Things that annoy me but shouldnt, part 2

Is it getting cut just under the knee then?

 

A few inches yes. I'm told that's the best place to do it for a prosthetic.

 

This current ‘guilt trip’ device the media are employing, by getting kids to front Climate Change campaigns. I have no idea what the younger generation are like in other parts of the world, but quite frankly the thought that we’re leaving the responsibility of Earth to these future adults terrifies me to my very soul. I’m just glad I won’t be around very long to see them continue fucking it up.

 

That does make sense.

 

You’re just saying that to depress me!

 

If boredom sets in, repeat last item as many times as necessary

 

TV announcers who refer to Michigan State's football team as 'Sparty'. Probably the same people who call Reese's Peanut Butter Cups 'Reesies'.

 

This is going to be controversial but... People who get annoyed about stuff to write it down. Who has enough time or energy for that!?

I mean I can understand, feeling passionately angry about, but why be annoyed about anything enough to write about it? Weak sauce guys.

BTW I'm a little tipsy.

 

People who stress the first syllable in "pathetic", ie PATH-etic.

 

i haven’t heard that one before

 

The stress is more on the first half of the syllable; Pa-thetic

 

That I can never find my birth certificate when I need it. It will turn up when I’m not looking for it, long after the moment when I needed it has past. “Just put it somewhere you’ll know where it is!!!” I tell myself “It’s not fucking difficult!”

Six months down the line, “Ah, I’m gonna need my birth certificate for that. Now where is it?” and the hopeless hunt starts again!!

 

I had a professor in college who would say it that way. I think she was trying to make clear she was using it in its more precise sense, "inspiring pathos or pity", rather than what I think is now its more common definition, "inadequate or of low standard".

What she was really doing was a) showing off and b) indicating that she didn't trust her students to know both definitions and figure out which she meant from context.

I should note everyone involved here was American, maybe that pronunciation is normal in Britain or wherever.

 

I'd say the former...the latter makes me think of that one Beethoven sonata.

 

paTHETic is all i’ve ever heard

 

We hit the THET pretty hard.

 

Oh, dear. I think I say pa-THE

This Murrican will never be able to say it again since at this point she can't remember how she used to say it and will lapse into confused silence any time she comes across the word in the future. How pathetic.

 

Last time I got hiccups really bad I did the spoon in a glass of water trick and it worked.