Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

I saw a guy yesterday, probably 38/50 years old with a bandanna [wrap] and eye-liner and tight black jeans. He was a full 'tool.' But then my buddy and colleague went out and chatted to the guy and he seemed like a nice boy. I was a little shamed by my knee-jerk.

 

Musketeers without muskets.

 

Haven't drawn a paycheque since 2006. Last year was my second kidney procedure, so I prefer to remain blissfully ignorant.

 

The VIT I've been working on is finished...sorta. I have now overdone the job, and so need to make a final decision. Which is fine...except that I'm no good at making decisions! And it's all my own damn fault. No one else is to blame. *Sigh*

 

And The Big Bang Theory. First two seasons were good, and then crash...

 

Maybe that's because they've been waiting at HR and you didn't know about it because you didn't get my GIF.

 

@Earp said
The continued popularity of certain TV shows, including Big Brother and Two Broke Girls

Wait...Kat Dennings is on Two Broke Girls and she makes an old mans heart glad.

 

My co-workers constantly complaining at work. Do you wanna know why you're so bitter and miserable at work? Because you complain even when we're having good days. You complain when we're well above our goal and when we have things that are quick and easy to pack. Today would've been one of the easiest day since I started... if it wasn't for the bitching and moaning.

Easy stuff is boring. Hard stuff is too difficult. Too many orders in a day? Stressfull. Too few orders in a day? Boring because they can't change the machine. There's nothing they're ever content with. It's more draining than the actual job.

I'm not usually a "positive thinker" - but work is not going to get better if all you ever do is complain about it.

 

Eating from a fork upside down.

 

That particular young lady could eat from an upside down spoon and it wouldn't bother me much.

Just sayin'.

 

I have a wide range of tastes.

 

Eat,eat! My little, kisa. You're nothing but skin and bones!

 

I'm mostly just jealous, I don't think I've ever looked that good.

 

As an ex-Yank living in Scotland, I have taken no end of flack for NOT using my fork 'upside down' in my left (non dominant) hand. It's more than an upside down fork, by the way. People use their table knives to shove the food onto the backs of the forks, before putting the forks upside down in the mouth. (Kind of bypassing the purpose of 'fork,' in my opinion.) They can't seem to eat any meal that isn't soup without having a knife in play ...even if the food is already cut up into little bits!

I was raised as an American, who uses the knife in the dominant hand ONLY to cut the food. The fork is held in the non-dominant hand while cutting, and used to steady the food that's being cut. Once the bite is cut, Americans place the knife astride the plate, transfer the fork to the dominant hand, stab the food with the fork, and eat it with the tines pointing up, not down. I was taught that it was impolite to not put the knife down between bites and transfer the fork. Looks as if you're shoveling the food in when you don't.

While British people look very polite using their knives and forks that way, I think the American way is also polite. I like that pause between cutting and eating. It's the way I was taught to use cutlery, and I will do it till the day I die.

 

^ Brits are weird like that. Though I do use a fork the 'British way'. I have a joke that I eat like a Brit and drink like a Yank.

 

We have had this chat before...

I don’t mind the ranchero method.

It just to my cosmopolitan eyes appears rather infantile slicing up your portions before shovelling the shit/pizza/burger.

[‘at work’ text]

 

Also,

...she’s too young...

...as if she’s going to look up into your white beard proclaiming ‘this is the life/such a dream lover/belly/socks/vest/false teeth?’

 

I dunno, how big's you bank account?

 

I wouldn’t ‘get off’ on that...[serious a moment]...

...

 

You drink beer and soft drinks straight out of the can or bottle? Yeah, good old American way. People here are horrified when we do that. I try not to upset them and use a glass, when I'm in company. But it's not my first instinct. When I'm on my own, it's glugglug straight oot the can.

I guess that evens the efficiency score, compared to the knife/fork palaver, eh @matwoolf?