Game Time: Make Your Own “Maybe It Bothers Me More Than It Should”
2It’s been a while since we’ve had a new Maybe It Bothers Me More Than It Should (MIBMMTIS). That in and of itself is bothering me, maybe even more than it should…
How about you guys give it a shot? Give us your very own MIBMMTIS script. Talk about something otherwise ubiquitous and innocuous that for some reason just really gets your goat.
Of course, you’ve always gotta start it with a, “You know what bothers me?” And after you air your grievances, you gotta take a step back and think about how maybe you’re overthinking it or blowing it out of proportion. That, you know, “Maybe it bothers me more than it should.”
An example, though I am sure you are familiar:
Do one we like enough, maybe it’ll end up in a daily email?
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Irk: You know what bothers me more than it should.
Irk: Low Effort Competition Entries.
The end.
You know what bothers me?!
People…nuff said.
Maybe it bothers me more than it should.
You know what bothers me? I got this packet of korean BBQ style chicken that was supposed to be fully cooked, right? I figured I’d toss it over rice from my rice cooker for a quick lunch or dinner, maybe throw some spinach or snap peas or broccoli in the rice cooker to steam at the end too. I open the packet of chicken up, and not only is it not fully cooked, it’s a half pound solid mass of protein. All congealed like a chicken nugget from hell surrounded by pink juices. So then I’m like, I can either cook it more, defeating the point of buying it in the first place, and hope it somehow transforms into something I’d be willing to eat, or cut my losses and actually cook. So instead of getting an easy meal, I had to cook something from scratch with no planning, which I hate doing.
Then again, a friend set her kitchen on fire when she tried to make one of the same packets. So maybe it bothers me more than it should.
(True story!)
@Jamileigh17 reminds me of the sort of thing @Targaryen typically posts in our Slack.
You know what bothers me?
People that use supposably interchangeably with supposedly. They have two distinct definitions people! I have to hear this crime against vocabulary a dozen times a year…
Maybe it bothers me more than it should
You know what bothers me?
Comments sections. You can’t search through them, you can’t build up a history of posting (that you can show off to non-bots) so you don’t have to keep repeating your insights and opinions, and you sure as heck can’t keep track of a conversation in a twelve-tier comments branch.
I get it. Online real-estate is costly and no company wants to foot the bill on a library of natter. It would be easier to have users say a thing, have that diluted down to an invisible score, and then delete it to make way for another thing to be said, possibly the same thing, and just move on instead of trying to remember everything everyone said like they had to be responsible for their public opinion. Who wants to live with that kind of history when there’s fireworks coming up?
It’s not like the world is just evolving to live in the moment like they could explode at any second right? Right?
Maybe it bothers me more then it should.
You know what bothers me?
People. Specifically people who think they are all that and well…maybe not so much. “I do all this perfectly but that person does nothing.” Umm, you don’t know what you are doing and create extra work for others. Stop, read the directions and do it right so someone else doesn’t have to fix it later.
Maybe it bothers me more than it should. I don’t think so but I suppose it is possible.
You know what bothers me? When I try to avoid buying anything on Amazon by shopping elsewhere online, and it still comes from Amazon.
Now, I get that online sellers don’t all want to have to handle packing and shipping their stuff, I really do. I ran my own website selling T-shirts for 20 years, and the pack-and-ship chore was what I liked least. But these people don’t seem to be just using Amazon as a fulfillment warehouse, they’re flat-out listing Amazon items for sale on places like eBay, and then ordering it with their Prime account to drop-ship to me, and skimming whatever price bump they added plus their 5% on their Rewards card for just a couple of minutes’ worth of data entry. Entrepreneurial, you say? Lazy-ass no-brain arbitrage, more like. Ok, yes, I could also shop Amazon and see if i can get a better deal there than from the “sellers” using Amazon as a very small profit center, but the whole point was trying to not use Amazon and not feed the mammoth beast whose grasp now seems to reach into every nook and cranny available.
Or I could head over to WalMart’s site, feed a different and older evil empire, and sometimes still end up with a thing that arrives with an obvious 'Zon tracking label.
This modern marketplace is just not shaping up to be the individual’s utopia we were promised, or maybe I’m just too much of a frustrated idealist who needs to accept the things I cannot change, and find local sources for what I need instead of shopping online.
And if I’m going to actually do that, which I admit I ought to, them maybe this bothers me more than it should. (Or maybe, even less?)
@werehatrack You have been selected as a winner. Yes. 100%. Got the format down, and fit the bill.
And it may be partial bias because we’ll annoyingly have people doing this but using us, instead of Amazon.
@ThomasF I am… speechless?
@ThomasF @werehatrack
You already used all your words!
@werehatrack I think it bothers you (and me also) just about the right amount.
Go for it.
@werehatrack you even made it to today’s email chatter!
@Thumperchick I will admit that it was an easy thing for me to come up with precisely because the entire MIBMMTIS genre is so very like my own personal internal dialog. Irritation at being irritated over something I probably ought to ignore, if only I wasn’t me. I could probably come up with more of those scripts, but with no one to turn them into a finished product, there’s not much to be gained. And maybe that bothers me more than it should.
(Side observation: The last year has presented me with more than enough “challenges”, with one very large one unaddressed for six months and counting. As a result, I’m really not much fun to be around right now. And that’s a large part of why I’ve been a lot less visible than I once was. That, and the realization late last year that I’d slid into being more of a pain in the neck than anyone ought to have to put up with. Even I was getting tired of me. And that bothers me more than I’d like to admit, but probably less than it should.)
You know what bothers me? Those MIBMMTIS type of guys, you know how they’re always just whinging on and on about the most petty penny ante piddle and then in the end, try to get all passive aggressive. Like the issue is you not accepting their pettiness is the issue, amirite? Ah jeez, those guys really wind me up. But hey, Maybe It Bothers Me More Than It Should.
@gatepost1 Those pesky mib-matists need to go back to the 5-view youtube video they came from
You know what bothers me? Corporeality.
You know, how you have to buy clothes and shoes and they never fit QUITE right, and you can’t just waft through the world like an invisible aurora. Of course, without corporeality I also couldn’t open an IRK.
So maybe it bothers me more than it should.
opens IRK
OR NOT.
@brainmist I can’t recommend the stroopwaffles; they pass right through my tongue!
@brainmist https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/buttons
You know what bothers me? People (lookin’ at you, US Americans) often can’t be trusted to honor a contract, generally because they couldn’t be bothered to spend even a single moment of their time reading it or asking questions.
This bothers me exactly the right amount.
You know what bothers me? People online who “can’t stop” doing trivial things that are 100% stoppable, but they talk about them as though they’re helpless and neurotically incapable of not continuing to do that thing. Mostly buying something. Like these folks:
But maybe it bothers me more than it should.
(I guess that could include people who can’t stop buying Irks…)
@Kyeh You have been selected as a winner. While you didn’t have the typical sort of walking-it-back at the end, it really hit the mark. And it bothers me too.
@ThomasF Yay, thank you!
@Kyeh yippie!!! Congrats!!!
@tinamarie1974 Thanks!
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@Thumperchick Can we still post MIBMMTIS scripts just for fun?
@ItalianScallion of course! We’d love to keep this going.
@Thumperchick Thank you!
Well done. All submissions appreciated, even the snarky ones.
So let’s keep this going even though the game is over…
You know what bothers me?
Free gifts. I can’t remember the last time I asked someone to pay me for a gift I gave them. That would be because it was never. A gift is free. If it weren’t, it wouldn’t be a gift. How is that not obvious? But if we give money to the Sierra Club, we can get a free gift of a backpack or a tote bag. Donate to Shriners Hospitals for 63 cents a day and get a free gift of an adorable blanket. I’ll ignore the fact that you have to spend money to get something said to be free. The point is that for something to be a gift you never have to pay for it, so of course it’s free! But in the end you get something without paying for it, so…
Maybe it bothers me more than it should.
@ItalianScallion Bothers me, too … also the verbing of “gift,” which I guess is now completely accepted into the lexicon.
They gifted you a free fanny pack for your contribution!
@ItalianScallion @Kyeh You both should get gifted some free coffee!
@Kyeh Gift as a verb is in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary so I guess it’s officially accepted. This is but one example of how English has grown to have over one million words.
@ItalianScallion If the “gift” isn’t explicitly “free”, then the contribution to the organization can’t be tax-deductible since value was received in exchange. In other words, blame the lawyers.
@capnjb @ItalianScallion And that really IS free, thanks to the crazy-generous coffee roaster!
@werehatrack I’m more of a skeptic.
I blame “free gift” on marketeers who know that the word “free” will attract attention every time, much more than just “gift.”
@ItalianScallion @werehatrack Like Weird Al says – you gotta buy one if you wanna get one free (dare to be stupid!)