I don't get mad, I get stabby: the new annoyance thread.

[elpollodiablo]

So I went out of my way to register for a jcomp class with a grad student friend of mine, because I know our tastes are similar and he's a good guy. Today when I was in the book store, I saw that at least one jcomp class is reading Infinite Jest and another is doing critical readings of the Sopranos.

D'oh!

[diesel_powered]

What the hell kind of school do you go to? Classes are supposed to be taught about dead white men!

[elpollodiablo]

Junior composition classes are taught wholly by graduate students, so the reading lists are always 'edgy.' I really fucked myself not sorting my schedule out properly three months ago; I coulda been in the Sopranos class no problem. Although the downside of that class looks to be the fact that there are SIX different required books.

[andronicus]

Junior composition classes are taught wholly by graduate students, so the reading lists are always 'edgy.' I really fucked myself not sorting my schedule out properly three months ago; I coulda been in the Sopranos class no problem. Although the downside of that class looks to be the fact that there are SIX different required books.

Hahahaha oh you poor thing.

[maggiego]

Teaching advanced comp is so weird. I was told that the only rule was that I require researched writing and that I NOT teach literature, despite the fact that it was an upper-division English course. I ended up doing an art/media theory course, complete with a final exam about Wings of Desire. It was actually really fun.

[YojimboMonkey]

It's kind of stupid that this still burns my ass a couple days later, but here goes.

Sunday Mindy had organized a booze brunch type of thing, bunch of families--or at least people with kids--getting together at a buffet that allowed BYOB and drinking and eating and having a good time.  Good turnout, got to see a few buddies of mine.  So I'd just met this girl and her husband (who, upon finding out another couple was also originally from Oregon, said in the most snobbish voice possible "oh, do you pine for the mountains?"  DIE DIE DIE but anyway) and was showing them the booze I brought along.  I held up a bottle of Two Brothers Heliocentric Bragot. 

Now, a braggot is a hybrid between beer and mead.  The word itself comes from the old English and isn't the prettiest word in the world but I'm pretty sure I pronounced it correctly: that is, to rhyme with a word for a bundle of branches that is sometimes used as a derogatory term for male homosexuals.  It's a weird old language we've got.  Anyway, I said "braggot" and she said "Oh, a brag-OH?" and pronounced it all frenchified.  I said "Yeah, a braggot" and pronounced it the same way again.  She said "Yes, a brag-OH" and pronounced it her way even more emphatically. 

It became clear that she was going to keep "correcting" me, so I stopped.  Now I have over a long period of time conditioned myself to be able to accept it when I'm wrong, with a minimum of footstomping petulance.  I can take it, really.  But beer and mead are something that frankly I'm pretty sure I know more about than she does, and for someone to correct me, repeatedly, and just be wrong and STUPID JUST FUCKING PISSES ME OFF!@!!! FUCK!!

But I dropped it, and instead showed her the other bottle I'd brought.  "Ah, a rosé" she said.  "No, bourbon"  I replied.  She laughed idiotically.  It was a fifth of Eagle Rare.

[elpollodiablo]

Junior composition classes are taught wholly by graduate students, so the reading lists are always 'edgy.' I really fucked myself not sorting my schedule out properly three months ago; I coulda been in the Sopranos class no problem. Although the downside of that class looks to be the fact that there are SIX different required books.

Hahahaha oh you poor thing.

Well to be fair I don't have to buy a monocle, top hat and tails like you do

[Andrew_TSKS]

hah, jim, looks like you've got the internet on your side. while i can't find a strict pronunciation guide, reference.com and wikipedia both say "Braggot (also called bracket or brackett)." so that says to me that you were pronouncing it correctly, because you wouldn't call a "brag-oh" a "bracket", would you?

either way, the woman sounds annoying.

[YojimboMonkey]

I get annoyed by stupid shit sometimes

Oh well, this is not the cosmic angst ONLY TOTALLY IMPORTANT STUFF HERE thread, so I can be petty if I want.

[morgan]

Hahhahahahah, aw, Jim.  One of my co-workers is like that, it drives me crazy.  One time he was making tomato bisque soup, and he kept pronouncing it "bee-skay" as if there were an accent over the 'e'.  Every time I would pronounce it correctly around him, he would say it his way as if to correct me.  Finally I was like, yeah, ok, whatever.

This has happened numerous times with other words, too.  Also, dude talks as if he spends all his time memorizing wikipedia entries.  Seriously.

[diesel_powered]

And badly!

There's a guy in my department that does this shit all the time. Everything that ends in t gets frenchified, regardless of the word's origin.

[Andrew_TSKS]

oh, does he refer to target as tar-ZHAY? that's always made me want to smack people.

[coldforge]

Coworker kept calling ram cache 'cash-ay' today. I had to correct him, finally, but I tried not to be a dick about it.

[milesofsparks]

fuck anemia.  I have been eating spinach and cheerios and hot cereal and things cooked in cast iron NON STOP, and I am still so tired I want to die.  I think I'm gonna have to resort to iron supplements which I hate.  yuck.  plus my house is an utter disaster, but I am too tired to do anything about it.  I think I will eat a bowl of cereal and go to bed.  meh.

[Lucy]

BLAGO. BLAGO BLAGO BLAGO. ARRRRGH, DIE!!

if i headdesked anymore i'd be bruised.

edited to add: sorry, that post was incoherent to anyone not in chicago.

our governor is a flaming bunghole

[Lucy]

not that i'm hatin' on the seniors, its just, free rides do not equal how to solve a severe budget crunch, and unless he signs a transit bill, fares increase dramatically (i think my monthly fare jumps $20) and 81 bus lines are eliminated in ten days. which, you know, won't help the seniors much either. or me, obviously.

[YojimboMonkey]

Not to mention that there's already a reduced fare in place for seniors (among others).  This veto is out of fucking left field. 

And of course, what you said about how rate hikes and service cuts aren't helping the seniors or anybody else.  Also that there are plenty of people under 65 who aren't all that well off but no, it's all about the old people, rich or poor.

Also that riding my bike in the rain fucking sucks but I'm not sure that riding the fucking CTA isn't going to suck worse after service cuts.  Hell, it might suck worse now, but you take the people from those 81 bus routes and put them on the other bus routes and the average bus is going to look like one of those crazy foreign buses in a movie with people hanging out the windows and riding on the roof. and fucking chickens and shit. 

[dieblucasdie]

Good I hate Blagoevich so much

Like almost enough to vote for a Republican

Also the bus line I take on a daily basis is one of the ones that will get cut

[alexandra]

oh, does he refer to target as tar-ZHAY? that's always made me want to smack people.

also, a gif is not a brand of peanut butter!!!

i've threatened to kill a coworker today.

[heather marie]

I'm thinking about how awful it is to take the #6 bus to downtown now and thinking about how it is only going to get much, much more awful when they cut a few of the South Side buses. Oh, god, I'm glad I won't be living here in a few more months.

(No offense, Chicago.)

[alexandra]

move to new york! we have the G train!

[coldforge]

well to be fair the ghiff/giff debate has raged on for centuries; there is no deviated-from standard in that case.

[YojimboMonkey]

I always figured that since it stood for Graphics Interchange Format that the G would be a hard G like in Graphics.  Also when people say Jiff it makes my eyeballs boil.

[milesofsparks]

yes, but gi___ is usually pronounced with a soft g.  also:

Acronyms and initialisms are usually pronounced in a way that is distinct from that of the full forms for which they stand:

also, I have been saying jiff for about 10 years now, so I'm not switching.
gifgifgif.

[milesofsparks]

I'm going back to bed now, so bring on the hate.