{"id":1545,"date":"2007-11-19T08:17:22","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T13:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2007-11-19T10:11:46","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T15:11:46","slug":"a-thousand-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1545","title":{"rendered":"A Thousand Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Kouba at TvM has a few pet peeves<\/a>:<\/p>\n

1) \u201cDoor Close\u201d buttons on elevators that don\u2019t work<\/p>\n

2) Poorly done bridges in pop songs<\/p>\n

3) Having to wait to pay for the food in restaurants. In a perfect world, you\u2019d pay as soon as the food came so you could leave when you\u2019re done.<\/p>\n

4) Reporters who say \u201cwe\u2019re following the story\u201d when they really mean they\u2019re hitting the Refresh button on The Drudge Report<\/em> the same as you.<\/p>\n

5) Bloggers who say \u201cI reported\u201d such and such when they just cut and pasted from an article online.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or anyone – from bloggers up through Geraldo Rivera – who ever <\/em>uses the phrase “this reporter<\/a>” in any unironic sense.<\/p>\n

6) Books with prologues.<\/p>\n

7) Refrigerator doors that keep closing on you when you\u2019re getting something out. Stop helping me. I\u2019ll close the door myself.<\/p>\n

8) Drivers who treat a crowded, rush hour freeway like the Grand Prix, just to go from two cars behind you to two cars ahead of you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hoooyeah<\/a>. Absofrigginlute<\/a>ly.<\/p>\n

A few additions of my own:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Pronouncing the word “processes” “Pro-ses-SEES”, with big emphasis on the last syllable.\u00a0 Ick.<\/li>\n
  2. Anyone wearing those Celtic Thorn tattoos around their arm, that doesn’t have Celtic Warrior’s Union card in their wallet.<\/li>\n
  3. Guys in pageboy haircuts.\u00a0 Thanksfully, this fad’s bus seems to have left the station.\u00a0 For now.<\/li>\n
  4. Guys with pony tails and earrings.\u00a0 Either one is acceptable.\u00a0 Both are not.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And oh so many more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    UPDATE:\u00a0 Justin emails:<\/p>\n

    > Also, here’s a linguistic pet-peeve of similar\u00a0ilk: “matrix” instead of
    \n> “chart” or “table.” Not every Excel spreadsheet is\u00a0a “matrix.” I did
    \n> four sems of calculus; I’ll show you a real matrix!\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Jeez, yeah.\u00a0 I hate that one too.<\/p>\n

    Oh, yeah – and let me add to that:<\/p>\n

    Companies that incorporate “being 10 minutes late to meetings” into their corporate culture<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    and<\/p>\n

    Replacing “meetings” with “phone conferences”.\u00a0 In my experience, no “meeting” that was comprised of people sitting around in headsets ever ended with anything getting done.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    That is all.<\/p>\n

    (Or…is it?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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