Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

redditors just pile on for no apparent reason sometimes and downvote posts.

 

Which is why I only read and observe. Quora is bad enough for me.

 

I wish there was a way to block Google from returning results from Quora. Something about that site just give me hives. Yahoo Answers at least had an entertaining battle between the Dunnings and the Krugers

 

I could wish the same, but because I find it inexplicably addictive. Twice in the last few weeks I've pulled an all-nighter reading "just one more" Quora story. It's sick. And I can't even claim I can use any of it in my fiction.

I unsubscribed from their notifications, which should lower the temptation.

 

Regular classroom teachers who let the kids work together for everything and anything. Learning basic foreign language grammar? Work together. Reading a chapter in the assigned novel? Work together. Good grief. And then the teacher says on the plans that I can let them work together if I want to, but they all cry aloud that Mr. So-and-so always lets them work together, and I'm not authoritative enough to hold back the tide.

Meaning before long they're grouped up chatting about what happened in gym last period or what they're doing this weekend, and I can only hope they're getting any classwork done at all. It's all on iPads or Chromebooks these days, so how can you know?

These kids tell me I'm their favorite sub. I'm afraid it's because I let them get away with too damn much.

 

What @Friedrich Kugelschreiber said. I’ve not experienced it a lot, but a post (within a tread) is suddenly -# and you’re left wondering why. What’s even more annoying is that once it receives a certain negative score (through a ‘monkey see monkey do’ mentality) it gets hidden, no questions asked.

 

The phrase: "Take it to a professional, never do it yourself."
Great tag line for job security, I guess...
Well how does one learn to fix things if they always rely on
someone else to fix it?
When I admit that I've tried and haven't fixed the issue,
maybe that means I am still willing to learn how to fix it
using the trial and error method. While it may be frustrating,
I might just solve the problem by stumbling onto the right
little adjustment that will solve the issue.
After all it's a guitar neck, and can be frustrating and tedious
to fiddle with, but I don't think it is on equal footing with brain
surgery...just saying.

 

I think I saw something like that on Quora once. Can't remember exactly what the original post was about, some 13-year-old whingeing because his parents were threatening to take away his iPhone if he didn't stop trashing his room/being disrespectful/refusing to do his homework/whatever, if I remember correctly. A certain fellow-Quoran expressed the opinion that a 13-year-old was old enough to do whatever he liked and if the parents took his iPhone they were committing theft, and he should call the cops on them. The answer was so mind-blowingly stupid I voted it down. A little further down the thread, the same Quoran doubled down on his views about the autonomy of 8th graders, and again I hit the down arrow.

Whereupon the site bot asked me if I wanted to report that Quoran and block all his content on my feed. Uh, no? He has a right to be an ass, and I have the right to dislike his being it. There's no call for me to try to shut him up altogether.

 

It annoys me that now I've decided to be a good girl and count my calories, the apps and websites assume I'm eating prepackaged. I found a calorie calculator purporting to figure out what goes into my own recipes, but it still took it for granted all the ingredients are name brand.

Hey, people, some of us go to the store and buy ordinary produce and dried pasta and so on. Would it be too much to accommodate us, too?

 

I have a man bag and when I walk in the supermarket I'm often shadowed by a security guard....the ones that annoy me are the ones who want you to know their watching you...

 

Funny you should say that. I’ve always relied on a nephew of mine for bicycle repairs as he’s a bit of a whizz in that department, but a few days ago I noticed the gears on my bike were not shifting. Checking the cable I noticed the outer sheath had broken at a kink and the inner cables were shredded. I did my usual thing and text my nephew only for him to explain he was away on a mini break with a couple of mates. Anyway, I bought a new cable (the easy part) and took the time to watch a couple of YouTube tutorials. An hour later not only had I successfully replaced the cable, but adjusted brakes that were performing poorly.

Might sound like nothing to most blokes, but as someone who’s always shied away from bike maintenance/repairs I was rather proud.

 

It's also a problem if you're a girl wearing a motorcycle helmet. I don't get it either.

 

I can recall wearing any form of face mask was suspicious.

 

The good old days.

The rule in the schools I sub is you can't wear the hood of your hoodie up. Male or female, the student must have it down, so we can see all their face. But with COVID, you can't see the kids' faces anyway, so why bother to hassle the kids on the hoods?

Our state has gone to masks optional, but they're still enforcing their usage in the schools. Oh, well. At least I can get a little more good out of the ones I made.

 

Pre-packed brown bread sandwiches.

They're just not NICE, dammit. Yes, I know they're supposed to be better than white bread. But as a diabetic, it makes little to no difference, since blood sugar goes up by more or less the same amount anyway, so I have to take insulin whether it's white or brown. So let's have some sandwiches that are actually moist and pleasant to eat instead of dry and nasty.

Let's pretend for a minute that the option of making my own sandwiches doesn't exist.

 

Let's pretend for the moment that I could get brown bread without making it myself.

Trade you!

 

When my daughter was in middle school, kids weren't allowed to wear zip up hoodies inside the school- they could, however, wear pullover hoodies. Daughter wore a zip up hoodie during cold weather all through elementary school. She loved them and had a nice little collection. End of the first week or so of middle school, I asked how she was doing with having to leave her zip up hoodie in her locker during the day. She answered, "Oh, they insist I wear it." I wasn't sure I wanted to know the answer, but I asked why they insisted she wear it. With elaborate nonchalance, she said, "Because I wear inappropriate tops."

I knew then the world was not going to stop this one without considerable effort.

 

Hehe yeah, I've never seen brown bread east of about Poland.

 

this is more a rolling-eyes-with-skepticism situation (basically a rolling eyes situation ) than finding it outright annoying, but it is close enough

I roll my eyes when I read blog posts or watch videos of people giving out advice on how to construct a good story by following their list of points that include 1) know your characters, 2) develop a convincing plot, 3) apply the three-act story structure . . . can you not be more obvious?

yes . . . I clicked because I thought I was going to find something useful . . .

 

My wife insists on buying foodstuffs in the giant Sam’s Club/Costco bulk sizes. The problem is we don’t have a bulk size refrigerator or freezer. I get she’s going for value, but where’s the value if we can’t store it, or use it before it goes bad?

 

That's a pet peeve of mine but in the opposite direction. Costco Japan stocks a number of things that are otherwise hard to get (lamb meat, burrito-size tortillas, and frozen waffles, just to name a few). However, I don't need fifty frozen waffles or 3kg of sliced lamb today. I've got a pretty average (for a Japanese apartment) fridge/freezer. It's got a big top compartment for the fridge, two freezer drawers, and a big vegetable crisper section in the bottom. Most Costco frozen items would take up the entirety of one of my freezer drawers. In America I'd accept that many people have a second fridge in the garage, but here? Who's the target market?

 

Someone who only started going to the gym regularly last year (maybe 2019 pre-COVID lock down) starts telling you... whos been working out in gyms and weight rooms since the 10th grade with weight lifting coaches AND THEN with a trainer after college... how you should be lifting and what exercises you should be doing

Is this "mansplaining"?

To be fair, maybe the person just wants to talk about working out and stuff since its so new to them.

On the flip side... DONT TELL ME WHAT TO DO, NOOB

 

I never have that problem, and I've got no clue what I'm doing in the gym.

Maybe I should shave my beard and wear tights and a touch of makeup.

 

What’s a gym?

 

Things that annoy me but shouldn't: celebrities with improbably unusual last names that may or may not be stage names. Billy Idol, yeah. Iggy Pop, sure. But John Legend? Karl Urban? The one sounds like he's got a seriously overblown ego, and the other one sounds like a country rapper.

And speaking of overblown egos, we all know you were a seriously bright guy and all Al, but did you have to rub it in everybody's face by calling yourself an actual Einstein?!?!??!? I mean, that's like, anonymous with jeenyus, yaknawhaddimean? Way to like, rest on your parsleys....