Things That Are Annoying


  • ch4rl1e
  • Date: 11 Jan 2025

An expanding and loosely-organised list of complaints regarding things that are annoying.


Heinz' tins don't stack. Why? You have two jobs: Ketchup, beans. I'm not asking for Lego compatibility here, just an organised shelf. Please make the beans stack, it's embarrassing.

The way Americans put punctuation in the wrong place in sentences involving quotation marks. "If the punctuation isn't part of the quote, then it goes outside of the punctuation", like this. Americans would put that comma inside the quote for some reason, as though the speaker had paused for breath, and that this was somehow important.

The word 'parenthesis'. It's made up.

Wrongly used Title Case. Look at this rubbish from a website about writing, in an article about title case:

Screenshot from whenyouwrite.com, showing badly applied title case.

Criminal.

Ambiguity/unspecificity. yeah

Poorly organised lists.