### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-insignificant-things-that-tick-you-off/548205/121 "2010-07-29T20:06:39Z")
“Please enjoy the music while your party is reached…”
Yes, I’d love to hear what you consider good music in a tinny, distorted whine out of my super hi-fi cell phone speaker.
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2010, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-insignificant-things-that-tick-you-off/548205/122 "2010-07-29T20:23:44Z")
> [@silk1976](#):
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> Does it piss me off when I hear a news correspondant or radio talk show host or guest make their point by asking a question?
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> Yes, it does.
>
> Just say what you want to say as a damn statement!
I had a boss who used to do when running meetings and it drove me crazy.
“Is this a perfect plan? No. Am I thrilled with it? No. Are we going to follow it? You betcha.”
Me: “Is she annoying as hell? You betcha.”
mmm
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-insignificant-things-that-tick-you-off/548205/123 "2010-07-29T20:27:28Z")
> [@Khaki\_Campbell](#):
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> The cyclists, when arriving at a red light, who don’t want to lay one foot on the ground. So they engage into that silly jerky choreography where they go as slow as possible, in precarious balance, zig-zagging as they wait for the green light.
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> When they do that, I have the urge to kick their rear wheel.
You have cyclists who stop for red lights and stop signs in your town? Bee-zarre!
I thought of another one (as I was listening to “Let’s Tango” by Lisa Dalbello) - songs that have a type of dance or rhythm in the title, then have a different beat for the song (the song I was listening to was not one of these culprits). If your song is called “I Love This Funky Beat,” it better have a friggin’ funky beat.
Also, people who have their sprinklers running so anyone walking on the sidewalk gets soaked. I’ve watered a lot of grass in my day; you can actually set those so the grass gets wet but not the pedestrians; it is possible.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-insignificant-things-that-tick-you-off/548205/124 "2010-07-29T20:29:08Z")
> [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](#):
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> \
> I do a lot of photography, and I get something similar from the same girls…the “Charlie’s Angels” pose. It’s similar, except they put both their hands together to make a gun. I’ve adopted a new policy: “No guns.” Then I lower my camera and wait.
You’re awesome.
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### Author:  [@silk1976](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silk1976)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-insignificant-things-that-tick-you-off/548205/125 "2010-07-29T20:32:31Z")
> [@Khaki\_Campbell](#):
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> The cyclists, when arriving at a red light, who don’t want to lay one foot on the ground. So they engage into that silly jerky choreography where they go as slow as possible, in precarious balance, zig-zagging as they wait for the green light.
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> When they do that, I have the urge to kick their rear wheel.
I would assume the person is using clipless pedals, and thus their feet are physically fastened to the bike. It’s much faster for everyone (motorists too) for the cyclist to get going quickly when the light turns green. Having to reclip in and deal with that while crossing an intersection where cars may be waiting on them slows everyone down.
They’re not being fancy shmancy - they are just trying to keep things moving and minimize their disruption to cars.
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### Author:  [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-insignificant-things-that-tick-you-off/548205/126 "2010-07-29T20:47:16Z")
> [@Icarus](#):
>
> [Mitsumata branches](http://www.secretgardenflowers.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=178_442&products_id=3430)
You should have told them, “Mitsumata, youuuuuuu!”
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### Author:  [@Dr.Righteous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Righteous)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-insignificant-things-that-tick-you-off/548205/127 "2010-07-29T20:48:18Z")
Lip smacking noises.
Last night I changed the channel because the person speaking was making the most nasty noises as he talked. I also clearly remember hating the scenes in Buffy where she and Angel would kiss because the noise freaked me out.
::shivers::
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### Author:  [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-insignificant-things-that-tick-you-off/548205/128 "2010-07-29T21:44:29Z")
DVD TV series that don’t have an option to play all episodes in the menu. This thread is about things that bug me but shouldn’t, right? When I’m getting irritated because I have to pick up the remote (again!) to choose the next episode I absolutely understand that in a world where people have actual problems this isn’t one. It just makes me grumble.
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### Author:  [@may\_be\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/may_be_ignorant)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2010, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-insignificant-things-that-tick-you-off/548205/129 "2010-07-30T03:36:05Z")
The looks my sister gives me when I speak to her. I could knock her f\*\*\*ing head off sometimes. Come to think of it though, I think they would enrage ayone. Such disrespect.
> [@](#):
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> Lip smacking noises.
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> Last night I changed the channel because the person speaking was making the most nasty noises as he talked. I also clearly remember hating the scenes in Buffy where she and Angel would kiss because the noise freaked me out.
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> ::shivers::
OH MY GOD AND THIS! This should be a hanging offense. What? You’re twenty years old and you smack your lips and speak with food in your mouth? Oh the lovely noises it makes! I am a prime example of why people should not carry guns, I suppose. I think I probably would kill someone for this on a bad day.
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### Author:  [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-insignificant-things-that-tick-you-off/548205/130 "2010-07-30T04:40:10Z")
When reporters who are interviewing people don’t let the people get a word in edgewise, but give all the information themselves. The poor person being interviewed is reduced to yes and no answers. I hope the Today Show is reading this!
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2010, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-insignificant-things-that-tick-you-off/548205/131 "2010-07-30T04:53:11Z")
I saw another one today - some graffiti on a fence that said, “Graffiti is bad.” And they spelled “Graffiti” right. You’re bright enough to know graffiti is bad, you’re bright enough to spell graffiti right, but you’re still ignorant enough to write on someone else’s fence. Got it.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2010, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-insignificant-things-that-tick-you-off/548205/132 "2010-07-30T06:06:53Z")
Here’s something insignificant that pisses me off.
It used to be that the front page of the SDMB boards, all the forums listed fit on one page, and if I used the dropdown list at the bottom of each page, all of the forums fit in the list, as is.
Now, with these new forums I don’t visit and that are meaningless and should not have been added (Straight Dope Chicago???, US Election??? Fuck off!), they’ve pushed down the forum listing so some of those I regularly visit require scrolling to access.
Darn thing.
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2010, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-insignificant-things-that-tick-you-off/548205/133 "2010-07-30T07:50:28Z")
Billy from [_the Family Circus_](http://a.imageshack.us/img225/1215/176n.jpg) has this problem a lot
And [his father](http://a.imageshack.us/img824/4812/209l.jpg) has some minor issues too
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### Author:  [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2010, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-insignificant-things-that-tick-you-off/548205/134 "2010-07-30T08:35:18Z")
I think I have an irrational dislike of the color purple.
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### Author:  [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2010, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-insignificant-things-that-tick-you-off/548205/135 "2010-07-30T12:20:08Z")
Tautology _reall_y ticks me off. ‘Tiny’ _AND_ ‘insignificant’?
Please. Pass me something enormously humungously hugely large and slashingly stabby.
_And_ another thing. People who stub out their eighth cigarette, wipe their nose on their hand, scratch their arse, absently pick at something on their face, find a bit of errant eye crust in the corner of their eye, adjust their genitals and _THEN_, BECAUSE THEY’VE PATTED MY DOG say, “Ooo I need to wash my hands!!”
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2010, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-insignificant-things-that-tick-you-off/548205/136 "2010-07-30T13:10:02Z")
> [@Yllaria](#):
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> Translation A:
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> (I didn’t know that) You were in the Army? (I can’t believe I’ve known you that long without knowing that. Please tell me more about it.)
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> Translation B:
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> (I don’t believe that) You were in the Army? (Keep talking and maybe you’ll convince me.)
>
> Other translations are also possible. It may sooth your irritated brow if you mentally fill in the missing bits.
Oh, I know what they mean. It’s still annoying and ticks me off.
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2010, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-insignificant-things-that-tick-you-off/548205/137 "2010-07-30T14:32:36Z")
I think somebody upthread mentioned sports commentators but I’m not sure and I don’t want to look, so…
Fuck sports commentators! The only thing impressive about any of them is how they perfectly simulated their useless drivel for video games. Alex is playing Madden 10 and, in the midst of them talking smack about his 4 yard gain, one of them came up with “I guess if it’s not a negative play, it’s a positive play.”
OH, YOU DON’T FUCKING SAY.
You know how much dumb shit I’ve said in my life? Nobody’s ever given me a DIME for any of it.
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-insignificant-things-that-tick-you-off/548205/138 "2010-07-30T15:22:40Z")
> [@ianzin](#):
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> I also find it impossible to watch TV news because I’m so distracted by the institutionalised inefficiency. We start with a guy reading the news who could, in theory, just tell me what’s been happening. Instead, he introduces a subject and then hands over to a ‘correspondent’ or ‘editor’ of some description.
Wow. I thought I was the only one. The job of News Anchor is highly overrated and completely unnecessary. I mean, why not just string together all the news stories without the superfluous talking-head introducing each and every one? Not to mention asking the live reporter those in-depth, probing questions at the end. “So, Bob any indication on what the mood is in town now after the mass slaughter?”
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### Author:  [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-insignificant-things-that-tick-you-off/548205/139 "2010-07-30T15:23:38Z")
> [@Superhal](#):
>
> I think I have an irrational dislike of the color purple.
This seriously ticks me off.
Best,
Grimace
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### Author:  [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2010, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-insignificant-things-that-tick-you-off/548205/140 "2010-07-30T15:31:20Z")
People who pull up to a stoplight and leave at least one full car length between themselves and the car in front of them. Pull the fuck up! Those people are causing gridlock ten cars behind them, especially if more than one douchebag is doing this. If everyone crept up, leaving only three feet of space between cars, more of us would be able to get through the green light and we would all get home approximately 1.2 seconds quicker. I know, some people do this because if someone rear-ends them, there is room to be pushed forward by the impact without hitting the car in front. But all that wasted space at the intersection disturbs my delicate sense of order!
Finding cabinet doors or drawers open, in any room, in any place. I don’t even like walking past the copy machine at work to find the top opened. I close any drawer or door that I see left hanging open.
Open-mouthed, chompy, slurpy, lip smacking eaters. Just. Please. Close your goddamned mouth when you chew. For all of us.
Corollary to that: Crunchy foods should be banned from the office, and that includes ice-chomping. In fact, you should leave your desk for lunch because I don’t want to see, hear, or smell your vile food. We have a break room. With tables and chairs. Where you can sit in peace and quiet and eat your crunchy lunch,\* disturbing no one\* who is still trying to work.
“So… why are you still single?” GAH!
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