Pet Peeves

[ochoill]

Feel like I have perpetual life catch up going on lately, the peeve here being seemingly unable to get on top of anything needing doing enough to do anything I enjoy doing instead of an evening.  It's slowly coming around out of it but still it is bum I am not built to rot on a phone at night but it is all I am capable of the past few weeks.

[The Heretic]

Feel like I have perpetual life catch up going on lately, the peeve here being seemingly unable to get on top of anything needing doing enough to do anything I enjoy doing instead of an evening.  It's slowly coming around out of it but still it is bum I am not built to rot on a phone at night but it is all I am capable of the past few weeks.

I know that feeling only too well, I've had to roll up my sleeves over the last few weeks to try to get ahead, the good weather is helping a lot to get stuff completed and off the list, but its still a struggle sometimes

[Circlepit]

Started a now job on Tuesday.
After 18 years in my old job we were given the sob story and the cold hand to the balls with 7 hours notice.
The rights ands wrongs of this  are all in the process of being sorted.

Anyway, new job have to try and fit in with my new colleagues and portray myself as a model of decorum.
I want this part to be over so we can get to the real stuff like how big my shit was etc.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

  

On the hunt for my next contract myself.

[Mithrandir]

"Give us a song" people when they hear you play guitar.

[Goosebumples]

Tell em yer a lefty when the shite 90€ yamaha gets passed yer way at a session. Ultimate cheat code.

Im particularly aggrieved by the following heard ad infinitum whenever someone coaxes it out of me that I play:

"Ye play heavy metal?...like Korn?"

"Do ye make a bitta money at that?"

"Would ya not do a few covers down the pub?"

"Would ya not play something people like, so you can do de weddings and that?"

"Death metal? No way, I love system of a down/five finger death punch/sleep token etc"

"Why dont ya go busking?"

Etc etc

[Ducky]

Haha, yeah I had someone tell me recently they were into the "hardcore underground metal like System of a Down"...

[Goosebumples]

 
Had a lad there about a year ago, be like "im into the heavy stuff" with this real smug, "its not for you, buddy" tone and look on his face. I didnt probe further but after a bit of back and forth with one of my coworkers at lunch he eventually told us the heavy stuff was "Linkin Park" with this real you wouldn't get it air about him, god bless him.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Saw a barman last week I would have otherwise taken for a proper metaller except he was wearing a Linkin Park cap like as if that was okay!   

[Giggles]

Linkin Park won't do much for your street cred, and I certainly wouldn't put them in the "heavy stuff" category, but their first album is a banger.

[Goosebumples]

No particular issue with em myself beyond they're not my thing. I just remember yermans general aura when talking about the "heavy stuff" was gas and then it turns out he was talking about linkin park!

[Ducky]

Saw a barman last week I would have otherwise taken for a proper metaller except he was wearing a Linkin Park cap like as if that was okay!   

    

[Ducky]

Many years ago I was out on a date, propped up at the bar. I was wearing a plain auld t-shirt, and was very much after the halcyon long haired days.

Sitting at the bar, there's another lad there, also looks like he's on a date. His missus heads for a smoke, my date heads to the jacks. He's wearing Doc's, a leather jacket, has long hair, has a Metallica t-shirt, so I ask him what's his favourite Metallica album...

He looks at me funny and says "are you into the soft stuff? You look like Metallica would be too heavy for you". So I say well my favourite metal bands are Death, Atheist, Gorguts, Suffocation, Nile, Napalm Death, Carcass... yeah he's looking at me blankly like the dirty false that he was 

What an absolutely bizarre reaction to someone asking you about the music that you're actively advertising you're into.

[Mooncat]

Some people are just bizarre humans...

Some other random weird reactions I've had over the years, off the top of my head:

In Katy Daly's as a teen, asked for a WKD Iron Brew, barman immediately says, "Why? Are you a faggot?" (imagine the reaction to that today)

Was at some rando work party and a guy hears I play guitar and says he likes some guitar magazine. I say, "oh yeah I love it too, I have a huge stack of them at home, I used to read them religiously as a teen". His reaction was complete indignance, "Oh I see, they're beneath you now huh? Some kind of expert are you. like you're better then me?" He was genuinely upset about it.

On a date. Talking about rap. I mention my favourite period is the Golden Era and guys like Rakim etc. She says the golden era was the 2000s with Eminem, Dre etc (not as in like, her golden era, but like what is considered as in terms of the media tag). I just brush past it saying, "oh I thought it was the 80s", and she full on snaps, "I went to university and have a music degree so I think I know what I'm talking about!" Now the date is just awkward, though I at least can fill in the silence by pondering the gangster rap module she took at Queen's University.

Anyway, bit of a random ramble. Point being, you can't account for people!

[Kunt 4 Life]

Did you shag her or what?