I’m a big fan of a local radio station here called X96.  Their morning show (Radio From Hell) has a bit called “Our List of Things That Must Go” where each of the hosts names some things that annoy them and why it must go (be banned, outlawed, or otherwise just stopped).

I hadn’t really meant to copy this idea from them, but as I thought of ideas to write about I noticed how many of them are things that I wish people would stop doing.  Therefore, I was creating my own list of things that must go.  So, here I go:

• No-talent hacks who write jingles for background music in shows and TV ads who can’t do anything original and so take a popular song and change 3 notes.  It’s not like we can’t tell who it is you’re ripping off!
• People who can’t grasp the oh-so-difficult 4-way stop.  It’s not really a hard concept!
• The same people named above who also can’t handle roundabouts!  Just don’t drive!
• In America, we speak English.  I totally understand that you may be new to it, or don’t speak it at home, and I’m not going to rag on that.  But if you work at a MEXICAN restaurant, you should still understand what I am trying to order!  You WORK there!  The menu is in YOUR language!  There’s only ten options!  How could you (repeatedly) get it wrong?
• The morons leaving “white powder threats” at LDS temples.  OK, you might be upset about Proposition 8.  If so, I’m pretty sure this isn’t the best move for your cause.  You could also just be a douche; I don’t have any suggestions for that.
• Dell Schanze.  One of these days, I just KNOW that whack-job is going to do something that gets himself noticed on a national level (hey, it happened to Palin).  Then everyone is going to look at the rest of Utah like we’re just as crazy.
• All the “free to play” MMO banners that are on other gaming websites.  Look, we know your game sucks; that’s why we’re not playing it.  Not because you don’t have enough banners!  Maybe if you instead made the game fun, exciting, and stopped selling players email addresses to spam lists, more people would play!
• VH1 reality shows.  Most of these shows now just recycle the same contestants over and over and over.  It used to be these people would just be on an episode of Jerry Springer, but now they get airtime for multiple seasons.  How much do you get paid for having no intelligence or dignity anyway?  We have money to pay for that, but have to bail out the auto industry?
• American car companies.  Do you know how many models Lamborghini has out right now?  Three.  That’s it.  Each one has different variants you can get for it, and each model is updated a little bit each year, but in the end it’s only three models and they are doing just fine.  Now, I understand they are more expensive than a Ford Focus, but they also sell a LOT fewer of them!  Stop bringing out new car models every other year and retooling existing models every 6 months like we need it!  It’s your own fault for going broke and, unlike the housing industry, you can’t blame it on people not paying their loans!  You make total crap anyway and overcharge us for it in the process.