Owner: Trying My Patience URL:http://www.tryingmypatience.com/ Join Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:07:29 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Things that make my patience wear thin. I'm not overly cynical or critical. The surrounding world just repeatedly fails to meet my standards and expectations. Site statistics:Click here
Claims to have all the answers 0000-00-00 00:00:00 You people and organizations that claim to have all the answers
- you are trying my patience.
Nobody has all the answers - nobody!
Today I found a flyer in my mailbox in which the organization responsible (I will not name them, but the seem to have "witnessed" something...) claims to have ...
Contemporary Living Store 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The store called ContemporaryLiving
- you are trying my patience.
I walked past this place today. A furniture store called Contemporary Living. I'm not kidding.
Well, what other branches of living have you considered before choosing this particular one?
Posterior living?
Premature living?
According to all commonly accepted science, the only place and time ... Read more:Store
“Enhanced download experience” 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Websites claiming to offer an "Enhanced download experience
" - you are trying my patience.
There are sites out there actually telling you that they can give you an "enhanced download experience".
I accept that I as a customer can be offered an enhanced shopping experience, at least in a physical store. (Remember ... Read more:ldquo
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The expression “Swimming against the current” 0000-00-00 00:00:00 You people using the expression
swimming against
the current - you are trying my patience.
You say that about other people as if it's a good thing.
Oh, he's a great guy. He really swims against the current!
Let me tell you something. Literally swimming against the current is for fish only. ... Read more:ldquo
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Bragging about a 24 hour website 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Companies bragging about a 24 hour website
- you are trying my patience.
Our website is open 24 hours!
That's the general idea you ignorant dope! Websites are open 24 hours. If they're not, a serious technical error has occurred.
I'll give you a rule of thumb: If it's open 24 hours - ...
Fusion restaurants 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Fusion restaurants
- you are trying my patience.
Why are restaurants trying to be creative by mixing all sorts of concepts in a single meal?
Whatever happened to a decent Italian meal? A well-organized Japanese bento box. Real Mexican tacos. Spice Thai that makes your toes curl. Or my personal favorite ...
The good old days 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The good old days fans - you are trying my patience.
The good old days were just good in your head. Your selective memory is playing tricks on you, over-romanticizing your boring past, excluding the bad stuff and wildly exaggerating the good stuff.
You think you were free in spirit and could ...
Expensive but-ugly housing in posh locations 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Builders and buyers of expensive but-ugly housing n posh locations
- you are trying my patience.
It must have been roughly around a hundred years ago when people decided that no more beautiful houses were to be built. Or did we just the one text book mankind ever had on decent ...
Cooperating airlines 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Cooperating airlines - you are trying my patience.
Why can't airlines give me tickets, plane, staff and check-in counter under one name? They always cooperate in more different constellations than soap opera characters sleep around.
I book my ticket on www.great-airlines.com, it says South East Airlines on my ticket, Go Up Airlines ...
“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” 0000-00-00 00:00:00 People using the phrase "What doesn't kill you makes
you stronger
" - you are trying my patience.
Who came up with this phrase?
A guy who just barely survived a cocaine OD?
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger? Come on!
Haven't you ever heard of Alzheimer's, herpes and leg amputation? They don't kill you. ... Read more:ldquo
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We care about your privacy 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Companies and websites claiming that they care about my privacy - you are trying my patience.
-We care about your privacy.
-Oh, you do, do you?
Is that why I, in order to use your service, am required to give you my first name, last name, age, gender, occupation, street address, state, ...
Confidential content e-mail disclaimers 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Confidential content e-mail disclaimers - you are trying my patience.
At the end of an e-mail:
This e-mail is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions presented are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Long ... Read more:Confidential
Cell phone ringtones that sound like alarms 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Cell phone
ringtones that sound like alarms - you are trying my patience.
I could rant for hours on the general subject of ringtones but I’ll limit myself to the ones sounding like alarms.
Don’t people distinguish between different alarm and alert signals anymore? Am I the only one left who ...
Restaurants that think they’re “world famous” 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Restaurants that think
you're "world famous" - you are trying my patience.
On Washington Boulevard in Venice, California, right by the pier, is "Thomas World Famous Chili Burgers".
Of course not a single one of my friends living in the area have ever heard of the place.
Listen Thomas, you're not world ... Read more:ldquo
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Dark Chocolate 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Dark chocolate - you are trying my patience.
Yes! You! Dark chocolate! I hate you!
Dark chocolate is not real chocolate!
Oh, I know, the chocolate aficionados are saying the opposite. That dark chocolate is the only true chocolate. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
I'll tell you what real chocolate is about. ... Read more:Chocolate
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“Consider the environment before printing this e-mail” 0000-00-00 00:00:00 E-mail senders enclosing the phrase Consider the environment before printing this e-mail at the end - you are trying my patience.
OK, you sent me an e-mail. OK, I'm considering the environment. Now what?
Maybe if you sent me shorter e-mails without unecessary additions to your already abundant signature, it wouldn't take ... Read more:ldquo
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News headlines that aren’t news 0000-00-00 00:00:00 News headlines
that aren't news - you are trying my patience
From today's paper's front page: "7-year-old run over by schoolbus - died".
How is that news? How?
"7-year-old run over by schoolbus - lived". That would have been news!
And immediately following the headline there's a highlighted quote from a representative from ...
Easy Iron shirts 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Easy Iron shirts, and the clerks in the store that you retail - you are trying my patience.
I'm out shopping and I see this white shirt with an Easy Iron sticker on it.
I'm curious as to if this means that the shirt is easy to iron or that it needs ...
No porn on blueray says Sony. 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Sony - you are trying my patience.
Sony announced a while ago that they weren't going to allow pornography to be distributed on blueray.
What's up with that? Is it stance they've taken to defend tha last moral highground? No porn i hi-res?OK, you can watch the blind donkey molest the paraplegic ... Read more:Sony
This is the new that 0000-00-00 00:00:00 This is the new that - you are trying my patience.
Pink is the new black, hetero is the new homo, humble is the new smug, right is the new left, et cetera.
Really? Let me tell you something: Shut up is the new eloquent!
People not paying attention to the movie they’re watching 0000-00-00 00:00:00 People not paying attention
to the movie
you're watching – you are trying my patience.
When watching TV it's somewhat acceptable to pay less attention. It is after all a machine of perpetual unintellectial superficial - imagined or real - entertainment.
When watching a rented video you paid for it's stupid. You ...
Please don’t print this e-mail unless you really need to! 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Please don’t print this e-mail unless
you really need to! - You are trying my patience.
The statement at the end of e-mails Consider the environment before printing this e-mail has is now being rephrased as Please don’t print this e-mail unless you really need to! (Like I need another exclamation ... Read more:Please
Expensive journeys to funerals 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Expensive journeys to funerals - you are trying my patience.
Why do people do this? Spend gobs of cash on sudden journeys around the globe, to come to someone's funeral? Who benefits from this? Certainly not the dead person.
You better not spend a lot of money on coming to my funeral. ...
iPhone shortage 0000-00-00 00:00:00 iPhone shortage - that is trying my patience
When they finally release the iPhone where I live, it's out of stock within a few days, and just being gone over the weekend made me miss the whole thing.
And why do loyal Apple customers such as myself get lumped in every Tom, ... Read more:iPhone
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