Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)

[ChrisRawk]

Know what I hate?  When I catch myself Googling people I hate.  I need to not do that.  It's a waste of time and energy.

It can be rewarding, though, like when you discover their blog that has 100s of posts and no comments.

Or better yet, TONS of comments.  All of them fights with family members.

[AllisonLeGnome]

Know what I hate?  When I catch myself Googling people I hate.  I need to not do that.  It's a waste of time and energy.

It can be rewarding, though, like when you discover their blog that has 100s of posts and no comments.

I had the best (in a really pathetic way) moment when I noticed that my ex-boyfriend's pretentious blog post detailing his entire summer had a total of one comment between his website and facebook- and it was someone pointing out a typo.

[cutout]

Redundant hashtags.


#stuffihate #examples #words

[Andy]

hashtags are terrible. 

#especiallywhentheytrytobecute

[Boogdish]

hashtags when you're not on twitter drive me bonkers
fascism usually gets my goat, too.

[waltkellysghost]

#guiltyascharged

[Andy]

The $8k homebuyer credit pisses me off.

[AllisonLeGnome]

To me, the worse hashtag offense is using them for things that aren't topics (in a non-joke capacity). Fictional example that I'm sure has happened: "I can't wait to get back to #Tufts this semester!" If someone was for some reason actually trying to search for things mentioning Tufts University on Twitter, it's already only one word.

[Steve of Bloomington]

I thought hashtags had to be all one word...

[Andy]

full disclosure:  I use hashtags sometimes, but it's only to piss people off.  Like when we had ice storms and the roads were terrible, I would post something like:

"I'm out on the roads, they're really not all that bad #okice"

[AllisonLeGnome]

I thought hashtags had to be all one word...

Exactly. Look at the trending topics- usually most of them are multiple words put together into one hashtag. There's no reason to make a one out of a single word that you could just search for anyway.

[cutout]

I must say though I really like Neil Hamburger's hashtag usage -

http://twitter.com/neil_hamburger

#funny #hashtags

[Andy]

Nothing better than when you ask a question and are immediately met with defensiveness. This seems to be  especially prevalent with people who work in the softer side of things, like PR. If you act like you constantly need to justify you existence, people are going to treat you like need to.

[yesno]

Influenced by the Best Show, I started going through the West Wing. I'm in the fourth season--the show does have some good moments, but it gets kind of repetitive after Season 1.

Anyway, I really hate the character Toby Ziegler.

[fletcher munson]

Pancakes are SO over-rated.  They're flavorless without the syrup.  I might as well just spoon syrup in my mouth and eat white bread.  I hate the expression: "Pancakes everyday!!!"