Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

I liked Family Guy for the first three seasons when it was clever and there were stories and the characters had redeeming character traits and a modicum of depth. Unfortunately they dumped that in favour of hitting you over the head with sex and poop jokes with no other level of humour to enjoy. That said, I do like Rick and Morty, but I do have nihilistic tendencies, so it fits well with me. Personal favourite has to be Adventure Time, though. It bugs me that my internet's usually too slow to stream it.

 

I still run into women with that competitive domestic attitude and hate it. Like let's all do our best to keep each other judged by and tied to as much boring trivial drudgery as possible, whether how clean the house is, how it got cleaned, what's for dinner and how much of it was done from scratch and etc. This probably sounds ridiculous but I have a goal to invite people over and not clean or even pick up the house first. (So far, I haven't been able to do it).

 

This:

is the exact post which comes up when this happens:

It's just happened again and it's still annoying. Nothing personal, @Tenderiser

 

Also, people who drink from cans by puncturing a hole in the side of the can and drinking from it. It's just fucking stupid. Cans have been precision engineered to do a number of things, including not exploding, not leaking, not spilling their contents on your face when you drink from them, and not rolling over when you put them down. By puncturing a hole in it, you're missing out on all these benefits, and you also look like a total prat.

 

I was under the impression this is something highschool/college kids do exclusively with beer. It allows the drinker to consume the contents faster with increased air flow. So, for that purpose, they’re improving on the design. It’s pure utility: get the beer down as fast as possible.

Do people do this with other beverages for no purpose?

 

At least you don't live in the land of "new-kew-ler" weapons. Every time I hear that it gives me Forest Whitaker Eye.

 

Not to mention the vodka tampon!

 

I remember kids at secondary school (11-16yrs) doing it with cans of coke. As for doing it to drink beer faster, still pointless. I can see that making an additional hole in the can will increase the rate of flow, but if your only goal in drinking alcohol is to get drunk as quickly as possible, there are much better ways of doing it than by drinking beer. Beer fills you up with gas and is difficult to drink quickly. If you only want to get drunk, necking spirits would seem the most sensible solution. And doesn't require making holes in anything.

Actually I've noticed some British speakers saying both "nucular" and "aluminum". Along with "more then" and "all of the sudden". I think people who make these kinds of errors should be prohibited from communicating.

 

This reminded me of the line "doing tons of colon blow / stuffing it in every hole" from the song Crash by Aerosmith.

 

It annoys me when I get the overwhelming urge to work the term "prison purse" into a conversation. That happens to everyone though.

 

“wow”

I don’t know why that word annoys me, it just does.

 

I was visiting a company a few days ago and the man who let me in said to himself "hey, there is a little girl outside"
Yes, the sentence is a tad creepy. Yes, it was directed to a woman an adult woman! I don't look THAT young, do I

 

Given social construct for women to look youthful for as long as they can, it can't be considered an
insult by that reasoning. However it could stand to be one based that it is based on appearance that
does not reflect the status as an adult in that same society.

 

Little girl is insulting.
Girl I could live with - but little girl. It felt like I was about five.

 

It's kind of cute if he's sixty and myopic, and you had your balloon in your hand?

Also, when you're older it takes two seconds to see, so he might have spoken first before he saw, or focused...and you did say also he said it to himself...

I always like it when I hear someone say 'young man,' always pause like a dick and say 'ooh, I'm young, eh, oh thank you, Grandma.' But then I noticed a particular type of creep salesman saying it all the time, to everyone, so now I'm not so sure.

 

Since it's Friday:

Finding a movie to watch on your own.

It should be easier since you only got one person (yourself) to please, but I've realized that I'm a social movie watcher and while I really feel like watching a good movie tonight - I also feel like it will be a complete waste of time unless I find something really good.

If you're watching a bad movie with company at least you could talk and joke about it. Or have a drinking contest. Or not watch the movie at all because apparently "chill" is all the rage now a days.

Alone?

 

This is why I usually just marathon cartoons from my childhood. Not even loneliness isn't an enemy the Samurai Pizza Cats can't beat.

 

Oh, come on! It's not even 6:30am, and you expect me to parse this? You expect me to sift my way through this unnecessary barrage of negatives to find the kernel of sense in this sentence?

Dream on. I'm going back to bed.

 

Thank you for saying nowadays rather than anymore in this particular context (though nowadays is a single word). Anymore to mean nowadays in its positive-yes rather than negative-no context - as used in certain speaking regions in America - is like nails on a chalkboard.

 

I believe it's even worse than that. Many of the unfortunate people whose picture accompanies the caption are NOT people who have given their permission at all. And of course, many of them can be identified ...and they may not even have the condition that's being touted as needing 'support.' This is a horrible situation. You are quite right to simply ignore these. In fact, there might be mileage in reporting them.

 

I remember back in the 60s when the family of my boyfriend at the time got a dishwasher. This was a big deal. He was the only person I knew at the time who had one.

I said, "So you guys don't fight over who does the dishes any more!"

He replied,"Nope. Now we fight over who's going to plug it in."

 

Yes. So many kinds of yes. There was one doing the rounds with an image of Adam Pearson, a British actor who has neurofibromatosis, being used in the above fashion, trying disingenuously score "likes" by using his image without permission. Luckily I had just seen him in the film Under the Skin and I knew that he's actually a well-known, very well-received speaker and campaigner for people with disabilities. Using his image that way is unconscionable, period, but especially in the light of knowing how well he's coped and served to help others.