Things That Annoy You

[Osama bin Bambi]

Once there were some kids giving a presentation on the communist revolution in China, and they kept pronouncing "bourgeois" as "bor-gee." (With a hard g.)

[Veras]

Netflix took down Stargate:  SG1.

I've been watching it to help me fall asleep lately.  It is in the perfect sweet spot where it's entertaining enough to keep my attention and stop my mind from wandering (which ensures that I will not be able to sleep) without being so stimulating that it keeps me awake for hours on end.  The only other thing that I've ever known to work like that is West Wing, which I don't have.

[Alehksunos]

Once there were some kids giving a presentation on the communist revolution in China, and they kept pronouncing "bourgeois" as "bor-gee." (With a hard g.)

Somebody hasn't been informed on how French phonetics work, but I can understand since to the English-speaking eye, the words are read by how they're spelled and not how they're actually pronounced. I do commend them for remembering to not pronounce the last letter, even though that pronunciation makes my head hurt for how bad it is.

By the way, it's [buʀʒwa], or "boor-zhwa."

Netflix took down Stargate:  SG1.

I've been watching it to help me fall asleep lately.  It is in the perfect sweet spot where it's entertaining enough to keep my attention and stop my mind from wandering (which ensures that I will not be able to sleep) without being so stimulating that it keeps me awake for hours on end.  The only other thing that I've ever known to work like that is West Wing, which I don't have.

I know how that feels. I was crushed when they took down Monty Python's Flying Circus. However, I hated how their release was not complete and they skipped to only episodes that had the well known sketches. Hell, they even compiled it to where it looked the the show had only one season (there were four). I swear, whoever did the Netflix release for that show really honestly didn't give a fuck.

[RavynousHunter]

The concept of "honor" in war.  Honor, as in facing your opponent, giving him an equal footing to yourself, has no place in war.  Honor was a quaint concept thought up by military losers to explain their failures in a way that'd save face in front of their general and/or lord.  As in, "they didn't fight with honor!"  Roughly, that translates to, "They didn't fight like we did, and that makes us morally superior to them," which is bullshit.

War doesn't care if you're "honorable" or not, war only cares who wins and who loses.  If you're fighting a war, you're fighting to destroy your enemy.  If you're fighting to destroy your enemy, don't give them a chance.  Kill them in the dead of night by setting their cities on fire, lure them into traps and ambushes and scythe them down like wheat.  Use every "dirty trick" in your book, because history won't remember your army fighting honorably, it'll only remember either your victory, or your defeat, and the ramifications thereof.

Honor doesn't mean shit if you've got people throwing grenades at you.

Nothing in particular sparked this...just something that's always bugged me when people say that no one fights honorably anymore.  Better bet, if I'm in a fight, I'll fight dirty.

[Hades]

My patterns of witless behavior when it comes to drawing.

1) I can't, for the life of me, stop drawing in lined notebooks. I have it in my head that it would be wasteful to sketch and doodle on pristine drawing paper, even though I have several blank books. The nettlesome thing about this habit is that I inevitably end up drawing pretty decent things on lined paper, and have to spend time photoshopping the lines out, which is a massive pain in the moobs.

2) As I draw in these lined notebooks, I tend not to progress through the pages in a linear fashion. Once I've filled up a page, I'll flip to a random page somewhere else in the book and begin anew. Like gas stations peppered along a lonesome stretch of no man's land, my filled pages are sparsely scattered through vast swaths of blankness. I don't just do this in a single notebook, either. I do this across several.

This is the very reason why I'm evaluating my behaviors and writing this right now. I was just about to flesh out a sketch I made a few months back, but instead, I spent about 40 minutes trudging through several notebooks looking for the god damn thing. I've drawn in no less than 4 different notebooks within the last few months.

3) I sketch with my good pens. I have plenty of cheap pens, pencils, and markers I could be wasting on sketches, but no. I continue grabbing the expensive ones and wasting stupid amounts of beautiful, pure black ink. On mostly garbage sketches. In lined fucking notebook paper.

4) Not long ago, I used to freely draw with no care of how it would turn out. I would just enjoy it. Lately, though, I feel dragged down by the fear of failure. In many cases, it's even caused me to not try at all. This is partially why I've not been as ravenous of an illustrator as I have been in the past years. Every time I touch pen to paper I become worried that I've lost what little skill I had. I haven't lost anything. In fact, I see nothing but progress. It's such a stupid, baseless fear, and it won't stop gnawing away at me.

Despite that, I feel good getting my thoughts into order and shining a light on my less than awesome behavior patterns. I think I can begin correcting these things. I better damn well correct these things.

[The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist]

Once there were some kids giving a presentation on the communist revolution in China, and they kept pronouncing "bourgeois" as "bor-gee." (With a hard g.)

Somebody hasn't been informed on how French phonetics work, but I can understand since to the English-speaking eye, the words are read by how they're spelled and not how they're actually pronounced. I do commend them for remembering to not pronounce the last letter, even though that pronunciation makes my head hurt for how bad it is.

By the way, it's [buʀʒwa], or "boor-zhwa."

French can definitely present problems, since a lot of words have letters groups tacked onto the end that are either barely pronounced or not pronounced at all ("boivent" said more or less as "bwahv", etc.), along with the aforementioned phonetics. And trying to remember all of the gender tenses when it's not your first language is quite a pain.

[Sandafluffoid]

Once there were some kids giving a presentation on the communist revolution in China, and they kept pronouncing "bourgeois" as "bor-gee." (With a hard g.)

Somebody hasn't been informed on how French phonetics work, but I can understand since to the English-speaking eye, the words are read by how they're spelled and not how they're actually pronounced. I do commend them for remembering to not pronounce the last letter, even though that pronunciation makes my head hurt for how bad it is.

By the way, it's [buʀʒwa], or "boor-zhwa."

French can definitely present problems, since a lot of words have letters groups tacked onto the end that are either barely pronounced or not pronounced at all ("boivent" said more or less as "bwahv", etc.), along with the aforementioned phonetics. And trying to remember all of the gender tenses when it's not your first language is quite a pain.

Aye, and then the ruddy thing resists spelling reform because of the whole liason rules. I mean the 's' in 'ils' seems pointless when you're saying "ils sont cochons", but then in a sentence like "ils ont cochons" it suddenly comes rising up to bite you in the arse.

[Meshakhad]

Road works. I understand the necessity of road works. I do not understand why, instead of doing the lion's share of the work at night as is normal, the road work being done on NE 85th in Kirkland, WA is being done during the day, seriously disrupting traffic. It's not as if it's a major arterial or anything! And I bet the workers would prefer to not be working in the sun.

[Shane for Wax]

Netflix took down Stargate:  SG1.

I've been watching it to help me fall asleep lately.  It is in the perfect sweet spot where it's entertaining enough to keep my attention and stop my mind from wandering (which ensures that I will not be able to sleep) without being so stimulating that it keeps me awake for hours on end.  The only other thing that I've ever known to work like that is West Wing, which I don't have.

BUT I WASN'T DONE. WHAT THE FUCK!

[Art Vandelay]

Road works. I understand the necessity of road works. I do not understand why, instead of doing the lion's share of the work at night as is normal, the road work being done on NE 85th in Kirkland, WA is being done during the day, seriously disrupting traffic. It's not as if it's a major arterial or anything! And I bet the workers would prefer to not be working in the sun.

One word: Overtime.

In other news, Facebook finally got around to forcing me to switch my profile to that god-awful timeline format. Admittedly, my Facebook has been dead for over a year so it's no biggie, but that new layout is just so atrocious that I loathe the idea of being associated with it in any way, shape or form, regardless of how little it matters in reality.

[The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist]

FB's "Timeline" layout is pretty awful. On top of looking like crap, it's a major pain in the ass to navigate.

[Normandy]

Everyone seems to love to bitch about timeline but I just don't get it.  It takes a little time to get used to but otherwise it's completely fine to me.  I might even say I like it more than the previous layout.

[Her3tiK]

Everyone seems to love to bitch about timeline but I just don't get it.  It takes a little time to get used to but otherwise it's completely fine to me.  I might even say I like it more than the previous layout.

I don't get what the big deal is, either. I think people just hate change.

[largeham]

Remember this is Facebook. Whenever change is implemented, there will be several hundred groups calling for a reversal.

[Thejebusfire]

Google, I don't want to give you my phone number. All I want to do is log on and watch some stupid anime videos.