Green Like Gitgan

He’s weird, he’s annoyed and he’s back to blogging. Good ol’ Jeremy Bear. And when I read his list of 69 pet peeves I thought, easy. I get annoyed about a lot of stuff. So here we go:

1. People who can’t pronounce ‘especially’ the right way. As in “I find you eck-specially annoying!”
2. Drivers that don’t understand what it means when a sign says ‘Continuous Right-turn with caution“
3. Flossing
4. “Could you just photoshop it?” Not only does “just” usually take a half-an-hour to a few days to do but your statement is also a clear violation of Adobe’s Terms of Use.
5. Internet Explorer
6. 8 ounce cups
7. The Cuyahoga Falls slogan of “Doin’ the River Thing!”
8. “I’m no designer but…” Then being handed a page put together in Word or PowerPoint. Oh really, you’re not a designer, huh?
9. Old calendars kept for the pictures
10. Impact, Comic Sans & Times New Roman
11. “Times New Roman is our corporate font.” Really or do you just not know how to change the default in Word?
12. ‘Personal’ Bandwidth – condemed to hell
13. My wife’s blog getting more hits than mine
14. Potty Training
15. Butterscotch candy
16. Not having candy
17. Google Adwords on blog pages
18. Ctrl+Clicking
19. Stadium Mustard
20. People who complain about how ‘hard’ it is to get 2 or fewer children out the door to participate in a given activity
21. The HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray DVD format war. Not that I have the money for either but, until somebody wins I say forget them both. Boycott them if you that floats your boat
22. Wanting these and these but not having a rooms to put them in
23. Not having much musical talent and knowing that there are kids like this out there
24. The idea of an iPod ‘killer’, not that it couldn’t happen – just the idea of it
25. Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional having an online conference tool built into it but having to pay an additional fee to use it
26. Grocery store discount cards
27. People who talk loudly/publicly on their cell phones
28. Knowing about these and not having the guts to actually use them on the people who talk loudly/publicly on their cell phones
29. Spam blogs
30. People who blog but don’t tell others about it
31. People who read blogs but don’t tell the writer about it
32. The metric system
33. European stench
34. Bad coffee at the office
35. Having to choose ENGLISH at the ATM
36. Being able to find evidence to support any kook idea on the internet
37. The e coli/spinach story that won’t go away (like a really bad case of the runs)
38. People complaining about Wal-Mart putting ‘Ma & Pa’ stores out of business and ignoring the fact that they provide jobs, low-cost food & clothing and now $4 generic presciption drugs
39. Ten Day weather forecasts
40. Political Ads
41. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
42. Having to use the short urinal
43. The antique stores on the Front Street mall in Cuyahoga Falls
44. When an album is more expensive on iTunes than at a store
45. Berean Bookstore in Fairlawn and the fact that buying things there takes 3.76 times longer than any other store
46. Being 28 and not having found an excuse to use a jackhammer
47. Univision
48. “Corporate Design”
49. Having a great name for a band but no musical ability. (If you ever buy an album from the Bologna Leotards let me know and I’ll sue them)
50. Medium point pens
51. Missing a spot on my chin when I shave then rubbing it with my thumb all day
52. Donuts that taste like smoke
53. Overly Loud-Church Harmonizers ‘auditioning‘ for a part in the worship band from the pews
54. Carl Monday even if he is an ‘internet legend‘
55. All ‘investigative reporters’ for that matter
56. Having to use the phone book
57. Those creepy botox commercials
58. Figuring out health care benefits
59. Using someone else’s mac without Quicksilver installed
60. Obese people with obese children
61. Long fingernails on men
62. Having to explain how to do a keyboard shortcut
63. Having to use Quark Xpress instead of Adobe InDesign
64. When my kids use ‘my’ instead of I, and ‘we’ instead of our. (Although “Yeah ma do” is kind of funny sounding)
65. All beef hot dogs, especially when they snap when you bite them
66. My wife not using capital letters on her blog
67. When people wonder about why some people want kids and can’t have them and why some people have kids and treat them so poorly that they are taken away, but can’t put the two together
68. Knowing that if I had to list every job I’ve ever had that Burger King would still be the place at which I had the longest term of employment
69. Adults who don’t eat the crust of their pizza