Things that make your skin crawl.....

Driving in this morning, had it on regular radio for some reason, and came into a local sportscast, in which the announcer said Kansas State lost to Texas Tech last night 65-66.

I almost punched my radio.

 

My local paper has so many typos in poorly-written stories, I can barely stand reading it. The only thing that keeps me from ignoring it entirely is my sicko delight in seeing how shitty the rag has gotten since I left. Oh, and my replacement considers it important who wins the opening tip.
One of the local TV stations must have one poor sucker in the control room doing the jobs of three people because every morning there a multiple gaffs. Makes me cringe every time.

 

Tapeworms

 

The phrase: "President Elect of the United States, Donald J. Trump."

 

opening the Ark of the Covenant in a traditional Jewish ceremony.

 

Shrinkage

 

Skinny jeans and Fashy haircuts.

 

Someone saying, "Everything happens for a reason."

 

I can't read the articles from the place I last worked as an in-house writer. The editing makes me ill. Last year I did a story on the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville. The copy editor was either an ESL flunk-out or channeling Howard Cosell. That motherfracker put a comma between every, single, word, of, my, lede. I spent more time correcting their editors' mistakes than I did researching and writing stories. It still makes me physically ill to go to their website.

Really bad writing on MSN, Yahoo, and other outlets gives me what comedian Diane Ford used to call "a case of huhzzz." I'm pretty sure there is a writer getting sick at the thought of their name appearing over three to five hundred words of copy that has been mangled beyond recognition.

 

My ex used to say that all the time. She said it when our divorce became final, to which I responded, "yeah, and the reason for this is you're a whore."

 

technically speaking, it is true. ya know, cause and effect and shit...

 

caterpillars