Writer's Block: Peevish

[author_by_night]

[Error: unknown template qotd] A few.

1. People who use "gay" or "retarded" as an insult - especially when it's in a context similar to "prejudice is so gay" or "stereotypes are so retarded" - which I've seen more than I'd like.  I know I'm one of the few people who seems to find "retard" offensive, though.

2. Intolerance. And I'm not just saying that to be Miss America-like.

3. This is more of a self-peeve, but when I make jokes people don't get.  I tend to try and be funny, and end up looking stupid. Like how today some girl told me she got her scarf in Barcelona, and I told her  I should go there and get it... which I later realized sounded like I thought Barcelona was a store. *Facepalm* (Or maybe I'm just insecure.)

4. People who ask me what's going on during movies. Unless you're nine years old and just being a kid, WATCH THE MOVIE. (At the movie theater, anyway - I don't care if it's a DVD or VCR and I can just pause.) I've had movies I've been so excited to see completely ruined because the person I was with kept asking me questions the entire time.

Comments

[sheryden.livejournal.com]

I very much agree with 1 and 2.

[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

I'm totally with you on the movies! That happens to me all the time when I'm watching TV, too. Don't come and sit down 40 minutes into a hour long show and ask me what's going on, I'm trying to watch my show!

[daksian.livejournal.com]

I agree with 1 and 2, I think you're being a bit paranoid with 3, and I'm amused by 4, though to a point. In actual theatres I tell people to shut the hell up. For $12.50 I want to enjoy the damn movie, not someone else's soundtrack. :P

[jdbracknell.livejournal.com]

You're not alone - I find people using retard/retarded in that way massively offensive. I think a lot of people in Britain still do. Ditto 'spazzing'. I know a lot of people probably don't mean to be offensive when they use them, but....