- Someone trying to phonetically spell something, not knowing how to do it properly, but knowing how to do a few letters properly.
- Bonus points for using multiple words for the same letter.
- “That’s F as in Finger, B as in Bravo, M as in Moby, F as in Foxtrot, and C as in Cupcake.
- Either learn to do it properly, or just be a total goofball with it.
- People who use Harry Potter jargon to describe personal relationships and other people.
- You are not a wizard. I am not a muggle.
- You did not snog your significant other. You gave her a peck on the cheek.
- I don’t care what you solemnly swear to, you’re still a twit.
- Being told I’m immature because I still feel joy in things I liked 30 years ago.
- Bonus points for being told this by someone who lives on a diet of office drama and romance novels.
- Puritans and purists.
- Leave me alone to do what I want to do as long as I’m not harming you.
- If I wanted to hear about how I should be living my life, I’d get a psychic and contact my mother.
- I’m so glad you live in a black and white world where you have the freedom and means to be politically or religiously or whateverly pure in thought, word and deed. I live in my world, which is as messed up as a football bat and I’m doing what’s right for me and my family.
- Being told that if someone had been in the military, they’d have been a 4 star Airborne Ranger Green Beret Delta Force SEAL rescue jumper, and I should treat them with the respect that earns.
- Bonus points for the goober who tries to tell me about how the old Soviet Union ran, that we should have gotten involved in Bosnia sooner, why we should start a war with North Korea, and why their opinion is more valid than mine because they knew this one guy once who knew stuff and junk and all I ever did was be a dumb Army guy.
- Being told how hard freshman year in the dorm was and how easy I had it going to basic training and AIT at the same age.
- Really, Captain Crotchfire? You had to live on ramen and potted meat from the convenience store at the end of the month and it was a few days until the next check from Mom and Dad arrived? You had to get a roommate that summer to make ends meet? You actually had to consider getting a job before you took out another student loan? Must have really sucked.
- People who try to impose today’s political correctness on entertainment from decades ago.
- Yes, Virginia, cartoonists used to put smoking into their work for children. I’m sorry you’re offended.
- I’m sure Walt Disney and Friz Freling would be offended by the abject sexuality and bloody-minded violence of your cartoon of choice.
Things That Get Under My Skin, But Shouldn’t
Posted by daddybear71 on July 15, 2013
https://daddybearsden.com/2013/07/15/things-that-get-under-my-skin-but-shouldnt/
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bikergranny2B
/ July 15, 2013Second item under P & P really hits home. So very happy I don’t believe in psychics!!
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daddybear71
/ July 16, 2013I don’t really, either, but the only people who ever had power to tell me about how I should be living have all passed away.
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oldnfo
/ July 15, 2013Puritans and purists… GAH!!! Hate em all… And they are usually NOSY AS HELL! And the whole retro PC thing? Same category. You’re a better man than I for not pounding about half of them in the ground!!!
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Erin Palette
/ July 15, 2013To be fair, “snog” is British slang, not Harry Potter jargon.
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daddybear71
/ July 15, 2013Fair enough, but the closest the twit in question ever got to Jolly Olde England was when he went to a renaissance faire in New Mexico.
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Lazy Bike Commuter
/ July 15, 2013I’ve been known to throw some out just to confuse people.
“k as in kneel, p as in pneumatic…”
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daddybear71
/ July 15, 2013OK, I’ll accept that.
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Oddball
/ July 15, 2013Just as a point of information: “snog” is much older than Harry Potter, and should be much more enthusiastic than a peck on the cheek.
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WellSeasonedFool
/ July 15, 2013Easy to date yourself using the phonetic alphabet. “Zebra”?
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daddybear71
/ July 16, 2013You know, it doesn’t bother me when some uses “Able, Baker….”. It doesn’t really bother me when some says “F as in Frank, C as in Cupcake”. It grates on me when they mix it, and especially when they can’t make up their minds. It’s an irrational irritation on my part, and really is my and only my problem. Like I said, it gets on my nerves, but shouldn’t.
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Mad Jack
/ July 16, 2013You had to stay in a dormitory? In College? And it’s your Freshman year and all? Oh my, times is hard. Times is hard!
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