1. Being forced to read novels. It takes all the fun out of reading if I have no choice in the material. Plus I am then forced to look for subtle things that I just don't pick up on, which is just frustrating to no end. I mean, I can do it, but it takes way more effort than I like to put into reading a book. Plus I'm far more comfortable with numbers and science, it just comes so much more easily to me....English is dumb. Both as a language and a scholastic pursuit. Which brings me to my next incident of irking...
2. The English language. It's not elegant or pretty, breaks a lot of its own rules, and is very bad at describing a lot of what we look for in life to the point where we have to resort to stealing words from other languages to explain what we're talking about. It's too bad that it's the only language I'm fluent in and that it's the language I live in, but such is life and I'll continue speaking and living in this English world of mine for probably the rest of my life.
3. People who judge others based on physical appearance.*Note: the following is directed at no one in particular, s'just using 2nd person perspective.* Just because someone is dressed like a hipster/jock/whatever doesn't mean that they're going to fit into that tiny little stereotype that you've already labeled them in. For all you know they could be exactly the same as you and like all the same things you do, but you'll never know because you're too busy thinking that you're better than them for absolutely no reason. Oh, and side note, there is a high possibility that you're not actually better than those people you judge. So you should really stop doing it. And yes, I do realize that this is somewhat ironic, but at least I'm not just looking at someone and instantly thinking I'm better than them. You, sir, can go blow your pretentious notions out your ear.
4.Being sick. I strongly dislike it. It leads to poor sleep, being tired and irritable all the time, and frankly it's just the pits. Waking up not being able to breathe properly, coughing all the grossness out of your lungs but it doesn't want to leave so you just have to keep coughing and it eventually your throat is hoarse from it. It is an entirely unpleasant experience. And I've been sick for the past few days...bleh...
5. Have I mentioned how much I dislike English classes? 'Cause it's not a small amount. I seriously dislike them, think they're dumb and all sorts of stuff. That doesn't stop me from doing relatively well in it, but that's mostly 'cause I know what to say to get a decent pass. A- on my first essay? I'm very okay with that, I was expecting a B, maybe C+ on it. I guess it's a good thing that I know some basic composition and structure and was lucky in finding a decent insight into one of the texts we were forced to read that the essay was based on. But aside from all that, yeah, I seriously dislike English.
6. Forgetting things that I'm all "I should remember that so as to blog about it later" about. Seriously, what in the world was I gonna say? So much irking, so little other people knowing what in the world I was thinking at the time.
7. Songs that clearly defy logic/physical laws in what they say. Yes, I do realize that they have "creative license" to do/say whatever they feel like. But seriously, 1000 ft/s? Do you have any idea how fast that really is? Quick conversion gets you 1097.28 km/h. That is INSANELY fast. Way faster than terminal velocity of a skydiver (which is about 195km/h). So saying that someone is falling at 1000 feet per second is basically just lying. It's an impossible feat. Even if terminal velocity was faster than that, there is no way you could do that on earth. Our atmosphere isn't nearly big enough to be able to fall far enough to achieve such velocity. Whoever it is who sings that song, please go back to high school and take some basic sciences to get your facts straight. I'm looking at you Hedley....you're lucky I don't have any influence over you guys or else you'd have such a reprimand coming your way. There are more songs out there that do the same sort of thing, but that's the one that's gotten my goat most recently.
I'm pretty sure I had more than these, but I forgot them...see #6...Ah well, if more come up I'll do another redux of my irksome findings.
Cheers,
~Cam
