Tuesday, March 21, 2006
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Peeves
Currently Listening
Shut Up
By Black Eyed Peas
see relatedI have been meaning to write this entry for awhile, but a bunch of different things started happening and sidetracked me (a good thing, of course). This is a random list of things that just BUG ME.
- People who leave fingernail cut-marks in produce while testing it at the supermarket. Not only nasty, but freaking inconsiderate. Hey, buddy, someone is going to BUY that apple to EAT. Do you KNOW how many germs live underneath your fingernails?
- The supremely overused words "tour de force", "rave", "blast", "weapons of mass destruction", "red state/blue state", "sex", and the dismissive phrases "suck it up", "that's life" - really anything dismissive - always make me want to strangle somone.
- The existence, and fawning over, completely worthless and almost uniformly white and blond celebrities such as Paris Hilton, Jessica Simpson, The Olsen Twins, etc., etc., I'm already getting annoyed just listing them.
- Getting totally ignored whenever I am next to my -admittedly more modelesque- friend. Hey, if two women are standing together, and all night people are complimenting only one of them on how pretty she looks, what the hell is the other woman supposed to think? That she's chopped liver? I love my friend; she really doesn't have anything to do with this. It's just that it can be harsh being the "plain" one.
- Scuzzy (always scuzzy, never cute) men making cheap come ons. Or whistling. Or making it a big point to turn around and look while doing some activity that warrants attention like riding a bike, driving a car, operating a jackhammer, or carrying dangerous equipment. I don't like to be ignored, but neither do I like to be treated like a walking veal chop.
- Honking. What is that supposed to accomplish? If a person is trying to avoid running over a pedestrian dashing in front of his car, why should the jerk behind him lean on his horn? What's a driver supposed to do, run people over so you can be first to the next red light?
- Reggaeton. Loud, repetetive, annoying. Always blaring out of some douchebag's open car window. The single dumbest invention in music in the past 10 years, and that's really, really saying something. It's just an excuse for progressively more explicit dancing anyway. Why don't we just drop all pretense at music and just have people strip and have sex on the dance floor?
- Reality shows. I actually feel dumber when I watch these. Why are Survivor, American Idol, Big Brother, the Apprentice et al still on the air? And why the hell do these people continue to make headlines in what is supposed to be the real news?
- People who say "Not to be racist" and then follow it up with something that is almost 100% of the time totally racist. Just admit you're a bigoted asshole. We all know it anyway.
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Comments (4)
Oh Gawd.. .I am SOOOO with you on this list, 'specially the honking!! We had a back-up in the parking garage at work (a friggin car was on fire)... people were HONKING their horns in the line. Ummm... there were about 100 cars, bumper to bumper, snaking up the garage levels. I should've gotten out and punched them all, one by one.
And whistling, just in general, annoys me. Not just cat-call whistling. We have a guy at work we call whistle-boy. I wanna ask him what's he's so fuggin happy about. Plus he has big, gross fish lips, puckered up in that whistle mouth makes me ILL.
I'm feeling kinda bitchy!!! I like it!!
Paris Hilton is a waste of oxygen, let alone media coverage. Move on, people!
I agree with that other stuff too ... thank you for sharing it. Cathartic to us all.
I ditto many of those peeves..its like I could have written some of them myself. Re: the attractive friend standing next to you, I had that same problem with a particular ex-friend who was actually 5'10 and a spanking image of Catherine Zeta Jones (and thinner). We just stopped being friends. Plus being friends withg gay men is just as fun and I don't have to deal with the competitive bitchiness that pervades most female to female relations...