Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

Use a word (that is indeed in your vocabulary) twice around someone who hasnt heard you use that word before and suddenly "thats your new favorite word, huh. Word of the month?"


I know she didnt mean anything by it, but it was still pretty annoying....

 

Oh, man! The traffic lights one. Mr Captcha, what are you classifying as traffic lights? Just the lights themselves, the poles and arms they’re attached to? What about the two pixels of traffic light in that box there?

 

Same here. I always end up doing them at least twice . The traffic lights are the worst.

 

That would be pretty tricky, unless they are showing obvious signs of
their affiliation.

 

When I click Play on a Netflix movie and the only warning is smoking.

 

won't somebody please think of the children?

 

Saw that a person whose name is recognizable to at least part of the world has embraced non-binary status and henceforth wishes to be referred to as they and them. Perhaps this is an offshoot of the The Royal We, but using plural pronouns to identify individual people is silly when a perfectly good alternative exists: It.

 

I know it's weird for someone older than thirteen, but I'm seven seasons in to Stargate SG-1, and the only warning is: nudity. There were ten seconds of full-frontal female nudity in Season 1 Episode 1, and not so much as a nipslip since. That's like, false advertising or something, right?

 

I remember when I was thirteen, searching through whatever the cable TV guide was called for the movies with "adult situations" and nudity in them. Genre? Don't matter, man, there's gonna be nekkid hugs!

 

At least your warnings carry a little cred, unlike the channel Talking Pictures that warns of ‘distressing’ scenes before showing a film made in 1952, at three o’clock in the afternoon!

 

When the anxiety part of my brain insists that xyz projects are impossible despite clear evidence that I can handle whatever shit the lab throws at me!! Honestly, anxiety, were you not paying attention for the last 5 years??

 

[Two short sentences above this]
Only submit one story at a time, and if you're story is not accepted, please wait a full month before submitting to us again.

Best,
[Name redacted]
Editor-in-Chief

Really? This is depressing. How can something like this be missed--by an "Editor-in-Chief"?

Yes, humans make mistakes. But a principal editor should be able to check over a couple of sentences... Nothing makes me lose faith more than this.

 

Lol, you know how it is—the mechanic often drives a car that's falling apart. They probably take great relief in just writing like normal people when they can.

 

Lol in fact I just realized—you know in his stories @big soft moose doesn't allow all the typos and misspellings he posts all over the board.

 

in the home of the cobbler the children go without shoes.

 

The cook is always the last to eat!!!

 

So they evolved hooves?

 

That's what you need elves for.

 

Especially Noldorin elves. I heard they're very crafty. Just don't ask for them to be made free or, Illuvatar forbid, steal them...

That's one for the Tolkienites.

 

I thought elves lived in trees and made cookies...

 

Modern comedy, or at least what passes for it these days, especially British sitcoms. It seems the only ingredients you need to get a sitcom to the screen these days is a cast of deeply unlikable characters who spend the whole half hour being rude and nasty to one another. They’re soulless.

 

I don't play in the Reddit pool, though I confess to blowing way too many hours listening to Reddit compilations on YouTube. So is it not the done thing to downvote a reply if you think the advice given is stupid or harmful? Or are you just referring to downvotes on the original?