I hate that too. It’s like “oh, so you’ve been travelling? How original! You know who else has been travelling? Fucking everybody else!”
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I have a friend who owns a vegan café (yes - I have a vegan friend. I’m so 21st century) and their wifi password is “fortheanimals”.
It really fucking irks me.
After trying to eat around a couple of vegans, I can appreciate your friends effort to corral them into one place so that normal people can eat in peace.
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It was especially bad when I was working at a bank. Every old rich person ( so every client) would come in for foreign cash and id have to talk to them about their trip and their plans and all this shit and I had to act like I really cared and I had to be al smiley like THAT 
SOUNDS WONDERFUL can I be in your suitcase ehhehe
inside I am like FUCK
THAT SOUNDS AWFUl
The whole idea of tourism kind of sucks to me.
I have this arbitrary ratio of distance/time that prevents me from going anywhere too far away without staying for an extended period. Like, If I went to China, I’d have to stay there for about 200 years.
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Aye and everyone goes to the same fucking place to do the same fucking things, thinking they’re oh so original
the food’s actually pretty good, but I’ll die before I ever admit that to her
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Vacation is working from home.
I hate travelling but l hate looking at scenery even more. If I have to travel to look at scenery, some poor local will probably end up accidently running into my fist by the time the trip has ended.
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When people are condescending for literally no reason… got a skinny-fat dude that comes in a couple days a week and does his little awkward, half-ass jog on the treadmill and leaves, but when you try and make conversation, or if something is out of the norm (computer down, check in issues, etc) his tone just pisses me off, because there is no reason to be rude, I simply asked how your day was going.
The combination of frailty, poor tone, and lack of civility just irks me.
Tim Ferris (whom I’d like to punch in the face for a myriad of reasons but I digress) actually believes that traveling for a few days or a week is bullshit. I have to agree with him on that.
If you’re going somewhere, stay there for a couple of months at least. In my opinion this creates much deeper impressions and experiences that hurriedly talking a selfie in front of a geological feature or a building.
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Yeah! I’m kind of envious of my one brother. He travels to Japan once a year on business- for 3 months. After a few years he knows some people, has favorite places to go and has really gotten to know some places and things.
My wifes dream trip is to tour Europe and visit some of the famous castles. I start thinking “That one is being renovated. I wonder if I could get in on that?” To me, that would be as cool as it gets.
I mean, crane signals and weld symbols are international, aren’t they?
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Haha I used to be in distance of a wifi network named “fuckoff”
I’m very interested to hear why.
I’m not sure I can articulate it coherently enough. I’ve read two of his books - the 4-hour work week and the 4-hour body and listened to his podcasts and my main take away is “he’s making a lot of sense when discussing various issues and his suggested course of action has sometimes been very insightful. But the more I listen to him about virtual assistants or digital gear set ups or steak cooking tips the more I want to punch him in the face”
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Lol. I mostly quit paying attention at these points. I would add his, now, 7 minutes of advertisements book ending each podcast is nauseating. Also, TM meditation discussion is overdone.
I found his podcast on psychadelics really well done. Even though I’m way too boring to ever take psychadelics.
The most annoying thing about Tim Ferris is that a bunch of wannabes read his book, didn’t get it, wrote a crummy e-book and tried to live off the royalties. So it flooded the market with half baked, dumb businesses for a while.
Back to the topic of “things that piss you off” – weird gatekeeping things people do instead of just letting people enjoy things.
Yeah if you’re not going to live in a hostel somewhere for a year and learn the language and really find yourself then you might as well just stay at home.
Haha what? Is fucking holiday hipsterism a thing now?
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Well it’s happening again. Now that we have jumped in to Day Light Savings Time, I still see people using the acronyms EST, CST, MST and PST. When Day Light Savings Time hits, its EDT, CDT, MDT, and PDT.
I don’t know why this bothers me. I guess because I am supposed to work in an industry where people are supposed to be educated and this drives me nuts.
Even when I respond correctly, people will still come back, “Start at 1 PM PST”.
I am like, “So you want me to do this in November?”
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Maybe they’re rebelling Pat. FIGHT THE POWER THAT CAN CHANGE TIME!!
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