# Things that just aren't RIGHT. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 15, 2004, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-just-arent-right/224520 "2004-01-15T03:12:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-just-arent-right/224520/21 "2004-01-15T19:12:30Z")
Headlights that are blue-shifted. The Pontiac Aztek. Carrot-top Slip-joint pliers. Too small for my hands and never seem to grab right. Campsites where you can hear your neighbor snore. Hockey teams in Florida and California. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-just-arent-right/224520/22 "2004-01-15T19:23:29Z")
Small doggies wearing tiny coats. People who put tiny coats on their small doggies. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-just-arent-right/224520/23 "2004-01-15T19:53:03Z")
People who say “Recommend me an XXXX.” There are some verbs that just require a “to.” Recommend TO me an xxxx. (Drive me a bank?) ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-just-arent-right/224520/24 "2004-01-15T19:54:16Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > Artificial banana flavouring (used in cheap sweets) is just wrong, no banana ever has or ever will taste anything like that. > > goatse.cx was just plain wrong, but the powers that B got rid of it. I agree it doesn’t taste like bananna - but I like it. Would it still be wrong if we gave it a new name? ---
**Author:** ![InquisitiveIdiot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3ec8ea/32.png) [@InquisitiveIdiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InquisitiveIdiot)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-just-arent-right/224520/25 "2004-01-15T19:58:45Z")
> [@](#): > > - Uni (sea horse in a sushi restaurant) That’s sea _urchin,_ actually. And I agree with you. I only wish someone had told me before I ordered of its strong resemblance to a byproduct of a cat with bronchitis. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-just-arent-right/224520/26 "2004-01-15T20:06:57Z")
> [@Mirrored Indigo Shadows](#): > > Twinkies are an abomination on society. So are ho-hos, ding dongs, and any other strangely named prepackaged baked good with a shelf life that exceeds the time it takes me to reach adolescence from birth. I dunno; it’s still awfully nice to eat a little Debbie… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-just-arent-right/224520/27 "2004-01-15T20:17:34Z")
> [@maggy](#): > > that sound that people’s eyes make when they rub them really hard…I have to leave the room… You can hear that? I can’t hear it even when I’m rubbing my own eyes! Are you actually a bat or something? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-just-arent-right/224520/28 "2004-01-15T20:33:23Z")
The following just aren’t Right: Left turns The Left bank of the Seine Left-handed people Ted Kennedy ---
**Author:** ![BraveNewSquirle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@BraveNewSquirle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraveNewSquirle)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-just-arent-right/224520/29 "2004-01-15T21:00:34Z")
Any music with the word “pop” in it. :mad: People who say that video games, music, or TV are responsible for violence. What about crappy parents raise messed up kids? This icon: ;j what is it? ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-just-arent-right/224520/30 "2004-01-15T21:05:54Z")
Bright colored icing is wrong. Shirley Temple was an abomination unto the high cave of Og. ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-just-arent-right/224520/31 "2004-01-15T21:13:14Z")
This? ;j That’s the Jewish smiley, of course! He’s great, but I never know when to use him! ---
**Author:** ![nuthinboutnuthin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/96bed5/32.png) [@nuthinboutnuthin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nuthinboutnuthin)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-just-arent-right/224520/32 "2004-01-15T22:27:33Z")
Black & White M&Ms :eek: ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-just-arent-right/224520/33 "2004-01-16T00:02:13Z")
;j Looks like a stoner to me. ;j - _Duuude!_ ---
**Author:** ![laserkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@laserkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laserkitty)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-just-arent-right/224520/34 "2004-01-16T00:04:45Z")
Small dogs are nothing more than punting material in my book. People who go out of their way to make their children feel stupid in public. Beauty pageants…what’s the point? People who wear their hats sideways and pull their pants down to their knees while they walk around. People who are perfectly capable of speaking some form of good English, but prefer to sound ignorant instead. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-just-arent-right/224520/35 "2004-01-16T00:08:57Z")
> [@lilbtagna](#): > > How about finding white hairs on my head full of black hair? I’m only 21, and this has been happening since I was 17 or 18! ☹ :o Suck it up, baby, and start buying stock in Lady Clairol. That’s what happened to me, and now I’m 39. It was kinda funny when I was in high school and had a few gray hairs, but then it wasn’t so funny any more. I have to color my hair every 2 months or I’d be salt & pepper gray nearly all over. ☹ In regard to the OP: Squash. Nasty, nasty stuff. People who don’t put on their left-turn signal till _after_ the light turns green. This should be a license-revoking offense. People with nice cars that are filthy. I mean, full of fast food trash and candy wrappers and used tissues and ancient juice boxes and ground-in food debris. Is it that hard to vacuum it out? 'Cause otherwise, you spent $50,000 for a big trash can on wheels. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-just-arent-right/224520/36 "2004-01-16T00:18:38Z")
The cafeteria at my school sometimes serves green beans. The kind that have been canned until they turn a sort of khaki color. Amazingly, people cheerfully eat these. I was horrified today when my friend Josh smothered his green beans in ranch dressing and declared them, “Delicious!” ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-just-arent-right/224520/37 "2004-01-16T00:28:22Z")
The following word is beyond wrong- Secrete ( or any variation thereof ) Also, the sound that is made when someone sweeps the sidewalk or asphalt with a broom. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-just-arent-right/224520/38 "2004-01-16T03:52:36Z")
> [@Lady Kate](#): > > Finding white hairs on my head … There are some sizeable places on my head where I’d be pleased to find some white hairs. ---
**Author:** ![lilbtagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@lilbtagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilbtagna)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-just-arent-right/224520/39 "2004-01-16T04:52:35Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > Suck it up, baby, and start buying stock in Lady Clairol. That’s what happened to me, and now I’m 39. It was kinda funny when I was in high school and had a few gray hairs, but then it wasn’t so funny any more. > I have to color my hair every 2 months or I’d be salt & pepper gray nearly all over. ☹ Did you just have a random hair that you would find every few months, or were they more common than that? > [@Kalhoun](#): > > My ex had a white spot the size of a quarter that grew on one side of his beard. He always said he worried on that side. Heh. Did he have a birthmark under the white spot? One of my friends in elementary school had a spot of white hair on his head, and I think he told all of us that it was because he had a birthmark on his scalp right there. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-just-arent-right/224520/40 "2004-01-16T05:16:47Z")
> [@DeaganTheWolf](#): > > Okay, Here’s your chance to let us know what things you dislike on a purely irrational basis. > > Very small dogs: Can’t we call these creatures something other than dogs?.. > A 6 lb walking mop does not qualify as a dog in my book. Actually, most of them are excellent mousers-way better than most cats. My gramma had a Yorkie that used to kill rats all the time. That dog was the most well-behaved, well tempered animal I’ve ever seen. And she could fit in a soup bowl. For me? Thong underwear. I spend most of my time trying to keep that part OUT of my buttcrack-why would I encourage it? Little girls dressing like Britney Spears. Speaking of, how about child beauty pageants? WTF is up with that? I mean, for godsakes, why can’t these little girls at least be in age-appropriate attire? I’m thinking little Shirley Temple ensembles with the ringlets and ballerinas? But no, instead they’re dressed like pole dancers. Da’hell? That’s creepy! Mullets (with the exception of the one worn by Ewan McGregor in _Attack of the Clones_) Teenage girls who run around and squeal “OH MY GOD!!!” in that nasily, Fran Drescher voice. Ugh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-just-arent-right/224520.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-just-arent-right/224520.md?page=3)