Companies that can not keep their equipment working during rainstorms!
What little thing would you make illegal just because it pisses you off?
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THANK YOU. And these stupid bait-click articles..."an old man walked into a bowling alley and you'll NEVER believe what happened..." 6,921 pages later, it reads "he went bowling." Uh.
If my mouth is dry I can also just think about those Jolly Rancher Apple Green hard candies and I instantly get saliva. Gotta go now and find a bib.....
FWIW I have no real problem with gum chewing, but I have a problem with people who think the world wants to her them do it (or, chew food, which is another HUGE pet peeve of mine. If I can hear someone chewing from 3 rooms away, it's disturbing.) I don't want to hear or see your food as you're chewing it, it just grosses me out.
Anyone hear of misophonia, hatred of (certain) sounds? If a sound gets under my skin once or twice, from then on out it will annoy the living crap out of me for the rest of my life. The girl in HS with the cow-gum chewing disease started the gum thing, and a guest we had regularly for dinner as a kid that thought unhinging his jaw between every time he chewed was necessary did it for the food thing. When my dogs are barking mindlessly, it's irritating but when they're barking for a purpose (they're working, playing, barking at the bad man at the door, etc.) it doesn't bug me at all. We had an old clothes dryer with wrinkle lock that would kick off with a loud click, pause, then click and come back on for 2 seconds, click, off, click, back on, click, off.
I've written here before that my childhood was filled with constant noise. Quiet time was unattainable. It was frustrating to be exhausted or sick as a kid or teen, but unable to escape the nonstop noise and have any time to sleep or rest. I honestly blame this for my dislike for most things that are nothing but "noise."
So...yeah. It's infuriating to live with. It's not always just annoyance; it can be rage inducing, blood pressure spiking and you'll do most anything you can to get the noise to "turn off".
Commercials. Not just because they interrupt a TV show, but because most of them are so ridiculously stupid and make no sense for trying to sell the product advertised. TV would like me to believe that if I take a certain pill for menopause, I will suddenly be an attractive gray-haired woman driving serenely in the mountains to my yoga class full of other attractive, perfect people that aren't threatening anyone because their menopause is under control.
Yeah, what the heck is with that. Our technology is apparently so vastly superior that we've done all these amazing things in the last 10 years but we can't figure out a way to make the TV not die when a storm cloud has smoldering flatulence and farts out a spray of rain and a bit of thunder :/
I am NOT saying you can't, or shouldn't, talk on your phone in public but holy DAMN this is funny...
Especially when they go off in the cinema and someone starts talking.
And then they're all "oh, hang on Bill, this is the part where the protagonist dies."
*Shoes and random objects pepper the person in the forehead*
Oh lordy, yes! Ones where kids do all kinds of things that give ideas to kids who see that. Like the Papa Murphy's ad with the kids smearing food everywhere, jumping on the laptop, etc. Also when people do patently absurd things simply to create a "need" for the thing being advertised. I can suspend disbelief but asking me to dead-lift it for an ad is too much.
those are actually worse than the ones i'm talking about. those deserve their own subcategory of illegality. not only are they clickbait, they have incredibly tortuous sentence structure and i feel like i'm losing brain cells every time i accidentally read one because it rolls down my feed. regular clickbait isn't quite as bad, because it at least resembles a real sentence, it's just misleading as to what's occurring in the story.
Abusing the Mods by purposely posting things in the wrong thread, and basically stating that it's because you're too lazy to find the proper one by saying something like "I can't find Thread X, so I'm gonna leave this here. Maybe a Mod can help me out"
It's just a little narcissistic to treat our wonderful Mods as personal assistants.
It's just a little narcissistic to treat our wonderful Mods as personal assistants.
People who have no volume control in their voice. I just want to say-Do you not know that my ears are ringing at certain point in the conversation.
If you haven't tried them, look for Sugar Free Jolly Ranchers. They are limited to four flavors (Green Apple, Watermelon, Raspberry, and Grape) and are of course more expensive for a smaller bag, but DAMN. I try to keep sugar free, and these are right up there with Brach's Sugar Free Cinnamon discs for flavor.No Jolly Ranchers in the house! Ack. I'm off to get a pickle! (That doesn't sound right.)