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This is the thread where you recount the times you have, regretfully, been a petulant, spiteful little child and said silly, mean things.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 10 April 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, do I need to answer that?

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 10 April 2003 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

1979 - 2003

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 10 April 2003 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

oh! you said "regretfully"

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 10 April 2003 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I once told a woman trying to push past me at Philadelphia airport that I didn't speak English. In a loud and exaggerated British accent. Yes, I am an arsehole. But I regret it.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 10 April 2003 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

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QED!

― sarah at werk, Thursday, 10 April 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i had a fight w.jerry the nipper on monday :(

so then i think

mark s: "am i argumentative?"
mum s "yes mark s you are. it is a pain"

i am going to try and turn over a new leaf

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

today I am petulant and want to tear the heads from kittens, although my mood is improving.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

God Ed, I hope Sarah Mclusky doesn't read that!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

j0e - we all know you are easy really ;)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I do love Sarah McLusky, but the differences over kittens is why it could never work.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

um, I do occasionally have args on ILM (had one last week, in fact). It happens.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)

they must be overly cuwte and adowabublle too

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think I'm difficult, but beware of the wall of the stupidity.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I also have a horrible and frankly twattish habit of coughing/saying *OS 9???* when I see people using it on brand new machines. I know, not funny at all. Reserve your judgements, please.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

what is OS9?

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Nordicskills, Take pity on the poor Quark users for they are enthrall to the dark lord and will shortly be offered attractive OS X upgrade plans.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a Mac operating system, jel.

And Ed-I still run most of my software through Classic. I am therefore something of a hypocrite.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

on a train i recently i blew my nose snottily into a hanky and deliberately wiped it across a businessman's trousers as i returned it to my pocket, creating a smear. i can't remember what he did to deserve it though.

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

OS 9 has been banished for over 6 months from my machine, but I don't do quark or that much music.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I always feel like I'm difficult, I'm sorry if I have annoyed anybody. I am sorry for some of the mean comments I made to Ethan too.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm very difficult. I guess that's why no one loves me. (Well, one of the reasons...)

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

no comment.

― hstencil, Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Nor comment from me.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"I could stand to be less difficult." -Chan Marshall

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Possibly. From time to time. "Weird" is the word that gets most frequently used.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 10 April 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHA I own this thread.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 10 April 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Ally, I've got seniority, don't go giving it the All About Eve shit, capische?

I am not so much difficult as daunting. Which, in some cases, suits me just fine.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 10 April 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I am not so much difficult as "problematic."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been told I'm difficult to buy presents for.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not so much daunting as dunting.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

heheh. very recently i became embroiled in a bitter argument with a guy on another forum which i frequent (very) occasionally. we were to-ing and fro-ing via e-mail for a while. he was perfectly intelligent and polite, but i kept on pretending that he was being really rude and stupid. I said things like "You are just parodying a clueless asshole, aren't you? If not, HAHAHAHAHA!" i was being so arrogant and rude that yesterday he told me he would not e-mail me again, and he had barred my e-mail address! it was fun while it lasted....

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Employees of London Transport bring it out in me:

Anna: I sat on my travel card and now it won't go through the barrier, could you let me through the gate?

Tube Person: You do know this isn't vaild without a photo card?

Anna: Yeah (searches handbag). Oh, shit. Oh no. I must have left it at work (this is a total lie, I left it in a hotel room in Paris last May.)

TP: Where do you work?

Anna: Just down the road, bottom of Stamford Street.

TP: Well, I can let you thriugh this time, but if I see you again then I'll have to stop you. You do know it isn't valid. Why did you leave it at work?

Anna: I don't know. Don't you ever forget anything?

TP: Not when it's important. You do know this isn't valid?

Anna: YES!

TP: (Letting me through). Forgetting won't get you off a fine.

Anna: FUCK YOU. I HOPE YOU'E LOST YOUR HOUSE KEYS.

(runs for escalator to angry shouts of "Excuse me Miss! Young lady|!")

Not as bad as the time I ran off after a 'discussion' at Kings Cross tube, span around half way across the concourse and shouted FUCK YOU FUCK YOU WANKER ran off on high heels and promptly fell flat on my face. During the evening rush hour.

I live with a London Transport employee and I hate him too.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Blimey - a whole 'other' Anna! Better be wary next time I bump into you at a FAP!

Mrs. Dr. C reckons I 'don't suffer normal people gladly', but compared to most people I come across I think I'm remarkably tolerant and easy-going to a fault. In fact I occasionally worry that I'm too laid back in crap 'wooly' sort of way. Oh well.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

It really is only London Transport people. Those who have seen me get super stroppy first thing in the morning or (with PMT) crying hysterically that: "You can't come round. I'm fat and my room's a mess. Everything's a mess. My whole life is a mess and i don't want to see anyone." may disgaree. On the whole I am nice and polite.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I am a bit contrary I guess, sometimes I can put up with stuff for ages and make a joke, and then other times I am completely cranky about it. A few weeks ago I was in McDonalds and I just asked for a chocolate milkshake. Anyway I tasted it and it was strawberry.

Me: Excuse me this milkshake is strawberry, i asked for chocolate.

Cashier: Oh ok, *checks milkshake*, no it's chocolate.

Me: Er....well it tastes funny, can I have a new one please, I'm pretty sure it's strawberry.

Cashier: Ok you can have another one, it's chocolate though.

Me: I think I can tell the difference between chocolate and strawberry.

Cashier: *hands new milkshake*

5 minutes later

Me:this is also strawberry.

Cashier: it's not it's chocolate.

Me: (rapidly losing patience) listen I am telling you it's fucking strawberry, I'd love if it was chocolate and I could just drink it and leave you alone, why on earth would I make this up, christ can't you just sort out your machine or admit it's broken and give me a fucking coke.

Cashier: but it is chocolate.

Manager: what's the problem *checks machine*, oh sorry sir we don't have any chocolate at the moment.

Good lord.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Ronan, you should just stay away from those things, they are pure evil.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Proof if ever any were needed that fully automating workers and paying them jack shit while pretending their job is never safe produces stupidity beyond anyone's wildest dreams.

Oh argh GORMLESS TUBE WORKERS - the fucking mole people. I go all Ferris Bueller's sister whenever one cannot answer a basic question: 'You should be "afraid" you don't know; did you miss the training course or something? No, you wouldn't HAVE TO take this kind of talk off of me if you did your job properly in the first place.'

In related events, according to Kate's friend Dara, stewardesses now offer the threat of air-rage write-ups to people who complain about ANYTHING to do with the flight, eg. the pizza for their meal being frozen or suchlike instead of hot.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Ronan: Hint for future non-chocolateness. Can't you take the lid off these things? Colour alone would sort out that argument. Or you could resort to an Alberto-Frog-and-his-Amazing-Animal-Band narration routine. I can see it now.

Him: "It isn't strawberry. It's chocolate."
You: "But the elephants said it's strawberry. And they were right."

You could even throw in some huge slurpy noises to cment things, if you liked.

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Thursday, 10 April 2003 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm not "difficult," but i do a good job at playing a difficult person!

n.b.: i am difficult when i have to deal with assholes and i can get away with being difficult. but who cares what assholes think anyway?

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 10 April 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

and for some reason, i've developed a reputation for being the sort of person who "works well with difficult people." personally, i think that this is just an excuse for making me work with the most psychotic/fucked up clients/situations/co-workers.

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 10 April 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Now look, FH defined a generation.
A generation of weak-kneed, self-centered matieralists with no regard for posterity, true, but were it not for DJ and Stephanie Tanner (not to mention "is he or isn't he" Joey Gladstone) there would be no market for Britney Spears, Nsync, etc.
Full House was the cultural incubator for the Echo Generation (aka the after-boom), and deserves to be recognized as such. Were it not for the extended life of this show (and those that it spawned: Family Matters, Boy Meets World, uh, uh, that one about the kid who ate the bad hamburger and died then came back as an angel, the other one with Bronson Pinchot as magical alien who becomes best friends with the little brat from Jerry Maguire, and eventually Dawson's Creek, Felicity, and NYPD Blue), well beyond any real DEMAND for it, surviving simply because it was better to know exactly where John Stamos and his hairpiece were going to be than having them at large (remember his pre-FH sitcom as the rockin' rebel son of TV's Quincy and Felix Unger, Jack Klugman...something about TWO...
And for the record, Stamos was a full-fledged member of the Beach Boys (as drummer) during their post-lawsuit against Brian Wilson REALLY Endless Summer Kokomo-era tours.
For what it's worth John Stamos is as much a Beach "Boy" as Dennis Wilson (the only one who actually surfed, and eventually drowned--no sissy-ass plane crashes for him), and deserves his due credit for what his pivotal role in what has happened to Rockaroll.
As he said on some TV show (possibly even early Conan) "Jason Priestly? Luke Perry? Don't talk to me about those fuckers. I had sideburns when they was still suckin' they mamas' teats. Who's the trend-setter now, G?"
Licentious quote, sure, but he did in fact say something along those lines.
Time will prove that Full House was as emblematic of its time as, say, All in the Family or Flipper, were of theirs.

Don't fuck with Stamos.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 10 April 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Mostly I'm not ever difficult, but so super easy going that people tell me I should stick up for myself more. It's not that I'm allowing myself to be walked on, it's that I just don't give a shit.

Fuck with my family or friends, however, and I can be quite stroppy.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 10 April 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

At the job interview this morning I was asked how in the past I dealt with difficult coworkers. (Answer: I said "Yes please" when I was asked to switch who I worked for.) But considering that I don't want the job for which I interviewed today, I should have told him that *I* have always been the most difficult person in my workgroup. Seriously, I quit one job because they were starting the process to fire me.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 10 April 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not quite eloquent.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 10 April 2003 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Hints on not being difficult and being really lovely and popular are welcome, BTW. :)

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Thursday, 10 April 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i am extremely difficult and i pride myself on it. i enjoy a challenge - why shouldn't you?

― j fail (cenotaph), Thursday, 10 April 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i had to go into mediation with an analyst at work the other day cause she was being difficult and i got shitty. she admited to hearing voices and acting on what they said. when i'm on the sauce i get lippy as fuck.

― Clare (not entirely unhappy), Thursday, 10 April 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not intentionally difficult. I just tend to finish other people's sentences for them. This is because I want to help them out, but it seems like I am a smartarse...

― isadora (isadora), Thursday, 10 April 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

That Horace is Weird.

― Steve A. Dorr (Horace Mann), Thursday, 10 April 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

this whole thread needs to fuck off and die

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 10 April 2003 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

hey moron, wanna take this outside?

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 10 April 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I am with you on that Isadora. I have the nasty habit of doing that too, but it's really only because I want to help them out,I know what they're saying anyway and some people take so long to spit it out. This is probably why people who stammer don't like me very much.

― Wouldn't you like to know (Amused), Friday, 11 April 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I can be quite difficult, but only in social situations. Actually, I think a lot of my ex-teachers would probably argue to the contrary. At work I'm always calm and detached - no point getting worked up about work.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 11 April 2003 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm so easy going that I'm difficult.

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 11 April 2003 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes.

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 11 April 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

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