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   Joe Schmoe, 20 Dec 2005 @ 10:48am

   
   

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   As a chicago train rider (though this applies across the board), I have a different take. While I do not appreciate people who speak loud enough for the entire cab to hear, I do recognise that it is a public space and expect people to talk.
   
   What I do find annoying, exceedingly, like nails on a friggin chalk board, is peope who cannot form a single without the word "like". Over and over, and over, every third word out of their mouths over...

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   Anonymous Coward, 20 Dec 2005 @ 12:39pm

   
   

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   What annoys me are people who cannot form a coherent sentence ranting about the decay of language.

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   Rikko, 20 Dec 2005 @ 1:01pm

   
   

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   Joe, wait until those same people email you.
   
   It's pretty hard to bite your lip and not tell your own relatives that you won't write them back until they gain a grade 2 grasp of the English language.

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   Joe Schmoe, 20 Dec 2005 @ 1:50pm

   
   

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   I'm sure I have many faults myself. And having complained, I've declared open season on myself. Have fun. Cheers.

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   hautedawg, 20 Dec 2005 @ 2:12pm

   
   

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   It's like, when you like, don't like, have a grasp on like, the language? And like, can't stand it when like, other people can't like, deal with it? (that honestly hurt to write)

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   Don 'Bear' Wikinson, 20 Dec 2005 @ 4:54pm

   
   

   Stimulaholics

   I think it is quieter on the BART (above and below ground electric) trains in the San Francisco Bay Area recently.
   When you have your iPod in your ear, you don't hear the cellphone ringing. Everyone around you does, though. But, I'll take the short term nuisance of your phone ringing unanswered over the several minutes of near yelling that follows an answered ring.
   People don't realize that just because it's hard for you to hear the other party does not mean you need to be yelling. (These are the same people who yell into speakerphones - not realizing that they have fairly sensitive microphones...)
   It's my observation that some people can't stand doing nothing. So whether it's a cellphone or an iPod or the newspaper, they need stimulation. Input. Something to constrain or neutralize their thoughts. Otherwise, they'd be left to comtemplate the simple beauty around them. Or, the utter fallacy and uselessness of their existence.

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