# What "innocent" group of people can you simply not stand? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 28, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982 "2015-10-28T16:27:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![BrightSunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@BrightSunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightSunshine)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/81 "2015-10-29T13:11:09Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > I “attacked” someone? That wasn’t an attack. I was pointing out that someone was wrong on the internet. > > “Home” doesn’t have the same meaning as “house”. Or does it where you come from? Nowhere did previous poster or I say “home” means “house”. They said if one does not want the responsibility of _owning a home_ they should live in an apartment. In a country where apartments are rented, and apartment-like dwellings that are owned are called condos or co-ops, their statement is accurate. You told them to go “sit in the wrong box” and “oh God” them, which is an attack. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/82 "2015-10-29T13:14:28Z")
> [@BrightSunshine](#): > > Nowhere did previous poster or I say “home” means “house”. They said if one does not want the responsibility of _owning a home_ they should live in an apartment. In a country where apartments are rented, and apartment-like dwellings that are owned are called condos or co-ops, their statement is accurate. You told them to go “sit in the wrong box” and “oh God” them, which is an attack. Alright. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/83 "2015-10-29T13:22:32Z")
Internet arguers. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/84 "2015-10-29T13:26:40Z")
People who don’t smile or at the very least say “hello” back when you greet them. No, I don’t expect everyone to walk around like grinning fools but ferfucksake when another human being looks you in the eye, smiles and greets you, if you can’t muster some kind of civil response then you should do the world a favor and stay the fuck home. ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/85 "2015-10-29T13:40:01Z")
Sweet people. Some women have this way of talking in a high-pitched, unassuming voice that grates on my nerves. I guess it’s sort of along the lines of what \*\*monstro \*\*was saying in that it typically reflects a poor ability to stand up for one’s self. Basically, if I disagree with you, and rather than defend your idea you back down, I find that irritating. If I’m trying to have an adult conversation with you, an adult exchange of ideas, and you’re too sweet and agreeable to defend your ideas, that’s irritating. ---
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/86 "2015-10-29T13:41:01Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Euphoric atheists. You know the type, the ones who walk around talking about sky-fairies and deluded idiots, and reshelving the Bible in the fiction section, etc. A high number of them tend to wear fedoras, too. I don’t run into the fedora wearing kind, I suspect they’re an urban myth, but the more militant atheists annoy me. I completely agree with you, God doesn’t exist. Chill. An earlier poster referred to slow people, and hell yes. Especially people in front of me at, let’s say, a shopping mall, moving in a slow and diffuse group. If you’re moving slow, don’t block half the hallway, walk single file to hide your numbers. Or at least don’t get annoyed if I shoot through a gap to be able to walk at my normal speed. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/87 "2015-10-29T13:53:00Z")
I will also add “People who can’t accept other people’s limitations.” I just had a meeting at work about someone who is always telling me to do physical stuff and complaining that “she’s too slow.” I have a physical handicap. My left hand is in bad shape. I could be on disability if I wanted to go that route. I will do anything you ask me to do, but I have a hard time doing it fast. So what? And as a cashier, people who think that they can take two minutes to find the right credit card or change, then five more minutes to put everything away and find their car keys, all the while gabbing on their cell phones and/or texting. All the while, people are waiting behind you. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/88 "2015-10-29T13:55:05Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > People…all of them…everywhere…including myself. There is always at least several things I hate about every god damn person everywhere. I’ll 3rd this. Fuck all y’all. ---
**Author:** ![brainstall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/89 "2015-10-29T13:58:09Z")
Animal lovers, who when they hear about a dog in need respond with “Wish I could help, but I’m too far away/have two dogs already/don’t have time” and then plead for and demand someone else step up. If you want to help, then foster locally. And, the “precious furbaby” people. I love my dogs and I dote on them, but if I start referring to them as my furbabies in earnest, just shoot me. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/90 "2015-10-29T14:07:50Z")
Not sure if this fits the OP, but I’ve been encountering more and more veterans with very well-developed senses of entitlement. That and the ever-increasing measures to recognize/reward vets (most recent - green lights? Seriously?) are causing me to think less well of the entire group. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/91 "2015-10-29T14:17:02Z")
Quoters. You know who you are, so I guess you’re not really innocent. Not every situation or conversation requires a Python, LOTR, Trek, or even Bible quote. Whether online or irl. Even if the quote fits! Stop it now, lest I be forced to nuke you from orbit. (See? Annoying, isn’t it?) ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/92 "2015-10-29T15:49:33Z")
> [@The Great Sun Jester](#): > > I’ll 3rd this. Fuck all y’all. 4th’d. I’d suggest a tennis doubles match but… **Yo’ mamas!** ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/93 "2015-10-29T15:54:55Z")
People in public places who are oblivious that they are in public places. For example, leaving the grocery store and stopping right in the middle of an opening door to fish out their keys or chat with a spouse. It’s the whole attitude of “the rest of the world doesn’t exist” in my reality. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/94 "2015-10-29T18:11:30Z")
People who research their ancestry and brag about their Great Great … grandparents 200 years ago for being the inventor of ass bleaching or something equally silly. People who get all caught up in their ethnic background are sooo proud of being German or Irish or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/95 "2015-10-29T18:14:55Z")
> [@ZPG\_Zealot](#): > > My problem is they often take up places in academic and training programs that could go to the more deserving (you know people who are actually going to do their jobs for a while). My MIL has often said that any nurse who quits after less than 5 years to become a housewife/stay-at-home parent (happens far too often even in 2015) should be required to pay for the educational costs of her replacement. There are probably better ways to improve the supply of education and high skilled workers than introducing indentured servitude. What should people who plan to be stay-at-home parents 4 years in the future do in the interim? Just not get an education and be stuck with crappy jobs and no skills? I am intrigued by this line of thinking because I’ve never considered it before. I guess the question is how much does having a particular skill set obligate you to use it. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/96 "2015-10-29T18:25:45Z")
> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#): > > ::: snip ::: > > I am intrigued by this line of thinking because I’ve never considered it before. I guess the question is how much does having a particular skill set obligate you to use it. As a pilot, there were many hours that I figured it was in my best interest and everyone elses best interest to be using it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/97 "2015-10-29T18:32:06Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Good point. I stand by fedora wearers, though Not I, at least not when it’s raining. The water drips off the edges of the fedora and all over me and my stuff. I can’t stand fedora wearing rain drippers. Dang it! ---
**Author:** ![CoastalMaineiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@CoastalMaineiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoastalMaineiac)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/98 "2015-10-29T18:37:59Z")
People who pay by check in the express lane. Smokers and gamblers at convenience stores. You go inside to pay for your gas and maybe buy a bottle of iced tea, only to get stuck behind that guy that wants a pack of each different kind of cigarette, and 5,000 different combinations of scratch-off tickets! What should be a 30 second transaction ends up taking 10 or 20 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/99 "2015-10-29T18:39:59Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > Quoters. > > You know who you are, so I guess you’re not really innocent. > > Not every situation or conversation requires a Python, LOTR, Trek, or even Bible quote. Whether online or irl. Even if the quote fits! Stop it now, lest I be forced to nuke you from orbit. (See? Annoying, isn’t it?) Inconceivable! ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982/100 "2015-10-29T18:51:39Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > “Guess what”. > > I hate when a person starts off a conversation with that. No I am NOT going to guess. Just say the freaking thing. No, no, it’s much more fun to actually guess. “You’ve adopted a penguin?” “Those aren’t really your shoes?” “You’ve decided to convert to Zoroastrianism?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-innocent-group-of-people-can-you-simply-not-stand/735982.md?page=6)