# 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:** 23
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2024, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/441 "2024-10-19T20:14:56Z")
I made a system for me re pwd’s when it got beyond crazy. My system is _based_ on lyrics to songs. I can remember it. Lots of songs out there. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2024, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/442 "2024-10-20T21:36:14Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Bolivian unicyclist jockstrap > > (Sorry. Irresistible impulse) Okay, what is that from? That’s what you said [about cumin (the spice).](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-i-know-what-cumin-smells-like/215522/26) ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2024, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/443 "2024-10-20T21:47:15Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/GYoFCwIFB0M/hqdefault.jpg "Reggie Perrin and CJ") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYoFCwIFB0M) [The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0073990/) ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2024, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/444 "2024-10-20T22:58:31Z")
I see! Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/445 "2024-10-21T05:06:18Z")
It doesn’t bother me when I see people wearing masks out in public. I mean the masks most of us were wearing when we were still social distancing and worried about COVID. But it bugs the hell out of me to see someone wearing it improperly. I went to an eye appointment and the receptionist was wearing a surgical mask under her nose. What’s even the point? ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/446 "2024-10-21T14:21:40Z")
This really irritates me. Someone’s big schnoz hanging over the mask! It looks gross to me. ---
**Author:** ![Mops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mops/32/16494_2.png) [@Mops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mops)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/447 "2024-10-21T14:58:45Z")
Two things that infuriated me just this morning when I sat at the breakfast table and heard [the morning TV program](https://www.zdf.de/gesellschaft/volle-kanne) that my wife loves and that I am usually spared (but today I worked at home in the morning and only commuted to work later): 1. An interview of forgettable content with a D-list celebrity, where both parties either took pains to avoid pauses between turns, or the speech pauses were somehow edited out in postprocessing the interview. What I expect of a respectful conversation is _pauses_: Person A finishes their sentences, then person B takes between half a second and a full second to formulate their answer, then half a second to draw breath: _How was your latest concert?_ My fans loved my returning to to the concert circuit. _And how did you feel, getting back into the saddle?_ … Without pauses: _How was your latest concert_My fans loved my returning to to the concert circuit_And how did you feel, getting back into the saddle?_ This style of TV interview infuriates me no end because it gives an impression of breathless urgency to what should be a mere contentless chat. It unnerves me as much as people interrupting each other which I also hate with a passion. 1. After one program item there was a spoken list of following topics in the program (presumable to keep viewers hooked). That spoken list was overlaid with a musical beat. People who overlay speech content with a musical beat should be taken out and shot. I very much wonder what the point is in adding distracting, nay aggressive acoustic features to the performance of a morning program that is milquetoast in actual content. Does the housewife and retiree population need to be fed aggression and anger, possibly to rise up against their oppressors? ---
**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:** [October 21, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/448 "2024-10-21T15:06:07Z")
> [@BillyBaroo](#): > > The other drivers in the family will not listen to my entreaties of “test it and you’ll see!” and actually diss me about it like I’m deranged. Just be kind to them. This topic fits the thread for me very nicely, and I make it known in any thread that discusses the novel alternate mirror arrangement: many people who use this arrangement become evangelists to a point of being annoying when someone suggests that they don’t want to use the perfect system. I don’t know what it is about this mirror technique, but more so than many other things in life, when people discover it they often act smug about it with the common fuddy-duddies who stick with the old system. I feel the same way when people make comments about imperial measurements…“You know, there are only two countries that don’t use metric, the USA and Liberia…what a backwards system” Fact of the matter is, when I learned my machinist trade as a young guy, all of the technical drawings were in imperial measurements, all of the tooling, and all of the machines. So when I set up my home machine shop, I bought imperial machines and tooling. It’s like language–it might not be the most efficient for you, but since I learned this way from youth it is much easier for me to machine quickly and accurately in imperial units. Same way with mirrors. With forty years of driving the old way, I just don’t want to mess up what works for me. But that doesn’t mean I don’t want you to enjoy your improved mirror placement! ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/449 "2024-10-21T15:13:03Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > when people discover it they often act smug about it with the common fuddy-duddies who stick with the old system. Also applies to the devotees of backing into parking spaces in lots and parking garages…. ---
**Author:** ![BillyBaroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billybaroo/32/17405_2.png) [@BillyBaroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BillyBaroo)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/450 "2024-10-21T15:22:56Z")
Well put and duly noted. I’ll admit that I can tend to proselytize on things I learn, and sure, the delivery might come across smug or irritating. Eventually I threw up my hands and chalked it up to “everyone is entitled to their own truth.” Both my kids have learned to drive in recent memory, and all of their driving instructors teach them to set their side mirrors the old way. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2024, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/451 "2024-10-21T16:53:09Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > Also applies to the devotees of backing into parking spaces in lots and parking garages…. Boy, now I’m wondering about what I said about backing in! Usually I just point out the practical reason that makes me need to do so, but I wouldn’t wish it on someone else if it’s not their cuppa joe. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/452 "2024-10-21T17:15:53Z")
I experienced this today and remembered how I hate it: When customer service reps filling out forms respond to your answering a standard question with “perfect!” example: ‘which finger hurts?’ ‘the right pinkie.’ ‘perfect!’ I’ve become inured to “have a good one!” which was the #1 meaningless phrase in common use, but “perfect!” is climbing the ranks. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/453 "2024-10-21T18:40:23Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > But it bugs the hell out of me to see someone wearing it improperly It annoys me, but really pisses my wife off to see that. There is a TV ad for a non-profit young black womans education group, and they are almost all wearing their masks wrong. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/454 "2024-10-21T19:16:04Z")
> [@Mops](#): > > People who overlay speech content with a musical beat should be taken out and shot. My similar beef is with cheaply made documentaries over-larded with irrelevant vamp-till-ready noodly muzak that adds nothing to the content. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/455 "2024-10-21T19:25:17Z")
> [@Mops](#): > > People who overlay speech content with a musical beat should be taken out and shot. I concur. Annoys me to no end. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/456 "2024-10-21T19:25:20Z")
> [@Mops](#): > > _How was your latest concert_My fans loved my returning to to the concert circuit_And how did you feel, getting back into the saddle?_ OMG THIS! But at a drivethru _Welcome to RatFeast, home of the Mystery Nuggets_ Let me have a_Will you be using the app today?_ No. Let me have a Double Meat Burger and a_Will you like anything else sir?_ Yes, a side of half-chewed fries and to dri_Is that everything sir?_ No, and a medium salmonella soda. That’s it … … … _We’ll have your total at the window sir._ ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/457 "2024-10-21T19:32:11Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > My similar beef is with cheaply made documentaries over-larded with irrelevant vamp-till-ready noodly muzak that adds nothing to the content. Not sure if I’m thinking of the same thing as you, but for many documentarians, the same cutesy circus waltz music used by Erroll Morris was the only way to go. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/458 "2024-10-22T00:38:21Z")
I do try not to proselytize about mirror placement and I was driving for a good 25 years before I was told about it. Interestingly, when I took my British driving test I put the mirrors back to the old settings so I could pass the test. I wasn’t going to take the chance of failing the test due to “improper mirror adjustment”. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/459 "2024-10-22T09:13:06Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > same cutesy circus waltz music I do notice a few pieces coming round time and again. Another minor infuriator. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/460 "2024-10-22T11:28:11Z")
Since we’re talking about driving… Stopped in a left-turn lane at an intersection, waiting for my left-turn light to turn green. Traffic coming from my right gets a green light to turn left, into the oncoming lane on my left. Instead of a nice graceful arc through the intersection that leaves them on a path parallel to mine when they pass next to me, they crank their steering wheel to the left as soon as they enter the intersection, then straighten out once they’re aimed for a spot near the front-left corner of my car. As they shave by my front bumper, they crank their steering wheel farther to make a tight turn, rounding snugly past me to finally end up aiming straight down the road next to me. It’s like their path is following a piece of string that someone has pulled taut. It must be a jerky ride for their passengers, and it’s disconcerting for me to have someone whizzing by the corner of my car so quickly. As for the mirror thing…yes, I aim my mirrors so I can see as much of my adjacent lanes as possible…but I still turn my head to look before changing lanes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712.md?page=24)