Annoying

Can You Sense My Sarcasm Through The Screen? — The good thing about bundling your main home services (internet, TV, and home phone) with one provider is you save some money. The bad thing however is if one goes down, they all do. That’s what happened to me, before 11:30 AM Saturday… I wasn’t able to connect with the world until 3:20 this morning. I’d left it on with the sound off, and I’m a light sleeper… when it came on, I woke.

The world is full of people who will ruin your day. There are many people who seem to enjoy it. You can live with them. They get there jollies by being meanies. Fair enough, we all have to get them somehow and at least we can see them coming. No…

In 2014, I wrote a piece for The SMH arguing for the retirement of annoying words and phrases like “sweet”, “just sayin”, “#firstworldproblems”, “and typos sent from my iPhone”. Looking back, I shouldn’t have worried. The lexicon we’re dealing with now is way more sinister in terms of smugness and pretension. So here is my highly subjective list of words and phrases I’d love binned in 2022. 1: I CAN’T EVEN: If you “can’t even” be bothered finishing the sentence, why am I listening?

Quante persone fastidiose conosci? Quante persone irritanti conosci? Cosa provi quando le frequenti? Quando diventiamo “fastidiosi” non ci rendiamo nemmeno conto di esserlo, violiamo le norme sociali, diventiamo spigolosi e il nostro comportamento diventa incompatibile con il contesto in cui siamo inseriti. Il risultato è che mettiamo seriamente in discussione…

noun: something that a particular person finds especially annoying When people think about what annoys them, I’m sure it doesn’t take them too long to think about a couple of things they just wish people would stop saying, doing, etc. Here is the list of the 20 most annoying things (pet peeves, some by me and some by Google and other friends). People stealing your stuff Over explainers People who always spoil everything