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Permalink Reply by Arcus on April 7, 2011 at 5:26am

THIS is something I can really get with. Using several synonyms in one sentence annoy me, i.e. "a riding horseman on his horse". It adds nothing and is just noise I have to process as it is language I recognize.

In Scandinavian we term it "butter on lard" (smør på flesk) and it is an immediate deduction on any language grade.

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Permalink Reply by scLovely on April 7, 2011 at 5:43am

Or "ATM machine". I could think of a million of those, but they don't bother me. At least not near as much as the 'hot water heater'.

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Permalink Reply by Jewelz on April 9, 2011 at 9:25am

I'm reminded of a comedian I heard years ago... "Why do people say tuna fish? Doesn't tuna imply fish? Would anyone ever order a bacon pig cheese burger cow?"

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Permalink Reply by Kairan Nierde on September 12, 2011 at 1:33am

"bacon pig cheese burger cow"--Hahaha.  Thank you!!!

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Permalink Reply by Sophie on April 7, 2011 at 11:52am

I laughed the whole time reading this. Bravo : )

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Permalink Reply by scLovely on April 8, 2011 at 12:26am

:D Thank you!

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Permalink Reply by Laura Benedict on September 11, 2011 at 7:28pm

And then there's the (almost) 10yo in our house that calls it a hot heater.  He will ask me, "Is the hot heater on?"  I'm sorry, we don't own a hot heater.

And then there's the "up past my bed time" part.  ROTFLMAO.  You should see the show when I'm up past my bed time and get the giddies.  lol. 

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Permalink Reply by Sarah Emmaly Burgett on April 8, 2011 at 5:22pm

I hate it when someone says "you're welcome" before i say "thank you"..... that really burns my ass. I also hate it when someone tries to have a conversation with me while i'm on the phone. I hate hypocritical lectures... like when a pregnant 14 year old talks to me about the importance of birth control....just an example, that has only happened to me one time and it wasn't in an "because of my experience with having babies, i've learned from my mistakes and am now an advocate for the pill" kind of tone....it was more of a "Sarah, you're so stupid for having sex at the age of 18 with someone you've been with for over a year.....you could get pregnant, you should be more like me" kind of tone... it was really just the cutest thing haha but anyways... the whole their, they're, there thing makes me mad also and to and too and two. Oh, and last but not least... ignorant theists.

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Permalink Reply by scLovely on April 8, 2011 at 7:59pm

The "you're welcome" before you say thanks reminded me of one of mine.

I am a bartender. I can't stand it when I am in the middle of fixing someone else's drink and some asshole walks up and beats an empty can on the bar to get my attention. I get those really bad tingles down my spine when this happens. That noise is going to give me an aneurysm some day. I serve ppl in the order that they approach the bar but sometimes they just waltz right up and act like I need to drop everything and tend to them only. How rude is it to beat a can against a bar?! They aren't dying of thirst and they aren't going to kick over if they don't get their beer within the next 20 seconds. I am really fast at mixing and serving drinks so they don't have to wait long at all. But I really wanna take their can and beat it against their face. Is that wrong of me? :D

 Ironically, these are the people that NEVER say "thank you", so I always leer at them and say "you're welcome". I do it to be a smart ass because they are just so rude.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Heather Spoonheim on April 8, 2011 at 9:42pm

In my little bistro I did all the fancy coffees as well as plating food from behind one counter.  Sometime I would be in the middle of plating up an order, a 2 to 3 minute process, when some hag (usually a woman, yes) would come in with their own travel mug wanting a double half-calf half-fat mocha or some such crap.  Anyway they would kinda bark their order as they approached the counter and I would try a friendly banter, explaining I would be 2 minutes finishing the current plate - and then she would start tapping her travel mug, explaining she was in a hurry.

 

Now, all of this story leads up to the next glorious moment.  As the owner of my own little bistro, acting against my own financial interests I know, I fully savoured the liberty of looking her in the eye and saying, "Then why didn't you hit the fucking McDonald's up the street?"

 

This exact scenerio happened at least 6 times in the two years I was in business, and the shock on those women's faces only gave me more satisfaction each time.  Also, being the only place in a 60 mile radius that could serve one of those fancy froo-froo sort of coffees, I enjoyed watching them squirm uncomfortably as they stifled their responses and just stood their waiting to pay $7.50 for a coffee even though I just swore at them.  Yay for me!

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Permalink Reply by scLovely on April 8, 2011 at 10:09pm

That is awesome!

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Permalink Reply by William C. Walker on April 8, 2011 at 10:41pm

Lol, I would have paid $7.50 just to have been there  - seen it.

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