…oooh, instant geriatric caber toss right there!
And in other news, when BBC (yes dear old auntie no less!) newsreaders use the phrase plan ahead.
As opposed to…?
This thread should have a stress inducement warning 
'nother one here.
Waiting to be served at the corner store and some prick pushes in front saying “You don’t mind do you? only I’m in a hurry”
Well yes I do bloody well mind and if you are in that much of a rush you should have set out earlier, back of the queue NOW!
I find myself being very irritated by loud people these days. And people who go out of the way to be rude and think it’s really cool.
Back on the grammar beat, my biggest irritant has to be the mispronunciation of nuclear'' as nucular.’’ That one still makes me wince very time.
“In case of RAPTURE this car will be unmanned” bumbersticker. Presumptuous pricks.
“When Schools get all the money they need and the army has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber, blah blah blah” First, Army doesn’t have bombers, that’s the Air Force. Second, if we didn’t have bombers, you wouldn’t have schools to have bake sales in. Learn the order of priority in the real world.
Actually, any bumper sticker ticks me off. I don’t want your honor student, peacefrog, icthyus, bastardization of the icthyus, deadhead bear, random joke, or religious tripe distracting me and other motorists from the responsibility of navigating several hunderd pounds of metal at high speeds on unforgivingly hard asphalt roadways.
And people. I hate people.
Beat me to it…
To add, they see the employees inside (like me), they start making angry gestures at us, even though the opening/closing time is well stated.
Or try to get in through the Exit door, while the last few clients are leaving.
On the bus…some asshole (girl/guy i don’t know) let their cellphone ring on and on for 20 minutes (Someone was trying to reach them over 10 times).
If you little shithead don’t want to answer, then close the phone or turn the ringer off.
Near the end of those annoying minutes everyone was starting to shout threats…
I’m with jonon this one…or I would be, if I didn’t hate him 
People in my office building who take the elevator to go up or down one floor. I just want to punch their lazy asses right out the elevator.
Peope who smoke directly in front of the exit/entrance doors to my building. Jeez, would it kill you to move over 5 feet so I don’t get a lung full of air tar?
People in grocery stores who inch up behind you in line every time you move. Then if you have one of those hand baskets, and you take a few steps forward to put it at the end of the counter, they keep moving up behind you then seem annoyed that they then have to move a few steps back so you can actually pay for your purchases.
Radio commercials for cell phones that keep playing the ringing of the cell phone during the commercial. It’s not annoying enough to hear those ridiculous Nextel beeps next to you on the subway, in restaurants, in the mall, etc., I have to listen to them in my car or at my desk and feel my blood pressure rise each time I hear it.
People who keep their cell phones on at their desks, then walk away and let it ring endlessly. Or even worse, people who leave their ringback function on so if they’re away from their desks for several hours you get to keep hearing the phone remind you the owner is a Very Important Person who has a message from their annoying friends who can’t seem to just leave a voice mail for them at their work number.
When someone is talking on their cell phone and suddenly get bad reception, and endlessly scream “hello, hello, hello HELLO HELLO are you there hello HELLO”
People asking “What’s wrong?” when nothing’s wrong. I don’t think my neutral face is very sad looking, but apparently it is. There’s no way to answer that without feeling awkward.
Along those lines, I hate people who go “Come on, smile!” for no reason. For my entire life, from relatives to complete strangers, I have been harassed for not perpetually grinning like an idiot. I can’t be the only one who’s had to suffer through this. Sure, it may be “cute” to get a little kid to start smiling. But if I’m 19 years old and not smiling and have had no reason to begin smiling, that’s not an invitation for you, a complete stranger, to start tickling me!
I’m not a bitter, depessing person. Really, I’m not. I smile and laugh when I feel like it.
dman: Just a simple question, not an attack or anything, hehe, but why does it both you to have people with facial piercings serve you food? I have my lip, nostril, and tongue (if you count that as a facial piercing), and they’re all very clean. Piercings are the only parts of my body that I clean with antibactirial soap (other than my hands). They don’t seep or pus. The jewelry never comes loose. I’ve never heard of anyone’s facial piercings coming loose and falling into food or anything. So, what’s the gripe? I’m curious.
New Peeves (or recently remembered):
When I worked at B&N, we’d have middle aged women (only I ever saw do it, maybe men do too) qgo would stand in line for 10 minutes idly, staring at their toes or something. Then when they get to the counter, they have NO idea what they want. Um, you’ve had 10 minutes to decide. C’mon!
When I’m stopping in front of a gas station to run in real quick for smokes or something, and a numbskull pulls up so they’re facing me, but refuses to turn their lights off. So I’m blinded by headlights pointing DIRECTLY INTO MY EYES. Bastards.
Nextel phones. I don’t know why, but that walkie-talkie beep! talk beep! other person talking beep! talk etc gets on my nerves something fierce. Gah.
Quote from Winnie: "When someone is talking on their cell phone and suddenly get bad reception, and endlessly scream “hello, hello, hello HELLO HELLO are you there hello HELLO”
- OMG - this one is sooooooooooooo my boss @ work!! He KILLS me! Everytime I hear him in his office yelling “HELLO, HELLO” into his cell phone, I want to run in there and shove it down his throat! GAH!!
Also - - I mentioned this on the previous page, and others continue to bring up specifics - but in general, BAD DRIVERS!! I know we all got tested to get our license, did only some of us actually remember the rules and laws we learned? ANNOYING PEOPLE!! It makes me sooooooooo mad when people do stupid s#$* driving “several hunderd pounds of metal at high speeds on unforgivingly hard asphalt roadways”! (Quote from jon_pi. Who also made me laugh with the “I hate people” heh heh).
Loud people, people on cell phones in public…annoying.
–I don’t agree with shooting everyone over 55 - sheesh…a little love for the elderly wouldn’t hurt ya’ really. Some people I know are in better shape physically at 55 than some 20 or 30 year olds I know. My friend has a boss who is 81 and he works out at the gym every day! I don’t do that!–
I HATE the new commercials about people dying from the carelessness of pot smokers. For example…scene opens, guy is bending down at a tree on the side of the road where a makeshift cross and candles “marks the spot” where a friend was killed by a driver “high on pot”. GIVE ME A F#$(*ING BREAK ALREADY. I have NEVER heard on the news that an accident happened because someone was “high”. Drunk, yes. On a cell phone, yes. But high? I’d like to see the actual police report of THAT
I am not a smoker and I hate cigarette smoke, but I have to disagree with complaining about smoking at the entrance. If you are going to make a building smoke free and make people go outside to do it (which is a fine idea…no complaints from me), this is bound to happen. You can’t stay completely out of the way of all cigarette smoke at all times. If they aren’t at the entrance, they’ll be five feet away and then someone else will complain. Unless you ban smoking altogether in public, you can’t completely avoid it.
And you really think a pot smoker has never caused a car accident? I bet its more common than anyone acknowledges. In fact, that just might be the point of the commercial. Just because its not on the news doesn't mean it doesn't happen.The idiots who spend 20 minutes in line at the movie theater and yet still don’t know what movie they want to see when they get to the box office. Is it really so hard to read the marquee? Or find out what’s playing before you get to the multiplex?
They’re probably the same people who take phone calls during the movie.
Oh, and stores that put out Christmas merchandise/decorations before Thanksgiving. Can’t we celebrate just one holiday at a time?
In the California recall election, much was made of the increase in the car registration fees.
It was amazing how many news organizations could not understand that a tripling of the fee was not an increase of 300%. I heard that one all the time.
**OneYogini[/], you haven’t done much investigating of the subject, obviously.
Are you actually going to assert that pot doesn’t affect brain function and judgement? If it does, then it certainly HAS to have been implicated in thousands of accidents in the U.S. alone, and probably just in last year. Think about how much it’s smoked.
I personally remember a train wreck that was attributed largely to the engineer being high on pot. And that’s with no way to swerve off the road!
Ask Badge if he’s ever heard of such a thing. I guarantee you he has.
[South Park]
Oh yeah?If they’re so smart, why do they live in igloos?
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Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Unexpected noise. Like if my neighbors start talking loudly right outside my window, or somebody vacuums, or somebody is blowing leaves out of their yard…or well, anything that isn’t my radio or my tv or the person I’m talking to.
Quote by Homer: “And you really think a pot smoker has never caused a car accident?” I never said that. I DON’T think that a pot smoker has never caused a car accident. I said "I have NEVER heard on the news that a traffic homicide happened because someone was “high on pot”. Because I haven’t, not on the news, not in the newspaper…ever.
Quote by Homer: “Just because its not on the news doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.” That of course has merit. I never said it doesn’t happen. However, if it is so common, as you imply that it might be, why WOULDN’T it be “acknowledged”? Don’t you think showing actual proof to the public could make believers out of those who DON’T think it happens at all?
Cardinal - I never claimed to have “done much investigating of the subject”. I, again, was stating my opinion about the annoying commercial. I personally have never heard a story of anyone being killed by a driver (of a car, not a train or other mass transit vehicle) “high on pot”. And, I didn’t “assert that pot doesn’t affect brain function or judgement”. Of course it does. See “I, again” comment above.
I’m open-minded on this topic…despite the jabs that sent me into defense-mode briefly…and if there is information out there (Badge? Cardinal “guarantees” you can give me some info) showing proof positive that there are traffic homicides caused by drivers who were “high on pot”, I’ll gladly do the reading and possibly more “investigating of the subject”.
Much love.
Oh my god, Yumblie, are you me? Because I know exactly what you mean.
It’s not bad with people who know me (except my mom), but people I don’t know very well are constantly asking me what’s wrong, or if I’m okay, or what I’m sad about, and tell me that I should smile more. Gah! I fucking hate you all!
Breathe… breathe…
Oh my god, Yumblie, are you me? Because I know exactly what you mean.
It’s not bad with people who know me (except my mom), but people I don’t know very well are constantly asking me what’s wrong, or if I’m okay, or what I’m sad about, and tell me that I should smile more. Gah! I fucking hate you all!
Breathe… breathe…
On a lighter note, I just set a personal record for longest time between double posts.