The Growlery is: OPEN
Welcome to the Growlery, my occasional haven for low-key complaints. Have a cuppa tea.
What is something minor that gets on your nerves? I'm talking really petty stuff, the kind of thing you feel silly for being annoyed at but it annoys you nonetheless. Tell me about it and I'll commiserate.
I'll start. You know what really annoys me? When I hear someone talk rudely about people from pre-20th-century history. The more I get into reading up on history, the more I run into this stuff. You may have heard the type of thing: someone will go, "Oh, they all deformed their internal organs with corsets and nobody brushed their teeth and they never bathed so they must have smelled to high heaven." It's the Everything Sucked Back Then school of thought.
It really gets my goat, specially as it's so hard to answer because I'm not actually from back then. I want to deliver a lecture on how (a) diets were comparatively low in sugar so they would have had healthy though crooked teeth, on average; (b) tight lacing was an extreme rather than the norm; and most importantly (c) a person's moral worth and respectability and goodness are not to be measured by how often he or she bathes and anyway they changed their linen every day so they wouldn't have smelled at all. But I've tried explaining stuff like that, and it's like pounding sand down a rat-hole.
What I really want to do is scream "Don't you dare speak so crudely of the people I love!"
*groan*
I know what it's like. It's like hearing someone make snide remarks about "backwoods hicks" when some of your best friends live out in the backwoods.