France (2020)

China

Pet Peeves: A small list of annoyances

The stuff that bothers me, in convenient list-form. I’ll be back to update as necessary. Many of these may get their own post.

• when the inside of the food is frozen, but the outside burns your mouth (see: microwaves)
• wearing brown shoes with a black belt (or the opposite)
• radio feedback
• keyboards that aren’t QWERTY. (Dvorak gets a pass, if only for uniqueness)
• referring to heavy metal music as “Screamo”
• When the person performing roll-call can’t pronounce any of the names
• people who print out e-mails and bring them to you, in-person
• CaMeLcAsE
• telemarketers
• Microsoft
• The amount of bobby pins a woman can leave around
• people who don’t read books
• bad breath
• when stupid people passionately argue clearly wrong views
• when smart people passionately argue clearly wrong views
• adults who enjoyed Twilight
• web-apps that only work with one browser
  • Note: If that browser is Internet Explorer, you can die in a fire.
• Cars with after-market spoilers and stock engines
• people who answer “yes” or “no” questions with a 30+ minute explanation
• lying
• the following naming-convention for network types:
  • Stub Area
  • Totally Stubby Area
  • Not So Stubby Area
• Consumer-grade wireless routers
• referring to the same thing by several different names (e.g. spatula, flipper, etc)
• the lack of understanding of your/you’re or their/there/they’re
  • people who will go out of their way to correct you on this
• asking for an opinion and then ignoring it
• people who mark all meeting requests as “tentative”
• people who stand too close when they talk to you
• filenames with spaces in them.txt
• people who seem to exist without spell-check
• People who incessantly change lanes thinking that it makes them arrive sooner
• When someone steals jokes from a meme and acts as though it’s an original thought.
• People who sneak in at the last minute and steal your parking space
• Clip-on or zipper neckties.
• Dust covers (books)
• Reply-All on emails
• people who mix up “i.e.” and “e.g.“

 

What?

I don’t know what you’re expecting to see here.

Late last summer my wife convinced me to follow her on an awful diet. In an effort to make it less miserable, I used Facebook to mini-blog the event, which then lead to several requests to have my own blog; which I don’t quite understand. I’ve been asked to quit my whining my entire life, but the minute I put it into a public forum, I’m told that I should have a dedicated space for it? You people are absolutely weird.

 

I’m not sure what the worth of this is — but I’m willing to give it a shot, if for nothing more than a weird experiment. Don’t expect anything special.