Jul 17th, 2008
Getting Your Goat… meme!
I was just thinking the other day, so I was, about how quiet it all is on the meme front these days. Then I regretted thinking it because that’s like saying… ‘at least it’s not raining!’, and sure enough, a nice big juicy meme arrived in my linkses.
It’s from my Daddyo who at least has the good taste to only forward the good ones.
It’s called the ‘Getting Your Goat’ meme.
The Rules
1. List two things that irritate you for a reason (and list the reason!), and two things that irritate you for no apparent reason whatsoever!!
2. Give credit to the person who tagged you.
3. Link your answers to the original blog.
4. Tag four new people to participate.
YAY! Everyone appreciates a good opportunity to whinge, well, Irish people do, anyway.
1. Two things that annoy the hell out of me for good reason:
Toy/Miniature dogs: I’m so delighted that I share this one with English Mum. A Bichon Frise is not a dog. It is a tampon with teeth. Maltezers, especially the ones with the ponytails, look stupid and love to Yap into the wee small hours. I know this because my next-door neighbour has one. When TAT asked me what I wanted for my birthday, I said ‘a BB gun’ and so he bought me one. I’m nearly out of bullets but at least I’m getting a lot more sleep! The Shih-Tzu’s only redeeming feature is that occasionally one will walk over an up-draught ventilator a la Marylin Monroe which is a very entertaining sight indeed.
Stranger than fiction
Packaging: Foundations that claim to contain ‘nano light-reflecting diamond-chips’ and ‘Micro-Collagen-Spheres’. Shampoos with extracts of things like fig-leaf and Gogi-berries. It’s all just the same mix of Cetearyl Alcohol, Benzyl Salicylate and Methylchloroisothiazolinone but with a different smell. I wish they’d just scrap the bullshit and sell us re-cyclable plain containers instead. Buggered if I’m paying for your adverstising costs!
Two things that irritate me for no real reason:
Over-acted radio voices/personalities: Mainly two: Harvey Norman (at least the owner of the advertising voice), or should I scream ‘HAAAAAAVVVIE NOOOOOWWMAN!!!’ should be sacked and given the job of a cricket commentator instead. Michael McMullen is a sports commentator on Today FM and starts every single bulletin with… ‘Hoooy, Oi’m Moich’l Mok Mulllll’n.’ His accent is a cross between Lloyd Grossman and that of a Blackrock College student and it makes my face feel like it needs to turn inside-out.
Ugg Boots: These are okay on their own, they’re warm and cosy. I just hate it when they come with grey-hound-skirt wearing slappers. A girl cakes herself in sparkly makeup, inserts the hair-extensions and breaks out the tiny dress with optimum bling and suddenly realises she’s sending out the wrong impression. What does she do? She dons Ugg Boots. Now she thinks her legs look amazing and men will just think she’s a quirky cutie, but in reality she looks totally fucking ridiculous. I would love to just walk over to these girls and slap them, I have no idea why.
2. Credit to Squidward for the meme.
3. Linky hand-shakes to the dude who invented this meme: www.skillet.com
4. Meme dutifully passed to: Warrior, Jefferson Davis, Sam Problemchildbride and Kirk M who also gets my Dog’s Bollocks of the month award for being so constantly inconsistently entertaining lately.