Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

*nods* You have to play a hole of golf across a Tour De France course where you have to keep hitting your ball ahead of the bike and can't ever double back

First hole - 2200 miles, par 19360

 

The key to enjoying golf is having a great golfing partner. (I've never seen a married couple make that partnership work, BTW.) As I've mentioned here before, a thermos of Bloody Marys doesn't hurt, either.

 

Golf is simply a form of competitive public self-abuse. Your enjoyment of it depends on your tolerance for that. Many people enjoy it.

BTW, golf is not intended to be played in the evening, though I suppose it doesn't matter if you're far enough north for daylight to last a while. Then, not only can you see the ball you are hopelessly swinging at, but an increasingly-inebriated audience can cheer you on. Eventually, in the Land of the Midnight Sun, it doesn't matter whether you're playing golf or chess or just kind of lying there in a stupor; the enjoyment derived from the experience is much the same.

 

That stuff in the tiny text - happened to us once lol. My husband said, "Have a nice day" to the cashier in Prague and the lady scowled at him and said, "Are you taking the mick? What do you mean have a nice day? You think I'm having a nice day!?" (or something like that but probably shorter lol)

 

People who write product reviews and say, "I wish I could give zero stars! It doesn't even deserve one star!" No. The scale does not work this way. One star is the lowest point on the scale. There is no secret and inaccessible zero star point which would denote a lower rating than one star. By giving one star, you are not implying some merit to the thing you are reviewing above another item which received a hypothetical, yet impossible, rating of zero. If you give one star, you are giving the lowest possible score on the scale. Other people will understand this. It is only you who does not understand a scale which begins at one and not zero.

 

SCOTUS and POTUS. Is it really that difficult to type out 'the President' or 'the Supreme Court'? Context should take care of the 'US' part.

 

The general appropriation of military terms into the civilian news media lexicon pisses me off, POTUS is just one example.

 

And in advertising. It's possible to buy a 'tactical' ball-point pen.

 

*gasps* Are you deriding my tacitcal man pouch? But it's black! And it's made of webbing! It's super tactical.

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I keep my smokes in it mostly.

 

I don't think mounting a scope to it is going to help with your aim. Maybe you should just admit you have an Airplane style drinking problem and stop buying light coloured shirts.

 

Hey but you can break a car window with it if you steer off a bridge and get submerged.

 

Thank you for pointing this out. Everything is "tactical" now, and nobody out there knows what that even means. It wouldn't surprise me if you could buy tactical underwear these days, or a tactical latte at Starbucks, or a tactical recording of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, or a tactical rubber ducky for your child's bath, or a tactical frozen pizza, or a dozen tactical roses for Valentine's Day.

From what I can tell, "tactical" means, one, that it clips onto your belt; and 2, that it's more expensive. Is there something else to it?

 

The waistband is specifically designed for navel operating conditions.

 

*golf claps* Well played sir

 

Generally, it has to be black and all pointy-shaped, with all sorts of sharp edges.

 

Even Tactical Toilet paper holder.

 

There goes that rubber ducky idea, then. There are watchdog groups to keep kids away from sharp-edged, pointy things.

 

To be fair; your mug probably wouldn't show up on radar either

 

When individuals, of any stripe, conflate free speech in the political sense with “I shouldn’t recieve criticism on the Internet”. Perhaps you shouldn’t, in many cases, but nonetheless. Unless you’re recieving legal censure, or perhaps threats of violence, the concepts are unrelated.

 

Did I mention I can't stand people who brag?

I don't mean sharing your happy news, whether it's an accomplishment or just good luck. I mean that thing people either do or they don't. And the ones who do, do it constantly, and what they're bragging about is either a gross exaggeration or not even true at all.

 

I just read a sign that says you can't do the laundry on Sundays in this house! What the hell - Sunday used to be my laundry day back when I actually had a proper job... I'm guessing that Saturdays must be pretty popular for people working out of town

The laundry room is in the basement and you can't hear it unless you're in the actual basement - so no, its doesn't disturb the people up stairs.