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

[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.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Can we half agree? I eat jaffa cakes and custard creams and stuff the same way I eat jammy dodgers, will that do?

[venta.livejournal.com]

I still think you're Just Wrong, I'm afraid. But I'm a magnanimous type, if you want to be an abomination in the sight of the Lord when eating biscuits, then I'll defend your right to do so.

Incidentally, for all biscuit related fun, have you met http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com ?

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

That's fantastic! Thankyou!

[mr-flay.livejournal.com]

I'd have loved to see the Triumphant Cornish Tea Tour...

[mr-flay.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but ghoti is right on the jammy dodger/bourbon/custard cream consumption technique. Any other way is to ignore the engineering feat involved in their contruction, and the opportunities it affords for making a mess.

[edling.livejournal.com]

...and I further extend it to the aforementioned Twixs and Kitkats. The only correct way to eat them is:
Twixs: Nibble the chocolate off the ends and sides, then try to get the top layer of chocolate & toffee stuff off, and then finish off with the biscuit and bottom layer of chocolate.
Kitkats: Sides first, then top, then bottom, then biscuit.
Extra points are awarded for getting to the biscuit without breaking it in any of the previous steps (especially for Kitkats, they're tricky 'lil buggers).

[venta.livejournal.com]

Good lord, you're all as bad as each other.

Am I the only person capable of eating biscuits (or indeed Kit Kats and Tw*xes) in a straight line ?

[mr-flay.livejournal.com]

We eat ours in several straight lines. Just thin ones.

[neilh.livejournal.com]

Thats quite a feat of engineering, perhaps you need to get out more?

I couldn't agree more.

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

The same applies to Crunchies, where you have to eat all the chocolate off before playing with the honeycomb bit.

Re: I couldn't agree more.

[arralethe.livejournal.com]

Erm....You weird freak of nature, you......

Re: I couldn't agree more.

[diffrentcolours]

Putting Crunchies in the freezer helps with this. It also seems to concentrate the honeycomb taste in a pleasing way.

[nalsa.livejournal.com]

That's the only correct way of eating them unless you're in the presence of hot chocolate. Then the only way possible of eating either a Twix or a Kitkat is to bite the ends off and suck the hot chocolate through the biscuit like a straw.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I feel ill now.

[nalsa.livejournal.com]

Well, you know. I try.