Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

And the dictionary definition of this word is...?

 

Maybe odd complaint but:

Person added me on Facebook today. Someone I talked to before me and Lost started dating. I used to have him as a Facebook-friend but didn't know I had removed him. IF I removed him that was over six months ago. Why on earth would he be adding me six months later? We talked for a day or two on a dating site. Isn't like we were even friend or knew each other to be honest.

So I'm just slightly weirded out by that.

 

Facebook seems to be on some sort of a friends-adding campaign... I'm getting twenty to thirty friends requests per day (to my author page). Possibly whatever's scaring up all these new requests for me also dragged him up?

 

I haven't noticed more requests recently. I mean I get the odd person I've never met before every six months or so, but it was weird since I didn't even remember unfriending this person.

I guess I shouldn't read too much into it.

Though getting more friend requests on your authors page isn't too bad, is it?

 

I don't think it's bad, exactly, but... I don't think they're actually all interested in being friends! I don't know if they're bots or just... something else, but there's no way I've done anything to justify the sudden increase in numbers!

 

Eating. Sometimes it takes too fucking long and I just want to finish and get back to whatever it was I'm doing.

 

I know this one. Same can be said for cooking, I think.

 

I hate this about Facebook. I use my first name and my middle name on Facebook because I only use it to interact with a Pokémon Go group. I don't want people I know, or have known, contacting me through Facebook. I don't put any personal details on FB or allow it access to my contacts, emails or anything. It's a little bubble on its own. But somehow, FB knows things about me. It suggests I add people who I do actually know, or people I knew years ago. How the fuck does it know this stuff? I didn't tell it or allow it access to any of that stuff

 

This is why I need a wife.

I'm kidding.

Or...am I?

 

And showering!

 

I'm ambivalent about showering. Sometimes I really love a nice hot shower, and sometimes it's a really irritating distraction from much more enjoyable things. There is no middle ground.

 

I completely agree.

 

Baths are my bugbear. Takes ages to fill, then you soak in self-dirtied water for x amount of time.

ETA: Bugbear: a cause of obsessive fear, anxiety, or irritation.

 

Never heard of a "bugbear." When I googled it, I got some D&D monster. Neat.

 

Japanese style, take a shower first, get yourself clean, then soak.

 

That was one of the best things about Japan. Wish we had those baths stateside.

If only Kawaii culture would also die out. Would've moved there for a bit...

 

Unnecessary waste of water.

 

My washing machine has a hose that goes to the tub so you can recycle the bathwater for the initial rinse of your dirty clothes. Second round is fresh from the tap, but the bathwater is basically clean, so it's used to get the coarse dust and grime off the dirty clothes. No wastage.

 

So is peeing, yesh, we need a home filter for urine. Can make my own goddamn water now, ha, take that Uncle Sam!

Uncle Sam is what we call the big bad government round these parts.

 

Oh yeah. Don't get me started on toilets. Using clean water to flush human waste! FFS. Yet my tap water here tastes like mould, meaning I have to buy bottled water! Yes, I realise this has now become a first world whinge.

 

Tap water always has this odd taste here. I'm pretty sure NYC just uses toilet water for tap.

I remember reading sand being better for dropping nukes in since it covers up the smell better.

 

The way major news events get double coverage when the front page (so to speak) overlaps with one of the default sections. For example, when Sen. McCain died last week, the details were all over the front page, analysis, editorial and op ed sections, but then there was the standard obituary in the back of the paper as well. Today's typhoon took up about 17 minutes of a 37 minute nightly news show, and then appeared in the weather portion at the bottom of the hour, in case you missed it.

I guess it's just following the forms, but it seems terribly redundant to me.

 

Oooor go to a hot room to sweat the sweat out, and if that doesn't work spank yourself with tree branches and finish with a roll in the snow.

Now that's how you get clean!

 

Exactly who decided that proper 'plating' requires a small pile of food in the middle of a large plate?

 

So one of my coworkers, an adult with quite a few years in Japan and at our job, went home to gaikoku (a foreign country) for vacation.

As did I.

However, my coworker scheduled their return for this coming Saturday, and we begin regular work early next week. What with our local international airport being put out of commission, they've lost confidence in the airlines to get them back in time, and are now struggling to piece together some combination of new flights, overnight buses, bullet trains, and possibly Silk Road caravans via Istanbul, Dallas, and Buenos Aires that will get them back into the correct area of Japan in time to slide into the classroom next week unwashed, folded, spindled, and quite possibly mutilated.

Had they had military experience, they'd have know that no flight plan survives contact with the enemy and booked their damn tickets to arrive with enough time to cope with unforseen contingencies.

Just pisses me off to see adults who are so desirous of maximizing their free time (which we, as a profession, are not short of. Six weeks in the fall, around three months continuous in the winter/spring) that they place their professional obligations in jeopardy.

But I'm not a supervisor, so it's not my problems and shouldn't annoy me.