The "Things that annoy me" thread

Hmm-

People on only one side of the political spectrum who refuse to see the other side's benefits, only their detractments, and worship their own side.

People who generally don't give a damn about motorcyclists. I'm a vehicle too, idiot.

People who have faux-knowledge about their cars and attempt to confuse me with it.

Individually-wrapped candy mints- it's made of sugar, it's not going bad anytime soon with or without the stupid little plastic wrap.

Religious zealots.

Rednecks.

People who judge me for no apparent reason.

More to come... :p
 
a lot of this, has probably been listed before... but here we go. i will only state stuff that is unusual in my opinion...

- TAXI DRIVERS!
those stupid idiots, they drive like asses ALL of the time and they don't even care! their license can't be taken away (at least in germany, so i heard) because that would make it impossible for them to do their job! PLUS they don't need to wear seatbelts and they use that right a lot, which makes them all the more idiotic (it's so they can get out of their car quickly, if they're robbed... yes, really!).
story: taxi driver stops in my street, i go past on my bike on the left side of his taxi (yes we drive on the right here, so that is correct). my girlfriend is behind me, and he nearly knocks her off her bike by just stepping straight out! after that, he has the guts, to COMPLAIN to us... i could've kicked his head straight off!

- PEOPLE ON HORSEBACK (most of them at least)
how do those arrogant people think that, only because they're on some stupid animal that carries them around all day, they're somehow better than anyone else? how do they think, anyone has to go out of THEIR way and they're not supposed, IN THE SLIGHTEST, to move a LITTLE to the side?

- DOG PEOPLE WHO DON'T CARE
it's just a dog, what the hell can i do about it? IT'S YOUR DOG, YOU IDIOT! take care of the damn thing and keep it from slobbering all over me or stepping right in front of my bike so fall over and break all my bones trying to avoid it. no it's not your fault, what can you do about it? LOOK AFTER IT, DAMN YOU, OR AROUND YOU!

- MY! NEIGH! BOUR! KID!
see how much that little guy annoys me? just look above, oh yes! he's twelve, ok? and i know there's such a thing as tolerance, but i just CANNNOT STAND IT much longer. him getting up at 8 on a saturday and SCREAMING THE WHOLE TOWN TO BITS while simultaneously HAMMERING (yes, with a real hammer: stick with metal bit on top, yes!) on some woodplanks for the sake of... hammering!



alriiight, enough of that!
i hope none of you are offended by what i wrote, it's just what i feel about all those people around me. it's nothing personal and just because you own a dog or a horse or a taxi or have a son aged 12 who might be someones neighbour, you don't have to feel hated! thank you very much for considering this :)
this is all against those people going on my nerves, and i had to let it out, just alittle bit!

thanks for this thread btw, rather great to be able to let off some steam! :thumbsup:
 
People who offer to help you on a major project and then bail on you at the last minute.

So, a rant on people-powered bikes here: rude cyclists who don't believe in following the rules of the road, not to mention the whole "share the road" campaign. If I'm in my car and you're on a bike, one of us is bigger here. And if we collide, your bike will be a lot more damaged than my car. This is why your bike belongs on the sidewalk: safety. Not some faux-"the rich man is keeping the poor man (read: spoiled college kids whose parents bought them overpriced bikes pretending to speak for the poor man when they really just want to be able to ride on the road) down" argument. Safety. I don't mind the rare cyclist who stays on the shoulder or the edge of a wide road and follows the rules of traffic like the cars. I do mind the ones who think the road is a free-for-all ("you won't hit me 'cause I'm a bike!") or who ride on roads where there isn't room for them without clogging up traffic. If you can't go the speed limit, it's not safe for you to be on a narrow road where you'll inevitably clog up traffic when there's no room to pass. If someone misjudges how slow your bike has forced traffic to go, your self-righteous stupidity will be the direct cause of a rear-end collision--or worse. Get on the damn sidewalk, or find a closed street or a bike trail...and for crap's sake, stop arguing to be let on the road with bigger things that can kill you. Aughh.

Baylor University Parking "Services:" if anything, this department does everyone a disservice. At a time when they've let in more students than they really should, the parking retards got rid of spaces. What the heck? Also, everything about them is a symbol of how the BU administration has become a bloated, inefficient buereaucratic turd. There is no way in hell we need a VP of Parking, much less a whole department with shiny new trucks that never seem to talk to each other. Here's what I mean by this: I have to use the loading zone to check out equipment for my major. Since they took out all the parking around my building, hell no, I don't have a pass! It's not worth it when there's nowhere to park. Yet when I came out to load crap into my car (20ish minutes after tracking it all down), I had FOUR tickets on my windshield. Two for being overtime in the 15-minute space (um, you can really only go overtime once), one for having an expired pass, and another for parking in a reserved lot. Hey, morons: I'm in the major that lot's reserved for! Most of that department needs to be fired for incompetence--too many morons writing too many duplicate tickets without looking. The rest should be sacked for incompetence: removing our parking without consulting anyone who parks there, for example, if not simply the failure to sack the other incompetents who need to be sacked!

People who look down on other people just for having different political/religious/whatever views.

The various assumptions people make about girls. I can't cook, I hate bland romantic comedies, and just because I may be in a skirt or heels sometimes doesn't mean I'm vain.

People who hide behind religious language when they treat other people like crap.

Lack of sleep.

Overly salty food.

People who don't use turn signals, can't drive in the rain, and refuse to go anywhere near the speed limit on the freeway. (This is why I need a hood-mounted bazooka to drive in Waco, FTR.)

Loud eating noises. Slurps, smacks, all of 'em.

People who don't leave a note or tell you after they break stuff. I'll be less angry (and possibly forgiving--gasp!) if you simply own up to it and tell me what happened. Sometimes telling me how you broke the thing actually helps me figure out how to fix it.


...it's been a long week.
 
It's an oft repeated one but the day to day thing that pisses me off most is:

People who take forever to pay for their petrol and/or take forever to move upon returning to their car. Men and women are guilty of this but women tend to be worse since they're usually adjusting their face or putting on driving shoes or some equally stupid shit but it's ALWAYS when the station is busiest. Everyone's going home from work and needs fuel, you've been sitting in a queue for 20 minutes and some fucking Fiesta in front of you WONT GET AN EFFING MOVE ON.


Sorry.
 
MacGuffin said:
- Bicycle riders who think they have the right of way, when they go over a zebra crossing without dismounting their bikes.
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Don't be such a pussy, you should be glad that they do that - it saves you time you have to wait, as they can cross faster.

Here's something that annoys me:

- People complaining about tiny insignificant inane shit.
 
eizbaer said:
alriiight, enough of that!
i hope none of you are offended by what i wrote, it's just what i feel about all those people around me. it's nothing personal and just because you own a dog or a horse or a taxi or have a son aged 12 who might be someones neighbour, you don't have to feel hated! thank you very much for considering this
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Hey! I taxi people around on a horse, and I have two 12yo boys: one of them wants to become a judge and the other a carpenter. I also have six dogs! Do I have to feel hated?


























ok, just kidding.
 
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eizbaer said:
- PEOPLE ON HORSEBACK (most of them at least)
how do those arrogant people think that, only because they're on some stupid animal that carries them around all day, they're somehow better than anyone else? how do they think, anyone has to go out of THEIR way and they're not supposed, IN THE SLIGHTEST, to move a LITTLE to the side?
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Oh I so agree with you.
When I was regularily cycling down the field paths round where I live I quickly came to hate them, since there's a stable nearby as well...
Every time I came across somebody on a horse on one of those narrow paths, they'd never keep to their side and give you a look that said "What, you expect me to move over to the side? On the grass? Are you insane? This horse cost twenty gazillion Euros, so YOU will have to try to plough through the mud with your bike, peasant!"
And horses smell terrible, and they shit EVERYWHERE. Seriously! People complain about cars being so dirty because of what comes out the back... at least a car doesn't drop a massive, disgusting turd on the path it travels for every 5 meters covered!
 
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So slow drivers when you are in a hurry have been mentioned, but what about annoyingly slow people walking in a horizontal group as wide as possible blocking the entire way when you are in a hurry? They annoy the fuck out of me, especially when they get angry or whinge when you try to get passed them. This is especially problematic in school when you are late for class and some lazy kids who couldn't care less about school get in your way.
 
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darkshark0159 said:
So slow drivers when you are in a hurry have been mentioned, but what about annoyingly slow people walking in a horizontal group as wide as possible blocking the entire way when you are in a hurry? They annoy the fuck out of me, especially when they get angry or whinge when you try to get passed them. This is especially problematic in school when you are late for class and some lazy kids who couldn't care less about school get in your way.
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There's a special place in hell...

They banned smoking 30 feet from all doorways here, too, so they've gone to smoking while walking (slowly) to class here. Not only do they hold me up, but they make me smell like their smoke when I'm behind 'em.

The stationary clouds of smoke under trees and overhangs was much better than this, IMHO.
 
darkshark0159 said:
So slow drivers when you are in a hurry have been mentioned, but what about annoyingly slow people walking in a horizontal group as wide as possible blocking the entire way when you are in a hurry? They annoy the fuck out of me, especially when they get angry or whinge when you try to get passed them. This is especially problematic in school when you are late for class and some lazy kids who couldn't care less about school get in your way.
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I remember having to deal with kids who would gather in groups and chat in the stairwells at school between classes. There would be this huge bottleneck of students trying to get by and did those jackasses even care? Nope. They would just chat, oblivious. I cannot tell you how close I came to throwing some of those kids down the stairs. And they were those steel rimmed concrete stairs too. The kind that will cripple your ass if you slip.
 
klankymen said:
Don't be such a pussy, you should be glad that they do that - it saves you time you have to wait, as they can cross faster.
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Not if I have to brake for them - which I don't. You wouldn't believe how many funny ways there are for braking/dismounting a bike, when the rider realizes the car won't brake for him :lol:

And don't get me started about bycicle riders! I have lost all patience and consideration with them.
 
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People of all ages do that. I just got back from Target, and as the person in front of me stepped off the escalator, she stopped, and looked around...then gave me a pissed-off look when I said "excuse me" so I wouldn't step on her.

I like to think I'm a really "aware" person when it comes to be surroundings, but my girlfriend? Jesus...I'm surprised I let her walk without wearing a helmet.
 
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People who just cross in front of your car whilst in traffic, without looking at all and noticing that the traffic has now moved and they're holding everyone up.

Badly signposted events. The signposts at the Land Rover show off road course today were very vague, and left you following a track not knowing what you were going to.

Wasps.

Erm. I actually have a very short fuse but I can't seem to think of anything else right now that hasn't already been said.
 
People who criticize Top Gear for showcasing drinking while driving before the watershed in the North Pole special but not the frozen penis that's shown just minutes before it.

Either do both and be retardedly anal or don't do either and be a sane human being
 
Ignorance

People ignorant of the meaning of ignorance, confusing it with insolence.

Slang

People who say fuck every other word

People who smoke pot and then go around flaunting it, I know you've smoked some pot because you smell like a douche.
 
Girls who smoke in girls toilets and then the toilets stink of it

People who backchat

Students who backchat at teachers, because they think they're innocent when they're the one that caused the problem in the first place, because a) They're a smartarse or/and b) they're stupid.

Cyclists who don't stick to the cycle lane and insist on having a bit of our lane too.

Cyclists who insist on having a conversation while cycling, hence they don't ride in a line and then they hog up half of our lane.

Soap Operas. I thought they were once good, but now they're just bad.

People who don't pay attention in class.

People who talk really loudly in class.

People who swear in class.

School kids who say "Sir" and 'Miss' to the teacher because they can't be bothered saying their name.

Bitchiness and stereotyping. I can't wait to get out of high school.

People who insists on facebooking the crap out of themselves during class.

Teenagers who just wanna get wasted just for the hell of it.

Mum demanding an episode of Harper's Island by today, when she didn't tell me that she wanted it, but thought that she would expect it by today, because she insists that it's not a problem. Well it is, Mum, because it's wasting our broadband (okay it's only 349MB but you'll be surprised how long it takes until it's all gone) and you're not gonna get your episode until tonight. So why can't you just leave us alone and stop pushing us around on technology you never use, or even know how to use for that matter. *and breathe*

The media making Melbourne look like a dodgy place to go to because of the violence we have. From what i've heard, there isn't much violence in the city.

Climate change. I want my normal weather back! (it was 30 degrees yesterday, and it's only early spring)

And finally, sexism.
 
Arsonists destroying people's hard-earned property / businesses and their lives just for some sick thrill or out of boredom.

The amount of street violence rearing its ugly head in this country, and here in Vic the pussyfooting around by the State Government and the police. It's getting ridiculous, you can't even go out on a Saturday night in a group and feel safe enough here.

Old people who clearly shouldn't be driving anymore because they can't even tell they're drifting across the centre line or are half off the road and are doing nearly 20 below the speed limit while they're at it.

People talking on their phones while driving who nearly clean me up at the roundabout by completely failing to notice its existence.

The group of four girls who always sit up the back in lectures and talk the whole way through. Also, the lecturers for not doing anything about it despite complaints from several of us in the class. Also, dumping heaps of assignments onto us just when we're trying to get ready for holidays and a supervised work placement straight afterwards.

People who park so badly I have to back out really slowly and carefully so that their car and mine do not swap paint, it always happens just when I'm in a hurry too.

Fast food outlets: Gimicky, horrible, sloppy overpriced food that they claim is healthy so that idiots think they can eat it guilt free while they're really being lied too.

The Federal Government...and the Opposition...okay make that Aussie politicians in general.

Crappy supermarket cheese that I'm forced to buy because I'm poor. :( Always makes me feel sick after eating it. Same goes for all cheap, crappy food.

Television. I'm stuck with our five free-to-air channels. I can't afford pay TV, or a new digital telly or receiver...which is probably just more of the same anyway. Practically nothing worth watching.

Kyle Sandilands (Aussies will know who this is). I wish he'd just STFU and GTFO to the US already...please stay there you arrogant prick!

The next door neighbours for randomly shouting outside yesterday at 7:30 this morning while packing the kids up to go away for the weekend. SHUT UP!! Also, the neighbours across the road for having random people over at all hours of the night and banging gates and car doors an swearing loudly. I really love my area.

That'll do for now, or I'll be at this for hours.
 
Religious Zealots who still argue that humans didn't come from monkeys. NOBODY EVER SAID WE DID, ass-munching fucktards need to do some more reading and stop listening to a stupid echo-box asshat that doesn't even understand what is in the freaking bible in the first damn place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ditto-heads that proudly call themselves ditto-heads.

The reject down the street that thinks it is cool to remove his mufflers from everything and comes in at 5 am while reving the engine that barely runs.

Penny-pinchers at GM, Chrysler, and Ford for screwing up the American car industry.

Congress-critters that helped bail them out.

People that shop at Wall-mart that wonder why they can't get a job after they lost one that moved to Mexico/ far east.

Companies that move their call center to a non-native language speaking country.

Lawmakers that used marijuana(other "drugs" too) in highschool/ college and won't make it a legal product and stop the War on Drugs.

Nags.

People that go into a store and yell at the employee for a stupid policy that was made by an exec.

Companies that think saving a buck is worth more than the safety/heatlh of their customers.

Douche-bags that think it is cool to destroy other people's stuff to look cool to their friends.

Parents the let their kids play games like Grand Theft Auto! An MA rating means mature audience morons.

Evil people.

Rheumatoid arthritis.

Lawn Nazis!!!! Use a lawn mower to cut your grass! Put your scissors away and get a life.
 
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