# 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:** 81
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1601 "2025-04-29T13:32:13Z")
Listening to someone munching on a snack during a Zoom meeting really grinds me. Especially since I have to listen for work purposes. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1602 "2025-04-29T13:36:18Z")
I’m pretty sure that’s what it was meant to be. Or maybe a charcuterie board. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1603 "2025-04-29T13:42:44Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > Listening to someone munching on a snack during a Zoom meeting really grinds me. That’s like those YouTube folks who slurp their beverages close to the mic (I think I mentioned that up-thread). For some reason that makes my skin crawl. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1604 "2025-04-29T14:13:48Z")
I sorta cringe every time I hear someone sneeze. Because someone will inevitably yell, “Bless you!” And the the person who sneezed says “Thanks,” because it’s obligatory to do so. It’s all so pointless and needs to stop. ---
**Author:** ![Orville\_mogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/aeb1de/32.png) [@Orville\_mogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orville_mogul)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1605 "2025-04-29T14:47:31Z")
Yeah, that’s what I was going to say. Are you sure it was meant for cutting and not for serving cheese, meats, etc? Even if the engraving was not deep or was filled with epoxy, after a while all the knife scratches would ruin the image. Better to use it for serving ETA: if you are going to use the board for food, best to oil it first to make it more stain resistant ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1606 "2025-04-29T15:07:59Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > When I do, it’s because my finger is a little too far to the left and I hit Caps when I type an ‘A’. I key-map “right Caps Lock” to “Shift” on both Mac & PC, because I hit it so often by mistake. I do a fair amount of SQL programming, which by convention is upper case, “Caps lock” is nice to have on occasion. Rare, rare occasion compared to everyone else. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1607 "2025-04-29T15:23:57Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > Why does every touch screen interface not made by Apple suck so bad? The ones made by Apple aren’t necessarily all that great either. > [@enipla](#): > > We bought a new house, the relator had a nice cutting board made for us. But it’s engraved. Laser engraved would be my guess. It’s about 1mm deep. ‘Welcome Home The Enipla Family’ and an old timey skeleton key. Nice looking, but the engraving makes it useless as a cutting board. Can’t you use the other side of it? Or did they engrave both sides? I have a cutting board painted on one side. I just use the other side. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1608 "2025-04-29T16:32:09Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > OK, dumb question here, but why can’t you use the other side of the cutting board for cutting? Well, it’s got ‘groves’ or ‘gutters’ cut into the edges to use to scape of stems and seeds. Won’t be there if I flip it. > [@minor7flat5](#): > > If I really liked it and wanted it to be functional, I’d be looking at those epoxy resins that folks use to fill the knot holes in fancy live-edge wood tables and the like. Nah. New garage has epoxy floors (never had them. Or a garage) but I’ve plenty to do at new house. > [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > I would treat it as a decoration, and hang it on the wall. Oh, it will be. It’s memories. I should date it on the back and write who sent it to us. Our existing house has a lot of art on the walls, so we are slowly trying to figure out where to put it. So far, we have figured out places for 5 pieces. All of them important to us. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1609 "2025-04-29T17:21:36Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > The ones made by Apple aren’t necessarily all that great either. I still have hundreds of pages of handwritten notes I wrote with a rubber-tipped stylus in notepad apps on my iPad years before the Apple Pencil was introduced, and those notes are every bit as clear as if I had written them with pen and paper. There may be crappy apps out there, but the hardware and OS have always been a cut above the rest, IMHO. Those point-of-sale touch displays just suck. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1610 "2025-04-29T17:23:54Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > I still have hundreds of pages of handwritten notes I wrote with a rubber-tipped stylus in notepad apps on my iPad years before the Apple Pencil was introduced, and those notes are every bit as clear as if I had written them with pen and paper. Not talking about that. Talking about using a touchscreen, in various apps, with my fingers. Or, often, trying to. ETA: > [@enipla](#): > > Well, it’s got ‘groves’ or ‘gutters’ cut into the edges to use to scape of stems and seeds. Won’t be there if I flip it. Maybe they’re just there for decoration. I’ve used lots of cutting boards that had no such things; just flat on the cutting side (or sides). ---
**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:** [April 29, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1611 "2025-04-29T17:37:43Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Not talking about that. Talking about using a touchscreen, in various apps, with my fingers. Or, often, trying to. Fair 'nuff. Can we at least agree that fast food kiosks are an order of magnitude worse than any tablet we would buy ourselves? Even if they are spotlessly clean, they are still terrible. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1612 "2025-04-29T17:42:34Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > Can we at least agree that fast food kiosks are an order of magnitude worse than any tablet we would buy ourselves? I have effectively no personal evidence of that but am quite willing to not argue about it. (I’m generally too broke to eat out, and when I do we still have local indy diners around here. Which, at least when I was last in one, haven’t so far gone in for kiosks.) – I did eventually learn how to figure out the sign-in one at my primary care office, though the first time I had to pull a live human out of their window space to explain it to me. That one does seem to respond pretty reliably to touch, once you figure out where you have to touch it. ETA: The check in screen for the hospital lab, which just produces a number (and, I suppose, alerts somebody that it has done so) has a large sign on it telling you where to touch it, as if you touch it where it appears to tell you to it usually doesn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1613 "2025-04-29T20:30:28Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Maybe they’re just there for decoration. I’ve used lots of cutting boards that had no such things; just flat on the cutting side (or sides). I’ve used lots too. None have these ‘gutters’ to collect little bits. Seems like a darn good idea really. Especially if you don’t or can’t toss it in the sink, or want to use it for compost. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1614 "2025-04-29T20:31:54Z")
The gutters also collect blood and other liquids if you’re working with meat or juicy things. I’ve always assumed that was their primary function. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1615 "2025-04-29T20:59:38Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > No. It’s not like I’m going to call myself… I am surprised by the number of times you need to know it- when dropping a car off, with two factor authentication, etc. > [@commasense](#): > > The gutters also collect blood and other liquids Not blood- it is myoglobin- mostly. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1616 "2025-04-29T21:54:25Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > The gutters also collect blood and other liquids if you’re working with meat or juicy things. I’ve always assumed that was their primary function. Yeah, that’s what I always thought they were for. But they’re more palatable (for me) on porcelain/ceramic platters. No matter how well sealed wooden cutting boards always make me a little fearful when cutting meat. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1617 "2025-04-29T21:57:47Z")
I usually yell “STOP IT”. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1618 "2025-04-30T01:12:55Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > I sorta cringe every time I hear someone sneeze. Because someone will inevitably yell, “Bless you!” And the the person who sneezed says “Thanks,” because it’s obligatory to do so. It’s all so pointless and needs to stop. Why shouldn’t I thank someone for praying that my soul won’t escape out of my nose? I think it’s a very nice gesture. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1619 "2025-04-30T20:20:13Z")
OP here, and I’m back with a new one. I hate when organizations/people nag me for reviews! I just had some minor work done on my car, and my “service advisor” started to pester me to leave 5-star reviews (since anything else’s is considered a failure.) Irritating as hell. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1620 "2025-04-30T20:58:36Z")
I hate it when stores nag me to review every random item I buy from them. Like I bought a replacement flapper for my toilet from Lowe’s, and because I’m a member of their loyalty program they’ve got my email address, so they keep sending me emails nagging me to review it. What the heck am I supposed to say about a toilet flapper? I does what it’s supposed to do. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712.md?page=80) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712.md?page=82)