- Form letters from faceless corporations that try way too hard to be familiar, like the email I just got from facebook that began, "Hey, Rebecca!"
- If I see that fucking Olivia Wilde quote about it being healthy to spend time alone, which is mistakenly attributed to Oscar Wilde, ONE MORE TIME...
- when people say they'll be somewhere, but then cancel at the last minute or just don't show at all.
- when people call violent criminals/terrorists/people of that ilk "cowards". It's not that I think they're "brave" or anything laudable like that, I just feel like it's entirely the wrong word to use. You can call them crazed, you can call them willfully ignorant, you can call them monsters... but "coward" doesn't really fit.
- the term "hot to trot"
- when magazines or blogs refer to a product or item as a "must have" or tell me that I need something.
- when people spell moisturiser/moisturizer as "m-o-i-s-t-e-r-i-z-e-r". You already have two options for the correct spelling, and THAT's not a word!!
- hearing people getting it on. Turn your music up or something!! Other people live in this building!!!
- when people pronounce the word vitamin as "VIT-a-min" and not "VITE-a-min" (also: shed-yool for schedule, cyoo-pon for coupon, adver-TISE-mints instead of ad-VER-tis-ments...)
- the term "female writer" or "woman director", stuff of that ilk. Just call them writers and directors! Women are people too!
- The term "eating healthy". Healthy is an adjective!! AN ADJECTIVE!!!! Just say "healthily"!
- When girls doing makeup tutorials on YouTube use the term "harsh lines". Seriously, is there no synonym for that term?
- Unrepentantly atrocious spelling, even if it can be blamed on autocorrect.
- People who talk through movies. First, why did you pay $12 for the privilege of not watching it?? Second, there are other people around you!!
- Books and shows with titles like "How Not To Look Old". They imply that the goal is still to look old, but that there's a right way and a wrong way to do it.
- People who complain of having difficulty falling or staying asleep, but at the same time claim that "caffeine has no effect on me", "I couldn't go to sleep without a cup of coffee before bed!", etc. etc. etc. Idiots.
- Landlords delivering entry notices that span entire weeks. That's not what 24 hours notice means!!
- People who act like you aren't there when you're standing three feet away (ex: at parties, popping in to visit a friend at work, etc.). ESPECIALLY if we've actually met before. Were you literally raised by wolves?? So rude!!
- When people fail to make introductions and you have to stand there trying to figure out the right moment to introduce yourself, which is a moment that could potentially never come. Honestly, "Bob, Jim. Jim, Bob", how friggin' hard is that??
- When people (oh, let's face it, Americans) write about Canadian cities in the format of "City, Country" instead of "City, Province" (ex: Ottawa, Canada instead of Ottawa, Ontario). Like Canada is so insignificant that nobody could possibly know what or where Ontario is.
- People that sing or hum while shopping.
- Humming in general, actually.
- headbands with teeth.
- that fake laugh that news anchors do after puff pieces.
- the expression, 'she creamed herself' or any variation thereof.
- When women refer to their hair as their "mane".
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