Whistler’s.
And dangerou’s and irre’spon’sible us’e of apo’stophe’s.
There’s a gal who does the voice-overs for a lot of Discovery Home channel commercials who has a girlish nasally voice that sends me diving for the remote. It’s not the worst voice I’ve ever heard but something about it makes me angry.
And I don’t know what these are called but I hate when you’re watching a program and an animation pops up on the bottom right of the screen, advertising another program. I saw the worst example last night while trying to watch Blue Planet on Animal Planet. Instead of tucking it nice and neat in the bottom right, they stuck the advertisement on the lefthand side of the screen, about a third of the way down from the top. Then had the critters running back and forth across the picture. After the second time, I said screw this and changed the channel.
OUR “CHICKEN” TASTES “GREAT”!
/me backs away slowly…
“ATM Machine” and “PIN Number” drive me nuts.
Two from car commercials: One is when car commercials show cars sliding across the frame out of control. Yeah, that looks real appealing. Also dumb is when a car is driving calmly down a mostly-empty street at about 30 MPH and the bottom says, “Professional Driver on Closed Course.” Uh… WHY?!
I agree.
People who randomly burst into song. This isn’t a musical, folks.
The “Schleck Schleck Schleck” sound my dog makes when he’s doing his personal cleaning routine.
People who have gravelly voices because they’re too lazy to clear their throats.
Rap Music.
I’ll bet you a million dollars that you try to clear it for them.
Smilin’ Bob. I hate that idiot not only because of the stupid ass grin on his face but the fact that all that stupid whistling in the commercials gets my birds squawking which really drives me nuts.
I have to dive for the remote like a gold medal winner to hit the mute before my birds hear to much of those dumb ads.
This is more of a workplace-specific thing, but when I’m reading a document and there are double periods, or a missing period, or not enough space between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next, or inconsistency (all paragraph headings are bold and underlined, but one is just underlined), that type of thing. They jump off the page at me. If you’re going to go through the trouble of drafting a complex and convoluted contract, have the decency to show a little attention to detail and make sure your formatting, spelling and punctuation are right, by garlic.
I get hacked off about the same thing even when they’re using the one-window system. What happens is, they give you your change, and then an instant later they thrust the food through your open window.
Dude, you just gave me money. I have to put the bills into my wallet, put the wallet into my back pocket, and put the change either into my pocket or into the change tray. I have to do these things. They’re important to me. I’m not going to leave bills and coins sitting in a puddle in my lap just because you shoved food in my face, because I’ll lose them, and I don’t like to lose money. I’m funny that way. So get that food out of my face, and out of the below-zero winter air, until I’m ready. If it’s so important to you to get me out of your sight quickly, give me my change as soon as I pay instead of waiting until my order is ready.
Socks.
I can tolerate wearing socks with shoes only. However, the following scenarios are entirely unacceptable (for me and for anybody around me):
A) Somebody touching me with their sock-covered feet.
B) Rubbing feet together while in socks.
C) Going to bed with socks on.
D) Walking across the carpeted floor in socks.
E) Wearing old socks
F) Rubbing socks against any other clothes or material.
Just thinking about these things set my teeth on edge. It’s hard to describe the reaction I get, but it feels like my teeth itch, and it makes me very uncomfortable and unhappy. As soon as my shoes go off, the socks follow. If my husband or sister are just wearing socks, and I see them, I’ll insist they go bare foot. If their feet are cold, they can put shoes on or slippers. They think I’m crazy. I probably am.
Seconded! I can’t stand hearing ANYone crunch ANYthing, but ice is absolutely the WORST!
What about sliding across a wooden floor in socks?
Those are called bugs. No, I don’t know why. They are a little irritating, but there was one TBS ran last year that not only was a bit large for comfort…it had sound. Yes, sound on the bug, over the dialogue of the show I was watching!
Remind me not to hang out with you. I burst out in song all the time.
Adam Sandler. I absolutely refuse to watch any movie he’s in.
Do people really do this? I’d wonder if what there selling is really sweaters, or maybe its an alien symbiote disguised as a sweater. 
That thing with them holding the food out the window at fast food restaurants must be a new trend. They did that to me the other day at Burger King. I was thinking to myself “Hold on a minute, you moron. I’m putting my change away.”
I just had to leave work for an hour to take my kid to the Dr’s for a checkup and was reminded of a few other things that send me over the edge:
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When you are the first person stopped at the red light and the person behind you honks their horn within 2 seconds of the light changing from red to green. I mean damnit man, really? 2 seconds was too long to wait?
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People who try to enter an elevator car before you’ve had a chance to get out! Rude…
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Another elevator related one; when a I politely motion for a woman to board the elevator before myself only to find out that she took the last spot in the car. That happens to me all the time and it’s especially cheeses me off when I’ve already been waiting for like 5 minutes. I would use the stairs but 22 flights doesn’t sound that appealing!
A part of my job involves receiving addresses. I cut and paste them into the orders system, except when THEY"RE ALL IN CAPITALS or thewholeaddressisruntogetherwithnocapsgapsorpunctuation.
It is neither cute nor clever, as I have to correct the format even though they obviously won’t care how their order is addressed. Once it’s in the system it’s my work and must be correctly formatted.
And people who ask questions that are already answered in the sales info / email they’re questioning.
People who want extensions on their payments, special deals on standard items and split deliveries for standard courier rates. They are always the ones who end up making legal threats if we have to say ‘enough - sorry but no, we cannot do this one more thing for you’.
I know they’re petty and unimportant complaints, but they drive me nuts. It’s just as well the rest of my job is so much fun.
And the absolute worst for me is something like I saw on the otherwise business-like truck I saw yesterday, a slogan. “Serving Campbell since 1962”. Who the bleep are you quoting ON YOUR TRUCK? Huh?
I think I got this link off of these boards; in any event, “enjoy” :
The words orientate, disorientate, and or irregardless being used by somebody who is educated.
Mismatched silverware or glasses (holding the same beverage) bug me.
Candles in the same candelabra burning at different rates due to a draft- drives me nuts.
Ooh, this reminds me of another of mine- when people fuck up Irish names like mine. It’s not “Mcclure,” it’s not “MC CLURE,” it’s fucking “McClure!” You know, exactly how I wrote it?
O’Names are even worse. Ofarrell? O Farrell? Who cares if THEY spell it “O’Farrell”? Let’s throw some spaces in there and take parts out and fuck with capitalization!