Grumble, Grouse and Grrr.

  I  can't stand it when someone, and those someones exist in increasing numbers, uses the term that a person is "bored of"  something.  Conventional usage dictates that you become "bored with' something, or else "bored at' the idea of something.  The first time I ever heard a person say she was bored of something was the time when my mother took 2 young girls into foster care, and the elder said she was "bored of " playing a game with another child. I excused her usage because she was labeled as a retarded child, and I figured this was just a manifestation of her condition.  Since then, however, I continue to hear increased use of the term by those in the media, supposedly educated.  Really, being bored of something makes no sense, does it? 
   Today on TV, I heard (and not or the first time) an ad for denture cleaner in which a purported dentist advises against the use of toothpaste because "dentures are different to your real teeth."  What hope do we have, considering the English language develops from usage, and those using it are idiots.  I can't even imagine what my college professor of English, Dr. Knotts, would think, but I know what grade he would give if anyone turned in a paper with language like that. 
   We were steeped in writing courses too, and objective writing had definitive rules; one did not say what they "felt" or use emotion, or biased language in the wording of an objective report.   Again tonight, television news updated the story of the "six-month-old puppy" that had to be euthanized due to probable abuse.  Never mind that the picture of the animal showed a fully grown dog; at six months most canines are capable of procreating.  They are not puppies except for the emotional impact.  The same goes for "the little eight-year-old girl"  reported on a few weeks ago.  Reporting and editorializing are two distinct entities, or should be, unless we don't want to draw any conclusions for ourselves.  Just wait for someone to tell us how and what to think.