Post your reality pet peeves.

[digonswine]

Mine is--the idea that I am the ONLY person in my life that will never see me the way all others do. A mirror?-- Opposite image. Video?--not even close. I will NEVER see me accurately-the way others do. In fact--I am the ONLY person who can't! Arghh! I would probably be disappointed anyway. Second,-I will never know if not having kids was the right decision--no one has done both. Those with kids say they do not regret it. How do they know? Dammit.

[astral]

1. There are some who say if they had it to do all over again . . .

they would skip the kid stuff. I believe it's the parents of teenagers. I believe I saw it right here on DU. I know I do not regret not having kids, maybe when I'm old and gray and have no kids to watch over me I will wish I had some. But from what I see of today's adult kids and their parents, well, some are there for them and some are not.

And you know what I do have a real reality pet peeve about that.

Also people who make 'class distinctions' against persons of lower economic status than them, like people who won't mix with those who are 'beneath' them.

Can't stand 'em.

Do you think some people see you as you really are? Do you think YOU see you as you really are?

Who is right? Jo or Harri? : ) Or you?

[digonswine]

4. I did not mean to say others see my "true being" or whatever--

I meant it is others who can actually see-with their own eyes, in binocular vision, how I truly look, mannerisms, etc. I can never do that-I just get to with everyone else!

I don't see much class distinction discrimination in my set, living in the middle of nowhere and all. I have experienced where certain people just assume I can afford this or that thing that they easily can, though that I cannot. It's like it does not enter their reality because it something about which they never need to think.

[pokerfan]

2. Gödel's incompleteness theorem really pisses me off

Any effectively generated theory capable of expressing elementary arithmetic cannot be both consistent and complete. In particular, for any consistent, effectively generated formal theory that proves certain basic arithmetic truths, there is an arithmetical statement that is true, but not provable in the theory.

I mean, that's just annoying.

[Phentex]

3. My sister and I have the same voice. Hers bothers me, lol...

I sound the same to me as my sister sounds to me. Other people hear us the same. I can fool her husband, kids, friends. I can fool MYSELF when I hear a message I have left on my home answering machine. Sometimes I think it's her. I don't particularly care for the sound of her voice so that means other people are hearing that in MY voice!

Frustrating.

[digonswine]

5. I know what you mean-

I have a brother that I sound like. I don't like the sound of my voice-but I think that is the norm. I sound just fine inside my head! Sometimes, when teaching about sound, I bring in a microphone and amp. Most kids are surprised at how they really sound, and few are pleasantly surprised.

[Rambis]

6. They exist (nm)

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