What gets your knickers in a bunch?

[Jack Daw]

When I say pop, I mean pop, not soda. Soda is that white powder used for washing or baking. Then of course there's soda water to complicate things further.

Ack, you're both wrong - neither pop nor soda. It's a soft drink!

[Downunder Kilt]

Ack, you're both wrong - neither pop nor soda. It's a soft drink!

I'm with you Jack, all carbonated non alcoholic drinks are known in my neck of the woods, as soft drinks (pop is for pop goes the weasel and soda is a additive as in post 87)

[FatherWilliam57]

When she would tell people to watch where they were they were going they said "Oh, I'm sorry I diddn't see you." What I want to know is how the ^&#* can you not see a freaking NEON PINK full arm cast and white sling? She's almost as tall as I am and I"m 5'-07" tall, so it's not like she was so short they were looking over head. After the third time I walked in front of her to make sure no one ran into her.

Those of us who ride motorcycles know the feeling. Whenever a cager thoughtlessly pulls into an interception and a bike ends up t-boning it, the cager always says, "Officer, I didn't see him." They say the same thing when they hit a deer or a train. A TRAIN for crying out loud! So many people are the center of their own universe and the rest of us are just distractions who get in their way.

And don't get me started on people who think they can "multi-task." Physiologists have already started to debunk the idea that people can actually multi-task. (They may switch between activities very quickly in their mind, but there is still a time lag, so there is no true multitasking...only accidents waiting to happen.)

[Bugbear]

Those of us who ride motorcycles know the feeling. Whenever a cager thoughtlessly pulls into an interception and a bike ends up t-boning it, the cager always says, "Officer, I didn't see him." They say the same thing when they hit a deer or a train. A TRAIN for crying out loud! So many people are the center of their own universe and the rest of us are just distractions who get in their way.

And don't get me started on people who think they can "multi-task." Physiologists have already started to debunk the idea that people can actually multi-task. (They may switch between activities very quickly in their mind, but there is still a time lag, so there is no true multitasking...only accidents waiting to happen.)

WBHenry, here are a couple of book suggestions that deal specifically with the topic you are discussing, if you are interested in it: The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us, by Daniel Simons, (the motorcycle discussion brought that to mind) and Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, by David Eagleman (time lag topic brought that to mind).

There might be a few surprises, but it's all very interesting.

[CopperNGold]

After living in on both coasts and places in between, I gave up and just ask for iced tea. Then comes the problem of ice tea or iced tea.

[piperdown]

Like using the word 'like' in like every like second like word in like a sentence.

[BCAC]

A small mistake, which I see regularly and which is probably either due to laziness or lack of proof reading, is to leave off the final "d" in th word "used" like in "I use to live there" instead of "I used to live there". A small thing, but it irritates.

[kc8ufv]

After living in on both coasts and places in between, I gave up and just ask for iced tea. Then comes the problem of ice tea or iced tea.

You mean the problem of regular vs ruined (sweetened)?

A small mistake, which I see regularly and which is probably either due to laziness or lack of proof reading, is to leave off the final "d" in th word "used" like in "I use to live there" instead of "I used to live there". A small thing, but it irritates.

Actually, I've HEARD that mistake as well, usually from the same people that "axe" questions.

[thescot]

AFter a good deal of refelction, I have to say that people who spend their time getting their knickers in a bunch get my knickers in a bunch. Nothing like a chip on the shoulder to make me want to knock it off.

Fot the most part, I have found that I am not nearly important enough for most people to want to go out of their way to make me mad, insult me, or irritate me. And neither is anyone else I can name as a personal acquaintance.

For the most part, I want to tell whiners to get over it and grow up. But, hey, I'm an old geezer adn that's how I was raised. I wasn't told that I should always win, that I should never have to suffer the consequences of my actions, or that anyone owed me anything as I was growing up. I recommend it if for no other reason than that it makes life better.

[thescot]

Ack, you're both wrong - neither pop nor soda. It's a soft drink!

Actually, it's a Coke, even if it's a Dr. Pepper or a Pepsi. Aroiund here, we ask, "Want a Coke?" If the answer is affirmative, we then ask, "What kind? They have Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Seven-up, . . ."