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I am reminded of a song by Joe Jackson... (Anyone may post this song before I do).

Yes, I think these people are annoying. That's why I am making this a poll. Do you find these cutsey-poo couples sickening?

Redlemon

"Snookey Ookums", Words and Music by Irving Berlin (1913)

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Supple Cow

I think it all depends on how closely they resemble your own previous (or current) relationships. I can't stand the ones that hit too close to home. Maybe I'm just territorial that way.

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Charlatan

God no!

To be so saccharin would be painful not only to those around me but to myself as well.

The only thing on that list that applies is our public displays of affection. I have no problem kissing my wife in public.

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maleficent

Baby talk is annoying... Public Displays of affection within reason are cute... making out in public will either prompt me to tell you to get a room, or to critique you... either one - it doesnt belong...

Overly cute is just annoying... (says the person who gets ragged on for using expressions such as YAY!! when a person comes into a meeting)

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Ustwo

I tend to grope my wife in public on the sly which annoys her to no end.

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Hardknock

Why do you think that happy couples are so annoying astro? Do I detect a little jealously?

Cynthetiq

you're schmoopy....no you're schmoopy....

ugh...

great Sienfeld episode....

annoying... I dislike it even though most people seem to think that Skogafoss and I are like that... but we're not. Honest. Ask Quadro and JustJess.

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StanT

My wife and I do tend to finish each other's sentences.

I'm not sure if an occasional grope in public qualifies as PDA or whether "shithead" would be considered a cute nickname.


We're too antisocial for anyone to have much of an opinion of us, but I do find it annoying with other couples.

shesus

hmmm, I HATE babytalk and would never refer to anyone except maybe a puppy with the hideous names mentioned during a babytalk conversation.

PDA is a little embarrassing for me to watch. I rarely show any. Maybe a little hand holding, but that can be stifling to me. I might give accept or give a peck on the corner waiting for the stoplight, but that is it. I am not a groper and wouldn't want someone groping all over me.

As for the finishing sentence part, I like that because it gives me less to say.

I am not lovesick or in a 'perky' couple. But usually people can tell that JJ and I are together. They always say we're cute, but I hope not in an obnoxious way.

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anti fishstick

I just don't like how fake it seems.

Though, you don't have to be attractive to do PDA.. when unattractive people do it it's just even worse.

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docbungle

It annoys me that so many things like this annoy so many people. I choose to not let every little thing annoy me. And, going hand in hand with that, I tend to not worry a whole lot if my girlfriend and I annoy anyone else with our mannerisms and whatnot. If you don't like us based on something as trite as this then don't introduce yourself. Maybe we'll get lucky and never meet.

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JumpinJesus

Cute couples don't necessarily annoy me. Sometimes, if I'm in the right mood, they can be downright adorable.

However, there are those occasions where I see a cute couple like that and I just want to slap them with some pancakes.

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KellyC

I can always look the other way or get away from all that if it annoys me.

Baby talks is, imo, retarded when adults do it to one another and it makes the speaker sound/look retarded too. Save it for the babies please, that's why it's called "baby talk" in the first place.

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Zeraph

I hate that baby/ryhming/wuving talk. Other than that, happy people don't annoy me.

Redlemon

I love watching PDAs*. It makes me want to get back home to my wife and enjoy her.

Baby talk, however... not so much.


* Is that the proper way to pluralize the acronym? Perhaps PDsA is better?

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JustJess

You know, I don't think I've heard anyone use baby talk in public ... since college! Other than that... happy couples don't annoy me, cause I'm a happy couple. What's wrong with being happy, dammit?!?!?

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zen_tom

doc - thank god! I find it so upsetting to hear people sniping at this or that piece of random behaviour, whether its using your mobile phone on a train, drinking red wine with fish, being late for a meeting, heaven forbid *touching* someone in public, wearing the wrong kind of shoes, your watch on the wrong wrist, being foreign, poor, too cultured, or not cultured enough, or whatever current thing is pissing off the masses this week.

The truth is that there are always going to be some people who are bitter, ungracious and miserable - it doesn't matter what the behaviour is, these people are always going to find something to snipe at and make snide remarks about. Normally, I take it as a sign of low self-esteem. There is a certain level of empowerment in criticising someone else's behaviour. The problem is, in acting this way, you have to accept either becoming a hypocrite, or put severe limitations on your own behavioural responses.

Often, it is best to treat everyone with honesty and respect. If you feel threatened by someone, or feel that they have something you don't, try to simply walk away. Accept that they are different, and try to tolerate them.

The more you tolerate the things you dislike about others, the more you will learn to tolerate the unpleasant things about yourself. But this is just a part of growing up and naturally comes in time.

Of course, it can be refreshing and fun to vent abuse at a certain group of people, it is a perfectly natural, and common human behaviour - just as long as we all remember that it's just a way of letting off a bit of steam, and we realise too, that one day, it is we who are going to be the frustrations and the laughing stock of some group or other.

So please, try not to be ungenerous, bitter, sour-mouthed sneerers. We all have to do it sometimes, but if there's one thing I hate, and can get ungenerous, bitter and sour-mouthed about, it's that.

maleficent

I have no problem with my bitterness... and my mouth is minty fresh not sour...

Both of those do not belong in the same category as drinking red wine with fish - being late for a meeting is unprofessional and rude. The other people in the meeting have things to do... their time is valuable. What makes the person who is late so danged important that they can hold up the meeting while they do something else. Be on time - it's not a difficult concept. I have wasted more time waiting for self important idiots to arrive for a meeting-- My time is valuable... if a meeting is scheduled for 11:00am -- it starts at 11:00am... why is that so hard to understand.

Using the phone ont he train is fine, as long as reasonable volumes are used, most inconsiderate jackasses do not know how to use reasonable volume, and it's inconsiderate.

People do not exist in a vacuum. they have to SHARE the planet with other people and they need to get over themselves that they can do whatever they want whenever the hell they want to...

Touching someone is fine.. .sucking face and groping one another in public is not fine.. get a freakin room - and i you want to be an exhibitionist -- do it on camera where people ccan pay for it... But on the bench on the mall is not acceptable behavior.

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zen_tom

Quite right maleficent, you spot that all these behaviours are not wrong in themselves, it's the attitude of the person performing them that counts.

I once arrived 15 minutes late for a meeting and was roundly put down by the person holding it. If he'd been bothered to ask, he would have realised that I had just travelled 6000 miles by air, had a taxi ride across town during rush-hour, not to mention being given incorrect instructions by his staff on the location of the meeting - there are some things you just can't control. Under the circumstances, I found his behaviour rude and self important, despite it being me who was late for his meeting.

My point is that one's attitude is all - by all means find someone's attitude annoying etc, but the mistake I see so many people making is focusing on the behaviour itself. Two people can perform almost exactly the same actions - but if one acts humbly and genuinely cares about the feelings of those around them, they will cause far less offence than someone who rides roughshod over the feelings of others. Cataloguing a list of behaviours you don't like (if not done for comedic effect) normally tells us more about the cataloguer, than the catalogued.

martinguerre

for me, it's the baby talk that gets me. good friend of mine raises his voice, normally a bass, to a high falsetto everytime he answers the phone and it's his lady friend. they're going on 3 years of dating...and it happens everytime. it's both really funny to me, and kind of annoying.

it's an odd pet peeve, but it's the only one i really have left....they really started seeming less like an infatuated pair and more like the couple that's been married for 20 years. whatever, i guess...

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deri

I hate baby-talk... I don't even think it has a place among babies. Just talk to them like every other human being. In the case of babies, just because they can't speak back to you doesn't mean they aren't leaning. My guess is that talking like a retard is just plain terrible for their development.

I'm perfectly fine with PDA and general happiness.

Redlemon

Unfortunately, that is incorrect (I say unfortunate, because I dislike it as well). I can't find links in a quick search right now, but there was news about 3 years ago that found that infants hear much better when you speak in a high, singsong voice. Past infancy, you should switch to regular speech, but the first few months should be babytalk.

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Blue Fish

I thought the article was rather tongue-in-cheek and not meant to be as serious as some people have replied. I don't recall ever encountering a couple that was as extremely 'cutsie' as described. If I did, it would probably make me laugh.

ngdawg

I'm with Mal on this-if you simply MUST swap spit and go into heavy touchy-feely mode, get a room.
I depise baby talk from adults, whether it's to each other or a baby-whatever. It makes my skin crawl.
My sister's voice goes up an octave, she is all over her asshole boyfriend like a mother hen and I want to slap her Cher-style and yell, SNAP OUT OF IT.
I am married to someone who is so opposite of PDA's...he never liked holding hands, never opened the car door for me and his idea of showing affection at home was to tweak my boobs as if they were radio knobs.
A friend of mine had no problem showing some PDA and while it took me by surprise each time, I thought it was kind of sweet.

As for talking babytalk to babies, I didn't do it and my babies paid attention just fine. The spouse did, somewhat, so maybe the balance of both helped.
But seeing women going 'aw, does widdle johnny wike his binky?' makes me gag to no end!

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Charlatan

Wow... I have *never* used baby talk with my kids. Ever. When my mother-in-law uses it to speak to them it makes my skin crawl...

I also never talk down to my kids either. If my son doesn't understand a word I use he asks me what it means.

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little_tippler

Like mal said, it's the attitude that counts.

Happy Couples are fine, but they can be annoying if they don't know when to stop. Like couples who can't be independent and go everywhere together, who will continually smooch loudly in the presence of strangers, who will ignore people they're with to smooch some more, who do baby talk in public (it's just silly and you can do it in private ok), and other things of that sort. Nobody is ever that happy and oblivious to everything around them.

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Gilda

Baby talk is actually good for helping newborns develop the language centers in the brain. It isn't actually harmful not to use it, but neither does it harm the baby in any way and is actually benificial.

I've never in my life heard a retarded person whose speech sounded anything like baby talk. If anything, it tends to be the opposite, a little slower and more monotonous than unimpaired speech.

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As a member of a happy loving couple, I'd have to say definitely not. If I found them annoying, it'd be hypocritical, and I try to avoid that.

I can't quite understand why using affectionate names and holding hands or a kiss goodbye would bother somebody else. We don't finish each other's sentences, not because it would annoy others, but because that means interrupting the other person, which is rude.

Number four is just rude, and has little to do with being a couple, happy or otherwise, and number five likewise has nothing to do with couplehood and everything to do with empathy. I don't see those two as being related to being a happy couple.

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maleficent

Holding hands is sweet, and a chastish kiss goodbye is sweet... affectionate names - eh if that works for ya fine... I've said it before.. it's the full on - "get a room" making out session ont he bench in the mall -that is annoying and I really don't want to have to see that...

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Supple Cow

You beat me to it. I was about to sing, one of these things is not like the others...

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gorilla

happy couples piss me off

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Sweetpea

Happy couples unite and spread the word.

They only annoy those who aren't happy.

have courage and find happiness, it's out there.

Sweetpea

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Ella

Wise words, babe! I think I may be one of these people, except for the baby talk, which I reserve exclusively for my 5 year old daughter. My SO and I kiss and cuddle in public a lot, and tend to finish each others sentences, although this may be a by-product of spending a lot of time together. We have no issues with public displays of affection, and nor should we!!

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Supple Cow

Happy singles have the same effect... it's just more socially acceptable to be half of a well-adjusted couple than it is to be a well-adjusted individual. Regardless, I agree. Everyone should find their own happiness instead of pissing on others' to equalize the happiness going around.

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Sweetpea

Exactly SC! I could not have said it better myself.

One wonders what the point of this thread was to begin with, other than a bitch and moan session about those damn 'happy' people There are worse things than a kissing and happy couple to find annoying out there in the world.

Sweetpea

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shaggs_manoa

Sappy, matched shirt wearing couples are annoying...
loving couples (Me and wife) keep most of that sappy shit in the house so as not to annoy those around us

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5757

I tend to stare at happy couples! I've never been annoyed by a happy couple showing affection. I think it's cute and the world needs more of it. I've never really seen a couple take it to far. I've never heard a couple use baby talk, if I do, I know I will be annoyed!!!
Now, if you are out with friends, and you are sort of the third wheel, and they are making out the whole time. . .that is annoying. That is different though.

I don't even have a problem with gay couples making out. I hear people say that gay couples showing affection is too much because it's so uncommon. I've seen a lot of gay couple go at it since my move here to the Bay Area!! It's all good.

I wish I had somone to call smootchypoo and kiss and slobber on in public!

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snowy

Exactly.

Just the other day I walked into my parents' living room to find them snuggling together on the couch. They are definitely guilty of talking cute to each other, finishing each other's sentences, PDAs, etc. But after 23 years of marriage, I'm happy to see they still enjoy each other enough to do that.

I can only hope I feel the same way about my SO 23 years from now.

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Poppinjay

I wuv oo all. Lets read Ziggy cartoons and laugh.

I don't see many snuggly wuggly couples. I see a lot more young couples who are trying hard to emulate whatever dysfunction they weree raised with by having relationships with a lot of drama.

Between the two, I think I prefer the preter-dysfuncational. Makes for good stories.

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ratbastid

lurkette and I were voted Most Nauseating Couple in college.

Enough said.