When someone asks, "who is __________?" When others are discussing a household name in pop culture.
However, it's painfully clear they know who so-and-so is, but they just want to ask for the sole sake of announcing that they're superior to everyone else.
Example:
People at the watercooler: Did anyone catch the Justin Bieber roast last night?
People at the watercooler: Yeah, it looked like Martha Stewart was going to make Bieber cry at one point.
Douche: Who is Justin Bieber?
That IS really annoying. Sometimes I think the person must be lying to get attention, but i don't really know. A woman at work claimed to have never heard of Bono (she was in her 20s during the 80s). So i say it's the lead singer from U2, and she claimed to have never heard of them before either. Never. Never heard one of their songs, never heard of them talked about in tje news or on the TV.... Is that possible??? How oblivious to your surroundings do you have to be for that to be true?
Also, my mother claimed to have never heard of Neil Young in her whole life and never heard his music once until i played her a Neil Young record last year. That was frustrating. I know that can't be true. You can't have gone around seeing and hearing media all your life and never hear of Neil Young or his music, can you??? I mean, just walking through life Neil Young would have played where she was here and there for sure, no? My mother even had a fucking record collection with tons of folk music from the 60s and 70s. She found all those without ever coming across Neil Young?? In my mom's case, I don't think she's lying. Her memory must really just be failing her (which is a bit concerning, lol). Not that everyone should know all big bands/artists. I'm sure I am oblivious to certain big artists too. But no ubiquitous ones that are really common knowledge. Like, not knowing about Kanye West is one thing. But not knowing who, say, Michael Jackson is is completely ridiculous. I would think there is something wrong with a person who claimed that.
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Someone brought moonshine cherries over the weekend, and one girl said "ewww those are gross, it's like drinking shrap metal" :fp:
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
When someone asks, "who is __________?" When others are discussing a household name in pop culture.
However, it's painfully clear they know who so-and-so is, but they just want to ask for the sole sake of announcing that they're superior to everyone else.
Example:
People at the watercooler: Did anyone catch the Justin Bieber roast last night?
People at the watercooler: Yeah, it looked like Martha Stewart was going to make Bieber cry at one point.
Douche: Who is Justin Bieber?
That IS really annoying. Sometimes I think the person must be lying to get attention, but i don't really know. A woman at work claimed to have never heard of Bono (she was in her 20s during the 80s). So i say it's the lead singer from U2, and she claimed to have never heard of them before either. Never. Never heard one of their songs, never heard of them talked about in tje news or on the TV.... Is that possible??? How oblivious to your surroundings do you have to be for that to be true?
Also, my mother claimed to have never heard of Neil Young in her whole life and never heard his music once until i played her a Neil Young record last year. That was frustrating. I know that can't be true. You can't have gone around seeing and hearing media all your life and never hear of Neil Young or his music, can you??? I mean, just walking through life Neil Young would have played where she was here and there for sure, no? My mother even had a fucking record collection with tons of folk music from the 60s and 70s. She found all those without ever coming across Neil Young?? In my mom's case, I don't think she's lying. Her memory must really just be failing her (which is a bit concerning, lol). Not that everyone should know all big bands/artists. I'm sure I am oblivious to certain big artists too. But no ubiquitous ones that are really common knowledge. Like, not knowing about Kanye West is one thing. But not knowing who, say, Michael Jackson is is completely ridiculous. I would think there is something wrong with a person who claimed that.
I work with someone who's never seen the Star Wars movies and has to be explained who some people are. It took 10 minutes to explain to him who Kevin Bacon was ffs.
On top of that, he said he liked 50 Shades of Gray. No self respecting married man would say that, seriously.
^^^ I have never seen any of the star wars movies either. Ask norm...
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Someone brought moonshine cherries over the weekend, and one girl said "ewww those are gross, it's like drinking shrap metal" :fp:
I don't understand. What is it meant to be? I assumed shrapnel but in the context of the second line it doesn't make sense.
I think she meant shrapnel, or scrap metal...not really sure. One time she apparently sent back her potatoes at dinner because they were 'wrong', "potatoes are not supppised to be yellow" . I'm trying to remember other stupid shit she said.
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
After never having noticed this before, I've heard two people in the past two days say "nip it in the butt" (rather than "nip it in the bud"). Honestly, I think this gives an entirely different connotation.
my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
For some reason, it really annoys me when people put the word "of" in place of the word "have" too. The mistake makes the person seem stupid to me. (!!!)
Work with someone who uses the word ideal instead of idea. As in, "Do you have any ideals for our next project?" I always want to reply, "Well, it would be ideal if I had an idea."
Work with someone who uses the word ideal instead of idea. As in, "Do you have any ideals for our next project?" I always want to reply, "Well, it would be ideal if I had an idea."
Please say that next time. I'll give you a dollar if you do.
For some reason, it really annoys me when people put the word "of" in place of the word "have" too. The mistake makes the person seem stupid to me. (!!!)
We have monthly team & individual goals at work. If the monthly goal is hit, everyone who hit their individual go is entered in a drawing for a gift certificate of some sort. But every time my manager announces it, she always says "drawling." It's like we're entered to win a southern accent.
Work with someone who uses the word ideal instead of idea. As in, "Do you have any ideals for our next project?" I always want to reply, "Well, it would be ideal if I had an idea."
Please say that next time. I'll give you a dollar if you do.
I really want to, but I don't know if I could say it with a straight face and no sarcasm thrown in.
We have monthly team & individual goals at work. If the monthly goal is hit, everyone who hit their individual go is entered in a drawing for a gift certificate of some sort. But every time my manager announces it, she always says "drawling." It's like we're entered to win a southern accent.
My neighbor did that...when I was a kid and I was forced to go to her mom's vacation bible school during the summers...she'd always say, "can we drawl jeezus?"
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
well they say "shave ice" in Hawaii... Iced Cream sounds fine...
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
The chick with whom I previously shared my office (she's no longer an employee) called a drawer a droor...and then spelled it "door". And then became dismissive when I asked that she spell the word correctly.
My new office-mate is nice enough, low-key (thank god - cannot work around a chatterbox) but she eats her lunch at her desk and the sound of her chewing drives me fucking NUTS.
And, I feel bad that it drives me fucking NUTS because 1) she can't help it, and 2) I'm sure I do the same.
It's weird sharing close and potentially long-term space with someone you don't really know or haven't chosen to.
*edit - I think I combined this with the irritating office behavior thread!
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Also, my mother claimed to have never heard of Neil Young in her whole life and never heard his music once until i played her a Neil Young record last year. That was frustrating. I know that can't be true. You can't have gone around seeing and hearing media all your life and never hear of Neil Young or his music, can you??? I mean, just walking through life Neil Young would have played where she was here and there for sure, no? My mother even had a fucking record collection with tons of folk music from the 60s and 70s. She found all those without ever coming across Neil Young?? In my mom's case, I don't think she's lying. Her memory must really just be failing her (which is a bit concerning, lol). Not that everyone should know all big bands/artists. I'm sure I am oblivious to certain big artists too. But no ubiquitous ones that are really common knowledge. Like, not knowing about Kanye West is one thing. But not knowing who, say, Michael Jackson is is completely ridiculous. I would think there is something wrong with a person who claimed that.
Someone brought moonshine cherries over the weekend, and one girl said "ewww those are gross, it's like drinking shrap metal" :fp:
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On top of that, he said he liked 50 Shades of Gray. No self respecting married man would say that, seriously.
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I'm trying to remember other stupid shit she said.
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"zero degrees is Calvin"
- Christopher McCandless
You were never gonna get the time back anyway, man. Never!
PS I think "the goat between" must be a joke!
I demand explanation.
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You never really had to begin with.
Sometimes it's not the song that makes you emotional it's the people and things that come to your mind when you hear it.
- Christopher McCandless
My new office-mate is nice enough, low-key (thank god - cannot work around a chatterbox) but she eats her lunch at her desk and the sound of her chewing drives me fucking NUTS.
And, I feel bad that it drives me fucking NUTS because 1) she can't help it, and 2) I'm sure I do the same.
It's weird sharing close and potentially long-term space with someone you don't really know or haven't chosen to.
*edit - I think I combined this with the irritating office behavior thread!