Things That Annoy You

[Flying Mint Bunny!]

^After reading your post, I couldn't help but picture a kid in a giant pinball machine.   Ba-ding!  Ba-ding!  Ping!  Ping!

I would love to play a pinball machine like that.

[mellenORL]

Kids running around and crying in even expensive restaurants. Parents just don't care. They put snowflake status on the kids.

I was decanting a really nice bottle of Barollo tableside at my last restaurant, and a fucking 6 year old ran into me, shoving past his parents in a race to pick his seat at the table next over. That impact from him caused the wine bottle top to crack the top of the crystal decanter, ruining it and meaning I had to discard the wine itself, due to broken glass chips. About 100 bucks for the decanter, about 190 for that bottle of Italian wine. Nice. When did parents stop training kids to always hold their hands?

[SpaceProg]

Ouch... It didn't come out of your pay, did it?

[chitoryu12]

One time when I was walking out of the store part of a Rainforest Cafe (I think it was the one at Disney's Animal Kingdom), this little girl (maybe 3 or 4 at the oldest) tried to run past me and ducked under the natural swing of my arm.....which meant that as she ran in front of me, my arm came forward and literally punched her in the back of the head hard enough to send her flying off her feet.

I kind of gave a hasty apology to the mother and bolted. There's no way to salvage an incident like that except by immediate exfiltration.

[lord gibbon]

Ok rant time, and also possibly something triggering in spoilers.

I'm not a good student. It's not that I'm dumb, but a combination of Asperger's and Anxiety disorder resulting in an instinct to avoid difficulty, a tendency to distrust authority and dislike doing as I'm told, and, to be perfectly honest, more than a bit of laziness. As a result, I'm still only halfway through my A.A. in community college, and this was my fourth year. The thing is, I really thought I was doing well this time. I felt confident, and I thought I understood the work, and I was actually very proud of the speeches I gave in my public speaking class. Then, yesterday, I got my grades. I completely failed math, and only got a D is speech. To make matters worse, my poor work ethic means that I've been on academic probation before, so I might not even get in next semester. It was really painfull for me, even though I know lost of people have it worse. The end result?

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I briefly felt like hurting myself. I've never felt that way before, and it's scary.

[chitoryu12]

I get easily reminded of the soldier worshiping in American culture and how it leads to some military personnel viewing themselves as superior to civilians by, of all things, arguing with a jarhead about airsoft tactics.

[largeham]

I get easily reminded of the soldier worshiping in American culture and how it leads to some military personnel viewing themselves as superior to civilians by, of all things, arguing with a jarhead about airsoft tactics.

Some people believe serving in the military automatically makes that person better than everyone else. Even surviving combat made people better than others, it ignores the fact that the vast majority of soldiers won't ever see real combat (at least at the moment, who knows how the next big war will turn out). Jim Dunnigan estimates that on average there are about 10 rear echelon soldiers for each combat soldier.

[chitoryu12]

The United States is downright overflowing with pro-military propaganda: even just going to the movies might get you a trailer for joining the National Guard. It displays military service as the pinnacle of honor and glory, and "serving your country" is pretty much 100% taken to mean "military service" or doing something that supports the military. We're constantly reminded that soldiers "defend our freedom", when they've pretty much exclusively spent all of history after World War II going into much poorer countries and either interfering in local conflicts or trying to topple their government or attack anti-American guerrillas, with the goal of supporting our own national interests. After 1945, when's the last time any American operation truly "defended our freedom"?

It's only gotten worse with post-9/11 jingoism and paranoia.

[Ghoti]

HT-Level TMI:

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I've been really, really horny all freaking day. Not in an interesting, pleasant way but in a it's-a-bitch-to-focus-on-anything-that's-not-my-crotch kind of way.

[SpaceProg]

HT-Level TMI:

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I've been really, really horny all freaking day. Not in an interesting, pleasant way but in a it's-a-bitch-to-focus-on-anything-that's-not-my-crotch kind of way.

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Well, get offline and have a nice wank.  We'll be here when you get back.

[Ghoti]

I'm back, and so is the forum (apparently). It was refusing to load a minute ago, but it seems to have sorted itself out. *shrug* I ain't even bovvered.

[Art Vandelay]

Goddamn do I fucking hate kids. How the fuck does the species ever continue when our offspring are so damn insufferable and expensive?

[Witchyjoshy]

Goddamn do I fucking hate kids. How the fuck does the species ever continue when our offspring are so damn insufferable and expensive?

They end up insufferable because people today don't know how to parent.  They either let their child do whatever they want, or they bully them into submission, which makes them bully other kids into submission.

"Positive Reinforcement" is not code for "Spoil Them Rotten" dammit!

On another note...

This is something that's just as amusing as it is annoying (which is to say, not all that much)

But it's that people will express moral outrage when you decide to play a villain in a game that allows you to play as a villain.

Or, heavens forbid, allows you to download a mod that doesn't make the children of a video game unexplainably immortal.  There are some people who think that the only people who download the "Killable Children" mod for Skyrim are sick, depraved psychos who are one step away from being serial killers.  I'm not even joking.

Separation of reality and fantasy, anyone?  Do they lack it so much themselves that they believe everyone else lacks it?

I mean, hell, I downloaded the mod because I want to fully integrate the children into the world, even if that means making them mortal.

[Art Vandelay]

Goddamn do I fucking hate kids. How the fuck does the species ever continue when our offspring are so damn insufferable and expensive?

They end up insufferable because people today don't know how to parent.  They either let their child do whatever they want, or they bully them into submission, which makes them bully other kids into submission.

"Positive Reinforcement" is not code for "Spoil Them Rotten" dammit!

The parents aren't really the thing, as their older kids (around 15 and 16) are perfectly decent people (aside from one of them thinking "swag" and "YOLO" are acceptable words to use in everyday conversation). It's just the younger ones (around 7-8 or so), like all kids that age, are insufferable little shits who think it's not only hilarious to leave a floater in the toilet, but they also whine when you make them go and flush it and only actually do it under threat of being physically dragged to the bathroom.

This is the sort of bullshit we have to put up with if the species is to continue. If nothing else, it proves that the idea of an omnipotent intelligent designer is utterly laughable.

[Witchyjoshy]

I know kids that aren't like that at all.  I still blame the parents.