April 2008
22 posts
Complaint #205
“Can’t my gym hire personal trainers who are actually in shape? Seeing a trainer with a beer gut isn’t really a good motivational tactic.” -Whine by Colleen Shugrue
Complaint #204
“Putting ‘SPAM’ in the subject line does NOT make your email to the ENTIRE office telling us you have Carrie Underwood tickets any less annoying. And, no, we don’t care when they are ‘sold’, so the follow up email saying so isn’t necessary, either.” -Whine by Carrie
Complaint #203
“Don’t you hate it when the masseuse is too chatty? It really ruins a good massage.” -Whine by Jill B, submitted by Katie B
Complaint #202
“Why can’t the dailyplate.com add the Wii as a fitness activity? I mean, they have 19th century dancing as a fitness activity for God’s sake!” -Whine by Sunny Purdin
Complaint #201
“It’s time to stop following so many people on twitter, it’s eating up all the text messages included with my cell phone plan.” -Whine by Ted Roden
Complaint #200
Here they are, my favorite whines of the past 199 posts. I want to thank everyone who has been submitting whines and visiting the site every day. It’s really a joy to run. Now where’s my f*cking book deal? Complaint #7 “I just haven’t seen any movie worth watching since ‘The Squid and the Whale.’” - Whine by Me Complaint #50 “What the fu… Turbo...
Complaint #199
“I really wish Leslie Feist hadn’t done that iPod commercial. Everyone’s so into her now. I bet they don’t even know she was in Broken Social Scene.” -Whine by Brian Ferry Hola, whiners. Tomorrow, for our 200th whine, I will be posting my all time favorites. -Street
Complaint #198
“I don’t know if I’ll ever get used to typing on a MacBook Air. The keys are so shallow.” -Whine by Henna Singh
Complaint #197
“A gate with a code? Remind me not to use this ZipCar location again!” -Whine by Daniel Hensley
Complaint #196
“The Dollar to Euro exchange rate is miserable. I guess backpacking around Europe this summer is out.” -Whine by Brent Lommond
Complaint #195
“How come some of my Google Alerts are going straight to my Gmail spam folder? Come on, Google, where’s your product integration?” -Whine by Zach Gore
Complaint #194
“This was definitely NOT cooked in a brick oven!” -Whine by Matt Russell
Complaint #193
“Why won’t Craigslist let me search for apartments in Brooklyn by neighborhood? I’m sorry, Craigslist, is Park Slope not established enough for you? Ridiculous.” -Whine by Me
Complaint #192
“I said to myself a hundred times, ‘everybody has a lab or a golden; just get something different.’” But then you see the puppies and forget that you wanted to be different. They’re just so damn cute.” -Whine by Harrison Henely
Complaint #191
“This New Yorker cover is making some sort of joke, but I can’t get it if the address label is slapped in the middle, can I? Guess someone WON’T be working their way up from the mail room.” -Whine by Nick Douglas
Complaint #190
“Maybe I don’t want three different-colored bell peppers, Trader Joe’s; maybe I just want one red one! Now I’m gonna have to go to Whole Foods.” -Whine by Cara Romano
Complaint #189
“I hate it when someone uses the rest of the good creamer at work and doesn’t bring in more. I’m already settling for Maxwell House, now I have to settle for Cremora?” -Whine by Aaron Engle
Complaint #188
“Why can’t they make a good, soft toilet tissue out of recycled paper? Being green shouldn’t be this painful.” -Whine by Eric Martin
Complaint #187
“If that wasn’t the worst winter for skiing in the North East I don’t know what was.” -Whine by Brad Healy
Complaint #186
“I like the way J-Crew shirts fit me but I don’t want people to think I live on Nantucket. C’mon J-Crew, would it kill you take make something in a non-pastel? Ugh” -Whine by Ben Bradley
Complaint #185
“FreshDirect makes this big deal out of having a wide selection but they don’t even carry a decent hard cider.” -Whine by Julie Sedlis
Complaint #184
“Its all well and good that you’re fans of ‘Arrested Deveopment’ now, but where were you when they needed you?” -Whine by Sean Wraith