Things that get under your skin...

The Arrakis Street Journal | September 8, 2002 | Paul Atreides

[Paul Atreides]

Getting behind someone who is wearing bell-bottoms, and having to hear that "slip-slop" sound as they scrape the ground.

The word "Blog."

The word "Diversity."

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

It is especially bad to do to a driver "in training"....they are nervous enough without some Jack%#$ driving right on their tail........... I sure hope that %#$hole realizes that if he hits us from behind, he's going to be paying for my daily trips to swim in the heated pool with a therapist.............

[Charles Henrickson]

Pop-up ads.

Telemarketers.

[Riley]

"Prolly" for 'probably'.
The instant my eyes hit that, I go on to the next post, except for briefly noting the handle of the poster, who I promptly killfile.

[petuniasevan]

Misspellings in articles by authors who should know better.

"Your" used where "you're" is meant.

Telemarketers. A pox on their houses.

Spam email.

Pointy-haired bosses.

Any wretch who says we should "try to understand the terrorists' motivation".

[PFKEY]

Cute, corporate jargon...

You know the words.

[brat]

multiculturalism.

[brat]

victimization

[Tony in Hawaii]

The verb "To Gift."

[Flashlight]

Those #@$%&! public-service commercials that they show on Fox *constantly*, *over* and *over* and *over* again. Example:

Hello. (pause). My name is Estelle Ward. (pause). And I'd like to talk to someone about my daughter's financial aid. (pause).

Hello. (pause). Yes, I'm Ruth Ward's mother. (pause). I'd like to talk to someone about my daughter's financial aid. (pause).

She got good grades. (pause).

Hello. (pause). Yes, I'm Ruth Ward's mother. (pause). And I'd like to speak to someone about my daughter's financial aid...."

---And don't get me started on the Ed McMahon ones. Those cause me to change the channel. That chirpy female voice-over has told me to "start a neighborhood watch" at least a thousand times.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

The word "Diversity."

This spawns a whole subgenre of irritants -- words that are so overused that they are not only annoying, but devoid of meaning. For example:

guesstimate
tony (as an adjective)
paradigm
multicultural

This reminds me of the other day, when I saw a colorful sign that must have taken a few hours to do up in PowerPoint, advertising a 'Cultural Awareness Meeting'. Without missing a beat, I quipped to a couple of coworkers "We put the 'cult' in 'cultural awareness'". Cracked them up. Still, the walls have ears, and in my oh-too-PC office I have to be careful whom I joke around.

[BlueAngel]

I hate it when the sales clerk hands me my change along with the sales receipt. I want the sales receipt in my bag and not in my purse mixed up with the change.

[Chad Fairbanks]

"We put the 'cult' in 'cultural awareness'".

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!

[kaylar]

"Transparent" when used to describe anything other than a physical property of an object, as in

EU officials met in Brussels yesterday to discuss how law making procedures could be made more transparent, in an effort to lessen eurosceptic attitudes.

There are no words to describe how I loathe that buzzword.

(Also, "buzzword")

[Samwise]

I gotta get me one of those AutoSpatulas!