Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

I suspect it's largely to cover the taste of all the preservatives or whatever is in it. Maybe simply to add some flavor to the bland 'textured vegetable protein' (soybean paste) that's in just about all processed foods.

 

No, they do it because here in the UK we have what’s known as a ‘lad culture’ - men of a certain age that like to go out on the weekend, drinking, shagging and fighting, roughly in that order, and of course these ‘lads’ like their food hot and spicy... cos you know, they’re hard... tough guys who spit, drink cans of beer and laugh boisterously. I mean, their food has to be hot and spicy to prove they’re real men.

 

Pocky are chocolate-dipped pretzel sticks basically. The ones dipped in dark chocolate are apparently too powerful for women and their silly lack of y-chromosomes and penises or whatever:

 

but women eat way more dark choc. than men

 

Shhhh...

Manly manly man man!

 

We got these. They called Mojos or summat.



Okay, Mikado. I knew it began with M.

 

https://www.lords.org/mcc/the-laws-of-cricket

 

I’m wholly justified in this annoying me, but in the absence of a suitable place it’ll have to go in here.

The price of printer ink cartridges! As Leo Getz would say, they fuck you at the drive-thru, they fuck you at the hospital, and they fuck you with ink cartridges. They’re constantly doing all they can to prevent these cheap re-fills and third party cartridges from working, so you have no choice but to go to them and pay full whack!

 

Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.

It's 2021, and most of us aren't just pretending that the Plague Year didn't happen.

 

This has been confusing me, too. Is that what it’s all about, a simple refusal to accept it had to be delayed till now?

 

Or a fortune in letterhead and gimcrack souvenirs.

 

They were going for half off on opening day here. Nobody but nobody wants those damn games in this country.

 

Hidden menus and Easter eggs on DVDs. What’s the point?? I’ve just spent best part of 30 minutes looking for a gag reel and alternative ending on the Die Hard With a Vengeance bonus DVD. I eventually found the gag reel but gave up trying to find the alternative ending and had to dig it up on YouTube instead.

 

It was 'fun'. This is what happens when people think they know what people want, adding 'fun' and 'exciting' gimmicks when we'd rather it just be simple and easy to use. DVD was better than VHS, that's the only sell they needed.

 

But the fact I couldn’t find this ‘alternative ending’, as promised on the bonus disc details, is going to nag away at me! It’s one of those instances where, after trying unsuccessfully for 15 minutes, my search was no longer driven by a desire to see said feature, but to merely prove to myself I could find it... and I failed!

 

Fun, right?

 

Oh, yeah!

 

Artistic Swimming. What was wrong with Synchronised I don’t know, but it seems obligatory to change terminology these days. Anyway, the skill, dedication and hard work is undeniable, but man they look fucking stupid with those nose clips, troweled on make-up and mechanical grins!!

 

All judged events. If it can't be measured with a stopwatch, a tape measure, or an unambiguous action against an opponent it's not a sport, it's just some kind of dance or other.

 

I wish I could like this twice. Why anyone participates in a 'sport' where the result may depend on the mood (or political leanings) of some judge is beyond me.

 

There are standards and measurements in events some people deem "just some kind of a dance or other." These technical points are generally clear only to those familiar with the event. Artistic merit does tend to be a value judgement, but it's a single consideration toward the overall score, and not the only one.

Before stop action cameras were aimed at every event known to humanity, there was a fair amount of ambiguity in sports like baseball and football. One can still see a coach and ref get into a howling argument over a call of "steee-rike!"

 

Long past time they started using robots to call balls and strikes and foul balls.

 

When you’re so genuinely bad at computer games you can’t get any help on forums because you’re immediately accused of trolling.