The "Everyone's A Psycho But Me" Thread

[NickInABox]

Okay, so I wanna ask you guys: What really grinds your gears?

For me?
People who complain about our backwards, capitalist society, then goes out and buys themselves a new wardrobe every week whilst listening to Top 40 pop music.
They deserve to be mugged.

 

[auntiehill]

People who complain about taxes, but then bitch about poor roads, schools and libraries (like my in- do). Do they think these things just magically appear?

People who throw around offensive, hateful words to belittle every race, creed and sexual orientation, and then have the gaul to call themselves Christians.

Dumbasses who buy EVERYTHING they see on credit and then whine about being in debt. Lots of people suffer legitimate hardships like a family death or illness, divorce or job loss. Spending like a moron simply because you want to does not entitle you to cry about how you can't pay your bills.

People like my neighbors, who get a large dog and pen it up in the tiny backyard all day. They NEVER walk the dog, or play with her and wonder why she won't obey or listen, howls incessantly and goes berserk when they let her out. She acts crazy, you bastard, because you've DRIVEN her crazy. Don't get a dog unless you're willing to take responsibility and give it proper attention and care.

Thus ends my rant for today.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

People who are convinced the world is in a constant state of decline. They think violence is up, sex crimes are up, mental illness is up, living standards are down, medical care is worse, etc. etc.

While there are stints where things get temporarily worse, most of the world is far better off than it has been at any other time in history. In developed nations, almost all negative demographic indicators (crime, etc.) are down, and the positives are up. Yes, times are tough because we're experiencing a global recession, but they'll get better--they always do.

Going hand-in-hand with this are those people who think a civilization-wrecking disaster is just around the corner. These people have been around since the dawn of time, it seems, and their predictions almost never come to pass.

Seriously, people: get a grip.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Most of the things that piss me off have to do with driving. Like, people that don't use their turn signals is my biggest pet peeve. I cannot stand that! It makes me literally angry with rage!

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Most of the things that piss me off have to do with driving. Like, people that don't use their turn signals is my biggest pet peeve. I cannot stand that! It makes me literally angry with rage!

Don't ever come to New Jersey. Nobody here signals. Or, when they do, they're lying.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Bankers who get bailed out by the tax payers, and then award themselves huge bonuses. That doesn't just grind my gears, it leaves them as a smouldering heap of swarf at the bottom of the gearbox.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Most of the things that piss me off have to do with driving. Like, people that don't use their turn signals is my biggest pet peeve. I cannot stand that! It makes me literally angry with rage!

Don't ever come to New Jersey. Nobody here signals. Or, when they do, they're lying.

That annoys me. I mean, it's not like the turn signal is all that far away, dammit.

 

[Franklin]

The older I get, the more I think I'm the only sane one out there. So, my list is long. But the one that always gets me is every now and then a student will pontificate about how bad big government is and how all people want are handouts when they should make it on their own free enterprise.
Now, the kid's entitled to his or her opinion. But after I hear such speeches, I always ask the kid if he or she is in school on a government loan. Many are. That's when I do this, , and a little of this, .

 

[Franklin]

Most of the things that piss me off have to do with driving. Like, people that don't use their turn signals is my biggest pet peeve. I cannot stand that! It makes me literally angry with rage!

Don't ever come to New Jersey. Nobody here signals. Or, when they do, they're lying.

If we're going to bring up insane driving habits, don't get me started on driving around northern Virginia.
-- People back out of parking spaces without looking.
-- They merge into traffic after using the entire merge lane and without using turn signals.
-- Or, they stop at the end of the merge lane. Which could be because often --
--They don't pull over a lane when they can to let anyone in who is trying to merge.
-- Or, they don't slow down to let anyone merge in.
-- They camp out in the left lane going five miles an hour less than the speed limit.
-- They get in a minor fender-bender and just leave their cars to block traffic.
-- They block intersections when lights turn red.
-- They don't always take advantage of right turn on red.
-- They match your speed and drive in your blind spot.
-- They have no idea what to do at a four-way stop sign.

God, the list is long.

 

[tharpdevenport]

People who go below the speed limit. Especially on a one-way street, left lane, or an a no-pass street. Had a son of a bitch do that, and at each of the speed bumps, the S.O.B. came to a complete stop, then crawled over them, then proceeded to go 10 MPH to the end of the street. Florida law: it is unlawful to go 10 miles or more under the posted limit unless otherwise posted. IT was not otherwise posted and the limit on that street was 25.


People who -- even when you are sitting in your car RIGHT THEM AND THERE -- hit your car with their door and don't even bother to acknowledge what they did, or you use vehicle to set their shit on.



There's a port-a-potty where I go walking. A guy comes over there with a truck and cleans it every few days. All he does is hose it down and put toilet paper in there. He doesn't clean it, the set, the human shit which has been on the door for over two weesk now (people have been rubbing their ass on it, unaware), or the "urinal" -- this tiny sink like thing to pee in -- which is 65% caked in yellow cud which NEVER gets cleaned, the filthy floor, the "glory hole" in the side ..... and sometimes, if the gate is locked and he doesn't have the key, he turns around and LEAVES without cleaning it.


And other things.

 

[Franklin]

-- They tailgate.
-- During these snows, they let the snow stay on their cars, so it is either blocking a windshield completely, or flying off of the vehicle in chunks, or both.
-- In bad weather they'll either slow down to an insane, fearful crawl, or barge on like it's sunny and dry.
-- The "Jersey lane change," is alive and well down here.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

- People who can't drive worth jackshit during the winter. These are often the same people who panic and raid the supermarkets when it snows .05 of an inch. Get a fucking GRIP, people! It's snow, not nuclear fallout!

- Radical environmentalists.

- Red Sox fans who start up the "Yankees Suck" chant when there are no Yankees fans present, and the Yankees themselves are not, technically, in the game. I mean, isn't the whole point of sports trash talk to make the other team and/or its fans hear it?

- People who wait until they get in line at the supermarket and THEN start writing their stupid checks, often taking as much time in doing so as Tolstoy did to complete War and Peace. If they must use an outdated, obsolete method of payment, the very least they can do is write as much of it as possible before they get to the line.

- Anyone who is in any way involved in creating tabloid trash papers/magazines, or reality TV, or both. These people should be shot without trial.

- Cubs fans who ran Steve Bartman out of town on a rail just for catching a fucking BALL, which ANY fan would have done in his place. Hell, the Cubs themselves admitted that it wasn't his fault they lost. Don't blame a fan (or even some stupid madeup bullshit idiotic whining about a "curse") because your team SUCKS!

 

[Yeoman Randi]

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- People who wait until they get in line at the supermarket and THEN start writing their stupid checks, often taking as much time in doing so as Tolstoy did to complete War and Peace. If they must use an outdated, obsolete method of payment, the very least they can do is write as much of it as possible before they get to the line.

And those who wait to fill out their deposit or withdrawal slips til they get to the drive up window at the bank. I seriously want to kill those people.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

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- People who wait until they get in line at the supermarket and THEN start writing their stupid checks, often taking as much time in doing so as Tolstoy did to complete War and Peace. If they must use an outdated, obsolete method of payment, the very least they can do is write as much of it as possible before they get to the line.

And those who wait to fill out their deposit or withdrawal slips til they get to the drive up window at the bank. I seriously want to kill those people.

I wish they taught time management at school. Mind you, they'd have to teach the teachers first.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

I'm not a patient person. You know who drives me crazy? The fuckers who can't bag their own groceries but wait for the cashier to bag them. I want to throttle those people. And it's not just old people that do that. Perfectly able bodied people do it all the time. (And i do give the oldsters a break, I would kill them painlessly while the others I would make suffer.)

 

[Franklin]

- Cubs fans who ran Steve Bartman out of town on a rail just for catching a fucking BALL, which ANY fan would have done in his place. Hell, the Cubs themselves admitted that it wasn't his fault they lost. Don't blame a fan (or even some stupid madeup bullshit idiotic whining about a "curse") because your team SUCKS!

I sooooo agree with this. Mainly because I'm a Cardinals fan who has a lot of Cub fan friends.

But it's OK to blame umpires for losing big games. Damn you, Don Denkinger!

 

[Spot's Meow]

I'm not a patient person. You know who drives me crazy? The fuckers who can't bag their own groceries but wait for the cashier to bag them. I want to throttle those people. And it's not just old people that do that. Perfectly able bodied people do it all the time. (And i do give the oldsters a break, I would kill them painlessly while the others I would make suffer.)

I do this for two reasons. The main one is that they often don't want you to bag things yourself in the two stores I usually go to. This is connected to the second reason. I was a bagger for a little while and we weren't supposed to let other people bag for themselves, and when they did it always irritated me because they were too slow or getting in my way or just not doing it right.

I also don't bag my own groceries at the stores because that was the worst job of my life and bagging brings on painful flashbacks that make me want to stab someone.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

But it's OK to blame umpires for losing big games.

No, I don't think that's true either. The umpire will never win or lose the game. It's up to the players to do that. If a team, or anyone on the team, blames the ump for losing a game, that's cheap and a cop-out.

Umps have been known to make bad calls, but then let the team come out from under that.

Edit: Just remembered another group that really irritates the shit out of me:

Those losers from the "Tea Party".

What a bunch of self-serving idiots. Those people should all be slapped with a trout. They're in it for their own egos, nothing more. They make me embarrassed to be a Republican.

 

[Franklin]

But it's OK to blame umpires for losing big games.

No, I don't think that's true either. The umpire will never win or lose the game. It's up to the players to do that. If a team, or anyone on the team, blames the ump for losing a game, that's cheap and a cop-out.

Umps have been known to make bad calls, but then let the team come out from under that.

In my more rational moments, I realize Denkinger isn't responsible for the Cards play after he blew the call in the bottom of the ninth in Game Six in 1985. And, he certainly isn't resonsible for them collapsing in Game Seven. BUT DAMN HIM, ANYWAY! JUST 'CAUSE I CAN!

 

[sbk1234]

People who emmigrate to another country, but then complain that everything isn't the same as it was in "The Old Country."