I HATE PEOPLE WHO PREACH ABOUT MORALS AND ETHICS!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:
Speaking of flamboyant, effeminate straight men*…I hate people who are just intelligent enough to pretend they know what they are talking about, but deep down they don’t, and their lack of knowledge will either bite you in the ass if you let it, or will let them take credit for work that you did.
I call it a “quirk” because a lot of times it’s harmless, like a person who’s just a know-it-all and will interrupt every conversation with a “ohhh, do you know the real story behind this?” I just think they have a lot in common with the people who do take credit for other’s work, both self-centered and -assured enough that they can bullshit a lot of people for a long time.
The latest offender was someone I was playing D+D with, and somehow the conversation got around to radar. This guy told me that current radar is already obsolete, and will soon be replaced with devices that send out electromagnetic signals. I said, in a joking way, “So, how is that different…from…RADAR? :D”, expecting that he had just forgotten some subtlety in how the new technology works. He said “Well, it sends out electromagnetic waves. Radar sends out light waves.” I said “ohhhhhhhkay…,” since I didn’t even know where to begin with that statement.
You tend to get people like that a lot in D+D and the IT industry.
*well, not really, but one of the offenders I am describing was one of those.
Preach fatha!!!
People who talk too loudly and just scream when they laugh.
People who do nothing but whine and moan when they have a cold. Both my mother and sister are like that. My father and I hardly ever say a word about sickness when we have colds. My sister got sick while she was visiting us and she literally moaned. “Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”. My mother and I had to go somewhere just to get out of the house and away from her.
Gum chewers.
People who drop hints instead saying what they want. As in 10 minutes of “I’m cold” instead of “Could you turn up the heat, please?”
People who ride my ass about being perky and enthusiastic about things.
Just because you’re a depressive, morose git, with less enthusiasm for life than a slug, don’t take it out on me.
That really picks my ass.
People who insult their friends as soon as they’re not around. I went to elementary school with a lot of those kind of people, and sometimes they’d start talking about how much they hated so-and-so as soon as they left the room. They claimed they were best friends but couldn’t stop talking about how much they hated each other when one of them left.
People who’d rather whine and complain then fix their damn lives. They bitch and moan about how horrible their lives are but no matter how hard you try to help them they make absolutely no effort to change their lives for the better. I had a friend like this and she nearly sucked the life out of me complaining about how bad her life was when her situation was entirely her fault. Similarly, I hate it when people don’t want to do something, but instead of just saying that and saving you a lot of time and aggrivation, they make up reasons why they can’t. If you come up with a reasonable solution, they either reject it or find a new problem. Even worse, they usually do it so they can do what they want to do, and they try to force you to go along with it.
Amen, sista 
That describes my life perfectly. It doesn’t help that I have a very very hard time figuring out when someone is lying or messing around with me. It took me a couple of years to figure out that one of my good friends only came around to be my friend whenever I was employed and she needed a job (I’m talking about $8 an hour type jobs).
Huggy, touchy-feely people. I don’t care how much I like you, I don’t want to hug you the first time we meet.
People who make an over-inflated effort to mask their accents, because it makes me feel like a hick for having one.
On the Internet, I hate it when people plug up their pages/livejournals with lists of what they’ve bought recently, and nothing about they themselves. Yeah, I know this is America but still…
People who talk about gourmet food and indie films all the friggin’ time, and pretend like they don’t ever like to kick back with Spam and cartoons (and I don’t mean some rare import out of Bangladesh). I like nice food and arty movies sometimes, but nobody can subsist on a steady diet of gouda and Kurosawa. Unless everyone does and I’m an even bigger hick than previously thought.
People who pretend to have ideals (boycotting certain companies and stores, especially), but will drop them as soon as a deal comes along or they find something SOOO CUUUTE that they can’t pass up. I would rather hang with someone who has no ideals than someone who’s going to give their politics lip service.
People who are anti-psych meds but pro-marijuana (as in, they use it, not just that they want it legalized). Consistency, people!
Oh yeah, and I also concur with people who don’t shut up about being sick, and people who will go to the doctor for colds and complain if they don’t get the antibiotics they absolutely need. Y’all are the reason we’re going to have a plague of epic proportions in the next few hundred years.
Lots of us have had that father.
I hate people who insist that every situation has to revolve around them. My sister has a friend like this. She gets angry when anyone tries to talk about anything but her.
Oh god, yes I hate the compulsive huggers, especially the ones I barely know. Close family is fine, however if I don’t know you and you are over the age of 10 and try to get all huggy with me, prepare to receive The Evil Eye.
**What quirks/personalities can you not stand? **
Glad you asked … [ul]
[li]slow walkers … people who take their heaven-sweet time moseying down the street and blocking my way[/li][li]loud talkers … people who are completely oblivious to how loud they’re talking, like on a cell phone or to someone right in front of them[/li][li]phonies … people who are obviously out of their area of expertise or competence, but pretend that they know what’s going on[/li][li]backstabbers … people who say one thing to your face and completely the opposite when you’re out of the room[/li][li]cheapskates … people who never reach for a check[/li][/ul]
People who have no sense of social conscience. This disgusts me. It’s your world too, a beautiful painful world. Don’t sit around whining about how “no one ever does anything” about poverty, or homelessness, or politics. Go out and get involved. Vote. March in a demonstration. Join an activist group. Volunteer. Plant a tree. But don’t whine to me about how bad you’ve had it. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
People who borrow my money and never pay in back. I’m always the one getting hit up for $10, or $20 or $50 – and then folks conveniently “forget” to pay me back, or argue that they borrowed less than they actually did.
People who talk shit about other people. One of my friends, Sarah, is very extroverted and sexually open. Folks always talked so bad about her – she joked that she wished she was sleeping with some of the people she was rumored to be sleeping with! One time, me and Sarah were in Philly, and since her paycheck hadn’t hit her credit card yet, I paid her way for the weekend. She insisted on paying back every dime of it, even though I told her not to worry about the full amount. She went without to pay me back. Most of the people talking shit about her had owed me money for months.
A lot of familiar material in this thread.
I generally don’t suffer fools gladly. Shoo… Get away… Go on…GET!
People who agree with whoever happens to be talking at that moment. For God Sake! Have an original thought. No ones going to jump on you for expressing your oponion. (well, not usually)
People who think I’m deaf. I’m not in the next room, around the corner or at home. I’m right here. I can hear you fine.
People who don’t know me well enough, making jokes (they think) about male nurses. If you happen to be one, fine. If you’ve earned the right, fine. Other than that, well, be prepared for the consequences.
Yeah, tell me about it!
Women who are intelligent and articulate until a man walks into the room. Generally these people have internalized the notion that boys don’t like girls who are “too smart”. I hate it. Any man who’s not going to be interested in you unless you hide your intelligence is not worth your time anyway.
Now I’m afraid that everyone who quotes me in this thread is just sucking up. wimpers
Aggressive, overconfident extroverts - just calm the fuck down and behave like a socially tactful human being for once! Not everyone in the whole restaurant wants to hear about your sex-life.
Those people who once attended a two day psych seminar and after a drink or three decide to “diagnose” their companion’s “deepseated issues.” My deapseated issue is that I would like to strangle you, bitch.
The overly touchy-feely people that I’ve just met - I’m an only child, I like my personal space. I’m willing to forgive you if you’re drunk, though.
Whatever personality Jessica Simpson has. I cannot freaking stand her.