Rant 35 - 4/2/12 Subject: People who exaggerate everything

Rant number 35


If there is one thing that gets on my nerves. Its people who exaggerate everything. They are literally the most annoying thing in the world! Ever.

Bloody irritating isn't it?


Life is sadly full of mediocrity. This applies to things both good and bad. As such, stubbing your toe is not the worst pain you have ever felt. An ice-cream is probably not the best thing you have ever tasted. You are not dying of boredom, you are not freezing cold (unless you are actually encased in it - in which case, you should probably try and do something about that.)

Nor are you boiling hot unless you are:

• Currently human 100 degrees celsius - in which case you are probably going to die
• Actually some kind of liquid with a boiling point of body temperature.

We all do it, but why!?

We all know that there is no way that one of our friends almost died of laughter - otherwise we might feel the need to offer them a little condolence - and suggest that they buy a Roy Chubby Brown DVD (no chance of any laughs there!)

There is also no way that I could say that Twilight absolutely and totally has to be the worst book ever. This would be grossly unfair of me.

Jordan writes books after all...

When someone gets on your nerves - you might say you want to kill them. You might even say that you would do something horribly unpleasant to them using a tube of KY jelly, a partially fossilised kookaburra, a packet of maltesers and a small Albanian goat herder called Hans. 

Truth be told however, most of us do nothing of the sort (particularly the latter - but mostly the former.)

In print we get even worse. It's too easy to add an explanation mark or even 2 - 3 - 4 (or in the case of the particularly diseased of mind) even more to the end of a sentence that does not require any!!!!!

We can also write things in bold, underlined & italics. Which are all just ways of exaggerating the point.

Particularly on facebook, people are guilty of these shameless abuses of good grammatical practice.

In my humble opinion, it is never ever ever ever appropriate to exaggerate and you will make very very angry to do so!!!! 

Seriously though, don't exaggerate so much people. Its annoying

Rant over.