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Fiction writers who introduce their favorite musical particulars in their plots with the implicit understanding you'll see their musical superiority preference and agree - that yeah man, this writer is smokin cool because he digs...Charlie Parker, or some other jazz musician or Ella or who gives a darn? Musical taste does not denote great intelligence. Art in its various forms is just that. Various forms.

No your choices don't make you outstanding.

Musical preference is widely ranging with zero coolness points. Ever. What you like is what you like. It has nothing to do with I.Q. or even...taste.

One of my most brilliant friends (now dead) absolutely loved yodeling.

There's nothing right/wrong/cool or uncool with musical taste.

What you don't get to claim is: I'm cool because I like this music...nah,

Same for other forms or art.

People who make assumptions about how you should conduct your life because "hey, you're retired" so you should...

If you care for an example about this particular annoying phenomenon or two P.M. me.

Eco-chondriacs non-stop blathering about 'climate change', but have no worries about radical Islamic terrorists.

Vulnerable pronounced without the L.

It's not VUNerable...It's VULnerable.

Also those who can't pronounce the word 'strong'.

It's not SSSShhhhtrong.

The word has no 'sh' sound in it's pronunciation.

U-tube folks who blare some awful intro music I wouldn't listen to if you paid me and then can't get to the point.

"Over Achiever" is another in a long list of words and/or terms that perturb me.

This term must've been thunk up by one of the cud chewers in the herd.

Being mediocre is a perfectly normal state of being. Most folks are either mediocre or less...

To minimize achievement, heck, to disparage achievement is to shoot yourself in the foot Mr. Mediocre.

Sorry chum/chumette, yes, a cure for cancer accomplished by a so-called O.A. is brilliant, astounding even, but it makes the common herd feel, well, ah, uncomfortable, because their biggest achievement is remembering to take out the trash before it reeks.

"Human resources" is another bit of corporate re-naming I dislike. What was wrong with the word: "Personnel"?

The term "Human Resources" reduces people to something akin to minerals...

'Income inequality' (a term I loath) is beloved by liberals and other socialist types who think if lumpen humans simply exist they should get not only a free lunch, but free everything. After all, they're human and they deserve free stuff for simply existing.

Didn't attend school?

Didn't learn a trade?

Have zero income making skills?

Not willing to work or sacrifice to get ahead in life?

Often late, never take responsibility for your crappy life circumstances, with whining complaints as in: "hey man, it's not my fault...ever".

Constantly argue about everything and thus if on the rare occasion happen to get a job you earn zero respect and are soon fired?

But, you want me to give my 'fair share' to support you so you may enjoy "income equality"?

Dream on snowflake - you're at least good for derisory laugh.

People who wear their shorts/long pants too, below their butt.

This I not only find annoying it has the added effects of creating disgust and contempt for these loutish sub-humans.

Parents who don't let their children evolve into adults by completely supporting them practically into perpetuity.

Example: My brother in law who lived with and was supported by his parents into his mid-forties. His Mother even still made his bed for him. Finally, he left the nest, got a job, got married. Then got divorced, fired and committed suicide. He was unprepared to endure the sometime hardships we are sometimes faced with...

Had he been allowed to suffer the slings and arrows of growing up, he probably would've handled hardship without self destruction.

Antifa...is very annoying, considering they are hate filled Pro Fascists!

Vegans are annoying, because man they don't want to kill animals for food...well, when's the last time you ate a big old medium rare steak? Me - Last night! Deeeeeelicious!

One of my wife's friends, who is an old fashioned hippie type, (she's no dummy with an advanced degree in math) tried to convince us to also be vegans. Claiming she wouldn't eat anything with a face. Ah, until she tired of eating rabbit food and rejoined us omnivores by eating massive quantities of meat...

Reading a book with the writer revealing his ignorance of guns by writing about taking the safety off his Glock and other gun ignorance.

Having to constantly fast forward through 8 billion television advertisements per program as I can no longer watch anything on television without having to record it.

Pretentiously labeling restaurants as "Bistros" or worse "Brasseries".

UGH!

TDS,

I'll provide a hint: It's something nautical.

Jeff B.,

Methinks you're joshing as such sayings as: "Comfortable in their own skin" is another in the very long list of annoying sayings.

A "point in time" is annoying.

The word "point" is sufficient. Adding "in time" is gilding the lilly, which is another annoying saying...arggghhh!