Understanding the phone's multiple modes can be confusing, but the full manual comes only on CD-ROM, not in handy book form a truly obnoxious idea for a noncomputer product.
The people behind this obnoxious idea are inspired by the relatively new German-based PEGIDA movement, which started in Dresden late last year and now has offshoots in several other countries.
Another problem with abstinence-only programs is that they frequently promote limiting and obnoxious ideas about gender and sex.
But every once in a while — actually, at least a couple of times a week — a reader will write in with words to this effect: "I work at Fill-in-the-Blank Inc., and you have no idea how obnoxious our customers can be.
Try imagining Indian PM Narendra Modi hanging out in Ottawa for a week alternately dressed like a cowboy or a Mountie or a French-Canadian biker, and you have some idea of how obnoxious it was to watch Justin Trudeau traipse around the subcontinent playing ethnic dress-up.
People must be free to debate ideas some find obnoxious such as creating an Islamic caliphate or imposing sharia law - suppression will only add to the attraction of such ideas.
Traveling to somewhere warm to be surrounded by drunk, obnoxious idiots with bad taste and even worse ideas is my idea of HELL.
Travelling to somewhere warm to be surrounded by drunk, obnoxious idiots with bad taste and even worse ideas is my idea of HELL.
Ah, Hipster, the startup whose promotional ideas are either brilliant, obnoxious, or brilliantly obnoxious.
The most obnoxious component, by far, is the mandate, a Republican "idea".
Private universities, for example, are not constrained by the Constitution, but most choose to follow it anyway, because they recognize that the exchange of ideas -- no matter how wrongheaded or obnoxious -- is good for education.
