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[aroraborealis]

Things I hate today, an incomplete list:

1. products that blame you for not being good/smart/creative/whatever enough if you don't like them
2. "man cave"
3. anti-feminists
4. pointless rules
5. ineffective systems
6. yellow mustard

I'm actually having a great day, but all those things can DIAF.

What's on your list?

Comments

[kcatalyst.livejournal.com]

N) Otherwise bright students who think that documenting the fact that internet users are using socially meaningful language constitutes an interesting research project.

N+1) Tech support people who laboriously get all the details of your issue and make you wait while they write it all down, then immediately transfer you to a new tech support person who has not read any of it but your name.

N+2) The obscure and unfair rule that limits the day to 24 hours.

N+3) Two-year-old birthday munchkins. Oh wait no, that's not bad, that's AWESOME!!!!!

[lazyz.livejournal.com]

Religious fanatics of all stripes.

support people who laboriously get all the details of your issue and make you wait while they write it all down, then immediately transfer you to a new tech support person who has not read any of it but your name.

Lying, cheating assholes

[dreams-of-wings.livejournal.com]

1. The way my week has been full of these huge peaks of adrenaline and disappointment. It's really fucking exhausting.
2. Vacillating wildly between hope/fantasy and the need to be practical, so if the hopes aren't fulfilled I am not absolutely crushed
3. I am having some strong and not very positive feelings about certain parts of my anatomy today. Need to get over that real quick.
4. Looks like my mother has diabetes. While I know this is a disease that is totally cope-able with, the thought of her having this chronic condition to manage just makes me want to cry.
5. Being irrationally tired...or maybe the tiredness is perfectly rational, given all of the above

[amber-phoenix.livejournal.com]

- a check engine light which can be triggered by improper screwing on of the gas cap, but can only be cleared by a mechanic.

- the incompatibilities of many/most young kids' school options with the schedule of parents working "normal" hours.

- customers who insist on an eta for a fix after I have repeatedly told them said fix is probably not possible and addresses behavior which is not a bug in the first place.

- capitalism.

[goat.livejournal.com]

1. Being able to smell people's breath from 7 feet away.
2. Heartburn.
3. Having already lost 1 relative to surgery gone wrong, feeling anxious about another relative's (less serious) surgery tomorrow.

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

Students who think not working is the awesome way to get through school.

That it is not spring break yet.

Job rejections.

[ectropy.livejournal.com]

Not being kept in the loop on work decisions about my area of work, then suddenly being asked to do four things at once.

[ghislaine.livejournal.com]

1. Having a dirty kitchen but no housekeeper!
2. Homework
3. Craving bad-for-me-food

[blk]

People who claim that unmarried women who want easy, cheap access to birth control are improper sluts, who also claim they are not being misogynistic.

[contessagrrl.livejournal.com]

1. apathy
2. capitalism
3. bad behavior on public transit
4. headaches

in the order I thought of them

[mizarchivist]

1. Bosses who undermine their staff by ignoring the rules/policies agreed upon N weeks/months/years ago
2. People with no reading comprehension
3. People who can't be arsed to do their own research
4. Trying to explain to luddites why we scanned [foo] document so they don't have to now hold on to the original and possibly handle it instead of using the digital proxy.
5. Self-serving hypocrites who claim their argument has nothing to do with controlling a section of the population, it's about "Freedom of Speech/Religion"/...whatever. Lying liars who need a taste of their own medicine- nyah.

[infinitehotel.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, what's your objection to "man cave"?

[kimcob.livejournal.com]

the sound of violent video games
driving
Rush Limbaugh & Rick Santorum
knotted muscles
cold hands and feet
infected taste buds

[heinleinfan.livejournal.com]

-not having access to health and dental care I can afford
-my period
-depression
-doing dishes
-the fact that a video game I enjoy playing is made so much less enjoyable by the cruel, hurtful, sexist, racist, homophobic people who also play it

[ceo]

I'm totally with you on the yellow mustard. Well, and on everything else on your list too, I hasten to clarify.

What I'm hating right now is ski areas who close parts of the mountain for no other reason than to preserve the snow for the weekend, when I'm going there tomorrow on a free midweek-only voucher and have never skied the terrain in question because the previous times I was there either it was closed or I was 6. File under "problems, first-world, petty".

Damn Fun Parties

[medyani.livejournal.com]

I'm fortunate and have not been much exposed to terms such as "man cave." So I googled it.

http://www.mancaveworldwide.com/

That banner kind of hurt my eyeballs. Damn fun parties. (Exclamation points are girly.)

And then there's this beautiful statement at the bottom of the page that gives a whole new meaning to stereotypes:

What is Man Cave? We get guys together for events
called MEATings where they eat meat, drink beer, and experience fun products/games like hammerschlagen at a friends house all of which is provided by us.

[whynotkay.livejournal.com]

Relationship misunderstandings and troubles, not knowing what's wrong, nor how to make things better.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Anything that comes out of the mouth of Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich.

Right there with you on the yellow mustard :-)