This Irks Me 125%.

[Sigmund]

Another thing. When people say 100 years young. I mean ok, young at heart but thats old and thats ok. If I live that long I plan on letting people know I'm an OLD lady!

You go ol' girl!

Peace.

 

[danie]

Hola!

May all be well or on the mend.

I beg your pardon but, when people say (for example) "I am 125% sure..." It makes my left eye twitch.

125% ? Out of what? 200%? 1000%?

I get it. Hyperbole. Making a point.

It just irks me. Then, again, I'm goofy. (About 2,371 % goofy. Ha!)

I'm just playing.

Thoughts, ideas?

Any and all responses are appreciated.

Peace.

I have a friend whose son plays football, and he had 110% tattooed on his bicep!
I guess to remind him to always give that much????
Will he possibly look at that tattoo at age 96, and think, "Well, I guess THAT ain't happenin today."
I could never get a tattoo, because I know I would hate it eventually.
There's nothing I know I'll like forever. Even things you THINK you'll always love, sometimes you end up hating.
Right now, I like Campbell's Chicken -n- Dumplins soup, but that would be a dumb tattoo, huh?
In a coupla weeks, I may switch to clam chowder, then what?
I'm glad I don't have a tattoo of the things I USED to like...who wants to have England Dan and John Ford Coley or Kraft Chicken Noodle Dinner as a tramp stamp?

 

[kingricefan]

I have a friend whose son plays football, and he had 110% tattooed on his bicep!
I guess to remind him to always give that much????
Will he possibly look at that tattoo at age 96, and think, "Well, I guess THAT ain't happenin today."
I could never get a tattoo, because I know I would hate it eventually.
There's nothing I know I'll like forever. Even things you THINK you'll always love, sometimes you end up hating.
Right now, I like Campbell's Chicken -n- Dumplins soup, but that would be a dumb tattoo, huh?
In a coupla weeks, I may switch to clam chowder, then what?
I'm glad I don't have a tattoo of the things I USED to like...who wants to have England Dan and John Ford Coley or Kraft Chicken Noodle Dinner as a tramp stamp?

 

[GNTLGNT]

...Danie, that was profoundly hilarious as hell....

 

[fljoe0]

I have a friend whose son plays football, and he had 110% tattooed on his bicep!
I guess to remind him to always give that much????
Will he possibly look at that tattoo at age 96, and think, "Well, I guess THAT ain't happenin today."
I could never get a tattoo, because I know I would hate it eventually.
There's nothing I know I'll like forever. Even things you THINK you'll always love, sometimes you end up hating.
Right now, I like Campbell's Chicken -n- Dumplins soup, but that would be a dumb tattoo, huh?
In a coupla weeks, I may switch to clam chowder, then what?
I'm glad I don't have a tattoo of the things I USED to like...who wants to have England Dan and John Ford Coley or Kraft Chicken Noodle Dinner as a tramp stamp?

I have a friend whose son had some Chinese text tattooed on his arm. I looked at it and said, "they misspelled a word." He was distraught until I told him that I didn't know how to read Chinese.

 

[GNTLGNT]

I have a friend whose son had some Chinese text tattooed on his arm. I looked at it and said, "they misspelled a word." He was distraught until I told him that I didn't know how to read Chinese.

...and what if Chinese folks tattooed OUR words for things on THEM????....

 

[mal]

7 out of 10 math students actually say that! 50%...not too bad.

 

[Riot87]

I love the fast talk at the end of those commercials . . .

**Common side effects may cause diarrhea of the mouth; your backside may produce actual flames; if handled by small dogs they may become big dogs; your eyes may change colors like a mood ring; your mate may look sexier to you because your eyes will be in the right mood --therefore more children may be produced and maybe not all by your mate.

If your eyes stay the same color for more than four hours call a doctor and not us dammit!

 

[Tim D.]

It's not just the lazy language users. Next time you're out shopping watch and see how many people will go thru the automatic doors instead of using a manual one. Where I work we have one set of automatic doors with a set of regular doors on either side of that. Sometimes people will line up and wait at the automatic doors if there is a heavy flow of customers coming thru. They won't even bother to step over two feet, grab the handle and pull the door open to enter the store.......

Funny, where I used to work we had the opposite problem. For some reason lots of people assumed the automatic doors were manual doors and the would struggle mightily to get those suckers open enough to squirm into the store. For some reason the sign on the automatic doors that said "automatic doors" never seemed to register.

 

[Grandpa]

I have a friend whose son plays football, and he had 110% tattooed on his bicep!
I guess to remind him to always give that much????
Will he possibly look at that tattoo at age 96, and think, "Well, I guess THAT ain't happenin today."
I could never get a tattoo, because I know I would hate it eventually.
There's nothing I know I'll like forever. Even things you THINK you'll always love, sometimes you end up hating.
Right now, I like Campbell's Chicken -n- Dumplins soup, but that would be a dumb tattoo, huh?
In a coupla weeks, I may switch to clam chowder, then what?
I'm glad I don't have a tattoo of the things I USED to like...who wants to have England Dan and John Ford Coley or Kraft Chicken Noodle Dinner as a tramp stamp?

Spoiler

I apparently missed this thread the first time around.

I think Kraft Chicken Noodle Dinner just above the backside would be, you know, like, really hot. Might send a weird message, though.

Irks and peeves:

"You know" and "like." Teachers (sorry, danie ) are some of the worst adults at this. Apparently, they're victims of their environment.

Absurd uses of "literally."

"Pre-owned." Every time I hear that, I'm thinking, "What? Hasn't been owned yet?" To me, "pre-owned" means "new."

Slow drivers in the passing lane.
Well, slow drivers in general. But I don't get mad. I don't get even. I tell myself I'll get there eventually anyway, listen to the soothing announcers on NPR, retreat into my private happy space, and then at the first opportunity, calmly downshift, serenely jam down the accelerator, and cheerfully blow past them like they're standing still.

ETA: Overuse of adverbs.

 

[staropeace]

What irks me is people who say "play date, closure, and do lunch"