whoo! making a list of kinds of people i hate. for fun.

[cimorene]

shitlist:

-bad writers who don't know they're bad.

-people who aren't TOO bad at something (say, oh, JAPANESE), but are nowhere near as good as i am, but don't seem to realize this and bumble around mispronouncing things and incorrectly explaining them to each other.

-self-righteous professors who underestimate the intelligence of their students.

-people who are mean to me.

-people who break things and don't mention it, or make huge messes and leave them for other people to clean up (well--if the person doing the cleaning is me, that is).

-bad writers who DO know they're bad.

-shrinks.

-people who advocate strenuously for policy that is sucky in a harmful and possibly fatal manner: ie, that includes all republican politicians, because of starvation of children kicked off of welfare.

-people who think they know more than me and attempt to condescend (even if it is occasionally amusing...).

-hm. maybe that's all, for now?

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[hisgreyeyes.livejournal.com]

-people who aren't TOO bad at something (say, oh, JAPANESE), but are nowhere near as good as i am, but don't seem to realize this and bumble around mispronouncing things and incorrectly explaining them to each other.

Oh, oh, god, yeah. People like that drive me absolutely fricking CRAZY. I had the most appalling experience in English the other day - we were reading an Eavan Boland poem and it mentioned the myth of Persephone and the pomegranate. And someone asked who Persephone was. Which is okay. Ask if you don't know. But my ENGLISH TEACHER proceeded to fumblingly explain, incorrectly, and then admit she didn't really know.

I'm sorry? This poem has been on the course for over ten years! How stupid are you?! How can you not have found out by now? And why didn't you ask if anyone else knew before you proceeded to make an idiot of yourself?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

and my favorite myth! *grrr* *decapitates teacher*