Things that annoy me but shouldnt, part 2

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    Tina Turner’s voice. It’s like fingernails down a blackboard to my ears.
     
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    But a shoulder harness would resolve this if windpipe damage is a worry. I’ve never seen a dog trying to reject a harness, but plenty clawing at their face or rubbing their snout along the ground when wearing these halters. That said, anything is preferable to a muzzle!
     
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    From your signature. It's Pepper Potts, to Tony Stark in her office when he was supposedly trying to apologize. What's really ironic is that immediately after saying that, she began her next several sentences with 'I'. o_O :p Of course, she should have been the subject, since it was supposed to be his apology, but it stell felt pretty hypocritical. Just a funny little fact to notice.
     
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    Haha! I’d completely forgotten I’d changed my signature to that (sigs don’t show up on my phone for some reason) so when I saw it I was very puzzled, wondering when, why and to whom I’d said it.

    I love the way they talk to each other in those films, and this one line made me laugh out loud. Well spotted!
     
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    If there's a more annoying person in sports than Pat McAfee, I don't know who it would be.
     
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    Joe Buck? Phil Simms?
     
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    Ian Botham hands down
     
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    I have never heard of any of those people. Shall I count my blessings?
     
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    Yes, in every case. If you'll excuse me, I have to continue to watch Texas school Nick Saban on how the game of football is played.
     
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    Well, one wouldn't want that, would one?
     
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    Pretty sure 'bama will be okay.
     
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    Big cookies that are too crumbly.

    You eat them, and there are bits constantly dropping off and falling into your lap. Now there's a first world problem for ya.
     
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    News websites that link to paywalled articles.
     
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    Online stores that have a search feature which requires you to type in specific terminology for things that have a wide variety of names, otherwise it returns a “Sorry, no items match that search”

    I want one of these cable tidy sleeve things. Like a plastic, flexible snake you put all your cables in. The store I’m trying is very likely to sell these, but because I’m not searching the exact name they’ve used in their database, it won’t find them.
     
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    Try searching for something like cable ties. What you're looking for might be listed alongside them.

    In fact, years ago I wanted the same thing you're looking for. After some research I decided against it and instead got a bunch of those velcro cable ties. Just a few of them did the job excellently.
     
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    Amazon finds them no problem, because their search feature is very clever and allows for all manner of names and terms, but I wanted to do the job tonight so I’m looking for a high-street stockists. Cable ties are an option, but don’t produce the same clean look. With one of these cable sleeves you’re left with a single loom of cables that just looks like one fat cable, which I can then tape to a leg of my podium thing.
     
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    Honestly I got exactly the result you're looking for with about 3 or 4 cable ties. I wish I still had it set up like that or had taken a picture, but that computer died and I changed everything and haven't re-wrapped it. But I quite literally had all the cables in one compact bundle and then used a couple more of the ties to attach it to a table leg.

    Here, this is kind of what it looked like, except of course my cords weren't all the same color:
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    In my searching for pics I ran across a few terms you might try—cable sock, cable sleeve, or cable wrap. Not at all sure they're the same in the UK of course.
     
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    It’s all academic now anyway. I just popped into a hardware shop that stocked them.
     
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    'stocked'—as in past tense? Did you buy them out completely? :p The way you worded it makes it sound that way.
     
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    ‘Stocks’ them. I had a brain fart.
     
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    Do my kids count? I mean, I love them…but it took me 30 min to read my prologue of 1936 words and actually be able to focus on what I was reading. And this was after bribing the 6 yo with candy to shut up for 5 min. This is why I can’t get stuff done.
     
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    Before I had children, I always said I'd never bribe my children with food.

    Ha, and Ha again.
     
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    How often did it come up?
     
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    In those days, I didn't have time or energy to count.
     
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    I dislike the fact that in movies and TV shows they have people riding horses at a full gallop, implying the horses ran the whole way. If they did the horses would be dead.

    I hate the colors yellow and red together, so gross.

    What you stand on is the podium, what you stand behind is the lectern.

    I dislike the fact that when a story is labeled 'explicit' and the gory details are barely implied. Show me the gore, the blood, the violence, the sex, I want to read it all.

    I hate that I know what a Dutch Rudder is.
     

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