Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

Those "do you accept cookies" pop-ups are really, really starting bug me out.

And then I went to my own site from another computer. Guess what I got?

 

They're everywhere. I've opted to just "accept all" everytime, no way am I going to pick options of all the gazillion sites I visit.

I can't remember the politics behind them anymore, but I think it was something to increase the user's integrity and security. Well if we just accept everything all the time because of spam, then it's a bit of an ineffective method of protecting our integrity.

It's just not feasible or reasonable to read and sign law text everywhere you go.

Redesign.

 

It was to do with the ridiculous fear that somehow, all these advertising cookies meant you were being spied on.

 

My veterinarian wears a mask because he is allergic to cats. Maybe these folks simply don't want to be identified? Or are playing out a fantasy of being masked bandits? Or are leery of germs being breathed on the by the photographer? Hiding a bad case of acne? Didn't shave that morning?

 

Maybe they think the viewers can infect them through the webcam? Who knows?

 

We're definitely being spied on. Every time I look at something that category starts showing up in all my YouTube visits and Google searches etc. Skynet knows all we do, all we desire, all we dare to believe. Of course it's being used for marketing rather than by the government. Marketers are far more capable and skillful than the government. Oh, the government collects all data on all of us too, that's what the NSA is for, but they're so incompetent they can't use it effectively.

 

Youtube knows I've been watching a lot of cat videos lately.

 

Sure, they know lots of useless stuff, but when the government becomes fully tyrannical they can find all their political enemies.

 

#fuckthefeds

come and get me bitches

 

I have no idea why they ask for cookies. I don't know how to bake.

 

Anybody in Pittsburgh will tell you there's always more tunnels, with monsters in all of them. Especially the one under Squirrel Hill. You have to drive through them very, very slowly to watch out against getting jumped, thus the daily rush hour back-ups.

Spoiler: "It's the end of the world!"

Real documentation! LOL

 

Exodus 20:14, "... Thou shalt commit adultery ..."
Deuteronomy 5:24, "... The Lord hath showed us his glory and his great arse ..."
--- The Holy Bible, AKA The Wicked Bible, 1631, Barker and Lucas

Godsdamnedit, what do you think we've all been doing last twenty years? We need help, its not working. Its all shoulders to the wheel on this one.

 

Yep. Good old Barker and Lucas, royal printers. The Deuteronomy verse was supposed to say "and his greatness," but came out "great-asse."

Long as we're on the subject of lexical annoyances, what bugs me is the current fashion of shortening "microphone" to "mic." I'm sorry, people, but an athlete competing in the Tour de France does not ride a "bic," nor does a small child go about on a "tric." Whatever happened to "mike," like we used to say and spell it?

In the hope that the English-speaking world will someday come to reason, I continue to believe that those who perpetuate this silly-ass abbreviation are simply taking . . . the mick.

 

People who, over the past three years or so, have taken to saying just 'fair' rather than 'fair enough', 'fair play', or whatever it is they are grasping for.

Sometimes people say, 'fair, fair'. God help them, because the rest of us surely won't.

A friend of mine says it is an upper-middle thing, a word variant being super-spread within Russell Group uni students.

I can see that. To me it always sounds like someone starting to say 'fair play', but losing their nerve halfway through when they realise they're just not proley enough to pull it off.

As the subject line finishes "... But shouldn't" I am comfortable posting this from a position of ignorance. No doubt someone is now going to tell me that 'fair, fair' is a venerable usage originating from steel workers in Sheffield, or shrimpers from New Orleans. I will be wrong, but I won't feel wrong, because damn, those post-grads sound awkward.

 

Not encountered this myself. The one that gets me is this trend for starting every sentence with ‘So...’

“What do you do for a living?”
“So, I work for a company that blah blah blah...”

 

On the other hand it can make for some grand sounding literature, if you are brave enough to really ham it up. "So it came to pass.."; "So I smote the Anurbites in their dwellings, and stole their womenfolk, and shopped their childfolk to Social Services, and did lightly griddle their livestock (three minutes a side, with a splash of cider vin.)"; "So long, numbskull"; and so on. Epic stuff.

 

Ah, yes, but the key is the pause... “So, I work for a company that...”

Nothing at all wrong with starting a sentence with so, such as in the examples you provided.

 

People who won’t accept the offer of a biscuit/piece of gum/whatever. If they genuinely don’t want it, fair, but it’s clear that quite often they have a self-imposed policy of not accepting gifts from others.

 

New week... New drama.

"I want this book HARD COVER"
(Book is only available as a paperback)

Im sensing grief coming my way....


People get so pissy if you give them paperback when they want hard cover, or vice versa. Like, im not the publisher. I cant make a book hard cover or a hard cover into a paperback.... I can only get what's available.

 

I think I love you.

 

Also people who insist on offering a biscuit/piece of gum/whatever to other people.

 

A needle pulling thread?