# Random Things That Piss Me Off **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 23, 2001, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-things-that-piss-me-off/77770 "2001-08-23T19:38:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![babydrln](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b38774/32.png) [@babydrln](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/babydrln)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-things-that-piss-me-off/77770/121 "2001-11-05T16:13:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kayeby \* > **[li]Running out of nice underwear and having to wear a pair of old grandma ones[/li]** I thought I was the only person this happened to! 🙂 Things that piss me off are: 1. Double standards of any kind. 2. People that signal AFTER they’ve already slowed down to turn. To quote a good friend, “You’re supposed to signal BEFORE you slow down so it’s not some big f\*\*\*ing surprise!” 3. Liars that dare to be angry at me for knowing what they are. 4. Weight loss commercials that show people who’ve never had a problem with their weight. 5. Weight loss products that say in fine print “When used with a comprehensive diet and exercise plan.” It’s the diet changes and exercise causing the weight loss, so what do I need this pill for?!! 6. Dope threads I start that don’t get any responses. _pout_ 7. Hitting the back button on my internet browser only to be looped back to the page I’m currently on! ARGH!! :mad: 8. Getting booted before I can send the crucial email I’ve been composing for over and hour. 9. Proofreading a paper a thousand times and failing to catch a whopper of a typo! I’d better stop there, or I’ll be here forever! LOL ---
**Author:** ![babydrln](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b38774/32.png) [@babydrln](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/babydrln)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-things-that-piss-me-off/77770/122 "2001-11-05T16:26:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ladyfoxfyre \* > \*\*Girls who are teases. > > Listen Up Bitch Who Screwed Over My Best Friend- > > ``` > If you never wanted him, you shouldn't have lead him on for ***9 months***.... > > ``` > > …so help me god, if you so much as _try_ to talk to him, or give yourself another chance to get close to him and hurt him, I will hurt you. And cat fights ain’t pretty sweetie, 'specially not the ones I’m involved in. \*\* _ **YOU GO, GIRL!!!** _ (Normally that phrase itself annoys the heck out of me–can’t say why–but it just seems to fit this situation!) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![babydrln](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b38774/32.png) [@babydrln](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/babydrln)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-things-that-piss-me-off/77770/123 "2001-11-05T16:33:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by shelbo \* > \*\*In the driving theme . . . > When, late for a movie, on the way to the theater, approaching an intersection with, oh heavenly day an actual green light! Sweet, we’ll just make it, because if we get this light we’re sure to get the next one, and then we’re there. Wait, what’s this guy in front of me doing?! Why is he slowing down? It’s green, man, keep going! My god he’s slowed to a crawl! What in the world is he doing?! Oh great, the light’s turing yellow. Now the guy’s stopping. He’s stopped. At the yellow. Now it’s red. And I get to wait out the light. Wonderful. \*\* My dad told me a _hilarious_ story about my grandmother doing this very thing. Only she’d slam on her breaks at _ **EVERY INTERSECTION** _ even if the light was green. Her reasoning was that a cop might see you run a yellow light and she wanted to make sure she was stopped in case it turned yellow! Drove my parents nuts! Psssst! Grandma! It’s the RED light you’re not supposed to run! LOL ---
**Author:** ![babydrln](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b38774/32.png) [@babydrln](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/babydrln)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-things-that-piss-me-off/77770/124 "2001-11-05T16:56:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kinsey \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by racinchikki \* > > **Getting mocked/assumed to be stupid for liking country music. Here’s a clue, jerk-o: my musical preferences have no effect whatsoever on my intelligence! Imagine that! Listening to a singer with a southern accent and a fiddle won’t lower my IQ!!** > > There was a thread about this last summer. > People who listen to country music (that includes me) tend to like a lot of different types of music (classical, jazz, Top-40). \*\* I’m so glad someone finally pointed this out. I _prefer_ country music because it’s what I was raised on. But I also like to listen to 50’s rock & roll, hard rock, disco and classical music from time to time. One thing that totally pisses me off is that country is the only genre that people are allowed to muck up so that it will be “cool” and make new fans out of people who hate traditional country. Here’s a clue: If you’ve changed it, then it ISN’T COUNTRY, no matter who’s singing it! When Amy Grant released “Baby, Baby” no one considered it to a gospel song just because she was a famous gospel singer. The same applies for country music. If Garth Brooks wants to sing blues or heavy metal I don’t have a problem with it; but don’t tell me it’s country music and don’t play it on a country station. \*\* > [@](#): > > Seems to me that listening to a variety of music types makes for a more well-rounded person. > People who listen to one type of music **exclusively** (usually rock or rap) are the ones who loudly proclaim that Country music “sucks” and actually come off as more ignorant.\*\* Especially since a lot of hard rock musicians have named Johnny Cash as one of their greatest inspirations! ---
**Author:** ![dono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@dono](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dono)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-things-that-piss-me-off/77770/125 "2001-11-05T18:08:09Z")
Can’t believe nobody’s mentioned … People who stop their cars in the middle of the street, roll down their windows, and have a chat. Must … suppress … URGE TO KILL!!! If I only had a machine gun mounted on this baby! ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Juliet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cc9497/32.png) [@Lady\_Juliet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Juliet)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-things-that-piss-me-off/77770/126 "2001-11-05T19:02:21Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by ladyfoxfyre \* \*\*[li]“I-am-a-5-year-old-trapped-in-a-teenager’s-body” \*\*[/li][/QUOTE] How about the “I-am-a-teenager-trapped-in-a-ten-year-old’s-body”? Seriously, you should see some of the little pre-teen girls walking around the mall at night in Miami with their shirts barely below their not-yet-existant breasts and their low-waist jeans. What are they thinking?? To add some more things that piss me off… [li]The fact that my mother, as wonderful as she is, practically begs my sister to go with me to places where -god forbid- I will be meeting one of my guy friends.[/li] [li]No one in my family will accept that I have friends who are male, but will only stay friends and nothing more.[/li] [li]Why the hell can’t ANYONE close cabinets in my house?[/li] [li]Why is it that this guy insists on leading on my BEST FRIEND to the point where she is practically in love with him and believes that he thinks that way about her? Of course, when I talk to him about it the response is “Well, I love her more than anything but **just as a friend** ” You are going to break her poor heart you merciless bastard! For g-d’s sake, just tell her you don’t think of her that way because she EXPECTS something from you when she comes to visit you from boarding school![/li] [li]To one of my dearest friends: You weigh what, 100 lbs at the most? You have what is damn near a perfect body. If you complain to me about how you are so fat one more time, g-d help me, I will rip off your head.[/li] To that dear friend’s mother: If you _tell_ your beautiful daughter that she needs to lose weight one more time, I will fry you in a tub of oil. ---
**Author:** ![LittleTigger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/58956e/32.png) [@LittleTigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LittleTigger)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-things-that-piss-me-off/77770/127 "2001-11-05T19:37:25Z")
I agree with the weight thing, I LIKE large heavy girls, I hate how the stupid idiotic dumb old poopy media has made this whole ‘skinny is inny’ rubbish! SHOW SOME FAT stupid media!!! The Fat Is Where Its AT! [QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Lady Juliet \* \*\* [QUOTE] \*Originally posted by ladyfoxfyre \* \*\*[li]“I-am-a-5-year-old-trapped-in-a-teenager’s-body” \*\*[/li][/QUOTE] How about the “I-am-a-teenager-trapped-in-a-ten-year-old’s-body”? Seriously, you should see some of the little pre-teen girls walking around the mall at night in Miami with their shirts barely below their not-yet-existant breasts and their low-waist jeans. What are they thinking?? To add some more things that piss me off… [li]The fact that my mother, as wonderful as she is, practically begs my sister to go with me to places where -god forbid- I will be meeting one of my guy friends.[/li] [li]No one in my family will accept that I have friends who are male, but will only stay friends and nothing more.[/li] [li]Why the hell can’t ANYONE close cabinets in my house?[/li] [li]Why is it that this guy insists on leading on my BEST FRIEND to the point where she is practically in love with him and believes that he thinks that way about her? Of course, when I talk to him about it the response is “Well, I love her more than anything but **just as a friend** ” You are going to break her poor heart you merciless bastard! For g-d’s sake, just tell her you don’t think of her that way because she EXPECTS something from you when she comes to visit you from boarding school![/li] [li]To one of my dearest friends: You weigh what, 100 lbs at the most? You have what is damn near a perfect body. If you complain to me about how you are so fat one more time, g-d help me, I will rip off your head.[/li] [li]To that dear friend’s mother: If you _tell_ your beautiful daughter that she needs to lose weight one more time, I will fry you in a tub of oil. \*\*[/li][/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-things-that-piss-me-off/77770/128 "2001-11-05T23:00:07Z")
NFL officials who canNOT call a false start without saying, “Prior to the snap.” BOY, do I hate that. If it were _after_ the snap, IT WOULDN’T BE A FALSE START!!! So STOP IT!!! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-things-that-piss-me-off/77770/129 "2001-11-06T00:21:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Daikona \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by SNenc \* > > **People who, when asked what kind of music they like, say “I like everything” or “I like everything except rap and country.” Invariably, these are the people who listen to the least music and usually rely on their local Top 40 station.** > > I hate it when people expect me to be able to sum up everything I have interest in with a simple one or two word category. I could tell you I listen to ‘alternative’, but then what about my Mozart cds? When my parents were in one of the record clubs, I forget which one, I discovered that I own at least one cd out of almost every category they listed. At least some of us say something like that because it’s true. \*\* Thank you. I have driven whilst listening to alternative music, realxed to a bunch of Motzart & Mendhelson, grooved to ELO & ELP, was rasied by punk and new wave music, shake my head to techno music on the radio, loved some of the creepiest folk music you’ll ever hear, even enjoyed Celtic from time to time. I don’t like rap, I don’t like country. I’d say I hate everything in top 40 since and be pretty close to accurate, but I’ve had some guilty pleasures I really should feel guilty about. So NYahhh! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-things-that-piss-me-off/77770.md?page=6)