Infuriating social faux pas

[Lawnmooer]

People who start talking over someone else, be it someone else who is talking to me or me when I'm trying to say something. It really bugs me because it shows that you think what you have to say is much more important that what anyone else has to say (Often it is some crap that no-one gives a damn about)

People who make a lot of noise while eating or eats with their mouth open. Seriously, close your fucking mouth when you eat, I don't want to see what you're chewing on or even hear some of the noises that I can't even make when trying... Even worse is when my dad does this, when I was young he was telling me to eat with my mouth closed a lot (I didn't have very good manners as a child) and he goes off and does it all the time (I have to wear headphones and turn my music up to not hear him when he eats in the same room as me, when I find it impossible to hear people talking at me loudly from a couple of feet away with the original volume)

People who play their music off their phone/ipod speakers in public. Sure you and your 2 mates love that crappy music, but the other 10-30 people in the area think it's a pile of crap.

All the religious people that try and convert you. Seriously? You don't see me going around trying to convert you to atheism (Except that one joke time where I gave a Johovah's Witness a leaflet I made about it to stop them coming to my house) so what gives you the right to try and convert me? Luckily I do actually have a shirt with an inverted crucifix I can wear through town to stop them bothering me for a while.

People who think they know more about my life than me. "Dude you should really..." what the fuck do you know? I have a plan, I will be achieving that plan (Due to I actually do what I say I will) I don't need you telling me what you think I should be doing at that particular time, or any time for that matter, if I wanted your opinion on it I would ask for it.

 

[Areani]

A particular friend of mine who constantly speaks out against another member of our class, no matter what the situation, and also goes out of his way to comment on things he doesn't like. The fact that he can't seem to comprehend that different people like different things, and is always deriding people who don't like the same things as him and think the same way as him drives me up the wall.

Dude, I wonder if we know the same guy. Seriously, the "people have different opinions"-argument just doesn't work him. Doesn't help that he forms his opinions on things, whether it be movies, music or games, at a moments notice. Apparantly he can immediately tell if something is good or bad. And one of his favourite pastimes is talking shit about people. Urgh

I feel a bit like a hypocrite saying these things about him, but I need to get it out of my system.

 

[WWmelb]

*people who wear hats inside. once you leave the foyer, you hat comes off.

I never got that, and I deliberately wear my hat inside because it's my hat, and I can do what I want with it.

Agree with Lev the Red. It may be old fashioned but it's a simple issue of manners. It's how i was brought up and it really irks me.

But manners aren't universal, you shouldn't expect people to do what you consider polite when they might have a completely different idea. Sure, in your own home ask people to take their hat off, but anywhere else you shouldn't have a problem.

IMO there are a certain set of manners which are or should be universal (or nearly so) and up until recently, they were for the most part.

These are : Go inside.. take your hat off. Say please. Say thank you. Hold the door for women and the elderly and impaired. Offer your seat on public transport to the above. And for the love of god don't spit it in public places.

Like i said, i'm a touch old fashioned, but hey. Manners are not a bad thing, and don't take a lot of effort.

And the argument "i don't think "x" behaviour is rude so its a-okay for me do "x" behaviour without consideration for social etiquette doesn't fly with me. i know that's putting what you said a little more harshly, but that's the impression i get coming from the general public these days.

 

[Baneat]

1. People that want to bum cigs from strangers. Then feel the need to tell you their life story because you gave them one. I was giving you one so you would go the hell away.

I see that as polite, if I give someone a cig I'd rather they acknowledge it by making conversation rather than just fucking off. If it's a street-wanderer you often hear really funny stories - stick around for lols.

 

[mental_looney]

Touchers.

I get it people like to make contact and stuff but someone you don't know very well being overly toucher really creeps me out. Same for personal space invaders.

 

[The Funslinger]

1. People that want to bum cigs from strangers. Then feel the need to tell you their life story because you gave them one. I was giving you one so you would go the hell away.

2. People that brag about really expensive stuff that someone bought for them. I just got a brand new car, it's a BMW. Did you buy it. No my parents got it for me. Hey way to earn it you jackass.

3. People that ***** and moan that there is nothing to do. You suggest something and they shrug it off. Either take my idea or think of your own, I am not hear to get you out of your fun funk.

In answer to each of your statements:

1) I may not smoke, but I personally don't like people who go up to random people who aren't even their mates and ask for a cigarette. You don't go up to that random guy with a bag of jelly babies and ask for a handful, do you?

2) Oh that pisses me off to no end. My parents recently helped me get this fantastic coat, and I spent the next couple of months paying it off. Then there's this guy I know, who owns at least two of every console from the last two generations, has Xbox Live and has money to burn on snacks everyday. His mum is a single parent living off benefits, and is in and out of hospital with some nasty medical bills for things that aren't on the NHS. They're basically struggling to make ends meet. So I asked him why he didn't sell some of the games and consoles he doesn't play anymore and cut back on the sweets. His reply does "my mum doesn't want to."

Fuck. That. Shit.

3) It's weird, I haven't been bored in four years. I'm that at peace that I can lie on my bed and do nothing for hours at a time, just staring at the ceiling.

 

[Montezuma's Lawyer]

That one person who feels obligated to give their opinion on everything, even if they don't have a clue what they're on about.

the word for that is officious. i think...

I think that word sounds stupid.

Captcha: Knowledge. Istonol

 

[Phasmal]

Touchers.

I get it people like to make contact and stuff but someone you don't know very well being overly toucher really creeps me out. Same for personal space invaders.

This. We had a new guy start at work a few weeks ago - we shook hands, and it was fine. Then, next time he came in the same room as me, put a hand on my shoulder and started talking to me.

It had been a long week, so I took two steps away from him, turned around and said "never touch me again".

To date, he has not broken the commandment.

I had a doctor just like that.
He never actually did anything weird but he was too touchy, it was really creepy.
I only saw him once (for excema) and he kept needlessly touching my hands. (I know it was needless, I've had excema a long long time).
I cant reccall his name because from then on I just called him Dr Creepy.

As for what I hate: Spitting in the street.
Its filthy.
No one wants to see you gobbing, pack that shit in.

 

[The Funslinger]

This is definitely bad, and should be punished (if not with death then perhaps dismemberment), but what bothers me more is when youre walking down a pavement or hallway wide enough for four people abreast, and there are two guys walking side by side, arms out in what is presumably "gansta mode", staggering from side to side in a way that makes it impossible to pass.

That's the sort of demographic I tend to annoy the hell out of, with statements such as "you know you're supposed to take the hanger out of your shirt before you put it on, right?"

 

[The Funslinger]

Touchers.

I get it people like to make contact and stuff but someone you don't know very well being overly toucher really creeps me out. Same for personal space invaders.

This. We had a new guy start at work a few weeks ago - we shook hands, and it was fine. Then, next time he came in the same room as me, put a hand on my shoulder and started talking to me.

It had been a long week, so I took two steps away from him, turned around and said "never touch me again".

To date, he has not broken the commandment.

I had a doctor just like that.
He never actually did anything weird but he was too touchy, it was really creepy.
I only saw him once (for excema) and he kept needlessly touching my hands. (I know it was needless, I've had excema a long long time).
I cant reccall his name because from then on I just called him Dr Creepy.

As for what I hate: Spitting in the street.
Its filthy.
No one wants to see you gobbing, pack that shit in.

As for the touching, I had a friend who used to come up to me and give me a kidney stinger (where you jab your fingers into someone's side roughly where their kidney is. It feels horrible, though weirdly you don't feel anything when you do it to yourself)

Put up with that for a few months, but he stopped quite quickly when I turned around and punched him in the face.

As for spitting, I walked past some people who kept doing that. I was freaked the fuck out. How much saliva can you generate!?

 

[Shakomaru]

*people who wear hats inside. once you leave the foyer, you hat comes off.
*flat-billed baseball caps. why do people think they look cool and why do hat makers feel they can charge twice as much as a normal ball cap?
*people who wear ridiculous hats just for sake of being different/to get attention. i love my ushanka, but i only wear it when it's genuinely needed.

i have a lot of hat-related pet peeves...

To add to that, people who wear said hats backwards.People who argue about things they don't know anything about, People who try to insult others by calling them gay When they Both Know that it isn't really an insult. .....I have weird friends....

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

You're having a debate with someone and they begin to say 'This is what you think and this is why it is wrong'. But they then get what you actually meant completely wrong so you interrupt to correct them and they are all like 'This is the problem with you! You don't let anyone finish!' therefore making you look, or feel, like you are completely neurotic and arrogant.

It's pointless to let you finish when you have completely misunderstood what I said! I have a friend who does it all the time and it really, really gets on my nerves.

Also people who constantly text/facebook on their phone while you are trying to talk to them.

 

[Flames66]

These are : Go inside.. take your hat off. Say please. Say thank you. Hold the door for women and the elderly and impaired. Offer your seat on public transport to the above. And for the love of god don't spit it in public places.

I disagree with two of those. One is the hat thing, but you know about that. The other is holding doors for women. If it is convenient and polite to do so, I hold the door open for anyone, being a woman has nothing to do with it.

 

[Flying Dagger]

the awkward moment when you read through this and in your head you go:
"tick, tick, tick, tick, oh one I don't do... wait... tick..."

 

[Oly J]

I cannot believe nobody has said this yet, (at least not in the time before I clicked onto the page) but Spoilers, and not online spoilers because they are avoidable but the walking, living, breathing spoilers that you just can't seem to convince to FUCKING STOP! now I'm somewhat tolerant of this because I know it is quite easy to spoil something by accident...we've all done it but there's always that one guy, who can't resist telling you about a shocking or conclusive event in any given story, which completely ruins any value of it!

the worst example was one guy, who, knew that a friend and I watched Naruto, and we hadn't got onto Shippuden yet, and then he blurts out and spoils a character death JUST BECAUSE HE THINKS IT MAKES HIM MOMENTARILY INTERESTING!!! y'know what the worst part was, I said "dude shut up we haven't got there yet" his only response was "oh well you were gonna find out eventually anyway" THAT'S NOT THE FUCKING POINT! spoiling something accidentally is forgivable, particularly if you apologize for it, but if you're one of those fond of deliberately spoiling something and then acting like you've done the person a favour by destroying any emotional weight said event may carry?...you people just make me see red...so do those who spoil something for you and then expect it to have the same impact regardless...seriously spoiling a story should be a crime

 

[Eri]

*people who wear hats inside.

Why would you care? How does this affect you?