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Pet Peeves
delalluvia:
People who bitch about money and the price of something but go on with their expensive life-styles.
I was reading in this magazine about the cost of clergy in this new religion. She was complaining about how she could just barely afford reading material. She joined a religious group and then complained that the workshops and other classes were just too expensive for her...then in her next few lines goes on to say how she then had two children!
Um, she's supposedly living on the edge of her expenses, can barely afford a book, can't afford additional learning in her new religion, yet she can afford pre-natal care, hospitalization for births and the care and feeding of two children for the next 18 years? ??? ::)
Another pet-peeve, parents who say they're too busy and stressed out with "all" that they have to do in their lives. So I asked one married lady with two children what was keeping her so stressed and busy.
Answer? All her kids' extracurricular activities.
I responded, "So take them out."
She was like "What?"
(Her children are very young 5 and 8 years)
I said,"Take them out of soccer and ballet and church groups and skating and just let them play with their friends in the backyard. You cut expenses and running around and you get to stay home with your family. See? No stress."
She looked at me like I was crazy and walked away. So basically she makes herself busy, then complains about it.
Front-Ranger:
I would not want to be a member of that new religion, Dela!! Amen!!
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on April 25, 2009, 06:46:26 pm ---I would not want to be a member of that new religion, Dela!! Amen!!
--- End quote ---
It's actually quite a nice one. The clergy only earn money from their workshops. They have no big mother church or large organization that pays their salaries. They earn a partial living from their teaching these workshops and otherwise have no overhead but they have to have other jobs because unlike Scientologists or Moonies or other big religions the followers of this religion are pretty fluid, so the money can't be depended on. There is no tithing. There are no big buildings that need to be upkept by their followers, no fleet of buses that ship hordes of followers off to missions or camps for the children. It's basically grassroot level religion.
Front-Ranger:
I am peeved when I wear my spiffy cowboy boots but the tops don't show because they are covered up by my jeans or pants!
Kelda:
--- Quote from: David In Indy on September 21, 2007, 07:44:42 pm ---People cracking their knuckles!
I do it sometimes, but I hate it when other's do it. Does that make me hypocritical? :-\
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DAvid!! You'd end up hating me! I crack my knuckles ALL the time - IO dont even realise I'm doing it.. i also rack my toes, my knees my ankles... but I'm sure you'd love me anyway.. right!?
;)
Oh and my pet peeve - people who leave the stickers on the sole of their shoes.. GHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
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