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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

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They also have special parking for pregnant women. So if she got lucky last night she doesn't have to walk so far to the store.
I always want to ask, where is the special parking for old age pensioners with heart disease and a hernia?

If your condition was such that it significantly limited your mobility (like, if walking a hundred feet or more was a real strain), in many jurisdictions you would likely qualify for a disabled person’s parking permit. It might involve a signature from a health-care provider attesting to that.
 
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Hercule

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They also have special parking for pregnant women. So if she got lucky last night she doesn't have to walk so far to the store.
I always want to ask, where is the special parking for old age pensioners with heart disease and a hernia?

It's over there - the one occupied by the pimped out cherry red pickup truck with 8" lifts and the handicapped tag hanging from the mirror.
 
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Be careful with those wipes. I had ten years' worth of "flushable" product cause a catastrophic failure of my sewer line, and ended up with two feet of backed-up effluent in my cellar. Never again.
A plumber whom I trust once told me, "Toilets are designed to flush three things, and three things only--human waste, toilet paper, and water. Nothing else, ever, no matter what anyone says."
 
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I'm always again fascinated, how hardly cats are triggered by birds! The must smell delicious. :D
This is pure speculation based on observations I've made while my wife and I have owned cats for the last 35 years, but I'd guess it's because even domesticated cats are hunters. Birds, rodents, insects, other animals small enough to not pose a threat--they're game. Chasing them alleviates the boredom and provides exercise and fun. And if they catch their "prey", they can proudly bring it to "Mom" and/or "Dad" as a gift.
 

MisterCairo

I'll Lock Up
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Fruit flies, and their love of beer and red wine.

As in my beer and red wine...

Good taste though. This is the third I fished out of my scotch just now:

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Hercule

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Annoyance du jour: the prevalence of breathy speaking style among radio announcers. Why must they always sound like they're out of breathe? Is it supposed to impart greater intensity or credibility? Credibility? Ha! Don't ya know that's what British or Australian accents are for these days?!
 

LizzieMaine

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Over-enunciation and over-emphasis is just as obnoxious. "We have a VERY DISTURRRRBING story FOR YOU today. A QUINNNNNZY woman was ARRRRRESTED this morning for BEATING HER NEIGHHHHHHBOR to DEATH with a FROZEN TURRRRRKEY." (Paraphrased from the sort of drek you hear every morning over WBZ.)
 

Hercule

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Over-enunciation and over-emphasis is just as obnoxious. "We have a VERY DISTURRRRBING story FOR YOU today. A QUINNNNNZY woman was ARRRRRESTED this morning for BEATING HER NEIGHHHHHHBOR to DEATH with a FROZEN TURRRRRKEY." (Paraphrased from the sort of drek you hear every morning over WBZ.)

INDEED!!! That would be the Patrick Stewart effect. As for the other, I blame that moviefone / trailer voice over guy.
 

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