Things that I find mildly irritating v.2

[JayOctavarium]

I'm sure the permit has something to do with changes made by the county and / or are connected to the hugely devastating fire season California had last year. Which honestly I TOTALLY understand.

But it should have been disclosed at booking. Not a month later in the form of a lie.

[Kotowboy]

Re: Things that I find mildly irritating v.2

Dogs.

But mainly how much people just worship dogs like they're literally angels who are sent from god to save humanity and would jump on a grenade for their master...

When you boil it right down - most people say "oh they're loyal" and that's it. Whilst cats aren't always loyal - they're just better in every other possible way.

I love animals and don't mind cuddling dogs when i'm out and about and it's a friendly one - but if Dogs just did not bark - i'd like them so much more.

It drives me mad. There is no need for that noise at all. I think dogs are the worst pets. Just for how needy and noisy they are vs how much you get back from them

( which is not much ).

[jingle.boy]

I think dogs are the worst pets. Just for how needy and noisy they are vs how much you get back from them

( which is not much ).

I'm beginning to wonder if you're a dog?   

[Kotowboy]

How dare you !!



My spirit animal is a sloth.

[lordxizor]

Somehow I caught a cold. Not Covid. Don't other diseases know they need to take a break during a pandemic?

[Stadler]

I grew up a cat person - we got my cat when I was 1 and a half, and moved into the house I grew up in, and she had to be put to sleep while I was off at college - but in later years I became a dog person.  I now have three dogs.   I'm sorry, I get the laconic nature of cats, and I can do without the sort of manic spasms of (especially a young) dog, but in my older age, the difference to me is looking deeply in the eyes of my pet and either seeing "I'm going claw your spleen out while you're sleeping and eat it for breakfast" (a cat), or "RUB MY BELLY! RUB MY BELLY! I have to pee.  RUB MY BELLY!" (a dog).  I much prefer the latter.

[pg1067]

When you boil it right down - most people say "oh they're loyal" and that's it. Whilst cats aren't always loyal - they're just better in every other possible way.

YMMV.

Cats shed and pee all over the place, don't shit in their boxes, and are often moody.  My dog doesn't do any of that (although she occasionally pees a little if she's excited and needs to go outside).

[TAC]

Cats are fucking evil.

[jingle.boy]

Cats are fucking evil.

And completely fucking ambivalent about it.

All dogs have ADHD (in a good way), and absolutely unconditional love.

[chknptpie]

When you boil it right down - most people say "oh they're loyal" and that's it. Whilst cats aren't always loyal - they're just better in every other possible way.

YMMV.

Cats shed and pee all over the place, don't shit in their boxes, and are often moody.  My dog doesn't do any of that (although she occasionally pees a little if she's excited and needs to go outside).

If you have a cat that is peeing all over the place there is either a medical problem or a lazy owner that doesn't clean the box enough (or have enough boxes). My cats do not pee all over the place or shit outside of their boxes.

[Chino]

In the 7 years I've had my cat, he's never once pissed or shit outside of the single litter box he has in the basement.

[jingle.boy]

Ya'll are lucky then.  We had one cat that was just like that.  The other cat (stray that jingle.daughter and mrs.jingle took pity on) has been wildly inconsistent.  It's not a health issue - we've spent thousands diagnosing that and it's not a lack of boxes (we had four going at one point when we had 2 cats).  It's behaviour - and once they find a spot they mark and get used to, it's virtually impossible to get them un-used to it.  We've been able to find a resolution by using dog training pads, calming plug-ins (which are not cheap) throughout the house, and putting her food source in the areas she used to pee in, but there's still the odd time she goes somewhere on the floor.

Three dogs, never once peed in the house (after they were trained), and only a couple of accidents (when sick, or coming off of anaesthesia)

I get it ... people are usually either dog or cat people.  I've got no beef for anyone who is the latter. 

[cramx3]

I grew up a dog person, still love them, but am also now a cat person and have 1 cat.  Just easier as a single working dude to have a cat over a dog as a pet.  But I got to say, I never really have the feeling my cat wants me dead.  He's super affectionate with me, maybe more so than a dog it's just shown differently.  It's more of a respect than an unconditional love.  I'd totally get a dog again though, I do kind of miss that charm of one. 

Historically for me, a dog is much harder to potty train than a cat and much more inconsistent.

[Evermind]

Cat people who think dogs are loyal and stupid, and dog people who think cats are evil and ambivalent about it. Tim gets a pass because I know his judgement is shit, he thinks it's alright not to return a cart to the corral.

Just mildly irritating though, otherwise I love you all.

[Chino]

I've got one of each, and they're both chill AF. The cat can sometimes be a dick and try to get some of the dog's food, and he hates when I interrupt his morning porch time to take a photo like the one above, but he's cool otherwise. I never even considered having a cat until this one ended up with me, but I'm sold now. They're good buds.

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[Evermind]

Well this cat does look slightly evil and ambivalent about it

[jingle.boy]

Well this cat does look slightly evil and ambivalent about it

[Podaar]

When we went to the County Animal Control to pick out a kitten 21 years ago (that's when we got my sainted Margret-Elizabeth who's been dead these past 2 years) I was agonizing over picking one--she was to be my birthday present...my prrreciousss. I spotted a tiny snow-shoe, seal point Siamese frolicking clumsily about her cage while her brother was using the litter box. As soon as he was finished and hopped out of the box, she jumped in and buried his shit! I looked at the attendant and said, "I want that one." 

Nineteen years together and she didn't once pee outside her box...well, I guess that's not accurate. There was the one time she peed on the dog's bed, but that was justified--he had it coming.

[Stadler]

I've got one of each, and they're both chill AF. The cat can sometimes be a dick and try to get some of the dog's food, and he hates when I interrupt his morning porch time to take a photo like the one above, but he's cool otherwise. I never even considered having a cat until this one ended up with me, but I'm sold now. They're good buds.

.

See that photo is everything I was writing about; that cat is thinking "I can lacerate a kidney four different ways."   That dog is thinking "My balls.  Wait, food, yeah.  Food.  No, wait, my balls."

[Chino]

I've got one of each, and they're both chill AF. The cat can sometimes be a dick and try to get some of the dog's food, and he hates when I interrupt his morning porch time to take a photo like the one above, but he's cool otherwise. I never even considered having a cat until this one ended up with me, but I'm sold now. They're good buds.

.

See that photo is everything I was writing about; that cat is thinking "I can lacerate a kidney four different ways."   That dog is thinking "My balls.  Wait, food, yeah.  Food.  No, wait, my balls."

And I've thought "I could pit maneuver you so bad right now" on 84 about a billion times  I like to think of that look as his way of flipping me the bird.

Norman has no balls 

[IDontNotDoThings]

As an antisocial millennial who likes having her personal space respected, yeah I prefer cats.

[Stadler]

So... change of pace here...

Grammar, more specifically the lack of articles and plurals.    I went to high school and I played hockey while there.   When we were juniors, we looked forward to going to THE prom.   My high school sucked at hockey, but as we got to senior year, the reality of making the state tournament was actually a reality and in my senior year, we DID make THE states.

Now, kids apparently go to prom, as if it's a verb and it is an action in itself.   My stepson's wife's mom runs a cheerleading "school" (in quotes because it's... I don't know what it is, but it's like those dumb shows, for real) and they go to nationals, again, like "national" means some action.   

It gets worse; since I've known her (no, actually, since she was 18 or so, but I mean, I've been experiencing it for eight years or so now) my wife has suffered from migraines, where she gets skull-shattering headaches, some so bad the only answer is a dark room and a soft bed because any movement is torturous.   There's a rash of new prescriptions out now for treating migraine headaches - pro tip:  none work all that well, at least on my wife - and so a rash of new advertisements about them. One we see frequently is one of the Kardashian mannekins talking about "migraine" and how this fantastic new compound will relieve your symptoms of "migraine" and make you want to, I don't know, super model or something.   I'm not sure, she's upstairs right now, but I'm almost positive that hearing Karen Kardashian talk about "migraine" to refer to THE migraine HEADACHES ("the migraines") that she's suffered with for 11 years (my wife was, is and always will be 29 in my heart!) actually GIVES her A migraine headache! 

Are we so lazy and/or insecure that we have to boost the importance of things and move SO fact that we now skip articles and reducing them to the singular?  I think we are!

[chknptpie]

So... change of pace here...

Grammar, more specifically the lack of articles and plurals.    I went to high school and I played hockey while there.   When we were juniors, we looked forward to going to THE prom.   My high school sucked at hockey, but as we got to senior year, the reality of making the state tournament was actually a reality and in my senior year, we DID make THE states.

Now, kids apparently go to prom, as if it's a verb and it is an action in itself.   My stepson's wife's mom runs a cheerleading "school" (in quotes because it's... I don't know what it is, but it's like those dumb shows, for real) and they go to nationals, again, like "national" means some action.   

It gets worse; since I've known her (no, actually, since she was 18 or so, but I mean, I've been experiencing it for eight years or so now) my wife has suffered from migraines, where she gets skull-shattering headaches, some so bad the only answer is a dark room and a soft bed because any movement is torturous.   There's a rash of new prescriptions out now for treating migraine headaches - pro tip:  none work all that well, at least on my wife - and so a rash of new advertisements about them. One we see frequently is one of the Kardashian mannekins talking about "migraine" and how this fantastic new compound will relieve your symptoms of "migraine" and make you want to, I don't know, super model or something.   I'm not sure, she's upstairs right now, but I'm almost positive that hearing Karen Kardashian talk about "migraine" to refer to THE migraine HEADACHES ("the migraines") that she's suffered with for 11 years (my wife was, is and always will be 29 in my heart!) actually GIVES her A migraine headache! 

Are we so lazy and/or insecure that we have to boost the importance of things and move SO fact that we now skip articles and reducing them to the singular?  I think we are!

So funny about the use of "the". Us over on the west coast get made fun of for the exact opposite when it comes to interstates and freeways. We say take THE 101 to THE 60 then get on THE 17. But over on the east coast its take 101 to 60 to 17. How does that work? lol

[Stadler]

So... change of pace here...

Grammar, more specifically the lack of articles and plurals.    I went to high school and I played hockey while there.   When we were juniors, we looked forward to going to THE prom.   My high school sucked at hockey, but as we got to senior year, the reality of making the state tournament was actually a reality and in my senior year, we DID make THE states.

Now, kids apparently go to prom, as if it's a verb and it is an action in itself.   My stepson's wife's mom runs a cheerleading "school" (in quotes because it's... I don't know what it is, but it's like those dumb shows, for real) and they go to nationals, again, like "national" means some action.   

It gets worse; since I've known her (no, actually, since she was 18 or so, but I mean, I've been experiencing it for eight years or so now) my wife has suffered from migraines, where she gets skull-shattering headaches, some so bad the only answer is a dark room and a soft bed because any movement is torturous.   There's a rash of new prescriptions out now for treating migraine headaches - pro tip:  none work all that well, at least on my wife - and so a rash of new advertisements about them. One we see frequently is one of the Kardashian mannekins talking about "migraine" and how this fantastic new compound will relieve your symptoms of "migraine" and make you want to, I don't know, super model or something.   I'm not sure, she's upstairs right now, but I'm almost positive that hearing Karen Kardashian talk about "migraine" to refer to THE migraine HEADACHES ("the migraines") that she's suffered with for 11 years (my wife was, is and always will be 29 in my heart!) actually GIVES her A migraine headache! 

Are we so lazy and/or insecure that we have to boost the importance of things and move SO fact that we now skip articles and reducing them to the singular?  I think we are!

So funny about the use of "the". Us over on the west coast get made fun of for the exact opposite when it comes to interstates and freeways. We say take THE 101 to THE 60 then get on THE 17. But over on the east coast its take 101 to 60 to 17. How does that work? lol

I never noticed that, but it's spot on true!   I would NEVER think to say "I'm taking THE 95 to NYC".   HAHAHA.   

[King Postwhore]

 

I still remember being in L.A. in the early 90's with my friend who moved out there and on a Tuesday night at 10:30pm there was a 6 lane traffic jam on the highway.  I looked at my friend and said, "How do you live here?"

It was insane how much traffic was there on a weekday night.

[cramx3]

LA traffic is beyond mildly irritating

[TAC]

So... change of pace here...

Grammar, more specifically the lack of articles and plurals.    I went to high school and I played hockey while there.   When we were juniors, we looked forward to going to THE prom.   My high school sucked at hockey, but as we got to senior year, the reality of making the state tournament was actually a reality and in my senior year, we DID make THE states.

Now, kids apparently go to prom, as if it's a verb and it is an action in itself.   My stepson's wife's mom runs a cheerleading "school" (in quotes because it's... I don't know what it is, but it's like those dumb shows, for real) and they go to nationals, again, like "national" means some action.   

It gets worse; since I've known her (no, actually, since she was 18 or so, but I mean, I've been experiencing it for eight years or so now) my wife has suffered from migraines, where she gets skull-shattering headaches, some so bad the only answer is a dark room and a soft bed because any movement is torturous.   There's a rash of new prescriptions out now for treating migraine headaches - pro tip:  none work all that well, at least on my wife - and so a rash of new advertisements about them. One we see frequently is one of the Kardashian mannekins talking about "migraine" and how this fantastic new compound will relieve your symptoms of "migraine" and make you want to, I don't know, super model or something.   I'm not sure, she's upstairs right now, but I'm almost positive that hearing Karen Kardashian talk about "migraine" to refer to THE migraine HEADACHES ("the migraines") that she's suffered with for 11 years (my wife was, is and always will be 29 in my heart!) actually GIVES her A migraine headache! 

Are we so lazy and/or insecure that we have to boost the importance of things and move SO fact that we now skip articles and reducing them to the singular?  I think we are!

Oh boy..Stadler, you like to type out words, don't you.


My son has his prom next week, and around here the prom is still THE prom. I've never heard it used singularly as in we're going to prom.

As far as "States" or "Nationals", aren't these really just..slang is too strong, but these words over time seem to have replaced "the state tournament" or "the national competition.

I order a "Coke", I do not order a "Coca-Cola". It's not lazy, it's just the evolution of language I guess.
It might even come out as "I'll have Coke".

I also like to listen to Maiden.

How about the reverse when Scorpions are referred to as THE Scorpions?



I suppose we could work in a few more "hithertos" and "henceforths". Maybe a "doth" here and there. 

[Stadler]

Har har.   But I think you're slightly misunderstanding; if it was just slang, I wouldn't have written what I did (and yes, I was enjoying a coffee, putting off starting my work day and decided to write! It's relaxing, and enjoyable to me!).   I don't know how to put it into words, but the pharmaceutical commercial wasn't about "slang".  I don't know what it is, but I find it mildly irritating in the moment, in large part because I don't understand it.  I do think, though, that in some contexts it isn't "lazy" but it is sort of self-affirming.  You probably don't watch them, but there are shows out there that depict "stage moms" that take this shit dead seriously, and it's not slang to them, it's life.  Again, it's hard to describe because it's a vibe, a feeling, but it's almost sort of an inside "lingo" in order to elevate the seriousness of what they're talking about.   

[TAC]

Well, I was more busting than misunderstanding...though I was working pretty hard to understand.


My wife used to watch Dance Moms. There was another show too that had a black dance instructor. My wife happens to like to watch dance routines, but those shows are pure shit. I'll walk in, and she'll have Dance Moms on, and I'll be like WTF are you watching this for?

Are we so lazy and/or insecure that we have to boost the importance of things and move SO fact that we now skip articles and reducing them to the singular?  I think we are!

I don't think it has anything to do with laziness or insecurities. I just think language, like everything else, morphs a bit over time. Besides, isn't "migraine headache" redundant? Isn't having a "migraine" explanation enough?

Again, it's hard to describe because it's a vibe, a feeling, but it's almost sort of an inside "lingo" in order to elevate the seriousness of what they're talking about.   

But referring to the National competition as "Nationals", well, that does indeed elevate the seriousness of what they're talking about. It's really its own entity.

This isn't really a new phenomenon. My wife did gymnastics in high school and went to "States" (her words). And she graduated in...well..before you! I think those are terms inherent in those fields.

[Stadler]

Are we so lazy and/or insecure that we have to boost the importance of things and move SO fact that we now skip articles and reducing them to the singular?  I think we are!

I don't think it has anything to do with laziness or insecurities. I just think language, like everything else, morphs a bit over time. Besides, isn't "migraine headache" redundant? Doesn't having a "migraine" explanation enough?

Well, yes, but even you said A migraine.  Keep your eye out for the commercial; she says it more than once:  "I suffer from migraine."   As if it's in and of itself a thing. Like syphillis.   

And again, I'm not losing sleep over it, but as someone who writes every day, and in my career sometimes will fret over one word, it's something that strikes me, and I don't understand it.  If you haven't picked up on it before, I don't like when I don't understand something. 

Again, it's hard to describe because it's a vibe, a feeling, but it's almost sort of an inside "lingo" in order to elevate the seriousness of what they're talking about.   

But referring to the National competition as "Nationals", well, that does indeed elevate the seriousness of what they're talking about. It's really its own entity.

This isn't really a new phenomenon. My wife did gymnastics in high school and went to "States" (her words). And she graduated in...well..before you! I think those are terms inherent in those fields.

Ask her!  Why did she say that instead of THE States?   Does Brady play in the Super Bowl, or play in Super Bowl? 

(I'm kidding; she'll think I'm insane and we'll never be able to meet for that beer and UFO listening party.  "Tim, you're not hanging with that internet wierdo!")

[TAC]

Hah! If you had made it to Mohegan Sun last year you'd have met her, and heard UFO!!


I just think "States" and "Nationals" are...industry terms.


If you get a chance, maybe that commercial is on youtube and I can watch it to see what the deal is.

[Harmony]

It gets worse; since I've known her (no, actually, since she was 18 or so, but I mean, I've been experiencing it for eight years or so now) my wife has suffered from migraines, where she gets skull-shattering headaches, some so bad the only answer is a dark room and a soft bed because any movement is torturous.   There's a rash of new prescriptions out now for treating migraine headaches - pro tip:  none work all that well, at least on my wife - and so a rash of new advertisements about them. One we see frequently is one of the Kardashian mannekins talking about "migraine" and how this fantastic new compound will relieve your symptoms of "migraine" and make you want to, I don't know, super model or something.   I'm not sure, she's upstairs right now, but I'm almost positive that hearing Karen Kardashian talk about "migraine" to refer to THE migraine HEADACHES ("the migraines") that she's suffered with for 11 years (my wife was, is and always will be 29 in my heart!) actually GIVES her A migraine headache! 

I get migraines (rarely thank god) and my understanding is that for some people it is a literal diagnostic syndrome.  So having a migraine means A headache.  Getting repeated migraines can be part of a syndrome collectively referred to as "migraine".  Does that make sense?  Just like people will say, "I have irritable bowel" which is a syndrome but not a singular episode.  So technically, I think the term is being used correctly in that annoying commercial.  And yes, I hate that one too but for different reasons.   

[Snow Dog]

Along the grammar lines, over the 13 years I’ve lived in Oregon, in asking what one does for a living, a truck driver, without fail, says he/she “drives truck.” Not “drives a truck,” or “I’m in trucking.” It’s always “I drive truck.” I’d never encountered that phrase in the nearly 30 years I lived in Utah. And I thought it might be a regional thing here, but my wife who grew up in Wisconsin has said that same phrase as well. It perplexes me why they don’t include the “a” in there, but oh well. Whatever.

[pg1067]

So... change of pace here...

Grammar, more specifically the lack of articles and plurals.    I went to high school and I played hockey while there.   When we were juniors, we looked forward to going to THE prom.   My high school sucked at hockey, but as we got to senior year, the reality of making the state tournament was actually a reality and in my senior year, we DID make THE states.

Now, kids apparently go to prom, as if it's a verb and it is an action in itself.   My stepson's wife's mom runs a cheerleading "school" (in quotes because it's... I don't know what it is, but it's like those dumb shows, for real) and they go to nationals, again, like "national" means some action.   

It gets worse; since I've known her (no, actually, since she was 18 or so, but I mean, I've been experiencing it for eight years or so now) my wife has suffered from migraines, where she gets skull-shattering headaches, some so bad the only answer is a dark room and a soft bed because any movement is torturous.   There's a rash of new prescriptions out now for treating migraine headaches - pro tip:  none work all that well, at least on my wife - and so a rash of new advertisements about them. One we see frequently is one of the Kardashian mannekins talking about "migraine" and how this fantastic new compound will relieve your symptoms of "migraine" and make you want to, I don't know, super model or something.   I'm not sure, she's upstairs right now, but I'm almost positive that hearing Karen Kardashian talk about "migraine" to refer to THE migraine HEADACHES ("the migraines") that she's suffered with for 11 years (my wife was, is and always will be 29 in my heart!) actually GIVES her A migraine headache! 

Are we so lazy and/or insecure that we have to boost the importance of things and move SO fact that we now skip articles and reducing them to the singular?  I think we are!

So funny about the use of "the". Us over on the west coast get made fun of for the exact opposite when it comes to interstates and freeways. We say take THE 101 to THE 60 then get on THE 17. But over on the east coast its take 101 to 60 to 17. How does that work? lol

Wait...what?  The 17 is up near Santa Cruz.  You can't get there from the 60!   Oh...wait....


But yeah...When I first went back east to visit my then-girlfriend/now-wife's family, it was one of the first things I noticed.  I'd repeat back directions with "the" added before freeway (errr....highway) names, and I'd get the weirdest looks.

This isn't really a new phenomenon. My wife did gymnastics in high school and went to "States" (her words). And she graduated in...well..before you! I think those are terms inherent in those fields.

Yeah...this sort of stuff has been around forever.  My kid's marching band went to "Championships" at the end of her first two years, and it would have sounded awkward to say, "we're going to THE Championships."

Ask her!  Why did she say that instead of THE States?   Does Brady play in the Super Bowl, or play in Super Bowl?

I'm not sure I could explain WHY it matters, but the obvious distinction is that "States" is plural, while "Super Bowl" is singular.  One says, "I got A migraine" but, when referring to the plural, one says, "I get migraines" (no article).

By the way, do you say, "I'm going to Wal-Mart" or "I'm going to the Wal-Mart"?

[Adami]

Do we say DTF or the DTF?