Five Things That Are Really Annoying

Everyone has their pet peeves. I thought I'd share some of mine with you. Enjoy!

1. People that constantly clearing their throats or coughing. I get it, you feel something in your throat. After ten minutes of coughing or clearing, guess what, it's not going to work! Deal with whatever is bothering you or excuse yourself to find an alternate method of tending to your need.

2. When people ruin my story. Sometimes I'll be telling a friend a story while another friend (that already knows/experienced the story) is also present. I explain the background information and build up to the good part, and then that other friend butts in and tells the good part of my story. It drives me fucking nuts.

3. People that test my patience. Sometimes I just want to get shit done, while others want to take their sweet time. When others are waiting on you, hurry up! You're causing a delay and no one want to deal with it.

4. When people are only interested in something because I'm using it. Last year, I got an iPad. It would be sitting around, doing nothing, and no one paid attention to it. The second I wanted to use it, my friends would all ask for a turn. Really? Did you not care about it three minutes ago when I wasn't using it.

5. When people tell me to "calm down." It never works. I just get madder. When you tell someone to calm down, you're acknowledging that someone is frustrated but are unwilling to let that person express frustration.

The Perks of Being Unfiltered

 

 As we grow older and become more educated, I feel that people start to lose much of their childhood innocence. Because individuals become increasingly educated, the are expected to develop manner. Despite the fact that few schools truly teach children what manners entail, it is an expectation that we develop manners by the time that we are adults.

As children we say whatever the fuck we want. It's likely that parents will correct children when they say something deemed inappropriate and eventually children learn to bite their tongues when they want to say an inappropriate comment. 

Now that I am technically an adult, I try to repress my inappropriate comments. Occasionally I will blurt out something that other are surprised by. Then people consider me rude, or express shock that I would "say something like that." However, it is less common for people to disagree with me. I would much rather have someone disagree with what I say than only receive reactions of shock. 

There are also occasions when I will encounter someone that is unfiltered. Often, I find myself angry with this person for saying rude things. However, there's something genuine about someone that doesn't give a fuck. After a while I realize that this person is the first to say with many others are thinking. You need people like that. They allow you to grow through criticism and this makes these people less forgettable. Perhaps that what I should aspire to be. Unfiltered and unforgettable.

...this is YOUR song?

If you turn on any top 40's radio station now, you're bound to hear a rap song. While rap is nothing new, and neither is featuring a second artist on a track, songs have taken collaborations to a new level. There are now songs featuring so many people that it's hard to know who's the actual artist behind the song.

Kanye West is a huge culprit of this. His songs Monster (featuring Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, and Jay-Z) and Mercy (feating Big Sean, Pusha T, and 2 Chainz).

However, the song that takes the cake is Celebration by The Game. The songs features Chris Brown, Tyga, Wiz Khalifa, and Lil Wayne. In fact, Chris Brown sings both the chorus and has his own verse, meaning his vocals appear in the song more than The Game's does. I know Game is trying to make a comeback, but it appears that he is trying to regain popularity by featuring popular artists in his song.

On the local hip hop station (JAM'N 94.5 in Boston) they sometimes play the song Get Low by Waka Flocka Flame. The song features Nicki Minaj, Tyga, and Flo Rida and Flocka only has one verse on the song. When JAM'N plays the song Waka Flocka's verse is removed, even though he receives credit for the song.

I've never been one to complain about trends in music, but I do think that featuring artists in a song is just an attempt to make a song popular without putting much quality into it.

Am I Offensive?

Swearing, I feel like everyone does it. I'm certainly guilty of it, and I have been for the past ten years. My friends swear, my parents swear, I even swear in front of my parents and they don't care.

So who cares about swear so much? If you watch TV or listen to the radio, all the swears are censored out. Everyone knows what words replace the beeps, yet the radio continues to bleep these words out.

In fact, the FCC fines radios and TV stations hundreds of thousands of dollars if a swear slips through the cracks.

So are we trying to protect children for swears? If that's the case we shouldn't let them out of the house. Or are the people out there that are really so offended by swears that they refuse need to rally against programming that uses offensive language.

Once again, the prudes are able to take away everyone else's fun.

Your Baby Is Ugly

It takes about nine months to bake a baby, so once it pops out the mother expects compliments. People can deny this all that they want, but it's true.

Sometimes, babies just aren't cute. He or she turns out to be a collection of the worst genes that the parents have to offer. In the eyes of the parents, this baby is probably an adorable little angel. In everyone else's opinion, the baby is just an eye sore.

Nobody wants to be the person to break this news to the parents, so they continue with their lives as if the baby is the adorable angel that the parents see. I guess this is one of the lies that people tell each other daily. If given the chance to talk anonymously, people would let the parents know the truth about the baby...it's ugly.

This post was inspired by Teen Mom. Thank you MTV for allowing me to anonymously insult the appearances of small infants.

I'm Old

Recently, I've started to realize that I am getting old.

I mostly blame Adele for this. At the age of 21, she wrote an album that ended up going ten times platinum in the United States alone. When I was 21, I wasn't writing anything longer than 140 characters.

Despite the fact that Adele is only a year older than me, it is people like her the make me feel unaccomplished for my age.

Last night I went to bars with a few of my friends, and once the clock hit 1 AM I got worried. Not because someone was missing, but because I was worried about messing up my sleep cycle. I didn't go to bed until 2:30, and this meant that I would have to sleep in much later than normal to get my 8-hours.

Is this normal? I really don't feel that other recent college grads are concerned about their sleep cycles on Saturday nights. But this seems to be happening to a lot of my friends. Slowly, they are finding things that are making them adults. As we realize these small things that make us adults, we slowly being to realize something else. Being an adult is lame.

Why I'm Blogging

It's always the same. I tell myself I'm going to start blogging, and then I never stick with it. I've had a few blogs throughout my life, but most of them have failed. So why I am starting this? Well, I want a place where I can store my thoughts.

Sometimes I have ideas that I quickly forget. I wish I could revisit them, but they've faded into nothingness. This blog will provide me with a place to store these thoughts. If I am able to maintain this blog...GREAT. If not, then I guess the blog with fade to nothingness.

Whatever happens, at least I can say I tried.