In general, I try to ignore, well, lots of stuff, especially things that don’t directly affect me or my life. For example, people wearing pajamas in public - c’mon, how hard is it to pull on a pair of jeans or even sweatpants?? I wouldn’t do it, and if I had a minor child at home, said child wouldn’t do it, but in the grand scheme of life, it’s not a biggie.
On the other hand, I was listening to a feature on the radio this morning that discussed wearable technology. One of the men being interviewed said something like “Everyone has a smart phone these days.” *THAT *set me off!
No, everyone does *not *have a smart phone, nor does everyone want a smart phone! Some of us prefer to disconnect from time to time, dammit!! I’m quite happy with my boring little flip phone that almost never rings and is a pain in the patoot to use if I have to text.
Another that sets me off comes from jewelry ads - the omnipresent suggestion that every woman wants diamonds. NO!!! I do not want diamonds. I do not own any and if someone gave me one, I’d sell it. So quit including me in your idiotic assumptions!! Dammit!
Like I said, stupid things that make you stabby. Do share - please don’t make me feel like I’m alone here.
Commercials on some of the stations on Sirius XM. It’s PAY radio, FFS! I thought I was getting away from people shilling me overpriced crap.
The worst are tbe commercials for other Sirius stations. If I had any interest in listening to a station about fantasy baseball, I wouldn’t be listening to tbe Comedy Central station!
Female = pink, and that anything marketed to women must be able to be bought in pink. I HATE most shades of pink, and will actively avoid buying stuff with the pink ribbon on it or that has been unnecessarily pinked (tools and electronics come to mind).
Animal adoption or sales profiles written in the animal’s voice. Just…no.
And a current one that I wish I didn’t know about -
Internet searches for information on brain injuries turn up many pages that are very basic on actual useful information (and heavy on suing someone else) because they are actually sites run by legal firms, despite the page address looking scientific or like a national injury association’s page. I suspect it’s that way for most other major injuries too, but I don’t think my BP can withstand looking to find out.
Internet sites/info with no dates. Yes, I realize it’s not an accident. That your review/info will seem ever relevant if you remove any dating references. But it’s just hugely misleading.
If you can’t/won’t date your info my automatic assumption will be its a few years out of date and I’m going to keep looking till I can find something that IS dated and I can confirm is current.
And especially Google! Is it just me? Or are more and more of search results woefully out of date? Search for how to do anything on an iPad and you’re likely to get videos/articles from when it was first released! Thanks for nothing Google!
On the show Inside Comedy, Richard Pryor often gets cited.
Host David Steinberg insists on referring to him as “Ritchie”.
Not only does Pryor not look like a Ritchie, absolutely no one else, ever refers to him as such. It’s as if Steinberg alone has this childhood kinship with Pryor and that he is the sole member of this one-man club.
Apart from that, the show’s not half bad but god I hate it when Steinberg does this.
Holy crap, this is mine. I recently decided to buy some new running shoes, so I started looking around to see what other women are wearing and it’s all pink. No, stupid bitches, don’t just buy what they sell you!
I even like pink at times, but I must boycott it on principle.
Look around, I found purple sneakers which I thought were really cool and I love. But then, I love purple and have slowly been accumulating purple stuff.
The stupid diamond commercials are annoying, yes. Diamonds are boring, anyway!
Things that make me stabby:
people not using their turn signals. I cannot read your puny little mind! HULK SMASH!
Any restaurant or any place that doesn’t have a website. It’s 2016. Hire a high school kid to slap your menu on a website. And I don’t mean grubhub. I mean buy your own damn domain and maintain it. AND UPDATE IT.
minlokwat brings up a good one - nicknames. Don’t use nicknames unless you know the person wants it. I get the opposite problem - I go by the shortening of my name and inevitably when people find out about my ‘real’ name they try and invariably fail to pronounce it. “Is that right?” they say, and I always say, “No, and I go by _____.” Did I give you permission to call me that? UGH!
Ah, nicknames! When I was in middle school, I had a classmate who sorta shared my first name (she spelled it wrong!!! ) She thought she was so clever to come up with nicknames, always based on last names. For example, the girl whose last name was Snyder was dubbed “Snydley” by, well, no one but the annoying little twit. She tried to do the same with me, which, coincidentally, was Richie, and I just flat out ignored her till she got bored.
Oddly enough, when I was in the Navy, a coworker called me Fred and I thought that was adorable! Maybe the annoyance was more to do with the person than the moniker?
And I fully agree with the pink-is-for-girls crap. I am fully capable of using a screwdriver or a pair of pliers in “manly” colors. <she says as she rolls her eyes with dramatic exasperation>
There is absolutely no one in the world I accept nicknames from except for my family and my SO. My family because they are too old and stubborn to change, and my SO because he loves me.
Everyone else can call me by my name. It’s two syllables! Get over your bad selves!
May I get a pass if it’s 6am and I’m in the donut shop buying donuts please?
Mine is cashiers talking on their phone as they are serving you.
The other day I was at 7-11. I bought two cups of coffee and three packs a cigs for a friend. Dude was talking on the phone as he was ringing me up. I don’t know what cigarettes cost these days but $8.65 for thee packs of cigs and two cups of coffee didn’t seem right. I didn’t notice the price until right after I swiped my credit card. I tried to tell the dude: “This doesn’t look right” to which he responded: “Thank you, have a good day”
And with that, I turned around and left the store.
This has come up in other threads but --------- you know how you will lag back to let another driver into traffic or wave someone out of a parking lot or side street? They take advantage of the chance you give them and then don’t give you a wave or somehow acknowledge what you did for them? I want them dead or at least to lose their drivers license.
I buy most of my goods over the internet. It suits me to have things delivered and to not have to ‘shop’ in the traditional sense. I don’t like the experience, never have. But…what really brings out my inner Yosemite Sam is the way your online purchases follow you to every website you open. For example, I purchased a small electric snow blower online for my small driveway. Does a great job for snow under 6 inches, requires little maintenance, and I hope to use it profitably for many years to come. I do not, however, plan on buying one, two, a dozen, or one thousand more of them. Yet every time I open a website, an ad for the same or similar snow blowers pops up, exhorting me to buy buy buy. For God’s sake, do they think I’m running a snow removal service? Perhaps I run over it every day with my vehicle? Who knows? And let’s not forget the periodic emails entitled “Have you seen this new item?” regarding the very same snow blower.
I could see if I bought laundry soap, or bulk tea, or something consumable, but who in the world needs multiple snow blowers? Stop trolling me, snow blower people!
-Folks who don’t understand “lane discipline” on the highway. The right lane is for going 55mph, lanes to the left are for passing and those of us who exercise a more Autobahn-y way of life.
-Yicky guy in another department who was not only sneak-using my coffee cup, but leaving it in the sink for me to wash! After this happening several times I threw my cup away (he’s that icky).
-Pompous colleagues who insist that their students – and even some colleagues – call them “doctor” or “professor.” YMMV, but I don’t mind being called any permutation of my title/name, including students using my first name.
-Door-to-door sales folk who unbolt my porch gate to knock on the door. Guess what? If the gate is bolted, we’re not interested in hearing about solar panels/skeevy electric companies/Jesus and/or The Kraken Messiah. Go away.
Hmmm, I think I awoke in a stabby mood today . . .
Looks like some of us here have major issues. Which is fine - we’ve all got stuff that sets us off, but I didn’t want this thread to be about significant angry-fication. That sort of thing is easy to justify. Let’s have more inane triggers - like the guy in the car next to you at the stoplight who’s flossing. We’re not talking the removal of a single stuck food item - we’re talking major dental hygiene in public. Yes, in your car where we can see you counts as in public. Don’t pick your nose, either!
Second the peeve with cashiers who are too busy socializing to do their jobs.
I’m not a smoker, and live in California (so can expect higher prices on everything than other areas would have), but that frankly sounds quite LOW. Based on signage I see at stores, here you’re doing well to get below $4 for ONE pack.
Mine is people in traffic that don’t pull up to a reasonably close distance at stoplights. Sometimes cars stop 30’ or more before they should. I just don’t get it. You already had the momentum to move up, but you used your brakes instead to kill it for no apparent reason. Now when the light goes green, you still have to make up that space you just threw away, and so does everyone behind you.
I bet if everyone in this nation pulled up correctly we could save millions of gallons of gasoline, not to mention wasted time at lights. Self-driving cars will eliminate the issue, I would think.
) She thought she was so clever to come up with nicknames, always based on last names. For example, the girl whose last name was Snyder was dubbed “Snydley” by, well, no one but the annoying little twit. She tried to do the same with me, which, coincidentally, was Richie, and I just flat out ignored her till she got bored.
