That word you spelled correctly the first time, second guessed yourself on, edited and misspelled, crossreferenced and reedited, only to return to the original spelling.
People who think that raising the country's GDP should be the goal rather than raising the country's standard of living. The standard example being that pollution raises a country's GDP because it requires spending money on clean up, yet it lowers the standard of living and the money could be better spent elsewhere.
It'll be the same people who think saying 'Who is John Galt' is a good substitute for a clever argument.
The title of the thread is 'Things that inexplicably annoy me...'. Being annoyed by Piers Morgan is totally explicable. The 'per say' people also usually spell 'violá' as 'wala'.
My own cynicism. Sometimes I could be sitting down, minding my own business and WHAM that cynical voice in my head appears to ruin my day.
True, I just don't want to go overboard with it. Y'know the clichéd old guys who sit around drinking while complaining about life in general? I don't want to be that.
What's violá? I'm often inexplicably annoyed by people -- usually women -- who come to the gym to not work out but to seemingly make an appearance. These young ladies don't actually work out. They just wear their latest-fashion, body-shaping, fat-tucking yoga pants and tight tops with neon-colored motivational slogans and do some cross-trainer flailing for a bit, but not too much 'cause getting all red-faced and sweaty is not attractive or something. Hmph. *inexplicable annoyance*
Oooo! I thought of another one. I get annoyed that people are so afraid of getting old. People hit that 30th birthday, and they suddenly feel like their life is over. So they get different clothes to fit in, cut their hair to look hip, get Botox and plastic surgery to look younger... Man, I can't WAIT to be old! Don't ask me why. I don't know. lol And honestly, I WANT gray hair. I think it's beautiful. I think getting older is beautiful! It's a natural process that everyone goes through. It doesn't mean your less of a person because you're old. I guess it's death they fear, and I'm not afraid to die. (I mean.. I'm afraid of the process of dying.. I'm sure dying isn't very pleasant.. But the aftermath of dying, I'm totally not afraid of!) But when you're old, you can retire! You get to sit in your garden and pull weeds and read books and go fishing and travel and take care of your grand kids (or grand nieces and nephews because I won't be having kids ). It's really, I feel, the first time in your life that you get to live JUST for yourself. No work. No family to take care of. Just you.
A viola is a larger violin. There is a rumour that the two instruments are the same size, but the violin looks smaller because of the relative size of the head of the violinist/viola player.
Ooh, cool. Something's wonky with my Google search 'cause it just gave me definitions of voilà when I searched it.
Yes, this is true... But a viola is different from voilà. Voilà, with the accented a, means like... "Ta da!" Almost as if something appeared by magic. It's a French word. He just accidentally mixed up the I and the O in his earlier post. It's pronounced "vwah-lah." Edited to add: Yanno what else inexplicably annoys me? Typing on an iPad. When I type it originally, everything is fine. But when I reread what I wrote after posting, I notice my damn autocorrect has changing "something" into "so teething" and "when" into "why" and other such annoying corrections. I hate my iPad!!
My laptop keyboard hates accented letters. But I know how you feel with the iPad and auto-correct. I growl, "That's not what I goddamn mean you piece of crap!" and resist the urge to plant my fist firmly through its smirky little screen. EDIT: @stevesh - When I get cynical, I load up games with cynical protagonists like Red Dead Redemption or The Last of Us. Somehow that makes me feel better because I can say, 'What am I feeling sorry for myself for? I'm not in a zombie apocalypse, or on a life or death mission to save my family.' I'm weird like that.
I typed big-city-itis on another thread, and it auto-corrected to big-city-it is...perhaps it thought I was Yoda...
Yeah, I know it's a French expression, but I didn't know what a viola is,which I accidentally learned. Now I do, yay .
Annoyed by stupid, stupid spell-checker that puts a squiggly red line under a word I spelled correctly.
