Insurance.
in-shur-ən(t)s also in-. Function: noun. Def: A scam with a long pedigree of government complication and interference, made necessary by avarice, stupidity and greed.
I cannot explain to you, without the aid of facial expression and hand gestures,* how frustrated, angry, and downright disgusted I am with the whole system. What was once an unnecessary commodity is not only essential, [...]
Archive for the ‘Pet Peeves’ Category
13 Nov
Peeve Threeve (TM)
30 Apr
Why The Economy Sucks
life and energy and money and time and sanity.
Today at work I got a letter from a Medicare branch. We have been billing both electronically AND via dead trees, and apparently according to Section 3 of the Administrative Simplification Compliance Act, PubL.107-105 (ASCA) and the implementing regulation tons-of-numbers-and-letters, this is only allowed IF: *three pages [...]
20 Mar
Nasty or Nice
While I’m sure Nicholas would argue he’d rather be smart and nasty, a la Dr. House, my most recent aggravation is people who are inconsiderate, if not outright mean. Not just random people, though that is annoying, but friends, Romans, countrymen.
It’s not that I’m always considerate, or that I always apologize (or realize) when I’ve [...]
18 Feb
Mirror Mirror On The Wall
The Pettest Peeve of All
Intentional ignorance.
Wanted, desired, sought after lack of knowledge.
Because it’s easier, because it brings less guilt and hardship.
You’re like a 5-year-old putting your hands over your ears and screaming NAH NAH NAH NAAAAAH NAH!!! Like a deaf person shutting your eyes and smirking because you know no-one can actually get through to [...]
17 Feb
Chew With Your Mouth Closed
Or Just Don’t Chew
I don’t really care about your table manners. Just your movie manners. The basic rules are simple.
Don’t spoil anything.
Don’t sit right next to me unless you actually know me or the theater is full.
Don’t sit in front of me if you are a) 7 feet tall 2) planning on engaging in activities [...]
15 Feb
Any Therapist Can Tell You . . .
Peeve Six: Just Listen
I call you. I sit through the annoying automated lady telling me how to perform a function anyone could do correctly by accident (all boo Verizon customers whose voicemail does not include the ability to punch ‘1′ and skip the diatribe, and all voicemails whose ‘1′ sends you to some weird paging [...]
14 Feb
Chop py eDitng bad
Fifth Peeve
Camera angles and well-done editing can take a great movie like 12 Angry Men or Citizen Kane and make it phenomenal. But bad editing is a bane of my existence.
Editing can make a bad movie worse and ruin what would be a fantastic movie. If the order of the story is wrong, if the [...]
13 Feb
Mommy, She’s Touching Me!
Fourth In The Peeves
People who are overly-politically-correct and sensitive.
Some of my friends would say I am the too-correct one. I tend not to use ‘he’ but ‘he or she,’ ‘mailperson’ if I don’t know if it’s a man or woman. But I do it because I don’t want to assume. Why should I assume a [...]
12 Feb
It’s So Much Fewer Hard
One Less Fewer Peeve
Pet Peeve Numero Three: using ‘less’ when ‘fewer’ is correct, or vice versa.
How should these words be used, you ask? If you can count them, you have more and fewer. If it’s measured instead, you have more and less. Examples:
Suzy has three apples. Tommy takes one. She has fewer apples than she [...]
11 Feb
Peeking Through My Fingers
The Second In A Series Of Peeves
I like TV. And I don’t mind, every once in a while, when a show manipulates me or a storyline to give me a payoff at the end.
But please, please, for the sake of all that is good and holy, don’t drag me and my emotion around for the [...]
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