Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

Television period dramas.

I don't watch them, but they're difficult to avoid. Anyway they irritate me because I never get any sense that I'm watching people from that timeline. They're just people from now dressed in old fashioned clothes. They don't speak like people from that time. They don't look like people from that time. And they don't behave like people from that time.

 

Writing.

 

But somehow the 1972 Hardy adaptation is 'authentic' - that's my failing/weakness.

 

Matwoolf.

 

Fool! NEVER reveal your secret weakness! You have just given your enemies the very weapon they need to defeat you!

 

THIS!!! BRAVO!!

 

L.A? Haven't been there before, but is it anything like NYC? This video shows a little bit of average life in the busy city, and just having the sightseeing A.T.Ms strolling through it grates on the nerves a bit.

 

Student drivers. We were all there at one point, so I shouldn't be too annoyed by the newbies, but goddamn. I'm all in favor to change the title into: "Stupid Driver," however, that title could fit many of NYCs drivers, so it's unfair to just pick on them. Perhaps "Noob Driver" is a good title or "Insurance very high" driver.

 

"This ain't goddamn Mayberry bro!"
I swear I don't have road rage.

 

Turned on the AC and then an apparent domestic dispute broke out just as I was shutting the window. Now I am torn between nice cool room temp and being able to find out what neighbor lady is yelling about.

 

L.A. is very different than NYC. In LA., slow walkers are more likely to anger joggers than other walkers. Until recent years, there weren't many walkers in L.A. at all. In parts of downtown the pace is a bit quicker and sidewalks are a bit more populated, though. But nothing like New York.

There is an L.A. equivalent to New York anger at slow walkers, though: Many L.A. divers are horrible to bicyclists, to the point of literally running them over or opening their car doors quickly as they pass. 5-10 years ago, there was a pretty well-publicized case of a doctor running down a cyclist in a fit of road rage. The cyclist was killed.

 

Not exact, but along those lines:

 

I’ve only heard “built like a brick shit house” used about women (in the U.S.) It’s crude but a compliment nonetheless, meaning well built in a sexy way (as opposed to looking like you’d be good choice for doing heavy manual labor).

 

No, it is a total Churchill, best so far, and out-ranks pissed/pissed off/fag/fag on our scale of confusion.

 

Utopias!

 

"Built like a brickhouse" is a reference to the story of the Three Little Pigs. In it, only the last pig, whose house was made of brick, ie, something of substance, was able to withstand the advances of the big bad wolf. So the phrase is actually used to describe a virtuous woman.

 

Maybe so, but in British English the expression always applies to a man/slang of muscles, pub talk. You might try it otherways but you'd find it heavy going...

 

I made that up, you mug.

 

I am mupet

 

Is it just me?

 

Made it 5-6 seconds, my brain said: "Fucking Nope!"
and that is all she wrote.
I found that video to be highly annoying.

 

And yet the dude has 4.5 million subscribers, o I thought he must be doing something right. But then I remembered when I was a kid there was an actual PSA on TV about how shaking your baby can give it brain damage and the world kinda made sense for a minute there.

 

I think it might be more related to being an obnoxious twat who plays games.
Becuase Pewdiepie was popular for that, so why not any jackass with a computer
and play games while doing the same thing.

Or there was just a larger portion of society that was a failed abortion attempt,
and there are hangers with large chunks of baby brains on them.

Or somebody was still smoking with the biscuit in the oven. 2-3 packs a day.

Or my personal theory, people have gotten a lot dumber with the advent of
technology becoming more and more available to people who have no idea
what it's like to actually have to interact with the real world by actually going
outside and meeting other people.

IDK, fuck the concept behind the willfully dumb-assery.

 

Stargate, the 1994 movie, was on last night.

I like it, but...

Every time a work of fiction (usually a movie, but sometimes a book) mentions anything as having come from another galaxy.

The longest walk I've ever taken was 34k (~20 miles), unencumbered with anything save a little daypack to carry a water bottle in. It was along National Route 2, from Osaka to Kobe, took me around six and half hours. Plenty of convenient stores, vending machines, and fast food restaurants along the way. The longest encumbered walk (hump) was something around 15-18 miles, kevlar helmet, flak jacket, ~50 pound pack, rifle, and sixty-five of my closest friends over uneven (they run the roads over the crests of the hills at Camp Pendleton to make it harder) terrain.

The longest drive I've ever done solo was about 1300 miles, took twenty hours of drive time, split up over three days (Sunday evening, all day Monday, in Tuesday by lunchtime).

The longest non-stop flight I've ever taken was probably from Detroit to Tokyo, around 10,000 km (6k miles), and about 14 hours.

It took the Apollo astronauts about three days to get to the moon.

It takes light 8 minutes to get to the Earth from the sun, 43 minutes to Jupiter, and over 5 hours* to get to Pluto. Screenwriters (and others) have no fucking clue how big space is. You can put in your aliens with FTL, but unless it is flat-out instantaneous with no distance limitations, things coming from the Kalium galaxy, at the edge of the known universe, or the big bad who "traveled or searched the galaxies" just make my fucking teeth itch.

*really elliptical orbit, so I'm guessing that's an average.