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# They find it all very annoying
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/they-find-it-all-very-annoying/
- Published: 2007-01-27T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T23:55:05.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

This week’s Q-Line question asked: What individual or group gets under your skin — either world-famous or locally infamous — and why?

“THE SANTA MONICA CITY COUNCIL AND associated cronies have got to be the worst and most aggravating individuals around. They have driven Santa Monica into the pits, inviting bums and criminals into this community with open arms, and enabling them to become thoroughly entrenched here. They are the low-lifes of the age. This city is a disaster because of their inability and unwillingness to prevent this nightmare.”

“THE ENTIRE WHITE HOUSE CREW GETS under my skin, to say the least. Imagine a group lying to get us into a miserable war that has caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and still being in charge! It’s hard to believe, but worse are the ones who sell their souls to these devils once they are accepted into the inner circle and are used up and tossed out. They deserve it.”

“THE TWO I HATE THE MOST ARE, FIRST of all, that guy from the Sit ’n Sleep mattress company: ‘We’ll beat anyone’s price or your mattress is freeee.’ All he has to do is beat the price. He doesn’t have to give away any mattresses. He’s probably the kind of kid who’d remind the teacher that they forgot to assign homework, and this would be on Friday afternoon.

The other one is Paris Hilton, that vapid, waste of human DNA serves no useful purpose on the planet and she’d be out walking the streets if the family wasn’t rich. The only good thing I can say about either of these people is that, unlike President Bush, neither one has lied to get us into a war that’s been costing billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives with no end in sight.”

“THE GROUP THAT GETS UNDER MY SKIN are the ones that passed that asinine law stating no smoking in front of coffee shops, etc., and they don’t even bother to enforce it. Of course, it’s not the smokers’ fault. It’s that same group that has one sign up in the entire city that says : No smoking. So, I guess we’ll still have to put up with the cigar smoke and the cigarette smoke.”

“WE’RE TALKING ABOUT A LOT OF WHITE trash. Donald Trump is definitely that. He may have a lot of money, but he’s just a load of trash. As for Paris Hilton, she might have a lot of money, but that doesn’t mean she’s swanky.”

“MY CHOICE IS THE SCHOOL BOARD. Have you ever listened to the superintendent speak? She must say ‘uh’ five times in each sentence. Then, the school principals trot out and mutter their ‘uhs’ and intersperse their platitudes about how great of a job they are doing. The whole group needs a dumbbell English and speech class to better enunciate their supposed educational brilliance. If you can’t communicate a thought, how do you teach an idea? But here’s the kicker: All of these people make over $100,000 a year for eight months of work. I have a few choice words, and they aren’t ‘uh.’”

“THE RICH EXPECT OTHER PEOPLE TO pay for them, so by paying for the so-called public schools of Malibu, Santa Monicans nicely supply that lesson. Kevin (McKeown), of course, also has other people’s money to play with without having to contribute any of his own.”

“ILLEGAL ALIENS. THEY’RE NOT ‘undocumented workers,’ they’re illegal aliens. The reason is crime, welfare expense, medical expense, pollution, housing cost pressure... on and on and on.” “POLITICIANS AND SUPPORTERS WHO evaded serving in the U.S. armed forces during any conflict, did not serve, and are now loud-talking, extreme warhawks.”

“SMOKERS GET UNDER MY SKIN, ALL over Santa Monica, especially now that we have the non-smoking law in effect. I see more people smoking than ever. Smokers are just nasty. They leave their cigarette butts all over the place. They don’t have any consideration for other people. The worst part is their cigarette butts end up in the ocean. The individuals that get under my skin are those smokers that forced the ban.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 27, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/012707.pdf?ref=smdp.com)