Things you do to intentionally annoy other people

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In band practice, I play the bassline from "Taxman" over and over again. In my last band, I did the same thing with the riff from "Walk This Way." It starts out funny for everyone, but eventually is funny for me and annoying for everyone else.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:35 (twenty years ago)

Post on ILX.

― jushinthunderliger (deangulberry), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:38 (twenty years ago)

Also the riff from "Frankenstein" by Johnny and/or Edgar Winters (I can't remember which).

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:38 (twenty years ago)

I guess I'm the only person who does this.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:47 (twenty years ago)

I often find myself deliberately annoying obsessive-compulsive "company man" types at work by acting all laidback when they are at their most stressed out and ridiculous. I guess I still have a lot of authority issues.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:49 (twenty years ago)

I sing non-existent harmonies to recorded music.

― choo choo the herky jerky dancer (papa november), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:50 (twenty years ago)

Post on ILX.

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:51 (twenty years ago)

Walk into a room where people are watching TV and immediately ask, "Is this Happy Days?".

― rainy (rainy), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:04 (twenty years ago)

walk into a room where people are halfway through a movie and ask, "what's this about?"

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:05 (twenty years ago)

http://ilx.p3r.net/

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:14 (twenty years ago)

In between songs I play a little fanfare and try to get someone else to say "I'm sorry, the princess is in another castle". I think it's officially "getting old".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:24 (twenty years ago)

Whenever anyone complains of an illness, I always raise my eyebrows and smirk slightly, to let them know that I consider illness and infirmity a personal lapse or fault. Which I do.

― andy, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:41 (twenty years ago)

exist

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:50 (twenty years ago)

I do stand in front of the TV once during every Super Bowl and, as a joke, and say "Hey, is anyone watching this?"

It's not even remotely funny.

I'm also too lazy to type "x-post" sometimes.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:51 (twenty years ago)

hey n/a i do the same thing as you do in my bands except in the middle of a song i'll go ahead and do a key change with the guitar while somebody else is singing.

it's hilarious.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:53 (twenty years ago)

Make references to a "warm secret"

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 23:54 (twenty years ago)

I sing non-existent harmonies to recorded music.

-- choo choo the herky jerky dancer (papa_november...), November 9th, 2004.

Do you really do this to annoy people? I don't sing them, but I imagine them, but only because I can't help doing it. Sometimes rhythmic parts, also. Do the harmonies remain non-existent while you are singing them?

― Pangolino (ricki spaghetti), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 00:21 (twenty years ago)

I play part of the A-Team theme tune. Again and again and again. (I also play 'New World Symphony' on the accordion, but it hasn't quite reached annoying stage yet.)

― emil.y (emil.y), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 00:39 (twenty years ago)

I breathe.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 00:40 (twenty years ago)

get some gum bad breath boy

― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 00:42 (twenty years ago)

everything i do annoys the wifee. so i do it repeatedly.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 00:42 (twenty years ago)

MORE!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago)

panninis

expresso

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Other annoying things to do in band practice: Attempt to sing vocals or back-up vocals in falsetto and when people get annoyed say "I was just trying something new, ok?"; spend 10 minutes getting your guitar perfectly in tune between every song; attempt to do things that you are not physically capable of duing guitar solos (e.g., tapping, artificial harmonics, etc), instead producing a string of half-played and discordant notes, and then insist that this is what you were going for; "ironic" rock star poses or faces. I did every one of these at practice last night. I am the worst person ever to be in a band with.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago)

i clap REALLY loud and am always banging/drumming on things (counters, my chest, wife's ass, etc)

― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Call them names, mock them, sing, tap my feet, talk over the TV, interrupt them, ignore them, ask them to repeat themselves.

― Super-guy, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago)

When I was in college, I would borrow quarters from people and then use them to play "Anything for You" in Spanish by Gloria Estefan on the dining hall jukebox.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:20 (twenty years ago)

I make farty noises when I'm at my desk at work. Sometimes to the awful, awful music.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago)

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