Infuriating social faux pas

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teebeeohh

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people who stand behind and watch my screen, i did set up my room with the PC facing a corner on purpose.
also whenever friends of my roommates or someone comes into my room asks a question and instead of leaving sits down. I don't mind your presence, i am just busy and LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE, IF I WANTED TO TALK TO PEOPLE I WOULD BE IN THE KITCHEN/LIVING ROOM.
 

Twilight.falls

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So, I have this friend. Nice guy, can depend on him to help you out of a bind. Fun to talk to, laughs a lot.

He has the infuriating habit of busting out into song without any regard to the people around him. I honestly do not fathom the train of logic he must go through when he enters the classroom singing at the top of his lungs. Sometimes he'll sing in public areas, which I would imagine must annoy some of the bystanders.

He's in the choir, so I understand his love of singing. He has a nice voice too. But DAMMIT man, there's a time and a place for that.
 

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Genericjim101 said:
1) people eating with their mouth open.
2) eyerolling
3) a lack of understanding I'd prefer no radio or music on than an arguement over differences in musical taste. ( Sometimes it's nice to talk or work without some background noise)
Eyerolling? In all situations? That seems . . . extreme.

OT: Don't really have any issues with social faux pas. I'm a pretty patient person. The only thing I really can't stand is stupidity.

OK, i lied a little. Texting in class pisses me the fuck off. I don't care if it's on silent, the whole fucking class can hear it vibrate, and it's still irritating.
 

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TestECull said:
I like you.

OT: Mouthbreathers. I'll admit it's most likely because of my JROTC instructors in high school, because they *always* got onto cadets who sat there with their mouth hanging open, but the breathing does tend to be louder, heavier, and more annoying when it's not through the nose.
 

Cpu46

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People who come up to me in public for no other reason than to talk religion then get offended when I tell them I am Atheist. Yes I do not believe in your deity or the dogma in your book. I won't apologize for my existence. No that does not make me an immoral satanist, though in the biblical sense it does make me an antichrist. No I have not read all of your book, I have read several large portions of it, most while I still believed. I probably retained more of it than you. Yes I read John 3 16, point please.


Perfectly fine with religion, just can't stand people who feel the need to preach down to random strangers and act offended when you don't humor them.
 

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People who, no matter what you say, will disagree with you (or really with anyone). Let's say you're in a group and one person is like that, and you and the group have to go into a large freezer (maybe you're at a bottleshop with one of those walk-in freezers, or escaping Black Mesa or something). So it's nipple-stiffingly colder than it was outside (unless you live in Antarctica or something) so you just make an off-hand comment that it's freezing, without fail they'll respond (and always in some insultingly, non-chalant I-refuse-to-share-an-opinion tone) with something like "no it isn't". Oh sure, if you and your Ausfag friends are shivering because it dropped to 18 degrees and the New-Zealander of your group jokingly calls you a bunch of pussies (i.e something I'm used to) that's fair, and everyone has different views. But chronic disagree-ers are the absolute worst kind of people, the embodiment of both smugness and stubborn jackassery.

Oh, and people who make something slightly annoying far more annoying by loudly bitching about it. Yes, the loud clatter made when someone reaches to the very back of a cupboard full of pots and pans is rather loud and annoying, but shouting at them to do it a little quieter doesn't help matters in the slightest.

Uh...people who refer to themselves in the third-person. Of those I've met who actually do this (going off a handful of loopy school-teachers, schools that are anything but so prestigious as to have staff that are fucking royalty or something) it's less infuriating and more creepy.

Oh, and people who make it readily apparent what their views on a particular subject are (especially if it's done to an extreme on a topic generally considered controversial, so that way they'll have an opportunity to give some big, self-important lecture to everyone in their vicinity if it draws fire). Again, everyone's got opinions and it's the mark of a good world where everyone seeks to form opinions, but wearing t-shirts that openly mock liberals or making your Faacebook dp a cartoon of Jesus Christ behind the "no" symbol (sorry to be oddly specific, just an example from my experiences) is both smug and a bit insulting. If I wanted to know your political views or how much you apparently hate Christianity then I'd ask you, not only that but if I knew a guy (who we'll call Dave) that went around on a normal day-to-day basis wearing a shirt like this then I'd stop thinking "Hey, it's Dave that super-awesome guy who's just such a cool and multi-layered guy all the time! I wonder what he thinks about lasagna..." and start thinking "Oh, it's Dave my gay friend...who enjoys fondling other men's genitals...and apparently has a decent taste in web-comics" (on top of knowing that what people think of Dave and his shirt would rub off onto me like Dave onto an attractive man).

imperialwar said:
So get up, go for a walk, lift some weights, go to a shopping center sit on a bench and talk to the first person that sits near you. At least its better then sitting around feeling sorry for yourself. I met the girl i married doing exactly that, talking to the first random person I met that day.
Awwwwwwwww
 

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binnsyboy said:
Things people do in certain situations that just piss you off to no end.

For me, it's this: I'll be telling a story or joke of some kind to some friends. Then one of those people shows up. The irritating one who is oblivious to how irritating they are, and immediately talk over you with some other story. So you say "hey, I was in the middle of telling a story here" and they utter that most infuriating of hypocritical phrases: "hey, just let me finish!"

The really annoying thing is it's either right when you've just started the anecdote, or you're just reaching the best part/punchline. Even when they have about five or so people telling them to shut up and wait, they power blindly on until everyone's just like "eh, let's just wait for him to finish..." and your own story doesn't have the same impact it would because the flow has been ruined.
Not sure if this counts, but when I hear people talking about a subject I know a lot about, and I have something valid to say, but I know that society will more than likely view me as a guy who isn't minding his own buisness or eavesdropper, despite my trying to help.
 

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DannyJBeckett said:
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.

Also, people who don't say thanks when you hold the door open for them, and people who don't wash their hands after going to the bathroom.
I think 98% of the male population of my school don't wash their hands. Very rarely do I see someone do it. Also by the end of the day almost all the toilets in the school are clogged with shit. WHY DON'T THEY FLUSH THE GOD DAMN TOILET!!!!! IT'S DISGUSTING!

Aside from that there's lots, but people who close the door in front of your face. Bastards.
 

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People who refuse to accept new information or facts, especially if it contradicts something they believed to be correct.

This happens to me a lot of work, I am a big fan of those "X facts about something are wrong" type articles, and as i'm sure most of us like to do, it's fun to drop this type of knowledge into conversation. However my co-workers often try to call bullshit, which always creates that awkward moment where they end up trying to backpedal after I pull out my phone and present several pages backing up whatever I said.

I understand that to a certain extent all of us like to be 100% sure before believing something, but I think people should still be slightly courteous about it, rather start making fun of someone up until the point where you present irrefutable evidence.
 

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Yeah. I've got a few. Some of them are roommate related...

-Clipping your nails in the den/common area. Especially when you clip then, pick them off the floor, and place them in a small pile on the coffee table.

-Protein shakes. Rinse them out immediately after using. They smell like a landfill when you don't do this. It caused a guest of mine to gag and run out of the kitchen.

-Whatever you call this scenario:
"Try this pork, man."
"I don't like pork"
"Just try it, you haven't had this one."
"I hate the meat. I disliked it in every form I ever tried"
"Nawwww, you just haven't had the right one. Try this one, I swear it's different!
"Is it pork? Yes? Then fuck off."

-"Whoa. You like this? I never knew a black person who liked that" I'm not actually black, but my roommate gets that all the time for different things (liking metal, liking bluegrass, for surfing, for fishing, for playing the violin). It's awkward.
 

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The person who asks you for advice on something and goes around and asks several other people for advice on the same topic and then comes back you and says "these guys say I should do these totally different things than what you told me to do".

It really pisses me off when people do that. There was this lady on IRC that would pull that shit on me all the time when she'd ask me about her computer problems. She'd ask me how to fix whatever was wrong and at the same time she had four or five other people telling her to do totally different and far more complex and or destructive things to fix a problem that could be fixed in 10 seconds with out losing any data.

Eventually I quit helping her out with shit like that because I got tired of being contradicted by a bunch of idiots whose first experience with computers came when they first heard about that InterNetWeb thingy that Al Gore invented.

DustyDrB said:
-Whatever you call this scenario:
"Try this pork, man."
"I don't like pork"
"Just try it, you haven't had this one."
"I hate the meat. I disliked it in every form I ever tried"
"Nawwww, you just haven't had the right one. Try this one, I swear it's different!
"Is it pork? Yes? Then fuck off."
That's called the "I'm gonna shove this food down your throat until you like it." scenario, and I hate it too.

It used to happen to me all the time with my parents, especially in the year following Food Network coming to our area. It's almost a mortal sin in their house to look at something and dismiss it as being one of the most disgusting things ever created by man without ever tasting it. It could be a chocolate covered pork roast with a reduction of lemon juice, donkey piss and anti-freeze and if you said you wouldn't taste you'd be the worst person on the planet.
 

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Well i too cant stand people that ear headphones, yet i can still hear their stuff 5 rows away.

People who I call dancing monkies, they always have to say something, do something to gain attention, no matter how stupid it is. "hey guys look im drinking battery acid, arent i the best. And now Im dying... "

Modern Age kids, in all manner shapes and forms. Keep the things on a leash, gagged or medicated when out in public. If i run it over with my trolley while shopping, maybe it shouldnt have been running around like an idiot. Unless your kid is dying from something, should it really be crying that loud for that long. Its called a baby sitter, wether it be granny or the 15 year old across the street. No that 15 year old isnt a pedophile.. yet..
Discipline the child, trust me they wont end up in therapy if you say no or make them wait 5 minutes for things they want. Notice that word too WANT.. they want it not NEED it.

People who feel obligated atttention, take my mother a morbidly obese mental patient. Her last trip to the looney bin was due to her sister in law making her feel bad as she does no house work. Yeah, literally: cry why wont people pay attention to me, its not like i actually do anything though.
Now she is bragging about losing 15kg ( which is great ) but thats only due to being instatuitionalised and having a forced controlled diet. (type 2 diabetes being primary ) Now thats fine and all, but now its up to you to tkae that and build on it over the next 6 months and loose another 25kg. Her BMI is twice the recommended level for the record.

People who think some magic pill will help them lose weight. Well i have that pill too, its called diet and exercise and daily commitment to both for 2 years and counting.
Im now in my toning phase at 230lbs ( 105kg ). This is why i dont follow BMI 100% as Im happy with my weight now, its just the general shape ( still to round in the belly ).
In the same ball park people who only half commit to something and then pull out when you tell them the workload involved.

Smart asses, particularly those that think they can do anything, usually minor illegal activities. Riding a motor bike on the local school oval in the middle of housing area is a good example. Or as a former security guard, you chase them off and they run. They get about 50meters from you then turn into the biggest tough guys on the planet. Really ? you know i work here right ? So dont be surpirsed if i say hello next time you stop by.

People that go on public domains / forums claiming to be Suicidal. Please, just do it, do the world a favour. I guarentee you're life isn't as crap as you think, namely as you haven't actually tried DOING anything with it. You're just really bored and a bit depressed. So get up, go for a walk, lift some weights, go to a shopping center sit on a bench and talk to the first person that sits near you. At least its better then sitting around feeling sorry for yourself. I met the girl i married doing exactly that, talking to the first random person I met that day.

Manners: you're 15, that lady is 100, get up and let her sit down, she most likely needs it more then you. Unlike my nan who would have back handed you out of the seat at age 90.
You just walked in the door and people are right behind you, dont let it shut in their face. Also dont hold the door open for three hours, there's a draft you know.
Say hello, smile, say thank you, say please. Speak full words not txt speak.
Take the item from the high shelf the old lady cant reach herself, make sure 100% that is what she wanted first. I saw a girl get something for a lady then walk off, the lady looked dazed and lost as she hadnt wanted the item ( i had to ask ).

F***, C*** aren't words to be used 6 times in a sentence thanks.

sigh Im an old man at 34 i tell you :(
 

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spartan231490 said:
Genericjim101 said:
1) people eating with their mouth open.
2) eyerolling
3) a lack of understanding I'd prefer no radio or music on than an arguement over differences in musical taste. ( Sometimes it's nice to talk or work without some background noise)
Eyerolling? In all situations? That seems . . . extreme.

OT: Don't really have any issues with social faux pas. I'm a pretty patient person. The only thing I really can't stand is stupidity.

OK, i lied a little. Texting in class pisses me the fuck off. I don't care if it's on silent, the whole fucking class can hear it vibrate, and it's still irritating.
Eyerolling used in genuine codescension yes. it's usually done by girls so I see how annoying the target gets before I go and ask a female friend to kick the offender in the shin "You're about to be attacked by a 5ft nothing incarnation of rage, good luck" XD