# 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:** 96
**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:** [July 14, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1901 "2025-07-14T17:57:11Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > My parent’s dog has this annoying (but funny) habit of trying to dig in her water bowl, so she’ll splash around in the bowl getting water alll over the kitchen floor. It’s _so_ fun to step in that wearing socks. 😬 Maybe they only have one, non-binary parent. I mean, you don’t know. And frankly, it’s better to be wearing socks when one steps on some of the things that I’ve stepped on barefoot. Dog entire-meal vomit, a live mouse once, and worse. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1902 "2025-07-15T01:01:36Z")
Well didn’t mean to cause such a fuss. 😆 It was actually the autocorrect replying on my phone that added the apostrophe there and I didn’t even notice. The problem with socks is now I have to put on new ones! Can’t put wet socks into my shoes. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1903 "2025-07-15T01:18:08Z")
I’ve got a Plex server running streaming to a Roku device attached to the TV. For those not familiar, the home screen displays recently added, continue watching, and a few other categories. You navigate to what you want to watch and then press the play button. My wife navigates to the show and then presses OK to bring up the details/description and then presses OK again to actually start playing it. This annoys me far more than it has any reason to (none). ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1904 "2025-07-15T08:39:52Z")
In some RPG games (such as Skyrim, which I’m currently re-playing) clicking on a chair activates an elaborate, uninterruptible “I am getting into a chair” animation. Which would be less of an irritation if modern RPGs didn’t typically have a single “action button” for everything, so it’s really easy to accidentally click on a chair while doing something else and get stuck watching your character make a production of sitting down. It’s only a few seconds but it really irritates me. I’ll give Skyrim this much credit, however; at least if you do it while fighting you get a “you cannot take this action in combat” message. I’ve played games where you _could_ accidentally lock yourself into a sitting-down animation in the middle of fighting. A really stupid way for your character to die. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1905 "2025-07-16T16:11:40Z")
Ok. I’ve been at the same ‘company’ for 33 years. Many promotions, built a GIS department. But IS wants to and is forcing me to update to Win11. Eh, whatever. But for whatever reason, they can’t do an in place upgrade, and can’t clone the machine. So It will need to be totally rebuilt. Now I’ve gone through this before, I’m well aware of what a pain in the ass this will be for me. This is what pisses me off. I’m retiring in December of this year. The Win10 security updates stop in October. So, because my machine will miss one month of Windows updates (if there is one) we have to rebuild the whole sheeeebaaang, and then, a month later it will be gone, and so will I (retirement). This isn’t a server update, just the machine I use at work. Stupid wastes of time do infuriate me. This is pointless. The head Sys Admin Guru agrees, but not so with a new head of the IS department. There is more to work than looking at a spreadsheet and making it pretty. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1906 "2025-07-16T18:50:35Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > But for whatever reason, they can’t do an in place upgrade, and can’t clone the machine. Maybe a stupid question, but why can’t your computer simply be replaced by a newer model with Win11 already installed? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1907 "2025-07-16T19:06:18Z")
It’s going to a new VM, so ‘new’ computer. But my old one can’t be cloned, for some reason. It will take me days to sort it out. Lots of applications and settings that have to be completely installed and reconfigured. I will be chasing problems for months. Mostly “Didn’t I have???” sort of stuff. I’ve copied all my shortcuts, so that should be ok. I’ve got the entire alphabet mapped to different drives/servers. Some of which will not like the new machine name. I can write code to remap all the drives. My irk, is that this does not need to be done. This is gonna kill my productivity. But I’m retiring anyway. I really don’t care now. I just hate to see waste like this. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1908 "2025-07-17T16:50:17Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Water on the floor where it shouldn’t be, like the kitchen. You wouldn’t like my refrigerator. It occasionally kicks out a single ice cube to melt on the kitchen floor. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2025, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1909 "2025-07-17T19:07:02Z")
I’m getting annoyed by the overzealous automatic flusher on the toilet in the men’s room at work. I stand up after finishing my business, it flushes. Great. Then I zip up step away from the toilet. It flushes again. Not so great. If I spend more time in the stall tucking in my shirt or something, it might flush a third time. Now it’s just wasting water. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1910 "2025-07-17T19:37:16Z")
If the sensor is on the back of the toilet then drape a couple sheets of tp over it and remove them when you’re ready for it to flush. If the sensor is on the wall, use a Post-it note. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1911 "2025-07-17T19:58:46Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I’m getting annoyed by the overzealous automatic flusher on the toilet in the men’s room at work. I stand up after finishing my business, it flushes. Great. Then I zip up step away from the toilet. It flushes again. Not so great. If I spend more time in the stall tucking in my shirt or something, it might flush a third time. Now it’s just wasting water. Yep, I hate those. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1912 "2025-07-17T22:27:15Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > > [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > > > Water on the floor where it shouldn’t be, like the kitchen. > > You wouldn’t like my refrigerator. It occasionally kicks out a single ice cube to melt on the kitchen floor. “There’s ice on the floor!” is kind of a long-running gag at our house. When one of the grandsons was about five, he was getting himself some ice water out of the fridge door. An ice cube fell on the floor, and instead of just picking it up and dropping it in the sink, he stood there and yelled at the top of his lungs “There’s ice on the floor!” Twenty years later, I still say that every time an ice cube falls out. But at least I pick it up! ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1913 "2025-07-17T23:29:37Z")
I enjoy looking at the Bored Panda site, but it drives me bonkers that they censor so many words. There was a photo of a tree that secretes a poison, or as they have it “p\*\*\*\*n”. What the fuck? Similarly, killed becomes k\*\*\***d (or unalived), dead becomes d**d, and so on. Are readers of this site precious snowflakes that clutch their pearls and get the vapors every time they see a word describing anything to do with death? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1914 "2025-07-18T00:24:12Z")
That seems to be the trend this days. I listen to pop radio, and they (or at least some stations–II bet it depends on which conglomerate owns the station) censor “killed” in songs. Like the song “Kill Bill” by Sza. The chorus goes “I might _bleep_ my ex, not the best idea.” For the longest time, I assumed the lyric was “I might fuck my ex, not the best idea” without paying too much attention to the following line (“His new girlfriend’s next, how’d I get here?”), which could actually work in some way. When I found out the actual lines was “I might kill my ex,” that completely threw me for a loop, but now the song made a heck of a lot more sense (not that I was listening to much more than the “hooky” lines.) Plus the title now makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1915 "2025-07-18T02:13:53Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Similarly, killed becomes k\*\*\***d (or unalived), dead becomes d**d, I think this started because of bots flagging certain words for censorship. Not really about the people speaking being fragile, but about not wanting their posts to be shut down. Still, I’ve been to PTSD forums where you aren’t allowed to say the words “mother” or “father” without a trigger warning, so, you know. ---
**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:** [July 18, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1916 "2025-07-18T16:50:00Z")
People in the comments on Bored Panda are always complaining about the automated censorship, too. Sometimes I have to ask what the bleeped word is because I can’t figure it out! ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1917 "2025-07-18T16:58:46Z")
I’m reminded of this classic… [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6AXPnH0C9UA/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AG-AoAC8AGKAgwIABABGFEgZShOMA8=&rs=AOn4CLCDWsZyXVttrTEY65A8Bt26diPjGA "The Count Censored (ORIGINAL)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXPnH0C9UA) ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1918 "2025-07-18T17:52:26Z")
The Home Depot in Matamoras, PA. There’s a main drag that has a bunch of retail, Walmart, Tractor Supply, Harbor freight, Lowe’s, car dealers, grocery store, TJ Maxx, movie theater, fast food, etc. Then there is the Home Depot. You have to turn off the main drag, down by the Best Western, drive past the BW, past the guy with the 3’x3’ “TUBES —\>” sign, and continue down until you notice the faded 1’x2’ Home Depot sign. Turn down that road, and drive for 15-20 seconds (past another faded 1’x2’ sign) until the store appears over the rise. Until you get to that point, you have no idea where the store actually is. It’s better hidden than Area 51. They actually do have a giant lit up sign on a tall pole, like you’d expect, except it’s behind a bunch of trees. You cannot see it from the access road, nor from the main drag. You can see it from a tiny stretch of Interstate 84, but only when you’re past the exit necessary to access the store, so it would be about a 20 minute trek to shop there. I’m amazed that someone who considers themselves a marketing professional would put a store where nobody can see it. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1919 "2025-07-18T20:20:55Z")
There’s a great little taco shop near me. Really good tacos. Real good. It’s sit down or take out. Ya want a side of beans, or maybe Mexican rice with that? No can do. But you can get a bean burrito. The beans are hot, I’m sure they are on the stove, just don’t wrap it in a tortilla, OK? I feel like Jack Nicholson ordering toast. “I’ll have a taco, and a burrito, but hold the tortilla” It’s just dumb. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712/1920 "2025-07-18T20:25:59Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > The beans are hot, I’m sure they are on the stove, just don’t wrap it in a tortilla, OK? I feel like Jack Nicholson ordering toast. “I’ll have a taco, and a burrito, but hold the tortilla” It’s just dumb. Maybe they dont carry the proper take out containers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712.md?page=95) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-infuriate-you-well-beyond-their-actual-importance/1006712.md?page=97)