeated coughing, people near me who can't stop fidgeting, people on the floor above me walking around, people who repeat phrase frequently, people flossing around me....I could go on forever.

But mostly it's repetitive noises caused by a human being.
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LaraMN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 04:43 PM
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38. Odd numbers.
They make me uncomfortable. I have to do things an even number of times. A bit of the OCD, perhaps.
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 05:06 PM
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39. When John McCain talks his dentures make him whistle. I just
cringe waiting for the next whistling sound to come out of his mouth. He really needs to get better fitting dentures.

And people honestly think this guy could be elected President? He's gonna make Bob Dole candidacy for president look positively juvenile...
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 05:11 PM
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40. Small roaches. Large ones send me fleeing.
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Courtesy Flush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 05:19 PM
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41. Antique furniture. It just creeps me out
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GenDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 06:24 PM
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46. Really????
Can I ask why? Just curious.:shrug: I have a lot of antique furniture and I love it...not judging you..or anything. Just wondering if it's the big old victorian pieces that creep you out...cuz some of that can be very scary.
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Courtesy Flush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 08:10 PM
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50. Really!
Well, it doesn't creep ME out. I live in a Victorian house with more antiques than I can repair in a lifetime.

My post was a reference to Billy Bob Thornton (the picture was a clue), who is afraid of antique furniture.

Watch "Sling Blade". The antagonist (Dwight Yoakam) mentions his revulsion to antiques. This was an allusion to Thornton's own phobia.
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GenDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 08:37 PM
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54. Oh, yeah, he's the guy who played the drunken boyfriend, Doyle.
I love that movie.....but don't remember Doyle not liking antiques. When I watch it the next time I will be looking for that scene. :hi:
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 05:22 PM
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42. Copy cat threads eom
eom
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judaspriestess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 05:45 PM
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43. that white gunk that collects on the sides of peoples mouths
YUCK!!!!!!!!!!! that freaks me out bad and also the white strings that form on peoples lips when they talk. I am sorry but I have to tell people they have that going on, its my duty
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 06:21 PM
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45. That is some nasty stuff!
:puke: What is it anyway? I can't even look at someone if they have that stuff.
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judaspriestess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 06:26 PM
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47. I think its crusty saliva
I'm glad someone else agrees with me on this one.
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 06:27 PM
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48. I almost just threw up!
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 08:18 PM
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52. Talk radio. Easy listening music.
Honestly, can't stand either one.
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Ms_Dem_Meanor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 08:20 PM
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53. * still being in office along with the rest of his cronies! n/t
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 08:45 PM
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55. knowing that our government does not respect personal privacy
and that they could be watching anything about any of us for no particular reason at all
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 09:38 PM
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56. The waitress serving our group of 9
at my parents' 60th anniversary dinner last night made me cringe. I needed another fork when she brought my entree because one had been removed along with my salad dish and the other had an old bit of food stuck to it. I politely asked for another and she surprised me with, "Use one of hers" - pointing to my daughter. This was a nice restaurant and that comeback really threw me for a loop.

So I guess someone treating me rudely for no good reason makes me cringe.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 09:42 PM
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58. The fact that the US hasn't gone metric
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Courtesy Flush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 09:49 PM
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61. I read a really good argument against it
Not political, just a salty sailor who had been around, and thought the metric system sucked.

Take a foot, or an inch. You can easily divide it into three, four, two or six. What's two thirds, of a meter? He made a good point.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 08:59 AM
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62. The thing is the metric system is more divisible than the English sys
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PVnRT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 10:09 AM
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65. Get a calculator
n/t
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 09:46 PM
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59. Bad breaks on a car
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-08-07 09:47 PM
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60. Honestly?
Fickle Fuckwads....



preying on the vulnerable




screw it. nvm...




I'm not even going there.



I cringe when people get embarrassed as part of a joke (ie, punked, Borak, candid camera, et al)
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buddhamama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 09:04 AM
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63. i react the same way
as does my son, to people getting embarrassed.

he can't even watch, he has to turn his head or walk away. he is very sensitive and empathetic.

be well, BnL. :hug: :hug: :hug:
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