Things that bug / annoy you in life (or in general)
 

I searched, but none came up, so I decided to start one..

So what are things that bug you or annoy in, in life or in general?

Here are some for me:

- Getting a parking ticket for a dumb reason (like you only left your car there for 2-3 minutes and a cop got you).

- Taking a crap and not having a clean break (so much work afterwards).

- Studying hard and doing well but only to forget it afterwards and (say in 1+ years) having to spend time (albeit alot less time) studying it again.

- Running out of ketchup.

- Apartment rent increasing due to inflation and you can't do jack about it except antagonize your manager.



I will add as things come up..


I suppose this would be the perfect thread for the eternal pessimist.. but I figure we can all let out some steam hahaha

Things that annoy me:
-Debt: the idea of spending money that you don't have is stupid. Being in an economic system that basically REQUIRES that one get into debt in order to own a home or even own a car is completely fucking insane.
-Global Denial: psst.... THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE ON THE PLANET. Oh, and FOSSUL FULES ARE GOING TO RUN OUT. Um... and don't forget CANCER IS HIGHER NOW THAN IT'S EVER BEEN IN HISTORY. Oh, right, and CREATIONISTS CONTROL THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH MOST POWERFUL COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. There's more, but those should be enough to get everyone started.
-Allergies: uh....ah.... *sniff*... pshew. I have a real problem with... AAACHHOO!! God damn it.
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lol whats the pic referring to

1) people who sneeze without covering up the snot blast with a tissue or hanky .. that's just gross

2) people who violate my personal space without invitation to do so .. I elect spitting in reply to this violation

3) people who can't hold their liquor .. I mean, literally hold it .. either in the receptacle it is held, OR the stomach in which it is then consumed

4) people who can't accept the fact that their baby really IS friggin ugly .. don't blame ME for having taste

5) people with small animals who INSIST ~ I ~ treat them like a person .. they're animals, get over it

6) people that get their shorts in a bind over the fact that I don't always agree with them .. it isn't my fault you are wrong

7) people who don't like my sense of humor .. get a life

8) vegetarians .. I don't know why, they just creep me out

9) people who insist on talking on the phone or applying cosmetics WHILE driving .. haven't you seen the State Farm commercials, that's just stupid

10) People who make polls and ask for my opinion about inane things I'd rather not think about .. and you wonder why people don't like me


I may be inclined to add more later, these things are wickedly addictive

Oh, where do I start... how about I put a 24-hour time limit on this to keep it short, hmm?

Today:

- People telling me what they think I should do with my life
- Reality TV shows with stupid petty bitchy women
- People not knowing how to park, or drive for that matter
- People getting pregnant accidentally
- Real estate agents coming to show the apartment I'm renting to prospective buyers, and giving me 2 hours' notice to clean the joint ahead of time
- Having to do the dishes
- Cold-calling people to ask them to do a survey for my PhD research
- Icelandic men
- Loose hairs (especially my own)
- Dirty/cluttered floors and surfaces
- Idiotic 18-year-old boys acting like asshats at the gym
- People who think Iceland is the best country in the world
- People who think any particular country is the best in the world, actually
- Relatives telling me how much I resemble/act like/think like my dead father
- Willful blindness to the truth... at least, my truth. :)

- Tailgaters that are talking on the phone
- Flying rocks on the Interstate that crack your windshield
- TV ads where the volume suddenly ratchets up
- Those flyaway subscription cards in magazines
- Not getting a lunch break at work

Oh man. Right on the money. :thumbsup:

junk mail.

I really need to get a shredder.

A few from today -

- People telling me "You need to be you" without realizing I am, who I am!
- 300ms ping, 1 second delays in the bg's after a WoW patch day
- Colds.
- That one guy at work that feels he doesn't get enough "Kudos" for efficient delegation.
- Making sure to select a random grocery cart and ALWAYS get one with a bad wheel.

More came to mind I just had to add ....

1) people who INSIST on correcting my spelling errors in a thread when it is obviously the least important thing going on

2) people who can't spell

3) lag .. I really think I speak for everyone on this one

4) trojans .. not just the condoms

5) all condoms other than trojan

6) people who ask for your advice / opinion, then totally ignore it

7) people who can't spell and STILL INSIST on correcting my typos

8) people who smell "funny" .. you know the type

9) junk mail .. when will they learn that "occupant" doesn't frikkin live here!!

10) people who have more money than me

Man, who needs to write diary entries when you can summarize all the complaining in compact, point-form?

When you are 80, are you really going to read all those paragraphs? You'd rather look back and reflect on all the things that pissed you off, very very quickly!

Martin Fucking Lawrence. I hate that guy. He annoys the shit out of me.

Ohhh.. i overthought it and thought u had some other meaning for the reference.

I dont find him annoying.. Bad Boys 1 & 2 (esp 1) were hella good

Life, Nothing to Lose, Blue Streak, Big Momma's House, Black Knight, National Security, Wild Hogs, Roscoe Jenkins, and College Road Trip.

The only movies that are missing from that list are Juwanna Man and From Justin to Kelly and you'd have a list of the worst films ever made.

--my Bluetooth wireless mouse cutting out for no good reason in the middle of tanking a group of mobs in WoW, possibly endangering my SO's squishy mage
--People going 90 on the freeway and talking on their cellphone at the same time (no fucking joke!)
--People who presume they must be my kids even though we look nothing alike
--the price of gas being so farking high (I rarely drive long distances, so this especially burns my buns when I have to do it)
--Drivers who aren't aware of pedestrians or bicyclists and therefore endanger both
--Pedestrians who are inconsiderate and endanger themselves by jumping out in front of cars, presuming they will be able to stop safely in time
--Adults who don't look out for small children (one of my charges almost got squished/plowed over several times today despite the fact he was right next to me the entire time)

A saving grace, to add a note of positivity: the bellhop at the Benson Hotel in Portland today who was so incredibly helpful and polite.

- People who pull out in front of you and then go slow as hell. If you're going to go slow, you might as well of just waited for me to drive by!

- Nail biting/pulling, especially toenails. Use a fingernail clipper.

- People who tell me that the music I listen to is only about suicide, and death.

- Drunk girls who make out with other girls for attention... I learned this one from personal experience, unfortunately.

- Not having a garage to park my car in in the winter and waking up every morning to scrape the windows off.

- Humming.

- Those small, wimpy, kind of slow kisses on your neck/back. No thanks.

- Excessive cuddling. I'm not big on it and I don't really know why.

- The snooze button. I can't stand hearing an alarm go off more than once.

- People who say "I'll call you!" and have absolutely no drive to actually do so, they just need to say something nice when they leave.

I can't think of anymore right now... will edit later

hahahahahaha

man, almost every post you make with your gandhi avatar and your insightful responses has always made me think of you as perhaps the most straightest, politically correct, high-brow, sensibly reserved, tight-ass man (and I mean that with all due respect) that I have ever met .. and then you drop this laugh grenade in the mix.

when I saw the pic of ML, I cringed a little ... you know ... like when someone scrapes their fingernails across the chalk board? .. yeah .. I can't stand him either, but this reply coming from you .. yeah


I wet myself

-- My aunt who thinks every other redhead on the planet looks exactly like me.

-- Always being reminded of all the mistakes I made when I was younger.

-- Writer's Block

-- Being lactose intolerant.

-- Not having money for things I need and/or want.

-- Dial-Up

-- People who only call when they want something.

- Negative, glass is half-empty types.

I second that one. i live so far out in bum-fuck now that cable isnt an option and satellite is too expensive >.<
i also second martin lawrence and Reality shows, especially ones that deal with match making and finding true love. like your really going to fucking find true love in a giant group of random bitchy cunts or total douche bag asswhipes. :mad: (anger!)

also:

-Disney fucking world

-Girls gone wild commercials :angry: (very time i hear those fucking Caribbean drums i can feel my brain melt)

-Keyboard Guitars

-a dirty screen in someones bowl, i dont want to have a hemorrhage trying to take a toke.

-racism and anything of the sort (just another reason for me to hate Georgia)

-a boozeless party.

. When your bank website says "Click to apply here" (mortgage) and you fill in a bunch of personal info along with your account number, you hear nothing and send a second request a week later, and finally get an email response telling you to call our Loan Department during the day. Don't advertise it and link me up if you can't handle it!

. People who have to give you a song and dance before they get to the point. Don't waste your time or mine.

. Men who come up with every excuse not to pay their child support.

. Dinnertime and weekend morning sales calls.

. Stupid mass text messages from people you're sorry you gave your number.

. Men who really think it's okay to leave the toilet seat up.

. Drivers who cut across three lanes of traffic and expect all oncoming traffic to stop so they can get to their exit.

. People who don't follow through on commitments.

I liked him better when he was James Bond.

If it makes you feel better, imagine that Gandhi killed people and was promiscuous. And drinking a ten year old Cliquot, Dom Perignon, Krug, Pommery or Taittinger champagne served with Beluga caviar. Assuming I'm not fasting.

I am extremely annoyed by the people who have turned the once benevolent term "liberal" into a dirty word.

1. In reality TV shows when the host explains what challenge or event is happening next and then the show switches to the contestants who 1 by 1 explain what the host just said over a span of 10 minutes.

2. When people at work ask every single person they walk by "how are you?" when you know they don't care and feel uncomfortable if they don't say something.

3. When you browse to a website that has a search box and the cursor doesn't default to the search box.

4. Facebook applications

5. Living away from my twin brother

6. Enemy Spies in Team Fortress 2

7. Sensationalism in news

This is actually an easy one. Start with "Not good..." and then elaborate. Like, "Not good. My grandmother was just arrested on statutory rape charges and my dog got hit by a Ferrari. It's been a bad week. Can I talk to you about it?"

LOL


- wimps
- long red lights at 1 am
- getting 2 of 3 jackpot symbols on a payline.
- 22
- coach seats on airlines
- moles destroying the lawn
- driveway spotlights that blind you when you drive past them.
- people that push the walk button, then cross before the lights turn in their favor
- caffeine addicts
- drivers that don't understand "right on red"
- unexpected rain within 24 hours of washing/waxing the car.

Hhaha thats a good one

Agree!

What? What did we do to you..? :P

Oh man, these last two piss me off to no extent. Usually the driver that doesnt understand "right on red", I drive to the lane next to them, stare at them, then pass them in front. Does this make me road raged? lol

I like this technique.. I'll try it on someone who I know doesnt give a shit but still asks. hahaa

Fun!

-Listening to people chew. My step dad broke his jaw when he was younger, and also has an affinity for dry toast, so growing up I had to listen to his goddamn clicking, dry toast eating mouth. Yuck.

-Shit stirrers. People who need to make things worse for other people to make themselves feel better.

-People who "shush". Like when you make a witty comment about a really shitty reality show and your girlfriend says "shhhhhh" and you want to punch something.

-People talking down to me. I can't stand it when people, especially those who have no idea what they are talking about, try to belittle me. I tend to lose it a bit.

-People who ask me questions when I'm frustrated and/or in pain. Leave me be.

- When my girlfriend puts the dishes in the wrong place in the dishwasher. I don't know why but I hate it.

- When I ask my boss a simple question and get a completely undeserving, over-the-top response. For example: "After I'm done installing the drop ceiling, am I delivering that stuff?", "Woah, hold on one second! I'm just trying to figure something out!" Did it need the "!"? I think not.

- When my gf sweeps but leaves the dust piles. Grrrr.

- People who know nothing about movies or music. I can't believe that someone I know didn't know who Luke Skywalker is. WHERE ARE YOU FROM!

- People who try to one up you in shitty situations. "Man, my headache hurts" "Oh, I know what you mean, I've had a migraine for three days"... fuck you.

- Drivers who can't merge. No one in my city knows how to, I swear to God.

- Over the top religious people. Or even anyone with extreme faith in anything, so much that they make it sound like fact. BB9, a tv show, often has more then one person who says "God wants me to beat this person because a good person deserves to win this game." How does this make sense in any way?

- People who are "too cool". I'm super friendly and social, and I can understand if you're not, but do you have to be rude about it? If I say "Hey man, what's up, if this your first time in the company" and their snotty little face looks all screwed up as if they just tasted a lemon, it makes me want to scream.

- People who joined AP classes in high school when they shouldn't have. Just because you work hard doesn't mean you should lack original thought. Here's an original thought; read a book that isn't required reading. Put some effort into that.

- Animals that dress up.

- Bumper Stickers. Even the slightly amusing ones annoy the bejesus out of me.

-People who go to theatrical/musical performances and give a standing ovation even if the show is shitty. In Fredericton you could walk out on stage, take a dump, and people would freak. It's not a courtesy thing, it's a "you deserve it" kind of thing. They need to earn it. And if one person stands up, it doesn't mean everyone must.

- Video games with horrible controls. Or ones that make the game to complicated. I like it to be difficult, but not complicated.

- Tom Brady. Dick.

- Children, or more specifically, people who assume all people love children. I'm sure they are cute, but I'm not really into it.

- When at my job, you do everything perfectly, but the people who built the house did such a bad job, it doesn't work anyways.

- Tricked out cars. Dude, the spoiler is stupid on your saturn, take it off.

- Rude drive-thru workers. It s your job to be polite. Seriously, that's it. Smile, be nice, hand me my shit, and give me my change. You get paid, I smile, everyone wins. If I hear "Can I take your order, is that it?, Okay 1.55, come up" one more time when my responses to that, in order, are "Sure, can I have a large double double, yes please, okay thank you." When I pull away and I say "Have a nice day" and I don't get it in return, something is wrong.

-People who don't wear belts. Also girls who flash their thongs. I don't really even find thongs that attractive. I'm more of a boy cut kind of guy myself.

-Girls who are over sexual about everything. Turn it down a notch sweetheart, I'm gonna have a heart attack.

- People who say "I'm so depressed" and think that they are actually depressed. Sad isn't depressed. Stop trivializing a serious mental illness.

- People who won't experience things that I know they would enjoy for no good reason except for "no". For example, my girlfriend is a musical theatre actress, at least she tries to be, and I tried to get her to watch Across The Universe. It wasn't the best movie I've ever seen but I know she would love it and I think it was pretty incredible. She loves every movie that fits a similar formula to that one. YET! She decided she would hate that one for no good reason. Drives me nuts.

- When people eat off my plate. I am like Joey. PMF21 DOESN'T SHARE FOOD!

There is so much more but this as been long enough.

How about this? In Iceland, it's ILLEGAL to turn right on red. Yeah, you just have to sit there and wait. I hate it.

How about people who think that taking AP classes make them better/more intelligent than people who don't? I almost got in a bitch-fight once in high school because of that.

I took AP classes, but never was in any bitch fights.

*fortunate*

people chewing food with their mouth open

Bitch fights be craaaaaaaaaaayzeeeeeee.

I get annoyed when I have to work with people who don't have the same level of appreciation for efficiency that I have.

I am also annoyed by the fact that things annoy me. Except for when I'm too tired to care, feeling annoyed to me is a signal that I need to refine my coping skills.

Agreed. AP doesn't mean smarter, it's just a different kind of learning environment. I found it meant more discussion and it meant more sharing of your thoughts. I was always annoyed with people who just regurgitated something, most of the time it was taken completely out of context. I guess I should change the wording "People who pretend to have original thoughts annoy me. Sophists make me angry. And most of the time, it is these people who launch themselves into the conversation, as if they need to win a battle that isn't even being fought."

That annoys me. And Snowy, I think you'll notice the "I hate being spoken down to". I'm not elitist; I just hate phony intellectuals. High School didn't weed them out, which annoyed me to no end because I wanted to enjoy coming to school; most of the time it felt like an obligation for me because I had to sit through some sort of crazy opinion about how Tess of the D'Ubervilles was comparable to Gravity's Rainbow (I'm pretty sure that person just wanted to throw out a strange and random title and author that sounded obscure but I had read both pieces and called her out on it. She had no reply). University tended to oust those crazy pseudo-Pynchon fans pretty quickly.

Always being a dollar short
Kids screaming back and forth to each other
Coworkers who just don't get it
Feeling misunderstood
Phone ringing at 8am on Saturday from a 1-800 number!!
Inconsiderate drivers
Over the top happy people or over the top miserable people
Being lost
Hanging out with couples who constantly fight, why stay together?
Stubbornness
Getting home from work to start dinner only to realize your missing a key ingredient

I'm certain there are many more, will add later

people

OOOOO my bf walks in my house with his shoes on, makes me want to slit his throat! I completely understand.

Lol, they made rule at certain stop lights in Michigan too. I got ticketed once cuz I completely missed the sign that says "no right turn on red". cost me $130 I think

See, in my school it was the opposite--AP had a predetermined curriculum designed to teach to a test, whereas the advanced classes had a curriculum put together by the classroom teacher. The latter fostered more intelligent discussion than the former. I almost got into a bitch-fight because I said that my English teacher's advanced class was harder than his AP class, and one of the girls in my choir who happened to be in his AP class disagreed, fervently (I just think she didn't like the implication that she might be less intelligent). After this incident, I had a chance to ask the teacher what he thought--and he told me he emphasized teaching material that he himself enjoyed in his advanced class, and wouldn't think of going easy on us in choosing material. Because of the latitude he had in designing the curriculum himself, he did choose to make it harder. I have to thank this teacher profusely--he introduced me to a lifelong love of Thomas Hardy and Edith Wharton, and because of him I managed to get a perfect score on the analogy section of the SAT. He used practice tests for the Miller Analogies Test (a graduate school entrance exam) to drill us.

The phony intellectuals are something I see a lot around my campus. Fortunately, I work for a number of university professors, and get to indulge engaging my intellect with them on a regular basis. It is refreshing to sit down with someone and be able to discuss how I used Michel Foucault as a source material for a paper and know they know what I'm talking about. It's one of the reasons I come here to TFP.