[Antrax]

I can, in fact.

[Free]

People parking their car so close to mine that I can't enter my car anymore.

[chasetb]

People who treat their pets better than other people, people who give their pets either unimaginative or crazy names, and the bitch next door who barks her head off at me and acts threatening when I am outside, but when I have to go over runs away, and CONTINUES to bark at me.

[Antrax]

Free, on 2013-August-14, 07:45, said:

People parking their car so close to mine that I can't enter my car anymore.

I do that on purpose to people who don't park in the middle of the spot. I hope you're not one of them.

[barmar]

chasetb, on 2013-August-14, 09:44, said:

People who treat their pets better than other people, people who give their pets either unimaginative or crazy names, and the bitch next door who barks her head off at me and acts threatening when I am outside, but when I have to go over runs away, and CONTINUES to bark at me.

I hope the "bitch" you're referring to is a dog, not its owner (or "parent", as many of them now like to be referred).

[dwar0123]

Antrax, on 2013-August-14, 10:30, said:

I do that on purpose to people who don't park in the middle of the spot. I hope you're not one of them.

People who can't park deserve our contempt but being a jerk about it isn't making the world a better place.

[blackshoe]

Consider the possibility that the person who didn't park in the middle of the spot parked where he did because the person on the other side of where you want to park was "over the line" when not-middle got there. "Over-the-line" leaves, someone else comes in and parks in the middle of that slot, and then you come along and blame the wrong guy for the problem.

[mike777]

That we all at times fall into the trap that two wrongs make a right.

That we all at times fall into the trap that correlation means causation.

The arrow of direction of cause and effect may not always be that simple:

Does more education lead to a rich country or a rich country lead to more education..

[blackshoe]

I'm much more concerned about good education than I am about more education.

[dwar0123]

blackshoe, on 2013-August-14, 16:19, said:

I'm much more concerned about good education than I am about more education.

Your definition of "good" would probably worry me.

[Antrax]

blackshoe, on 2013-August-14, 12:33, said:

Consider the possibility that the person who didn't park in the middle of the spot parked where he did because the person on the other side of where you want to park was "over the line" when not-middle got there. "Over-the-line" leaves, someone else comes in and parks in the middle of that slot, and then you come along and blame the wrong guy for the problem.

Oh, I do, don't worry.

dwar0123, on 2013-August-14, 11:22, said:

People who can't park deserve our contempt but being a jerk about it isn't making the world a better place.

Well, it really depends. My original thinking was that either they'll understand it after a couple of times of having to enter through the passenger-side door, or they'll be conditioned like Pavlovian dogs. I lived in a place that had a communal parking lot, so at some point I started noting who parked like an asshole and only did this to regular offenders. Some of them really stopped doing that, others park like assholes to this day.
I probably spend more energy on this than is reasonable, but I've noticed a handwritten note tends to really work, as long as it's not accusatory ("I wanted to park next to you but there was no room ". However, my handwriting is terrible and I don't really carry paper with me everywhere I go, so I just opt for what I think of as "punitive parking".
It's probably also partly because I live in a city where parking is a major issue in some neighborhoods, so wasting a spot ranks along eating puppies.

[mike777]

Antrax, on 2013-August-14, 22:22, said:

Oh, I do, don't worry.
Well, it really depends. My original thinking was that either they'll understand it after a couple of times of having to enter through the passenger-side door, or they'll be conditioned like Pavlovian dogs. I lived in a place that had a communal parking lot, so at some point I started noting who parked like an asshole and only did this to regular offenders. Some of them really stopped doing that, others park like assholes to this day.
I probably spend more energy on this than is reasonable, but I've noticed a handwritten note tends to really work, as long as it's not accusatory ("I wanted to park next to you but there was no room ". However, my handwriting is terrible and I don't really carry paper with me everywhere I go, so I just opt for what I think of as "punitive parking".
It's probably also partly because I live in a city where parking is a major issue in some neighborhoods, so wasting a spot ranks along eating puppies.

assume communal is polite way of saying communist or socialist or fascist.

communal does not sound as if you live in place that greed, self interest, capitalist parking lots are legal.

all are equal but some are more equal.

[blackshoe]

dwar0123, on 2013-August-14, 17:01, said:

Your definition of "good" would probably worry me.

Oh? Why is that?

[Winstonm]

Assuming communal means communist....

[barmar]

mike777, on 2013-August-14, 22:47, said:

assume communal is polite way of saying communist or socialist or fascist.

Quite a leap. I think he just means residents don't have assigned/deeded parking spaces.

[Antrax]

Yep, you got it. I thought it was obvious - was my phrasing weird?

[PassedOut]

Antrax, on 2013-August-15, 10:43, said:

Yep, you got it. I thought it was obvious - was my phrasing weird?

Your phrasing was fine and your usage was normal.

[dwar0123]

blackshoe, on 2013-August-15, 04:39, said:

Oh? Why is that?

For the same reason that we would probably both be worried about the definition of a 'good' education by a religious fanatic. We disagree on some fairly fundamental stuff and I would worry that your gun loving small government world view would influence what you would consider a good education.

This may be an unfounded fear, perhaps our definition of a good education is very similar, but I would be worried until shown otherwise.

[Trinidad]

People wondering what the probability is for something that already happened.

As in:

"0 member(s) have a birthday today

No members are celebrating a birthday today"

What are the odds for that?!?



Rik

[gwnn]

Babies on the airplane. No, I don't care what I did when I was their age and yes, I know the parents have to put up with them for most of the day. I still reserve my right to be annoyed when they decide to cry like their life depended upon it for the whole flight. My favourite scene was with a 5-yo girl who sat with his dad next to me and wouldn't buckle her seatbelt at takeoff. When simply ignoring her dad's nice and reasonable arguments was no longer enough for her she decided that shouting in my ears was the next measure to be taken.