Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

This I have not seen yet.

 

Doubly so when it's from third-party dealer on the Amazon Marketplace, for which they do separate reviews.

 

That's the one I see all the time, angry reviews about an experience with the seller that has nothing to do with the merits of the product.

 

As an iPhone user I rese... No, wait. I think you're probably right.

 

Questions that aren't really questions.

'Why didn't you clean up your room?' She doesn't care why, she just wants you to know she's unhappy about your not doing so.

'Do you know why I pulled you over?' Maybe, but I'm not going to blurt out a confession, you jack-booted stooge.

'Do you think calling it the Chinese Virus is racist?' If he thought it was racist, he wouldn't say it, you incompetent tool.

 

There's a misunderstanding about masks. East Asians wear them to protect others if they themselves are ill, not to protect themselves from other people's illnesses.

 

People who try to pronounce placenames in a "native" way when speaking English because they think it makes them sound cool.

You know, people who say Muss-Cow instead of Mossco. Yet the same people don't say Paree or Toowkyoow. I'd like to see them say the full name of Bangkok* in a native accent.

*Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit

 

Social distancing is quite nice for me. I am allergic/hyper-sensitive to perfume and fragrances. I have banned such products from me personally, so the latest triggers were some over-perfumed co-shopper or smoker passing by too close. Now, with social distancing, they stay away. Nice! No more triggers!

What still annoys me that some people (who weren't conscious of others and their personal space even before all that) are now standing out. People still stop right in the middle of the entrance door. Put their cart diagonally into the way while perusing the shelf. The two guys walking side-by-side, blocking the whole aisle, while slowly walking back-and-forth because they have to examine every single products multiple times.

Yesterday on the news were a report on the situation in Bavaria (which, as the first large region in Germany) has issued stricter general curfew measures. Downtown Munich was quite empty. The parks, however, were not. And the reporter was passed by a group of young people shouting "Last time partying!" (before the new rules go into effect). Aargh! It's not Corona that's the apocalypse. It's human stupidity.

 

Weeelll...

I was living in Florida. Tampa Bay area. There's a town there called Dunedin. First time I pronounced it like something out of Lord of the Rings. Fortunately, the guy I was talking to was a close friend and fellow fantasy nerd. He was laughing his ass off. I had to learn something rather close to the native pronunciation for other people who wouldn't have known what I was talking about...

 

My good friend is extremely fragance sensitive, perfumes can trigger migraines in him. Once he walked into a department store and one of the clerks sprayed cologne directly on him without permission.

Cost her her job.

 

The worst for me were some over-perfumed people just passing me in the shop's parking lot (outside), which triggered sneezing, coughing, weird taste on my tongue, headaches for three days.

This has been getting better recently. Haven't had such a bad event for quite some time.

 

I can't stand the shop Lush for the excessive fragrance. I can smell one before I see it! That shouldn't be allowed, IMO. If they want a nasally assaulting shop, they must have doors which are always shut.
I don't mind department stores, as their scent is minimal outside.
My daily bugbear is now washing powders. I can smell people before I see them! And people who drown themselves in aftershave or perfume. Perfume bathers are worse when it's an attempt to disguise smokers. I am hereby officially outing that as a mechanism. It has never worked, so stop it.

Sometimes I wish I was in charge of stuff like that. I would create scentances for that kind of nasal assault.

 

This. The fate of nations may rest with this.
Walking around thinking you are protected is wearing garlic for vampires. Get that right, hominids.

 

Four legged dragons. Could it be a mutated Pegasus?

 

Indeed, although I believe surgical masks are a higher quality than the ones commonly available as well. I read somewhere that there are three ratings for masks in terms of protection.

 

I learned to fit masks during a ‘past life.’

Essentially one has to be clean shaven ‘for the seal to be effective.’

No stubble. Even so I did steal two, a panic steal, from work for my wife to wear, my moustachioed wife, I love her handlebars @enduring love always.

 

Well - there’s all kinds of reasons - like if you’ve been watching television news all day, for example...

However the £999 ‘standard industry course’ equals folder plus 6 hour humour training lecture - boiling down to bullet-moron, bottle of perfume/plus pseudo-science, plus ‘sack all Sikhs at the abattoir’ routine.