Showing posts with label Pet Peeve. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pet Peeve. Show all posts

knife in right hand, fork in left hand

I have three types of eating behaviours that are inexplicable to me, and maybe someone could clarify so my tolerance of such behaviours could be raised. I thank those enlightened minds in advance.

1. People who chomp their crunchy shit like they're fucking dinosaurs. rawr.

Like I know you can't avoid making a loud noise when eating crisps when they're already in your mouth. I forgive that. You cannot avoid that unless you suck on it, which defeats the whole purpose of the name "crisps". As well as "who the fuck likes soggy chips".
What I find irksome is when you're eating something large(r than your mouth), like prawn crackers or certain Doritos. Now, usually when it's too big, you put your lips on it to absorb the shock, and make an incision with your teeth (obviously and hopefully, your teeth are within your lips), so as to minimise spillage. Like a sir.
What I find astounding are those people that don't stop at ONLY separating the food at the point roughly equalling a mouthful, but to smash their teeth against the crunchy food as if to motherfucking shatter the whole biscuit/chip/cracker/I don't give a fuck as long as its crunchy. And hopefully somewhere along in the process, some fragments might end up in their mouth (the primary concern was getting those dB's up). And hey, it works, because your jaw is kind of capable of producing the most force out of any body part. It is not impressive at all if your teeth (we have established your cookie destroying jaws were actually designed to bite stuff) are capable of shattering abovementioned foods, because it takes no skill at all. If it were logically possible, it takes negative skill. When babies grow up, they stop wasting food. I would be impressed, say, if you were 100 and you wanted to show off that somehow your teeth were still intact and capable of this. Fine. But we are not yet so old.
Plus it drops a shitload of crumbs. If this is at camps, this makes our planned gay orgy midnight walkabouts a lot more disgusting. We're barefoot. If its like at school or some shit, it's just uncomfortable watching people drop shattered food remains everywhere. On white shirts. It's unsightly.

2. People who smack their lips while eating as if someone wanted an aural aid to count how many times they chew.

I can't describe the noise. You know when we tut at someone, and we kinda click the tongue against the roof of the mouth? Yeah, that noise. When you're eating, that is unnecessary. I think it's to demonstrate you're eating nice food. There's more effective ways of showing that off, like maybe people could passively pick up the smell of the delicious aromas. Maybe it looks delicious because you have some nicely marinated chicken and it's all glisteny and awesome looking. Or maybe you can shove it up your rectum and eat it afterwards to prove how even that does not tarnish its edibility - so powerful is the nice taste. Okay don't do the last one you'll probably get arrested for indecent exposure. I won't stop you from doing it at home, if that floats your boat.
It can't be the fact that you actually have food, because TI not A, and we are lucky enough to have access to food whenever we feel like. And if I can see you we're probably at recess or lunch, where everyone else has food anyway. Or maybe you're in class and you enjoy detentions or listening to threats of having to clean tables with your tongue. (I wonder if actually making someone do that is as illegal as we hope it is...)
If anything it shows off the fact you can substitute the primary source of aural annoyances (talking like an idiot) with your secondary sound-based weapon (chewing like a fish) because you can't even give us a break when you're stuffing your face.
So whatever point you're trying to make - we don't care.
A simple solution is to chew with your mouth closed - unless you practise it's really hard to make that clicking noise. Trust me I tried just then. You can trust yourself too because chances are you tried it just then too.

3. People who have the intrinsic need to name foodstuff in hopes of being Carl Linnaeus v2 - Food Taxonomist


All hail the annoying cries: It's a baklava! It's a baklava! It's a tiramisu! It's a tiramisu! It's a creme brulee! It's a creme brulee!
There is only one reason that I can think of why a roomful of people wouldn't mind you naming stuff. That reason is: when they asked.
Like if we were at a camp, and then I was some distance behind a friend, and wondering what version of gruel we were being served, I would ask. And they would project their voice rearward, heralding (hope that is a word) the good news of "some chicken looking stuff with corn and papier mache. Dessert is some cake shit." They would not shout out "chicken breast schnitzel with a side of golden fried potato wedges, assorted vegetables, papier mache, and don't forget the delightful dessert of tiramisu!"
Because nobody gives a fuck if you can name food when it's at a volume slightly above conversation level. If your private conversation rolls that way, sure, go ahead. But for the rest of the room - did not ask, did not care. I'd give a fuck if you could name something interesting like species of unicorns. Yeah, why don't you name us some unicorn species. And only unicorn species. Pegasus is kinda pushing it.
Like they'd serve us something with a cool name at a fucking camp anyway. Except papier mache. That just rrrrolls off the tongue.
I kid, they wouldn't serve us papier mache.
Why put in glue when you can just as easily not? So it's just paper and water.



Just so you know, these are not necessarily observed from people at school. I could've seen these behaviours at Cadets, (family) social gatherings, or even at restaurants, and then attached it to a school environment so my target audience (you!) could relate =P
If you think you are the target of this, go through this model
1) It's probably not you. No offence is directed at anyone.
2) Stop insisting it's you, I maintain it's not.
3) For the last time it's very unlikely that it is you.
4) Okay it actually is you. Go hang yourself with your own intestines.

powerful phone protector plus pet peeves

So I found an awesome case for iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. Ordering from the US, and I might as well get more if anyone wants it, because I don't think they sell it Australia. Saves you from ordering one yourself, as well as only 1 charge for shipping for multiple items (Y). So if you're interested, tell me here, MSN, email, text, I don't care =D

Without further ado, I present the Lifeproof case:
It's shockproof [(Military Specifications MIL-STD-810F-516.5 (2 meters/6.6ft drop on all surfaces and edges. 26 tests) - if that means something to you]
It's waterproof and dustproof (full IP-68 rating against water and dust, and designed to Military Specifications.) Dunno what that is, but it means 2m submersion is safe.
It's also snowproof and I'm sure we'll be needing a lot of that soon. /sarcasm

And here are pictures of the black and white cases (there are pink and purples as well)



If you wanna see it on the original site, you can see it on Lifeproof.com. It lists all its features and etc.

It's much slimmer and elegant-er than you'd expect from something that protects your phone from all that shit. But now you'll probably doubt it's protectiveness, so check the next two videos if you're in that zone.

Here's a video released by Lifeproof. It shows a shitload of abuse, way beyond what normal people do. But it covers dropping the case while it's on your lap and you're exiting the car. Or you just drop it by accident:


Here's one at the beach demonstrating mainly waterproof-ness



Now, the price. It is advertised at $80, but plus p&h will be anywhere up to $95. Obviously, the more people who want one, the closer it approaches $80 xP. This is pretty steep, but if you go sportsing with your phone, hiking with your phone, beaching with your phone, or drop your phone/scared of dropping your phone, then it might be worth it, seeing as your iPhone 4 costs upwards of $800.

Now since I caveat emptor'd the shit out of this, and so should pass on to you, here are pros and cons.

Pros (I gathered these from review vids):
Well it IS kinda waterproof, shockproof, dustproof, snowproof. Unless you're being a massive idiot and pegging it around, your iPhone is freaking safe.
You can take it anywhere! ANYWHERE!
All buttons are accessible, chargeport can be accessed by flipping the bottom catch open (obviously this will de-waterproof it while it's undone but you shouldn't be getting it while wet while charging anyway)
The material on the outer casing doesn't grab lint at all.
It's so thin and sexy!
It uses something that makes the whole case resonate, so that sound from speakers can travel through the waterproof case. Speaker and microphone quality shouldn't be affected - they will replace it if it's terrible.
Apparently the home button feels even nicer to press.
Separated optical lens for flash and camera - no chance of flashback, and hax clarity.

If I haven't mentioned it as a con, you can imagine that it's a pro :L

Cons:
Screen protector is glossy and takes getting used to. It's not adhesive, so it may need to be "broken in" to sit nicely against the screen.
The volume and lock button are not as crisp, but still easily accessible since the case is so thin.
It's not designed to be taken on and off frequently. Unless you're cleaning the interior or repairing, it basically should never come off.
(Minor)Silent/ringer switch is reversed, ie pull to the right for silent, pull to the left to ringer.
The chargeport basically only fits the original Apple iPhone cable.
Pretty freaking expensive
Only for iPhone 4 and 4S


If there's an issue I haven't mentioned, please talk to me =D
Ordering on Nov 1 btw. So tell me before then (Y)






PEW for PET PEEVE
I hate question marks that shouldn't be there. Like when people tell you shit? And it's meant to be a full stop but they do this instead?
Because people designed full stops for a reason - for sentences that aren't fucking questions.
Question mark is for real questions. If you want to tell me something, I should be the one asking questions if any.
I mean, if you're asking "Do you remember how to calculate molar mass?", then it is a freaking question. You can use a question mark, because it doesn't make sense with a full stop. This is totally awesome because you understand basic grammar.
"Do it like you did for sodium hydroxide?" is not a freaking question. It is an imperative, changed to annoying form via the use of incorrect punctuation. This is not totally awesome because you need to go back to year 1 to learn what a question mark is for.
Question mark is called question because you are asking a question. Seems obvious but apparently is not. When in doubt, just don't put punctuation. This usually happens on IM or text, and hence people don't care about punctuation anyway.

WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME A QUESTION.
The justification I hear is: "That's how I'd say it in real life?"
My answer: "It's fucking annoying in real life too."

How often have you heard (primary school) teachers say "Don't answer a question with a question" or "Am I asking the question, or are you?", or just "Are you sure?", until you stop using a bloody question inflection.

Thank you and good night