Bug List

Bug list:
1) When "artisan coffee" actual tastes like dirt, but we all pretend it is just highbrow.
Why: I'm thinking this is groupthink, or some variation of it. Once something is deemed nice, and you don't like it, suddenly you have bad taste.
2) When athletic apparel is pretty impractical, like Nike Fly knits.
Why: A couple people indorse something and suddenly it's the bees knees. People will get hurt because celebrities decided that they are pushing fashion over safety and practicality.
3) When FaceTime fades out because of poor connection, and you know it won't recover, but it makes you wait anyways.
Why: This is maddening. It's an issue because you are just stuck in technical limbo. I wish it just switched to FaceTime audio.
4) When you can't download things onto your phone so you can watch them even when you don't have wifi, like on a plane.
Why: Because if Netflix would let you download, then you would never have to go on their website etc. You would also eventually be able to share the content you downloaded, probably.
5) The fact that academic libraries never have anything interesting to read. Where's the Harry Potter, Marston?
why: I understand it's probably a space thing, but honestly most of our school libraries are packed with books no one will ever read. You can read anything online.
6) When people read things online instead of reading an actual book.
why: For some reason, we are moving away from books. Maybe it's to save a rainforest, but honestly there just seems to be a lack of power in online books. I just never feel like it's the same. But I'm sure, again, we do it to save space, money, and convenience.
7) When online books are really close to the price of the actual book.
why: This happens because companies have overhead even when there is no paper in the book. The overhead can't be that of the company that has to actually print the book though, how can they be similar in price?
8) List articles. List articles are the 2014 version of cliff notes. The internet has been dominated by the "too long, didn't read" versions of actual thoughts. Instead of taking the time to read through something heavy, we simply get to skim the 10 reasons something happens according to one pre-teen author. It's dumb.
why: this happens when people are starting to lose a solid attention span. We can't focus on anything. Nobody wants to have to put thought into anything anymore.
9) The corner of Archer road and 34th street. The traffic is the worst.
why: No one expected Gainesville to reach out west like it has. Gainesville used to be so heavily oriented to the east side of town, and now we have the overcapacity issue at this corner.
10) Gross mass transit, for example, Gainesville's gross bus system.
why: Imagine if the bus was something everybody did. Imagine if clean people rode the bus. It has been stereotyped as the way the poor travel, and really doesn't receive any attention from the government to make it a practical means of travel for the middle class.
11) Abortion pictures in Turlington.
why: It's not the way people fighting abortion should be fighting abortion. It's too graphic for the public eye, and I can't imagine being someone who has had an abortion walking through Turlington.
12) Donald Trump.
why: The man is about as obnoxious and asinine as it gets. He has no sense of tact, no sense of diplomacy, and it bothers me that he would try to seat himself with me on the Christian right when the only belief we share is that he is good at business.
13) Parking on campus being such a hassle. Especially near library west. How do we not have more parking there?
why: I think this happens because campus can't expand north anymore. Like what can UF do, buy out midtown? It's really hard for them to find space, it's honestly just so cramped on the north side.
14) Individuals who jack up pharmaceutical drug prices. It's not ok.
why: Where there is a profit to be made, people are so quick to gauge it. This is more an issue with corporate greed than anything else, honestly.
15) Coffee cups that are way to hot
why: Many places want you to just put the sleeve on yourself or only if you want one. Why don't we build in a sleeve? What if a cup had a manufactured bulge there to help protect from the heat?
16) Impractical emotional advice in some online forum that has no applicability for you, from someone who knows nothing about you.
why: This happens because everybody who has a keyboard wants to be the most wise person you have ever met. I don't think it's right for people to just throw their thoughts out there on the internet. It's bizarre to me, the frequency with which I see articles about your one true love or whatever.
17) The gradual flight of tuition costs. They grew wings and took off.
why: Tuition is blasting upwards at a rate that is hardly tied to inflation. This is happening because schools, it would appear, are being poorly funded and are placing the cost on the students. I understand this is how business works, but it seems that the individuals who can't afford school will leave for some type of online education. As students leave, schools bleed money, and therefore we place more of an economic burden on students.
18) The fact that there is no public money for missions that serve the greater good.
why: If your church can go to another country and do a lot of good things for them, and yet they are tied to a religious purpose, why can't they receive public money? Has the country gotten to the point where they are unable to get any money, just because they are tied to a faith?
19) When homeless animals get the attention that homeless people or orphans deserve.
why: animals aren't people. This happens because people want the altruistic feel of taking in something homeless, but not the work of taking in an actual child or person.
20) The price of a shirt doubling because it has a quail on it.
why: I'm so interested to know why something becomes so crazily expensive because somebody put a quail on a shirt. This happens because the trend is obviously the deep south plantation vibe, but can I get the shirt with no bird on it, or maybe a crow, for $30?

This was pretty difficult. It was strange though, at the end, to look back on this list and find a lot of things that really did bug, and I knew bugged me, all in the same place. It was strange to see all the things that irk me sitting together in the same pew. As I look at the list, I think one big thing I struggle with is a lack on intelligence in your typical consumer. Or maybe, this is a list of things I dislike about myself being vomited onto a page. Probably the latter.