Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

This is why you should always order the Cobb Salad.

 

Halloween tat in the shops yesterday. Sigh.

Spoiler: Definition of tat

tat
(tæt
uncountable noun
You can use tat to refer to ornaments, used goods, cheapclothes, or other items which you think are cheap and of bad quality.
[British, informal]

 

When correlation doesn't equal causation.

Nope, not going socio-political here. During the typhoon a couple days ago, my hot water heater crapped out. It's in a sheltered closet, but outside of the apartment proper, so I figured that somehow the wind blew out the pilot light or the phlogiston chamber got breached or something and called the landlord to send someone out to repair it.

Apparently it needs to be replaced, and that has nothing at all to do with the weather on Tuesday. It just decided, after a time greater than the ten-odd years I've lived there, to go to the great utility closet in the sky, and it did so on a day that the sky was coming to visit everybody on the ground, but there was (sorry not sorry) no collusion.

 

Order a side salad. Sorry.

 

Well, you did post @Iain

- the worst typhoon to hit the Pacific bowl in a generation, and my god we suffered the destruction of our boiler's pilot light and an interruption on the Netflix...I mean that's not even comparable to blood in the stool through over-exertion phenomenas...here on the Western plateaus - not me, only hyperbolical.

What's a cobb salad?

 

The number of people who don't realise that when making a karaoke video, the lyrics need to appear on screen before they're sang, not as.

 

Spoiler: size

Traditionally served on a plate 'just' large enough to hold it, but I've noticed looking at images that people have managed to screw that up, too.


My whinge is people that constantly have to use flashlights after dark. Please, take five minutes, let your eyes adjust, and stop blinding everyone you come across for no reason whatsoever.

 

This is a first world whinge, but it annoys the hell out of me, because it means someone did not do their fucking job*:

Al dente potatoes in potato salad.

Be they fried, mashed, baked, steamed, hash browned, roasted, O' Briened, Annased, or vichyssoiseed, POTATOES SHOULD NEVER BE AL DENTE!!! Sorry / not sorry to yell. But Christ on a bike it's annoying when you spend precious carbs and calories on what looks to be well-seasoned, perfectly creamy potato salad and whoever made it didn't take the time to cook the potatoes long enough. And then you're stuck eating a deli container of it because you don't want be wasteful, and you only bought one carby side during your calorie splurge.

Tagging @Homer Potvin because he's the man with the power to change (part of) the world on this. Hey, Homes? Couldja do us a solid and help get cooks in gear on on this one? Thank you.

Make that 31 or 41.



*It occurs to me that most Things That Annoy Me--usually the things that Should--are the result of someone not doing their fucking job. Do your fucking jobs, people!

 

After my first campout as a Cub Scout, maybe nine years old or so, I came back all excited and told my mom about the amazing baked potatoes we'd had. Totally different from what I was used to, these had been cooked in a campfire and were crunchy!

As in, mostly raw, not crisped. She told me she'd try and make them that way sometime, but never succeeded in doing so

 

Nearly every day now I get a couple of 'Friend' requests from people (men) whom I not only don't know, but who are not friends of any of my actual Friends either. They are always single, have some worthy occupation like engineer or pilot (some young, some not so young) and have a dog.

I've received enough of these recently that when a real friend of mine (who has taken his sweet time joining Facebook—he's a married engineer with no dog) finally asked me to Friend him, I nearly sent him to Spam Hell along with the others. Careful with that trigger finger, Jan.

I reckon there are many lonely bots out there, just looking for love.

 

We need a bot that goes looking for bots.

 

So glad they found each other, eh?

 

People who deadlift in the squat rack

 

Exactly!

You'd have liked my mom's twice-cooked crispy potatoes, I think. She used to do this thing with russet baking potatoes, peeled and cubed into bite-size chunks, par-boiled a little more than halfway cooked, then you drain them thoroughly, toss them with butter (be generous), salt and pepper, spread them out on a preheated sheet pan in a 375 oven, turning them over a few times until they're as brown as you like them. When you get it right, the inside is fluffy and the outsides are brown and crispy and slightly puffed. They're a different animal than roasted potatoes, but not a fry. Pain in the ass to make, but worth it when they come out right.

 

Noticed that one of my work colleagues is wearing a Shinto symbol, a Christian cross, an ascelion and a Buddhist wheel thingy on a necklace... I mean just pick a faith and stick to it.

Not sure why this annoys me.... but there we go.

 

Fucking Christmas decorations for sale. In September. Right next to the Halloween decorations.

NANI!?

 

At my gym, that's the only place to do deadlifts unfortunately. As long as they're not curling, I won't have to go to prison for 25 to life.

 

Man, that sounds good.

 

Memorial structures of any kind.

 

Simple, he/she is trying to get on good terms with all the gods.

 

Isn't there an open space you can do it?

Ugh, I've never actually seen anyone curling in the squat rack, but they'd soon be asked to move on if they were.

SQUAT RACKS ARE FOR SQUATTING.

 

It's little more than a hole in the wall, so not really. They do have 10 squat racks though. I'm assuming that was in anticipation of this problem, as it's billed a powerlifting gym.