Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

It's what we like to call in the States military intelligence

 

I despise people who whistle down to the very core of my soul and even there I'm sure there is a sub-basement where I store even more hate and loathing for the high pitched annoyance. It does seem to annoy other people but to me, it is a vocal knife being stabbed into my ear.

 

These history programmes (I'm looking at you, BBC Four) with over-enthusiastic presenters, usually with a strong regional accent, who talk about history in present tense... "And now, Cromwell is in real danger..."

What do you mean 'is'?

 

People to that when storytelling more generally too. “So I’m walking down the street and this guy just jumps out from nowhere...”. It annoys me too.

 

To which I'd respond, "No you're not! You're sitting here trying to tell me a terrible story that I don't care about at all!"
Eh... if only I were really that blunt with people.

 

At least now we know you're not a Tralfamadorian.

I hate running into people I vaguely know, used to know, or met once at a party and I say 'hi' just not to be a dick, which they take as some kind of invitation to talk for thirty minutes about their kids, dogs, car and that one time we hung out 15 years ago like it's been the only thing either one of us have thought about since then. And I'm just standing there still trying to not be a dick but absolutely not paying attention to anything they're saying because the only reason we bumped into each other is that they were standing between where I was and where the washrooms are.

 

Things like this are why I avoid eye contact. It’s much easier to ignore people when they think you haven’t noticed them.

 

The smell of peanut butter when someone else is eating it.

 

Ah, c'mon. Peanut butter can be kinky.

 

True, though honey is more my thing for that.

 

Those aren't kinky, those are pretty vanilla. Kinky would be nước mắm



Three Crabs brand even....

 

Unless you have a personal incite to share...
Not sure fish sauce is on the list.

 

Short days. I really dislike waking up at 7 AM and feeling as though most of the day is already gone because it'll be dark by 6 PM. This is also the season for cold weather and pumpkin spice and dead grass and a bunch of other stuff I'm not a fan of. I have an extreme dislike for winter.

 

AZ has the same problem, but we don't observe Daylights Savings.

 

I wish we'd get rid of it (DST, not Arizona). About the time I start to adjust, we flip back, and why? It has nothing to do with farmers or whatever the pop explanation is.

 

I hate this argument.

I've lived for a decade and a half in a country without DST and it is ridiculous. In the summer, sunrise in Osaka is as early as 0443, but it's dusk by 7 pm. It is a monstrous waste of daylight not to set your clocks ahead in the summer, by the time you leave for work, the sun has been up for two to three hours.

 

I don't much care whether it's light or dark at a certain time. I just find the shift in schedules annoying, because my "internal clock" doesn't recognize DST/ST. I just wish we could pick a schedule and stick to it. I think we have DST for the same reason we have leap years, to keep our calendars in balance (thought I read that somewhere).

It's not "a hill I'll choose to die defending," but I advocate a global time zone, in which it would be the same time no matter where you went. 0600 would just look different for different people. "Oh, in California at 0600 we tend not to be awake when they're getting up on the east coast." Having to keep track of changes in time zones is annoying (but, as the thread goes, it probably shouldn't be).

 

You should watch the TV show JAG. Throughout the series, they establish each scene with the little clicky teletype-ish thing that tells us the location and time. Like:

Norfolk Naval Station
1135 ZULU Time

Unfortunately, the idjits in charge didn't look up what "Zulu Time" meant. It's the military word for UCT/GMT, but in the show, it always corresponds to Lima (or local) time.

Unless, of course, the sun is near zenith and everyone is in the middle of their working day at 0635 Eastern Time....

 

The historic present is my baby and I will see you dead for dishonouring it.

 

You'd love my mother, she combines it with doubly-reported speech:

"So I'm at the diner the other day and Laura says to me, she says, 'My granddaughter is having another baby," she says, so I say to her, I ask her 'Well is that good news or not?'"

 

I've seen it. I'd prefer it if everyone went by the correct Zulu Time.

Also, the little clicky teletype-ish thing is known in a screenplay as a "super," for "superimposed."

 

But seriously, thanks. New word usage and vocabulary is always a good thing.