Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

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When I have no clue what's gone on.


But @Hammer 's response amused me anyway, so I guess that balances it out.

 

I just roll with it.

Things That Annoy Me: When Ancient Chinese emperors insist on using 'Wu' for the tenth-billionth time. I know, it means 'warlike', and they were basically in all sorts of wars in the Ancient days, however it does get difficult to keep track on which Wu the narrator of the History of China podcast is talking about?

 

If you look up matwoolf in the dictionary, this is what it says.

 

One more @name scratched into his ledger of rage. In pencil. The black ink reserved for most heinous transgressors of code, of lore and of law. He twisted from the armchair, stroked his pussycat...as the avatars crisped in the fireplace.

 

All these cookery programs and the way the ‘chefs’ are hailed as some kind of genius. I like the proper chefs like Stein and even Oliver, but these trendy 20- somethings can all fuck off. And then they bring on some equally young and trendy ‘5 star Michelin chef’ who I wouldn’t know from Adam and ask him to judge the food like he has some kind of super-power and his opinion should be seen as gospel.

I might not do much of it but cooking is a piece of piss. There’s nothing skilful about it, which is why we have all these nobodies on the tv .

 

Feel better?

 

Why I try to stay on your good side.

 

A female acquaintance has been in a long distance relationship for a number of years with an Indian man. They got married this year...and he still hasn't told his parents about her existence! Now she's looking for advice on how to deal with the situation.
My honest opinion is that only an idiot would knowingly get into that situation. But to then ask for advice after the wedding?!

 

Reminds me of Mr Bean!

 

Nah. I’m just a cantankerous, miserable old bastard.

 

That's my job!

 

That I can't stop singing that "What's Inside Your Butthole?" song.

Spoiler: My favorite remix

 

Clapping and cheering for the NHS. I’m sorry but public displays of emotion like this make me cringe.

 

I don't mind displays of emotion, but random people cheering to nobody strikes me as ludicrous. The staff don't get to witness it, and it doesn't raise money either to my knowledge...so why bother? I appreciate the Irish health service immensely, but I don't clap for them.

 

Or thanking all of "our heroic front-line workers" in self-serving advertisements by every government agency and every corporation. It's supposed to make nurses, stock-boys and bus drivers feel appreciated, but after the first 1075 times, it begins to sound a bit hollow, like the rote greeting for military personnel: "thankyouforyourservice but don't bother looking for decent housing or mental health support".
Actually, that should annoy the hell out of you. It does me!

Finally, we're also talking about paying hospital and nursing home staff a living wage, so they don't have to take two or three part-time jobs (which saves the employer a shit-load of money on benefits) ... Now, if we'd started there, instead of clapping, we might not have to cringe so hard.
(PS - I wasn't all that impressed with Johnson's heartfelt gratitude to nurses "Jenny from New Zealand and Luis from Portugal"; immigrants without surnames or professional designation.)

 

"Maybe there is astronauts" makes me want to climb through my monitor like Sadako (Samarra) and insert those guitars into theirs...

 

Drugs in TV series.

No, not talking about the occasional character smoking weed or doing a line of coke, I'm talking about the imagination-free TV execs who looked at the success of things like Weeds and Breaking Bad and decided that the reason they worked was "drug empire."

So let's just keep throwing drug business shows at the wall, or shoehorning in extra plotlines with drugs because drugs drugs drugs. Weeds worked because of its gleeful nihilism and Breaking Bad was a goddamn Shakespearean tragedy. Both had great writing and superb casting, but shoving the pot dynasty into Bates Motel didn't do shit for the show and the writers of Ozark thinking that making every single onscreen character into the human embodiment of skidmarked BVDs with stretched-out legholes and a bit of rot in the gusset from the very start just leaves the story with nowhere to go. I haven't watched Narcos yet but I think I'm going to skip it because I'm sure it's a fifth-generation VHS copy of one of its predecessors, the kind where the image gets really shaky and skewed every time the boobs come out because junior just kept rewinding that scene over and over when mom's out doing the shopping...

I feel better now, thanks for asking.

 

What's left after Trailer Park Boys, anyway?

 

Ok, I'll take it off my reflexive "no" list. Doesn't mean it'll be on my "yes" list, but it's in neutral ground again.

 

I watched all of Narcos:Mexico and didn't like it, but I couldn't say exactly why. Might have been Felix' series-long and unsuccessful attempt to be Michael Corleone.

 

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