Someone else absolutely thought of this idea before me. I cannot, for the life of me, remember who it was otherwise I would totally mention that person but please know, person whose great idea this was, I salute you (I think it’s Amber from Airing My Laundry but I am not positive).
Things are on my nerves lately. From the lingering hot weather to the routine of having pack lunches to trying to understand the moods of my toaster oven, I am out of patience for things. Here’s the top of the list:
IXL. For those who don’t know what this is, it’s an online learning math program created by who I assume is a relative of Satan. It’s not that it’s necessarily a bad program and I am certainly not opposed to her doing this type of supplemental learning for homework. BUT. The program setup is absolute bullshit and her school makes the kids maintain a 100% standard in order to progress. Problem with that is, you earn points for getting questions right (the amount you earn decreases as you get closer to 100) and lose points for getting them wrong (the amount seems to increase as you get closer to 100). This is nonsense and serves no fucking purpose except causing parents to yell and kids to cry because these assignments take fucking forever. One hundred angry faces.
People who don’t follow simple directions and then erupt in fits when they get called out for it. I guess this is pretty self-explanatory but seriously, y’all, just follow the fucking directions. If you have problems, ask. Ten angry faces
Noisy library patrons. Look, I get that it’s impossible remain completely still and quiet. I certainly am not. But if you see all the people around you concentrating and working on things, maybe you should shut the fuck up. Do you NEED to make all that noise while unpacking your backpack? Also, are you moving the fuck in? Who brings that much shit to a library? And if you do, why do you need to take it all out? Twelve angry faces.
Brock Turner. I’m not going to launch into a diatribe about the ABSOLUTELY FUCKED UP way this has all played out or how serving three months is not at all justice when not guilty men, women, and children rot in prison for lesser crimes or straight up things they did not do or the way news outlets refuse to refer to him as he is (a rapist. Say it with me, news people. RA-PIST) and simply refer to him with euphemisms instead or how it should not be portrayed as a consolation prize that this poor little swimmer boy had to register as a sex offender (because, you know, HE IS) but rather just say this: FUCK YOU, BROCK TURNER. You are an overprivileged piece of monkey shit and karma, well, she’s a bitch with an elephant memory. Forty million angry faces.
Laundry. Of course it’s on this list because it perpetually annoys me. Forty-two angry faces
The word “girlboss”. Or it’s grownup version, ladyboss. Why can’t you just be a fucking boss? Why the need to put the qualifier on it? I know it’s the name of a popular book and pop culture lexicon has seized on it but seriously. Doesn’t matter if you’re a woman or not. Just be a badass boss. Fifteen angry faces.
Facebook. Or, more specifically, the people on Facebook who ignore the fact that you exist until you post something attempting to be funny and they take it seriously for no other reason than they are completely humorless and/or get off on being contrarian. STOP IT RIGHT NOW. Go away. I don’t need that shit in my day. Twenty angry faces.
Processing fees. I like to do the things and see the things and experience the things and for many of those things, you need to buy tickets. I don’t mind paying the money. I truly don’t because I understand it costs money to put on events and the people need to get paid and all that. But for the love of fuck, why do I need to pay an extra $9 for tickets I am going to print at home? Or $8 for a pass to be mailed when a stamp costs like $.49? WHY? You tell me it’s a processing fee but you are not processing shit. I am. And how about the Broadway tickets we’re trying to buy for the child’s 10th birthday that tack on an extra $150 (yes, that’s approximately an extra $50 per ticket)?! It’s becoming cost prohibitive to have experiences. Seventy-five angry faces and 47 more for processing my anger.
Alright, my friends. What’s bothering you this fine Thursday?
Agree on all ! I do love that the library is so welcoming to children. Most of the people accompanying the kids did keep them under control. I took my two grandchildren every Friday this summer and it was awesome. Planning to take Lola soon.
Just had to switch to ESPN to avoid political news. This election situation – ugh times 50 million !
It’s almost Friday!
The children running around like feral animals in the library make me insane.
OMG all of this made me laugh.
the extra fees thing is BULLSHIT. i hate it, especially when you do all the work ONLINE yet they still charge you. admin/processing fees should only be applied if you call in and an agent does it for you, not when you’re at home and it’s only you and the computer.
YES.
LOL to “angry faces”. That brought me so much joy.
BF doesn’t like to listen to directions when he wants to do something his way or not do something and he pitches a fit and I have to call him out on it. I’m not telling you WHAT to do, I’m telling you HOW to do something. There is a difference.
Brock Turner has a special place with pineapple Hitler.
Girlboss, no.. I’m a woman. I’m a boss. This is not a compound word, just like manboss isn’t a word.
Processing fees are the reason why I haven’t bought tickets for any of the concerts I really want to go to this fall. I’d rather deal with Charleston traffic and just go to the location to save myself the mabillionty dollars in processing fees.
The angry face is probably my most frequently used emoji. I feel like maybe I should have mentioned that.
The autocorrect to “pineapple Hitler” gave me so many LOLs.
I’ll add onto processing fees with a cell phone fee – they charged us $40.00 for new phones for a “processing fee” – you just turned the phone on with a click of a button … how much processing is that???? So stupid the fees people slide in. I’m going to start charging processing fees for laundry.
I feel like this is its own category. We have Verizon and are getting our daughter a phone by upgrading my husband’s one that he never uses and it’s $40 to activate a line that’s already activated? Nonsense.
I laughed out lout at the library one because I can totally picture the entire thing playing out. I’m always shocked when people seem to have no awareness of where they’re located. I’m with you on the girlboss phrase too!
I was so pissed because it happened right behind me. I wanted to throw her backpack at her.
The term “girlboss” makes me sooooo mad. You don’t need to qualify the term boss because it belittles it! It’s not cute, so stop referring to yourselves as that, people! You’re just a BOSS.
I think that’s exactly what it is! The term is trying to empower women through being cutesy. NO.
Girlboss drives me insane, I freaking hate that word. Bloggers overuse it and I pretty much unfollow anyone who does.
Cannot even start on Brock Turner. Can’t do it. Cannot have any semblance of a day if I get started on that.
Processing fees, yes! For a ticket you print at home is the biggest slap in the face. Like… no. No no.
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I unfollow/ignore people who overuse the word “solopreneur”. I fucking hate that word, too.
I absolutely hate the term “girlboss”. I hate when a term has to have a female appropriation in front of it. Hello, it’s 2016 people!!! I also hate, with a passion, “squad goals”. Why is this a thing???
With the term “squad goals”, I get annoyed because of the cheerleading connotation and how mocked cheerleaders are and now you’re stealing their term for your own version of “friends” or “clique”? Nope.
I dislike contrarians in general.
I don’t mind lady as a description. I do mind girl boss more. I don’t know why and it sort of makes me mad that I don’t like it because part of empowerment is taking terms back and using them however you choose. Like, if we want girl to be a strong word, it should be one rather than cutesy.
TOO MUCH FOR A THURSDAY WITH NO SLEEP.
All the applause for the Brock Turner rage and your description of him.
At least it’s no sleep because of Bruce rather than dog poop.
Contrarians just for the sake of being contrarian make me angry.
Fuck Brock Turner for obvious reasons and I hate the world ‘girl boss,’ too. I don’t think people realize it’s the opposite of empowering – would you say “I’m a Girl CEO of my company!” Gross. Here’s something annoying me today cause it’s relevant – when I stay in the office late – NOT FOR FUN, BECAUSE I HAVE SHIT TO DO – and other people still in the office start socializing with me and distracting me from getting things done. Hey, I’m not hanging out here for my health; leave me alone so I don’t get home even later because you feel like chatting at 7pm.
I always hated that, too. I would literally start working while people talked to me to get them to go away.
Hehe … I like this so much. I also have 47 million angry faces for Brock Turner, a rapist. This is how I refer to him at all times because, as you so noted, that it what he is. It is not alleged. He was FOUND GUILTY. And the only real punishment he faces if we, human beings who aren’t assholes, continually refer to him as “Brock Turner, a rapist” and don’t let anyone forget. I might actually have 48 million angry faces for him.
I was unfamiliar with IXL and now I hate it. Math was never my best subject and that program would have had me in tears too. Jerks.
I don’t hate the term girlboss, although I understand why many do and see it as insulting. Because it can get really annoying and overused! For me, I use it because there are still, sadly, so few female bosses. And I’m proud to be one, because as a child there were few female bosses and women were paid less than men and now I’m 41 years old and those problems still persist.
Processing fees are crap. Just crap. And I cannot believe you have a $50 processing fee for a damn broadway ticket. That is insane.
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It’s like you are my spirit animal this week. Everything you said about Brock Turner times a million. Karma is coming to that little bitch. I hate girlboss and ladyboss too. What are you trying to prove with it? I literally had this conversation with someone just the other day.
The people of Facebook are infuriating on so many levels all of the time. There is a new special breed of asshole on there during election year, but any and every topic can annoy the fuck out of me now.
Processing fees can go fuck themselves. And so can “handling fees.” Target tells me that I get free shipping because I have a red card right. But then they want to charge me a $30 “handling fee” for a chair. Um isn’t that the same thing as shipping????
I hardly post anything on Facebook, because people do not know how to handle jokes. Or you have to explain it and it ruins the joke. Processing fees are such a ripoff! I love our movie theater, especially since they made the seats reclining and reserved! It’s awesome. But why is there a dumb processing fee when I use Fandango to buy the tickets? Ugh. So now I have to go to the theater to buy the tickets ahead of time or else the good seats will all be gone. It always ends up costing $25 for two people to go anyway, which is crazy.
Sitting here echoing your sentiments on Rapist Brock Turner 100%. That’s what he is. Newspapers and news sites, STOP calling him “Swimmer Brock Turner” and “Ex-Stanford Athlete Brock Turner.” He is Rapist Brock Turner.
On a less angry note, I’m totally with you on girlboss/ladyboss. I’ve never heard the term manboss or boyboss. Just stop. Boss is as boss does. Just be a boss and stop having to make it pink already.
With you on fees too. It happens so much with races, the registration is like $30 or something and then out the door it comes to $45. I would rather you just tell me it costs $45 and I’ll happily pay that, rather than make me feel cheated at check-out.
Laundry. Is. THE WORST! There is a pile of clean shit waiting to be folded sitting on our table that’s been there for over a week now I think. lol
I work in a library, and I cannot tell you how many times people carry on cellphone conversations on speaker, yell for people across the library (not just children either), and just generally make a lot of racket. It’s annoying.
Yes, aboslutely, yes on the Brock Turner take. Let’s stop calling him a swimmer. He’s not. At least not anymore. He’s a rapist. Plain and simple.
What the fuck is up with that theater processing fee?!? Well, yes, all extraordinarily over-priced processing fees, but that theater one is a joke!
The other day, a guy was having a full on conversation on his phone IN THE LIBRARY! One woman said to him “do you mind?” He gave her a filthy look. So, I chimed in “no, seriously, this isn’t the place for a phone conversation.” He gave me a filthier look. Then a man says “I concur. Take it elsewhere.” Phone talker then left. Now, as I type this I am thinking “did it take a MAN to comment for the asshole to leave?”
I’m pretty sure that I’ve told you this before, but laundry is the one and only chore I don’t mind. I hate everything else. I hate dishes, and vacuums, and bathrooms, and sweeping, and mopping, and dusting, and organizing…I hate it all, but I can handle laundry. If we lived closer, I’d offer to come do your laundry each week, if you’d come clean my kitchen.
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rage to processing fees! it annoys me even more when they try and act like it’s cheaper to buy online, but then charge a fee so it works out the same. they do that for the derby and lordy it annoys me so much.
i love laundry. but i despise dishes. THEY NEVER END.