I'm irritated with feeling constantly infantalized by people around me like I am some stupid, naive child. I'm irritated with others' lack of faith in my ability to take care of myself. I'm irritated with how I can't seem to get honest help with a task unless I surrender all control over the other person. I'm irritated that incredibly simple tasks of trip preparation have to be made stressful.
Oh man, I am really sorry that you have to put up with that... It must be quite exhausting and frustrating!
On a potentially related note, another thing that irritates me to no end is helicopter parenting! I strongly believe that helicopter parenting backfires on children. Here are some relevant videos that put it well!
Clickbait posts on socials: “Click the link in bio to find out XYZ” W to the person who summarises the anticlimactic content in a sentence in the comments (to save everyone else the bother of clicking it).
Thank you for the videos. I get the best of both worlds (for better and worse) in that my dad is pretty relaxed and supportive but my mother is a lifelong helicopter parent. Things have luckily worked out since the previous post but it is definitely a recurring theme. God, I agree so hard on this one. I don't know why people don't call it out more often as it feels like a very pervasive problem, especially with online video content.
Seeing intellectuals and realizing that I am not as smart as I think I am. Being called smart by family and close ones doesn’t help too much either. Now that’s irritating.
When you drive on road new to you with like a million toll booths on your route and it takes way longer to get to where you need to be than you think.
Another thing I would add that I find super irritating. Even when these coaches do have solid results in their own lives pertaining to what their clients are seeking help for, they expect them to follow their programs/formulas to a T with minimal to no flexibility, negotiation, or wiggle room, and if you are unable to do so for whatever reasons (which are totally ok and deserve the utmost understanding and compassion) they blame their clients for it and they don't take a second look/examination at their own programs and figure out what changes, adjustments, or accommodations might need to be implemented. Adding insult to injury, when they tell you that you will never achieve the goals or results you are seeking without following their programs and formulas word for word and they also use scare tactics to cast doubt on your future and quality of life if you don't do things their way without negotiation. I would describe these dynamics as diabolical.
Hello, I am back. - Ableism; - Blasphemy; - Customers who mistreat employees; - Employees who mistreat their customers; - Heartburn; - Heightism; - Intellectual narcissism; - The feeling of uncertainty about someone being interested in you or not. - The movie Idiocracy; - Those who romanticize poverty, crime and adultery; - Twitter bots and gimmick accounts; - White supremacy and eugenics (as well as those who defend them). Also: - When a song on the radio is cut in half. Same thing if it's partly removed for its official music video.
I don't understand this exactly, but I can't do 'glass half-full' and 'glass half-empty' thinking. It's more like 'glass half-full' and 'glass completely empty'. I've not found the words for it until recently. When concerned with things that bother me, I become reflexively and almost obsessively negative to an at times unhealthy degree. This has come through in my communications here on a few occasions. I can be a very optimistic person a good amount of the time, and during these times I can remain quite balanced; but when things sink, I go from "things can get better" to "actually things, have always been bad and will always be bad". It's a terrible, irritating habit and something I'd like to work on. I'm in a good place right now to comment on it, but I'm sure it will spill out again.
It's irritating how the public will campaign for a whole conservation effort for Pandas just because they are widely considered "cute" but no one has heard of Vaquitas or Pangolins. Pandas are considered Vulnerable right now, and yet people treat them like they're critically endangered. Im not saying that supporting the conservation of Pandas is bad, its just that I think people should see that there are way more species that are in further need of conservation that the Panda. Also... I was in Drama Class, and while performing Aesop's Fables, this one kid kept barking 'fox fox' when he was playing the fox, and 'beast beast' when he was playing the beasts. I reminded him countless times that foxes don't say 'fox' and beasts don't say 'beast'. Today is drama class, and so if I hear another 'fox fox', I will surely loose it.
Sorry, but this made me laugh because back in 2013 there was literally a song called What Does the Fox Say? It was more popular with Gen Z, but was one of those songs that went that viral everyone knew/heard it.
I postponed a visit to Wilhelma for three weekends due to exams but now I am not sure if I can visit due to the chilly weather.
The side effects of a change in my medication, especially the nightmares and sleeping even more irregularly than normal.
I say this as someone who doesn’t vilify the wildlife and exotic pet trade, and as someone who does not want it to get trampled on by special interest organizations. But for crying out loud, Dutch animal breeders should stop sending animals to Japan. I am not in the position to tell people how to do their jobs, but if I had the privilege to keep an breed exotics I wouldn’t squander them by sending them to a country notorious for squandering to brokers who just break up breeding pairs and keep the animals in tiny enclosures. And I am not just talking about species otherwise common in Europe and rare in Japan such as North American porcupine. I am also talking about rarities like rakali and marbled polecat. The last thing the wildlife trade needs is more ammo for its detractors.
Netherlands has a positive list of non-domesticated mammal species that can be kept/bred by private persons and that list is very very short. This is a new law since ca 2-3 years ago.
Does this apply to commercial breeders? Because there is a Japanese importer/broker which still imports exotics from the Netherlands as of February 2024.
