Things that inexplicably annoy me...

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  1. outsider

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    Believe it, or believe it not but I actually initially wrote 'Arabic' but decided I should google it. My extensive research (the first hit that came up) said it was in Hebrew so I ran with it. There's a valuable lesson to be learned here. . . Somewhere.

    One or both of them is written right to left, correct?
     
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    Wow. What site said that? In fact, Islamic doctrine holds that only the Arabic original is the true Qur'an and all the translations are just books "about" it. So my English language copy is called The Meanings of the Glorious Qur'an, even though the text is all there and it includes no commentary.

    Yes, Hebrew is written (and read) from right to left, which is why reproducing it on an ordinary word processor is such a pain. You have to start pecking it out at the back end.

    Arabic is, too, and is always cursive, whether handwritten or printed. I wonder how they do it without smearing all that beautiful calligraphy.
     
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  3. KaTrian

    KaTrian A foolish little beast. Contributor

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    A couple of my FB friends who have a habit of updating their status whenever they receive compliments about their looks from random men. ("Met this guy today on the train. He said I have such beautiful eyes!")

    I don't know why I'm annoyed by this (well, slightly annoyed). Maybe I'm secretly jelly. :wtf:
     
  4. Chinspinner

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    People who accept compliments too readily, as if they have some feeble desperation for approval.
     
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    KaTrian A foolish little beast. Contributor

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    Although that's less annoying to me than calling "harassment!" when receiving a compliment from a person (read: man) who is not armed, isn't standing in the shadows of some dark alley with his pecker out, or hasn't cornered you in a bathroom cubicle, or it's not happening in any other clearly menacing situation where a simple compliment might be a prelude to something that'd require quick decisions.
     
  6. Chinspinner

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    True, but surely if someone called"harassment" over a compliment, anyone sane would just assume they were some unhinged fucknut? Then again: -

    I had a mate who was the nicest guy you could meet, he was one of those innocent types, completely naive and asexual. Anyway he sat next to a woman on a train and said a few pleasantries, and she started accusing him of touching her up. Then obviously the carriage started getting involved and everyone believed he had done it, because who wouldn't? Nothing came of it, he just left the train, but I remember how severely it upset him for a long time afterwards. There are some arseholes out there.
     
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    KaTrian A foolish little beast. Contributor

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    What the hell? :ohno: Sorry to hear that...

    Anyway, I think my annoyance is cured. Now I know these FB friends of mine aren't assholes, not in this respect anyway, so I hope I'll see more reports from them about how good it has made them feel to get positive reinforcement about their looks (they're good-looking ladies who put effort into looking great, so that effort shouldn't go unnoticed).
     
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  8. Link the Writer

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    Damn. If I were in his shoes, it would take me a long, long time to even think about being nice to someone I don't know because I would suspect they have some sort of ulterior motives that I don't know yet.

    Guess it goes to show that no matter what you do, some moron is going to make you a villain over it.

    My annoyance? Morons.
     
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    People who talk too much. And strangers who share too much.

    I used to work in retail. And I once had a customer come up and just give me the gory details of her husband's medical problems.

    Lady..... I don't know you! Stop telling me this!

    I of course smiled and pretended to care, because I worked in retail and that was my job. lol
     
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    Songs that purport to celebrate singing and music but are hell on the voice to sing. Having to lead middle school kids in attempting to sing such songs.

    Wait a minute. This thread is about inexplicable annoyances. Sorry.
     
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    What songs are these? Any specific examples?
     
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    Oh yes, you'd be surprised...

    Feminism Kool-Aid

    Of course any excessive unwanted interaction should be considered, and anything sexual, violent, pervasive is blatant harassment. This is probably one of the few stances where I disagree with John Stewart.
     
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    This little ditty:

    Though to be fair to the composer, the kids I've tried to lead in this twice haven't made much effort at the harmonies.

    Still, there's just something about it, the range, the intervals, that make it hard for a voice to get hold of and fly with. It's just too easy to go flat.
     
  14. Chinspinner

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    People who constantly get involved in other people's arguments only to try to score cheap points.
     
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    people who think the world revolves around them.
     
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    [​IMG]

    I realize I'm two pages too late
     
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    @kfmiller

    That's kind of funny, except, that horse probably has some kind of genetic deficiency...and here you are laughing at it :S
     
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    I get your annoyance and agree with you but I'll keep mine to myself, them being of religious sorts, so I'll stay politically correct.
     
  20. Ben414

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    Wreybies creates a bunch of new emoticons and you resort to using ":S"? :supershock: :superconfused: :superthink:
     
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    I'm a writer not a cartoonist
     
  22. KaTrian

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    I think it's photoshopped. :eek:
     
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  23. FabulousJewels

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    Doesn't matter. But speaking of cats, here's what inexplicably annoys them. I can't decide which video is better.

    Video A, for AWESOME SOUND EFFECTS?





    Or Video B, for BEST NARRATIVE?



    You be the judge, eh?
     
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  24. Chinspinner

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    I can't access these bloody things on the mobile. I need to get access to the world wide interweb sorted.
     
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    @123456789

    I always assumed it was photoshopped! But it makes me giggle every time I see it on Pinterest so if it is a real horse I'm a terrible person.
     

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