Let's get this party going

[venta]

If you're not the kind of person who ever looks at something and says "But that's Just Wrong", then you might want to quit now, as I don't imagine this will make much sense to you :)

Sometimes, things are Just Wrong. Somebody goes to do something, and you're obliged to tell them that it (or possibly them) is Just Wrong. You can't give a good (in their eyes :) reason why: if your opinion is to any degree justifiable, then it's just normal wrong. If you're lucky, of course, people around will leap to your defence, of course the thing in question is Just Wrong.

Then, of course, you find yourself doing a perfectly reasonable, sensible thing, and some idiot starts telling you you're Just Wrong. Without so much as an explanation! Or maybe they'll wax wrath about X being Just Wrong, and you find yourself thinking... I really don't give a stuff, either way.

So, I'm interested. What things are Just Wrong ? Here's a starter list from me, more as I think of 'em. Stick yours in a comment, and with luck we can even start a fight or two :)

• Reading the last page/chapter of a book to "find out what happens" in advance.


• Getting into an unmade bed (though making it immediately before you get in is fine).


• Eating a Kit Kat (or, even worse, a Tw*x) as if it were a single chocolate bar instead of treating it as separate fingers.


• Playing CDs on shuffle.


• Wearing a long-sleeved t-shirt under a short-sleeved one.


• If you're making tea in a mug, putting the milk in before you take the teabag out.


• Having the radio and the TV on in the same room.


• Having the TV on when no one's watching it.


• Cracking knuckles (any other joint is fine)

Update: To clarify, a thing can be Just Wrong, without necessarily being annoying. Putting milk in with the tea bag is heinous and Just Wrong, but if you want to do it with your own tea, I have no problem with that. On your own head be it. Similarly, there are many things that annoy me which I don't regard as particularly wrong. People leaving lights on unnecessarily annoys me, but I don't feel the need to take a moral stand on it ;)


Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm listening to Andrew WK, I bought that at the weekend too. It was cheap, honest :)

I bought it on the strength of really liking Party Hard. Which is just one of those things that I guess I'll go through life being faintly embarassed about. In order to like Party Hard, you clearly ought to be a fourteen year-old boy whose idea of a good night is drinking cheap export lager til he throws up. The track is immature in the extreme - it's off-the-peg rebellion, partying, and fat riffs. It's a huge, dumb, silly romp of a track with staggeringly inane lyrics.

And I love it dearly :)

The rest of the album is exactly the same. Ah well, I've turned it up loud, and am embracing my inner teenager :)

Comments

Cracking knuckles

[thegreenman.livejournal.com]

Gonna tell Dan then?

:)

Re: Cracking knuckles

[venta.livejournal.com]

I've told him. Many times.
Doesn't stop the bugger doing it, though.

[deeteeuk.livejournal.com]

Playing CDs on shuffle.

Damn right. Artists spend ages agonising over track order, and then DJ Sony slashes it to pieces.

I nominate using your fingers to donate speechmarks. I have been known to try and snap fingers for this.

....am embracing my inner teenager

Is that a euphemism? Sorry. I'll get my coat.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Damn right. Artists spend ages agonising over track order

Interesting(ish) fact for the day: I bought a Frank Black and the Catholics album at the weekend, and the tracks are on it in alphabetical order. Which just seemed kind of odd.

And, you seething mass of bile, you, I'm surprisd you only came up with one Just Wrong thing :)

Not always

[narenek.livejournal.com]

I own a CD which has the words "The Indexing of this disc is designed to complement the Shuffle Mode of modern CD players" on the inlay.

Sadly the music company has ballsed it up by putting the 20 odd random tracklets into one big one.

[diffrentcolours]

I can't stop reading that as "I'll get my goat".

[erming.livejournal.com]

You could get Kitkats as single bars. They just aren't the same, but the only way to eat them is as a single bar...

[zandev.livejournal.com]

The few times I've seen videos from Andrew W. K. I've been quite amused. She Is Beautiful has a particularly silly video.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Is that the one with the very long mike lead ?

She is Beautiful is exactly the same song as Party Hard, but with slightly different words.

[lnr]

You are *so* right about the kitkats and the teabags. And I know what you mean in general though I can't think of any off the top of my head.

[(Anonymous)]

People at a live gig who applaud when they recognise the song

People who say 'myself' because they're not sure whether to say I or me

Aww, why not ?

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

People who say 'myself' because they're not sure whether to say I or me

Erm... well, sometimes it sounds better. <shuffle>

Having the TV on when no one's watching it

Hard to avoid where the twins are involved !

[nalsa.livejournal.com]

People waggling double-jointed thumbs. Ew.
The "Slutty Sandy" look.
Those iron-on single letters for t-shirts in a comic typewriter font.
People who pull down their children's trousers in public upon the announcement of their child's desire to urinate, followed by encouraging them to go in the gutter.
Gordon's gin in martinis.
Mozarella that bounces. And dried basil. Ew.
...&c

[dr-bob.livejournal.com]

Gordon's gin in martinis.

Gordon's gin anywhere for that matter. Except possibly as disinfectant or firelighting.

[venta.livejournal.com]

And another thing that's Just Wrong - putting CDs back in the wrong boxes. Especially if you end up with some empty boxes, and some with two CDs in.

However, it ceases to be Just Wrong and becomes a Serious Crime if you do it with someone else's CD collection - Samantha's due a good slapping next time I see her.

[diffrentcolours]

The case to my Velvet Underground and Nico CD broke, so it now lives in the same case as Lou Reed's "Transformer", so I know where to find it :)

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

With you on the twix/kitkat one. It's a bit like eating jammy dodgers not by eating the top, then the bottom, then the middle.

I nominate: reading someone else's book when they're in the middle of reading it, but have just put it down while they do something else

[venta.livejournal.com]

It's a bit like eating jammy dodgers not by eating the top, then the bottom, then the middle.

Ooh, I think you're Just Wrong there. Biscuits should be eaten the same way (in normal bites) regardless of whether they be jammy dodgers, jaffa cakes, custard creams or ginger nuts. Dismembering them is just cruel.

so close . . .

[satyrica.livejournal.com]

I's with you all the way up until the knuckles (although with the book thing I have to admit that knowing it's Just Wrong doesn't mean I always stop myself from doing it . . .)

Current mood: po-faced

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Surely this puts "That's Just Wrong" up there with "that's missing the point" as a phrase which is code for "that's an entirely reasonable alternative point of view which I cannot debunk on rational grounds and so attempt to disparage on the pretence that it is obviously egregious"?

(omnes: That's Just Wrong, Chris!)

Re: Current mood: po-faced

[venta.livejournal.com]

Exactly! As I said originally, if you've got a justifiable reason, it's merely normal wrong.

For your consideration...

[arralethe.livejournal.com]

Something I feel as being Just Wrong - living in a communal house (i.e. more than one person living there) and someone leaving 2 sheets of toilet roll on the holder instead of either
a) changing it for a new roll or worse still
b) buying more toilet roll

I'm sorry, but it's Just Wrong.

Eating kitkats

[kauket.livejournal.com]

is Just Wrong......*insert Nestle rant here*

;p

Leaving other people's CDs out of their boxes is Just Wrong.
Drinking other people's Kaluah without asking.

Re: Eating kitkats

[diffrentcolours]

Eating Kit-Kats is morally justifiable on the grounds that there are too many damn babies in this world as it is.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Aha! I've caught you. There's a striking counterexample to:

Having the radio and the TV on in the same room.,

which is when you're watching sport with the sound off in order to have the radio commentary. That's not only not Just Wrong, it's actively encouraged in the case of Radio 4 cricket.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, that's obviously OK.

Consider it ammended to:

Having the radio and the TV both with the sound on in the same room.

The word 'incentivise'

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

is Just Plain Wrong.