Things that irk you......

I've only resorted to being the guy with the headphones on all day for one period of my career. I worked near a man who would not shut up for more than five seconds. He'd tell me what he ate every day in detail. He'd tell me what he planned to eat later that evening. He told me about the shape and size of his stool once. I gave up and just started blasting music into my ears for eight hours. Otherwise, I might've lost it and decked him. I warned the rest of the newsroom so they didn't think I was being a prick.

 

We're listening...

 

In the same vein, single mothers who act like they are a hero for being a single mother. In many cases, poor decisions were made to put her in that situation. It's not always the a-hole ex.

Same for single fathers, but they are less common and less likely to be feted just for raising their kids.

 

Almost every time someone gets divorced, there is a literal army of people whispering in their ear about how nothing was their fault and how they moved mountains to try and make it work.

 

Sometimes it's close to the truth.

 

The misuse of the reflexive pronoun. So often people use 'myself' when it should be 'me' just because they think it sounds smarter.

 

Ok, remembered this one: TICK BITES

Goddamn TICKS.

My gf has been bitten four times.

And I'm pretty sure one bit my dick.

Sorry for the graphic nature of this post, but I am really UNHAPPY.

 

Something that is beginning to irk me more and more each day:

SJ posters posting job openings without listing the name of the paper, city and state in the FUCKING TITLE!!!

 

There's an unclear modifier there.

 

This thread works just fine without pictures.

 

As far as events leading to the divorce, I'd assign myself somewhere around 55-60 percent of the blame. The actual divorce process and the scorched earth hell show it became? That shit's on her. I sleep with a clear conscience there and don't apologize for it.

 

My first was 95 percent her fault, but I damn sure turned the proceedings into as much of a shitshow as I possibly could. Because, fuck her.

The second was way more complicated and draining, but everyone outside of it, down to a person, thought it was her who steered it off the rails. And they were all wrong, because that thought was predicated on seeing her as someone she just wasn't.