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What is your biggest pet peeve? (pg. 7)
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| Stasis |
Oh, I just think it's meaningless, and that the terms are hollow.
People are only loyal as long as it's in their best interests--ie. not very loyal at all. If you think your friends are "loyal" and will always defend you in conversations, always be entirely honest with you, etc. etc... I say, look to groups of people where loyalty is a matter of life and death. Look at street gangs, look at organized crime.
Those guys literally know they could have a death sentence on them for stabbing each other in the back, but when push comes to shove and its their neck on the line, and they're facing either hard jail-time or ratting out their friends, they always snitch. (At least in my past time working in a State's Attorney's office). I've seen Ukranian mobsters rat out their friends rather than face a few years for something "small" like untaxed cigarette trafficking. And small-time dealers (mainly weed, E, oxy, etc), oh man, those guys love ratting their friends out. Those "Stop Snitching" and "Warna Brotha" shirts, they crack me up.
It's the same way with people's friends, even when the stakes are much lower. Loyalty, trust, all these things only last until your friends can get a better deal.
I realize I sound like, 1) someone who's a huge cynic, and 2) someone's who just got really burned by a friend, but I just think people should be realistic.
Be a good person, treat your friends right, but don't freak out if they say something bad behind your back or start hanging out with other people, it's just human nature!
So that's why I don't like it when people list "trust" or "loyalty" as super important qualities to look for. I just think they're lying to themselves (since they know they'd be disloyal if the situation was right), and lying to everyone else (since they should expect some disloyalty from time to time.) |
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| vtec junkie |
| douche bags on TA |
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| phoenixBEBE |
| quote: | Originally posted by DeRangedMind
Attention whores at work |
attention whores in general.
Orange [overtanned] ppl who think they are attractive. <-- sorry if this was mentioned before. lol. was having the funniest conversation this past weekend about that with friends. (like, 'why do they do that?!!!' :conf: )
grumpy flight attendants (esp on American Airlines) |
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| kingchinc |
| quote: | Originally posted by phoenixBEBE
attention whores in general.
Orange [overtanned] ppl who think they are attractive. <-- sorry if this was mentioned before. lol. was having the funniest conversation this past weekend about that with friends. (like, 'why do they do that?!!!' :conf: )
grumpy flight attendants (esp on American Airlines) |
AA just sucks overall, Continental FTW! |
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| phoenixBEBE |
| quote: | Originally posted by kingchinc
AA just sucks overall, Continental FTW! |
they do suck. yes continental is great, as well as delta for larger airlines. our amsterdam flight wasnt bad at all considering.
actually MidWest isn't bad, altho they are still working out the kinks. it was very comfortable on all levels flying back, even tho it was long (a connecting flight) |
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| kingchinc |
| quote: | Originally posted by phoenixBEBE
they do suck. yes continental is great, as well as delta for larger airlines. our amsterdam flight wasnt bad at all considering.
actually MidWest isn't bad, altho they are still working out the kinks. it was very comfortable on all levels flying back, even tho it was long (a connecting flight) |
I know you travel alot what is a good resource for cheap international flight tickets? |
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| verndogs |
| quote: | Originally posted by kingchinc
I know you travel alot what is a good resource for cheap international flight tickets? |
www.airfarewatchdog.com |
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| Stassi |
| quote: | Originally posted by Stasis
I realize I sound like, 1) someone who's a huge cynic, and 2) someone's who just got really burned by a friend, but I just think people should be realistic.
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Nah, you don't sound cynical, you sound like a lawyer. |
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| chupa169 |
PEOPLE WHO WALK ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE SIDEWALK!!!
Main offenders women and chinese.
...kills me. |
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| phoenixBEBE |
| quote: | Originally posted by chupa169
PEOPLE WHO WALK ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE SIDEWALK!!!
Main offenders women and chinese.
...kills me. |
wow u must have a TOUGH time getting around in this town :haha:
then again I find that New Yorkers just walk funny in general. instead of walking straight path on a sidewalk they just walk side to side/zigzag...and when you try to avoid them by walking around them they try to walk around you also and then you guys end up in an awkward face to face position.
actually i find that i end up bumping into a lot of guys on the majority, many just seem too preoccupied to know where they are going atm. I always keep my eyes straight fwd when I walk cuz im trying to find the quickest way thru the horrid NYC crowds |
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