unacceptable behavior from people i hate

no offense or nothin', but people have been making threads like this since ilx started.

above.

(j/k, sort of. I don't hate Stence)

I am not offended at all. Just annoyed.

People who start threads complaining about strawmen

i'd hope you didn't hate me, sam! that would suck.

Hate does suck. We must all strive to love our fellow humans. Even the unacceptable ones.

bah!

well that's what jesus said, sam.

Sorry, didn't mean to derail your thread nijoleee. I don't have too many anecdotes to share myself as I have much rage buried inside me. If I allow it to bubble up at the average knucklehead I come across in daily life, you'll see me in the news.

But I know the rest of ilx has plenty of hate.

folks that think pushing a stroller makes them more priviledged

know what you mean about things of this sort this but perhaps you're being a little bit too much of a dick?

wow i hate people who stand too close behind me in line!

How about people who say they are against holocausts, but run concentration camps in their backyard!

Ni, I hate people who post links to old threads but I'm only sharing it now since I think it will provide what you're looking for:

petty things

I hate people who call me a moody miserable cow to my face in front of lots of my colleagues.

acceptable behaviour from people i hate
vs
unacceptable behaviour from people i love

but I'm only sharing it now since I think it will provide what you're looking for:

that's what they all say

People who write blog entries bitching about mundane trivialities that they should really just get over who then feel the need to share the same crap on a messageboard.

Airplane food!

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/images/seinfeld2007oscars.jpg

jokes about bee rape really get my dander up.

http://www.thesmokehammer.com/images/bush_head2.jpg
This fucken guy is so STOOPID! heLLOOO? You're supposed ta be runnin the country!

ILx

Ha. Yeah. And I hate airplane food. Hilarious.

I don't think I am being too much of a dick about the stroller thing.

Just b/c they have some precious ugly baby in a stroller they think they should be able to block aisle ways, have the right-of-way on a sidewalk or be able to cut off people who are walking? What really bothers me is parents who push their 4 year old around in giant stroller because they can't be bothered to watch their kid or walk a little slower at the 4 year old's pace. These are usually the same parents who are chatting on a cell phone while their kid's ill behavior goes completely ignored. Fuckers.

I know and these fucking stroller babies driving around in their SUVs sippin' their lah-tays yapping on their blackberries so the world can hear - I don't care HOW many abortions you've had, just serve me my food.

is everything ok at home hurting

i worry, lately

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=56

Pointless Mutual Antagonism

^^pls rename of all of ilx this

hurting is being funny

Not really.

it's not like he's going crazy

maybe the whole WORLD is crazy, you people ever think of that?

Maybe you should pull your nose out of Hurting's ass. Ever think of that?

Mutual sexy-time for everyone!

I don't have a baby, but I think it's OK for someone with a pram to have right of way on a footpath - they're pushing a heavy weight after all and have less mobility than someone who's just walking themselves. Sure it might piss you off, it might piss me off, but we're only being minorly inconvenienced. It's the same with people who are lugging huge suitcases up and down London Underground's staircases - it's mighty annoying getting stuck behind them, but try to remember the situation is way more stressful for them. You only have to put up with it for a minute. Of course, if either are bumbling along at a terribly slow pace, they should really let you overtake them.

It's only the precious ugly babies they're complaining about.

Marianna OTM there.

only being minorly inconvenienced

This is maybe a useful mantra for a lot of situations.

that or "I will die in the 21st century", whichever.

i've got to constantly remind myself not to be melodramatically annoyed by the stupid yet trivial things people do/say in my presence everyday - it's one of the joys of working in customer service. eg: it's mid-winter here, and people walk into my restaurant to ask for a table, but instead of coming all the way in, they stand at the door holding it open, so that the 8 people who are seated literally 2-4 feet away get blasted by freezing cold wind. i get so worked up about it, when all i really need to do is say "hey, do mind coming inside and closing the door?". i'm trying, really trying.

and also: parents who let there toddlers and babies crawl/run all over the place. our restaurant is uber-cramped, and when you're carrying four pasta plates the size of texas, it's kinda hard to see what's at your feet. i've come really close to tripping and spilling steaming hot spag onto people's heads.

that "door standing open letting the cold winter wind inside" idea is exactly what pissed me off at the gas station this morning. i had to stand outside in the rain because people were standing with three foot gaps between them. argh!

Old people who slowly walk around and get in my way in the supermarket. Hurry up, grandma! I'm not here for a haircut! I'm only here to pick some sausages! When are you going to die?

boo.

people were standing with three foot gaps between them. argh!

think you may be disappointed w/ the future

in future people will be standing with bigger and bigger gaps?

old people who walk around in circles and vomit every 45 seconds because they think you like it.

I've found myself get extremely annoyed with old people in supermarkets but only at lunchtime. Outside that time is OK, but if it's lunchtime, people with jobs are in a hurry, get out of the fucking way. You've got all day to do your shopping, why do it now?

I went to see Transformers last night and someone started shining a laser pointer a the screen an hour an a half into the show. They only did it for a minute, though, so I couldn't figure out who it was... which is probably a good thing.

Also half the time you couldn't tell if it was a laser pointer or Megatron's eyes.

Once at a fucking HORROR movie, I sat directly in front of a redneck couple and their six children ranging in age from toddler to 8. When the kids began to get frightened, the mom would say, "Just cover your eyes" in a frustrated tone that implied that she was completely put out by her children being scared of the axe-wielding madness on screen. Jesus H.

Three words: old people driving. there's a reason why Florida's highways are littered with fatalities.

Ok, in spite of my mockery upthread, I have a person to bitch about - the harried mom who brings her noisy ass toddler into an inappropriate place (e.g. a quiet coffee shop where people are reading and working)), and then makes a big, show of *trying* to get the kid to quiet down, like saying "People are working, honey" in this really half-hearted way that obviously won't have an effect. Because, sorry, this mom is NOT really trying to get her kid to quiet down, she's complaining to the world that she has a kid and that having a kid makes life less free and fun than it used to be.

I see what you mean, but a coffee shop is hardly a library, and if you're going there to "work", you can hardly be surprised that the general pubic barges in with their noisy kids. If you need that much quiet, go to the library or stay home.

unacceptable behavior from people with children would be a much better thread. But I'm sure it's been done, too.

folks that think pushing a stroller makes them more priviledged

know what you mean about things of this sort this but perhaps you're being a little bit too much of a dick?

-- RJG, Thursday, 19 July 2007 23:07 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

^^^^^That is hilarious.

Man have you ever tried to push a baby around? It's like this little wiggling boxing glove of developing nerves and bones that may bell be made out of play-doh. That shit is intimidating. Those people are scared. Plus the only strollers made today are the size of dune buggys. I know we would all like to go back to the days when Edward Gorey-style silhouettes of women had babies in 'perambulators' and never seemed at all to push them, but rather to stand on small hills and look at the twilight while the baby just kind of sat there. But those days are not today.

I see what you mean, but a coffee shop is hardly a library, and if you're going there to "work", you can hardly be surprised that the general pubic barges in with their noisy kids. If you need that much quiet, go to the library or stay home.

I didn't mean to suggest I need complete quiet - people having conversations, unobtrusive music, even cell phones don't rankle me all that much. But I'm talking about, like, screaming toddler. Like on a level that wouldn't really be ok in any store or restaurant or whatever.

I hate that people want to make libraries into coffee shops. I feel like Jesus when he saw all those people selling stinky crap in the temple, wanna go all gangbusters on them just like he did, but in spite of others I treat the library with REVERENCE as I cannot change their perceived need to swill hot milk with some coffee in it.

Once at a fucking HORROR movie, I sat directly in front of a redneck couple and their six children ranging in age from toddler to 8. When the kids began to get frightened, the mom would say, "Just cover your eyes" in a frustrated tone that implied that she was completely put out by her children being scared of the axe-wielding madness on screen. Jesus H.

-- ni jo leeeeeee, Thursday, July 19, 2007 5:26 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Link

THIS^^^

Petty, egocentric misanthropy really fucks. me. off.

I didn't mean to suggest I need complete quiet - people having conversations, unobtrusive music, even cell phones don't rankle me all that much. But I'm talking about, like, screaming toddler. Like on a level that wouldn't really be ok in any store or restaurant or whatever.

Yeah, fair enough. Screaming toddlers are just irritating anyway.

The movie thing happened to me at the last HP movie - it was an 11 pm showing, and this woman sat behind me with her 3 year old who was freaking the fuck out the whole movie and wouldn't stop with the "what's happening? why is that happening? is that a bad man? is that dragon gonna hurt anyone? I'm scared. What's happening now? Now what? Can we go home? I'm scared. What's happening now? Is that man bad?" etc, et al. Then he started to cry and yell, and she STILL FUCKING SAT THERE. Poor kid.

I wanted to throttle her.

A friend and I watched Transformers recently. In front of us were two BIG nerds. Behind were 2 couples about early 20s, normal looking.

The dudes behind said about 5 words, not much louder than a whisper. And one of the nerds yelled "IF YOU WANT TO FUCKING TALK TAKE IT TO THE FUCKING LOBBY".

It was totally hilarious. And somewhat related to this thread. maybe.

How about people who say they are against holocausts, but run concentration camps in their backyard!

-- Hurting 2, Thursday, July 19, 2007 9:09 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Link

lol

harry potter is one thing, but bringing little kids into R rated movies drives me nuts. its the only beef on this thread that has merit.

Yeah, I can't handle that. My stepson was taken to see Interview With a Vampire when it came out, and he was 3 at the time. He came to live with me not long after that, and woke up screaming about vampires for months, and lived in fear of cutting himself at all because he didn't want all his blood "to come out like in that movie." Who the fuck DOES that?

small children who are afraid of vampires?

the following conversation just took place at the shoe store where i work. i'm in a foul mood, and i probably shouldn't have been so rude, but fuck... (although i did manage to plaster a fake smile on my face as i spoke).

Guy:"yeah i'll take these shoes, and i'll wear them now"
Me:"cool, how's the fit? would you like me to apply some stretching spray to soften up any of the pressure points?"
Guy:"what is stretching spray?"
Me:"it is SPRAY THAT STRETCHES"
Guy:"oh. what does it stretch?"
Me:"not your feet, OBVIOUSLY."

wow you're a dick.

occasionally. so what?

Well, it's good that it doesn't stretch his feet. You'd have to go through the process of resizing his feet and then finding the same pair in a new size, which might not even be in stock.

screaming toddlers ARE irritating, but you can't hate on the toddler - toddlers just scream and bang stuff and throw stuff and I like them anyway. But it's the parents that are shitheads - the ones who refuse to accept that they have kids now and that means they can't just do whatever they want whenever they want and bring the kid along.

I just remembered this one time when a parent brought her small toddler into a courthouse with her, and without asking started changing her kid's diaper on the bag search table. The kid pissed all over the table.

Granted I understand why she might have had to bring her kid with her in the first place, but the changing thing is just unbelievable.

so i like it

I wrote this for the petty things thread, since it got my juices flowing, but I'll post here since it's current:

aforementioned amblers, but also people who are in a constant rush to get anywhere (I assume for no reason, I'm probably wrong), and especially those who get annoyed by amblers amidst their rushing. So basically all varieties of moving in a public place.

drivers who are too impatient to stop at a crossing when there's a queue of traffic at the other end, resulting in their cars (or worse, and usually, buses) being splayed all over the area where I'm supposed to be walking when the light changes. And drivers who drive off when the light turns orange even though I'm in the middle of crossing the road. And aforementioned no indicator people. Drivers in general, really. I'll make you unnecessarily stop at the crossing and I'll LIKE IT! But that thing makes perfect sense; if I arrive and I'm not free to cross then I'm obviously going to press the button because I could be there forever otherwise, drivers will have to stop whether I'm lucky enough to make it across before the light deems it to be appropriate or not. The result is me gaining and drivers being the same! PHEW

People who pronounce foreign names incorrectly. Cay-muss inDEED. Although after scoffing I immediately feel like a big fat twat, since 1. it's perhaps the least important thing possible with regards to appreciation and such and 2. I'm certainly no better.

Although despite all of this I think I spend most of my time incompetently trying to avoid being the annoyance of many of you. It's not my fault my fingers are not designed to deal with Tesco bags. :(

No one is very kind to pedestrians, it's true.

Death to car drivers who dont stop BEHIND the stopped tram, thus almost running me over when I exit the tram. IT IS A ROAD RULE. THE DOORS FLIP OUT GIANT "STOP BEHIND TRAM" SIGNS.

Next time it happens I am going to jump on your bonnet or kick your side door in.

(if I havent been squished flat that is)

i've just found out that a friend of mine knows I was "bitching" about her stupid beliefs in astrology. Now she apparently has hueg "issues" with me.

Moral: people who buy into astrology are unacceptable.

People who "block the box" in heavy traffic, contributing to gridlock that ultimately prevents them, as well as everyone else, from getting where they were rushing off too