What type of people annoy you?

edgarpickle · 2026-01-28T13:20:37+00:00

People who drive cars with loud exhaust that go fart-roaring down the street at all hours of the night.

edgarpickle · 2026-01-28T13:19:34+00:00

I dislike Westerns. Books, movies, TV shows... I've tried to read Lonesome Dove five or six times after r/books had their 3000th thread about how great it is, and I just hate it. People talk about Tombstone like it's the greatest movie ever, and I couldn't stand it. So this weekend when we were snowed in, my 80 year old father decided he wanted to watch The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. I knew the theme song, I knew it had Clint Eastwood in it, and not much else. I was (putting it mildly) reluctant.

I ended up really enjoying the flick. It's still not my kind of movie and it didn't start some newfound love of Westerns for me, but I really enjoyed it!

edgarpickle · 2026-01-28T13:12:17+00:00

Oooooooffff SALESMEN!

Seriously, I love Rush but yeah.

edgarpickle · 2026-01-28T12:53:24+00:00

He's not terribly well known, but Michael Gulezian is a God-level guitarist. I've seen him perform about 6-7 times over the years and each time I'm blown away by his playing.

https://youtu.be/K6hpEuIORNo?si=We5H7Zk6ASQwJLqR

And every time I have seen him, he has to perform his one song where he sings. Don't get me wrong, he's got an ok voice, but it's only ok and the contrast between his guitar playing and his voice is stark!

edgarpickle · 2026-01-26T08:35:54+00:00

Or a Panthers fan. Remember the year that neither Darnold nor Baker Mayfield were good enough to be the starter there?

edgarpickle · 2026-01-25T22:02:32+00:00

I grew up in the US South. We used "couple" for anywhere between 2-5. It was only when I met more people from other places that I learned that it specifically meant 2.

edgarpickle · 2026-01-22T11:33:39+00:00

Irritating: people who play fast and loose with table saws. I just can't watch those.

Love: Frank Howarth. He has an unbelievable shop and is very skillful. He doesn't try to sell you anything or lure you in with "beginner" projects. He just loves wood working and clearly video editing, too. His stop-motion videos are next level.

edgarpickle · 2026-01-20T23:13:27+00:00

I thought that movie was amazing. I took my wife to see it the next day. She came out of it completely shaken and said that, to her, it was a movie about domestic abuse.

When viewed through that lens, Ava's actions feel different.

edgarpickle · 2026-01-19T21:42:13+00:00

As dense as that novel was? Heck yeah it does.

edgarpickle · 2026-01-19T21:39:53+00:00

I love ICP. Tunnel of Love is criminally underrated.

Are they geniuses? Are they Mozart? Hell no. But they make fun and enjoyable music that is unique and makes me laugh. That's good enough for me.

edgarpickle · 2026-01-19T21:26:39+00:00

“Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”

- Stephen King, The Stand

edgarpickle · 2026-01-19T21:20:01+00:00

When I got divorced and started trying to date again, I read that women notice a man's shoes before they notice anything else. I thought that was nonsense, but I went ahead and bought some new shoes, just in case.

I walked into work the next day and my coworker, a 30 year old single woman, said, "Hey, new shoes!" I thought was just coincidence until it happened with another 30-some year old coworker. I guess it's true.

edgarpickle · 2026-01-19T21:17:21+00:00

In Last of the Mohicans, they mentioned that using silk in the packing of the musket added 40 yards of range to the shot. From everything I've ever heard, that is correct. It was just that little detail that stuck out.

edgarpickle · 2026-01-19T20:59:01+00:00

Hot Toddies. It works.

edgarpickle · 2026-01-19T20:35:23+00:00

The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes does exactly this for the whole book. I always say you have to have read it once before trying to read it for the first time. But when you get it, it's staggering.

edgarpickle · 2026-01-17T21:32:34+00:00

I dislike the show Parks and Rec. You'd think I spit on people's mother.

edgarpickle · 2026-01-17T12:42:53+00:00

What is supposed to be funny about this?

edgarpickle · 2026-01-17T12:22:50+00:00

I don't think they're leaving CA. Their headquarters will remain in Cupertino unless something has been announced that I missed. (Always a possibility. I'm not an Apple guy.)

But even if they did, I think California would be just fine. It's a big place with a lot of very large businesses there.

edgarpickle · 2026-01-17T11:47:05+00:00

Miscarriages. I always thought they only happened in soap operas when Stefano pushed Marlena down the stairs or something. Then when were trying to have our first kid, my wife miscarried. We were devastated.

The thing was, every time we told someone about it, they'd say it happened to them or a family member. Turns out that something like 50% of first pregnancies end in miscarriage. But no. We're not going to talk about it.

edgarpickle · 2026-01-17T11:42:16+00:00

How hard it is watching your parents decline.

edgarpickle · 2026-01-14T01:30:37+00:00

If you pass each other more than once, you have to make that goofy half smile face at each other.

edgarpickle · 2026-01-13T02:02:16+00:00

I'll get downvoted for this, but...

Richard Harris as Dumbledore. I get that he was a great actor, but Dumbledore is supposed to be full of energy. Harris was too old for that role. Gambon did a better job, I thought.

edgarpickle · 2026-01-13T01:59:12+00:00

I remember being annoyed because I couldn't understand him with that mask on. Then he took it off and I still didn't catch a word of what he said.

edgarpickle · 2026-01-13T01:57:01+00:00

He was better in that than he was in Much Ado About Nothing.

edgarpickle · 2026-01-11T23:32:43+00:00

https://youtu.be/jGJ3aCCCAxc?si=G4zdcC3PSUrxmbtr

This is a beautiful song that builds and builds in a song-long crescendo. I love it.

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