“Zeke is my favorite character”
“What?? But he killed so many people!”
Yes, I’m not saying I agree with his actions or that he’s a good person. I like him as a character, not as a person. I like the way he’s written and he’s the most enjoyable character for me to watch/read, doesn’t mean I’d like him if he was real.
I know it isn’t malicious in any way, but it makes me feel like we’re talking about a broken computer. Most people consider their pets a member of the family..
Need I say more?
This SERIOUSLY gets on my nerves as a book collector. I like my books looking good, and almost none of these prints fit the bill of a good-looking print. Especially for book series, where only the adapted book(s) got the new designs, so the spines and covers within the series fail to match one another.
Some good examples of this that I really dislike are certain prints of Project Hail Mary, the Martian, and A Song of Ice and Fire. In the case of the first 2, the new covers are just outright bad compared to the originals. Why on earth would I want to stare at Matt Damon's face instead of a guy in a spacesuit walking on Mars? And why would I want to also stare at Ryan Gosling's face instead of a spacesuited guy drifting through space? It's so much less interesting and so much worse.
And ASoIaF outlines another, possibly even worse situation, where a perfectly fine cover is infected by a random, colorful, impossible to ignore advertising strip. I don't personally care for the covers, but they would be entirely inoffensive if it weren't for the blatant mentioning of the show.
I had never seen the movie Fargo. My husband was excited to have me watch it as it is one of his favorite movies. He talked through the entire film. He talked about other movies the Coen brothers directed, different roles the actors had been in and yammered about stuff not relative to the movie. I ended up getting so frustrated I watched it on my phone in the bedroom. He and I absorb movies differently. I need to watch it in silence. Pausing ruins the moment for me. After last night I will be watching movies alone.
It's a piece of wood. Wood is porous. Wood soaks up water. Why would you leave a wooden handled kitchen utensil to soak overnight in the sink, in a pot of nasty water and food debris???
I fucking hate when people call others "a 2" or "a 10" and then also act like whatever arbitrary grading system they use is objective truth, as if someone who looks hot to one person can't be average to another.
It's not just terribly objectifying (literally reducing a person to a number), but just factually wrong because being attractive or good looking really isn't as objective as people think it is.
I've had this situation before where some of my friends thought a guy was really hot while I didn't find him attractive in the slightest. Meanwhile, some of them didn't understand why I thought a particular guy was good looking. If we graded those guys on a 1-10 scale (what we aren't doing because we aren't fucking losers), the same guy could easily be a 5 for one person but a 10 for someone else.
I can't help it, whenever I see someone unironically grading a person's appearance I just immediately assume they're either an incel or at least a manosphere asshole, or whatever the female equivalent of that is. They're so deep into this whole "attractiveness is objective" nonsense that you could never convince them otherwise because they'll just accuse you of lying when you point to an "objectively unattractive" person and say you find them hot.
You see it all the time. People come on here, and post the same inane things that have been on here 1000 times over the past six months. Things like "do you like pineapple on your pizza". Or is it bots. Either way, it gets really annoying. It can be very difficult to find anything worthwhile on here. You start to conclude that most of humanity is really stupid.
Let me start by saying I don't think people should censor their swearing on the internet AT ALL.
But I just saw someone use the word "ass*****." Like you thought the "holes" part of the word was the problem? Not the "ass"? So annoying, and, frankly performative. Just type the word out, weirdo
Six minute ad breaks in the middle of sentences is ridiculously unacceptable.
Shows have scenes, in between two scenes is where a BRIEF commercial break goes.
This has been formulaic for broadcast television for decades, nearly a century.
It's not complicated, it's not some secret proprietary knowledge, watch one show and it's obvious how to monetize it with ads without making it unwatchable.
When a coworker hums and haws and makes a show of doing a task incorrectly/inefficiently so someone else will take over.
When a friend, before parting ways, says, "It's gonna be a cold walk home for me...", then, as you're driving him home, says, "I don't like this song."
When a flatmate sees you in the kitchen boiling the jug and says, "Man, I could go for a cup of tea right now."
When a dinner date projects their voice so the waiter at the next table can hear them gripe about how hard it is to get good service these days.
Innocuous statements? Sometimes. Deliberate psychological warfare preying on your sympathies? Perchance.
Dramatics aside, cognitively I am aware that people do say things off-handedly sometimes, whether they're accidentally saying their thoughts out loud or simply seeking common ground, but in situations where that's not the case, I'm no longer tolerant of people avoiding the word 'please'. Half of the time when a statement like those examples is indirectly directed at me, I'm actually able and willing to help out - if they had used their manners. There've been a few times where someone has tried the above tactic on me, been ignored, and then asked properly, which I respond to.
I want to be kind and helpful, it feels good. My issue is that I resent being made to feel as though I'm obligated by societal expectation to lessen another's burden just because they're in proximity. I'd rather do something for you because I like you, because you'd do the same for me, or even because hey, I'm headed to the break room anyway, sure I'll refill your water bottle.
Let me know if I'm just a jaded old man yelling at kids to get off my lawn lmao.
E.g., someone posts a picture of a bug in their food, and inevitably, you can bet a million dollars that there will be a comment:
"ThAt'S eXtRa PrOtEiN"
Undercooked meat? "ThAt CoW iS sTiLL mOoInG"
Significant car damage? "It WiLL bUfF RiGhT oFF"
Sketchy construction or poorly secured load on a vehicle? "JuSt SlAp It AnD sAy tHaT’S nOt GoInG aNyWhErE"
This has to be one of my number 1 pet peeves. I hate when some people say "I itched it" instead of "I scratched it" I know these days lots of people do say I "itched" it, but it's not grammatically correct and it sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me. The word 'itch' is a noun and 'scratch' is the verb used as an action to that noun.
EDIT: To clarify, I mean specifically when people use the word itch to describe the act of relieving a physical irritation on their body.
Now, I don't mean "lol" "fomo" "idgaf" "jfc" type of stuff. I mean that specific brand of forum/thread abbreviation that, for example, absolutely litters mom spaces. I just got pregnant and I swear it's like I can't read half the posts in these spaces. DD as in someone's "dear daughter?" DH (Dear husband)? BFP (big fat positive, about a pregnancy test), BD (nope, not even baby daddy, but "Baby dance?" As in having sex?) HEDD (hopeful expected due date).
I know I've also been in a ton of other spaces that use their own niche abbreviations and I'm always lost. I'm out here googling, trying to figure out what things stand for, because half the time, you'll plug it into google and it doesn't come up with anything relevant because it's too specific to whatever internet circle is using it, but not the standard layperson. where the hell is everyone getting the glossary of all these terms?!
Also who talks like this? "We [babydanced] last week on CD15, and now I'm 7DPO and [Dear Husband] and I are waiting for our [Big Fat Positive!]" Just say you did some trying and you and your husband are waiting for a positive test. like "CD" and "DPO" don't bother me because they sound normal if you talk them out, but who is really out here saying stuff like, "Frustrated. Dear Husband ate all my chips." Like NOBODY in actual life is saying "baby dance" or "big fat positive" and it just makes me cringe. Can't explain, but it feels very "oopsie woopsie!" "Fudgesticks!" self censorship for even less of a reason than when people censor things as "grape" and "unalive" to skirt the algorithm. This stuff is just cutesy and cryptic for no reason
Like cleaning the floors just to spill something.
Or the fact that unless you're doing your laundry naked it NEVER GETS ALL THE WAY DONE THERE IS ALWAYS MORE.
Or doing the dishes so you can eat something (unless you're one of the superior beings who cleans dishes as you go or as soon as you're done with them but I DON'T HAVE A DISHWASHER so it takes longer) just to realize now there's going to be MORE dishes but you have to eat!
Or scrubbing the toilet nice and shiny and then taking a poop that leaves tracks. This is my least favorite. It's all Fabuloso fresh and something decides it's going to make a graceless exit into my NICE CLEAN BOWL.
Or even putting new sheets on the bed and SURPRISE PERIOD TIME!! 😭
I want to CLEAN SOMETHING and have it stay clean for at least a FEW DAYS because I JUST DID THIS! I EARNED CLEANLINESS!! Guaranteed I will not take care of it immediately due to pure cosmic injustice.
When they invent self cleaning houses and robot maids I will SELL MY SOUL to be one of the first customers. FffffffuuuuuUUUUU----
This super trendy word is getting on my nerves. Thanks to my husband, I’m now in many infidelity spaces on the internet. They’re full of men talking about women refusing to “take accountability” whether or not they were the perpetrator or victim of the cheating.
My husband had an affair and men will comment to me that I haven’t taken accountability for my part.
Or it’ll even be a somewhat humorous take about regular married life and some guys will be in there like “typical woman, anything but accountability.”
What does this even mean?
I make friends online, but most people online are rude and selfish, so I find myself frequently blocking.
One time, a guy on Tumblr tried to be my friend. He later derailed the conversation into criticizing the format of my blog, and gave me unsolicited advice. I blocked him, and he messaged me on a alt insulting me and my insecurities.
Also on Tumblr, I met this girl and became her friend. When I told her I used an Android, she made annoying, condescending comments to me, so I blocked her. She had her male friend post this huge paragraph on my blog insulting me, calling me names, and threatening me. He told me to "do better" even though I blocked her flawlessly.
All these people act like they were doing me a favor texting me even though all they gave me was dry texts and disrespect. I rejected them, they didn't reject me 😈
I cannot stand when I scroll down to the reviews for something online, and people post useless photos. If it’s clothing, they’ll post a picture of the dress on the floor or if it’s something in general, a picture of the box the item shipped in. I want to see how the dress fits! I don’t want to see a selfie of you, even though you’re probably very good-looking and a genuinely nice person. If it’s a skincare product, why am I seeing 50 angles of the bottle. Show us how your skin looks before and after????
I literally just posted here, but maybe i’m especially peeved today.
Exactly this
I am at Culver’s restaurant, and I went to the drink machine to get some root beer. Some woman pops up, literally right on top of me. This happens everywhere, people will literally just get right on top of you. What happened to having personal space?
I understand if the place is crowded and there’s no space, but 90% of the time there’s plenty of space. Also, people who wanna sit right beside you when there’s plenty of other tables or seats, really annoy me.