Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

Spam Mail that makes me question peoples IQ.
I mean honestly, it isn't clever to have your 'name'
in their email "Maria Alien". No I don't think I want
a hookup with someone trying to be that silly.

 

A Martian meets another alien.

 

*prairie-dogging* Somebody called?
My disservices are at your 'sposal.

 

Borrowed a novel from the library that has an artist's rendering of the main character on the cover. Very annoying. I want the characters to look as I imagine them from whatever description is in the story.

 

That's definitely annoying, but how realistic was this drawing? Can't you still imagine?

 

To use one word of a parlance to knock another, I find the word "problematic" very triggering. I was totally on board for the reappropriation until I realized we're loosing a very useful word. Now when I hear "The timing of Jake's arrival was problematic, to say the least," it sounds as though maybe Jake's a known racist or something, and there are black people in the room. That doesn't quite make sense, but that's part of my point. Regardless of the fact that the rest of the paragraph was actually about the dead body they were about to sneak out of the hotel using Jake's luggage while he was supposed to be gone all day, I can't help but jump to the new definition of the word "problematic," even when it doesn't make sense in context.

Meh. At least it's less annoying than that time about twenty years ago when lost use of the equally useful term "in sync."

 

You be the judge.

 

Looks more like a photoshop job to me.

 

Ah. Yeah, that'll stick in your head.

ETA: Cute though. Could be worse.

 

I thought it might be a photograph at first, but there's a 'jacket illustration' credit on the back flap.

 

The worst is when they stick a picture on the paperback of the actors from the subsequent movie who look absolutely nothing like the descriptions in the text. Grr. Arg.

 

Remakes of good classic films. In this case, Little Women. I'm sure there have been many others before, but this one irks me because it's unnecessary. If the previous version had poor acting or some such, then fine. But this isn't the case.

 

adj: Not PC; mildly phobic, insensitive or distasteful in regards to race, gender, orientation, etc.

It's being used to describe anything that's not hateful, but still sets off PC alarms, like assuming someone likes rap because they have a Q in the middle of their first name or asking a gay person if they know your one gay friend in a city of hundreds of thousands of people. Basically, the stuff people have been unfairly labeling racist or homophobic when it's just ignorantly insensitive now has it's own term.

On Shameless this season, Frank is trying to sell a baby and says to Liam, his only black son in an otherwise all white family, "I wish I could sell you." Liam says, "That's problematic Frank." To which frank replies, "I don't like the implication, son. I would sell Debbie too, if I could." ...or something like that.

 

Woe unto us. Society needs an enema.

 

I was being hyperbolic referring to it as if it were a replacement definition, but yes, it's quickly becoming standard slang. At first, I thought a friend or two on Facebook had found a clever way to... (Damn. What's the opposite of hyperbolize?) Anyway, I thought they invented this underwhelming way to call someone a semi-racist or misogynist or homophobe, but then I heard it on TV. I can't remember where all I've heard it, but I know Shameless and South Park have both used it. It's a thing. It's not going away soon.

 

If you're familiar with Urban Dictionary, you know that you're more likely to find an explanation bitching about a new term's use than you are to find a valid slang definition, but that almost validates it anyway. Plus, they're right. It's often used as pretentious SJW bullshit.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=problematic

 

Is there a "things that elate me, but shouldn't" thread? If not, I'm annoyed about that, but probably shouldn't be.

 

How Philip Schofield's public coming out has got everyone gossiping. For those of you not on these isles, Philip Schofield is a television presenter who for the last 30+ years has lived life as a straight man (wife, 2.4 children etc), who announced live on his morning show that he is in fact gay.

I heard one staff member in the supermarket just now, who while discussing it with a colleague said, "... and to think I grew up watching him on TV!"

And??

I don't want to come across as a liberated PC freak here, but honestly, who gives a fuck??

 

we considered it but decided it would devolve into a passive-aggressive nightmare.

 

I did once suggest a 'Things that don't annoy be but should' thread, but it was poo-pah'd

 

Seems like there used to be a 'Guilty Pleasures' thread, which would be mostly the same thing.

 

The fact that the eggs in these packs are individually wrapped. Who has time for that??