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.

[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...

[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 :)

[deeteeuk.livejournal.com]

You'd be amazed how many I rejected. I thought we were only allowed the one!

[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.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Many as you like :)

Mind you, given I've seen what you can do with a fork, I'm going to make damn sure I never make " gestures anywhere near you.

[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.

[zandev.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is the one with the very very long mike lead. I was just amused by the concept.

The only other song of his that I've heard is Party Hard, and I was struck by the similarities. :)

[(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

[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.

Nooo!

[failmaster.livejournal.com]

You're soooo Just Wrong about that! At this very moment I'm playing my entire music collection on random.

Best of all are songs that run straight on to the next song. Sometimes by chance you get some fantastic pairings that work better than anything the original artist could ever have come up with... :)

My contribution: American adverts dubbed with English voices for broadcast on UK TV.

Re: Nooo!

[venta.livejournal.com]

At this very moment I'm playing my entire music collection on random.

Well, that's less morally reprehensible than shuffling individual CDs. It's still Highly Dubious in my book, though.

Re: Nooo!

[pm215]

I have a version of that Werther's Originals UK ad that was dubbed for broadcast on Japanese TV, which really is Just Wrong.

[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.

[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.

[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'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).