THE THINGS THAT ANNOY YOU MOST

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I find that in my day, its the mundane annoyances and not societal ills that get my goat. I'm going to start my curmudgeonly list, feel free to add:

1. People who leave long messages on cellphones and voicemail - I'm going to have to call you back, anyway, so why make me listen to it?

2. People who engage in chitchatty conversations on cellphones in bars, restaurants, bank lines and airplanes - why do I want to hear about how you're going to clean your basement, or the play by play on the game you're not watching? Just stop it!

3. People who insist on answering every cellphone call, even when in a meeting with other people - it is really, really rude.

4. People who insist on disciplining their children in plain view - you know you can't give them the smack they deserve in public. Go ahead and take them into a private spot so you can give them the beating they deserve - we can hear the shrieks through the bathroom doors, and will appreciate and laugh at the effort.

5. Including all the waitstaff in the singing of "Happy Birthday" in restaurants. They don't care about the birthday boy/girl, so why annoy all the other patrons?

6. Mai-Tais.

7. Fast food joints that make you ask for salt at the drive through.

8. Waiters/waitresses that insist on telling you their name, and who want to chat with you. I don't care about their lives, and just want my meal served appropriately.

9. "Self-serve" Delta kiosks when you have luggage to check.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

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[Lazamataz]

Alpaca Llamas that won't have sex with you.
Cyberstalkers.
Needing to ask for catsup at the drive through.
People who write catsup rather than ketchup.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Alpaca Llamas that won't have sex with you.

The females anyway - don't want to do anything that might seem gay.....

[Lazamataz]

The females anyway - don't want to do anything that might seem gay.....

Boy Alpacas are better than Girl Apacas.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I'm disgusted and appalled. Girl alpacas I can understand, but doing something gay??!?!?!?

[Lazamataz]

Meet Sam. His hobbies are posing for cameras, working out, and going to musicals.

[Lazamataz]

I'm disgusted and appalled. Girl alpacas I can understand, but doing something gay??!?!?!?

Just remember my motto: It ain't gay if it ain't your species.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

He looks like he'd be equally at home either being ridden by a gaucho named Pedro or attending the premiere opening of "Evita"...

[VRWCmember]

THE THINGS THAT ANNOY YOU MOST

pointless vanities. ;)

[NeoCaveman]

All things Clinton
Liberals
Democrats
the U.N.
People driving slow in the fast lane

[hobbes1]

The jagoff dragging his ass along the road, in the car in front of you, that doesn't step on the gas, until you either
A: Turn off
B: Get hung up at the Red light as he charges through.

[habs4ever]

#4 is excellent advice :)

[Moleman]

1. Idiot driving the speed limit or below in the left (passing) lane.

[CJ Wolf]

1. Joggers in the car lane
2. Bicyclists in the car lane
3. Sexy Llamas on the road.
4. cellphonephobics

Ok I kinda like the sexy llamas.

[camle]

what annoys me is people asking pointless dumb questions

[martin_fierro]

Welcome to the Thread About Nothing.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Solicitors who call my phone and ask who I am. I pay the phone bill, buster, I'll ask the questions.

Peeps who talk LOUDLY on their cell phones in public. Do they think the other caller can't hear them? Do they think they're cool because they're on a cell phone? Do they just want attention?

[SoothingDave]

1. Women who don't get their wallets out until after all of their groceries have been rung up.

2. Mothers and children at fast food places during lunch hour. Working men have to get in a get out. Go to lunch at 11 or 1.

3. Above mothers who waste time asking little Timmy if he wants the burgers or nuggets, coke or sprite, etc. Just order him food. You're the parent. Or discuss it on the car on the way over.

4. People who drive ultra-cautiously slow (below the speed limit uphill, so they don't go too fast on the downhill part) and then fail to do a legal stop at stop signs. Hello? If you are going to be fastidious about driving laws, then at least be consisten.

SD

[wimpycat]

THE THINGS THAT ANNOY YOU MOST

Threads about things that annoy you most. :-)

People who view everything in life through the lens of their own personal pet issue.

Indiscriminate use of hyperbole.

When people exaggerate for effect when the situation calls for accuracy.

People who can't admit when they are wrong.

People who are constantly talking on their cellphones when they are dealing with other people in person.

When people leave me a voice mail asking to call them, when they could have given the info I asked for on the voice mail.

Leftists, socialists, communists, anti-Christians and extremists of any sort.

[apackof2]

Ignorance

[Chancellor Palpatine]

It does have that Seinfeldesque quality, doesn't it?

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Peeps who talk LOUDLY on their cell phones in public.

I suspect they're the same people who always gave away the plot while talking in movie theaters.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Women who don't get their wallets out until after all of their groceries have been rung up.

Ha - major pet peeve of mine. Its even worse if they're elderly and have their husbands with them - because then they get to yell at him the entire time to boot.

Mothers and children at fast food places during lunch hour. Working men have to get in a get out. Go to lunch at 11 or 1.

I'll go you one even better - geezer women at the bank during the lunch hour. They'll waste three tellers for 15 straight minutes while tracking down an 87 cent discrepancy that was their mistake in the first place. I was once so disgusted I yanked a few bucks out of my pocket and offered them up if the old bat would give up her stupid quest.

[Johnny Gage]

1) ANY driver who doesn't yield Right-of-Way when I'm going Code-3 in a fire truck.

2) Slow drivers in left lane

3) People who insist on sharing their life-story with the check-out lady at the grocery store.

4) Side by side bicyclists on a narrow street.

5) Geese in the road.

[martin_fierro]

OK, I got a peeve to share:

Knuckleheaded people who overuse the words, "Unfortunately" and "Definitely" because they think it makes them sound More Like A Professional.

This practice is especially bothersome when the subject they're addressing has nothing to do with Fortune or is indefinite.

(yeah, I know, that's definitely unfortunate for me.) <|:p~

[martin_fierro]

You sound anything BUT soothed, muh man. <|:)~

[SoothingDave]

I was once so disgusted I yanked a few bucks out of my pocket and offered them up if the old bat would give up her stupid quest.

LOL. I almost did this once in a supermarket, while some lady was searching through her changepurse for the proper number of pennies.

Look, here's a buck, just keep the change and get out.

SD

[Lijahsbubbe]

Knuckleheaded people who overuse the words, "Unfortunately" and "Definitely" because they think it makes them sound More Like A Professional.

Ha ha. "As well", works there also. As in " I have a pimple on my butt as well".

[wimpycat]

I have one along those lines. It is knuckleheaded people who say, "At this point in time". They're probably the same people who also say, "10:30am in the morning".

[pa_dweller]

Weather people who say things like: "It's going to be cold in the overnight". ?? Would that be overnight hours, knucklehead?

People on forum threads who won't answer a simple question. You can get advice you didn't ask for, admonishments, off-topic questions, abuse, off-topic answers to unasked questions, ad nauseum. Why can't they just answer the damn question?!

People who pronounce nuclear as newkular.

Striptease promos for new TV shows.

[jocon307]

"When people exaggerate for effect when the situation calls for accuracy."

Neat point, very damning, I'm going to remember this, abide by it, not do it, and be aware of it going forward.

The things that annoy me:

1. Littering

2. People who want to fax me things I won't look at until three days after they arrive anyway. I now refuse to give such people my fax number.

3. The hard sell. This will kill any deal to which I am a party.

[bluefish]

1. Odd use of capitalization. Unfortunately, it is definitely irritating!

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

People who can't finish their sent
People (or persons) who overuse (to excess) parenthetical (that is to say, tangential) phrases (or sentences).
People whose sentences do not a verb.
People who tend to arbitrarily split infinitives.
People who think they're really clever by posting self-referential sentences.

That last one is me making fun of myself. I used to have a journal site where I came up with many, many self-referential sentences. I suggest the book "Metamagical Themas" by Douglas Hofstadter for those, and many other verbal and mathematical amusements. He's the same guy who wrote "Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid".

[Professional]

All the girls that pinch my butt. Man that's rude of them...

[Professional]

Ok,...

People that can debate words, like nuclear.

People that don't give a courtesy wave, when you let them in to your lane of traffic.

Cars that are slow in the left lane.

Excessive packaging. Layers and layers of foil, safety buttons, tight plastic wrappers.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

My fave is the packaging that is so tight and hard (tools are the worst for this) that you need tin shears to open it.

[wimpycat]

When my mom encounters tough packaging, she always exclaims, "You need a stick of dynamite to get this thing open!"

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

People who expect you to pay attention to a recommendation sign like “slower traffic keep right”,
but think it’s all right for them to completely ignore the “speed limit 65 MPH” sign.

[Graybeard58]

"People that can debate words, like nuclear".

"People that don't give a courtesy wave, when you let them in to your lane of traffic".

People who say "people that" instead of "people who"

[Graybeard58]

People who say A.T.M. machine and P.I.N. number

[Graybeard58]

Peoplke who say, "early on"

[Graybeard58]

"Peoplke who say, "early on"



People who type "peoplke" instead of "people"

[Graybeard58]

Adults who try to talk like teen angers but who are hopelessly behind times, using words such as, "cool", Duuuh"
"d'oh", "I really mean this"!...Not!