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Finish this sentence...If there's one thing I hate.....

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Posted by selector on Saturday, July 7, 2007 6:52 PM
 Tracklayer wrote:

...-Having my mom walk in unannounced while I'm watching an "adult" movie.

-Having a co-worker not speak to me because I had to get onto her for breaking rules.

 

Tracklayer

Aren't these two mixed up...you have them backwards. Whistling [:-^]

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Posted by johnnyx on Saturday, July 7, 2007 7:09 PM
It's not having the space to have a layout and seeing all of of these great layouts in pics.....Banged Head [banghead]
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Posted by Tracklayer on Saturday, July 7, 2007 7:37 PM
 jbloch wrote:
 Tracklayer wrote:

-Buying lottery tickets and not winning.

-Going out with a really good looking girl only to find out she's stuck on another guy...

-Buying a new vehicle only to discover there's little nicks and scratches in the paint.

-Having my mom walk in unannounced while I'm watching an "adult" movie.

-Having a co-worker not speak to me because I had to get onto her for breaking rules.

-Not being able to cut my grass because of the constant rain the last three weeks.

-Not caring anymore if I'm ever interested in model railroading again!.

How's that?.

Tracklayer

Mark:  I only just noticed today your address.  Don't let them pull any Jack Nicholson's on you at your "home."Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]

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Too late jbloch... I'm waiting for the big indian guy to come by any minute now and smother me with a pillow.

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Posted by Tracklayer on Saturday, July 7, 2007 7:39 PM
 selector wrote:
 Tracklayer wrote:

...-Having my mom walk in unannounced while I'm watching an "adult" movie.

-Having a co-worker not speak to me because I had to get onto her for breaking rules.

 

Tracklayer

Aren't these two mixed up...you have them backwards. Whistling [:-^]

Selector, I've always got em mixed up bro...

By the way, you want to barrow the movie?.

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Posted by Dave Vollmer on Saturday, July 7, 2007 7:50 PM

...it's soldering DCC decoders.

Or, the lack of PRR steam in N!

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Posted by Cederstrand on Saturday, July 7, 2007 8:02 PM

[Too late jbloch... I'm waiting for the big indian guy to come by any minute now and smother me with a pillow.]

***That comment nearly caused me to spew coffee across the screen and keyboard. Thanks for the chuckles! Cowboy [C):-)] -Rob

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Posted by twhite on Saturday, July 7, 2007 8:48 PM

That absolutely PERFECT 36" radius curve I spent hours and hour and HOURS getting just right suddenly letting go in the middle during a heat wave and derailing my very expensive brass Rio Grande F-81 2-10-2.  I just HATE that!  Flex-track, SCHMECKS-track!

 

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Saturday, July 7, 2007 10:16 PM

After reading the views on the word "hate", I'll just say there is something I dislike.

I dislike the learning curves on all the technology stuff that becomes outdated as soon as I've learned to use it.

GARRY

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Posted by Cederstrand on Saturday, July 7, 2007 10:22 PM

***Nelson, it doesn't matter what kind of floor you have, some parts are destined to dissapear forever, or at least until you have somehow managed to replaced then. Trust me on this, last month lost one of those pins that holds the primary gear in place in a truck. I know my eyesight isn't what it once was, but this was on a laminate tile floor in the new studio. Confused [%-)]

[Removed hatred portion... we shouldn't be dragging people through the mud here. - Bergie]

 

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Posted by METRO on Sunday, July 8, 2007 12:59 AM

I dislike suicidal engines, you know ones that decide to jump for the floor.  Just a couple days ago I had an Atlas GP7 decide enough was enough and jump, thankfully it landed on a nice soft chair so there was only dammage to the hanrails.

Cheers!

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Posted by calledkevinalot on Sunday, July 8, 2007 1:23 AM

...it's nit-pickers!!

You know the kind -- you're showing off a newly-completed building or locomotive on your layout and some joker completely overlooks the craftsmanship and says, "you have one too many grab irons for this diesel," or "this railing ornamentation just wasn't found in this era."

What happened to just appreciating the results of your hard work?  What about just rising above the pencil-neck mentality and enjoy something aesthetic for a change? 

Gee Whiz!

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Posted by R. T. POTEET on Sunday, July 8, 2007 2:04 AM
 calledkevinalot wrote:
...it's nit-pickers!!

You know the kind -- you're showing off a newly-completed building or locomotive on your layout and some joker completely overlooks the craftsmanship and says, "you have one too many grab irons for this diesel," or "this railing ornamentation just wasn't found in this era."

What happened to just appreciating the results of your hard work?  What about just rising above the pencil-neck mentality and enjoy something aesthetic for a change?
Gee Whiz!
Keith



The number of locomotives I have thrown in the trash is vastly inferior to the number of nit-pickers I have thrown through the plate glass windows of my Arcadia doors!!!

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Posted by pcarrell on Sunday, July 8, 2007 8:41 AM
Perhaps "hate" was too strong of a word.  Dislike is good.  When I wrote that I was real frustrated as I've been wiring for a week or more and I STILL can't run a train under it's own power!
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Posted by gandydan57 on Sunday, July 8, 2007 10:22 AM

              .... is not finishing the projects I started. I start something, run into a problem, then work on that problem, run into something else, work on that.

              I do get back to the 1st project, but just a little,then it on to the 2nd one and so forth. ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

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Posted by calledkevinalot on Sunday, July 8, 2007 9:06 PM
Laugh [(-D]  RIGHT ON, RT!!
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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, July 8, 2007 10:47 PM
It's high speed internet that runs slower than dial-up when it's raining. I'm getting really ticked off with SuddenLink about this. I reported the problem back in May and twice more since then. They're just now "getting around to it". Maybe I'll just "get agound to" finding another high speed provider.

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Posted by johncolley on Sunday, July 8, 2007 10:54 PM
Actually I have several, but the one worst that bugs me the most, is....ta daaa... zippy running on tight curves without easements. jc5729 John Colley, Port Townsend, WA
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Posted by Dallas Model Works on Sunday, July 8, 2007 11:03 PM

Having to clean track and other maintenance work.

What an a** pain!

 

Craig

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Posted by wickman on Sunday, July 8, 2007 11:05 PM
K I got another one , insulfrog peco switches that need drop leads added because the engine dies out, even though they say the insul frogs are dcc friendly ...NOT Sign - Dots [#dots]
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Posted by bearman on Monday, July 9, 2007 5:51 AM
It's wiring and ballasting.  I can't figure out which one is numero uno on the list.

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Posted by spikejones52002 on Monday, July 9, 2007 7:06 AM

Finally making up my mind that I do not need another engine.

Then opening up MTH's Rail1King 2007 catalog and seeing that they are coming out with a GG-1 and PA-1.

There goes my resolve.

OH YES I will need newer passenger cars to go along with them.

After thinking about it, Santa Fe did not run GG-1s. You know what that means.

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Monday, July 9, 2007 8:34 AM
...it's showing my layout to someone, only to have them ask, "How fast will it go?"

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Monday, July 9, 2007 10:46 AM

This is a "Murphy's Law" Dislike....

Spend a lot of time and effort kitbashing a specific car to match a prototype.  "They'll never produce one of these", I thought.  A month or two later MR arrives; I look at the ads; and .............yep, you guessed it........... one has become available............ they did produce it.......I hate (sorry) it when that happens.......... Disapprove [V]Sad [:(]

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Posted by claymore1977 on Monday, July 9, 2007 10:52 AM

Finish this sentence...If there's one thing I hate.....

.... un-patriotic people.  Second only to that would be intollerant people.  Join the Fight to help stamp out intollerance! :)

 

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Posted by jblackwelljr on Monday, July 9, 2007 10:57 AM

 MisterBeasley wrote:
...it's showing my layout to someone, only to have them ask, "How fast will it go?"

Along those lines......your sister-in-law pops in just as you finished up the Walthers Gas Storage Tank, having struggled to get it concentric and not break any plastic supports,  painted it to look just like the one that used to stand on the north side of town, and your wife says, "show her what you just finished," and she looks at it and says, "oh....isn't that cute."   I hat....er, immensely dislike when that happens.

Jim "He'll regret it to his dyin day, if ever he lives that long." - Squire Danaher, The Quiet Man
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Posted by Pruitt on Monday, July 9, 2007 11:00 AM

... it's threads like this!

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Posted by pcarrell on Monday, July 9, 2007 11:24 AM
 Brunton wrote:

... it's threads like this!

Big Smile [:D]

Sorry!

I was just funnin'!

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Posted by Dave Vollmer on Monday, July 9, 2007 11:31 AM

...it's, as others have also said, the use of the word "cute" to describe our endeavors!

Nothing like grinding, sanding, filling, drilling, patching, glueing, wiring, soldering, painting, decalling, and pouring over four books' worth of photos to cobble a Pennsy H10sa from three different N scale steamers to show the wife proudly, after weeks of work, and have her reply:

"Cute!"  Shock [:O]

Hmph.  I bet no one told the machinists in Altoona's Juniata Shops that their H10sa was cute.  Grumpy [|(]

Because I'm in N scale, everything's twice as "cute." 

Deep down, though, I know it's a compliment.  I'll take "cute!" over that raised eyebrow and pursed-lip look any day!  Confused [%-)]

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Posted by selector on Monday, July 9, 2007 1:10 PM

I understand what you are saying, Dave.  Cute is two strokes away from a brush-off in my vocabulary, but far worse is, "That's..........nice."

Or, how about, "Hey, I know a guy whose whole basement is this fantastic railroad and.....yada, yada."

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 9, 2007 1:56 PM

..its when women dont know what they want.

..or better yet, when they know what they want... know its YOU, TELL you that youre everything they ever wanted, but then say "im not ready for a relationship." 

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