That’s why the thread is titled “Truly stupid things that annoy the hell out of you.”
The whole point is that they are mostly trivial stupid things for which we have a disproportionately intense loathing.
I hate those stupid stickers on the edges of DVDs and CDs. What a friggin’ pain! Even when you pull where it says “Pull”, the most you ever get is a tiny shred of that sticker at a time. Grrr!
It drives me nuts when I go to the concession stand at the movie theater and order a medium popcorn, and the salesperson must ask every time, “would you like to make that a large for just a quarter more? You get free refills with the large.” Why should I even bother ordering at all, if I can just stand there and let the concession guy tell me what I want? I once got fed up with this constant question and replied, “Holy shit, you mean they make this stuff in large size?” That accomplished little other than to establish myself as a total nutjob, so I’ve since gone back to the standard “no, thank you.” This applies equally to the fast food joints with their Biggie/Super/Mega/Oinker Size meals.
Which brings me to an even bigger gripe: the 9 out of 10 people in line ahead of me who answer “yes” to the upsizing. Just order what you want the first time, and stop being such sheep! I swear the attendant could offer to crap in their popcorn tubs, and half of them would say yes, as long as it was “only a quarter more, and it comes with free refills!”
Minor, but…
It’s Enrico Ca-ru-so
and
Robinson Cru-soe
despite what the theme to Gilligan’s Island says.
The only thing I could think of offhand is women wearing sleeveless blouses.
I just think they look stupid. You’ve got these naked arms, but you cover up the body in between. Either commit yourself all the way, or don’t go at all. Spaghetti straps, fine. Halters, fine. Short sleeves, fine. Sleeveless? You look…diseased.
But but but… you get the fun of trying to sneakily position yourself beside and slightly behind them to see through the sleeve holes what (if anything:eek::D) they’ve got on underneath!!! Getting away without them realizing is so satisfying - and you can even degrade them a bit in your mind since they are usually trying to look professional and you get a secret peak at the goods of Ms fancy shirt giving a big speach and she has no clue…
Then again if you’re a female you’ll probably find that creepy, and if it’s done to you you’re probably going to be quite annoyed… um, someone told me all this stuff of course. I’d never do it 
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Cadbury, I’m with you on the whistlers. Someone I know whistles… but just two notes for some reason. Back and forth, about 2 seconds one note then 2 another… Jesus.
I’m annoyed by people who write thread titles such as “Is the movie ever better than the book?” or “Do women ever enjoy sex?” or “Does anyone else watch Skooby Doo?”
I have to fight off the compulsion to post nasty replies such as “No, never, ever. Not once in the history of film, ever, ever EVER has a movie been better than the book it was based on. Not once.” Or, “No, not one woman, ever, anywhere, even for a moment has ever enjoyed sex.” Or, “No, nobody else, it’s on just for you, really. You are the only one.”
Sigh. I don’t do it, and I recognize that it’s just done to get the conversation started and a common way to phrase a rhetorical question. But oooooo it bugs me.
Arrrggghh, People who congregate in clumps (WITH their carts) to gossip in the middle of grocery aisles during the busiest time of day!! Including letting their children orbit them making an even BIGGER jam in the aisle.
Grrrrr, you are NOT the only people in the grocery store, don’t you see the hordes of other people in the aisle trying to either get past, or get to the food that you’re blocking?
Grrrr, snarl…
So true, so very true. My wife does this (and I hope to God she never reads this post!) and it annoys the hell out of me. How hard is it to close your friggin’ mouth whilst eating - put less in!!
And my two other pet peeves guaranteed to result in that vein throbbing dangerously and popping out on my temple :
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Drivers who sit in the middle lane of an otherwise deserted motorway. Especially when they are only doing 60mph (limit over here is 70). Get the [censored] over you [censored]. I now have to pull out from the inside lane and cross two lanes to pass and move back in two lanes you selfish, unobservant [censored](undertaking is a no-no technically here too).
Mind you given the already demonstrated level of driving ability it would be too dangerous to undertake as they would probably choose that precise moment to drift over into the inside lane :rolleyes: -
People who are rude because they can be. Or because they think they can be. It costs nothing, nada, zip to say please and thank you to anyone. Its just plain polite. And just because some people are paid to serve you - doesn’t mean they are paid to take your rudeness. Even in [random fast food joint] I will always say please and thank you.
Actually 2 gets me more wound up than pretty much anything and is the reason I probably could never work in a fast food environment - especially a customer facing one. I would last about two customers until someone came in and went ‘Get me a xxxxx’. I would have to jump over the counter and batter their head against the till yelling ‘Can [smack] you [smack] spell [smack] please [smack]? Do [smack] I [smack] look [smack] like [smack] your [smack] bitch [smack]?’
And if they were really rude I might have to continue dishing out [smack]s through the entire rendition of Pulp Fiction’s fantastic scene:
Jules: Does he look like a bitch?
Brett: What? [Jules shoots Brett in shoulder] NO!
Jules: Then why you trying to fuck him like a bitch?
Brett: No…
Jules: Yes you were… yes you were, and the only person Marsellus Wallace likes to be fucked by is Mrs. Wallace
Right … off to calm down a bit now. In gold - out red, in gold - out red …
Thanks for listening
mmmiiikkkeee, that’s what low-cut tops are for. Get the “professional” lady to sit opposite of you so you can show her a document that lies flat on the table so that she has to bend down to look at it and give you a peek. Lot less effort.
Sleeveless blouses makes them look like…I dunno, storks.
Well, if it helps you any, here is why I wait until I get to the checkstand to do it.
Because, standing there holding the groceries AND my purse, I don’t have enough hands, and nothing on which to put the purse anyway, in order TO get in the purse and get out my wallet and debit card.
I need to be up to the checkstand, so that I can put the groceries down (freeing up my hands) and put my purse on that tiny little postage stamp sized platform so that I CAN dig around in my purse to get my wallet.
I don’t wait until the cashier has rung everything up though, and normally, I use the UScan, so I don’t have to rely on a cashier at all.
But that does bring up another pet peeve.
The UScan, PLEASE, if you DON’T know how to use it, go to the regular checkstands with humans.
PLEASE.
One final question…
Gum chewers? Someone mentioned being bugged by gum chewers?
Ummmm, why? do they leave their chewed up gum on your desk or something? Not dogging your pet peeve, just curious as to why it IS a pet peeve.
Cigarettes I can understand, they invade everyone’s air. But gum? How would you even know? Unless you’re talking of the cowlike gum CHOMPERS??
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.
At the factory I used to work at, they still have elevator operators working on one of the elevator. If they dont have floor calls, they will take people needing to go to the from the ground floor to the 6th floor before they will take someone to the 2nd floor.
I’ll admit to doing that in my old office. Not because I was lazy; believe me, I would have prefered taking the stairs because it was quicker than waiting for the elevator.
But - it was an old building. The stairwells were narrow and dark and smelly. The railings were always sticky with God knows what. Half of the lightbulbs were broken or missing and never replaced. Sometimes the doorknobs on the stairwell side were broken and you’d have to go back up or down an extra flight and take the elevator anyway.
Those stairwells were the sutff of nightmares. :eek:
People who smell really bad, ala BO. And people who talk really close to me and they have super rank breath. gag. I also can’t stand how people over use sarcasm.
People who try to ‘help’ you when you’re solving a problem for them, and only succeed in making it worse. My boss, for example, recently asked me to come over to his house to address some issues he was having with e-mail. When I pulled up to his house, he was standing out front next to a square of freshly poured concrete in the exact center of which lay a squiggle of steaming poo.
“What seems to be the problem, Boss?”
“Well, I had my webmail configured to forward automatically to my other e-mail account. It’s handy to be able to receive all my e-mail in one place.”
“Uh-huh…”
“So then when I went on vacation I had all my email from my regular account forward to my webmail account so I could check it while I was away.”
“Ahhh… so when you went to check your mail…”
“Yeah. It made this cycle where everything was constantly forwarding in a huge circle, and I had, like 14,000 e-mails trying to download.”
“I see. So what did you do then?”
“Well, I used the control panel to uninstall Office so Outlook would stop running.”
:dubious:
“And then I accidentally disabled my antivirus popup blocker that I downloaded free off the internet.”
“Okay… let’s…”
“And then I figured I’d better do something about the potential viruses I’d been exposed to while the antivirus popup blocker was disabled, so I filled the chassis of the computer with antibacterial soap.”
“er… You do realize, don’t you, that…”
“Yeah! What was I thinking? Antibacterial soap will have no effect on a virus! Should have used some kind of antibiotic solution. Anyway, I figured I should wrap the thing entirely in plastic sheeting and duct tape to prevent any further intrusion. Wrapped that up with chains and combination locks I got on special. Do you think I should have written down the combinations? I think one of them started with a ‘3’.”
“I still wasn’t sure about security, so I dug a hole in the lawn and lined it with lead and put the computer in a box with some more padlocks and chains and lowered it into the hole and covered the whole shebang with this cement here. When do you think I’ll be up and running again?”
:smack: “But… but… What’s the deal with that bit of poo on top?”
“Oh… I called in a consultant before I called you.”
Oh man, just reading this thread has annoyed me. But I’ll jsut go with my few big ones.
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Misspelled product names, store names, etc. I passed the Kleen N’ Brite Kar Wash the other day … this is why our nation’s children can’t spell.
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People who mix up homophones.
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That little bit of dead air before a telemarketer starts to talk. If you don’t talk right away, I’m hanging up the damn phone. And as long as we’re talking about telemarketers, here’s a little tip–don’t ask for “the man of the house.” The last telemarketer who did got told “He’s in the litter box right now, but I’ll tell him you called.” click
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People in restaurants who ask me to put my cigarette out. I am in the smoking section for a reason. If you can smell it, then you are also in the smoking section. If it bothers you, then you should have asked for non-smoking!!!
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“Jesus loves you” bumper stickers. I’ve never met Jesus, but I hear he’s a pretty cool guy, and I’m relatively certain he at least likes me, but why would he tell the guy driving the Gremlin in front of me?
I am one of these people, and I know others think I must be lazy but in our building due to security if you take the stairs you can only exit not enter the doors so the only way up is the elevator, and I work on the second floor, I can feel people burning holes in my back as I exit every morning. People that work here understand it is visitors that do not. I wish they would change it, I would gladly take the stairs it would save me a lot of time. I do always take the stairs to go down though.
sorry that was the wrong quote, I was replying to the one about people who only go up one floor on the elevators.
Things bothers me too, but it make it even worse when they are sleeveless TURTLENECKS!!! Let’s see it is cold enough to keep me neck covered, but I’ll expose my entire arms. My wife wears these all the time, and I have told her they are dumb. Now I think she wears them only to piss me off.
I also can’t stand interviews with athletes. They should be illegal. Don’t get me wrong, I like sports as much as the next guy, but if I hear another idiot say things like:
“I want to Thank God for giving me the strength to…”
“I just went out and gave 110% and did my best”
“I have to give credit to me teammates…”
The 110% thing drives me crazy from anyone.
Great, great thread.
Man, my grammar is terrible.
The above should read:
Those things bother me too, but it makes it even worse when…
and ignore the rest of the mistakes as there are many.
I am going home now.