The petty things that wind you up.....

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I think I'm possibly the worlds most intolerant person and it would cheer me up no end to hear your rants. What little habits do people around you have that make you grit your teeth in fury? What stops you exploding?

There's a guy in our office who finishes every statement by slapping his hands on the desk, 'da da dum' style. If he only did this two or three times a day I wouldn't even notice, but it's every five minutes.

Other colleagues probably don't notice this, but I'm sitting working myself up into hysterics. Sigh.

So yeah, anyway, share. Da da dum.

― rumpie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

People who come out of shops, without looking if people are coming, then walk out into the middle of the pavement and then just STOP.

Would they do that if they were in a car? No! I feel like just colliding with them and knocking them down.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

My one annoying co-worker making any noise at all.

― blueski, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

People putting THEIR CRAP on my desk. Especially the bloody auditors we've got in at the moment. We're squished in so tight no one can move coz we've got three seats on two desks. And then the dude E X P A N D S.

My rule is, if you put your stuff on my desk, you have to do my work. Grrrrr.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

My coworker who shakes his yogurt instead of stirring. The sound it makes is sickening and I race to put my headphones on whenever he gets it out.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

I get irrationally peeved about people getting in my way on public transport. I know this is pointless and I probably do a lot of these myself but I get really incensed by people who stop at the bottom of escalators, stop as soon as they get on the platform, stop as soon as they get on the tube instead of moving down so other people can get on, standing on buses blocking the stairs when there's seats upstairs etc. As I work in Soho I have to deal with bloody tourists etc and I start seething inside and have to just think come on now, they probably held up you by 0.5 seconds stop being silly.

― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

PEOPLE WHO STAND BY THE DOOR, AND REFUSE TO MOVE when everyone is trying to get off, and thusly reduce a 2-person stream to a 1-person at a time stream. I'm not even talking at rush hour, there are people who just seem to like to stand by the doors, even though the carrige is nearly empty. Argh!

I should really stop clicking this thread because I am trying to be a nice, even-tempered person and not get wound up.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

"Baby on Board" signs. If anyone dares to tell me they are using one to genuinely mitigate the chance of accident and not just to proclaim to the world that you've now got children I will laugh like a fucking drain. Word of advice: the bloody thing makes me WANT to drive into your car at high speed, you self-congratulatory MORON.

PS. Only in Essex: "Little Princess on Board". I nearly haemmorhaged with rage.
PPS. Yes, I do know that children are the most magical thing in the word ever, before someone tells me, and I can completely understand why.

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, those fuckers too. And especially when people start piling on when people are still getting off. I just barge straight through them.

― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

My Sweet Sixteen. spoiled brats. (I guess that's not neccesarily petty but it winds me up unneccesarily)

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

On public transport, I often wish I could electrify myself. Or emit a loud aggressive beeping that sounds like that VEHICLE IS REVERSING GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY sound. Sometimes I forget, and actually start doing it out loud.

And then there are probably people who are really, really wound up by that.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

Kate and Colonel Poo: lack of good manners in general winds me up beyond belief. The same thing happens with lifts a lot of the time re: people getting in before they've given people a chance to leave. Bloody annoying.

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

More worse car sticker!

"The driver of this car is a parent of an HONOURS STUDENT at xxxxxx PRIMARY SCHOOL"

― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

Grocery shopping - which can be a very pleasant task - really pisses me off if the store is too crowded. Like, people just stop in the middle of the aisle and wander away to sniff the melons, or something. I feel like starting a demolition derby.
Thus, I only shop with a cart when I know the store won't be crowded.
Because parking lots piss me off too. Soccer moms in huge SUV's or stupid minivans idling in order to get the nearest space to the store entrance...that's why they have shopping carts, bitch! So you can trolley your purchases to your huge vehicle! Your huge vehicle which is blocking my way!
Large vehicles piss me off. Driving pisses me off.
I'm kind of an angry person, I guess!

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

Everything irritates me. That's why I drink.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

more on my co-worker (way too much time spent with just two other people. . .) We have a newly remodled office with brand new, expensive furniture. He puts his feet up on everything. We can have a full crowd at our conference table and as soon as someone leaves, he drags their leather chair around and throws his feet up in it. Rude! Who wants to sit where your dirty sneakers have been? One day, I swear I'm going to say something.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

"The driver of this car is a parent of an HONOURS STUDENT at xxxxxx PRIMARY SCHOOL"

JESUSFUCKINGCHRISTOHGODNO

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

i hate the way gin always sounds like a good idea at 1:30 in the morning but at 6 when i have to get out of bed to go to work it suddenly reveals itself to be a really really bad idea.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

The people getting in the way thing - are they stupid or just ignorant?? When I'm shopping, or on public transport or whatever, I'm totally aware of how my behaviour could annoy others, so I do my damndest to be as inobtrusive as possible, it's only right!

Fuckers, don't they realise that if people are having to push past them or say "Excuse me", or tut loudly behind them a dozen times a day that they are perhaps getting in the goddam way? Are they really so vague and dozy?

― rumpie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

many people are just so self-centered that they don't care if they're in your way.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

Also, ASDA. Everything about it annoys the living daylights out of me. The worst bit of it is that every recipe you have in your house will have at least one thing that ASDA doesn't sell (i.e. it's not beans) or has run out of. I'm absolutely certain that my local ASDA (which unfortunately happens to be on my doorstep, between my house and the station) has at least one piece of CCTV footage of me getting so annoyed that I drop my basket where I'm standing and storm out, glaring at the "welcomer" as I go. I should just go to Sainsbury's, but that involves driving when I don't have to and hence environmental angst.

In defence of the indefensible, however, I will say that ASDA is very good at making you feel very good about your looks, for very obvious reasons. Stand in the middle of the store for five minutes and you'll feel like a supermodel.

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

People who want me to confess to stuff and expose my foibles in public just so they can feel better about their own irrational pettiness. Who the hell do they think I am, Louis Jagger?

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

(/mostly joke)

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

The new Charlie Card system here in Boston is incredibly annoying not only because it's poorly designed, but also because people are idiots and can't follow instructions!!!! Along the same public transportation lines are the idiots who sit on the aisle seat on the bus or put there bags on the seat next to them so that they block the free seats.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

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― onimo, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

i HATE it when people press the button at the pedestrian crossing, then cross without waiting for the little green man, leaving all the cars to wait at the intersection for nothing. if people want to use the little green man, i'm more than happy to stop for them. but if they're just going to cross regardless of the lights, i wish they wouldn't press the button.

― gem, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

It's all "Anarchy" in the UK.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

"Baby on Board" signs. If anyone dares to tell me they are using one to genuinely mitigate the chance of accident and not just to proclaim to the world that you've now got children I will laugh like a fucking drain.

You're right that it doesn't reduce the chances of an accident, but that's not what it's for. It's to alert the emergency services who attend the accident that they should look for an extremely small living person in the wreckage. Feel free to assume it's there to wind you up and laugh like a drain though. lol dead babies, etc.

― caek, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

Large, SUV-type vehicles OTM. Especially the drivers who own them and have no fucking concept of how large the vehicle they are driving is! The other day I come out of a store to find my car sandwiched between two SUVs, the one on my driver's side left me a scant four inches to squeeze into my car. I was very tempted to slam my door very hard into the side of the shiny thing, but I stopped when I saw the owner's wife was still sitting in the passenger seat. Instead I squeezed between the two cars, made a very obvious show of how I couldn't get into my car, then followed it up by pressing my middle finger up against the glass of her door (probably four inches from her face). Then I walked around and climbed through my passenger side and away I went.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

Wouldn't the sign be smushed in the accident?

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

caek, I didn't know that. But, I would bet that most people who have one don't, either. The last bit is harsh: read my PPS.

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

Thing is, people leave them stuck on the window whether the child is with them or not and potentially waste precious fire service/ambulance time looking for a small person that isn't there.

― onimo, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

Fair enough. Also, I now discover there's an untrue urban legend which may be responsible for starting the belief in their efficacy (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/parental/babysign.asp). Doesn't mean they're not a good idea though.

FWIW, I felt the same irritation as you, until I took the piss out of my dad's wife, who has one in her car for my baby brother, and she got very upset and explained why they're not just there to irritate the childless. I considered myself pwned.

― caek, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

xpost, natch.

― caek, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

I'm still ROFFL-ing over the Charlie Card. Is it really to get Charlie off the MTA? That's so awesome if they're really called that.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

Everything irritates me. That's why I drink.

laurel, as always, otm

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

Ok, ok, ok. Can I still get annoyed at ASDA, though, please?

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

Certainly! You're very OTM re: the supermodel thing. When I was in Bristol my local supermarket was Asda Bedminster which sold nothing but sweets and crisps and pies to greasy five-foot-tall women. Good times. They had a McDonald's on site.

― caek, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

Thank fuck for that. You nearly ruined my day ;)

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

greasy five-foot-tall women.

:(

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think the "Baby On Board!" signs could serve that purpose.
having stickers on house windows for children/pets is a good idea - for fire fighters/emergency personnel -but I find it hard to believe that, um, a car is like a house! If the accident is so bad that the EMT's need that information, the sign itself would have flown off of the window.
But, if it makes parents feel better, so be it.
Just don't have a Garfield window suction cup thing, ever.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

Or an "I'm the parent of..." sticker. I stand by my reaction on that one.

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, they're really called that but it's after this annoying character they've created named Charlie, sadly.
I also never knew that about the Baby on Board signs. Last night I saw one that said, no joke, Pit Bull on Board. I wonder if that's to make sure emergency personnel know what they may encounter. Heh.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

No, Charlie far predates any stupid character - he's from a folk song from, like circa 1948 or something!

I've been investigating this, because I wanted to do The MTA Song at a local folk open mic night - because I swear, people can get trapped inside the tube with Oyster cards and all that.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

I couldn't believe it, especially as it was a PRIMARY SCHOOL!

Not a univ, not even a secondary.

Our Alice got a 'outstanding' at nursery for her dancing/movement class. I didn't get teh STICKER in t' car for it.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

the MTA song!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

Pit Bull on Board

...which is exactly the kind of thing that makes me think that people generally use them for the "oooh, look at us..." value. Also, I don't think it helps that all of them are done in Comic Sans ;)

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

For me it's Somerfield. They never have anything, bastards. There's no other supermarket within walking distance of my house - I can't count the number of times I've stormed out of that shop, fuming.

They have a 'Customer Comments' book just past the tills, I've considered leaving my rage in writing for them, but one day last week I saw about four cashiers standing round the book laughing their guts out so I decided against it.

― rumpie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

I love that someone has gone and actually mapped out which line Charlie must have got stuck on.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Every day I thank Tesco, our Dear and Glorious Leader.

― caek, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Mark, thankyou. My co-workers now know that all I do is post on the intermaweb all day because I've just laughed so hard.

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

Postmen/couriers just posting the "We tried to deliver this while you were out" thing without knocking on the door and, y'know, trying to deliver this.

My housemate complained about this when she went the three miles ot the depot to collect the parcel, and was told, "don't mention it to the postman, as that might make him angry, which will only make things worse." DEAR BRITISH PSYCHE, FUCK YOU.

Actually, this one isn't that petty.

― caek, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

I have resisted the MTA song - which Massholes all sang in elementary school in the '70's. But now i am going to blast it and sing along!

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

Is an in-store McDonalds a common ASDA thing? Their Kingswood branch (big retail park just outside Hull) has one too.

I don't like their pay-from-your-car-window petrol stations. Or the fact that their head office is called the ASDA Home Office - it makes it sound like in Leeds they're part of the government.

― Forest Pines, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

The MTA song!! This is fantastic and I've never heard of this before. I like Charlie now that i know he's no longer just a gimmick.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

Well, he is a gimmick, as he was invented for a political campaign over 60 years ago. But he's an ANTIQUE gimmick!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

Poor Charlie! It's the greatest protest song for this thread!
And it is hilarious!

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

Followed by more drainery at the comments following Mark G's effort. I love this board at times.

Have any of you been properly glared at because you've all-but-shouted "you fucking cunts" when looking at the large gap on the shelf where the Coriander should be?

The pay from the car windows wind me up, too, but mostly because I can't reach them from my seat. Mind you, that serves me right for having a hairdresser's car (or actually, probably more of a receptionist-at-the-hairdressers car...). I can't really blame ASDA for that, but, what the fuck, I'm going to anyway.

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

Citizens, hear me out! This could happen to YOU!!!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Well yes, exactly. That somehow makes it much better.

If his wife visited him every day at the Scollay Square station (now called Government Center), he must have been on what is now the Green Line

It looks like he rode on my line as well!

This is so going to be my new interesting fact to tell people but with my luck I'm probably the only person living here who didn't know this already.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

Can we rename this thread to "This is the thread where people tell you why you shouldn't hate the things you do. Apart from ASDA", please?

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

caek: also destroy companies who will only send things by courier, which need to be signed for by ME when I'm NOT THERE. I've tried getting things delievered to work, but it's a right bloody lottery, I can tell you.

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

this is a test, as i was just barred.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, I just got barred from ILX, for no reason. Had to make sure I still exist! Not to de-thread, but - does anyone else have this happen?
It's a petty thing that MIGHT wind me up, if it wasn't so silly.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

I was just barred too.

I can never reach things from my car seat. My local car wash, I usually have to open the door then reach through the window to reach the "start" button, then hurriedly close it all before the water starts.

The other month, I was trying to pay a parking attendant through the car window, and dropped a tenner. So I opened the door and tried to squeeze out through the six inch gap between the car and the attendant's hut, forgetting that my upper body was still sticking out of the car window. Tricky.

― Forest Pines, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

It happened to me just now too, there was about 10 minutes when it kept telling me I was barred.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

caek, I didn't know that. But, I would bet that most people who have one don't, either.

I doubt it's true. It sounds like some shite that sales people tell parents to convince them to buy things, or else something this person said on the spur of the moment to defend the choice to have it here. Wouldn't the child's car seat tip the emergency services off?

I have a special well of hatred in my heart for cunts in vans and SUVs who drive RIGHT UP MY ARSE impatiently when I'm driving really slowly around the estate so that I don't smack into some child who might come running out in front of me. Well done for having a tall vehicle that lets YOU know where all the children are, FUCKO, but I just have a regular car and will do 20mph if I want.

Double hate for people who do this with their children in the car. It's your fucking kids I'm trying not to kill, you cock.

I think I might be a bit hormonal today.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

roffle

It's even worse when you're abroad. The number of dirty looks and horn-blowings I got when getting out of my car at péages last summer...

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

xpost, obv

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

People I do not like: the cyclist I nearly splattered this morning, because he was cycling in thick fog with no lights. And then seemed to think it was my fault for pulling out in front of him when he wasn't actually visible. Twunt.

People who overtake me when I'm doing 30mph in a 30mph zone (or 40 in a 40 etc etc). Twunts.

― Forest Pines, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

I'm getting wound up by my bank, that for some reason doesn't send out replacement debit cards until a week before the old one expires. And then when it doesn't turn up, they just suggest I get one of their wonderful credit cards so I don't have to worry about having no money on April 1st.

That and being BARRED!

― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

SUVs in general wind me up. I did like the massive billboard poster at the end of our road which was for the Jeep Grand Cherokee or something, showing it full of mud in a country setting. The tagline: "What will you use yours for?" Written underneath in spray-paint; "School run and Tesco's". Brilliant.

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

Was that around Hornsey/Turnpike Lane area? I saw one of those billboards with similar graffiti a while ago.

― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and I hate...
GAH! I hate so many things. No wonder I have to take blood pressure tablets.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

Added costs on my flights: 10 euro for check in baggage, 6 euro handling fee? FUCK YOU!

― kv_nol, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

Colonel Poo: Colchester, I'm afraid. Maybe it's a concerted campaign. I do hope so.

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, hang on, this is going to be PART OF THE BILLBOARD, isn't it? That will REALLY piss me off.

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

Certainly! You're very OTM re: the supermodel thing. When I was in Bristol my local supermarket was Asda Bedminster which sold nothing but sweets and crisps and pies to greasy five-foot-tall women. Good times. They had a McDonald's on site.

I have been known to shop in Bedminster Asda.... the "organic" range takes up about 2 feet of their miles-long aisles. That and Broadmead New Look seem to attract a disproportionate amount of massive baby buggies/prams that block my every turn.

― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

This thread makes me sorry that I have to go home from work.

― peteR, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sort of loving being barred! it's not the first time - and it makes me feel racy and Marlo Brandoish.
I asked the Mods if being barred was better than or worse than being banned..
The MTA Song is running through my head - I actually know most of the lyrics! It is a classic for most massholes, and writing an absurd protest song kinda zings the "oppressors".
it also makes sense for this thread - did you ever return? Do i need to give you sandwiches?

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

I also liked that the Wikipedia entry pointed out the same hole in the story that I have always wondered about - if his wife could chuck sandwiches through the open window, why couldn't she chuck him A NICKEL?!?!?

Ed reckons she was glad of the peace with him gone. He doesn't sound like the brightest chap, Charlie.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, hang on, this is going to be PART OF THE BILLBOARD, isn't it? That will REALLY piss me off.

peteR on Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:15 (3 minutes ago)

Nah doubt it, there's been other billboards defaced by similar witty comments around my area. E.g. pre-2005 general election someone stuck a BNP logo over the Tory billboard with "it's not racist to talk about immigration" on it, sticking an F over the CL in Clear Channel etc.

― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

Poor Charlie! Abandoned by his wife and children!
Charlie was barred!

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

back to parking/commuting issues, poor charlie.
I CAN'T take the bus to work or to UMASS. It pisses me off that there is no reliable transportation in Mass. I fucking LOVE riding the bus, and would ride it regularly if I could.
There is one bus, that stops hourly, which gets you to Northampton. And then good luck.
I drive a small car that is not really IN the windscreen of bad drivers.
I have been tailgated and hit three times.
The trauma from an accident stays with you.
Now I'm the type of driver who is very nervous about anyone behind me.
If I, being cautious, have to hit the brakes to avoid killing a squirrel, which could be a kid, GET THE FUCK OFF MY ASS, TAILGATER!

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

Made worse by the fact that they MEAN well, but:
People at work who hold the door open for you at the end of the corridor, when you're right up the other end, so you kind of have to speed up a bit so they're not standing there for ages.

I admit to starting to slow down now on purpose.

Also, Janet Jackson laughing in like every song she does.

― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

Alternately, people that drive too slowly on the expressway. Honestly, if you so intimidated by the expressway that you don't feel comfortable driving over 20 miles per hour, please do us all a favor and stay the hell off of them. It'll be safer for everyone involved.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

I thought it said "pRetty things" in the title and I was gonna be all "robble robble GURLS amirite".

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

"Proud parent" stickers bother me much much worse now that my own son is on the honor roll. It's like, their academic achievements are meant to prepare them greater for life, not empower your douche tendencies.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

OTM. Quit riding yr kids' coattails and get your own reason for existing!

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

what if the kiddo's so proud they ask their parents to put the stickers on?

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

One thing that used to just aggravate me was whenever my husband would think he had a better way to do something, he'd say, "May I make a suggestion?" in this really polite way. That probably sounds ridiculous because he was trying to be polite and helpful, but I finally asked him not to use that phrase anymore because I was hearing it so often. My way isn't always not as good!

― Sara R-C, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

Kiddo can put the sticker on a bike.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

kate:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1049698.stm

― JW, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

People standing on an escalator. Especially at 5 to nine in the morning.

― kenan, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

OMG! I was just going to post that, and there it is!

Except I was going to say, people who stand on the LEFT on an escalator. If It's early in the morning, or I'm just feeling crabby, I will gruffly educate these fuckers.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

malapropisms. not bothered so much by grammar/mechanics goofs.

― wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

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― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

"wind you up" as a phrase.

― paulhw, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

* People who when discussing race issues say things like "I don't care if they're black or white or brown or purple or polka-dotted!"

* People who say "I've gone brain-dead!" when having trouble remembering something.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 22:43 (eighteen years ago)

* People who when discussing race issues say things like "I don't care if they're black or white or brown or purple or polka-dotted!"

Oh my god, yes.
And escalator standers.
And Baby-On-Board people. peteR DO NOT BACK DOWN!!!! I AM WITH YOU!!!!

I hate people behind you in line at the grocery store who get impatient while you write a check and start shifting their weight from foot to foot and holding out their cash, as if they want the cashier to drop me mid-transaction and switch to them because they're so fucking prepared. And I'm a fast check writer.
Now I have to have a drink.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 23:21 (eighteen years ago)

I have been searching for a "NO JUNK MAIL" sticker for my new letterbox, but I can't find one for love or money. In the meantime I am copping an inordinate amount of shitty "Monster Sale!" brochures from crap stores I will never visit, invitations from realtors to value my house, letters "To the Householder" from my local member urging me to vote Liberal and flyers offering "$5 off your next Brazillian!". Now I have the feeling that I've accidently thrown out my postcard from Ai Lien amongst all that crap. Junk mail, it's fucking criminal.

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 23:34 (eighteen years ago)

that not caring if people are purple or green or polka-dotted thing really annoys me too, also it's unrealistic, if someone actually was purple or green or polka-dotted i would be quite disturbed by it.

― estela, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 23:44 (eighteen years ago)

It's a dead giveaway of a card-carrying racist.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 23:51 (eighteen years ago)

i also utterly despise anyone who makes lame jokes about bra burning when discussing feminism in 2007, or says, 'he, she, or whatever it is' when talking about transexual or transgendered people.

― estela, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 23:57 (eighteen years ago)

transsexaul

― estela, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 23:57 (eighteen years ago)

fuck it

― estela, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 23:58 (eighteen years ago)

oh dear lord

― estela, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 23:58 (eighteen years ago)

The expression "to do the maths".

Like:

Person 1: "ZOMG! It was tortally hilarious! He even did the math for her!"

Person 2: "Why don't you get fucked? you arsefuck."

― Drooone, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 23:59 (eighteen years ago)

Now that I'm not a young thang any more I'm spared this—but anyway, the complete strangers passing by you on the street who tell you to SMILE.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

I get fussy about check writing ladies! But usually it's the same ladies who idle for a space in the parking lot. All the groceries are rung up, and they're digging through the purse to find a check book...it's like, um, did time just stop or something? Write the check out while the groceries are being checked. Write in the amount. Hand it over. Leave.
Digging through purses is annoying, anyway. I have a few purses, but they're only for fun and fashion. I have pockets, and I can put things in them. Wallet, lip balm, loose change.

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 01:03 (eighteen years ago)

My mother makes a point of always giving exact change, which takes her about an hour to dig out of her purse. I'm convinced that this old-lady habit, as well as leaving your cart blocking the aisle, is borne of repressed rage.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 01:30 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, I am guilty of giving exact change. I didn't realise it pissed people off! Will avoid doing so in future.

Can anyone suggest what sort of shop sells "NO JUNK MAIL" stickers?

― Hard like armour, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 01:42 (eighteen years ago)

Does she lick the pen before she writes?

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 01:43 (eighteen years ago)

No, she licks the change.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 01:48 (eighteen years ago)

Eew, diseasio!

― Hard like armour, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 01:49 (eighteen years ago)

Just kidding.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 01:50 (eighteen years ago)

Yes but even the mere idea of it was gag-inducing.

― Hard like armour, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 01:53 (eighteen years ago)

coins taste like a spoon dipped in butter. You don't know if ya don't go.

― kenan, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 01:56 (eighteen years ago)

I hate it when people, usually men, brag about how short a time they take to shower, like it's some kind of moral high ground. More power to you, you joyless fucking Spartan.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 01:57 (eighteen years ago)

i take the power shower in the morning because otherwise i'd have to cut into my precious languishing in bed time. But sometimes even a Spartan needs an aromatherapy bubble bath. :)

― kenan, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 02:00 (eighteen years ago)

Overlingering in bed is the only excuse for a brief shower. That and lack of hot water.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 02:03 (eighteen years ago)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/spartashower1.jpg

― kenan, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 02:26 (eighteen years ago)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/spartashower2.jpg

― kenan, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 02:27 (eighteen years ago)

hmm.. some of these are truly annoying. like i think they should wind you up.

anyway, i really dislike the way my father walks. i mean, fuck's sake, it's 6 in the morning, stop rushing about the homestead as loudly and quickly as you can.

― the table is the table, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 02:28 (eighteen years ago)

ILX

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 08:07 (eighteen years ago)

People who come out of shops, without looking if people are coming, then walk out into the middle of the pavement and then just STOP.

I get extremely angry when people walk backwards so they can't see if they will bump into someone. I just wanna ride my buggy at full speed into them. I try to realize it's silly of me to get so angry at it, that it's just wasted energy, but at times it really gets to me.

What gets me extremely pissed off as well, and maybe more so than the backwards walking, is when people are in my shop and try to get in front of someone else when I AM CLEARLY SERVING THE CUSTOMER. The other day I was talking with a customer when some bloody cunt of a bitch (sorry) was huffing and puffing all the frigging time. She would say:"How much is that diamond pendant?" "Oh you don't know by heart." "But can you tell me the price?" She kept trying to get served. I politely said that I was busy and that I would serve her when I had time. She left. Bitch. It's worse when they come in, see you talking with someone, but just start asking the way without apologizing or anything. I am always EXTREMELY tempted to give'em the wrong directions. Usually I just say I am busy and GLARE at'em.

(If you could see me banging on my keyboard then you'd realize how extremely agitated I get when exposed to these bloody cunts. hah!)

― nathalie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 08:28 (eighteen years ago)

Now that I'm not a young thang any more I'm spared this—but anyway, the complete strangers passing by you on the street who tell you to SMILE.

I once took a (free) dance class. The teacher kept saying I had to smile and be happy. Look bitch, I am happy, I don't need to plaster a manic smile on my face so everyone thinks that this class is like the equivalent of an orgasm for me.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 08:31 (eighteen years ago)

1. People who get to the ticket check barrier in the station then decide it might be a good idea to start fumbling through purse/bag for their ticket while holding up an entire train's worth of commuters.

2. People who get annoyed about 1.
(srsly I shouldn't let this shit wind me up, it's keeping me out of an office I hate for an extra 30 seconds).

― onimo, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 08:36 (eighteen years ago)

Beth, nathalie: this happens so much more often if you have a mouth which naturally has a slight downturn at the edges. People just bloody assume that you hate fun all the time.

More hatred than I probably should be able to muster (location specific - sorry non-uk people): ZARGON. I have already written to yell.com to tell them that if this pasty, ridge-faced cunt stays on my tv for much fucking longer that I will hunt them all down like the scum they are and KILL THEM TO DEATH*.

Also: the way the ticket inspector on my train of a morning always announces "Thankyou for travelling with ONE railway." Er, do you seriously think that if I had any other reasonable choice I would still pay you £320 a month to travel on your continually-delayed, paralysingly-uncomfortable shitheap of a "service"? The line is a monopoly, so I can't use anyone else's trains; if I drove to work I'd have to leave on fucking saturday morning for a monday morning start; and my wage isn't nearly big enough to live with any degree of comfort in that London. ONE railway: cunts.

*actually, I threatened to only ever use Thomson Local. They must be shitting themselves.

― peteR, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 09:03 (eighteen years ago)

haha i've only just looked at this thread.

PS. Only in Essex: "Little Princess on Board". I nearly haemmorhaged with rage.

that's a bit sickmaking. someone was telling me they saw one which said "babe on board" but i dunno if it was referring to the driver or a child. either way...

And especially when people start piling on when people are still getting off. I just barge straight through them.

yeah, me too. and the ones just STANDING IN FRONT OF THE DOORS leaving a tiny path through the middle. fuck 'em. (you have to be a bit careful and scan the crowd first for people who are on crutches/blind/in wheelchairs/very very old/frail though.)

They have a 'Customer Comments' book just past the tills, I've considered leaving my rage in writing for them, but one day last week I saw about four cashiers standing round the book laughing their guts out so I decided against it.

all the more reason to do it, no? it probably sucks working at somerfield. brighten their day.

reading this makes me realise that nearly all the things that piss me off about london are related to other people's behaviour when using public transport. which i barely ever do any more. this must be why i am so much calmer.

otoh - in the supermarket, when i've deliberately put all my stuff in order from heaviest/most indestructible to lightest/most crushable so i can stuff it all straight in my bag (for 2 reasons - 1 not using plastic bags so as to, you know, help the planet or whatever, and 2 to get out of the way as quick as i can so the next person can get served) and the cashier just ignores it and grabs everything in a random order (or sometimes seems deliberately to be going from furthest away to nearest her/him). WTF ARE YOU DOING? you work here, you must realise people doing this makes it better! or maybe they want their arm to get more exercise. but then they would end up with one massively overdeveloped arm and one weedy one, which would just be ridiculous.

I have been searching for a "NO JUNK MAIL" sticker for my new letterbox, but I can't find one for love or money.

move to hackney, they've put about 7 through our door in the last month. someone should let alanis morrissette know.

people who use their pushchair/pram like some kind of fucking battering ram. YES, OK, the cars, buses, vans, suvs, motorbikes, bikes etc will try to stop as fast as they can when you SHOVE YOUR CHILD OUT BETWEEN TWO PARKED CARS but really, wtf makes you think this is a good idea?

― emsk, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 09:30 (eighteen years ago)

I could do a whole thread on supermarket hate. I've got quite good at making sure the cashier knows I AM PACKING THIS MYSELF and not trying to force a million bags on me, they're lazy anyway, so they don't want to pack bags, even though they are supposed to if you ask. (Very un-English, I know.)

People with shopping trolleys who just leave them in the middle of the aisle so no one can get through. Even worse is the people who considerately park their trolleys to the side - RIGHT IN FRONT OF WHATEVER IT IS YOU WANT while they go shopping all over the place.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 09:43 (eighteen years ago)

Related to, but not confined to, supermarkets: people who AMBLE AIMLESSLY. For fuck's sake, some of us have better things to do (or if not, at least want to spend as little fucking time in ASDA as we possibly can. I mean, I can't hold my breath for ever, you know...)

I remember this, too, from the supremely sarcastic mouth of the one, the only, Dr. Perry Cox: "if someone is standing in front of me in line at the coffee shop and can't decide what they want in the half hour it took to get to the register then I should be allowed to kill them." I cannot tell you how OTM this is.

― peteR, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:00 (eighteen years ago)

I often park my trolley, but make sure it's in front of something no-one could ever want to buy (organic chicory, say) or, preferably, in front of the shit that no-one ever should buy - Sunny Delight, those ready-made hamburgers, Lambrini etc.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

peteR, are you a regular ILXor with a new name?

― Mark C, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

Irregular, really, but on and off for ages. Started off as lol p xx, then as sittingpretty. Posting lots at the moment because I'm working my notice.

― peteR, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

(and enjoying it, actually. I'm even tempted to come along to the ILXorpaLOLooza thing and meet a few of yous).

― peteR, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

the problem w/ supermarkets is that it's impossible to leave yr trolley anywhere where it isn't in the way

― tissp, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

But those ready-made hamburgers are really yummy! Especially the ones with jalapenos in.

― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

0 to tasty in YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME

― peteR, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

I like the ready made bean burgers, but they keep those in a different place. I've stopped eating them since I've not got a toaster any more, though.

More irritation!

I've come to the conlusion that most of the things that REALLY wind me up are either to do with space issues (people taking up space intended for others) or going really slowly issues. Which is really an In My Way issue, which is the same thing.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wait does Mark C mean those microwaveable burgers? I don't know about those. I was talking about regular burgers in the meat section. The Sainsburys ones are tasty. We have a grill thingy that goes on the hob of the cooker so we can pretend to barbeque indoors.

― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

i had a frozen microwave kebab once

― tissp, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

never again

― tissp, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

To get back to the original topic, you know what I REAALLLLYYY hate in office situations?

Air Golfers. FUCK FUCK FUCK JUST STOP IT, YOU STUPID CUNT. I mean, what on earth do they think they are doing? practicing their swings? Or just letting the world know what CNUTS they are because they play golf all the doo-dah day? Like, they may LOOK like they are in the office being all busy and corporate but really their HEART is on the golf course?

Just fuck right off. No one is impressed.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

~~Air~~ Golfers . FUCK FUCK FUCK JUST STOP IT, YOU STUPID CUNT. I mean, what on earth do they think they are doing? practicing their swings? Or just letting the world know what CNUTS they are because they play golf all the doo-dah day? Like, they may LOOK like they are in the office being all busy and corporate but really their HEART is on the golf course?

Just fuck right off. No one is impressed.

bette'

― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:11 (eighteen years ago)

Also:

Often Amber and/or Alice will buy things at clothes shops, and we let them go to the counter on their own with the money. Only to have some woman march to the front of them and proceed to buy frocks like they aren't there. And the counter staff will let them get away with this, dammit!

― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

I REEAALALLLY hate writing technical documentation. Which I'm having to do now, for 3 separate data feeds I've written/rewritten. I have to do it in case I leave and somebody has to look at them, but no bastard wrote any for the feeds I rewrote, I had to dig into the code and work out what was going on myself. It's character building, documentation and useful comments just foster lazy minds I reckon.

― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

inline comments=the way to go.

― peteR, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

Going back to the important topic on this thread (i.e. supermarkets), I can't stand people who stand there for ages after they've been given their change, putting all the coins into the right pocket of their purse / wallet, filing their BASTARD FUCKING Nectar card away, running their eye down their receipt etc etc etc. Meanwhile the checkout person is putting all my stuff through so it piles into the previous person's bags and messes up my foolproof packing plan. FUCKITY FUCKFUCKCUNTS. On the plus side, at least it's Sainsbury's and not Morrisons or whatever.

― Matt #2, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

Matt=OTM. Add to this people who do not put next customer barriers down after their goods even when they can see you starting to unpack your things, forcing you to stretch over all their shopping (during which they GLARE at you in a "get-away-from-my-shopping-you-bastard" kind of a way) to pick one up for you and another up for the next person in line.

― peteR, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

Argh argh argh, Matt#2 and peteR OTM about cuntist person in front of you, argh.

Luckily, the cashiers in my Sainsburys won't actually start ringing up yr order until the person in front has gone. But those fuckers who don't put the barrier up REALLY WIND ME UP.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:38 (eighteen years ago)

Also, people that wander off when their shopping is being checked cos they forgot the foie gras or whatever. The cashier and customers then stand their for 5 minutes in embarrased silence, occasionally rolling their eyes at each other.

― Matt #2, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

Oh I know a small thing! PUTTING THE REMOTE CONTROL IN FRONT OF THE TELLY. I mean, wtf! Remote controls are for not having to approach the telly up close and personal!

Leaving the toilet door open. I made a thread about this. Pisses (!) me off. But I am getting used to the fact I'm the only one and all the others LEAVE THE FUCKING DOOR OPEN.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

LEAVE THE DOOR OPEN people! Showit that there's no-one in it!

― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, so we can all be exposed to your stench when you left the toilet.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)

Matt #2, this brings me neatly to LOBOSYNDROME, which is the syndrome where (and I'm sure this isn't unique to me, but I'm going to complain like it is), as soon as I get in a supermarket till queue, half of the till assistant's brain falls out of his or her ears, and they spontaneously forget how to operate the till, or move their arms, or think independently, or do FUCKING ANYTHING. The most annoying bit of this is the chirpy "sorry about the wait" that they invariably utter when you reach the front of the queue (having already eaten six of your ten bags of multipack crisps in an effort not to waste away while you've been waiting).

― peteR, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:50 (eighteen years ago)

Have I been round your house?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

Being made to feel guilty for not lending other people my security pass.

Temp dude just asked to borrow mine. I said no. Reason being - I'm the only person left in the department when he and the other girl go out for lunch. I will need to go to the loo after lunch. I don't want to have to stand and knock at the door when I know no one is here.

But I still feel like a bastard for refusing.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:11 (eighteen years ago)

To the rest of the office, I'm probably "that guy" though. :-(

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:11 (eighteen years ago)

A person has to go when a person has to go. You don't want to be "that girl that pissed herself", that potentially is much worse!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

Everything about supermarkets annoys me.

Latest supermarket peeve = recently some supermarkets (this happens most notably in Tescos) don't programme their till displays to show any multi-buy savings, so if you (like me) tend to keep an eye on what they are beeping through you can't see whether it's registered as a Buy One Get One Free - it just shows both the items at full price. It adjusts the total at the end SOMETIMES, but I am amazed at how often it doesn't do this and I end up paying for two things instead of just the one. By the time you get the recipt to check it, it's too late for the cashier to put it right so you have to go and QUEUE UP AGAIN at customer services to get your frigging 99p (or whatever) refunded, and more often than not I can't be bothered or don't have the time. It makes me wonder if they do that on purpose.

― C J, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

I'm afraid all of UK ILx is going to have a heart attack next time they're grocery shopping!

also nath, are you finding yourself more wound up in general these days? ;)

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)

or says, 'he, she, or whatever it is' when talking about transexual or transgendered people

That's just plain rude. I know someone who said of a transexual we both know "That's not a she, that's an it" and I just wanted to punch him.

― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

I also hate people who tell you to smile/act happy/whatever.

― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

Honestly, supermarkets aren't that bad.

― caek, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:14 (eighteen years ago)

I hate people who talk loudly on their cellphones on the bus. Or in the store. Or anywhere where I can hear them.

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:14 (eighteen years ago)

Waiters and waitresses in the UK have now learned 'up-selling' or are being threatened with the sack if they don't try it. I've therefore had to take measures when ordering sandwiches which are basically, 'hi, I want a sandwich ONLY' before they can get in 'anything to drink?' or whatever.

I have, on occasion, wanted to do more than cast a withering glance at the person ahead of me in the supermarket queue who gets all showy about using a divider to 'protect' their shopping/space when it's obvious to all (cat food, sweetcorn, Radio Times) that nobody has wanted to share space with them for the last 20 years.

― suzy, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

Add to this people who do not put next customer barriers down after their goods even when they can see you starting to unpack your things, forcing you to stretch over all their shopping (during which they GLARE at you in a "get-away-from-my-shopping-you-bastard" kind of a way) to pick one up for you and another up for the next person in line.

Yeah, but the reverse of this is the idiots who don't realise that you can start putting your stuff on the belt without a divider (cos sometimes one isn't immediately in reach). The divider serves no purpose until everything gets to the cashier, i.e. if you're having to stretch over my food you're being an uptight cunt -- just wait a minute, won't you?

― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

Hmmm. If someone has to reach over my shopping I'll immediately apologise for forgetting and attempt to do it for them, and what's more I'll be mortified. Just good manners, IMHO.

― peteR, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

There is no situation in which you need to lean over my shopping! Leave a small gap & then pick up the divider when my shopping's being put through! Just good manners, IMHO!

― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

ILLEGAL LINKS

― braveclub, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

You're just buying groceries people. You'll be done in about 10 minutes, chill.

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and you people with your shopping on the conveyor belt in front of me WHY DO YOU NOT LAY YOUR BIG HEAVY BOTTLES OF BOOZE DOWN instead of standing them up as the last items of your shopping i.e. right next to where my shopping starts, and then as the cashier bumpily stops and starts the conveyor belt they sway and teeter and totter and FALL thus squashing my delicate comestibles which are ON MY SIDE of the divider thingy. Grumble grumble.

― C J, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

Has anybody mentioned people that walk slowly side-by-side down a narrow pavement / tunnel / whatever yet? If not, I will. Esp. when they stop and consult a map. Also, esp. if they're overweight so there's no chance in hell of squeezing past them. I am rude, petty and bigoted.

― Matt #2, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

...and right.

― peteR, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

The tiny people who don't realise that airplane exit row seats have extra leg room and cheerfully take them all up while lanky gits have to squash into small-ass seats.

Or when 70% of the flight pays for the "speedy boarding" option in an effort to beat the needless scramble for unassigned seats (grr), and it all ends up exactly the same as if they hadn't bothered.

― stet, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

people behind me at the movies who kick my seat.

― estela, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

That'll be stet coz some short arse stole the aisle seat again.

― onimo, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

When people driving stop to let me cross the street when they're not supposed to like where there isn't a crosswalk or light. I usually get confused and hesitate to long since I'm not expecting them to stop, and the traffic gets blocked up for no reason! I realize that they're just trying to be nice but it just cocks things up in the end.

― ENBB, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

these things aren't petty enough!

― blueski, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

xpost ENBB OTM. it's ridiculous but i've actually been getting pissed off at motorists who stop to let me cross when it's not actually necessary. see also other people who stop to let you pass even tho there's plenty of room for both of us to pass each other on the path or whatever. STOP MAKING ME FEEL GUILTY FOR ADHERING TO LOGICS.

― blueski, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

people who let their small children push the grocery cart in a shambolic fashion as if the supermarket was some kind of fairy wonderland for midget geniuses who like sugar.

― estela, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha

― kenan, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

people who regard their children in such a way in any setting

― kenan, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

children

― tissp, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

Exactly. I get annoyed at them and then feel horrible because I know they're just trying to being nice. I only wish they'd follow the rules, it would make everything go much more smoothly!

― ENBB, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

also nath, are you finding yourself more wound up in general these days? ;)

Well, you wink, I don't. It's sad but true: my hormones are RAGING. If I don't pay attention/hold back, I'd scratch someone's eyes out. :-(

― stevienixed, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

the bell being rung more than twice on a bus between stops.

― blueski, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

I put my kids in the trolley and run and spin the thing down the aisles coz fuck the haterz.

― onimo, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

onimo, you don't seem like you would be the kind of oblivious parent i'm talking about.

― estela, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

No, but I must confess to being an occasional ambler. I hadn't realised people grocery shopped with such a sense of urgency.

― onimo, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

It's sad but true: my hormones are RAGING. If I don't pay attention/hold back, I'd scratch someone's eyes out. :-(

it will pass!

Onimo, you have just as much right to amble as others do to rush. We just have to all learn to get along.

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

onimo: It's something I really hate doing, hence I'll try to get round as quickly as I can. I'm not naive enough to think that people will stop ambling ever, or that they will ever be bothered by me trying to get past them, but that will never stop me getting wound up by it :)

― peteR, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

sometimes i stand at the lightbulbs for too long, trying to remember.

― estela, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

You know what really winds me up? Sanctimonius types who get on threads which have REALLY clear titles/questions like "petty things that wind you up ....but probably shouldn't" and then get all sanctimonius telling others how PETTY their wind-ups are, and how they SHOULDN'T get wound up by these things.

Dude, we know this already! STFU or take it off to cuddlestein mountain liberal hippie lovealong la-la land. We are here to pitch about petty shit, like it says in the title!

Like people who take too long in supermarket queues. Or those people with the trolleys who don't actually LOOK before they come out of the side-aisle and into the major aisles and amble along blindly and either cut you off, or force you to stop abruptly or else risk a giant shopping trolley collision. WOULD YOU DO THAT IN A CAR?!?!? I bet you wouldn't. Or maybe you would, and you would just back out of a parking space without checking if anyone is coming and hope that the other drivers of the world will just BOW to your Chelsea Tractor coz you've got a "Baby on Board" sticker on it.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

Or when 70% of the flight pays for the "speedy boarding" option in an effort to beat the needless scramble for unassigned seats (grr), and it all ends up exactly the same as if they hadn't bothered.

Uh oh, see my comment above!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

People who don't signal at junctions and/or roundabouts. Yes, I've stopped at this roundabout as it has a particularly spectacular view and I just had to pull up and admire it for a few seconds before I continue my journey, you numbnuts.

― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

I've been known to shout NICE INDICATOR!!! out loud at cnuts in cars who don't signal when they're turning down a side road I'm waiting to cross. Fuckers.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

People who put on their turn signals once they've already began the turn. Indicating is not a fucking afterthought.

Hmmmm - perhaps that isn't really petty but it certainly is annoying!

― ENBB, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

today, (and everyday really) people who insist building entire web pages in Flash is acceptable.

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

People overreacting to inconsequential message board chat.

― onimo, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

Neighbours using my bin.

Fucking bastarting fucking fucks.

I intend to hide out overnight in my bin so I can catch the culprits and wring their necks

― rumpie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

bastarting

hahah words you never see written down.

― onimo, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

these rubbish bin criminals seem to be inordinately fond of tinned fish.

― estela, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

not indicating before turning is nowhere near petty enough - i've nearly been killed by these fucks, and seen lots of other people nearly be killed too.

― emsk, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

People on bikes or on foot are clearly LESSER MORTALS and do not have any reason whatsoever to want to be aware of your future movement intentions in a giant massive 2-ton lump of steel and glass that could crush them in a millisecond.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

Two teenagers get on a bus, take up two seperate seats and spend the whole journey having a loud conversation with each other across the aisle. Everyone else has to sit there silently fuming at/pretending not to hear the (always) mindblowingly banal, (usually) sexually explicit 'private', swear-word filled conversation being broadcast without any shame whatsoever.
I'M NOT INTERESTED IN THE "SICK" PICTURES/JOKES ON YOUR MYSPACE PAGE OR YOUR GRUBBY SEX LIFE SHUTUP SHUTUP SHUTUP.

And people who park their shopping trolleys against the rack, therefore blocking it off, while they take forever examining every mushroom in the punnet, leaving me to either attempt to stretch over to reach the peppers, or to move their trolley myself and get a funny look into the bargain.

― DavidM, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

[joke]Stretching is not allowed[/joke]

― peteR, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

(sorry, couldn't resist)

― peteR, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

Having to listen to other peoples music on public transport.

tsh tsh tsh tsh tsh tsh tsh all the way fucking home. I'm stressed enough coming out of work after contending with 'da da dum' guy - who alse incidentally was given a Darth Vader desktop 'toy' which said 'amusing' comments in a Darth Vader stylee and insisted in pressing it up to 20 times a day until it 'went missing' from his desk a few weeks ago and yes this is the guy who wears the Homer Simpson socks and when this is pointed out he says "Ha ha, I AM Homer, MMMM DONUTS"

What sketch show was that Colin twat on? Yes - this is him.

But back to other folks MP3 players - KILL KILL KILL - I don't want to hear you over the noise of everything else, nor do I want to become annoying MP3 person on the bus forced to piss other peope off with tsh tsh tsh all the way home.

― rumpie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

I've broken some keys on my keyboard

― rumpie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

I really want to just put an extra key on my keyboard - maybe right next to the Delete key - that says KILL!

So I can press it repeatedly when people piss me off. KILL! KILL!!! KILL!!!!

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

Sienna Miller.

― Anna, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

rumpie get some good headphones that don't leak

― emsk, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

Onimo, there is no way you are as bad of a grocery ambler as this shopper I had to deal with last week-- I was stuck behind her THREE TIMES because she kept appearing at various places in the store, even though each place I saw her she was moving at what LITERALLY may have been only two or three times the pace of a slug, with a giant, near-empty shopping cart blocking all in her path on a busy Friday night. I am not joking about her pace. In the three minutes I was stuck behind her in the produce section, she made it halfway across the bartlett pears. I don't often get to the point where I ACTUALLY TRY to give people dirty looks... but I did.

― Will M., Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

People I hate talking about things I love.

SHUT UP - IT'S MINE! DON'T FILTHY IT WITH YOUR MOUTH!

― rumpie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

Big headphones wouldn't work with my hair :~(

― rumpie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

Being off work and watching BBC mid morning telly.

"A place in the sun" - "I'm paying for that cunt to move to Spain!"
"Beat the bailiffs" - "I'm paying for that cunt to get out of debt!"
"Move to the country" - "I'm paying for these cunts to sell a fucking £750k city pad and buy a fucking MANSION!"*
AARRGHH!

The licence fee has a lot to answer for. If this shit was all commercially funded I wouldn't give a shit.
Even Bargain Hunt annoys me. I'm paying for these cunts to buy useless shite at boot sales that no fucker wants to buy!

― onimo, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

Smiley sideways faces - AAAARGHHHH - I hate them. I hate how they trickle helplessly from my fingers.

― rumpie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

rumpie they make leakless earbuds. if you've got the mad cash go for shure, moderate mad cash go for bose, and less-than-mad cash there are some good leakless panasonic ones. most headphones that go way into your ear and are all soft and rubbery are good.

― Will M., Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

I need non-earbud iPod headphones as tinnintus and impending deafness really winds me up.

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

so petty :)

― onimo, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

people who insist building entire web pages in Flash is acceptable

Beatport get away with this v nicely.

― blueski, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

When I win the lottery I will buy the best earbuds/headphones and distibute them amongst commuters. On the 7th day I'll rest.

― rumpie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

wait so what kind of headphones do you use if you don't use over-the-head and you don't use earbuds?

http://www.bybb.com/images/products/mdrg42lp.jpg and http://www.doba.com/site/images.products/1/ath-em7gm.jpg really wind ME up :/

― Will M., Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

Beatport get away with this v nicely

Nice does not equal acceptable for a variety of non-visible to the standard well-equipped user reasons. But I won't get into it here as it really, irrationally, winds me up!

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

Wk 14's 'Special Collector's Issue' of the RadioTimes. Two separate Doctor Who images, which are effectively MIRROR IMAGES. What's the point?

Also, the number of Doctor Who features/references in any given RT issue.

― marianna lcl, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

I'm stressed enough coming out of work after contending with 'da da dum' guy - who alse incidentally was given a Darth Vader desktop 'toy' which said 'amusing' comments in a Darth Vader stylee and insisted in pressing it up to 20 times a day

Did it say oggy oggy oggy?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

**wait so what kind of headphones do you use if you don't use over-the-head and you don't use earbuds?

Will, I'm STREET - I carry a ghetto blaster.

― rumpie, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

Like after any good bollocking, I've been thinking, and I reckon I owe Eyeball Kicks an apology. Although I will never be tolerant enough to look at a gap between two sets of shopping with anything but boiling inner rage, I am starting to think that transforming this rage into reaching-across-other-peoples-shopping action is indeed bad-mannered. I'm stopping this from now on.

― peteR, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

How about a compromise. Smile engagingly at the other shopper in front of you and ask politely "excuse me, would you mind please passing me one of those "next customer' thingies??" thereby enabling you to divide your shopping off from theirs, while not needing to lean across their stuff.

I really hate checkout conveyor belts that are too short, so I can't get all my shopping on it at one time.

Also : cashiers' till rolls only ever run out when I am next in the queue. FACT.

― C J, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

People who do not understand that the left lane is the PASSING LANE. I think that is my biggest pet peeve of the day.

― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

I've been known to shout NICE INDICATOR!!! out loud at cnuts in cars who don't signal when they're turning down a side road I'm waiting to cross. Fuckers.

You are not alone. I usually tack "FUCKSTICK!" on the end. Though only when my window is wound up and the door locked.

― Hard like armour, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

I've been thinking, and I reckon I owe Eyeball Kicks an apology.

One down, too many to go.

― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 29 March 2007 01:15 (eighteen years ago)

Work related, but: people who automatically prefer any serif font over any sans-serif font, because it "looks nicer."

― kenan, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

Also see the comic sans thread, there...

― peteR, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

I need non-earbud iPod headphones as tinnintus and impending deafness really winds me up.

WOT did you say? Sadly my hearing is already crap.

― nathalie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

I get the touch of tinnitus, too, and it can get really bad after listening to a lot of loud music. I have to be really careful with my ears. My latest guard against this is Shure earphones, which are actually earplugs with audio. They block out a LOT of noise, just like, yannow, those foam earplugs you would wear to a show. But here's the kicker: the sound is fantastic. I'm rockin the esCs.

― kenan, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks for that link Kenan.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

I'm still fuming about annoying cock-boy, I think I've made it apparent that his being annoys me and now everytime he does something annoying (which is often) he turns round and gawks at me as if to say "How do you like 'em apples?" (or eggs, depending)

His trouser legs have also ridden about two feet up his legs revealing some sort of Disney socks and a lot of hair. I am repulsed.

― rumpie, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

Kenan, what are they like for leakage? And comfort? Thought about them, but with my experiences with fontopias a) hurting and b) always falling out whenever I moved my head, I have been unsure...

― peteR, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

You mean noise leak, where other people can hear what you're listening to? Absolutely zero. They're pretty comfortable, though I guess it always takes getting used to jamming things in your ears. And they don't fall out ever, near as I can tell. If you get the cord wrapped on a doorknob (like I did a couple days ago) they'll unplug from your iPod before they come out of your ears.

― kenan, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

Cheers - you may well have just made up my mind for me.

― peteR, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

oh, i don't know that I want that responsibility.

― kenan, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

yeah those look painful and expensive. how are they any better for your hearing than ipod-type buds?

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

oh man.

― kenan, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

thread derail, we'll talk elsewhere.

― kenan, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

Thread derailments. How they wind me up!

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

Jesus. That's three times I've been bollocked in the same thread ;)

― peteR, Friday, 30 March 2007 08:27 (eighteen years ago)

Ok, here's petty for you. Round where I live, in a quietish village by the sea, there are lots of people who ride horses Now, there's two people, a man and a woman, who ride these sleek, expensive-looking horses up around where I walk my dogs. It's a country road, it doesn't get a lot of traffic, and I'm not on it for very long. The things that bug me about these people are a) I have to get out of their way, just because the animals they're exercising are bigger and more skittish than my animals, b) they have a guy who drives in front of them in an SUV, warning people like me with my dogs that there are horses coming. Finally, today I was walking along, and the SUV came up the road behind me. I heard him coming, called the dogs over and held on to them. He stopped beside me and rolled down his window and said "there's two horses coming behind me". I said "yes, I know, I see them every day" and he said "I just wanted to let you know so as to get the dogs out of the way."
The way he said it made me wonder if I was expected to doff my hat like some kind of fucking peasant or something. Also, I'm a big fat woman with two dogs who he sees every fucking morning. How does he not recognise me? Also, if the animal you're exercising is that fucking skittish that you have to have a guy drive in front of you to warn people, you maybe shouldn't be out exercising it on the public fucking road. Fucking rich people.

Sorry for long post.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 30 March 2007 08:52 (eighteen years ago)

that sounds v ridiculous

would be tempted to "are you their fucking footman?" or something offensive

― RJG, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:02 (eighteen years ago)

also:

i HATE it when people press the button at the pedestrian crossing, then cross without waiting for the little green man, leaving all the cars to wait at the intersection for nothing. if people want to use the little green man, i'm more than happy to stop for them. but if they're just going to cross regardless of the lights, i wish they wouldn't press the button.

gem on Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:01 (2 days ago)

― RJG, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:02 (eighteen years ago)

would be tempted to "are you their fucking footman?" or something offensive

I am tempted too, but I am also aware that I am walking two unleashed and sometimes unruly dogs, often on land that for all I know could belong to someone (there aren't any fences or signs, but who knows?) and so I'm aware that I'm a LAWBREAKER and so don't like to piss people off. Even if they are wankers.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:07 (eighteen years ago)

There should be some kind of a cancel button on pedestrian crossing lights. One of the buildings I used to work in had a way of cancelling a floor you had pressed by accident in the lift; you had to cross out the button you had selected (I kid you not - this worked. I did it LOTS cos I was so impressed). Mind you, how many people out there would actually think enough to hit the cancel button anyway?

[ignorance] I know nothing about horses; can someone tell me why they should be on roads at all? I'd have though that if you hadn't got a field big enough to excercise them in then you shouldn't have them in the first place. [/ignorance] Whatever, horses on roads annoy me full stop.

― peteR, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:11 (eighteen years ago)

People bring them on the road here to get them to the beach so they can ride them up and down in the shallow water and pretend to be, I don't know, fucking Zorro or something. I hate them. Plus, for me, the horses vs. dogs debate is a little like the diving vs. snorkeling debate (which may be a debate in our house only). Riding a horse, great! Warming up the horse, cooling down the horse, grooming the horse, saddling it, paying for it, shoeing it, and so on, dud. Piling dogs out the door and back in the door and watching them run around might not be as OMG EXCITING! but it's a lot less work and therefore, to me, more fun.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:15 (eighteen years ago)

if they can make a sensor that knows when yr hands are near the hand-dryer or near the tap in a public toilet then can't they make a sensor that knows if someone is standing next to the pelicon crossing.

horses on roads should be in horse boxes.

It irritates me when horse boxes have signs, sometimes car registration platish in nature saying HORSES. I'm like, yeh, I can work that out from the shape of the trailer in question yo, I can tell it's no cement mixer or pantechnicon.

It is tempting to go round with signs w/ the names of other large ruminant herbivores and substitute them so National Hunt dude gets out of his cab and goes round the back to find the sign says ELANDS or OKAPIS.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:16 (eighteen years ago)

rrrr being barred!

― Mark G, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:20 (eighteen years ago)

I used to live next to a pelican crossing that did have a sensor attached. If you wandered off, the crossing wouldn't work. It was completely dud, because if you were on your own and weren't standing in the right place, the crossing wouldn't work then either.

― Forest Pines, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:20 (eighteen years ago)

― RJG, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:21 (eighteen years ago)

well that's just a dud sensor, with the right sensor it's ok. Slag the equipment not the concept!

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:21 (eighteen years ago)

from the whether it's raining

― RJG, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:23 (eighteen years ago)

there is something abt puttin ppl behind the wheel of a car which just makes them really angry and impatient. Leave the driving to the pros I say so I can go to sleep.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:25 (eighteen years ago)

Petty annoying pedestrian crossing things: traffic light junctions that *don't* have pedestrian lights or a pedestrian phase, forcing you to nip across when everything else is on amber.

(the Castle St / Market Place junction in Hull was a nasty example of this, but has since been fixed in a way that makes it very annoying to car drivers - *all* right turns were removed from the junction, so to turn right you have to detour about a mile in total to the nearest roundabouts either side of it.)

― Forest Pines, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:26 (eighteen years ago)

How about a compromise. Smile engagingly at the other shopper in front of you and ask politely "excuse me, would you mind please passing me one of those "next customer' thingies??" thereby enabling you to divide your shopping off from theirs, while not needing to lean across their stuff.

This kind of behaviour has no place on the Thread o' Batshit Neuroses.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:41 (eighteen years ago)

Tomorrow Trish, take an airhorn.

― rumpie, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:41 (eighteen years ago)

This kind of behaviour has no place on the Thread o' Batshit Neuroses.

Also, it would mean me TALKING to people in ASDA. That kind of behaviour has no place ANYWHERE. Also, Can't. Talk. Whilst. Holding. Breath. Obv. ;)

― peteR, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:54 (eighteen years ago)

slap their ass and see if it sounds likle loose change.

― blueski, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

We're having a bad spell of weather.

― onimo, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

w.e.t.h.r.

― Mark G, Friday, 30 March 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

Tomorrow Trish, take an airhorn.

That is a fantastic idea. I can hide it under my big coat. tbh, it's not so much the horses that annoy me, it's their footman.

The other thing that annoys me is that every single public space has crappy Sky News on all the time. Even queueing in the bank. I think I will buy one of those gadgets that turns off other people's tellys.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:33 (eighteen years ago)

It is not the horses' faults that their owners are cnuts. Dude in the car- what the fuck? Unleash your hounds, I would say.

That sounds seriously annoying. But I do just have to add that it is good for horses to exercise on sand, less impact on their joints, less wear and tear on the hooves/shoes. And the running through water thing strengthens their muscles - again, without added strain on their joints.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

that's the kind of petty that's OK onimo

― RJG, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

And the running through water thing strengthens their muscles - again, without added strain on their joints.

Bah. Stupid people with their stupid good reasons for doing things. I hates 'em.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 30 March 2007 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

Just remembered: I can whinge and moan about ASDA and signs in cars and whatever I like, but my main petty hatred in life will always be that moment when the splash jumps up and hits my arse. I have no idea why I haven't mentioned this until now.

― peteR, Friday, 30 March 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

Fucking Lloyds bank. My debit card expires TOMORROW, and I still haven't received a new one. I've called 3 times now and they just say well we've posted it to you you should receive it soon. Today I supposedly failed the security questions, despite giving the same answers as last time I called, so the bastard probably either misheard me or entered my card number wrong or something, so he couldn't even have a new card sent to a bank branch so I could just go and pick it up. Fucking useless. I think I'm just going to close my account. They already piss me off cos they charge me £1 for overseas purchases.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 30 March 2007 12:01 (eighteen years ago)

My rage at Lloyds bank has at least been slightly productive as I just sent off a letter demanding refund of overdraft charges, which I could never be bothered to do before. Unfortunately googling around it seems Lloyds are bastards about paying up, they usually make you go to court, but I'm hoping since my claim isn't very high (£230) they'll just pay up.

And I just went for a couple of pints so I'm much calmer all round.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 30 March 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

Each working day I walk home from my job through my neighborhood, past five different intersections where STOP signs are posted for all drivers from all directions. Each day as I pass these intersections I observe drivers who fail to stop. I don't mean drivers who roll forward imperceptibly between braking to a nearly complete stop and then resuming acceleration. I mean drivers who slow a bit, then drive right through the STOP sign.

I'm not talking about a handful of drivers, either. I'm talking between 65% and 80% of all the drivers approaching these intersections. I daily observe about 20-25 drivers flagrantly breaking this law. In my neighborhood.

Watching this happen has become like someone poking or jabbing at a sore spot. I refuse to accept this as good, right or normal. Soon I will start jabbering, howling and hurling heavy stones at such drivers. I swear I will.

― Aimless, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

I totally paused!

― accentmonkey, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

The girl who sits behind me at work has THE most annoying voice ever, it's like Lisa Simpson crossed with the Philadelphia girls but speaking in that really so-polite-it's-patronising way. On the way out today I swear she said 'Oh my nice hens' but it turned out she was saying 'have a nice weekend'. I feel bad cos really she's nice. She's just on the phone ALL DAY.

― Not the real Village People, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

Aimless, I kind of have a similar thing w/ cyclists totally ignoring traffic signals

― RJG, Friday, 30 March 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

people who, on messageboards or blogs, post "i want to see this film" or "i like this book" or something like that and then follow it with an imdb or amazon url which contains no clue as to what they're on about, so to resolve the mystery that they want to see the new batman film or enjoy libby purves you have to go to the trouble of copy/pasting the link. it's petty but i don't see why they can't just write whatever it is that they're talking about so that i don't have to waste my time (and i can't stop myself following the link)!

― weston cadaver, Monday, 2 April 2007 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

Has anybody mentioned cinema loutishness yet, or is there a dedicated thread for that somewhere?

Anyway...
1. If it's old, it's funny
2. If it's "arty", it's funny (especially when it's not even "arty")
3. If it's a film, it's funny

I could seethe about this for another hundred posts or two, after I've told my upstairs neighbours that it's 1.30 am and can they please TURN THE FUCKING X-FILES DOWN.

― Matt #2, Monday, 2 April 2007 00:30 (eighteen years ago)

you sound like an angry old man without his teeth in.

― estela, Monday, 2 April 2007 00:40 (eighteen years ago)

Dear everyone on TV and radio ever,

STOP SAYING "log on to our website"
as if you don't know any better,
it's "go to" or "surf to"

easily annoyed,
StanM

― StanM, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 06:14 (eighteen years ago)

It seems I am easily annoyed by most everything posted here. Add to it stupid ladies/tourists who are on an escalator who exit the moving stairs, yet fail to move aside while they take their sweet time to decide if they'll visit the designers section, the toilets or the tearoom while all the REST of us who are being deposited off the staircase are forced to run right into them and they get incensed that we've run into them! BAH!

― Wiggy Woo, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 06:32 (eighteen years ago)

you sound like an angry old man without his teeth in.

That's what every post on this thread should sound like. Now, if that ball comes over my fence again I'll pop it with a knife...

― peteR, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:05 (eighteen years ago)

i was being admiring when i posted that.

― estela, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

stupid ladies/tourists who are on an escalator who exit the moving stairs, yet fail to move aside while they take their sweet time to decide if they'll visit the designers section, the toilets or the tearoom while all the REST of us who are being deposited off the staircase are forced to run right into them and they get incensed that we've run into them!

Hanging is too good for these people.

― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 10:03 (eighteen years ago)

i was being admiring when i posted that.

So was I :)

― peteR, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

I tend to lump your top-of-escalator-stoppers in with my "ambling" category. FFS think about where you need to go before you leave home, and do your browsing when you're IN SHOPS, not IN THOROUGHFARES. And if you're in a shop that is a series of thoroughfares (like a supermarket), DON'T BROWSE. Think about what you need in advance, go in, get it, and then BUGGER OFF BACK HOME AND WATCH THE TELLY.

Actually, this reminds me: I'm sure that part of the reason that IKEA is the PLACE WHERE RELATIONSHIPS GO TO DIE is because you're forced to put up with people browsing in thoroughfares. Discuss.

― peteR, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

I declare a fatwah on anyone involved with the design and implementation of SQL Server 2005 SSIS. Seriously, worst software ever.

― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

The constant whinging about Nu-ILX FFS. The sense of entitlement and ingratitude is really winding me up!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

And don't get me started on the SQL 2005 nu-ILX manager!

― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, Visual Studio just crashed on me. FOR FUCK'S SAKE. How the fuck did they release this piece of shit?

― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

the cars having to stop at traffic lights after someone has already crossed thing--

it must be a terrible annoyance to have to stop travelling for a period of up to one minute, while you're sitting down and sheltered from the whether and maybe you're listening to music and have the heater on

I say this because I know it can be quite annoying, when travelling somewhere, on foot, and having to stop frequently, for a few minutes, to wait to cross the street, w/ cars hurtling by etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etcs

-- RJG, Friday, March 30, 2007 5:21 PM (5 days ago)

well this is the 'petty' things that annoy you thread... by posting it is implicit that i realise it is petty to be annoyed by this. or have i misunderstood the point of the thread? also, though this is really by-the-by, where i live the climate is pretty much idyllic and people would put their car heater on about twice a year.

― gem, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:04 (eighteen years ago)

I wish I could be sheltered from the whether.

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:09 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I think RJG missed the spirit of the thread with that post.

Everything annoys me at the moment. Everything. Midges in particular right now. Fucking midges. It's going to be like this for the next six months.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:09 (eighteen years ago)

(It was always going to happen...)

http://www.nndb.com/people/855/000062669/uvox_ure2.jpg

― peteR, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:18 (eighteen years ago)

Relatives sending me nonsensical right wing email forwards and expecting that somehow they're going to turn me into a Republican.

― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

F*ck, f*cking, f*ckity, F*CK, F*CK, F*CK. Is there anything more annoying than completing a long missive to a family friend from your childhood, who you have not been in touch with for 20 odd years, only to have hotmail inform you before you have saved the draft Server Temporarily Unavailable. We apologize, but the server that holds your account information is temporarily unavailable. This delay is not due to a problem with your account. You may notice that other users can sign in and get their mail, but this is because their accounts are on different servers. ? INSERT *&*!%#$ SAILOR LANGUAGE HERE.

― Hard like armour, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 00:06 (eighteen years ago)

People at work who co-opt your work and who assume ownership of everything but become a bottleneck for processes, thereby decreasing the efficiency of the organization and the extent to which members of that organization feel motivated to contribute by a factor of X times the amount of the original investment and care

― youn, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:38 (eighteen years ago)

― Maria, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 03:16 (eighteen years ago)

When you buy CDs off Ebay from 2 separate sellers and they both arrive the same day and 1 is a different CD to the one I won, and the other is a fucking CDR copy. Argh.

― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

People who take little plastic bags out when they walk their dogs, pick up the poo, tie it off AND THEN LEAVE THE FUCKING BAG ON THE KERB? Every time I walk to the station I see two of these - one has been run over by bikes and split, and the other is still perching on a tree root looking as pristine as it did 6 months ago, about 5 1/2 months longer than had it just been a great big crap on the pavement.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

Also, from the Flickr thread - people who troll the posts of strangers and leave "prizes" (yes, "The Father", I'm looking at you you old nonce)

― Mark C, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 10:00 (eighteen years ago)

Washing dishes in the sink has become an epic adventure of cussing at cutlery and plates instead of the calming theraputic session it should be.

Once a spoon slipped from my hands and down the side of the bowl 3 times in a row! After a heated telling off to the spoon I put my head in my hands and shouted at myself "for fucks sake ste it's a fucking spoon you mad twat!"

― Ste, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

did you get detergent foam in your hair? that would really annoy me.

― estela, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

People who take little plastic bags out when they walk their dogs, pick up the poo, tie it off AND THEN LEAVE THE FUCKING BAG ON THE KERB?

That is mental, unless it's some weird protest to the council to provide more bins. It really annoys me when I'm out walking my dogs and I pick up their poo and have to carry it around for half an hour because there's no bloody bin to put it in.

I would not leave it on the side of the road though.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 10:09 (eighteen years ago)

People in the kitchen making tea who ask you how your job is going, and when you tell them it's horrible they smile at each other and look at you as though you are a freak for being really annoyed at your annnoying job.

― braveclub, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

I said something on my blog a while ago about how my back pain had become something that really defined my life, and since then this one friend of mine always asks me how my back is when she sees me, and it fucking winds me up, because I know she's just thinking "Oh, better ask about her back". I cringe when it comes up in the conversation.

Plus it really annoys me when people suggest that I should leave my dogs on their own in the house overnight and come into the city and stay out all night. I have had this argument with people on several occasions, and because I don't want to sleep on a sofa and then come home next morning to a lake of dog piss in my kitchen, I am somehow "spoiling" my dogs. I also refuse to leave them in the back garden all night long. Wow, I am such a fucking weirdo.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

people who come into a shop while eating something. extremely impolite! i really want to yell "bugger off!" but then i'm too polite myself. just now some german bag came in slobbering over her ice cream yelling at me "do i put the cards in that postbox??? THE POST COMES AND PICKS IT UP, NO?" i really wanted to say:"no you daft cunt, they leave it there, it's been collecting post since 1940."

― nathalie, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

Having to listen to other peoples music on public transport.

Yes. I can get a scarily high level of rage going from this one.

Also, people (99.9% of smokers, please correct me if I'm wrong, does anyone who smokes NOT do this?) who seem to think cigarettes don't count as 'litter' and drop them where they're standing at a bus stop, or out their car windows. I spend hours of my life trying to think of the best way to tell these people off. "Wow, you're disgusting" doesn't seem to cut it.

― franny glass, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

i don't think it is petty to get pissed off at the ciggy butt thing

― gem, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, we need a "Seriously, stop doing that" thread.

The degree to which I freak out and seethe internally about this is probably a bit petty, though.

― franny glass, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

I don't mind the smoker litter thing. Then again I'm just jealous of them being able to find teh courage (and stupidity hahaha) to smoke. ;-)

― nathalie, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

Littering in general makes my blood boil, but the cigarette thing more so because most of these people think of themselves as fine upstanding citizens who would never dream of throwing their other garbage on the ground. It simply never occurs to them that they're doing anything wrong, and that other people might not want to wait for the bus ankle-deep in 3 months' worth of their filthy cigarette butts.

― franny glass, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

yep i know just what you mean franny, littering drives me crazy too. i think there is an element of guilt there about the ciggy butts though as i was just like those other smokers for 10 years till i gave up. and you're spot on, i would never have dreamed of ditching any other kind of rubbish on the ground.

when i was at boarding school we had a special little courtyard we used to sneak out to for a smoke. i remember once trying to bury some of the butts as the pile was getting a tad out of control. it was at that point that we realised it must have been the special smoking spot for the girls who came years before us... the butts went to a depth of half a foot or more. the little brown paper had gone off the filters, but the filter was obviously not biodegradable. ewww. imagine all the filters floating round the world now.

― gem, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

The nearest I've got to getting in a fight in 15 years was after telling some dick to pick up his litter. He refused and it all got a bit nasty. I was probably only not pummelled to a pulp by this guy and the big burly friend I hadn't previously noticed by a train guard doing a fucking great job and telling us there'd be no trouble on his train. I could have kissed him, srsly.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

That's the whole thing with calling people on their littering: is it worth a confrontation and the risk of physical violence? I have been angry with myself so many times for not being brave enough to yell at some disgusting person, but it's scary and I am a wimp. The closest I have ever come was waking up a person on the subway to say very sweetly, "Excuse me, you DROPPED your banana skin" and making bloody sure he took it with him when he got off the train. It felt good.

― franny glass, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

When friends talk for half an hour about their relationships and when you say something, look at you like "You're single, probably forever, so what the fuck do you know?" This has happened to me multiple times with certain friends, and by this point has probably led to multiple hours of me sitting in silence, so it makes me mad now. I want to start dating someone random just so I can join the fucking conversation.

this used to really annoy me, I don't think they mean it though, I could never be sure if I created these scenarios or if friends did in fact think "yeah you are single forever".

it doesn't just happen with being single though, I think it's just some people are a little quick to put you in a box, or judge. I know even in the last few years of illness one or two close friends still almost act like it's my fault or somehow karmic retribution or something.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

People who just generally refer to people they know but are unknown to the majority of their 'audience'/people reading. Seriously, stop doing that!

― blueski, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

People who do that on blogs as if their friends are minor celebs=scum.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

it's their blog! what do you care?

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

Because I don't know what you're talking about, I now have a horrible feeling that I do this and have somehow become scum without realising it.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Sam fair point, I guess cos I am cranky and don't get out enough!

― Ronan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

we are all cranky. that is why we are here.

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

I get pretty wound up when people interrupt and finish my sentences for me or just plain don't let me finish saying what I'm saying. I happen to be pretty soft spoken but I don't see why some people do this. it happened at a work meeting recently and after this woman did it for the third time and finished with "is that what you were trying to say?" I'm like, well yes, I was TRYING to say it and I guess it finally dawned on her that she'd been cutting me off every time I opened my mouth..

― daria-g, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

I'm getting real tired of banks trying to get all down-home and folksy. I went to make a deposit yesterday and the frat boy bank manager dude was all GOOD MORNING, HOW YA DOIN' TODAY? I said to him, "just making a deposit..." While I'm at the teller window, he's screaming about all of the barbecue he's going to eat at lunch and how fucking fat he's going to get. As I'm walking out, he says NOW YOU HAVE A NICE DAY AND STAY DRY, Y'HEAR? Goddammit, knock it off. Just wear the overalls and blue vest to complete your look, you fuck.

The commercials here are all WE KNOW YOUR NAME and WE ALL WEAR GOLF POLO SHIRTS WITH NAMETAGS and FORGET THOSE BIG NAME BANKS WHERE YOU'RE JUST A NUMBER. If there's one place in society where I really don't mind being "just a number", it's at the fucking bank. Give me the revolving doors, the big marble lobby, the silent security guard, and the professionally dressed teller who calls me by surname. I don't need to walk into some trailer building where some Casual Friday attired employee is saying HI FRANK, YA GET THAT TAX REFUND YET?

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

I feel the same way

― RJG, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

it happened at a work meeting recently and after this woman did it for the third time and finished with "is that what you were trying to say?"

My mother and I both have the exact same reaction whenever our very helpful husbands try to do this for us. We just stop talking completely and refuse to start again until they promise they will shut up.

― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

OFFICE POLITICS.

Small bug in a procedure on our test server which stops us from testing out new feeds. Took 3 minutes for me to find the problem - someone changed the collation on the tempdb (apologies to non-SQL people). I'm not allowed to fix it because "it's not our problem". Argh.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

I get pretty wound up when people interrupt and finish my sentences for me or just plain don't let me finish saying what I'm saying.

otfm

― onimo, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

when people ask "how are you?" and i say "oh, okay" or something noncommittal like that and ask how they are, and then they're like "oh well i didn't get enough sleep last night and i have 2 papers due." i would never answer "how are you" that way unless it was to a really close friend who i know would ask that because s/he actually cared, and not because that's the polite thing to say when you randomly meet an acquaintance on the street. so then i have to commiserate with them about how much their lives suck. it frustrates me that i can't tell, when someone says how are you, what kind of conversation they are imagining, and say "fine" if we're on the same wavelength and somehow cut the "ooh i'm so sleepless and overworked" off at the pass if we're not. (again, this does not apply to good friends.)

wow i am really a bitch! hahaha. this thread is great though.

― Maria, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

Oh dear, Maria, if someone asks me how I am, I'm not going to lie unless I despise them and need to get out of convo ASAP. Still, if details are unwarranted, usually a brief "I've been better" will do.

― Laurel, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

I used to say "oh I'm ok" in a world weary voice, as though to indicate that I was not ok but understood that conversational convention dictated that my reply should be brief and upbeat. But then I realised that that was kind of dickish.

― ledge, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

People in front of you in the queue at a shop who decide to talk on their mobile phone just as they get to the cashier/salesperson, yet still expect to be served (and usually are). How rude is that? I always feel like saying to the cashier/salesperson "don't serve that rude wanker, serve me instead because I'll treat you as though you actually exist".

Rudeness rudeness rudeness

― AbdyJack, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

There's an Italian food place near me which has signs saying you won't get served if you're on your mobile.

― Mark C, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

slow walkers who use both lanes or fail to speed up in a single lane

tourists who don't get that the volume appropriate to the cornfield or the cul-de-sac may be inappropriate on the subway or the sidewalk

non-efficiency-maximizing subway space-taker-uppers

escalades

― gabbneb, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Pretty much anyone doing anything on public transportation or walking more slowly than me on a sidewalk pisses me off, I am so not made for city life.

― Maria, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

tourists who don't get that the volume appropriate to the cornfield or the cul-de-sac may be inappropriate on the subway or the sidewalk

hahaha!

― RJG, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

I don't just get annoyed by people standing on the left on escalators. I get annoyed by people who intend to stand on the right, but amble up in the middle or even left hand side, and take a good five seconds to shuffle their arse over to the right, making me shoulder past them rudely in my determination to get everywhere without a single moment's delay.

xxpost No! It's they who are not made for city life!

― ledge, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

uptight yankees who just really need to chill.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

People who leave sockets switched on with no plug in them. It's probably perfectly safe but it still irks the hell out of me.

― braveclub, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

I hate plugging in things to find that they were left on. It scares me, safe or not. My boyfriend does this all the time.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

ARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

― Anna, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

That feels better even if I only typed it.

― Anna, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

people who eat noisily at their desks at work and do it really s-l-o-w-l-y. Like a packet of crisps:
R-u-s-t-l-e r-u-s-t-l-e
ccccccccrunnch!
crunch. crunch. crunch. c-r-u-n-c-h
[loud lip sound]
rummage rummage RUSTLE
[big pause]
ccccRUNCH

repeat till I go insane

― stet, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

postmen sprinkling red elastic bands on the street. this needs an entire thread of its own.

― Alan, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

Dammit, yes. Elastic bands are lethal and they last forever. I collect them, but why are the postbuggers allowed to do this?

― Zora, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

I picked up about 20 on my street the other day. I needed elastic bands. But yes, until I actually needed elastic bands, very annoying.

― Zoe Espera, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

what do they use them for? (the postman)

― Ms Misery, Monday, 16 April 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

Holding a household's mail together I think.

― Zora, Monday, 16 April 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

ahh. . .I think ours just digs around in his bag for the right ones which explains why you often get your neighbor's mail

― Ms Misery, Monday, 16 April 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

sorry, "postal workers".

there is a sorting office right by a bus stop i use. sad to say i have collected the bands on my walk to the stop and scattered them on the drive of the sorting office. i am sure other ppl are doing this too.

i am going mad

― Alan, Monday, 16 April 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

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