Irks and Rants
Ignorance is not knowing.
Stupidity is knowing but still doing the wrong thing.
Stupidity is knowing but still doing the wrong thing.
My Irk List
- Bad: Slow drivers
- Worse: Slow drivers who think it's their job to enforce the speed limit
- Bad: Pompous people
- Worse:Pompous people who don't know anything
- Bad: Tomatoes on sandwiches
- Worse: Tomatoes on sandwiches when you specify they be omitted
- Bad: Being second guessed by "smart" devices
- Worse: Being second guessed by "smart" devices and not having an "override"
option
- Bad: People who honk car horns
- Worse: People who honk car horns in residential areas at 5am
Just plain Bad:
- Spam
- Web pages done in frames
- Telemarketers
- Junk advertisements left on my vehicle
- Front wheel drive
- People who claim to hate Windows and love Linux, but don't really know enough about either OS to really have an opinion either way
- Speed bumps on public roads
- Cashiers who give change bills-first, then place the coins on top of the bills so that they slide off and go everywhere.
- Grocery stores that require customers to sign up for savings club cards.
- People who use merge areas to pass cars during heavy traffic
- Bumper-to-bumper traffic
- Racism
- People who respond to compliments by disclosing their marital status
- People who think that cigarette butts aren't litter
The good things in life:
- Chocolate
- Quiet places
- History
- More chocolate
- Castles
- U2
- Music
- Mountains
- Snow
- Did I mention chocolate?
My favourite actors (in no particular order):
- Diane Lane
- Gene Hackman
- James Cromwell
- Robert Patrick
- Dean Stockwell
- Sam Neil
- Nicole Kidman (Some day I will complete this list)
