# Little things that bother you, and are also INSANE. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 6, 2009, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bother-you-and-are-also-insane/516544 "2009-11-06T08:41:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bother-you-and-are-also-insane/516544/41 "2009-11-06T17:34:48Z")
I’m firmly convinced that _O_ is placed too early in the alphabet. It shouldn’t be by N, it should be a bit later, around T or U. I’m glad I could finally get that off my chest. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bother-you-and-are-also-insane/516544/42 "2009-11-06T17:35:36Z")
I hate, hate, _hate_ when company names use text message speak in their company names. For example, there is a small Toronto cheque cashing/money lending place called “CA$H 4 U”. Besides replacing the S with a $ (another pet peeve) it’s like the company is trying to be hip and cool and appealing to today’s net-savvy customers, but in reality they just look retarded and cheap in a shady sort of way. I see their signs and want to change it to “RIP U OFF” Oddly I have no problem with U-Haul. Maybe that’s because they’ve been around longer than I have and I’m used to it. I also have a totally irrational hatred for kids who wear jeans with the ass sagging a foot too low. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bother-you-and-are-also-insane/516544/43 "2009-11-06T17:54:35Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Hey is probably not lying. I put gloves in mine on purpose just for legitimacy and so the box wouldn’t feel bad about itself. I don’t really wear gloves though. He is probably lying . . . ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Venom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@Lady\_Venom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Venom)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bother-you-and-are-also-insane/516544/44 "2009-11-06T18:01:15Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Multiplication tables. I still cannot, after an entire lifetime, after years of drilling, multiply certain numbers without counting on my fingers. Especially the 9’s. ☹ ? I’ve got a trick for you with the 9’s. I’m mathematically challenged too…but this trick helps me with the 9’s. **09** (next is one more than 0 with one less than 9) **18** (next is one more than 1 with one less than 8) **27** , (one more than 2 and one less than 7) 36 and so on. 09 18 27 36 45 54 63 72 81 90 0 to 9 on the left and 9 to 0 on the right. Hope that helps! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bother-you-and-are-also-insane/516544/45 "2009-11-06T18:11:50Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > I put gloves in mine…so the box wouldn’t feel bad about itself. I don’t really wear gloves though. You don’t need the gloves and the box feels better. A win win situation. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bother-you-and-are-also-insane/516544/46 "2009-11-06T18:15:36Z")
> [@Lady\_Venom](#): > > I’ve got a trick for you with the 9’s. Y’all reckon? See post 20. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bother-you-and-are-also-insane/516544/47 "2009-11-06T18:19:26Z")
Today I throw a ball. Yesterday I threw a frisbee. Today I will blow my whistle. Yesterday I blew my horn Today I know the answer. Yesterday I knew it too. Today I will mow the backyard. Yesterday I **mew** the front. Take that ya bastids! ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bother-you-and-are-also-insane/516544/48 "2009-11-06T18:20:24Z")
I cannot stand the noise people’s throats make when they swallow. Just can’t bear it. Sitting near a noisy drinker makes me feel murdurous. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bother-you-and-are-also-insane/516544/49 "2009-11-06T18:20:40Z")
I HATE it when my 51 year old coworker excuses herself to go to “the little girls’ room”. It makes me crazier than usual. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bother-you-and-are-also-insane/516544/50 "2009-11-06T18:31:28Z")
Newspapers. They’re HUGE. Who can hold/fold that thing the way they want it and have it look nice? It’s ridiculous to have a book-like material that’s printed on giant pages. And that the sun comes up really low in the sky and rises during the morning. That’s stupid. The sun should just be in the middle of the sky and get bigger as noon approaches. I’m cool with sunset though. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bother-you-and-are-also-insane/516544/51 "2009-11-06T18:54:33Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > I still want to know why it’s called a “doubleyou” and not a “doublevee”. 's yer fault for speaking English. In Spanish it’s a double-vee. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bother-you-and-are-also-insane/516544/52 "2009-11-06T19:11:35Z")
When people add redundant nouns to acronyms, like “ATM _machine_” or “PIN _number_”. No, no, no, no, you freaking morons! Can’t you stop to _think_ for _one little moment_ and realize you’re actually saying “Automated Teller Machine machine” or “Personal Identification Number number”?!? Gah. I wish to reserve the right to smack these people in the head. Unless it’s an actual _banking employee_ that does it, in which case I wish to reserve the right to kill them and take all the money out of their cash drawer. ---
**Author:** ![Gesturing\_Mildly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/65b543/32.png) [@Gesturing\_Mildly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gesturing_Mildly)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bother-you-and-are-also-insane/516544/53 "2009-11-06T19:11:57Z")
When the letter Q shows up without the letter U, it really gives me the heebie-jeebies, ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bother-you-and-are-also-insane/516544/54 "2009-11-06T19:12:16Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Now didn’t I _just_ ask you to stop with the blatant lies? I have a witness. My boyfriend was there and laughed when I said “wow, there’s gloves in my glovebox!”. Usually I only keep my car manual and car repair/maintenance receipts in there. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bother-you-and-are-also-insane/516544/55 "2009-11-06T19:41:27Z")
> [@Lady\_Venom](#): > > I’ve got a trick for you with the 9’s. Different 9s trick: Multiply the number by 10, then subtract itself. 1 \* 10 - 1 = 9 2 \* 10 - 2 = 18 3 \* 10 - 3 = 27 4 \* 10 - 4 = 36 5 \* 10 - 5 = 45 6 \* 10 - 6 = 54 7 \* 10 - 7 = 63 8 \* 10 - 8 = 72 9 \* 10 - 9 = 81 ---
**Author:** ![kenner116](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kenner116](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenner116)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bother-you-and-are-also-insane/516544/56 "2009-11-06T19:49:16Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > I’m firmly convinced that _O_ is placed too early in the alphabet. It shouldn’t be by N, it should be a bit later, around T or U. O is fine where it is, but Q’s position in the alphabet is a major issue for me. Whenever I’m going through a long list of files or folders, I always look for the Q files at around T or U. Then I have to scroll back up 15% of the way to get to the right file. Over the years, this has wasted at least an hour of my life. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bother-you-and-are-also-insane/516544/57 "2009-11-06T19:53:51Z")
If warmth is a word, coolth is a word, dammit, and I’m using it. No, I don’t care. NO, I DON’T CARE! I’m using it, it’s a perfect word to describe what it means! ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bother-you-and-are-also-insane/516544/58 "2009-11-06T20:23:28Z")
Things that make me lose my shit When the mom-cop on Cagney and Lacey found her adolescent son’s porn stash and insisted on sitting down and paging through the mag with him so he could understand how dehumanizing and objectifying it was to women. Dick Cheney - Just looking at him makes me want to give him a beat down Perez Hilton - See Cheney above Big SUV drivers when there’s only one person in the car - and I drive a big SUV with just myself most of the time. I’m self hating. People who are self consciously hyper dramatic Hypochrondiacs who cultivate their illnesses ---
**Author:** ![smaje1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@smaje1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smaje1)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bother-you-and-are-also-insane/516544/59 "2009-11-06T20:24:07Z")
It bothers me when people use “per se” incorrectly. And I’ve always assigned sexes to numerals. It seems that the evens are usually femal. Except 6 and 7. Six is male, seven is kind of a tranny. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bother-you-and-are-also-insane/516544/60 "2009-11-06T21:03:15Z")
Something about James Gandolfini’s voice makes me want to punch him. I really have no desire to see Where the Wild Things Are because I figure I’ll just spend the whole movie wanting to punch the character he voices. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bother-you-and-are-also-insane/516544.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-things-that-bother-you-and-are-also-insane/516544.md?page=4)