# Things that infuriate you well beyond their actual importance **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 4, 2024, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712 "2024-09-04T02:18:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 135
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2026, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2681 "2026-02-01T02:06:19Z")
> [@Patx2](#): > > I can’t stand the plastic tabs that are on the bags of bread. Please, may I just have a twisty please! I’ll trade you all of my twisties for all of your plastic tabs. ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2026, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2682 "2026-02-01T02:21:14Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Or a similar one for me = “One California city that will have something horrible happen!” when just as easily they could have named it. seems like one of a hundred typical MSNBC click-baits, where nothing in “story” matched headline ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2026, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2683 "2026-02-01T02:21:16Z")
One of the great battles in the food business! ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2026, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2684 "2026-02-01T15:29:00Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > You know what makes me crazy? > People who can’t keep their car at a constant speed. Their average speed is right, but they constantly press and release the accelerator pedal, so the car speed oscillates. Also, people who keep their foot in exactly the same position on the pedal, so when they start to climb a slope, the car slows down, and when they start to descend, the car speeds up. Convinces me they are totally unaware of how fast (or slow) they are going, and that the fancy things on their dashboard like the speedometer are just there for show. ---
**Author:** ![Cachalot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@Cachalot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cachalot)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2026, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2685 "2026-02-01T16:00:14Z")
I suspect that the vast majority of those click-bait articles are AI generated. And the AIs don’t care about that kind of stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2026, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2686 "2026-02-01T16:46:08Z")
Especially on the highway… you get behind someone going 5-10 mph under the speed limit so you get in the other lane to pass but then they realize how slow they’re going and start speeding up, so you have to go faster to get around them, and next thing you know they’re passing _you_, and then when they get back in front of you they start slowing down again, and the whole cycle repeats. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2687 "2026-02-03T20:30:59Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > In old cartoons or comedy sketches which have an arctic setting, they’ll depict walruses, eskimos, polar bears, igloos AND PENGUINS existing in the same place. That’s what you think, but you’ve been fooled by the wily polar bear’s incredible skills in disguise. [![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQN5hSXmj83_xTYCnaLg51RniNB3nBx-IM1n-3cRSzCaA&s) ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQN5hSXmj83_xTYCnaLg51RniNB3nBx-IM1n-3cRSzCaA&s) ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2688 "2026-02-04T13:18:14Z")
“All present and accounted for.” If they’re present, they don’t need to be accounted for, so it should be “all present **or** accounted for”. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2689 "2026-02-04T13:48:16Z")
Movies and TV series that use closed captioning to tell you that the burned-in caption was originally Spanish (or whatever language it was). Typically, the British detective goes to Spain and the Spanish police speak Spanish around him/her. The English translation of the Spanish is burned into the image. But when you turn on CC, the caption (usually white letters in a black box) helpfully displays “in Spanish” over every single line, keeping the viewer from reading the English translation of the dialogue. I wouldn’t mind if the CC showed the English translation and then identified it as Spanish. And I wouldn’t mind so much if the CC told the viewer it was Spanish at the beginning of the dialogue and then disappeared from the screen. But the damn things pop up separately for every single line when a character speaks. The only solutions I can choose are to either (1) turn off the CC temporarily, or (2) switch to forced English CC, which means switching back to regular CC as required. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2690 "2026-02-04T14:07:09Z")
> [@ZonexandScout](#): > > Movies and TV series that use closed captioning to tell you that the burned-in caption was originally Spanish (or whatever language it was). Ooh…tangent pet peeve! I realize that nice movies and shows have well designed burned-in captions tastefully added when they will propel the plot. But WHY does the Internet insist on adding burned-in captions to _everything_ nowadays? No, I don’t want to read what I am listening to when it is some rando explaining how to do something in perfectly clear English. In those cases my brain gets tired trying to flip back and forth between reading and listening. It’s the way of the future I suppose. ETA: And no, it’s not so someone who speaks English as a second language can follow the speaker. I do plenty of YouTube videos, and every single one gets _automatic_ closed captions provided by YouTube that someone can turn on if they wish. The point is “you can turn it on if you want”. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2691 "2026-02-04T18:57:42Z")
I’m annoyed (maybe not infuriated but hey…) that I sort of have the opposite problem with watching _Star Trek 6_ on Paramount Plus. I don’t want subtitles, so they are switched off. But this means the bits in Klingon (which I know have English subtitles, if not all the time, then certainly for the important lines) are not subtitled either. If I turn the subtitles on, I get the Klingon translated… but I also get the English subtitled too! I’ve seen this happen with other providers too, and possibly even on DVDs. Actually, it IS infuriating! I’ve been watching the whole Star Trek film series and this is the first it’s happened with. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2026, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2692 "2026-02-04T21:40:44Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > ‘All present and accounted for.” If they’re present, they don’t need to be accounted for, so it should be “all present **or** accounted for” “They’re here, and I’ve done their taxes!” ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2693 "2026-02-05T00:03:21Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > I’m annoyed (maybe not infuriated but hey…) that I sort of have the opposite problem with watching _Star Trek 6_ on Paramount Plus. I don’t want subtitles, so they are switched off. But this means the bits in Klingon (which I know have English subtitles, if not all the time, then certainly for the important lines) are not subtitled either. If I turn the subtitles on, I get the Klingon translated… but I also get the English subtitled too! I’ve seen this happen with other providers too, and possibly even on DVDs. Actually, it IS infuriating! I’ve been watching the whole Star Trek film series and this is the first it’s happened with. HBO does that for Heated Rivalry and it drives me fucking insane! The main character is Russian, long scenes will be totally in Russian! Yet they are not subtitled unless I turn on subtitles which then adds them for all the English too! I constantly have to pause to turn them on and off. So damn annoying. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2694 "2026-02-05T06:48:17Z")
Thinking about it, I’m pretty sure some of the Bond films in the full DVD box set were like that too. Certainly _The Living Daylights_ was. I think they corrected it for the Blu Ray. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2695 "2026-02-05T15:45:41Z")
I think it may differ from DVD player to player as well. When I first watched Game of Thrones on DVD, it automatically added subtitles when the characters weren’t speaking in English. When I got a new PC it had a new DVD codec in it, and I run into the same issue of all or nothing subtitles. I can’t find a way to have only non-english subtitles on my DVD player if there is a way. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2696 "2026-02-05T17:40:19Z")
I wonder if this issue has something to do with the difference between subtitles and closed captioning, which are encoded on the disc in different ways. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/OSCOQ6vnLwU/maxresdefault.jpg "Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSCOQ6vnLwU) ---
**Author:** ![APackof19menthols](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apackof19menthols/32/20451_2.png) [@APackof19menthols](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APackof19menthols)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2697 "2026-02-05T17:59:08Z")
My biggest pointless peeve is people not walking on the same beat that i’m walking. I don’t mind if you’re slower and I have to adjust my speed but if my pace and rhythm has to change? If my flow-state of steps has been interrupted by your alternate pattern in leg movements? Filthy, immoral, rude, and frankly I should have pearls to clutch when it happens. The worst thing I have ever experienced is the three awkward steps it takes to adjust to another person’s pace and remain a comfortable distance away. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2698 "2026-02-05T20:52:30Z")
All the restrooms at work have those motion activated paper towel dispensers. You wave your hand in front of the sensor, the machine spits out a piece of towel, then you rip that piece off from the machine. Except many of my coworkers are too impatient to wait for the machine to do its thing. So they trigger the sensor, then pull on the towel so they can get their towel faster and/or get a longer piece of towel than the machine provides by default. This infuriates me for two reasons. 1) The high pitched “eeeeeee!” sound the machine makes as the gears and motor turn faster then they were designed to as they pull on the towel is incredibly annoying to me, like fingernails on a chalkboard to my ears. 2) I’m mentally screaming “You’re gonna break it!” whenever they do that. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2699 "2026-02-05T23:26:39Z")
People that stand on the doorstep and just wait. Yes I have a ring doorbell. And it notified me that someone was there. I assumed package delivery. That’s fine. I’ll look later. But we just had a couple of school kids that just stood there. They where looking for donations for a trip. My wife visually saw them. Hey guys, if you don’t ring the bell, you won’t get an answer. And you won’t get money if you don’t get peoples attention. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/2700 "2026-02-05T23:32:50Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > But we just had a couple of school kids that just stood there. They where looking for donations for a trip. My wife visually saw them. > > Hey guys, if you don’t ring the bell, you won’t get an answer. And you won’t get money if you don’t get peoples attention. In that case, I’d assume that the kids didn’t actually want to try to sell you anything, they just wanted to give the appearance of trying for some nearby parent or teacher or similar authority figure who thought going door-to-door selling crap would “build character” or something. Go and stand at the door for a minute then go back and say, “Nobody home.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712.md?page=134) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712.md?page=136)