Urkel... that bottle-glasses, suspender-totten, high watered nerd on, Family Matters, used to drive me crazy with his character's constant disruption of everyone else's normal life while seemingly ignorant to his culpability and finally asking, "Did I do that?" There are other annoying phrases and sounds that just create certain ire in me; such as... "You gonna eat that?" "It's not my problem" "people say" or "they say" and "whatever;" just to name a few. Sounds like chomping, smacking and eating of ice all bother me. Not so much by the sound as they are intentional... accidental sounds (if you know what I mean) don't seem to bug me as much!
Then it's not just what people say but it's how they say it... for instance. When people talk they're always looking for affirmation, "You know what I mean?" Yesterday when I was eating, you know what I mean? I found a hair in my sandwich, you know what I mean? and it maid me, you know what I mean... sick! Or when people pray they seem to always forget who they're talking to... "God, I just (the word "just" is a ho' nutha issue) want to thank you God, for God you are so good God and God, can you please God, help me God, be a better person God for uh... for uh... God! Then there are those people who end their sentences up in inflecting tone (what is known as "uptalk"). They have the same kind of effect on my belief of that person's intelligence as those from the south... yeah... I just stepped in it right there huh? oh wait!!! Did I do that?
So what bugs you? What phrases, what sounds... maybe it's pompous bloggers who make fun at people from the south or Brittney Spears?
Just another new installment of things to find here at DoxA called: Things That Bug!
