Your current annoyance

[Kajin]

I think that what she was getting at is that such reasons seem far too carnal or shortsighted to be a viable reason to get a piercing or tattoo.

[Steave]

I propose that carnal should be the foundation of any decision to get pierced or tattooed.

I'm not saying that what to get tattooed or where to get pierced should not be well thought out. I'm also not saying that there is anything wrong with attaching other meanings to them but this is an alteration to the body and by its very nature carnal and there can be a great deal of thought, preparation and meaning attached to it even if it remains simply carnal.

[FreakyBoy]

While my personal philosophy of "and it hurts none, do as you will" doesn't allow me to really get worked up about it, I can definitely understand the sentiment of being dismayed by people taking such permanent changes so frivolously.

[giggles]

Why do you assume that 'It feels good', 'I like pain' and 'It's different/cool' are fickle reasons to get a pearcing or tattoo? I get the being annoyed that people assume you got yours for the same reasons but to dismiss their reasons as fickle or somehow less than your reasons is a tad presumptuous don't you think?

I think that what she was getting at is that such reasons seem far too carnal or shortsighted to be a viable reason to get a piercing or tattoo.

While my personal philosophy of "and it hurts none, do as you will" doesn't allow me to really get worked up about it, I can definitely understand the sentiment of being dismayed by people taking such permanent changes so frivolously.

I can understand it as I do personally enjoy the pain. One person brought up that a tattoo is more painful and takes hours to finish rather than that split second of a piercing and the response was that tattoos can't be removed whereas a piercing can be taken out to heal over and done again and again. That's why I called the reasons fickle. Doing it simply for the pain permanence be damned. If that's the case, why not just put the needle through and bandage over it until it heals so you can do it again? What's the point of the barbell or ring if you just want to do it for that?

"It's different/cool" is kinda bull****. So many people have them now that it's far from different. Expressing your own individuality would be a way to put it, but just to look cool seems pretty shallow to me.

And new annoyance, only one store in the suburb I live in stocks anything but red, green, and sugar free Amp. The others may not sell as quickly seeing as I seem to be the only one that buys them, but I do buy them all when I find them. Do they not want my money anymore?

[Grillick]

For what it's worth, here is a link where you can order it online.

[Etters]

Having to try to get through the day before getting my sick pooch to the vet tonight. That's the problem with new jobs, can't get any time off during training. Grr!

[Edguy]

My current annoyance, heck pretty much everyone's current annoyance, is of course the Mass Effect 3 ending..

Also, I struggle to get the customized Mass Effect 2 save files to work for the third game (lazy me don't feel like playing through both games AGAIN for different plotlines)

Basically, Mass Effect 3 is my current annoyance!

[Solara Hanover]

Lazy coworkers. We have two different ice machines at work. One makes and bags the ice, the other is just a cooler. It's the opening checker's job to make sure the secondary cooler is full. Our regular opener is one of the laziest human beings on the face of the planet. I open on her days off. She has a wrist injury right now that according to her, means she can't do the ice. So I work my tushie off on my opening days to make sure the ice gets done and both coolers look pretty. Today was the first day she worked this week, (her days off are Sunday and Monday) so I asked her how her weekend was. "Oh it was good, I moved some furniture around in the house." Oh really? YOU CAN MOVE FURNITURE AROUND WITH YOUR WRIST, BUT YOU CANT MOVE TEN POUND BAGS OF ICE????? And yes, I did the ice today, even though it wasn't my responsibility. It's getting old.

[LobosSolos]

Not to mention cold.

[Kea]

Knowing your co-worker, she probably got other people to move the furniture around too.

[AxelFendersson]

I just got laid off.

Actually, that's more than just a trivial annoyance, but still.

[Kea]

Commiserations, Axel. Even knowing the shape that the UK"s economy is in, that really sucks. Here's a beer, and some accordion music.

As for annoyances, this is more like a "OMGWTF?!" rather than a "my life sucks" type of annoyance, but these are two horrible things said by lecturers at my uni yesterday.

1. Psych prof giving a lecture on how different cultures conceive of mental illness. I mean, I know this woman ain't stupid, she's respected in her field, and that as the only person to gain tenure in the last 10 years in our department, she must be pretty good at her job. And also, I don't mean to be a snob as I fully realize that most Hong Kong people don't have as much international exposure as I do. But for the love of all that's good and holy, if you're going to give a lecture on culture, spend 10 minutes with Google before you say that Indian henna hand tattoos are a Muslim thing and that Muslims don't eat pork because they respect pigs.

2. My Boss giving a talk on understanding people with disabilities: used her own son's dyslexia as an example and when discussing the difficulties that families of disabled people go through, brought up the "shame" she had to endure as such a "respectable and educated person" when her son's teachers told her that she wasn't working hard enough with him on his reading skills. You got up in front of 60 students and said that your son brought you shame? Really? And the take-home message of your talk is "Be grateful that you don't have a disability"?

AAARgh! Oh the beanmanity!

[Galaxy Hunter]

I don't know why, but I woke up this morning feeling really, really... Down I guess. I wasn't motivated to do much of anything at all today, it just kinda sucked.

[Steave]

My back and shoulder are sore. I have cuts and bruises on my hands which are also covered in grease stains despite repeated cleaning. The grease is also under my nails. I spent most of my weekend two hours by car from my home and didn't get to spend time with any of my friends. The people I did spend time with were homophobic racist bigots who believe that any problems city folk have can be cured by so time spent in the country.

After all this I still failed to finish fixing my wife's car.

[Jorodryn]

The company I work for filed for chapter 11 on April 1st. Why is this an annoyance, because it wasn't an April fools prank.