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Well I have read the thread about O&M pet peeves and would like to see one on here about all other ones.
So lets go.
What are yours/
I have some silly pet peeves actually. Here are a few.
1. Certain commercials. I don't know why I care, but sometimes, usually while listening to the Blue Jays on the radio, I'll hear a commercial and either want to mock it or get annoyed. I think some of them are downright ridiculous. There's one that's a guy singing, very badly and much faster than is typical, to the tune of "take me out to the ballgame", but he's singing "take me out to my Honda". That's probably the worst of them.
2. When people get sidetracked from telling you a story to talk about how many times, and at what length, others praised them for what they did or even for what they are. Certain people I know are masters at this, and it drives me utterly nuts. I don't really care if your neighbor thinks you're the best thing since sliced bread for how big your Easter decorations are. Just...bah. I'm probably sounding like an old kermudgeon at this point. By all means be proud of what you've done and mention that others liked it or thought it was good, but if the point of your tale is the compliments you received, I'm apt to start seeing it as selfish and get annoyed. I rarely say anything in such cases.
3. Another pet peeve of mine is when there's a perfectly good debate on offer and someone derails it either by using hyperbole to try and prove a point, or by being needlessly combative. In short, I dislike it intensely if someone appears to be arguing purely for the sake of arguing.
4. Overused pitch correction, such as that used in "Do You Believe" or whatever that stupid Cher song is called, or "Only God Knows Why" by Kid Rock. That latter is particularly nasty; I loathe pitch correction that's so obvious, plain and simple.
5. I get annoyed with people who think that the last word is the strongest argument. Sometimes it really is better to let a lost cause alone, but that doesn't mean the person leaving it behind is cowed or beaten, and it sure as hell isn't to be used as ammo in future. You haven't bested anyone purely because they didn't respond to your latest sally, verbal or otherwise. I'm starting to think that some of these can probably be condensed to the simple statement which follows: excessive egotism or self-importance, whether in debate or personal matters, frustrates hell out of me.
6. Last and probably silliest, I hate the way popcorn sticks in my teeth. I love the stuff, but can't stand having to pick bits out after I' done eating. It doesn't always even come out with a good flossing either.
There ya go. Some odd pet peeves.
When a young spastic fool betgs and begs and begs for help, then you give it and they aren't paying attention, or sigh, roll their eyes and don't want an explanation, just someone to come along and fix their mess-up. Because, it means they'll be back again.
Oh, and older relatives on Facebook who think they can post comment about other races and immigrants, with full impunity and get all upset when someone disagrees with them. Yeah, the persecution complex. Big pet peeve of mine.
A very odd one of mine is having bedsheets get excessively wrinkled. I dunno; I hate a disorderly set of bedclothes. Not that I make my bed, actually; most of the time I don't, but I know how to keep it orderly despite that. Call me weird. Another is doing dishes and having clumps of food floating around in my dishwater. I tend to actually rinse before I wash. I also hate excessive touchers; they feel they have to touch your hand or something every time they say something to you. But then, I have a pretty extensive space bubble.
You just reminded me of two more of mine.
First, bedsheets that come loose on one corner or more, or get excessively wrinkled or pulled out even without strenuous activity. Thinner (and often cheaper) sheets get this, and it ticks me off.
As far as dishes...my gripe is when people don't rinse their dishes off and leave bigger-than-bite-sized pieces of food on their plate, then toss it in the sink. This is particularly bad if you have a dishwasher. When I lived with my mom, I was one of those people who'd always put dirty plates or bowls or glasses or cutlery right into the dishwasher, since I was responsible for unloading and loading it. As soon as it ran through its sycle and cooked off just a bit, I'd take all the clean stuff out of it and put the dirty stuff in. Well, my mother, in particular, was famous for eating oatmeal in the morning, leaving her oatmeal-crusted bowl in the sink for me to put in the dishwasher, and not giving a damn if there was still half a spoonful either in the bowl or on the spoon. She used to get on our cases as kids all the time, "if the dishwasher has dirty dishes in it, rinse your stuff off and put it straight in". Well, I did that and others didn't, so I got really sick of having to clean out the sink-drain and, at times, having to clean small cupfulls of rotten food out of the dishwasher drain. Seriously, it's not hard to give your utensils a quick rinse and to either get food down the ddrin or scrape it in the garbage can. I don't care if a plate is sticky, crummy, has smears of grease or sauce or whatever on it, and let's be honest, we're all going to leave little bits of food from time to time. But when I find a whole freaking shrimp, tail and all, in the drain, that's a bit much I think.
All this, in essence, leads me to my biggest pet peeve of all. Hypocrisy. No more really need be said.
People who write the word "then" in places where they should actually write "than." That's quite a lot of people, many of which are members of this very community.
Here are a few of mine...
1. Drippy sandwiches or burgers.
I hate it when I get one and the pickles, tomatoes, or whatever is liquid on them start to drip out and on to my hand then down my arm if i am not able to ketch it in time.
2. Pathalogical lyers
My room mates are and it drives me nutts. Just yesterday I asked them what had happen to the kichen and towl because they also have this habbit of putting things in strange places and I can't find them... they kept telling me they didn't know. I asked them to come look, they went strait to the laundry room saying "maybe you put it in here?" and it was in there, but i wasn't the one who put it in there. It was them who did. But they kept saying, "Oh I didn't do it, it had to have been you."
It's so stupid! It would have caused them less trouble to have just said... I place it in the dirty laundry because it was dirty. Ok thank you... good day... but nope...
3. Janitors who cleans the toilet then uses the brush to scrub the seat and doesn't flush after.
I was at this place where a lady did this and it was grose. Not just the fack that the seat was cantaminated with whatever was in the bowl, but when you sit to go and don't know their is cleaner in the bowl still and you get splash back??? No thank you..
4. custermers who don't put things back where it was before.
Whether if it is in my own shop or another store. I hate it when people does this. Even more in my own shop cause then I have to go through all that work of taking that bottle, going to my bar coad scanner wich is in my store room, scann it to find out what it is, then take it all the way back and put it back up. My scanner sucks and doesn't keep charge so I have to keep it plugged up in back where I need it the most. I don't have Y-fi so can't use my Iphone but am going to upgrade hopfully next month. I keep saying that, will next month. That is too becoming a pet peeve.
5. employees who are retardid or think I am.
I hate it when i go shopping and i get someone who walks slow because they think I need too and no matter how much I push faster they keep trying to go slow. I think some of this is them trying to take more time so they don't have to go back to doing whatever they were doing before. Then those who can't read, find things for me even if it is in frunt of there nose, or who talks like i am dumb... LOL
1. Textspeak. b4, 2morrow, 2day, l8r, all that crap. LOL is one thing but the rest is just laziness. There's also the fact that it fucks with screen readers but that's secondary to my first reason.2. AutoTune. Shepherdwolf that's the pitch correction you were talking about. If you can't sing find another career. I want to listen to musicians not Daleks.
Entertainment peaves like Michael Bolton and Gilligan's Island. Michael Bolton first. I mean, really? He sounds like someone grabbed his nuts, put them in a vice and is now constantly squeezing them for all eternity! Love to know what that singing style did to his vocal cords. Next, Gilligan's Island. My coworkers and I have a blast slamming that show. First, they're on a desert island with a jungle that has trees in it and they can't build a raft or another boat to get off the friggin' island? Water all around them everywhere, and they can't sail off into the sunset and away? Then there's the radio. How the hell did they get the know-how to juice up that battery for so long? And how do they make coconut-cream pies with no dairy? Or is there a cattle ranch on the island we never knew about? Genius professor and he can't fix the fuckin' hole in the boat? And what the hell is Mr. Howell doing with all that damned money when there's noplace on the island to use it? While we're at it, Lost in Space is another one. You've got all that techno gear and you can't find the earth again? Although I will admit that when I was about nine, I found Will a bit cute, though I didn't know why at the time.
Lol. The Skipper is one big fat ass, so it's a wonder they're stuck there. He's either a threat that could sink the boat, or he's too lazy to do any productive leading. I hear you though, maybe they should just leave him behind and they might have a chance of staying afloat. Just don't leave Gilligan in charge.
Well since I'm posting here perhaps I should add mine.
1. People moving my possessions without telling me, and expecting me to figure out where they are. Maybe I should try doing it to them and see how they like it. Oh, and to make it even better, I should just disorient myself and place it in a very desolate place and not pay any attention to where it is. Then I could at least be honest with them and say I don't know where it is.
2. Cockiness. So what if you are good at something? What's the point of rubbing it in? The more you rub it in, the harder you deserve to get smacked when you fuck up.
3. Woman zoners. They never answer my creepy messages on here. All I want is to know what kind of socks they wear. Is that a lot to ask for?
LOL. I can agree with the first one. It really sets m teeth on edge when people move my stuff without telling me, even more so when they think it's funny. One of my x girlfrieds used to do that whenever I had a drink on the table in front of me. She would wait till my hand was just about to touch the glass, can or whatever and quickly pick it up. THen when I reacted she'd laugh, even whenI got angry. And she couldn't understand why I didn't find that funny.
I've thought of a few more that really get under my skin at times.
1. When I do everyday things, some people come up to me and say, you are so amazing. They say it in front of a bunch of people which makes me feel more like some amazing piece of technology. Either that, or like they view me as some sort of super human with powers that not everyone that is "normal" has. It really isn't that amazing to have my IPhone and Jaws set to a fast pace. I am used to it, and when I need to get something done I don't need it taking three minutes to read a sentence. It isn't amazing that I run six days a week, it is just a passtime I love, and I hope to become elite at in order to make my schools track team and run my ass off with the rest. And it is certainly not amazing that I can stand up and piss without missing the bowl. I can assure you, any guy with a dick can do it with practice. You gotta do what you gotta do.
2. Sorry old people, but this one mostly falls upon you. Here we are in 2013, long past slavery, yet they make all these stereotypes about other races and how race somehow plays a part in crimes committed. So what if coincidentally, the race that is shown to have committed the highest crime rate is Blacks? I don't think race itself has anything to do with it. There are White people who rob banks and do and sell drugs too, so get past the old school racist beliefs that Blacks need to be treated differently. They are living breathing people as well.
3. I hate when I am approached on the street by a very strong religious believer, and they pray to me because my blindness is such a tragedy in their eyes. Please. If it is such a tragedy, then why am I out and about, buying my own groceries, travelling around the country, proudly using my cane, instead of sitting at home and collecting the check in isolation? I am not a religious person, and I don't disrespect those who have religious preferences. I have better things to do with my time. So please, if you can't strike up conversation about something else other than that, leave me alone. Now, casual conversation about religion is fine to me, but I refuse to accept someone's beliefs out of respect, because that is not what I truly believe.
4. I don't understand why people have to use half a bottle of collone or perfume on themselves. That does not smell sexy. In fact, it repels people if anything. And it's not really a matter of me trying to avoid the smell. It is easier to avoid cigarette smoke than that, and collone and perfume when overly used travels far. On top of that, why not use deodorant? It does not do a good job of masking the smell of body odor.
Another one of my pet peeves.
public bathrooms.
Not even going in to the jerm of it all but I like my peace when I am going. For me, the bathroom is not the social club. It is even worse for me because I am the operator of my shop and people want to follow me in and talk about this and that like they do when they come in to buy things. Or if they just see me walking in as they are about to go in to my shop during a quick two seconds bathroom brake, they will follow me or come find me and then tell me the whole time that they are needing to get ice and water, wich is free by the way. I am good at timing my brakes between the rush times but there is always that straggler.
I can definitely relate to strongly religious people being a pet peeve. They're one of mine as well. Part of it is because they all want to pray my sight back and never mind that I never had it to begin with and therefore never missed it. But then I've had a few people tell me that god would tell me if a girl was right for me to be with. I wonder if he ever gets annoyed with people shifting so many of their own responsibilities to him.
Responding to post 12, and items 1 and 3. Man, those things are sure proof that people can seem to only see things from their own point of view, isn't it? I think I have a better attitude about the amazing thing than I used to. OK, I still feel like people are making me out to be more than I really am, but I think there's a big information disconnect. I think what people do not understand is that we as blind people don't just get up and do stuff on strength of will or motivation itself. We had to be taught by professional sighted and sometimes blind people how to use and apply adaptive techniques. We're not what I call magic aliens.
Praying the blind away? Yeah, again an example of people seeing things from their own point of view. I do not understand how people can know only that a person is blind and extrapolate from that one bit of info that our quality of life is completely tragic in comparison to themselves. These people should pray for the whole planet if they really think it worth the time and energy because ain't nobody got it easy, that's for sure.
Ignorant people suck for sure.
Them: Hey, my cousin is blind too.
Me: Uh, that's nice.
And I might as well give you one annoyance of mine. I dislike it when people use Twitter and Facebook to post or repost motivational and inspirational sayings. No, I'm not a grumpy person who hates being positive, but there's true positivity and then there's Hallmark positivity. I think part of it is I consider myself a realist, and these bumper sticker philosophies are not for the realist, they are for the majority who are decidedly idealistic. It would be one thing if an isolated few people did this, but this seems to be something many people seem to do by default or out of habit. Is it music on hold for the extrovert, like, Oh I live a boring and stupid life so I'm going to spout a bunch of wisdomlike substances to keep the noise level up and I can pretend I'm communicating? It does not compute! No, people, you are not self-help experts by way of the cut and paste and I didn't ask you for your advice as to how to feel, how to act, what to think and how to otherwise cope with life. I think I do pretty decent on my own without spouting a bunch of sappy quotations. And you don't want to tell people to cut it out or at least ask them why they feel they must do this because they tend to get mightily defensive. I guess it's the equivalent of e-mail forwards for people, I don't know. But I don't demand that people spout wisdomlike substances for me to think of them as interesting people.
What you are talking about is what I call art for art's sake. What that means is people find what they think is trendy or cool and call it there own. Filling up a webpage, wall, etc with stuff you like isn't cool. Try beeing original for peet sake.
Absolutely g t. I think we all get a couple sayings that stick with us, but I can understand how that would get old after a while.
Definitely. I've got a few friends who do that. And I've gotten the my cousin's blind too nonsense. This affects me how? LOL.
Let's see...
1. people who know that they pronounce a word incorrectly, but insist on saying it wrong anyway. If you know it's "supposedly", why do you insist on saying "supposably"? Etc.
2. People who have to relate every piece of a conversation back to themselves. If I say: "Oh, I just got a new iPhone--" and you respond with "Oh, my cousin jus got one of those too, she loves it" that's fine. But if you continue to do this throughout the entire chat to the point where I can't even contribute anything without you taking over (even when you're talking about your best friend's sister's hair dresser's stepmom whom you have never met) I'm going to get annoyed.
3. The artificial sense of intimacy facebook sometimes creates for people: my grandmother, for instance, seems to think that since she's friends with people she hardly knows on facebook, she is best friends with them and speaks about them as if they are bosom buddies. Drives me nuts. Guess what: facebook is about as public as it gets; you're not special, or privy to the essence of a person because you're friends with them on facebook.
4. Peanut butter sticking to the roof of my mouth. Grrr!
5. Creepy people at bus stops who insist on striking up a long conversation just because you're in close proximity to them, invading your personal space as they do so. Can you not feel the go away vybes rolling off me?
6. This sort of ties in with the "my cousin is blind" thing, where people go "Oh, I know a guy whose blind; he skis, snow shoes, flies planes, raises cattle, jumps over the moon, and much, much more!" I don't care. I just. don't. care.
*deep breath* There. I feel better now.
my dishwasher pet peeves
1. rence the dishes off before putting them in the dishwasher you nasty f*cker you!
2. If the door is locked, they are clean, if it is unlocked, they are dirty. If your too damn lazy to put up the dishes when you get a clean one out, then lock the door back behind you so the rest of us knows they are clean and don't start piling dirty dishes in it. Only to hear you b*tch about it later.
2..P.S. You b*tch all the time because half of us who lives ere don't lock our frunt door when we leave because some of us don't care, the rest of us were brought up in the sticks and still don't care that we are in the state capital now, so use all that energy for locking that dishwasher door back behind your dumb ass.
3. clean the sink out. Like, littorlly wipe it out. You nasty pig.
4. If I can smell that wash cloth and it stank, or that spunge you insist on using even though I think it is a breeding ground for your cuzzins, oh I mean jerms, then do something about it. I am not able to clean the place up everyday, so just toss it in the dirty laundry, which I wash, and get a clean one to use. And if I ask again what happend to the towl, just tell me the truth. It got dirty, you tossed it in the dirty basket, and lets be done with that topic. Thank you and moving on.
5. people who insist on you bending backwards to please them but then disrespects everything toard you.
Enjoy my rant.Thank you, and good night.
Or people who say taken for granite instead of taken for granted. Or for all intensive purposes instead of for all intents and purposes. Or than where then should be or vice versa. Or could of instead of could have.
Or ear-regardless instead of regardliss.
I just hate the whole fuckin' world because I am a pessimist who is pissed off by and complains about everything, and the world is out to get us all, and the universe set us all up for failure, so fuck off, existence!
Okay, seriously. I do complain about a lot, but here are my biggest pet peeves.
1. stupid people, which is most people. I guess common sense has just abandoned 85% of the human population.
2. people who stand in front of doorways.
3. country music and its relatives, and opera as well.
4. People who touch me while they talk to me or touch me to guide me. This is for repeat offenders. I've already told you how to guide me, or I've already backed away from you, so don't keep trying to grab onto or touch my arm.
5. screaming children
6. People who just won't shut the fuck up, especially those people on the bus who just want to talk to everyone around them, or just have an atrociously annoying voice.
7. People who are explaining things and need to say something or explain it in three or four different ways before you can cut in. Okay, I got it Mo Jo Jo Jo.
8. Food that gets superultra-mega-stuck in your teeth, especially popcorn, pineapple, and so on. I refuse to eat popcorn for this reason.
Opera. Shudder...
Oh Oh I know one, walking down the hall at the college here and people are sitting there right in the middle of the goddamn floor.
People who apologize more than necessary. They apologize for writing, let's say, an e-mail that's too short, then they'll apologize for going on too long and boring people, then they'll apologize for not knowing everything about a subject, then for having their own opinion, then for not going along with the majority, you get the picture. I know many of us are raised to believe that what other people think is important but once we grow up I think most of us end up finding out what people think is bullshit.
I'm sorry for apologizing about apologizing before yesterday when I apologized about saying sorry for apologizing for apologizing.
LOL. I know about the one where people just sit in the middle of the floor. As I've said before I sometimes had kids do that deliberately so tat they could then go to the nearest teacher and accuse me of deliberately trying to hit them with my cane.
hmm, lets see
1. people that say axe rather than ask.
2. People who create multiple topics on the boards, even though they know a topic exists, or they can search to check first.
3. skateboarders/bikers that ride down the middle of the sidewalk, doubly so when biking lanes exist on that road for them.
4. insistent replacement of words like damn, with darn, god with gosh, shit with shoot, fuck with fudge, etc... Considering the meaning is the exact same, making a substitution really doesn't change the intent of your words.
5. Cab drivers that don't understand the first thing about the city they work in.
6. people who insist on having loud conversations, let their kids run wild, or act like self centered dicks when out in public.
7. playing 25 questions with the barista at a coffee shop. One question is ok, but spending 5 minutes to decide what you want to drink should have been done while staying in line.
People who read outrageous news stories about outrageous human behavior, then start ranting on and upsetting themselves as if civilization is on the brink of utter collapse. Just wait until you find out that the news is not a snapshot of reality, but utterly slanted to that which is outrageous in order to keep you reading or watching so you can take in advertising, that's the beginning and end of it. Until such behavior you think of as sick becomes so commonplace and normal, civilization and the world is just peachy-keen and dandy.
I definitely agree about the aks thing. It's Ask.
While we're kinda sorta on the topic of the incorrect usage of words:
I'm sorry, but the past tense of "drag" is not, and has never been, "drug". God but does that tick me off sometimes.
Another one, and this seems to be more and more common now. Where exactly did "on accident" (as opposed to "by accident" come from? That's annoying too.
Forest Gump, about the prayer ... It's frustrating too, but on the other hand it's fantastically funny to bait them. I love to see how far I can stretch their religious kindness before they realise I'm trolling and beat a quick retreat. :)
Margorp, ugh. I absolutely can't stand "irregardless". Every time I see it used, I have a very strong urge to thank 'The Princess Bride' and tell them, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
My own:
1. People who don't use spell-check when trying to get into an intelligent debate. It really puts me off.
2. People who exaggerate what they'll do to others who annoy them. Routinely saying "If zie does X, I'll kill zir" or "Zie doesn't want to get on my bad side, or zie'll regret it" is ridiculous when really you have no intention of carrying out that threat.
3. People who claim to be kind to everyone no matter what, but still put down groups they think aren't good enough for their kindness (fat people, trans* people, you name it). You can't claim to treat everyone with dignity and respect if you're still marginalising people.
And one that's very much a Zone pet peeve:
4. People who don't read profiles before they contact you. Sometimes there's information in a profile that tells you important things about what your prospective chat partner doesn't like. Checking the profile first saves them from questions or comments that they really don't want, and it saves you from either talking to someone you wouldn't bother talking with, or making a blunder that causes you to mess up what could be a quite interesting conversation.
Take care,
Alison
Alison, I suppose I'm lucky in that I've only had one or two incidents in my life where somebody wanted to pray the blind away and one of them was a walk-by so I didn't have to be stopped or touched or anything. Curious what sorts of things you say to such folk if I ever come across those sorts again.
people who thinks that us poor pethedic blind and helpless people has life easy.
Ok, here are mine: 1. people leave you guessing all the time. 2. people who make excuses as to why they have to hang up the phone. 3. People who belittle you because they think they're smarter than you. 4. People who don't really express what they feel. 5. People who try to make you feel guilty of their wrongdoings. 6. People who never appologize when they do something wrong and they know it and yet don't admit it. 7. People who overpraise blind people for the smallest thing. 8. People who only like to gossop and try to get information fromyou. 9. People who say thank you for everything. 10. People who like to plan every single thing and never get anything done. 11. People who are always complaining. 12. People say, I'll call you back and they never do
Godzilla, it really depends on the people and how their prayer is worded. I know the last time I did it, I mostly twisted them around asking why they were praying for me to be healed when, according to them, God never makes mistakes and so I was born the way he wanted me. That doesn't usually work though; I don't think those two were very up on their theology. ;) Glad to hear yours have usually been walkers. I get all the ones who want to lay hands on me without my permission. Heh.
Alison :)
CAn't believe I forgot this one: random People on this very website who private quicknote with one word, "hi." Then I say hi back, and they give me the "how are you?" Uh, I'm fine, but I'd be a little better if you would just go away. If I message a person for the first time, it's usually because I read something in their profile that we have in common. Thus, "Hi, I see we're both fans of the Author Bob Smith." Or whatever the name might be.
I can definitely relate to the one about those who don't read my profile before they contact me. I have had that happen both here and on other sites. Makes you wonder why you even bother with the damn thing.
I don't mind so much on other sites where chat isn't such a big thing (sites where the best you get is PMing, for example), but here, with the QN system, you'd think knowing who you were starting up a conversation with would at least be a little bit higher on the priority list ...
Alison
Alison, only one of the two incidents was a walk-by. The other one did pray and held my hands. Luckily she did not accuse me of not having enough faith when she did not get the result she wished for.
I had a lady once tell me I didn't have faith in her either when I couldn't see after she was finished praying for me.
i was thinking...
Well, i am suppose to have faith in god... not you.
LOL
And I have faith in medical science.
Godzilla and Nicky, wow, I thought mine was just a fluke. Apparently not! I guess I shouldn't be surprised, though...
Alison
no one is supposed to have faith in anything. just sayin.
When I lived in Minneapolis, I ran into people from time to time who wanted to say a healing prayer for me. Had I thought of it then, I might've said something like why the hell for? I only have a headache, and I can take Tylenol for that.
Johndy, that's great! I would try it here, except people don't usually give me a good lead-in. At least I don't remember anyone asking specifically for a "healing prayer"...
good one, Johndy. will have to use that one, if I ever have an opportunity.
I'd have to say that more and more people just piss me off. It's a shame...I used to be nicer.
This is one I'm quite sure I've eluded to elsewhere, but I think it deserves mention under this topic. People who single out the blind for certain foibles and flaws when actually everybody does these things. For example, people who say they hate blind people who complain constantly. OK, so you hate it when the blind do it but if a sighted person you knew did it you'd let it slide because they're not blind? Look, for all the good it does if you're going to express hatred of behaviors, why not hate anyone who does it and not just blind people.
Noone doesn't need to have faith in anything if they choose not to, when people like that approach me I politely say that I'm not interested, thank you. But if they insist, I end up speaking my tthoughts, and I clearly express that I don't have faith in their god
All kidding aside, I would respond to the pray-the-blind-away folks the same way I'd respond to the life-must-be-hard folks. I understand they probably wouldn't understand my point but I'd tell them I'm quite happy being the way I am. If they're not going to accept this as an answer and keep pushing their point I'll have to just think of what to say at that point.
Yup, like saying bend over and accept my foot as an answer? lol.
Life is hard period, regardless of whether you're blind or not. And the pray the blind away nonsense sets my teeth on edge almost as much as too much textspeak.
I agree. Ack!
Margorp, I think I'll let you do the violent thug thing, not my bag, unless my life or my person was being threatened.
Bryan, yeah, when somebody brings up how hard they think my life is, in all truth I try to remind people that everybody's got problems. I guess the common idea is that how many problems it's believed somebody has and how big they are is the scale used to measure quality of life. But also, people will tend to see things from their own point of view, and also, people who think of themselves as the norm or the default setting believe everybody who isn't like them wants to be like them if that makes any sense. In other words I think these folks would be best served to shut up and get over themselves for once. LOL!
As if that'll ever happen. LOL. On the day it does the world will most likely come to an end.
Oh yeah. People who demand that I respect them. It's not gonna happen, unless I feel you've done something to earn it.
I think this comes from people not understanding what respect means. Let me go find an on-line dictionary.
Right, so when used as a verb, respect means:
Admire (someone or something) deeply, as a result of their abilities, qualities, or achievements.
Is this what people mean?
I don't like people who causes drama.
on facebook, my aunt talked about how she couldn't get a game to play and how she was trying to send game request to people and I said...
I see this as a good thing because I don't like recieving game request I hate it. I don't play the games. I get them all the time...
something like that and my aunt goes off talking about how I know how to stab people in the heart and twist it and how when I fly back to Oklahoma she doesn't want to see me in a week and half... I wrote back...
All because I said I don't like to recieve game requests because I don't play? well ok then. I guess we all can't speak our minds like you can...
Whatever... More time I have to spend with people I will better enjoy being around.
by the way, she is the one who I lived with growing up.
Wow, strange.
Yeah. I agree about app and game requests. And I can't figure out how to block them at least on the IPhone app. Because the apps an games check box in settings does not, when unchecked, disable requests.
I had someone send me a virtual cow once. People are so wierd.
Here's another and it has to do with social media. People who make a big fuss or are otherwise emotionally upset about being unfollowed or unfriended. When I unfollow folks it's because we don't interact or they retweet or repost too much stuff instead of writing things themselves, which I prefer, etc. I'd rather just quietly unfollow folks without having to explain why. Most people I know are cool about it so they say, but I know a few people who will publicly post about being unfollowed as if it's a personal slight against them or people's motives are always mean and negative.
A small pet peeve of mine, regarding social media, is when you find out about something later than everyone else because you're not big into the social media thing, and instead of it either being a general nonissue, the person who ought to have told you acts as if it's your fault for not being on social media.
Let me clarify. This counts only for bigger news. If it's little crap, I don't care so much. If it's big...well, there's a point to social media and all that, I realize, but if it's important to me, I would feel sort of slighted if the person to whom said important info pertained decided to forego telling me and just splatter it on FB or twitter, then had the nerve to say "Well, you don't have those, it's not my fault". I have seen this happen to other people, and it -still! makes me angry. Heh.
Ah but Godzilla, if you follow them on the way to the store, and then you stop following them so you can go into a bar, they probably yell at you from across the street asking why you aren't following them anymore.
lol
I try to tell my exciting and important things to people personally before posting it on Facebook. I feel like things like that should be told personally, not through facebook or twitter.
Exactly. It's just better.