Things that Bug Alasdair #345896
I really like having non-uniform days at school. Everything becomes so much more relaxed somehow and people seem more natural than when they're in uniform. That, and it takes me about 5 seconds to kick off my shoes and that's me changed when I get home.
Anyway, on to what bugs me. There are a number of people amongst my group of peers and close acquaintances who are into, not just sports, but “exercise”. This includes weight-lifting, running, whatever the hell bench pressing is, etc. And, as people do when they share a common hobby, they like to discuss these activities at length.
And I can't understand a word they're saying.
Seriously. Not a clue.
It's not really that the individual words don't make sense, it's just that I have no idea of the scales these people are using. If they've run xkm or lifted ykg, is that good? Bad? Average? If they tell me that their "BMI" is "something point something", should I call them fat or claim they're a reincarnation of Hercules? I have no idea.
I have, however, learned to live with this. The basic method is, as with my treatment of sports and other things that disinterest me, to smile, nod and make non-committal, monosyllabic grunts until the conversation moves on. Additionally, you can learn to interpret certain adjectives and tones of voice. If someone sounds proud of their achievement, you say well done. If someone else says it's not so good, you can always claim you were just humouring them.
If they use the word “only”, I tend to avoid saying anything very much. They may not be too impressed with what they've done, but it's still almost certainly twice what I could manage.
So, yeah. People talking about sports and so on annoys me. I know I don't really have a right to be annoyed, since I can get a lot of blank looks when I start going on about computers and video games, but at least I tend to shut up quickly. Curse those socially confident, sporty people. But it still bugs me that they expect me to understand what they're talking about half the time. Sometimes I just have to say, “Come on, this is me you're talking to. I don't know what you're talking about and I probably wouldn't care if I did. Get out of the way of the TV.”
Tact is for suckers.
And that is my new motto.
Wow. Motto looks weird when I write it down. And it's even weirder since I was having a conversation earlier today about that exact phenomena of words just randomly looking weird or like they're spelled incorrectly if you repeat them or suddenly become aware of how often you use them or something like that. I love "study" lessons.
A final note. Bungie and Microsoft parting ways? Who saw that coming? Aside from the internet rumourmongers.
Anyway, on to what bugs me. There are a number of people amongst my group of peers and close acquaintances who are into, not just sports, but “exercise”. This includes weight-lifting, running, whatever the hell bench pressing is, etc. And, as people do when they share a common hobby, they like to discuss these activities at length.
And I can't understand a word they're saying.
Seriously. Not a clue.
It's not really that the individual words don't make sense, it's just that I have no idea of the scales these people are using. If they've run xkm or lifted ykg, is that good? Bad? Average? If they tell me that their "BMI" is "something point something", should I call them fat or claim they're a reincarnation of Hercules? I have no idea.
I have, however, learned to live with this. The basic method is, as with my treatment of sports and other things that disinterest me, to smile, nod and make non-committal, monosyllabic grunts until the conversation moves on. Additionally, you can learn to interpret certain adjectives and tones of voice. If someone sounds proud of their achievement, you say well done. If someone else says it's not so good, you can always claim you were just humouring them.
If they use the word “only”, I tend to avoid saying anything very much. They may not be too impressed with what they've done, but it's still almost certainly twice what I could manage.
So, yeah. People talking about sports and so on annoys me. I know I don't really have a right to be annoyed, since I can get a lot of blank looks when I start going on about computers and video games, but at least I tend to shut up quickly. Curse those socially confident, sporty people. But it still bugs me that they expect me to understand what they're talking about half the time. Sometimes I just have to say, “Come on, this is me you're talking to. I don't know what you're talking about and I probably wouldn't care if I did. Get out of the way of the TV.”
Tact is for suckers.
And that is my new motto.
Wow. Motto looks weird when I write it down. And it's even weirder since I was having a conversation earlier today about that exact phenomena of words just randomly looking weird or like they're spelled incorrectly if you repeat them or suddenly become aware of how often you use them or something like that. I love "study" lessons.
A final note. Bungie and Microsoft parting ways? Who saw that coming? Aside from the internet rumourmongers.
Labels: alasdair, annoyances, rant
posted by Alasdair Corbett at
11:25 PM
Links to this post:
Create a Link
<< Home