Okay as a full reply bothers me in text. It just seems like the person is brushing me off for some reason, and it never fails to irritate me. I especially hate serial okays, that is saying okay after something I’ve said mulitple times in a row. I’ve gotten better about accepting it over the years, but it still makes me eyes cross a little at times.
Okay.
*I also have a totally irrational hatred for kids who wear jeans with the ass sagging a foot too low. * This is neither irrational nor insane, so it doesn’t qualify.
I hate that little boys get to own the color blue. everybody knows that 4 out of 5 Americans will tell you their favorite color is blue. So why is ti that the boys get to hog up all the pretty blue clothing? I’ll tell you why, becasue the #^%@& Victorians liked boys better than girls, that’s why! ! It’s a conspiracy against girls! ! ! !
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I’m told that my first rant about this occurred when I was only four - with “Victorian” replaced by “some ancient people.” * Would it make you feel better or worse if I told you that it wasn’t the Victorians who made up this rule? It came about later than that.
*When people add redundant nouns to acronyms, like “ATM machine” or “PIN number”. No, no, no, no, you freaking morons! Can’t you stop to think for one little moment and realize you’re actually saying “Automated Teller Machine machine” or “Personal Identification Number number”?!? Gah. I wish to reserve the right to smack these people in the head. Unless it’s an actual banking employee that does it, in which case I wish to reserve the right to kill them and take all the money out of their cash drawer. * This is not irrational.
*Dick Cheney - Just looking at him makes me want to give him a beat down
Perez Hilton - See Cheney above * Again, not an irrational impulse in either case.
Personally, I rather dislike prime numbers, or at least CALLING them prime numbers. They are not better than other numbers, they are just in a different class. Not better, not worse, they are useful for some functions but not for others. For instance, packaging five items together is not good for someone who is trying to buy the items and then split them evenly, unless the buyer happens to have five in the family, or five in the social group. Five can only be split evenly among five people! Whereas six can be split evenly with two, three, or six others. Dozens are even better for splitting.
I get somewhat irritated when I see that items (such as drinking glasses, or building blocks) come in three colors, and the three colors are red, green, and yellow, or red, green, and blue. Yes, I know about additive and subtractive colors now, but things should come in red, yellow, and blue, if it’s three colors. Green gets added into the mix when there are four or more options. Poor purple/violet gets added last, if it ever gets added at all. I also am irritated at the word violet. I know the difference between purple and violet now, but as a child it confused me, and I think that it’s rather pretentious of crayon manufacturers to put “violet” as the color of a crayon.
I really fucking hate it when people say “a myriad of [noun]” instead of “a myriad [noun].” I recognize that it’s perfectly grammatical and valid, but it’s like someone dragging fingernails down the chalkboard of my mind.
Not only did I open this thread knowing someone would do this, I expected it to be you.
I cannot stand ok and react viscerally to it. k is shoot-on-sight. It’s either okay or 'kay, damn it.
If you’re going to go that route, shouldn’t it simply be ‘myriad [noun]’? 
On that note, why do we even have C? Damned indesisive letter; pikk a sound and stikk with it. We kould get by just fine using K and S as nesessary in plase of C. If we really had to keep C around (like if the linguists wanted to get all sentimental on us) we kould let C make the CH sound all by itself and save a letter in words like katc and canse.
For that matter, why not replase X with KS or Z as needed? X is a freaking poser anyways, always trying to be all kool and spesial when it’s totally ekspendable.
Only bad people list songs by title then artist.
Think of the mathematicians! Take away their favorite letter and they’d cease to function.
Christ, yes. People who do that should be subject to extensive torture and then voted off the island.
“Kay” as a sound is not necessarily problematic in speech. In text, like E-mails or text messaging or IM, it’s just dismissive, representing literally the bare minimum of effort required to muster any response to what you’re saying at all. If you think the bare minimum is enough, then ok. But some people choose to type more and I encourage that, ok?
I hate it when I’m using the mouse pad on my laptop and I make a certain motion that results in major font shrinkage. Then I can’t figure out how to get it go back to normal.
Man, I am so glad other people assign genders and personalities to numbers. I’ve done that as long as I can remember. I actually do have synesthesia, I “see” numbers, letters and words as colors. Or associate them with colors. Hard to describe to people who don’t do it. 7 is a rich kelly green, but not a nice number and very mean to 6, which is a baby blue and quite timid. I could go on.
I love this bored. Not only do I find other people who give numbers personalities, but we all seem to think 7 is a bad guy.
People who don’t keep their music collection (cd racks, LP stacks, whatever) arranged in alphabetical order deserve to have the whole thing rifled through and re-arranged in a chaotic manner.
I can never find what I like.
I told my husband that Matti Höylä was my favourite goalie ever, and he asked me if I liked him more than Carey Price (we have an ongoing teasing argument about Price vs Halak). I then had to explain to him that they are different favourites:
Höylä - favourite goalie dancing to “Thriller”
Price- favourite goalie with adorable brown eyes.
Lundqvist- favourite “fucking hot, but plays for the Rangers”.
My husband got annoyed at this point, and changed the topic of conversation…!
For the record, I have no clue who my favourite goalie is…I like different ones for different reasons, and I don’t see why I should have to choose!
If this happens, can it be restricted to English only, please? We need the C to continue to exist in it’s current form in Montreal, for the Canadiens, so we can then abbreviate it to CH!
My CD collection has never been in alphabetical order. Rifle through it all you like, place it however you like! I just find the ones I want based on the colour of the spine. It takes a few minutes sometimes, but really, if I’m going to be putting in a CD and listening to it for a while, what difference does a couple of minutes make? It’s not like I’m in a hurry!
“I’m good…”
No, you’re not. Damnit, you’re fine, or you’re well, but if you say good again I’m going to break your fucking face with a brick.
I cant stand Sarah Silverman.
She’s never done anything to me but I would punch her in the nose if I ever met her. I have to change the channel when her annoying ass of a face is on TV.
Is the fifth letter of your name the fifth letter of the alphabet? Mine is. Actually, so is the first letter of my name. I think I need to go ponder this.
Oh my, yes. Bookshelves too. And DVDs. I’ve arranged every collection of books, CDs and DVDs in the house dozens of times, but my stupid family keep messing it up whenever they decide they want one of the items or just feel like messing with me.
I hate sharp knives for some reason. Axes? Fine. Saws? Fine. Butter knives? Fine. Kitchen knives? You’re about to cut off your thumb or stab yourself or throw it across the room at me!
Also, what’s with all the seven hate? I love seven! Especially if you get it by adding three and four. Eight, on the other hand … smarmy bastard. Everyone loves eight, but I don’t trust it. Never have.
Tony Danza. My nemesis.
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It is a meaningless word and a verbal crutch. People use it to pad and to add weight and importance or something to their speech. But it’s worthless and should never be uttered again.
I was in a training class a couple of years back and the instructor loved that work. One morning I had to count - he said it something like 157 times in less than 3 hours, including three times in one sentence.
Stupid, worthless word…