Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

You're doing it wrong. This should annoy you.

It's doubly annoying when people do it the other way round, and say that bad things happen as a result of human wickedness. And triply annoying if they do both in the same sentence. "This earthquake was a punishment for our sins, but praise god for saving me and my family! (PS. Fuck the humans beings who endangered themselves to pull us out of the rubble)"

I did some work in a catholic school once, and they had a wall display which had in huge letters, "WE LOVE JESUS! JESUS HEALS THE SICK!" I felt compelled to deface said display and replace every occurrence of the word "Jesus" with "science".

 

Tell that to all the people suffering from iatrogenic diseases and all the billionaires
created by the pharma industry. Keep pretending to yourself that you're at the cutting
edge of knowledge etc.

But you're not though. You're totally ignorant about the world.

 

Radios on motorcycles. Take your 120-decibel Classic Rock and shove it up your tailpipe.

 

This woman at my job kept having a visitor that was completely rude to all the staff at the facility. One day, I told the patient her visitor was being an asshole and she would no longer be allowed to visit if she couldn't act like a decent human being.

The patient's response: "She had demons talking out of her daughter the other day, so you can see why she'd act like that."

Nope. Fictional demons of a crazy person do not warrant shitty behavior to actual human beings. Sorry.

 

Tell that to all the billions of people who aren't dying of bubonic plague, influenza, malaria, small pox, ebola et al.

Sorry, but if you actually think that science and medicine are not objectively good things then you are deluded.

 

But you can't say that to her, of course, because that would be hate speech.

 

Last time I was getting my chemo, while I had earbuds in / was half trying to take a nap, a lady who'd been sitting across from me in the clinic finished her thing (it looked like she was getting IV iron, maybe, not chemo) and came over to say something to my mom, who was waiting with me. After she left I took my earbuds out and asked what she'd said. My mom kind of rolled her eyes and told me that this woman had asked if I had cancer and then assured her that God would heal me.

Uh ... nah, lady. It's the chemo. The chemo's going to heal me. That's why I was there. You were also here for modern medicine to heal you. If you think God's gonna do it, you can just stay home.

Honestly, the number of nurses, techs, and assorted office workers who've told me God would take care of things while actively assisting the process of taking it out of God's hands has been frustrating and worrying. I politely smile and nod, because these are at least good people trying to make the world suck less. But this random woman? It's a good thing I was sleepy that day or I might have said some shit.

 

But who made the chemo drugs? Eh? Eh??? Oh right, scientists. Aha! Who made the scientists? What's that? Natural selection? Mmm, yes. Ok, well who made nature? Anybody? No? Nobody has a fucking clue? Oh right, well god then. That's how knowledge works, right?

If a clinician said that to me I would ask to be treated by somebody else. I will not put my life in the hands of somebody who places blind faith in an unseen entity I don't believe in. I would rather be treated by somebody who knows that if they don't stop me dying, nobody will. Kind of encourages you to make more of an effort if you know that you alone are responsible for your actions.

 

I completely agree in theory, but in the Bible Belt I don't love my chances of finding that person, hahah. Sometimes you just gotta take the person who can talk very knowledgeably about the drugs they're pumping into you even though at the end of the visit they tell you to have a blessed day.

At least neither my main oncologist nor my surgeon have said anything about deities. They're the main ones. As long as everyone else does what they say, I'm probably good.

 

Well, they're obviously doing something right since you seem to be doing great, thank god!

 

Having to hold my tongue when other people bother me. Seems to be an almost daily occurrence!

 

Yep.

 

When a book I'm buying has "Now a Netflix TV show!" on its cover.

ಠ_ಠ​

 

My son. 'nuff said!

 

Must resist urge to make pedophile joke.... must resist urge...

The thing that annoys me? When my snarky, mean-spirited ‘humor’ creeps out at the worse possible time. Damn it, humor! D:< Can you NOT make me look like a friggin asshole, thanks.

 

Take the "most days" out of this and this is me rn

The issue is, some TV shows are now of a film length, so where do we draw that line?

My eyesight annoys me, I'm 24 and I've had to spend at least 20 years of that dealing with shitty eyesight, and frankly, I'm getting tired of it already...

Also, Job Descriptions that clearly haven't been proofread, or were proofread, badly. I personally think companies look dumb if they haven't at least run it through a spelling/grammar checker before posting that thing online... I mean, the job sounds good, but appalling spelling/grammar will have me running faster than Usain Bolt doing the 100m sprint. (it isn't even that difficult, I actually run Grammarly on my online presence to double check professional stuff before I send it out.)

 

tyPisyt wanted. Must have goid finggering skills becos i'm having to doo this 4 meslf theesdays.

 

My daughter is, well she's had her problems (my kids are adopted - CAHMS told me "they're adopted, they're damaged) anyway, she kinda flunked school but picked her socks up around 17 and got on an apprenticeship (which led to a full time job and she's now in her own flat) but when she was applying for apprenticeships/jobs, she asked me to help with her CV "cos you're a writer and all, and know about words ..." She wrote, I dictated, she changed, I checked, I changed, she checked and changed ... it took us TWO FRIGGIN DAYS to do this one page CV because she questioned EVERYTHING, every bloody single twatting word/phrase/sentence.

Mind, she learned a thing or two and now does her own!

I will never understand how anyone can fluff up a CV, it's not something you rush, and you read it like 50 times! That said, I think your eyes do lie to you and you need a second (or even third) person to look over these things.

 

Better than your tongue holding you I suppose.

 

Justin Bieber.

Or anything to do with him if I am being exact.

 

Yeah, but only when I take off my skin to give it to the dry cleaners. They way people stare, so rude...

 

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YES! This is annoying and I hadn't even realised!

 

Really, any text on the cover that's not the book's/series' title, subtitle or author is annoying. It's all just commercial and baiting (which is understandable but still).