Pet Free Republic peeves-- please contribute.

Self | 11/30/04 | ccmay

[ccmay]

There are so many things that make FR great. It's my favorite place on the Internet and I am proud to support it financially.

However, there are a few things that have been getting under my skin too.

1. Jokes about the "72 virgins" every time there is news of a Muslim terrorist being killed. Please. Over the last three years, every possible variation of the virgins joke has already been done. Hundreds of times. It is far, far beyond cliché by now.
2. Jokes about spitting one's food or drink on the screen or keyboard, in response to someone else's humorous post. Again, every possible variation has appeared here a hundred or a thousand times over. I dare say 99.99% of them are exaggerations for comic effect. It's getting almost as banal as the virgins.
3. FR slang (beeber, moose, cheese, hugh, series) in every thread, to no effect at all. At least donate to Jim if you are going to waste everyone's bandwidth like this.
4. Over-zealous moderators who zap cross-posts from DU as soon as they appear. Prime opportunities for hilarity, gloating, and schadenfreude, especially after they lose an election, are lost forever. Can we assess these individually on the basis of their merits?

[hosepipe]

Pet peeves....Hmmmm..
Saying, A$$ when you mean ass..
-or- ASSH**LE when you mean asshole..
-or- many other lame attempts to "Fool" the mods... LoL..

Either them mods are real dumb or the poster is..
I prefer creative ways of doing the same lame gambit.. like icehole instead of the obvious.. or BULLSPERM instead the other obvious as a gambit...

I guess lame gambits pi$$ me off the most.. d;-'
And beside all that the lack of good "conservative" agitprop with powerful hyperbole probably crawls my nape goes down my back through the groin and back up my other side the most and makes me wish Ann Coulter was Bush's Press Secretary.. for a little relief..
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[nopardons]

True,Joe and I hate them as well;however,this is a PRIVATE discussion about the correct spelling of a Hungarian word.The spelling Nazis here had nothing at all to do with it. :-)

[bonfire]

ZOT threads. Ridiculous waste of bandwidth.

[SittinYonder]

One thing I do like are good pictures of soldiers! You must be proud!

[nopardons]

Just aching for a flame war,aren't you Joe?

Well dear,go bait somebody else. :-)

[ApesForEvolution]

Hey '99! Luft balloons?

[weegee]

Whn the posts get to tens of thousands, the threads have taken on a life of their own. Some continue a discussion (off topic) to get "novelty" post numbers ("10,000" etc.)

[nopardons]

Was lovely...thanks. ;-)

[bonfire]

I'm starving again. lol

[k2blader]

Ha! They do match fairly well, don't they! Tho' I would argue the "EvoFreeps" are probably largely anti-socialism, tho' that issue is far lower on their priority list than, say, the issue of "human rights".

[My2Cents]

How about simply the overuse of the term "RINO" (usually used by people who are not Republicans themselves).

[bonfire]

Joe is peeved tonight!

[Dec31,1999]

Sometimes I think all the threads on one topic should be combined into one. But then, not...because different people show up to discuss the given topic anew. I like it just the way it is. I hate change.:)

[ApesForEvolution]

We can't loose with that attitude...

[ApesForEvolution]

CINO

[k2blader]

Yay to the topic of your vanity!!! :-)

[nopardons]

Neither belong on News/activism.

When posted to the correct site on FR,I have no problem with either.Though I must admit,that the damned "new FREEPER" vanities have now become my MOST hated thing here.

[ApesForEvolution]

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[ApesForEvolution]

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[WRhine]

Links, please!

Links? I don't have no links. I don't have to show you no stinking links!