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[Pindar]

What stupid shit bugs the hell out of you?

What really gets my goat right now why can't anyone work pedestrian crossings.

Everyday I see huge crowds waiting to cross the road and not one person has pushed the button.

They stand and stand waiting for lights that won't change.

It makes my blood boil.

And why the hell can't I buy ripe bananas? It seems that everywhere near me only sells them green.

I want to eat them today, not in two days time!

 

[MIB]

People who walk up behind you, just start talking at you without getting your attention first, and then getting ticked off over the fact that you didn't hear half of what they said. That happened so often during my stint at Sam's Club that I was convinced the people who shop there must be socially retarded.

 

[auntiehill]

Shopping cart etiquette, or the lack thereof.

This has been my pet peeve for a very long time. Any store that has shopping carts has a parking lot full of them, because people are too damn lazy to walk ten steps to the cart "corral." Instead, they leave them in the parking spaces, so no one else can park there. Then, the stores have to pay some kids, or use their existing staff, to gather up these carts every hour. So prices go up and there's fewer staff members to help customers.

I recall one day when some stupid woman, parked right next to me, put her groceries away and then pushed her cart right in back of my car, rather than walk the whole 4 feet to put it away.

I was walking up behind her and watched her do it, so I took her cart, while she watched, and put it away. Did I get an apology? Oh, hell no.

It's worse down at the Home Depot where they use the large metal carts for lumber and heavy items. People just push the damn things right out in the middle of the parking lot, so no one else can get by.

FFS! Didn't your mother tell you to put things back when you're finished with them?

What lazy, fat-ass, selfish bastards Americans have become! ARGGHH!

 

[Emher]

The idioits that do crazy suicidal passes past you at 100 mph on the highway, only to get off at the next exit.

 

[cultcross]

The idioits that do crazy suicidal passes past you at 100 mph on the highway, only to get off at the next exit.

+1 to that. I can't stand people who pull off the most dangerous and hair-brained overtaking manoeuvres you can imagine, only to take the next exit anyway.

Exit approaching - I'm in the middle lane as I'm not taking the exit, they're in the nearside - they shoot out into middle lane, then fast lane, round me, straight back in in front of me, then back to the nearside lane then off up the exit ramp, applying the brakes as they approach the end. Less than 10 seconds later I will pass them on the main carriageway, as they've slowed down. So what on earth was the point of the overtaking?

 

[jamestyler]

I don't mind the crossing thing so much as I never press the buttons. Not because I expect them to change automatically, but I know the pattern. Theres one five minutes away that favours traffic more than pedestrians and you'd have to wait until all roads are clear to cross anyway. I know the first set stops traffic and you can cross, and the second does the same two minutes later.

I haven't had shopping cart issues in a while...

Wrestling fans bug me. A lot. I'm the bad guy. I've bee the bad guy for six years. Why are the surprised I'm not nice to them after a show? Should I automaticly change to sign an autograph? No.

And people who shout 'Goth' when I'm wearing jeans, a tishirt and a leather coat. One recently shouted "Oi, Marilyn Manson!" when I was wearing a suit with my leather overcoat and another gave the same remark when I was wearing jeans and a red hoody. It makes no sense...

 

[Geckothan]

Watching TV (not something I do often unless there's a series I'm following or I catch a good movie/interesting documentary, or if it's Top Gear!) with people that keep changing the channel constantly. You just get into something then adverts come on and they change the channel thinking they'll avoid them (totally oblivious to the fact that they're on in 15 minute intervals on almost every single channel) then never bother changing back to what you were just watching.

jamestyler already said this one, but chavs/wiggers/pikies who assume that anyone who doesn't wear tracksuits and fake burberry is a "grunger" or "goth" (or "goff" as they'd spell it because they're stupid). I can't stand emo/goth kids myself, so I find it laughable when they compare you to one for not dressing like a chav. They're usually weak little shrimps and run for their lives if you confront them on their own and they usually only try to provoke you when they outnumber you.

Screaming kids with bad parents that just can't shut them up. Of course they can't be silent but they shouldn't be allowed to scream at the top of their lungs all day.

Motorbikes. Not just because they're annoying on the road, but because of the noise they make (almost as irritating as aforementioned screaming kids), and around here they're usually driven by aforementioned stupid chav kids (though alot of them seem to prefer mopeds for some reason).

People who try to talk to you while you're watching a movie or you have headphones on. Is it that difficult to show some courtesy and not interrupt?

People who shout on the phone. We aren't living in the early days of the telephone anymore, there's no signal loss and you don't need to SHOUT AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS to be heard.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Classist scum who use terms like chavs, whiggers, and pikies.

Wrestlers who stay in character and won't sign autographs.

Ripe bananas.

Sam's Club employees who ignore me when I'm talking to them.

People getting annoyed at my screaming screaming kids.

People who say I shout at them over the phone.

Anyone who bitches at me while I'm channel surfing.

Motorbike bashers.

 

[Cali]

Things which currently piss me off:

Customers who keep edging around the corner of the till area so they're standing behind the till instead of in front of it. Also please stop leaning over the till trying to look at my screen, I'm liable to accidentally slip and stab you with my pen.

Customers who answer their phone while I am trying to serve them. Somewhat ironic as I work in a phone shop.

People who keep their phone in their cleavage. Yes, really. I am SO glad I did not have to touch her phone.

Pervy old men who stand way too close to me.

People who look at me like I'm a moron when I ask what they've come in for today. We are told to say this or we get in trouble.

People with an inability to read their fucking terms and conditions on the contract they signed.

Pretty much every customer who comes into our store.

 

[An Officer]

Indirect people - if you've got something to say to me, grow some fucking balls and say it. Fucking gets my goat.

 

[JuanBolio]

People who walk too slowly and take up the entire path ahead of me.

People who use words like "irregardless", phrases like "I could care less", and pronounce mischievous "mis-CHEE-vee-us".

Evangelists.

People who engage in subtle infighting.

Chavs and wiggers.

Preachy vegetarians.

People who blindly follow all rules and give unquestioning, unqualified obedience to those in positions of power.

Depressives/suicidal people.

People who don't read anything deeper than a magazine article.

Sports geeks who look down on sci-fi geeks.

ALL OF YOU MOTHERFUCKERS GET THE JUANBOLIO WAR FACE!

 

[thestrangequark]

Generally little things don't bother me at all, I've too many really, really big things to worry about to sweat the small stuff. I'm incredibly patient, too -- possibly my greatest virtue and vital to teaching young children. Lately, though, I'm becoming more and more annoyed by strangers commenting on my appearance. I'm used to men catcalling, which is piggish, inappropriate, and disgusting, but I'm getting particularly frustrated by people, including women, commenting on my pink cheeks.

I've been getting the comments all my life -- when I was a kid it was, "Isn't she adorable with those rosy cheeks?!" As I got older disgusting men would holler things like, "Come on sexy, I see you blushing!" People are always asking, "Are you too warm? Your face is all red." "Is it very cold out side? Your face is all red." Just a week ago, as I was walking into the hospital for a follow up appointment, a security guard yelled after me, "Miss! Miss! There's something on your face!" "Ink?" I asked (I'm an artist and sometimes get ink and other media on myself). "It's all red!" she said.

Shut up, strangers. It's none of your business what color my face is. I'm fair-skinned, half NA, red cheeks aren't that uncommon! It's not even that drastic -- they're just pink! Why do people think it's okay to say things like this to me?

Leave me alone!

 

[MANT!]

Cotton Headed Blue Hairs weaving all over the road at 15 MPH BELOW the limit on a clear day..

 

[jamestyler]

Wrestlers who stay in character and won't sign autographs.

Damn you!

Seriously, the opposite bugs me no end. I used to lead a heel group and we'd be utter bastards, we'd have people throwing things at us, we made kids cry... yet two of the group would completely switch to being nice and suck up to the fans afterwards. One I can't fault, the guy is just way too nice, the other was just living in fear someone would say something bad about him online.

The whole point of my existence is to have people talk shit about me. Some wrestlers bitch about the lack of illusion these days, those same guys are the ones who switch persona's after taking their boots off.

The most irritating part was a group that thought because I kept that illusion, they'd be my little fanbase. It took me months to piss them off and I had to above and beyond the call of duty to do it. Fucking wrestlers. Fucking fans.

I could rant about wrestling for ages, there are times when I hate my job

Other than that...

I really loathe women who are all too eager to discount the fathers part in raising children. With my daughter I would play, teach, look after her, put her to bed, read stories, taught her to walk and speak among many many other things. Yet because I don't have a vagina, I'm viewed as less important.

I hate people who write blogs on MySpace and call themselves a columnist. You're writing about what you watched last night and how sick your cat is. Three people read it. Don't apply to me for a job.

Customers... the ones who think because I charged £X for someones website, which took a few hours to put together, I should charge them the same price for four weeks development. It doesn't work that way. If you reply with sking me to do several weeks work with "Cant you do it for £50?" I'll start to ignore you.

Paisley. Specificly the select group of locals who fit into the 'ned' (chav to the Ensligh ) category and are ready to pick a fight over anything. I've had one say "I'll do four years for you" while pulling a knife on me. Then threatening to charge me for assault when he ended up face first on the floor.

I woke up in a very negtive mood...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

My pet peeves:

- Fans (any sport) who boo. I don't care who it is. Either cheer or shut the fuck up. Booing is poor sportsmanship.

- Customers in my store who bitch when I card them. I don't care how old you claim to be, or how old you think you look. I have the absolute right to card whoever I want, for whatever reason I want, at any time I want. I can even card everyone in a group, even if only one person's doing the purchasing. If I card you, either you show me your fucking driver's license or get the hell out of my store, capisco? A customer's minor inconvenience is preferable to me losing my job and/or getting arrested, or my store losing its liquor license, just because some boozehead got lazy.

- Multipurpose sports stadiums. Talk about a failed premise. Especially for baseball fans. Their sight lines were horrible (trying to build one stadium that hosts both baseball and football is a failure in and of itself, because the shapes of the fields are just too different), they had the charm and soul of parking garages, and they were too far away from the city center in almost all cases. The 'cookie cutters' all sucked ass and I'm glad most of them are gone (after 2012, the only one left will be in Oakland). Don't believe me? Ask any Phillies fan, for example, if they actually enjoyed that lameass Veterans Stadium (vs. its replacement, the gloriously baseball-only Citizens Bank Park). Or just try to drive by RFK Stadium in D.C. without laughing your ass off.

- Insult comics. They're like schoolyard bullies with microphones.

- Manny Ramirez.

 

[msbae]

Okay, I'll show you my warface...

As for the things that piss me off...

- Obama.

That's it. Nothing else really needs to be said.

- Photobucket deleting some of my photos, claiming they're offensive.

Funny, these images didn't seem all that offensive for the last several years that they were in my folder...

Seriously...

- People who complain about movies before actually seeing them...

- People who keep complaining to me about something offensive I might have said or taking offense at a sardonic joke I cracked...

In fact, I have a new avatar for those wastes of flesh...

- The concept behind what's laughably called a 'Hardcore Gamer' these days.

Oh, you play Wow? Well, good for you and the 15 Million other people who cough up $10 a month. You aren't a gamer you little twerp. Real Hardcore gamers are Hardcore nerds and...

- Some people complaining about what I put in my blog at MySpace... (and it has nothing to do with TV most of the time or cats.)

Hell, that blog has actually been very useful to me in the last 2 years. It helped me end a few friendships that weren't going anywhere and finally settle some unfinished business that was long overdue for a conclusion.

I'll add more as I think of them. I'm going to like this thread...

 

[Hermiod]

Oh good, I get to rant about the Tube again.

Sit in your own seat, keep your feet and legs to yourself, bags go on the floor - not on your lap or on the seat next to you.

Make full use of the entire platform, do not crowd on to one carriage just because it's closest to the entrance to the platform.

Stand on the right hand side of the escalator, never stand on the left. Walk in single file through the narrow corridors so people can get past you.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

msbae, where the HELL did you get that pic?

 

[msbae]

msbae, where the HELL did you get that pic?

Which pic? I have thousands of disturbing images. You should have seen the 'Hooray for Handwashing' one Photobucket decided to delete. Bastards...

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

People who repeatedly press the elevator call button when it is already lit. Look people the elevator call button is designed to alert the elevator where to go next after it has finished its previous stop. It is not a magic button that will make the elevator suddenly appear. Just because the elevator hasn't come within five seconds after pressing the button doesn't mean it isn't on its way. All that button pressing isn't going to change the laws of physics and have the elevator materialize instantly on your floor.