Things That Annoy You

[Chine]

Today's annoyance. All these image share programs! PR rep sends me a zip file from Hightail. Just when I got used to Dropbox now this? I'm so sick of all these different programs. Just send me the attached images. Now I have to join Hightail? So, a friend of mine says 'Oh, I use 'boxsomethingoranother'.

[HorrorRetro]

I hope several members of my family never see this but I am annoyed by yoga classes, yoga people, and yoga pants.  Not that there's anything wrong with it.

And why is yoga in every other commercial? I've seen it in dog food commercials, auto parts commercials, Craftsman tools, etc.  Why?

[widespread1]

YOU TAKE THAT BACK

lol

Howdy Chine got your message.... nice to see you

[Falkie2013]

Ack! A nightmare of mine.  As oblivious as some drivers are and death-wish-driven as some cyclists appear to be, I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often.  Look at how so many drivers are now "multi-tasking" as they drive, from fiddling with the stereo to playing with a smart phone to any number of other things, while the court jesters on bikes obliviously cruise in the middle of city streets. The whole scene makes absolutely no sense to me.  What's next, bicycle clubs cruising down the middle of the interstates?

Things can happen in a second.  I almost had the pleasure of having a deer impact my windshield today.  I was driving down a wooded street in the suburbs, doing about 35mph, when a deer decided to jump out of the brush and across the hood of my car.  Fortunately, it was a small deer and it just barely cleared my car but it made it and scampered off on the other side of the street.  It all happened so quickly, it took a few seconds to even register.  It was just a blur.  A matter of seconds and it could have been bad news for the deer and me.  It just doesn't take much to turn an ordinary day into a bad situation.

That was NO ordinary deer. It was one of the programmed assassin drone deers sent by Snoory to kill anyone listening to Dark Matter.
Luckily for you, Snoory and his programmer never got beyond using Windows ME which is the only reason you didn't die.
The deer was programmed to explode on impact with your car, but the programming is glitched so that now the deer will explode the first time it eats someone's rosebushes.

[aldousburbank]

And why is yoga in every other commercial? I've seen it in dog food commercials, auto parts commercials, Craftsman tools, etc.  Why?

[aldousburbank]

Things can happen in a second.  I almost had the pleasure of having a deer impact my windshield today.  I was driving down a wooded street in the suburbs, doing about 35mph, when a deer decided to jump out of the brush and across the hood of my car.  Fortunately, it was a small deer and it just barely cleared my car but it made it and scampered off on the other side of the street.  It all happened so quickly, it took a few seconds to even register.  It was just a blur.  A matter of seconds and it could have been bad news for the deer and me.  It just doesn't take much to turn an ordinary day into a bad situation.

I once cut a pregnant doe in two, with my motorcycle. She jumped from an unseen position on the left, jumped again, and we perfectly intersected at 60mph, no time to brake. Got lucky. Road rash but nothing broken. Sore for a week. But I was a sight, completely covered in (deer) blood.

[Eddie Coyle]

And why is yoga in every other commercial? I've seen it in dog food commercials, auto parts commercials, Craftsman tools, etc.  Why?

       Ad execs are generally fruity.

[widespread1]

You know what annoys me? Every time I see some halfway descent architecture is a damn Casino.

America needs to get with the program when it comes to kickass buildings

[Heather Wade]

Why is it you can always find every other reciept except the one you need.  Dammit.
*5th panic attack of the day ensues*

[Treading Water]

And why is yoga in every other commercial? I've seen it in dog food commercials, auto parts commercials, Craftsman tools, etc.  Why?

Could it be something angels sent through a portal?

 

[HorrorRetro]

Could it be something angels sent through a portal?

 

You know what, you just never know.  Sumthins goin' on. 

[lonevoice]

I hope several members of my family never see this but I am annoyed by yoga classes, yoga people, and yoga pants.  Not that there's anything wrong with it.

I’m temperamentally ill-suited for yoga.   Its practice reminds me too much of the long hours spent in classroom training at a ballet arts academy.   I gained a lot of discipline, center coordination, posture, grace and balance, and even earned extra walking-around money instructing some of the younger classes.  But I always felt restless; that is, until I discovered Latin dancing.   For me, a long night of dancing in a salsa club gives all my chakras a party!  If my partner is capable of a decent rumba too, it’s a transcendent experience.   There’s a small dance studio in my home, because my sense of centeredness needs this whether or not I feel like going out.   A few hours of dancing and my spirit is at peace, but still very much alive and at home in the corporeal.  I’ve never tried it in yoga pants...maybe that’s one for the bucket list. 

[ItsOver]

I once cut a pregnant doe in two, with my motorcycle. She jumped from an unseen position on the left, jumped again, and we perfectly intersected at 60mph, no time to brake. Got lucky. Road rash but nothing broken. Sore for a week. But I was a sight, completely covered in (deer) blood.

Damn those deer are fast.  Much faster than my aging reflexes.  I'm still counting my lucky stars I didn't end up with a deer crashing through my windshield and into my face.  I don't even want to think about having an encounter while riding a motorcycle.  Are you still riding after that, AB?

A few years back in the neighborhood, a poor fellow in an SUV plowed into a buck and it ended up taking him out, DOA.  A dead deer and driver.  I wonder if I can retrofit an old Sherman for cruising the city streets.

[aldousburbank]

Damn those deer are fast.  Much faster than my aging reflexes.  I'm still counting my lucky stars I didn't end up with a deer crashing through my windshield and into my face.  I don't even want to think about having an encounter while riding a motorcycle.  Are you still riding after that, AB?

A few years back in the neighborhood, a poor fellow in an SUV plowed into a buck and it ended up taking him out, DOA.  A dead deer and driver.  I wonder if I can retrofit an old Sherman for cruising the city streets.

Only ride my awesome fat tire 'lectric bicycle now. I still am deer paranoid though.

[Eddie Coyle]

         The Tourettian-like insistence of "no links to terrorism" by authorities almost instantaneously when something that could possibly be terrorism occurs. If the Nairobi mall siege happened in Denver or Atlanta...they'd still be debating whether it was terrorism.

[ItsOver]

         The Tourettian-like insistence of "no links to terrorism" by authorities almost instantaneously when something that could possibly be terrorism occurs. If the Nairobi mall siege happened in Denver or Atlanta...they'd still be debating whether it was terrorism.

That really bugs me, too.  Are the "authorities" still terming the Ft. Hood shooting as "work place violence?"  I love this modern day word-smithing.  What was WW II?  An "external skirmish?"  :

[HorrorRetro]

Are the "authorities" still terming the Ft. Hood shooting as "work place violence?" 

Yes.    As an Army wife, I have to say this makes me furious.

[ItsOver]

Yes.    As an Army wife, I have to say this makes me furious.

It's beyond outrageous. 

[Sardondi]

The Tourettian-like insistence of "no links to terrorism" by authorities almost instantaneously when something that could possibly be terrorism occurs. If the Nairobi mall siege happened in Denver or Atlanta...they'd still be debating whether it was terrorism.

"Terrorism"? EC, the Ministry of Propaganda - that's what used to be known as our media -  wouldn't even have agreed to recognize it as having occurred.

[Eddie Coyle]

        I'm annoyed that I missed the epicene,Afrocentric mononymous hipster "Toure" on MSNBC utterly fail on air to locate Kenya on a map. Apparently it occurred last week.

[Sardondi]

I'm annoyed that I missed the epicene,Afrocentric mononymous hipster "Toure" on MSNBC utterly fail on air to locate Kenya on a map. Apparently it occurred last week.

That's because "Kenya" is the white oppressor's word for the lovely area which in Toure's mother tongue is known as "Mobettaland".

[Eddie Coyle]

That's because "Kenya" is the white oppressor's word for the lovely area which in Toure's mother tongue is known as "Mobettaland".

      He went to Milton Academy aka "Fairy-land". Another suburban radical buppie blerd.

[UrbanFool]

I hate it that so many people appear to live from Friday to Friday. Oh my God it's MONDAY! There's going to be another one next week, guaranteed. There's no sense in dreading it!

[bateman]

People who use iPads as cameras. You look like a buffoon.

[West of the Rockies]

I hate it that so many people appear to live from Friday to Friday. Oh my God it's MONDAY! There's going to be another one next week, guaranteed. There's no sense in dreading it!

Truer words were never spoken...  I know it was a schmaltzy movie, but Adam Sandler's Fast Forward (I believe that was the title) where a guy uses a magical TV remote control unit to blast through life's crappy moments is pretty meaningful.

I have been urging my daughter to enjoy her childhood.  She is 12, about the age where a lot of her age-mates are suddenly shunning toys and thinking about not going trick-or-treating.  But, you know, most of us don't have an especially deep memory of our childhoods up until the age of, what, maybe seven?  If we pretty much try to stop being children by about 12, that leaves five meaningful years of being a child.  And then, lucky us, we get about another 65-70 of being bill-paying adults.

Maybe the trick is keeping a child-like sense of wonder at the world, yes?

[aldousburbank]

Maybe the trick is keeping a child-like sense of wonder at the world, yes?

I am constantly accused of this by The Mrs. And my adult children. I'd grow up if it didn't look so boring.

[stevesh]

The great Neil deGrasse Tyson feels the need to point out all the possible scientific errors in the new movie Gravity. It's a movie, Doctor Buzzkill.

[bateman]

I had the most disgusting craft beer bullshit over the weekend. It was supposed to be some kind of pumpkin ale, but it tasted like a Glade plug-in.

[West of the Rockies]

I had a sip of a pumpkin beer once, too.  Vomitous dreck.  Personally, I am not fond of fruit-tinged beers (save for lemon & lime).

[bateman]

I had a sip of a pumpkin beer once, too.  Vomitous dreck.  Personally, I am not fond of fruit-tinged beers (save for lemon & lime).

I had this last year, which was shockingly good, but I'm definitely not usually a fan of the flavored stuff either. Or most beers for that matter.

http://www.applewoodwinery.com/images/image/Pumpkin%20Label.jpg