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11 August 2006

Things I am sick of. [More:]
1) Classic rock radio. Due to my bonehead co-worker, I have non-stop Boston/Led Zep/CCR playing in the background in our office all day. And this may sound redundant, seeing that it's a classic rock station (and an unimaginative one at that) but THEY NEVER CHANGE THEIR PLAYLIST. They apparently only have copies of four Zep tunes, three Bob Seger ones, and so on. HOW MANY TIMES CAN YOU HEAR "MORE THAN A FEELING" BEFORE YOU GET SICK OF IT?????

2) This is probably more obscure: We sell various Mexican-type food products, and my boss thinks that if you stick the word "homestyle" on the package, it automatically make the product better. EVERYTHING MUST SAY HOMESTYLE. (And have quotes around it for emphasis: "New" "Homestyle" "Thick Flour Tortillas". But that's another story.)

3)Advertisements. Actually, it's not so much the ads themselves that bug me, it's seeing them OVER and OVER and OVER again that just grates on my nerves. Let me just say that based on that idiotic ad where the guy leaves his house in the morning, puts on a bike helmet, and base jumps down to his car, I am never buying a Suzuki. Ever.

4) Television news programs that spend more time showing promos and "coming next" clips than actual news or information.

5) Phone spamming. Thank God I only have a cell phone, so I don't have to deal with much of this on my own time, but at work it seems to be constant.

6) I'm sick of hip-hop. There, I said it. I've tried listening with an open mind, and there is definitely some still out there that is palatable, but so much of what I hear, especially coming out of passing cars, is so incredibly bland and generic. It's almost worse than the boy-band plague of 1998. What happened to the lyrical gymnastics I remember from the good ole' 1980s?

7) People making lists of stuff they're sick of.
that idiotic ad where the guy leaves his house in the morning, puts on a bike helmet, and base jumps down to his car


I hate that one as well. How do you get back up, bad-ass?????
posted by tr33hggr 11 August | 07:26
(And have quotes around it for emphasis: "New" "Homestyle" "Thick Flour Tortillas". But that's another story.)


Oh this is one of my absolute pet hates. Quotes for "emphasis". Gah.
posted by gaspode 11 August | 07:51
How do you get back up, bad-ass?????

Not to mention, exactly where are they getting water for that nice green lawn ON A ROCK MESA IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DESSERT?!?!?
posted by me3dia 11 August | 08:01
Oh this is one of my absolute pet hates. Quotes for "emphasis". Gah.
posted by gaspode


Equally as bad are billboards that put a period after every word for emphasis: "New. Granite. Countertops." That drives me bananas.
posted by BoringPostcards 11 August | 08:06
How do you get back up, bad-ass?????

Why, a web belt fitted with 4000 model rocket engines, of course.

Woooo-aaargh-wooooo-aaaargh-wheeeeeeeeee!
posted by Hugh Janus 11 August | 08:11
taz is really, really fighting the urge to change deadcowdan's user name to "'homestyle' deadcowdan".
posted by taz 11 August | 08:12
I hate the biassed, fearmongering media. thanks to their need to get eyeball time, we have kids growing up in the world who aren't allowed to play outside. and don't get me started about current events cos that's a banned subject in my household.
posted by lonefrontranger 11 August | 08:14
There is a sign downstairs by the crosswalk that says:

USE "CAUTION" WHEN CROSSING THE STREET.

WTF?
posted by mike9322 11 August | 08:22
Misuse of the cent symbol on professionally made signs. For example,

Egg McMuffins, .99¢

The worst part is, my point would be completely lost on the cashier if I ordered an egg mcmuffin and held out a penny.
posted by mike9322 11 August | 08:25
I am so sick of my visiting family. I like them and all but they have been here too long. I’m holding my breath till Tuesday when the last of them fly out.
posted by betty 11 August | 08:32
And I forgot one that has really been grating on me lately: the Mefi/internet cliche in which a poster will say that a trollish or disagreeable post or quote would be more acceptable if read in the voice of Shelby Foote/Ned Flanders/Cookie Monster. This may have been funny once several years ago, but it long since stopped being so.

-'Homestyle' deadcowdan
posted by deadcowdan 11 August | 08:34
Your list would be much funnier if read in the voice of Stephen Colbert.

*runs*
posted by brainwidth 11 August | 11:15
The quote thing on signage annoys me. I boycott products and stores that have that.

But the thing I hate the most is business that spell things with K instead of C like "Karole's Krazy Klips". Compounding the offense is if it was spelled "Klipz". And what should be banned are businesses like daycare places and stores for kid toys that have names with the wrong spelling of words and backwards letters.
posted by birdherder 11 August | 11:18
Too dangerous a thread for me. May be later...
posted by getoffmylawn 11 August | 12:27
Betty, you know what they say..."Fish and guests both start to smell after three days."
I hate people who can't go slow in my development which is full of kids. The speed limit is 15 mph, yet they'll blow through the stop sign by my house doing 30 mph at least! We have lots of kids here, and some of them aren't too bright about cars and such. Knock wood, it makes me a nervous wreck.
posted by redvixen 11 August | 20:50
HOW MANY TIMES CAN YOU HEAR "MORE THAN A FEELING" BEFORE YOU GET SICK OF IT?????


That would be a range of 0-1.
posted by King of Prontopia 12 August | 03:24
I disagree - I could listen to More than a Feeling every half hour for a whole day and be a-okay with it. MORE COWBELL! MORE BOSTON!
posted by Lipstick Thespian 12 August | 18:51
Wow, Jan!!!! || PHOTO FRIDAY:

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