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Exaggerations that ANNOY me:

"Giant Rats" - In my travels around the globe, I've encountered many rats - in New Orleans, Mexico City, New York, in sewers and abandoned Detroit houses. The rats I've seen are almost uniformally rat-sized: fairly small. This is part of the success: they can crawl in cracks and crevices. Are people confusing opossums with rats?

"Meth Capital of America" - Mostly heard from smalltown yokels. Everyone claims that their little backwater berg is the global center of methamphetamine production and consumption. Why this would be a source of pride is beyond me.

"That Whole Area is Mafia" - This could possibly be true in parts of New Jersey and Long Island; however, I hear this from idiots in the West. Just because a small town pizzeria is next to a video store called "Figarelli's" does not mean your little shit-town is being overrun by mafioso.

Please share the exaggerations that bug you.

― andy, Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

speaking of rats, "there are 8 rats to every human in NYC."

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

that dumbass with the tinted sunglasses going into the bathroom and coming out sniffling != "Everyone was doing coke at that party"

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"american dream"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

the term "ned".

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

"Sweating like a pig"; do people who desperately cling to this tired expression not realize that pigs CANNOT sweat?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Morons who say "literally" when I sincerely hope they mean "figuratively" = "That club was literally a madhouse"

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

wmds

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"Al Gore has no influence whatsoever on the Democratic Party."

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Layna OTM.

― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

A demidote is a tedious anecdote told with an enthusiasm double the worth of the anecdote.

I get these a lot.

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

people saying they were 'blown away' (invariably by a live band, or a movie at the pictures) when what they mean is it was the best gig/movie they'd seen that year/for ages as opposed to like, the defining cultural moment of the age.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"I"M RIKC JAMES BICTH!"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Is Kobe beef really all it's cracked up to be? I'm about ready to shove my fist down the throat of the next guy that tells me "... you haven't eaten STEAK until you've had a KOBE STEAK..."

Is it that fucking great?

― andy, Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.quartzcity.net/~chris/clippings/bloated-rats.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Please read. Also, Jersey City is not New York City.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I had dinner at Craft in NYC and ordered the Kobe Steak, which was not cheap. You know what.

http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/11351782?cslink=search_name_noncust&ulink=search__searchslot5_520__0_profile_2_1

IT WAS FREAKING GREAT.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"Big & Rich: Album of the Decade?"

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Please read

I've read it. Your point?

Also, Jersey City is not New York City.

Show me where on this thread where NYC is singled out as the world's leading supplier of opossum-sized rats.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I apologize, seemd like you were trying to debunk my first post.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

There's probably a ILM thread on this, but the "xxxxx is like yyyyyy on ACID!" phrase irritates the hell out of me.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

but have you every tried yyyyyy on acid? it's totally just like xxxxxx. For reals.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought Dan was saying that he saw "The Craft"

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

The Craft is a great movie.

Many friends make fun of my for my ability to hyperbolize, especially about what I think is like "the greatest song ever" or "the saddest song ever" or whatever.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I got drenched in the torrential rain

I've got a migraine

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Worst. Thread. Ever.

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

What's wrong with "I've got a migraine"? A lot of people are chronic migraine sufferers.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 27 May 2004 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Kobe steak is insanely great. Rich marbled hand-massaged, beer-fed beef. Yummm... Served rare with and ginger-soy-pine nut consomme = heaven.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 27 May 2004 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah I want to know what's wrong with "I've got a migraine" as well. The definition of the word "migraine" is "a severe recurring headache..."

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 27 May 2004 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Saying something is "just down the street" when it is in truth actually miles way. (I know it's a relative thing but, it annoys the piss out of me).

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 27 May 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

but people who just have a slightly annoying headache every now and again who say "I've got a migraine" must really piss off the people who like, can't see and feel the need to throw up because of their migraine.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 27 May 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, but you don't really know how severe someone else's headache is. (this "whoa" statement of the day has been brought to you by keanu reeves.)

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 27 May 2004 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

What's wrong with "I've got a migraine"? A lot of people are chronic migraine sufferers.

And a lot of mild headache sufferers are chronic exaggerators... compare flu and cold

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Thursday, 27 May 2004 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

anyway i get severe sweating-and-vomiting migraines and as far as i'm concerned people can call their headache whatever in blazes they want.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 27 May 2004 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread is annoying me though. "you only THINK you know how sick you are! i'll show YOU!"

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 27 May 2004 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Well I'm probably too uncharitable here but there seems to be some competion among my co-workers for being acknowledged as the sufferer of the worst migraines.

The winner was "Well I don't take ordinary tablets - they're simply not strong enough. Mine have to be prescribed by a doctor."

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 28 May 2004 05:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Bobbysix has a point - if you DO suffer from migraines surely you'd also hate those people who make geunine migraine sufferers look bad by going "ooh migraine" when they have like, a hangover or something.

Flu in the same vein - "ooh Ive got the flu but its better now" after 2 days. WTF - a 2 day bout of throat and runny nose is NOT THE FLU. Influenza involves high fever, pain, vomiting and 2 weeks in bed. Not a sniffly head cold.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 28 May 2004 05:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Trayce OTM on both counts.

If you're capable of saying 'I've got a migraine,' I'm willing to bet you don't have a migraine.

Also when people say 'yeah I been around the world,' when in actual fact they've only been to Disneyland. THAT IS NOT BEING AROUND THE WORLD, YOU STUPID BOGAN.

― Pack Yr Romantic Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 28 May 2004 06:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Overheard conv.

"Do you REALLY speak Spanish?"
"Oh, yes, I lived in Madrid for three months."

How long do you have to be somewhere before you're "living" there?

― Skottie, Friday, 28 May 2004 06:07 (twenty-two years ago)

There's probably a ILM thread on this, but the "xxxxx is like yyyyyy on ACID!" phrase irritates the hell out of me

what if it's ACTUALLY yyyyyy on acid???

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 28 May 2004 06:46 (twenty-two years ago)

You live where all your stuff is.

xpost

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 28 May 2004 06:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"i fucked her rotten"

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 28 May 2004 07:14 (twenty-two years ago)

If you're capable of saying 'I've got a migraine,' I'm willing to bet you don't have a migraine

I was told very recently by a doctor that many people have undiagnosed migranes - because they are not the Atypical severe ones.

"The pain of a migraine headache is generally moderate to severe and can disrupt normal activities. It may feel like it is throbbing or pulsating and may be located on one side of the head. The pain may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, or sensitivity to light or sound.
"

A lot of people get moderate migranes. A lot of people probably cause them by not taking care of their body, but it seems to me that they still have the right to call it a migrane.

I have had lots of headaches, but I think I've only ever had one migrane. One of my colleages has migranes that make him go crazy!

― marianna, Friday, 28 May 2004 07:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I take a hard line here: you have to fight for your right to migraine.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 28 May 2004 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

why are you people so self-righteous about your goddamn headaches?

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 May 2004 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Because my pain is more important than your pain! Or at least, it's more sophisticated pain. And if you don't address my pain with the respect it is due, you're a ___ist, ___ist, ___phobe!

I'd say people who have menengitis headaches, right before they fall over unexpectedly dead, have a much more aristocratic headache than any puny migraine, accurately or inaccurately designated!

― Skottie, Friday, 28 May 2004 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

My pain is bigger than your pain...SING IT!
re: migraines-the sight of Tweedy puking in the Wilco movie is the standard by which I go. Having never had a headache that was that bad I will say I've never had a migraine. MIGRAINE SUFFERERS: is puking normal?

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Saturday, 29 May 2004 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)

YES

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 May 2004 04:46 (twenty-two years ago)

JBR, I didnt at all mean to demean anyone with geuine migraines - I do understand theyre nasty things. Its because of that I get cross at people who DONT suffer from them, because they belittle the condition by applying it to hangovers/headaches and I have seen people do this.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 29 May 2004 06:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like these kind of threads. Sorry, why complain about figures of speech? Everyone uses exaggerations in their speech every day, same with any descriptive tools - and generally I'd expect others to know that this is no more than that.

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 29 May 2004 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

trayce, i know what you're saying. it's just that as a real actual migraine sufferer (tm) i can't work up the energy to feel one way or the other about the bonafide genuinosity of people's headaches. i'm too preoccupied looking for a bottle of advil migraine and some pepto.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 May 2004 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

marianna OTM - I used to have headaches that lasted 3 days & didn't respond to anything, but I figured that since I didn't see shimmers or anything they couldn't be migraines. My husband convinced me to ask the doctor, he said "OF COURSE that's a migraine, why have you put up with this for years?" and gave me a prescription that makes them go away in about half an hour. There's about 6 days a month given back to me.

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Saturday, 29 May 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

People call me 'the yardstick,' which is wrong because it's only 14 inches.

― Pack Yr Romantic Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 29 May 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

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