# Things you wish the world would tire of. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 18, 2007, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-wish-the-world-would-tire-of/430483 "2007-12-18T18:53:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-wish-the-world-would-tire-of/430483/21 "2007-12-18T21:27:17Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] Spitting in the street, KFC chicken, Britney Spears, and “The customer is always right”. No particular order. [/QUOTE] Customers should never have been allowed to hear that phrase. It should have been “Customers can be idiots, but we are their servants so we have to let them get their way” That way any customer hearing it would be less inclined to allow it to become gospel. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-wish-the-world-would-tire-of/430483/22 "2007-12-18T21:37:32Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] Talking on the cellphone loudly in line, or while driving. [/QUOTE] Or texting constantly while visiting you brother and SIL. With your ex-fiance no less. ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-wish-the-world-would-tire-of/430483/23 "2007-12-18T21:39:35Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] … fingerbang coin purses … [/QUOTE] What is this? I must know. Please tell me so I can help you revile it. Both Google and Urban [Dictionary.com](http://Dictionary.com) have let me down. My mind is reeling so please report back quickly, before I go blind or something. ---
**Author:** ![NightRabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@NightRabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NightRabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-wish-the-world-would-tire-of/430483/24 "2007-12-18T21:51:10Z")
I second/third/whatever the concept of celebrity worship for people who aren’t even celebrities. At least, back in the day, you had to do something to be well-known. I wish the world would tire of valuing wealth without any work done to accomplish it. Heirs/society girls and the like. Simply being born wealthy shouldn’t reward accolades. The debate about abortion/stem cells and gay marriage/civil unions. We all know it’ll happen eventually, kthxbye. Go register your compaints at the central office of the future, march of progress division. The news. How about “marketing” in general? ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-wish-the-world-would-tire-of/430483/25 "2007-12-18T22:20:28Z")
Taking offense when no offense was intended. Man, I could do without that. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-wish-the-world-would-tire-of/430483/26 "2007-12-18T22:20:29Z")
Putting ads on any available surface. Not having sex with me. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-wish-the-world-would-tire-of/430483/27 "2007-12-19T01:39:20Z")
Since all the biggies have been taken, I’m going to throw in the whole yuneek kre8ive baby naming trend. I saw a mother on a message board with kids named Kaydance and Karisma and I just wanted to reach through my monitor and punch her in the face. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-wish-the-world-would-tire-of/430483/28 "2007-12-19T02:03:23Z")
Wedings - I’ve been to half a dozen over the past year and I’m sick of them. I’m sick of dropping close to a thousand dollars between the car rental, the hotel, gifts and possibly airfare. I’m sick of pretending to be happy and excited when I think the groom is a total loser or the bride is a total skank. I grow weary of watching a couple of 30-something year olds dress up and get shit faced with their high school or college friends. And I am disguested by a society that has basically brainwashed every girl to believe they can never be fullfilled or happy in life unless they find a guy willing to drop anywhere from $20,000 to $80,000 on some ridiculous party. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-wish-the-world-would-tire-of/430483/29 "2007-12-19T02:40:40Z")
Professional sports Organized religion Anti-gay legislation ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-wish-the-world-would-tire-of/430483/30 "2007-12-19T03:21:22Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] Putting ads on any available surface. Not having sex with me. [/QUOTE] Are you female? I may have an answer… ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-wish-the-world-would-tire-of/430483/31 "2007-12-19T03:37:44Z")
[QUOTE=cowgirl] What is this? I must know. Please tell me so I can help you revile it. Both Google and Urban [Dictionary.com](http://Dictionary.com) have let me down. My mind is reeling so please report back quickly, before I go blind or something. [/QUOTE] It’s a change-purse that has an opening small/tight enough that you have to curl your finger into it to dig the change out of the corner. They’re a waste of time and look a little goofy. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2007, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-wish-the-world-would-tire-of/430483/32 "2007-12-19T03:59:22Z")
Gum. I’m tired of stepping in it. I’m tired of seeing people chewing it. I’m tired of hearing people chewing it. ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-wish-the-world-would-tire-of/430483/33 "2007-12-19T04:12:26Z")
Accepting graffiti and litter as ‘normal’. Rap ‘music’ and large-scale sampling. Astrology. It is truly astounding that something so intrinsically absurd, so self-evidently useless when it comes to the only two things it’s supposed to be good for (character assessment, predicting events), and so conspicuously devoid of rhyme or reason, has persisted into this century. And yet it’s everywhere, including in more or less every newspaper and magazine. The Middle East conflict. Surely there must come a time when we’ve all just had enough of this endless squabble over a patch of desert. Seriously, if you think back it’s probably been in the ‘news’ every single week of your life, which makes me think it just isn’t ‘news’ any more. I sometimes wonder why the rest of us keep paying attention. The two sides aren’t going to agree, and both seem locked in the mindset that says ‘Let’s keep on going round in circles, generation after generation, getting nowhere and having the same fight over and over again’. Politicians. We know they serve up any old rubbish, just so long as they reckon it will get votes. We know they lie and cover up. We know they are venal, mendacious, corrupt, self-interested egotists with their snout in the trough, making sure the rest of us just fulfil our duties as worker drones and consumers while they enjoy power and privilege. Yet we keep voting for them. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-wish-the-world-would-tire-of/430483/34 "2007-12-19T05:38:33Z")
[QUOTE=ianzin] Accepting graffiti and litter as ‘normal’. [/QUOTE] I dislike nearly all graffiti, but like anything, it’s crap because it’s all the same.. But sometimes it’s… _[different](http://www.banksy.co.uk/menu.html)_. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-wish-the-world-would-tire-of/430483/35 "2007-12-19T14:59:24Z")
The use of the word “ultimate” in radio ads. Mobile Billboards. I hope whoever came up with the idea of them is nearby when one of those shark finmobiles gets out of control, overturns and drops on its side, slides over, and decapitates him. Middle-class white people using urban slang without irony. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-wish-the-world-would-tire-of/430483/36 "2007-12-19T16:07:38Z")
[QUOTE=Leaffan] Are you female? I may have an answer… [/QUOTE] Yes. **Leaffan** has a _killer_ line of ad-removers. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-wish-the-world-would-tire-of/430483/37 "2007-12-19T16:18:13Z")
Exotic food. Sushi’s the worst. I want my eleven bucks back. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-wish-the-world-would-tire-of/430483/38 "2007-12-19T16:20:33Z")
Since the OP brought up air fresheners, I’d like to add that what I want to end is every single one of them claiming that they’re not like all the others (that only _cover up_ smells); they actually seek out and destroy the odour molecules! They all bloody say it. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-wish-the-world-would-tire-of/430483/39 "2007-12-19T16:49:41Z")
Fart jokes. Remaking classic cartoons as (invariably awful) live-action movies. The sexualization of children, especially girls. Rigid gender-role stereotypes and expectations. Adam Sandler movies. Sports worship. Political correctness (not to be confused with basic respect and tolerance). ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-wish-the-world-would-tire-of/430483/40 "2007-12-19T16:56:47Z")
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