Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

It is pretty good. Has Christopher Walken, Dennis Leary, and Johnny Gelecki in it.

 

When it's 10 minutes before work, and there's a line. Doesn't matter how big or small it fucking annoys me!!

And when I see through the slit of the drive-thru and see a car sitting there I like to take my time a bit.

One of my Joys however is seeing someone pulled pull up to the drive-thru before we open and then leave when they realize were closed!

 

Facebook Jail.

Like, if you're going to put me there at the order of Kim Jung Zuckerberg, then at least let me get tattoos, drink toilet booze, and have non-consensual sexual relations.

 

This^^^^

 

In Beyond the Mat, one of the wrestlers brings a toaster into the ring and beats on another with it. I am at once amazed and utterly disinterested in that "sport."

 

Curly fries

 

I love curly fries.

 

Curly Fries are fucking awesome, especially when they have the right combination of seasonings and dips (though the dips are optional if the season is just right)

 

Yeah, curly fries definitely qualify for the "but shouldn't" clause of this thread. Curly fries are absolutely amazing.

 

Americanisms.

 

When people make (and even more so when they then try to sell) movie props that bare (bear?) only a vague resemblance to the one used in the film.

If you're going to make a movie prop then you should be going the whole mile and making it indistinguishable from the actual prop.

Example:

Indie's field journal from RotLA. It was nothing like this! It was a small, grey notebook with red spine binding [see bottom pic]. This is closer to the Grail Diary Indie's dad sends him in tLC, but even then it would be a shit replica because that one was bound in weathered brown leather.

Look at your 'replica', then look at the prop used in the film and ask yourself if you've done a good job!



A better effort of the Abner's Journal used in RotLA, but still not perfect, as the one in the film didn't have stuff crammed into the pages.

 

That is a...very specific peeve

 

People with an obvious stereotypical Deep Southern drawl/twang. I know it’s stupid and pedantic, I know they likely can’t help it, yet at the same time it grates my ears, especially when they speak in double-negatives like, “Oh, I ain’t gettin’ nothin’” or “He ain’t gonna do this no more.”

Again, I know they likely can’t help it, it’s just... Gah! D:

 

Sorry, does not qualify for "but shouldn't".

 

Women with southern accents sound charming to me, men sort of stupid (stereotype, I know, sorry).

 

Oh same here, Earp. The women at least sound like, “Dahlin, you know you want to hang out with me and enjoy lemonade on the veranda. Look at the lovely spanish moss hanging from the trees. Ain’t they just so lovely?”

The men? “Deerruugh, we wiz dropped on our dad-gum heh-ads as behbuz.” They sound like they have little to no intelligence and no capacity for reason and logic. I know, horribly illogical and wrong — it’s just... yeah. D:

 

I remember in the days after 9/11 seeing New Yorkers on TV who spoke like comic parodies of New Yawkers, but due to the subject matter, I knew that they weren't having a laugh. Just amazed me that those accents persist in our modern, CNN*-ified age.

*citing CNN simply as an example of a network that uses a flat, "neutral" American dialect and vocabulary, not a political comment.

 

I think I have a flat American accent, with a mixture of deaf speech what with my disability.

 

When people talk about a mid-Atlantic accent, do they mean you can't tell if the person is from the US or the UK, or...?

 

Apparently it is a little like your own 'Canadian Dainty...'

[Wiki, obv]

 

It's the old vintage Hollywood accent. It's certainly not British, but it has a la-di-da sound to it and a hint of a nod to non-rhotic pronunciation that gives it notes of having some kinship with accents from the UK. Think Frasier and Niles Crane or William F. Buckley. It's not regional, but instead a phenomenon of voice coaching or simple affectation.

From Wikipedia:

The Mid-Atlantic accent, or Transatlantic accent,[1][2][3] is a consciously acquired accent of English, intended to blend together the "standard" speech of both American English and British Received Pronunciation. Spoken mostly in the early 20th century, it is not a vernacular American accent native to any location, but rather, according to voice and drama professor Dudley Knight, an affected set of speech patterns whose "chief quality was that no Americans actually spoke it unless educated to do so".[4] The accent is, therefore, best associated with the American upper class, theater, and film industry of the 1930s and 1940s,[5] largely taught in private independent preparatory schools especially in the American Northeast and in acting schools.[6] The accent's overall use sharply declined following the Second World War.[7]

A similar accent, known as Canadian dainty, was also known in Canada in the same era, although it resulted from different historical processes.[8]

The term "mid-Atlantic accent" has, in some cases, also been used to refer to an accent heard in speakers who have spent large amounts of time in both North America and the United Kingdom,[citation needed] resulting in both dialects exerting a natural and not consciously affected influence on their speech patterns; however, this accent is not identical to the traditional mid-Atlantic accent.​

 

Some of the most twisted dialects come as a result of 10 years UK schooling/10 years US or S Africa, for example. I known some monsters like that. Nobody likes them.