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My hair is at a stupid length right now. It's not short enough (or fresh-cut looking enough) to look good on its own anymore. The only way it looks good is with a headband, which is okay, but my head appears to be abnormally small therefore headbands pierce me behind the ears and grow irritating. I try to curl it and wind up looking like Charlie from Willly Wonka & The Chocolate Factory minus the cuteness plus a spoonful of gender ambiguity. I wind up wearing a hat but somehow it has gotten to the length where even with hats it no longer looks good!

"Just get it cut again" would be the obvious solution to the problem, but I am stupid and arrogant and want to grow it out just a little more to see how it would look at that length. Ghghghghhghghg.

It's not even like it's an actual problem, just something that bothers me somewhat as I pass a mirror :-?

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The fact that poor grammar is deemed socially acceptable now. I can understand a few disagreements among tense, but when you can't even pronounce basic vocabulary correctly, it becomes infuriating.

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Wat u talkn bout?

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Alas this is the same in french.
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But its been like that all through history, I wouldnt call it a modern phenomena...
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VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:What bothers you lately?
The humanocentric hubris inherent in the English language has been bugging me lately.

I made a YouTube video about it, actually: I, Person
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Dave Against The Machine wrote:Wat u talkn bout?
Willis?

Edit: Also, I am supper pissed. I had a really bad losing streak in Warcraft III today. Couldn't get any momentum.

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Due to either stress or living in a very poluted city, my tan is very bad right now. I never thought I'd have pimples at the age of 29.

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I've been working at Safeway and some nefarious person seems to be going through the store, picking up random things and putting them down in random places so I have to put them back. I spent like 45 minutes in the pharmacy trying to figure out where this really sketchy 'medicinal' thing went only to find that we actually keep it with the fruit juice (so I was probably right about it not really being medicinal.)
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Alias Pseudonym wrote:I've been working at Safeway and some nefarious person seems to be going through the store, picking up random things and putting them down in random places so I have to put them back. I spent like 45 minutes in the pharmacy trying to figure out where this really sketchy 'medicinal' thing went only to find that we actually keep it with the fruit juice (so I was probably right about it not really being medicinal.)
Things like this would make good internet time-waster games, but are lame in real life.

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my job.

i shouldn't bitch, many people don't have jobs, i get a lot of hours, yada yada all that happy bullcrap.

that being said, I feel like it's all I do lately. Five ten-hour shifts a week and I don't feel like I ever get anything done except eat, sleep, and go to work. Then when I have a day off, I'm so relieved not to have to be running amok that I just sit down... and promptly fall asleep wherever I sit. My job is not all that hard, it doesn't require deep mental thought or constant manual lifting or strenuous exercise of any kind, but when I get home I'm just so sick of it I want to go to bed.
And then I get a call from my boss on a day off, trying to get me to work some more... and has the audacity to be pissed at me for being hung over on my day off. No, I will not "chug some pepto" and hippity-skip over to work to sing and pretend to be chipper for however many hours I get stuck there.
Tynan has decreed that I am no longer allowed to answer the phone on my days off. I am only too happy to comply.

Looking into job agencies, have to break out of the fast-food circuit. Fuck entitled customers screaming at me for the measured amount of whatever condiment. You are paying me for a service, I am providing it, if you want more you can goddamn pay for it. I get meaner every day in a row that I work there.
I worked ten days in a row a couple weeks ago. I was a mean, mean bastard by the end of it.


tldr; pimp still hates her job, and is no longer permitted to answer the phone on her days off.
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Ti-Phil wrote:Alas this is the same in french.
German has had an obscene amount of English words added in recent history, most of which sound atrocious =(

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Is it kinda like how 1800s English speakers threw out fucktons of French and Latin all the time?

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KWill wrote:
Ti-Phil wrote:Alas this is the same in french.
German has had an obscene amount of English words added in recent history, most of which sound atrocious =(
I specially hate when they import english terms that have pretty straightforward translation to serbian just to sound more important. I mean, why break your tongue trying to make the word "advertising" sound fluid in some conversation in serbian? It's not like it's a complicated word that has no equivalent in serbian.
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Oh noesssss, foreign influences in language. I hate how English people say "sweater", when it was the SPANISH who named the sueter. I mean how ugly and convoluted is it for an English speaker to try and cough that word out. And like French, Italian and Spanish can go suck hard ones for stealing from Latin. And the Brits should just have kept calling them eyeren instead of EGGS, I mean, EGGS, pleaaaaase.
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I'm sick. :ick:
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MixedMyth wrote:I'm sick. :ick:
get well soon!

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I hate it when I get made fun of "mispronouncing" a word that I am indeed pronouncing correctly, and it is they who are butchering a word.
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KWill wrote:
Ti-Phil wrote:Alas this is the same in french.
German has had an obscene amount of English words added in recent history, most of which sound atrocious =(

I find this particularly funny given that English is a germanic language

Phact0rri wrote:I hate it when I get made fun of "mispronouncing" a word that I am indeed pronouncing correctly, and it is they who are butchering a word.
I've been known to throw down over the word pecan
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In my senior year art class I got in an argument with the girls at my table because I used the word erasure. As in, I made an erasure on the paper. They thought I was mispronouncing the word "eraser." I told them no, in fact, erasure is a word. They told me I was making it up, and when I went to ask the teacher about it they told me to calm down.

You use an eraser, you erase something, you've made an erasure. Not really that crazy of a concept. And I didn't really appreciate being told to calm down when... you know... I was being calm the whole time.

That's a bothersome thing.
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