Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

In fairness, I think I get annoyed out of proportion about everything.

 

I don't think I like the way you TYPED THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Animal pictures on facebook.....

I am annoyed because i want them all and i cant have them

Saw a possom on a leash.... I want him.
Saw some kind of monitor lizard chasing, idk, a coconut? I want him!
A parakeet on someones shoulder? Pleeeeese gimme bird.
A tortoise in a crochet taco cozy... OMG I WANT HIM!

-sighs-

(Maybe i'll get a tortoise.... I already know what to name it, too....)

 

The problem in my house is that I actually do follow through and get the animals...

 

Power to you!

(Not that I'd do this to my future potential tortoise -nervous laughter- but check out Ethel the Tortoise!)

 

That's a beautiful girl there! I cant tell you how many times I almost got a big tortoise. I don't know why, but I just find it endlessly amusing seeing them eat.

 

They're wonderful creatures.

 

people on YT and TV who drive high drama generate the most views, "inspiring" others to do the same thing. That fact alone makes me lose faith in humanity. It shouldn't bother me if I want to keep myself sane.

 

Old age, I guess, but I have a problem with very short term memory. I can't find much about it, but I have no general memory problems (except that occasional inability to come up with a name for someone or something), but all too often, I'l be sitting at my desk and think of something I want to research, and before I can get my hand on the mouse, I've forgotten what I wanted to look up. Happens almost daily.

 

You and me both. Sometimes it comes to me much, much later, but yeah, by the time I've opened a new tab I've got no idea what I was going to look for.

 

The caramel turned out to be a dud. The chocolate bar provided a nice high, though a lot different from the effect from smoking (mellower, I think). The memory thing started a lot longer ago, though.

 

I've been experiencing that exact phenomenon daily since I was a kid. Hooray for ADD. Sometimes if I immediately go back to what I was doing, it will occur to me again. Sometime.

 

I know that physical pain is the body's way of telling the brain something is wrong, but I got the message, loud and clear, a long time ago. You can stop now.

 

Yeah, pain is just weakness leaving your body until you're about 30.

 

Annoyance: When I accidently pull out a cable from the back of my computer than have to root around behind the back of the desk because I have no idea which of that tangle of black cables it actually is.

 

I live with a constant pain in the neck.

But she's moving out soon.

 

I don't care what the reasoning is, the word 'octopuses' is a joke. It should clearly be 'octopi.'

 

This likely isn't one of those moments where misery loves company, but know that you are not alone. Happens to me too with alarming regularity. I'm like, I quite literally just opened the tab to search, how can I be drawing a blank?? The thought isn't even 15 seconds old yet!

 

Not really.

"The scientific Latin term octopus was derived from Ancient Greek ὀκτώπους, a compound form of ὀκτώ (oktō, "eight") and πούς (pous, "foot"), itself a variant form of ὀκτάπους, a word used for example by Alexander of Tralles (c. 525–605) for the common octopus.[3][4][5] The standard pluralised form of "octopus" in English is "octopuses";[6] the Ancient Greek plural ὀκτώποδες, "octopodes" (/ɒkˈtɒpədiːz/), has also been used historically.[7] The alternative plural "octopi" is considered grammatically incorrect because it wrongly assumes that octopus is a Latin second declension "-us" noun or adjective when, in either Greek or Latin, it is a third declension noun."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus#Etymology_and_pluralisation

 

Different language, but similar reasoning is why oxe becomes oxen but fox becomes foxes, not foxen, as some are wont to do. The two words belong to different noun groups with respect to declension.

 

Oh, you took me seriously. That's a shame.

 

And the idea that Latin borrowings have to be pluralized according to Latin rules of grammar in every instance doesn't really hold water. We're speaking English after all.

 

That's one way to cover it up.