Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

Diamond Painting

"Microplastics are a serious health issue..."

"What, not enough of them randomly floating around? Say no more, fam!"

 

Hype. I finally bothered to get one of those chicken sandwiches at Popeye’s Chicken, now that the clamor for them has died down. These sandwiches were supposed to be some sort of spiritual experience in chicken. Nope. It’s just fried chicken on bread with pickles and mayo.

 

I remember trying to find a pretty good fast food fried chicken sandwich that I'd had one time but couldn't remember where from. Not KFC, not Brown's, not Popeye's (this was some time ago, no experience with the new-ish one) and then I finally realized it was McDonald's that had done the deed.

 

This applies to any video really, but I find it a lot in videos of song covers. You hit play and they start talking about who they are. Then they tell us what song they're about to cover (I know what song - it's in the title of your video, and I'm the one who searched for it!). Then they tell us what the song means to them. And then when they first learned to play it. And then the name of the cat curled up on the bed behind them. And then the name of the person who wrote it...

JUST SING THE FUCKING SONG!!

 

I'll remind you of this in 6 months when you start your video channel...

 

6 months? If I'm good enough to be uploading song covers to youtube in 6 months I'll be very impressed and proud.

 

I wouldn’t go out of my way to get it, but if you happen to be there for the red beans and rice, which actually is pretty good for fast food, then your basic choices are the fried chicken, chicken fingers, or the sandwich.

 

The Sunday routine of buying five day's worth of lunches for the week ahead has started to get me down so much I've decided this week I'm going to buy them on the day, while at work. Not the most economical way to live, but it certainly feels good not having to make my usual trip over to the supermarket today.

 

John Grisham holds both number four and number five on the NYT fiction best-seller list. Doesn't seem fair.

 

"Things That Don't Annoy Me, But Will."

 

From my goodreads page. Sometimes, I wonder how 'algorithms' work these things out...

 

Might belong in the Happy thread, but the change in auto insurance laws here in Michigan reduced my premium by two thirds. Annoys me that I've been paying the inflated rate for better than twenty years.

 

When people don't put the apostrophe in I'm. It's a lot better than it used to be but there was a point in time where I'd edit other people's tumblr posts if it wasn't there.

...of course, that was back when you could still edit posts like that, but still.

 

Corollary:

People who use commas as apostrophes in texts because the apostrophe is on another page on their phone's keyboard.

 

Im guilty of this

Then again, i only do this when im typing from my phone (you can see the difference between my phone typing and computer typing, i think) Like @Earp said... The symbols are on two other pages and, as the meme says, "aint nobody got time fo that"

 

Recognizable actors who can't present a television commercial without obviously reading the ad copy from just off camera. You're a professional actor. You can't memorize thirty seconds of dialogue?

 

People who won't even give Joshy a chance simply cause "he's not Steve."

 

"Fo shizzle"

 

...Sounds thoroughly reasonable to me.

 

You can't torture someone with a 12-volt car battery and jumper cables.

 

Step one: drop the battery on their foot
Step two: flagellate them with the cables while they hop around
holding onto their sore foot.

Potential hours of entertainment.
(Sometimes outside of the box is needed).

 

Annoyed by movies which use this nonsense as a plot device.

Your safety sign probably had other circuitry in it that boosted the voltage. Anything under 40 volts is considered non-lethal, regardless of amperage, which is why you can test a 9-volt battery with your tongue.