One of mine (I have many yay neurodivergece) is when people say the phrase “a broken clock is right twice a day”. The phrase is actually “a stopped clock is right twice a day.” A clock that is stopped will definitely be right twice a day but a clock that is broken could be right multiple times a day or not at all depending on how it’s broken. Maybe it’s just a little slow running in which case it’ll never be right. Maybe it’s spinning wildly out of control so it’ll be right a lot but still useless.

It annoys the shit outta me and it is so dumb it definitely should not. Anyway your turn.

  • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1. I hate when someone else’s pet peeve becomes your pet peeve.

    2. seats warm from someone else sitting in them before you

    3. describing qualities with quantities. For example: saying “This is a huge issue.” Unless the issue is actually, physically large, the correct phrase would be something like “This is an important issue.”

    4. people who talk a lot without saying anything

    5. people who don’t get to the point.

    6. getting food on my fingers. As tasty as dorito dust is, I don’t like getting it on my hands.

    7. people who don’t think about their turn when it’s not their turn, then take a long ass time during their turn.

    8. people who ask questions, then don’t like the answers you give. If you did not want to hear certain answers, then just make an assertion. It causes less conflict than making me answer and then rejecting that answer.

    9. similarly, wanting me to make a choice when I have no information or influence on budget, timing, etc. If our budget is $10 and I don’t know if it’s $2 or $50, I have no idea what an appropriate suggestion will be.

    10. I might be on the ace spectrum, so it bothers me when stories always have to have a love story plotline. Like two cishet people can’t just be friends? Do people really just do that where they “fall in love” with someone they’ve known for all of 3 days?

    11. people with too many pet peeves.

    12. ice hitting my face while drinking out of a glass

    13. self-aware and self-deprecating humor in ads. You’re trying to sell me a product. I am already anti-capitalist and will turn your shit off if I can. If you somehow get me to watch your ad, it is not funny or cute when you don’t hype your product. I’d rather you make bad jokes on accident than on purpose when trying to sell me something.

    14. non-standard UIs.

    15. changing the UI.

    16. change for the sake of change

    I have more but this list is already too long. TY for reading have a rare Apu:

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      similarly, wanting me to make a choice when I have no information or influence on budget, timing, etc. If our budget is $10 and I don’t know if it’s $2 or $50, I have no idea what an appropriate suggestion will be.

      I was meeting a new friend the other day and we had to pick a spot. I texted, wherever you want, and she replied, anywhere you want. So I picked a normal coffee shop in a central location. She replied: what are you, rich, lol, how about the beach?