Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

The mask helps filter out the germs, you can still breath it in if your car has auto temperature control. Now you're going to say she could've done this or that and I'm going to say, not everyone can be arsed wiping down their car or figuring out how to disable the air circulating in their car when they could just put on a mask and be content. Also, how do you run out of masks? Why weren't they prepared for this? I find it unsettling that they weren't. The fuck do they think 'potential pandemic' stands for? Don't prepare for public response? Let's not order any masks until we have two left?

 

Bra hooks.

Now, I'm not talking "Teenager in the backseat of Dad's Ford, knowing that his chances of getting some tonight may rely on a smooth (but not too smooth, don't want her to think you're a player) technique." I'm talking the "Middle-aged married man, knowing that his chances of getting some tonight may rely on being able to say 'Honey, I did the laundry and vacuumed the apartment while you were at work. Dinner will be ready in a few minutes.' technique."

The damn things snag on everything in the laundry basket when you're trying to hang things out to dry...

 

When singers recording a song in the studio hold a hand up to their ear. Yes, I know why they do it, but I'm sure a lot of the time it's done to emit a 'professional singer' persona.. "Look at me. I must be a professional and respected artist because I'm holding my hand to my ear when I sing." I've even seen them do when they're wearing headphones, with their hand cupped over the bowl of the earpiece.

 

Priceless!!

 

You can always clip it together before it goes in.

...And now I know at least one technique I may see in my future.

 

I'm not in charge of removal all the time...

 

But if you put in the laundry, you can hook it together before you put it in the machine. Or did you mean that Mrs A loaded it prior, and you're now finishing the process?
Or you can buy laundry bags for delicate items.

 

Online shops that pay to have their site at the top of all search results, and automatically include your search query in the title, under the pretence they sell the item even when they don't. I could search for 'banana skins' and there'd be an online shop at the top of the results page saying 'Banana Skins For Less - Save On Fruit!'

 

One of your favorite actors/-tresses is listed in the opening credits of a TV show, and then only appears in one little scene. Doubly so when it's the cliffhanger closeup right at the end.

 

F morons who say "lay" instead of lie. It's epidemic.

 

Watching "The Color out of Space" in the dark and turning on the lights only to find my wooden floor coated in blood. One of my poor chihuahuas toenails broke off and he bled across the floor. After washing and dabbing it with a crushed styptic pen, it stopped bleeding. He hasn't been licking at it, which makes me think it's not so big a deal. Very upsetting. (this happened the previous night)

-SIN

 

First I've heard of it, and imdb has no release date for Japan.

Welp...

 

The guy who did Hardware...think he's a New Zealander? He directed. Anyway, it's got Nic Cage. Which casting Nic in a Lovecraftian film is just smart casting. It's pretty faithful. I liked it. Mind you, it's as bleak as the story.

-SIN

 

Ditto. Sit/set confusion also drives me nuts.

 

That there are people willing to stare at a screen watching adults play with Legos.

 

That show is everywhere I look. It was even playing at a sports bar the other night. I've never watched an episode, but kid saw an ad and says, "We watch that at my mom's house!" He's five. What's her excuse? She doesn't even play with them. I on the other hand love Legos. We build all the time, but I'm not watching a show about it. Same reason I won't let my kid watch hours of other people playing video games on YouTube. Play it yourself! If you get stuck, watch part of a walkthrough if you must. Video games on YT are practically the only reason we have screen time limits in this house. There's no value in that.

Things that annoy me but shouldn't: video games on YouTube.

 

Are we talking about the little plastic building bricks? Why are you both putting an S on the end?? The plural of Lego is Lego.

 

There in Old Blighty maybe, but here in the colonies it has an s.

 

I'm sure you lot change words for no other reason that to be different

 

Legos, Nigeria

..

Dr. Mat J Woolf esq, HP

 

You don't know the half of it. We also know how to properly pronounce 'laboratory' and 'Jaguar'.

 

We had this conversation a few days ago. In America, one brick is a Lego, a pile of bricks are Legos. We'd have to ask someone in Denmark if either is correct, but we're not changing it.

 

Read Chaucer and tell me you're speaking the original English and we're not.

 

Wait a minute...Chaucer wrote about Lego? I didn't know he made predictions too.