Sh!t that annoys me Wednesday 12-14-2011

Happy Wednesday folks, here's your dose of annoy.

1. White "chocolate." People, this is NOT chocolate, it will never be chocolate. It contains no cocoa solids and by definition cannot be chocolate. it is an impostor. But no one wants to say "I want some white sugar confection." It's like soy milk. Now I've been known to drink soy milk, almond milk etc. from time to time. But soybeans and almonds etc don't have mammary glands or nipple and therefore cannot express milk...but no one wants to drink soy juice.

2. People I'm old enough to have parented getting "nostalgic." Recently a link went around about what kids born in the 90s will have to tell their kids about or some such stuff. I read it. I was old enough to have given birth to some of these kids. Here's the thing, if all you have to be nostalgic about is Boy Meets World and Beanie Babies, I feel very very sad for you. If that is a testament to your generation, please reevaluate & find something more worthwhile to tell your children about. People may just call me old & cranky, and while that may be true, I can tell my kids about the wonder of the first personal computer, VCR, video game systems being in our home. I can tell them about a truly more innocent time when parents actually parented and kids knew how to make believe. I remember the *magic* of childhood, not some bad TV show and toy fad.

3. Makeup labels that practically melt when they get wet. I understand the indies aren't rich, but please please, use labels that don't melt when they get wet. the only mirrors I have are in my bathrooms. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Bathrooms mean moisture. Nothing is worse than going to look at a jar & have no clue what color it is because a random drop of water smeared the name off the label.

4. Companies that offer only false hope and misery. I ordered a pair of pants from a company in October. They are a really nice pair of fitness pants and I own another pair of their pants (capris) that I wear to exercise, and well since becoming pregnant, pretty much everything I do in the house. So in October I decided I would buy another pair from this company, only full length since it was getting colder and sprinting from the car to the gym in capris was getting quite annoying. I ordered a pair of pants that were in stock according to the website. Two days later I get an email saying that the item I ordered was on back order, but they expected to ship very soon. I have since gotten another one of these backorder emails. It's been over TWO MONTHS and I still do not have my item, but they still have my money.
It wouldn't piss me off half as bad if the item had been listed as out of stock on the site, or maybe if I weren't getting a frakking email every week of yet another advertised sale. I don't know, maybe you should stop having sales and frakking ship your stuff. Meanwhile, my calves are getting as immune to the cold as a Nord as I sit in the frigid car waiting for it to warm up and as I sprint to the door of the gym from my parking space in outer Mongolia.

5. Lowe's Home Improvement stores. In case you haven't heard, Lowe's pulled their ads from airing during the TLC show All American Muslim due to pressure from anti-Muslim, hate-spewing, Christian Evangelical groups. Way to express the tolerance and peace your savior preached, idiots. I have nothing against Christians in general, despite their propensity to burn my people at the stake and stone us, but what I cannot stand for is intolerance and hate, from anyone, especially when they hide behind religion to do it. I am so disappointed in Lowe's succumbing to the hate of these people that I can no longer in good conscious shop at their stores. Their pulling their adds is akin to agreeing with the hate and intolerance and that's just something I cannot abide. I may be only one person, but I have to shop with my conscience.