Specific behaviors that annoy you

[IOwnTheSpire]

Every so often I experience moments where someone does something, no matter how innocuous, that just bugs me. I have two examples.

First, people who don't bother explaining their position on something. A commenter on Facebook reacted to the BvS trailer by saying that Zack Snyder needs to learn cinematography because he doesn't know how to frame a shot. I, and others, asked him to clarify what he meant and cite examples, but he said that if people didn't get what he meant, there's no point in explaining. Um... that makes no sense, pal.

Second, people who make a joke or a sarcastic remark on the web who expect everyone to know they're just joking or being sarcastic and get upset when someone takes them seriously. Do they really expect everyone to read a piece of text and know the exact emotion or tone it's supposed to convey? This is why I think we need some form of punctuation for jokes/sarcasm on the web.

Those are the only two I can think of, there's probably more, but I'd like to know if anyone else has any moments like these.

 

[crypticracer]

Every so often I experience moments where someone does something, no matter how innocuous, that just bugs me. I have two examples.

First, people who don't bother explaining their position on something. A commenter on Facebook reacted to the BvS trailer by saying that Zack Snyder needs to learn cinematography because he doesn't know how to frame a shot. I, and others, asked him to clarify what he meant and cite examples, but he said that if people didn't get what he meant, there's no point in explaining. Um... that makes no sense, pal.

Second, people who make a joke or a sarcastic remark on the web who expect everyone to know they're just joking or being sarcastic and get upset when someone takes them seriously. Do they really expect everyone to read a piece of text and know the exact emotion or tone it's supposed to convey? This is why I think we need some form of punctuation for jokes/sarcasm on the web.

Those are the only two I can think of, there's probably more, but I'd like to know if anyone else has any moments like these.

Isn't that what "eye roll" emoticon is for?

I hate when people not directly related to a conversation are brought up without any explanation of who they or links explaining it. I'm sure there is a good chance I do it too, but it's annoying when someone wants to make a point but then expects you to do the work to get there.

 

[Queen Michael]

I hate it when you're discussing the way a shitload of superheroines have supersexy bodies and skimpy outfits, and people assume that fanservice is the only reason for this.

I'd like to make it clear that this has nothing to do with whether that is sexist or not, okay? Please, don't start a debate about that. That's not my point.

My point is that people who dislike how common those body types and/or outfits are never ever consider that there might be non-sexual reasons for an artist to use that sort of design. Guess what? Some girls dream of being sexy and powerful crimefighters. Some women and men simply think that busty women are aesthetically beautiful. And just look at the all-female manga creator group CLAMP, who love using sexy women in their comics but have made it clear that the members of CLAMP are all straight. And while I don't find Sarah Pezzini hot with her Witchblade outfit and skinny body, I do like the style from an aesthetic point of view.

Sure, I agree that in at least 95% of cases, sexiness is the reason a superheroine is designed with much bust and little clothes. I just think it's pretty horrible of people to tell the busty women of the world "Except for people who get off on your breasts, there's no reason why anybody would want to read about somebody like you." You might as well say that unless somebody has a black-people fetish, he'd obviously prefer to read about white people, or that fanservice is the only reason a comic would feature a female superhero instead of a male one.

 

[Dalek Caan]

Do people in T.V count? Specifically the Doctor Who universe. Cause if so then I can finally share my annoyance for the worse type of person in Doctor Who.

The people who deny the existent of Aliens despite the fact that Earth has been invaded, with all the world to see, more than 4 times by now since the Christopher Ecleston Doctor. I'm pretty sure Donnas mother didn't think they were realy, Rex Matheson from Miracle Day had a hard time believing as well and there is probably a whole list of other people too.

Point is I hate it when characters in the universe ignore the facts that are currently trying to invade them.

 

[Twintix]

When somebody makes even the silliest of things something to brag about.

I have a friend who is not a bad or unpleasant person, but she's got a HUGE superiority complex. For example, she's allergic to chocolate (Cocoa contains something which triggers migraines, you see, and she's very susceptible to them), and she acts like this makes her better than everyone else. Almost in a hipster-like fashion, actually: "Here's a thing that a ton of people like. I don't like it, and therefore my tastes are better."

I don't dislike her as a person, and I know that superiority complexes can be a sign of low self-esteem, but I don't know how to talk to her about it. (Or if talking to her about it will accomplish anything) At times, it's like she's talking to me like I'm a brain-damaged five-year old. It's a bit irritating.

 

[Scarim Coral]

It annoyed me to no end when someone cut you off mid sentence and complete disgard what you were trying to say altogether and changed the subject!!!
One of my co-workers is liked this so I pretty much hate her on the inside (and aswell she's the worst staff in term of performances). She current on matunity leave but she will be back this Summer.
I swear one of these days, I won't be able to hold back my anger toward her if she cut me off once again!

 

[Fat Hippo]

When somebody makes even the silliest of things something to brag about.

I have a friend who is not a bad or unpleasant person, but she's got a HUGE superiority complex. For example, she's allergic to chocolate (Cocoa contains something which triggers migraines, you see, and she's very susceptible to them), and she acts like this makes her better than everyone else. Almost in a hipster-like fashion, actually: "Here's a thing that a ton of people like. I don't like it, and therefore my tastes are better."

I don't dislike her as a person, and I know that superiority complexes can be a sign of low self-esteem, but I don't know how to talk to her about it. (Or if talking to her about it will accomplish anything) At times, it's like she's talking to me like I'm a brain-damaged five-year old. It's a bit irritating.

Hah, two friends of mine do something similar, only they both share an intense hatred of cheese, and have had long and utterly pointless conversations about how awful cheese is. Then they try to rationally explain why cheese is awful and nobody should eat it, ever. And if I ever happen to eat cheese in their presence they have to tell me how terrible it is. I hope one day they will realize that not one single person in the world cares about their dislike of cheese, but they've reinforced each other on the matter so much, I rather doubt it, unfortunately.

 

[Zontar]

When people chew loudly and/or with their mouth open. My god do I absolutely hate that sound so much, I've at times had to actively hold my temper to prevent myself from snapping at the person.

Do people in T.V count? Specifically the Doctor Who universe. Cause if so then I can finally share my annoyance for the worse type of person in Doctor Who.

The people who deny the existent of Aliens despite the fact that Earth has been invaded, with all the world to see, more than 4 times by now since the Christopher Ecleston Doctor. I'm pretty sure Donnas mother didn't think they were realy, Rex Matheson from Miracle Day had a hard time believing as well and there is probably a whole list of other people too.

Point is I hate it when characters in the universe ignore the facts that are currently trying to invade them.

This always annoys me as well. Not because of the characters themselves, but because of the lazy, inconsistent writing that it spawns from. Having a few pictures of monsters or the like and rumours to go with them is understandable in their denial, but an invasion? One of which was ended by a weapon constructed by the government from the scraps of a previous invasion? That's beyond plausible deniability.

Hell, in the MCU they had one alien invasion and years after the fact people wouldn't stop talking about it (and rightly so, aliens invaded. Them being confirmed to exist alone would be big), yet in the world of Doctor Who? It's a typical Christmas, yet no one talks about it (even though London is practically empty on Christmas now because of the fact that day tends to be when it happens).

Now is comparing Doctor Who and the MCU really fair? No, but hey, they both have helicarriers run by acronyms. What ever happened to the Valiant anyway?

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

When people use childish excuses for their now adult behavior, the worst being shyness. I get it, public events and conversations can be intimidating, but you're a God damn adult! You should be able to have a single conversation with another adult for 5mins without freaking out or having prolonged silences.
To me, its just an excuse for being rude. Oh, you're roommate is having a party but you never come out of your room? Then you're simply rude. A friend introduces you to someone, you shake hands once and go back to Angry Birds? Rude.
Don't want to give a speech? That's fine, actually. Lots of people can't handle public speaking. But as an adult, you need to be able to have regular conversations with small groups or one-on-one.

Also cooking. I hate it when my friends(mid 20ers, mind you) tell me they can't cook. At all. I can get not liking cooking, but don't tell me you can't bake chicken or grill a steak or make scrambled eggs. Children don't know how to cook, adults are simply too lazy to learn.

 

[Cowabungaa]

First, people who don't bother explaining their position on something.

Mine's related; people not quantifying their preferences and tastes. Aka, explaining why they like what they like.

Or more fundamentally, people just not thinking about the media they consume. It keeps things so superficial, and I can't stand superficiality. You know, the kind that just sit in the front of the TV and just sort of...sit there, taking in drivel without thinking about it at all. The kind of people that answer questions about their favoured things with "Oh, um, I just like it." And I can't deal with that, not at all. "Just" truly is the most terrible word in the English language.

I find such people, frankly, a little vapid. So disengaged with everything, I can hardly connect with such folk and I quickly find myself irritated by them..

 

[Burgers2013]

Bad drivers. People who don't use their blinkers; people who swerve in-and-out of their lane; people who pull out in front of me when I have the right of way; people who don't change the way they drive in bad weather. Really anything that requires me to do some abnormal driving maneuver in order to avoid a wreck. Nothing pisses me off faster than reckless drivers. It's so dangerous, and it shows a blatant disregard for other people's safety. It can take me from total calm to yelling at my dash in a second, and I usually have a pretty long fuse.

 

[Rylot]

Also cooking. I hate it when my friends(mid 20ers, mind you) tell me they can't cook. At all. I can get not liking cooking, but don't tell me you can't bake chicken or grill a steak or make scrambled eggs. Children don't know how to cook, adults are simply too lazy to learn.

Heh, that reminds me of a previous roommate I had. The first week we lived together he managed to spill a bunch of pasta down in the drip drain of the stove while trying to cook it. The apartment smelled like burned pasta for the better part of the month and he was hence forth banned from the kitchen.

A big pet peeve of mine is children at dog parks. While some kids are fine and dog parks can be a great place to introduce kids to dogs, it's a dog park, not a kid park. Parents not giving a shit what their little hell spawns do at the park really pisses me off. Little kids trying to pick up my Mini-Dachshund have made her get really defensive and freak out at anyone under 4 feet tall. She's well behaved and sweet (even got AKC certified at six months old) but too many bad experiences have taught her not to trust small humans.

I've also go another Dachshund who's really fearful and acts out aggressively with any dogs bigger than him. At sixteen pounds that's most dogs. I got him two years ago as a two year old rescue and he's improved a ton in that time but we're still working with him. So I took the time to find a park with a good small dog side and a good community. And then someone brings in their 90 lb lab into the small dog side (the park does have a 25 lb weight limit posted) and my dog looses his shit and we take several steps back. I need to socialize my dog in a safe and controlled place and it sucks when people refuse to acknowledge the posted rules.

 

[TranshumanistG]

Every so often I experience moments where someone does something, no matter how innocuous, that just bugs me. I have two examples.

First, people who don't bother explaining their position on something. A commenter on Facebook reacted to the BvS trailer by saying that Zack Snyder needs to learn cinematography because he doesn't know how to frame a shot. I, and others, asked him to clarify what he meant and cite examples, but he said that if people didn't get what he meant, there's no point in explaining. Um... that makes no sense, pal.

Second, people who make a joke or a sarcastic remark on the web who expect everyone to know they're just joking or being sarcastic and get upset when someone takes them seriously. Do they really expect everyone to read a piece of text and know the exact emotion or tone it's supposed to convey? This is why I think we need some form of punctuation for jokes/sarcasm on the web.

Those are the only two I can think of, there's probably more, but I'd like to know if anyone else has any moments like these.

+1 to OP's #1. Also: selective blindness, believing that two wrongs could make a right.

EDIT: missed 'specific' in the title, will expand.

When people belonging on one side of the argument choose to ignore or be apologetic about faults with it's figureheads and with what has been done under its pretence. And when the apologetics consist of "Well, the opposition has done this and that.."

 

[Evonisia]

The attitudes "I like it and therefore it's good" and "I didn't like it and therefore it's bad" serve well to make me internally seethe. Maybe it's because I'm overly conscious of my own preferences and indulgences in entertainment. I understand it's easier to say the aforementioned rather than "I didn't like it, but I guess it was good", but I am increasingly irritated by and untrustworthy of recommendations and the like because of it.

I even catch myself with that attitude, mostly on the forums. I often realise that I've put something along the lines of "Iron Man 3 is a good film" after posting, and mentally facepalm. It's the main reason I always use superfluous words in my descriptions like "Silent Hill Revelations is gloriously ridiculous" or "The Babadook is limp and lame". It's also why I stress out whenever I think of things like Guardians of the Galaxy and The Last of Us, given that I think they are both fine and I enjoyed them at the time, but I don't think fondly of either of them.

 

[Random Argument Man]

Gonna try to make a list

- Arrogance (When someone tries to define themselves as the best by lowering everyone around them.)
- Eating with mouth open.
- Not able to take criticism
- If you have someone who's on your Facebook and he/she does Crossfit, you know what I'm talking about.
- Not taking the job seriously when it needs to get done.
- Not able to give a direct answer to a "yes" or "no" question.
- Every person using "let's agree to disagree" after voicing a controversial opinion after you've managed to get some solid counter-arguments. It's rather annoying when you can see in their faces that they know you're right.

 

[Vigormortis]

The attitudes "I like it and therefore it's good" and "I didn't like it and therefore it's bad" serve well to make me internally seethe. Maybe it's because I'm overly conscious of my own preferences and indulgences in entertainment. I understand it's easier to say the aforementioned rather than "I didn't like it, but I guess it was good", but I am increasingly irritated by and untrustworthy of recommendations and the like because of it.

I even catch myself with that attitude, mostly on the forums. I often realise that I've put something along the lines of "Iron Man 3 is a good film" after posting, and mentally facepalm. It's the main reason I always use superfluous words in my descriptions like "Silent Hill Revelations is gloriously ridiculous" or "The Babadook is limp and lame". It's also why I stress out whenever I think of things like Guardians of the Galaxy and The Last of Us, given that I think they are both fine and I enjoyed them at the time, but I don't think fondly of either of them.

Dear gods, this. This so much.

I see this sort of thing all the time, but it's especially egregious on this forum.

I've lost count of the number of times I've seen people jump into threads about a game/film/etc and post a comment....even though they claim, time and time again, that they don't like nor care for the material in discussion.

If you don't care, why post? If you don't like the thing, why waste your time posting something negative in a thread wherein the fans of that thing are trying to discuss the topic? What possible purpose does posting serve besides giving you the chance to belittle the fans?

It's just petty and rude. I just don't get it.

Same goes for those who insist that the thing they like has to be good.

No, it doesn't. I like a lot of things, but I'll be the first to tell you which of them are 'objectively' good or bad.[footnote]I loved Tron: Legacy, but mein gawds was that film flawed.[/footnote]

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

The whole Joss Whedon/Valley Girl speak of "I'm saying something I obviously don't mean and putting a slight inflection at the end to sass it up?".

 

[The Wykydtron]

I hate my one friend sometimes when he just will not take my point seriously for no reason, even when I back it up clearly. I'll use the time recently when he played some Heroes of the Storm with me, he played a single game of Based Rock God ETC then told me that his passive is useless and the worst thing about him.

I then explain in detail, as the level 9 ETC I am that his attack speed increase passive is the singular reason why he's so good at 1v1s compared to basically any tanky bruiser. Someone else like Diablo presses all of his buttons then is out of damage for a year, ETC presses his buttons then continues to rock with more attack speed than any tank should reasonably have. That plus the Trinity Force talent make him stupid good at taking out squishies.

"But it's bad though"

"I just told you why it's not"

"But it's bad though"

People who won't change their position out of sheer stubbornness even when shown evidence and good reasoning are fucking cunts, is my point.

I'm unsure what I think about people who miss the point on things and just rage about it regardless. I liked Dragonage 2's ending a lot, it's bloody clever if controversial. People raged about how their choices amounted to nothing and "gg Bioware" when that was the entire point, it was about an awesome hero of the land who couldn't save his city when push came to shove.

Now I dunno if people still have the right to rage over it? I mean just because that was the point doesn't mean they have to like it. Whether it was a smart move for Bioware to pull this subversion of the classic hero saves the land plot in Dragonage 2, a sequel to a widely liked game that was legit just a massive generic hero saves world with friends story is another matter.

Finally I don't like it when people just offhandedly dismiss something just because of its genre. Probably referring mostly to how people seem to really give Visual Novels a hard time when they've given me the most interesting stories of them all. Say you like mystery stories like I do, now if I tell you that Devil on the G String is a fucking amazing mystery story (which it is, by the way) but it's a VN, people will just go "lol I don't do VNs, cya nerd" when they still like mystery. They've just robbed themselves of a story they would really like for no adequate reason.

 

[L. Declis]

People who get angry you haven't seen something. "Oh my god, you haven't watched Orange is the New Black!?"
No, I haven't. I do not have the time, there is a crap ton of media and I do not care. Frankly, I can think of a lot of shows that I completely avoided because of this constant pulse of "Go watch this because I think it's good".

People who only focus on one topic. I have a friend who only discusses video games. Circumstances forced me to spend 3 days with him. All he discussed was video games the entire time. I tried to move to films, to books, to T.V., to culture, to travel, to cooking, to his gf, to my gf who he was friends with, anything else. People who only know ONE area of life are boring people to be with.

People who get pissy because I don't drink often, I don't smoke, I don't ever use drugs and I look down on casual sex. I'm a bit of a purist, I prefer to exercise and live healthily, I make a point to not discuss it often, and then people start telling me about how amazing weed is and they get annoyed when I just don't want to. I work very hard to be as healthy as I can, and I don't need this peer pressure bullshit to spend my time listening to Pink Floyd.

Chinese people who only start talking to me so they can get a free English lesson. The moment I start responding in Chinese, telling them I'm French (I know literally enough French to pretend to be French), they always lose interest and go. It's disheartening that that is all I am to them. I have people who I get alone well with, and then they start taking photos of me and posting it on WeChat saying "Look, my foreign friend, he'll teach me English!" and I just feel like a piece of meat, good only for my eye colour and my language.