silly things i hate
i hate a lot of serious things like animal agriculture and LLMs and ICE.
So here are some silly things I hate, inspired by this blog post:
When a non-plural possessive ends in an apostrophe: "Jesus's robes are dry" is correct and "Jesus' robes are dry" is unspeakable hell and I will become catholic again to condemn you. (You have no idea how much i hate this)
"Attorneys General" is stupid. John Oliver did that stupid episode where he talked about how "Attorneys General" is the actual correct way to pluralize "Attorney General" and he was stupid and wrong and british, but he convinced the entire democratic establishment to follow suit and now we're stuck with it forever, unless I become president, I will end free speech and people will follow my rules about the letter "s" or be hung by their toes.
I hated the number 4 when I was a teenager. I don't know why. It was just a bad number. I don't know that I hate it anymore, but I owe Teen Reed this mention.
Plastic bags - Okay, this one's slightly serious because pollution & climate change blah blah, but my local weed dispensary requires me to carry my bag out of the establishment when I leave and it pisses me tf off so I think my reaction is a little silly, even though I'm right. (Also, I take my drugs out of the bag & set it on the counter then tell them "No thank you" when they tell me I need to take the bag. It's a dumb ass rule.)
Grass lawns - Another mildly serious justifiable one, but like the plastic bags I do PERHAPS feel way too strongly about this one.
fade-in-on-scroll on websites ... it's just such garbage I hate it i hate it i hate it i HAAATE it (example)
The bog-standard marketing landing page where all the "content" is full-screen width, and just frankly takes up too much space. Like I could have learned about the whole product in a singular list that fits on the screen without scrolling, but I have to scroll down a mile-long page and be overwhelmed by a bunch of HUGE sections that tell me almost no information and have giant marketing pictures of often unrelated bullshit. I just don't process anything when I look at these pages. Example. These proliferated probably around 2018, maybe earlier, and I think coincided with a huge proliferation of wordpress as well. (that was my impression at the time, anyway, and I might be misplaced by several years.)
VPNs (the example in the last one was fairly random. I searched for "cybersecurity tools" because I've seen a lot of cybersecurity websites with that bad design, and this was the first tool from a listicle.) ... well moreso, advertising for VPNs. I think VPNs are fine, the ads are just ... liars and embellishers, often times.
Modern Javascript tools and javascript-bloated websites. Like 99% of websites can have their base design in pure HTML + CSS (and download in one or two files) but these days, a huge majority of websites use Javascript all over the place, broken into many different files, and modifying fundamental browser behavior. A lot of the javascript isn't even to make fancy features, it's just like basic page layout using a giant javascript library. STOP IT. (as a result of this, many websites load slower in 2026 than they did in like 2010, which is INSANE considering the technological advancement of both computers and the internet)
This one is not silly. I hate genocide. I hate fascism. I hate pedophilia. The U.S. is complicit in all of these horrors (many other countries are too!) Here's a resource for resistance. I will also reiterate my hatred for animal cruelty
The first 3 are proper silly, I know. The rest are a little less silly lol but I did my best. No i didn't. I put some effort in lol.