A little while ago I got a book out of the library with a title something like "1000 Great Black People". I expected it to be full of people like Nelson Mandela. Obviously, there were a few. But most of them were along the lines of "First black person to be principal of a school for black pupils that only employs black staff." It's a bit like me making a deal out of winning a competition for writers called Shadowfax. I'm not sure what you've got against Doctor Who. It's not as if anybody is tying you to a chair, etc. To be honest, you bringing him up is the first reference to the good Doctor I've seen in ages, and I have two daughters who are fans.
Eh, that show's just not my fav, Fax. Dull characters, stupid premises, repetitive plot lines. Yet I'm the guy who likes Dragonball Z, so it just boils down to what appeals to you the most. Go watch your thing and I'll go watch mine, savvy? Back on topic: the other thing that annoys me is that I'm angry for no real reason right now. I'm just...pissed and I don't even know why. I'm usually a very happy guy, but there are occasions where I turn into a cynical, angry grump. It'll subside eventually but it's a mystery sometimes.
I'm not actually carrying a cross for the Doctor. In fact, I haven't watched it since the first Daleks scared me...It's just that you seemed to lash out at the show as if it was the antithesis of all things American that was represented by Baseball. How dare those Doctor Who loving limeys criticise what I love! Peace and love, man.
*laughs* And now you've seen what really annoys me: my own hypocrisy. It's totes fine for me to not like Doctor Who, but everyone must love American baseball? Da ****? Even I'm gobsmacked by it. Wow, how dare people have their own personal likes and dislikes, am I right? Even I get fed up with my own cynicism and hypocrisy at times. That does explain why I have a penchant for creating characters who wrestle with their own 'inner demons'. By the way, love your name. Makes me want to go read Lord of the Rings.
Way to completely miss the point re. The World Series. And another thing. . . If you're pissed, you're drunk not angry.
When on TV or in a movie/book someone's talking to their maybe-love interest and then said love interest cuts them off by kissing them. It seems more rude to me than romantic. Suppose there are worse ways to stop someone from blabbering, but what if what they're saying is important to them and they just want to get it out? And how come the interrupted never resume their speech after the kiss? Am I supposed to believe not even once they've been saying something important they actually would've wanted to finish? Boy: "This is so confusing. I don't know what I should do, what we should do. I mean, I want to be with you but maybe this isn't the--" Girl: *interruptive kiss* Boy: "Uh, so... as I was saying, maybe this isn't the right time for us to date? I'm still in the middle of the whole divorce bs and I'm exhausted, so maybe we should, like, wait? What do you say?" ****** Girl: "I just wasn't sure if you liked me, so I guess that's why I made an ass out of myself and drew those hearts on your super rare, priceless He-Man figurine, 'cause I thought that'd be cute and get your att--" Boy: *interruptive kiss* Girl: What the hell, dude? I've gathered courage to apologize for, like, two weeks! Besides, I probably should've-- Boy: *interruptive kiss* Girl: --mentioned that I have mono!
Nah, just the usual Mr. Cynical I talked about earlier. Beer actually shuts up the cynical and anxiety voices/gut feelings inside me. Don't worry, I drink responsibly my fellow writers. It's coffee I'm worried about; I'll drink up an entire pot if I knew I could get away with it. But yeah, I don't like our sports all that much to be honest. Too commercialized, it's like 80% of the game is advertisement. Damn it, let me watch a bunch of sweaty guys throw a ball around the field, ads! @KaTrian - Yeah, they irk me as well. I almost imagine the speaker saying, "Christ, I'm trying to have a moment here! And besides I didn't even ask for the random, forced kiss you just gave me. How do you know if I even like you?" *forced kiss* "I swear, if this didn't make me look like a colossal asshole-" *forced kiss* "Seriously, please stop-" *forced kiss* "Do you think that's some sort of 'fix everything' spell?" *forced kiss* "OK, that's it! Kicking your ass now!"
That's a fun word.... lol Things that annoy me: people with bad stovetop etiquette. My roommate for example! He'll put a pot of a water on the stove then forget about it. So I, being the only one in my house with ears apparently, hear it boiling over and have to get up to stop it or yell at my roommate for the umpteenth time to stop leaving the stove. We have five cats. What if they were nearby and got burnt? And then he doesn't even clean up all the burnt crust left on the burner! So I have to do it later. Or, he'll start making food on the stove, forget about it, and burn the fuck out of MY POT. He did this the other day, but put it in the dishwasher before I could see it. When I emptied the washer, the pot was still caked in burnt crust. And that was AFTER it was washed. I can't imagine what it looked like BEFORE he washed it. And!! If he drops a noodle or something under the burner onto the cover, he won't clean it up. So he'll go to cook on it the next time, there's just noodles in there, and they burn and smoke up the whole house. I'm going to die from a stove fire.
Those choreographed goal celebrations. OK, it's an important goal, but I didn't come here to watch you dancing badly, I could go to any nightclub at 2 a.m. And then the stats that make a big deal that so-and-so ran 11 km in the course of the game, which is further than anybody else...I could WALK the distance faster!
If you're talking about soccer (sorry, futbol), the celebration occurs because an actual goal being scored is such a rare event. It's like traveling around the world to see a solar eclipse.
Biggest pet peeve, when people eat or drink audibly. It makes my skin practically crawl. Also, pictures of anchors with the caption "refuse to sink" because an anchor's one and only job is to sink and stay sunk.
Do you know that's an actual condition called Misophonia? I have this problem, too. It drives me insane and I get angry. My boor little brother was a sloppy eater growing up, and I can't even tell you how many times I screamed at him, "YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO GET A GIRLFRIEND, GAAWWWWD!"
To be fair, I think it's more to do with a metaphor of "being firm, not giving up, etc" rather than anything literal. Another thing that annoys me? Panic episodes where my brain fills me with a hefty dosage of obscure danger in the horizon, that at any moment something very, very bad is about to happen and I must prepare for everything. Wasn't there an old song that went like this? Everything is always wrong, anything could go wrong, 'cause anything that could go wrong goes wrong!!
I don't really mean that version of the phrase. Lol. I mean, "that'll do." This irritates the shit out of the perfectionist in me. If it's not good enough, tell me how it could be better; if you like it, then tell me what you like about it. Simply "it's fine", means nothing. This doesn't just apply to writing, either.
Whenever something goes really good, and amazing, and you just have that feeling that THIS IS GOING TO BLOW UP AND HURT ME TEN TIMES AS BADLY SINCE I ENJOYED MYSELF. Whoah caps. I wish there was a button that uncaps it for you
I HATE this. Some idiot was doing it to me today on the train. WTF is wrong with people? The noise drives me up the wall!
Your new avatar and my user name are BFF's! But yeah, people are grotesque little crunchers that make me tighten my lips upon their "chewing". I used to have a boss who had Sickle Cell Anemia, and she'd put off getting her blood transfusions for MONTHS. In the meantime, she'd go fill up a cup and chomp on ice all day long right next to my desk. It got to the point where I started asking her when her last transfusion was, and reminding her to schedule them.
I have a sickening crush on Audrey, so badly that I make all my characters look like her. Well, most of the female ones, anyway.
I hate when people my age, slightly older or even younger act condescending towards me. Especially when this are people that don't really know me and somehow feel they should act that way. Seriously, people, I'm 23, I don't need you to treat me like a naive and helpless little baby bird.
