Minor things that bother you

[kphoger]

When a pretty girl sniffs me (especially my armpit) she goes "you smell good!".

what the fuck

We have a friend whose son likes to smell her armpit.  It drives her nuts.

Our youngest son likes poking at the little balls of deodorant that form on my wife's underarm stubble.  That drives her nuts.

However, I haven't yet heard of attractive adult females being wont to sniff adult males' armpits.

Now, my wife has commented that my deodorant smells good.  And I've overheard women commenting on a man's cologne before.  But that's a whole different ball of wax than 'sniffing'.  The former is passive, the latter active.

Also...  tolbs17:  Is this one specific girl, or is it a phenomenon that has characterized your life over a period of time?

[SectorZ]

When a pretty girl sniffs me (especially my armpit) she goes "you smell good!".

At least they're pretty. Brain dead, but pretty...

[formulanone]

Ok so imma make just one.
- GA 20's shape. Georgia must've been playing around when they assigned this. Really? A capital J?
- 206 missing it's parent by literal walking distance
- Every single digit route besides 6. 1 being indirect of itself for half its route, 2's gap, 3, 5, and 7 being 1's forgotten children, 4 looking like a long division bar, 8 deserves more hate than it gets, 9 gets on my nerves.
- I-15's routing,  is literally so unattractive
- US 411 paralleling its parent for so long but never connecting with it.
- US 160 going to Tuba instead of 64.
- 180's entire existence west of its junction with 62.
- US 43 not being a branch route of 45
- 80 and 180 not quite making it to DFW.
- 183 and 283 no longer connecting with 83.
-  US 54 no longer going to Chicago. Why not?
-  US 159.. why does it exist again?
- Interstate 90 not being swapped with 94.
- I-15 AGAIN
- US 34 paralleling/ overlapping/ being more indirect of 6 for pretty much its entire route
- US 33, 35, and 42's entire existence.
- I-22 ending abruptly at 269.
- US 278 overlapping with 61/49, 82, and 65 just to realign with itself. But this is pretty inevitable.
- US 72 and 76/74 not being one route
- US 73 being so short now.. 75, 59, and 69 just ate it up.
- US 71, 75, 77, 81, and 59 being so close together.
- US 57 being so short. This route makes sense as it connects to Mexico 57, but why not extend it so it can actually go somewhere important? Why not have it overlap with 35 and SR 21 to replace US 79?
- US 1 being so indirect of 95 (for the most part). It should be swapped with US 17 (from Jacksonville to its terminus)
- 27 existing south of Tallahassee. It is so indirect of 98.
- 82 and 84 swapping terminuses. Yes, 84 aligns with it more but it fit perfectly in the grid.
- I-220 not being named 255
- The gap in MS 18

- US 220 not connecting with 20. Like literally it is so easy for it to be extended.
- US 49 not using AR 1. Like seriously why not use the most direct route?? Also that curve is so UGLY it bothers me daily.
- US 98's route in MS. That dip down to Tylertown and that dip back up to Mccomb is so ugly.
- Everyone still thinking State Street is 51 (even google maps).. it hasn't used that for over 40 years
- US 190 being so close to MS but not entering it
- LA not using US 265 (recommended by AASHTO) for (mostly) what would eventually become 425..
- I-81 and I-59 not being one continuous route. It would be two lengthy interstate concurrencies but 75 is the one in the wrong.
- 87 being overlapped with 85 and 25 for like 1 million miles. The northern part and the southern part both could be branches of 85.
- US 90 having 3 or 4 concurrencies with 98 between Mobile and Pensacola.
- US 87 and 89 swapping terminuses. LITERALLY WHY?

I like roads.

- When water bottles start shrinking when you drink and they make that loud noise when you finish

Well, that does suck.

[tolbs17]

When a pretty girl sniffs me (especially my armpit) she goes "you smell good!".

what the fuck

We have a friend whose son likes to smell her armpit.  It drives her nuts.

Our youngest son likes poking at the little balls of deodorant that form on my wife's underarm stubble.  That drives her nuts.

However, I haven't yet heard of attractive adult females being wont to sniff adult males' armpits.

Now, my wife has commented that my deodorant smells good.  And I've overheard women commenting on a man's cologne before.  But that's a whole different ball of wax than 'sniffing'.  The former is passive, the latter active.

Also...  tolbs17:  Is this one specific girl, or is it a phenomenon that has characterized your life over a period of time?

Just any pretty girl in general. So the one highlighted in bold. I find it weird and bothering.

[US 89]

When a pretty girl sniffs me (especially my armpit) she goes "you smell good!".

I have a lot of questions ... and I don't think I want to know the answers to them.

[mgk920]

When a pretty girl sniffs me (especially my armpit) she goes "you smell good!".

I have a lot of questions ... and I don't think I want to know the answers to them.

Yet another reason why a seriously growing number of guys have been getting 'Red Pilled' in recent years....



Mike

[kphoger]

No, no, wait, guys.  We have to get to the bottom of this.  For the sake of humanity.

When a pretty girl sniffs me (especially my armpit) she goes "you smell good!".

Also...  tolbs17:  Is this one specific girl, or is it a phenomenon that has characterized your life over a period of time?

Just any pretty girl in general. So the one highlighted in bold. I find it weird and bothering.

You're telling us that you're frequently plagued by pretty girls sniffing your armpit and complimenting you on your scent?  How in...  What the...  Ummmmm...  Could you describe one such interaction in detail?  I think we need to know what sort of people you interact with.

[tolbs17]

No, no, wait, guys.  We have to get to the bottom of this.  For the sake of humanity.

When a pretty girl sniffs me (especially my armpit) she goes "you smell good!".

Also...  tolbs17:  Is this one specific girl, or is it a phenomenon that has characterized your life over a period of time?

Just any pretty girl in general. So the one highlighted in bold. I find it weird and bothering.

You're telling us that you're frequently plagued by pretty girls sniffing your armpit and complimenting you on your scent?  How in...  What the...  Ummmmm...  Could you describe one such interaction in detail?  I think we need to know what sort of people you interact with.

ECU students. Serena did to me before.

[kphoger]

I don't know any more than I did earlier...

[Takumi]

No, no, wait, guys.  We have to get to the bottom of this.  For the sake of humanity.

When a pretty girl sniffs me (especially my armpit) she goes "you smell good!".

Also...  tolbs17:  Is this one specific girl, or is it a phenomenon that has characterized your life over a period of time?

Just any pretty girl in general. So the one highlighted in bold. I find it weird and bothering.

You're telling us that you're frequently plagued by pretty girls sniffing your armpit and complimenting you on your scent?  How in...  What the...  Ummmmm...  Could you describe one such interaction in detail?  I think we need to know what sort of people you interact with.

ECU students. Serena did to me before.

Oh, of course, Serena. That explains everything.

[noelbotevera]

I think I walked in at the wrong time. Anyone want to like...give me a recap or something?

[hotdogPi]

I think I walked in at the wrong time. Anyone want to like...give me a recap or something?

Nothing has been deleted, and the current discussion is under 20 posts long. You haven't missed it.

[webny99]

I think I walked in at the wrong time. Anyone want to like...give me a recap or something?

I suppose the most succinct recap would be this:
Reply# 1372 stole the show, and not necessarily in a good way... 

[Scott5114]

I think I walked in at the wrong time. Anyone want to like...give me a recap or something?

I suppose the most succinct recap would be this:
Reply# 1372 stole the show, and not necessarily in a good way... 

A more succinct one: tolbs gonna tolb.

[J N Winkler]

I think the sniffing-at-armpits thing is about scent attraction, major histocompatibility complex, the Wedekind T-shirt study, and so on.

I almost fell out of my chair years ago when one of the local TV stations aired a human-interest story about soldiers going on deployment and one of the wives commented that she and her husband exchanged T-shirts that each had worn for three days without washing.  I wasn't surprised by their doing it so much as their admitting to it on camera, and the TV station including that in the broadcast.

[kphoger]

I suppose the most succinct recap would be this:
Reply# 1372 stole the show, and not necessarily in a good way... 

Am I the only one for whom these numbers are one off?

I think the sniffing-at-armpits thing is about scent attraction, major histocompatibility complex, the Wedekind T-shirt study, and so on.

I almost fell out of my chair years ago when one of the local TV stations aired a human-interest story about soldiers going on deployment and one of the wives commented that she and her husband exchanged T-shirts that each had worn for three days without washing.  I wasn't surprised by their doing it so much as their admitting to it on camera, and the TV station including that in the broadcast.

And then, of course...

Ne te lave pas, j'accours et dans huit jours je suis là.

[hotdogPi]

I'm not seeing them one off.

[webny99]

Reply# 1372 stole the show, and not necessarily in a good way... 

Am I the only one for whom these numbers are one off?

I'm not seeing them one off.

Me either. I thought I had gone crazy for a minute there until I double-checked. That's really weird.

[webny99]

Reply# 1372 stole the show, and not necessarily in a good way... 

Am I the only one for whom these numbers are one off?

I'm not seeing them one off.

Me either. I thought I had gone crazy for a minute there until I double-checked. That's really weird.

Aha! I think I figured it out. It's because you're showing the most recent replies at the top. When I changed that in my settings, the post in question became #1373. With that setting, it counts the OP as Reply #1, thus shifting everything off by one.

[kphoger]

Aha! I think I figured it out. It's because you're showing the most recent replies at the top. When I changed that in my settings, the post in question became #1373. With that setting, it counts the OP as Reply #1, thus shifting everything off by one.

Well, that's an annoying bug.

[wxfree]

Directionwards

People saying forwards, backwards, inwards, outwards, downwards, rightwards, leftwards...  None of those needs the final S.  I thought of one recently that does need the S, but I don't remember it.  We need to move upwards and onwards past these mispronounciations.

I also hate hand sides.  What is a hand side?  I know what a right side is, and I know what a left side is.  I don't know what a right hand side is or what a left hand side is.  When did sides grow hands, and which sides have them?  Does a house have a south hand side and a north hand side?  Do I write with my right hand side hand?  I prefer all sides without limbs or extremities.

[CtrlAltDel]

Directionwards

People saying forwards, backwards, inwards, outwards, downwards, rightwards, leftwards...  None of those needs the final S.  I thought of one recently that does need the S, but I don't remember it.  We need to move upwards and onwards past these mispronounciations.

For the record, -ward vs. -wards isn't a question of mispronunciation. Both forms go pretty much equally back. From the OED:

In English the history of -wards as an adverbial suffix is identical with that of -ward; beside every adverb in -ward there has always existed (at least potentially) a parallel formation in -wards, and vice versa. The two forms are so nearly synonymous (the general sense of the adverbs being ‘in the direction indicated by the first element of the compound’) that the choice between them is mostly determined by some notion of euphony in the particular context; some persons, apparently, have a fixed preference for the one or the other form.

I wouldn't mention this of course, except that it reflects one of the minor thing that bothers me: Confusing variants with errors.

[SSOWorld]

ending sentences with extra fluff


* Propositions
* The total is $4.49 there for ya!
* The total is $5.59 today.  (Like it would be any different tomorrow)

Fitting that putting "eh?" at the end of a sentence actually bothers Canadians.

[hotdogPi]

Cashier: The total is $4.57.
Me: Here's $10.57. (I had no 5s and not enough 1s at the time)
Cashier: Do you want two?

[texaskdog]

Cashier: The total is $4.57.
Me: Here's $10.57. (I had no 5s and not enough 1s at the time)
Cashier: Do you want two?

Or "the total is going to be $4.57"  No, it is $4.57