Hotscot

That is my point

Hiro11

Getting shocked whenever I touch anything these days. My dog doesnt want me to pat him because I shock him whenever I do.

People who are incapable of perceiving when they are in other people's way. Long conversations in the middle of narrow hallways, leaving shopping carts out in the middle of an aisle, going through doors slowly because they're on the phone, etc. I think most people have a sixth sense about this, but some people either lack this or simply don't care.

The lack of good beer with low ABV in the US. You can find a few, but in general 7%+ is the norm with quality micros. I went to a brew fest over the weekend and most everything there (ales, stouts, porters etc) was a 9%+ alcohol bomb. Give us something easy drinking and uncomplicated for once, please.

The Grammys. The entire thing is a pet peeve. It's always been an out-of-touch award show (a hoary Jethro Tull over an in-their-prime Metallica for Best Metal Album? Really?), but it's approaching new levels of irrelevance. Some song that an ancient Paul tossed off in a couple of hours with the guy from the Foo Fighters is "Rock Song of the Year"? WTF?

Gels pens that spit out far too much ink. It's impossible to mark up a document without it becoming an ink-stained, soaked-through mess with these pens. Unfortunately, it's all my office offers.

General Windows 8.1 ultrabook shittyness. Has anyone at Microsoft or the myriad of Ultrabook makers ever actually used a current Macbook? Have they noticed how well a Mac trackpad works? Have they seen how simple Mavericks is? Have they noticed how the Mac fans basically never come on? Have they noticed how long a Macbook Pro's (let alone a Macbook Air's) battery lasts? Have they noticed how updating things on a Mac is automated and seemless? Have they noticed how Apple (pleasingly) doesn't require people to know anything at all about computers and allows them to focus on being productive or having fun? Have they noticed that now Macs aren't any more expensive than a competing Ultrabook and in many cases these days are actually cheaper? Etc.

Cavities under old fillings. This is the only place I get cavities. I hardly eat sugar. It's annoying.

Larcenous textbook pricing. I'm in grad school and needed to buy two textbooks. Total for the two books (one of which is a case pack, not even a real book): $365. That's highway robbery. They have you over a barrel and they know it.

Yorkieabroad

What's happening there? Someone posted last week that they were getting static shocks from a hospital bed their wife was in, and I replied that we had noticed lots of static recently as well. Driving me mad. In the good old days, my mam would have blamed the Russians....who do we blame now? Al Qaeda? Obama? The NSA? GM foods?

Bink

So it's not just me then either?! I've been getting it a lot, especially at the local park (kids play area).

Yorkieabroad

Oh they're the best place! Catch the kids at the bottom of the slide and they get a belt like a shock collar on stun

SultanOfSwing

It only happens to me in the winter, so I think we would blame the dryer air for being more conducive to generating static.

It's great fun shocking the cat though.

Yorkieabroad

I've never really noticed it before...maybe we are drier this winter? I used to get really dry and cracked knuckles for a couple of months over the winter, but thankfully haven't suffered that the last couple of years, though not sure why. I always put that down to the dry air.

Cardienscarf

This. And people who walk in a store and then stop right inside so you can't get in.

SultanOfSwing

That's what I attribute it to up here because it is noticeably drier in winter. I could be talking out of my arse though.

Nutek

Those were security guards....

yellowroom

Me too, lower humidity, getting shocks off everything. I managed to get a shock on my stomach from leaning too close to the edge of my colleague's cube wall when talking to to them. bloody hurt too.

SultanOfSwing

Some of them get quite strong. I was all static yesterday, I was wearing a footie shirt yesterday and it was that shiny material, it was all sticking to me in annoying places. Plus I shocked the shit out of my wife when I was handing her a spoon at dinner

Good thing I don't have much hair, I suppose ...

WEBlue

The best cure for that winter problem of shocking & getting shocked is to carry a dryer sheet in your pocket. It really does get rid of most of the static. Can be an expensive brand-name one like Bounce or a cheap supermarket generic.

Take it out of your pocket a few times a day to rub on any static-y clothes, like wool skirts that cling, and the clothes will stop clinging too.

Pulaski

That sounds unpleasant.

SultanOfSwing

Hyperbole's great, isn't it?