Things That Annoy Me: Overly Cheerful People

It's time once again to highlight yet another thing that annoys me which is also featured in my book, I Am Annoyed: One Man's Rants Against This Annoying World. This may be sad for me to admit, but I am usually not a cheerful person. I guess it is tough to be cheerful when you're being annoyed most of the time. Despite this, I try not to be annoyed by cheerful people. However, there are people that are so damn cheerful that they become annoying very quickly. It seems to me that they appear almost psychotic in their cheerfulness. It's a very thin line between being overly cheerful and being a total psychopath, in my humble opinion. No one can be that happy without something being wrong with them. So, to read more about these annoyingly cheerful people and other things that annoy me, please check out my book at this link:

www.amazon.com/dp/B00GZO198C

Thanks for your time, and try to be happy. But not too happy, if you get my meaning.

Things That Annoy Me: Prices That End in $.99

Hello, it's time once again to highlight something that annoys me. For shameless self promotional purposes, I must mention that I wrote about this same subject in greater detail in my book, I Am Annoyed: One Man's Rants Against This Annoying World, which is available on Amazon. Today, I want to talk about how almost everything we buy is priced to end in $.99. The reason for this, of course, is that studies show that psychologically, people are more apt to buy something priced this way. It is weird for me to believe that lowering a price by one cent affects people that much. Really, is everyone that feeble minded? For example, if something is priced $9.99, it is basically ten freaking dollars. In fact, it's even more when you add sales tax. It's just sad and annoying to me that people are such dullards that this actually works. Anyway, to read more on this subject, here's the link to my book on Amazon, which you can purchase for the low price of $2.99:

www.amazon.com/dp/B00GZO198C
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Thanks for your time, and I hope you got the joke.

Self-Indulgent Ramblings VI: The Undiscovered Blogger

Because it was so popular the first five times, it's time once again for some ramblings about anything that comes to my mind. So with apologies to Star Trek and Larry King, here are some more self-indulgent ramblings:

If the studies that say having pessimistic thoughts is actually healthy for you is true, I might live to be 120.

Eva Green is great in every role she's in.

The fact that she's naked in practically every role she's in has no bearing on my opinion.

Honestly.

Seriously, though, she's a great actress.

She does look great nude, though. #Making compliments pervy

My unabashed, no holds barred review of Guardians of the Galaxy: I AM GROOT!!!

That means I really liked it.

Why did The November Man open in August?

So I figured out why new characters keep on popping up on Under the Dome is because the events on the show have only taken place through the course of a few weeks even though the show itself premiered last year.

Okay, I didn't really figure that out. I just finally paid attention to the narration at the beginning of every show.

I'm glad I could clear that up. As far as explaining what else is happening on this show, I can't help you.

The ALS ice bucket challenge is for a good cause and all, but don't you suspect a lot of people are not actually dumping themselves with ice water?

Spoiler Alert! Here's some comments on the series finale of True Blood, don't read the next paragraph if you don't want to know:

Was I the only one who thought Bill was going to somehow turn human and he and Sookie were going to have their happy ever after life with kids and stuff? And instead of Sookie ending up with some random guy whose face we never really get to see, couldn't they have just kept Alcide alive?

So I'm finally catching up on the last season of Sons of Anarchy (thank you FX for the early Thursday morning replays for those of us too cheap to buy episodes on Amazon) but it's weird to watch it since the major events that happened were already spoiled for me (that's what I get for still reading newspapers).

Speaking of Sons of Anarchy, would I'd be a poseur if I wore a Sons of Anarchy t-shirt even though I've never rode a motorcycle in my life?

I guess, by that way of thinking, I shouldn't wear a Breaking Bad shirt either.

I'm really looking forward to the movie adaption of A Walk Among the Tombstones, featuring one of my favorite characters ever, Matt Scudder, from the brilliant mind of Lawrence Block. Now, how about a movie about John Keller?

If you're going to bring back The Tick, bring back the cartoon version!

Speaking of comebacks, it's great that Faith No More is reuniting. In fact, I would say it's "Epic."

I'm allowed one bad pun per post.

Am I becoming a bit of a girlie man if I really like the new Breyers Creamsicle ice cream?

Maybe I am just comfortable enough with my manhood in admitting that I like orange sherbet.

Damn, it's great that football season is starting up again.

My completely biased opinion is another championship for Titletown.

If you don't know where Titletown is, I have nothing more to say to you.

I hate to get all moral on everyone, but I will not look up pictures of naked celebrities if the pictures were released without their consent.

If, however, in the course of browsing the internet, I happen to stumble upon a picture of a naked celebrity, well, I'll look and feel bad about it afterwards.

Okay, that's all I have for now. Thanks for reading!