You know what really grinds my gears.......
Posted by shelloid on Oct 04, 2009 · Member since Nov 2006 · 4427 posts
Ok so maybe I'm just a weirdo, but there's silly little things that really bug me for no apparent reason - what about the rest of you? Is there any little thing that really annoys you, but probably shouldn't that much?
Ok I'll start:
I hate it when peolpe jiggle their legs up and down when they're sitting down. Some people will do this continually and I HATE IT. There's no logic to my annoyance but it really bugs me.
It also bugs me when women put their make up on on public transport - just wake up earlier if you want to wear it - and don't give people dirty looks when they stare at you.
VH - I won't lie, when I first read your YKWRGMG I was like, "this isn't any big deal at all." But now you got me to re-think the whole hug thing! I never really saw this from a woman's view. My sister's been "strange" with hugs since she was a teenager, like she wasn't comforable with it. Now, I kinda see more where she is coming from.
So...solutions....hmmm, well in Europe don't they just take each other's hand loosely and fake kiss on sides of face? You could try this when someone moves in for a hug.... Or you could also just pull back and offer a hand shake. I know, it can be awkward to challenge accepted norms, but not as awkward as participating in norms that we find offensive or uncomfortable. I think if you show affection - doesn't have to be physical, but rather genuine - for your loved ones they would not be too thrown with the approaches above.
Wow, I never would have thought this, but I am considering not hugging anyone anymore myself - casual hugging that is.
Ohhh my gosh.. I just had the most awesome idea ever for you, VH.
And I found the perfect thing to put my idea across..
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Fucking funny.. minus the second to last one.
Ohhh my gosh.. I just had the most awesome idea ever for you, VH.
And I found the perfect thing to put my idea across..
http://www.instablogsimages.com/images/2008/03/20/spiky-bra1_191.jpg
Check out the rest of the site here:
http://www.styleguru.org/entry/bra-vo-inner-wear-is-out-there/
Fucking funny.. minus the second to last one.
:-D :-D :-D That's to HILARIOUS :-D :-D :-D
If I ever get to meet you VH, can I hug and kiss you and touch your boobs? Actually, if I had to choose, can I just touch your boobs?
I'd only need to do it once, not every time you walked into a room.
But seriously that's a bit weird. I don't ever have any physical contact with my relatives. It was weird when I last saw my mum before moving away from the UK because she insisted on hugging me and kissing my cheek and I just felt grossed out.
I get on really well with my sister but we don't hug. It's funny when we see each other coz I'll hug her husband and she'll hug N, and then we'll just look at each other and say hi, no hugging.
It's a cultural thing...in the Midwest where I grew up I had to learn not to do the European double-peck on the cheeks. People would step back sharpish! And then say, "You're not IN Spain now!" It was definitely shake hands, or just say Hi from a distance.
And yet it was OK for parents to kiss their kids on the lips. After living here for about 7 years, that started to freak me out. I hadn't been home for several of those years and when my mom came in for a smooch I always wanted to say, "Please don't." When you saw this on sitcoms like The Cosby Show, my Spanish friends always thought the actor was sneaking a smooch from one of his "daughters." When I explained that it really happens in US families (or did then), they were like, "That's really sick."
vh - i had a friend like yours.... it got so bad, i finally quit talking to him at all, and we were friends for 11 years. he would even completely look away and start fiddling when i started talking, then as soon as i merely paused he would about roll his eyes and say 'anyway, the sandwhich i made yesterday had blah blah bah' he turned into such a self centered prick. funny thing is he apperantly had a really big thing for me..... some way to show it!
oh and hugs are weird... just met all of my soon to be family for easter.... wayyyyyy too many casual hugs from strangers.... but at least they didn't grab my boobs!
I love hugs. But I can see how they could be over-done. Cursed be the hug ruiners!
eta: My RTF........ glasses!! I'm so farking sick of them!! In particular, today I keep getting fuzzy patches in front of my eyes, but when I pull off the glasses to clean off whatever speck/grease/fluff is in my sight, I can't find anything. >:( >:( >:(
I want new eyes for my birthday, damnit!! Or at least some new contact lenses. Sigh.
(For the record, I go through cycles of liking and disliking glasses and contacts both, for different reasons. No doubt I'll wear specs again in the future, but for now I've had enough.)
tl- BAHAHAHAHA
oh and we do the kiss on the cheek thing too, but NEVER on the lips. that's absolutely horrifying. ick. i'm just gonna limit everyone to one hug a day, because i really dont mind that, but every other time they try to hug me, im running the fuck away
Yabbit, You always remind me of growing-up-in-Iowa stuff that I'd have otherwise forgotten about... :) My family always gave goodnight kisses on the mouth, and older relatives would give mouth-kisses to kids at reunions and such... I got icked out by it once I hit 10 or so, which was convenient since that was about the age at which my family stopped giving mouth-kisses. I haven't seen other families anywhere else who do this, and for a while there I thought my family was just extra f'd up. heh.
Hugs, on the other hand, I do enjoy....
I used to be one of those "get the hell offa me!" types, but then one high school teacher changed all that. Mrs. P was my junior English teacher, thespian troupe director, and speech coach, and she gave awesome hugs... this was right before those no-touching policies poisoned the public school system, thankfully. Mrs. P would hug all of her speech students/thespians, even the slightly reluctant ones (like me), and helped to solidify this really special bond in Our theatre "family." <3
but wait! it's not all smiles here! I do have gears that are a'grinding....
WRGMG: Visitors who disrespect Our property.
If You're a guest at someone's place, do You throw Your garbage all over their yard? No. That's just frickin' rude.
I don't care if We live in a crumbling old barn... the fields around it--including the garden where We grow our food, ferfuckssake--are NOT a frickin' ashtray. WHY do people think it's okay to throw cigarette butts all over the ground out here? And WHY do they just toss their frickin' soda bottles and their frickin' Wendy's food wrappers/cups everywhere except the big trash cans that are clearly visible outside the studio and the barn?!?
I hate having to clean up after people, especially those goddamn nasty cigarette butts. >:(
It grinds my gears when my house smells like meat.
OK, I posted this on the outfit thread but nobody responded so I'm posting it here to see if it's just a local thing or what.
Explain something to me? I saw a couple of girls like, I dunno, 15 years old? wearing--get this--super short shorts (the kind you can see the curve of the buttock at the bottom if they take a long step) and panty hose. Girl, if you're that cold, wear trousers.
Is this, like, "normal?" They look almost as dumb as the girls who wear micromini skirts (aka wide belts) and ballerina flats with no tights and then wind mile-long woolen scarves round their necks!
OK, I posted this on the outfit thread but nobody responded so I'm posting it here to see if it's just a local thing or what.
Explain something to me? I saw a couple of girls like, I dunno, 15 years old? wearing--get this--super short shorts (the kind you can see the curve of the buttock at the bottom if they take a long step) and panty hose. Girl, if you're that cold, wear trousers.
Is this, like, "normal?" They look almost as dumb as the girls who wear micromini skirts (aka wide belts) and ballerina flats with no tights and then wind mile-long woolen scarves round their necks!
I think it's so called "normal". I see people wearing shorts and minis here all the time in the winter/spring time only to have mittens/scarf/hats on...CRAZY :-D
but wait! it's not all smiles here! I do have gears that are a'grinding....
WRGMG: Visitors who disrespect Our property.
If You're a guest at someone's place, do You throw Your garbage all over their yard? No. That's just frickin' rude.
I don't care if We live in a crumbling old barn... the fields around it--including the garden where We grow our food, ferfuckssake--are NOT a frickin' ashtray. WHY do people think it's okay to throw cigarette butts all over the ground out here? And WHY do they just toss their frickin' soda bottles and their frickin' Wendy's food wrappers/cups everywhere except the big trash cans that are clearly visible outside the studio and the barn?!?
I hate having to clean up after people, especially those goddamn nasty cigarette butts. >:(
Grrrrr! What kind of disrecpectful guest, who doesn't appreciate the awesomeness of visiting your barn, and surrounds, could treat it that way?! Kick them OUT, won'tcha? They don't deserve to be in your home.
It grinds my gears when my house smells like meat.
NASTY!!
...and I can sympathize. My daughter's ex-bf brought a steak into my house about a year ago and cooked in on my Foreman grill! When I came home the entire house reeked of charred flesh and it took hours to get it out of the house. I couldn't get the smell out of the Foreman and had to donate it to Goodwill. He was summarily banned from bringing flesh into my house.
cw- wow thats fucking rude, let them sleep outside where the bears and coyotes can get them and teach them a lesson.
courth- yeah me too :'[ it's nasty and sometimes i have to sit outside and wait it out. during the semester one of my roommates would make something particularly smelly. i think it might have been some sort of sausage? but then she would pour like syrup all over it. blehhhh!!!
and yabbit- yes, it's "normal". i really don't understand it though.
-____- I wear dresses and scarves all the time. granted, none of my dresses are more than a couple of inches above the knee at the shortest, but what ever
It grinds my gears when my house smells like meat.
NASTY!!
...and I can sympathize. My daughter's ex-bf brought a steak into my house about a year ago and cooked in on my Foreman grill! When I came home the entire house reeked of charred flesh and it took hours to get it out of the house. I couldn't get the smell out of the Foreman and had to donate it to Goodwill. He was summarily banned from bringing flesh into my house.
This brings me to interesting dilemma I've had since vegetarian and now vegan. I went veggie last october, with a full freezer of meat - mostly chicken but some beef. Now, I have been over the months fretting what to do with it all - although I no longer see it as food, it seems like a double sin to waste it after the animal has already died and ended up in the freezer, plus my dog Banjo here loves it.
So, Ocasionally I prepare some for him and it is SO freakin sick. I can get through the beef - lucky Banjo getting to eat cooked steak!! But the chicken makes me sick, i have to wash everything down and turn the fans on, open the windows. It is so bad that now I don't think I can prepare it for him anymore and havent in weeks. Ideas anyone??
toss the shit and don't look back lol, or give it to someone who eats meat
Dogs can eat raw meat.
Donate it to a church or food place, like God's Food Pantry ;)b
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