Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

I love being quaint and old-fashioned. It's part of my charm.

 

And harder for people to track you.

 

Trackless wastes are among my favorite places.

 

No matter how many stars a book I'm checking out on goodreads might have, it always seems like the first review I'm shown is a 1 or 2 star super-rant about how dreadful it is.

 

Shower controls that don’t make it clear which way is hot and which way is cold. Just show me a blue arrow pointing one way, and a red one pointing the other. It’s not rocket science!

 

The spacebar on my keyboard only works 50% of the time and you have to press direct centre on the damn thing with maximum force, or it doesn't print. Literally, all you hear when I'm writing is: type, type, type, sMASH, type type type, SMaSH. It was my fault. I dropped it a few weeks back and it's never been the same. Brand new, too.

Sidenote: I started typing 'spacebar' and accidentally pressed 'd', ending up with 'spacebard'. Never knew I wanted that as a word.

Spacebard. SPACEBARD. WHY HAVE I NEVER THOUGHT OF THIS BEFORE??

William Shakespeare, where u at?

 

He's probably hanging out in the space bar.

With Brigitte Bar-Dot

 

I just love that photo. It makes the whole thing look like a bad romance fanfic.

 

Keyboards start at around £7.00 in the UK. Splash out! Treat yourself!

 

eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die

 

eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we diet.

 

Finally, one of the peeves I posted here is addressed.

http://www.justthefuckingrecipe.net/

 

bookmarked, thanks.

 

On how chefs tell you their life story before seeing their recipe at the bottom of the page? I hate that, too! I also bookmarked it! Thank you SO much for this!

 

Yeah, they need to get blogs or something, so they don't need to do it in every recipe.

 

Grandma: when are you going to give me a great grand baby?

Mom: maybe next year we can celebrate YOUR Mothers Day when you, you know, have a baby.


Why is it only women who get asked/told these things?
No one ever tells my husband this or asks him when hes having kids.

Im so irritated. This has been going on since i got married, but they upped the comments after my birthday last month. Im so over it...

 

Happy Unmother's Day, J.T.

 

Annoyance du jour: leaving memorial bouquets of flowers at a site without removing the plastic sleeve.

 

Leaving flowers or stuffed animals at a site of a fatal accident or murder at all, especially if the victim is some sort of celebrity.

 

The phonetic spelling of the letter 'H'.

No seriously, if you don't know it, look it up. I play Scrabble, and I was bothered when I discovered the phonetic spelling. Not because I didn't already know it, but because I never would have guessed it.

Some letters have straightforward phonetic spellings like 'em' and 'en' for M and L and can be valuable words to play. Then others like the letter 'A' have a phonetic spelling of simply 'A' and are unplayable. Not 'Aye' as you might guess, but that's OK, Aye is already a word. So 'H' must simply be the phonetic spelling of itself right? No, that would be too easy.

I discovered this on a blog and the author was as bothered by it as I am.

 

It's aitch, isn't it? I think it looks kind of cool. And it is pretty much the simplest phonetic spelling of the sound I think. I don't know how you'd shorten it in conventional English spelling.

 

In Britain it's pronounced 'Haitch'. That bothers me for some reason.

 

Your anti-Cockney bias is showing?

 

zed really gets my goat

 

Maybe it just sounds too much like Hate?