Things That Piss You Off That Really Shouldn't Do So By Now

[Twintix]

OK, back story time (I might sound a bit like an impatient prick here. I'm sorry if I come across as one):

I've been skiing (Slalom, by the way) since I was about 1½ years old. I live next to a ski resort, so it's a given. Now, since I've been skiing for so long, I'm quite good at it. At least I think so. I mean, I'm not an olympic champion or anything, but probably better than average. Despite this, I've got some degree of patience towards people who haven't been skiing for as long as I have.

That patience, however, doesn't extend to the idiotic behavior I see from other skiiers.

People who seem completely unable to understand how a lift line works, (News flash; It works like every fucking line ever) people who get off the lift and then proceed to stop right in front of it, (People are getting off the lift here! You're in the way! MOVE!) people who just stop in the middle of the slope below an edge, (People come in ludicrous speeds down the slopes, and if they can't see you, they might hit you and FUCKING KILL YOU! DON'T STOP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SLOPE! GO TO THE SIDE!) people who gather in large masses in the middle of the slope, (Oh goddamnit, not you too!) people who bring their toddlers to slopes that are too steep for them, (You can CLEARLY see that the slope is marked black, which means that the slope is meant for experienced skiiers. Don't bring your small children to these slopes.) beginners who go to these same slopes (They turn all over the slope, making it difficult to go past them)...

Granted, the black slope ones might, at times, be people who ended up there by accident. But there's one slope that has a giant-ass sign next to it that says "For experienced and advanced skiiers". You'd think people who haven't been skiing for that long would get the hint, but nope. Look, the ski resort is huge. You have tons of slopes to choose from, and even an entire section of the mountain dedicated to beginners, so why not start there?!

And you'd think that I'd be used to these things by now and have more patience with these people. But for whatever reason, I don't. It irritates me every. Single. Time.
And about the edges, I guess I could to an effort to slow down; I can get up in some very fast speeds. It's more the principle of the matter:

If you stand below an edge, people can't see you.
If people can't see you, they think nobody is there.
If they think nobody's there, they might speed up.
If they speed up, they might hit you hard.
If they hit you hard, you'll get seriously injured.
Therefore, don't stop where people can't see you, even if it's their fault if you get injured.

Yes, fast skiiers are supposed to take other people into consideration. I know that, and I do that to the best of my abilities. I have also never lashed out at anyone. But it's hard to not get irritated when things like "If you're a beginner, don't pick a black slope" apparently is too hard a concept to grasp for some people.

I am incredibly sorry if I come across as an elitist. I guess that the patience I was talking about at the start might seem non-existent in this post. I don't mean to come off that way. I can certainly afford to be more patient, and I try to be. Some of these things are just so very obvious to me. I'm sure I piss other people off in other areas with things that are obvious to them.

So, now that I'm done sounding like a raging douchebag, I'll give an honorable mention to drivers.

Spoiler: Dear drivers...

So, what about you? What things do you have that piss you off when it really shouldn't at this point?

 

[Queen Michael]

Tumblrites reblogging something good and adding the word THIS underneath. Or even worse: just adding ^ underneath and nothing else.

Dude, we know you like the post. That's why you reblogged it. We possess basic intelligence.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Capitalising every single word in forum OP titles.

It's an eyesore.

 

[tippy2k2]

Competing

Now granted, I (think) I've gotten better about letting my anger flair up when I'm competing (I haven't broken anything....lately ) but for whatever reason, when I fail, I get very upset. It's not losing either; I can handle losing just fine. It's only when I'm doing very poorly and can't get myself out of it.

I stopped playing NHL 15 because I kept getting so frustrated and I punched a fan (RIP fan; we hardly knew ye). I have a hole in my bathroom wall from two years ago playing FIFA 13 when I kicked a trash can so hard that it broke a door (an open door so it clipped it) and still had the force needed to put a hole in the dry wall. I have broken tennis rackets throwing them into the ground. I broke a broomball stick in half over the boards. I shattered a wrist watch I was wearing playing soccer after I threw it into a wall.

I have zero clue why competing is the only thing that makes me see red...

 

[Colour Scientist]

Capitalising every single word in forum OP titles.

It's an eyesore.

You're an eyesore!

Grumpstar intensifies.

 

[Euryalus]

Lots of things. Mostly people who are very "passionate" about a topic on the internet (religion, poltics, whatever) and use it to throw around moral absolutes.

If you use words like disgusting, wrong, and terrible referring to the ideas or the actions of the other side of a complicated issue and don't have a damn good argument for being so opinionated, then it will begin to irritate me quite a bit.

Abortion is a good example, because in order to even begin that conversation you need to have a working answer on the role of government, the basis for making moral decisions, defining what a human is and where and when they get rights (if you think rights is a meaningful moral concept), AND have an answer for what any law or society without such a law will look like.

That's a lot. That's a hell of a lot, and the idiot that just goes around screaming murder or women's rights with nothing more is infuriating. You've added nothing and have pointlessly established yourself as being pretty self righteous if you can't explain yourself.

Internet opinions are the least important thing in the world, but I hate self righteousness so fucking much. It's a problem for me.

 

[Random Argument Man]

1. There still people in this world that say "Nough said".

2. The ability of the Internet to make a complex concept into a "Us vs Them" scenario and miss the whole point. (Think feminism)

3. I teach. Whenever I see a student trying his very best to not work and have a very cynical attitude about the stuff he/she learns, it drains my energy for a while. I get we can't make everyone passionate. But, why they have to be downers like that?

 

[Twintix]

Capitalising every single word in forum OP titles.

It's an eyesore.

Oh, that's alright. I'm an eyesore in real life, too, so it doesn't really change anything.

 

[PainInTheAssInternet]

Internet memes in general. They just never seem to die when they should. I say they shouldn't piss me off because memes are supposed to be uplifting and funny (most of the time) so it comes across as me saying "STOP HAVING FUN, ASSWIPES!" The internet could use more levity.

Internet cutsiness, anime and manga included. I feel like a jackass for similar reasons as above.

My dog barking. Mini dachshund. They have very good lungs and operate at a frequency just right to annoy. She never stops. Anything and everything sets her off. I read a handbook saying that they will bark at something until it appears. That's a serious problem when the noise she's responding to is contracting wooden floors.

 

[sanquin]

Dishonesty. By now I should be used by it. I'm a very honest person, but most people aren't. Lying, even white lies, is only human after all. Yet it still at the very least irritates me when people lie.

 

[Armadox]

*Thinks about it*

I'm a man from Florida.



Ok, now what did you just imagine in your head?

That there is what pisses me off, thought I'll be honest. I'll be honest, that really shouldn't. I see the news, I do, and yah.. Florida has it's share of.. well, it has a little more of it's share of.. Ok, most news that makes it out of Florida into the world's public knowledge is pretty... er... interesting. But, in general people from Florida aren't all like that at all. We're just regular people with enough common sense not to put chainsaws down our pants, or buy beer with an alligator or.. well, you know the memes.

Now the rumor that we all have gills is absolutely true, but eh, it's what you do when your air is mostly water...

 

[Gizmo1990]

People who say Thank you or Sorry whenever you loose to them at Hearthstone. It is such a small thing to get angry about but they just won they are clearly not sorry, and while they could be simply saying Thank you for a good game in my head they are saying Thank you for an easy win in a really smug voice.

The other thing is when people say Pound and not Pounds. My Dad does this alot and it drives me crazy and I honestly cannot tell you why. 'Just had to get new tires for the car cost me 400 pound' NO! it cost you 400 Pounds! With an s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Sleepy Sol]

Lack of parking spots at my university.

I should seriously just accept it as an inevitability at this point but I really do get fairly worked up over it every time when I drive up.

 

[DementedSheep]

People who don't put shit back in shops when they decide they don't want it so just leave it on a random isle/rack, especially when it is clothing and they actually have a rack by the counter for you to put clothes you don't want on. Also people who leave their shopping trolley by their car packing space instead of taking 5 seconds to take it over to where it suppose to be. You are never very far from one in the car parks so it's not like it takes a lot of effort. I don't even work in a shop, its just little lazy things like that annoy the shit out of me.

People who use the university computers for games, videos and facebook. If there are a ton of computers available (there never is) that would be fine but otherwise they are there for people who actually need to work or print things not to keep you entertained in-between classes.

My family has a Great Dane. I never want to go for walks with her because people won't shut up about her. Yes she's a big dog, yes she takes a lot to feed, oh a saddle joke! I've never heard that one before. Then there are the people who don't even talk, they just blatantly stare and take pictures or pat her without permission (it's a good things she doesn't spook easy). Once we went to the beach to have pizza and while we were eating this couple stopped in front of us to stare while pointing and talking about the dog without saying a word to us. For fucks sake, it's just a dog!
The worse thing is my dad encourages this shit and will stop and talk to people. Every conversation goes the exact same way, I know every fucking line that's going to be said before it said and I'm sick of it. If it's a parent who wants to teach their kids not to be afraid of big dogs or an it's elderly or disabled person and they politely asks if she is friendly and if they can pat her and if they don't take too long I don't mind but the constant attention and repetition just gets on my nerves.

Overreaction gifs or people spazzing about some fictional character. I very much doubt you are "literally crying" and if you are that is pathetic.

 

[Dr.Awkward]

Tumblrites reblogging something good and adding the word THIS underneath. Or even worse: just adding ^ underneath and nothing else.

Dude, we know you like the post. That's why you reblogged it. We possess basic intelligence.

It's the reblogging itself that annoys me more. I'm here to check out your blog, not read the entries of a dozen other blogs. Can't all that be moved to a blogfeed or something?

Retweets sort of work, reblogs don't. Sometimes they contain content that's longer than what we want to give attention to, other times it would have been better as a tweet...

I mean really, what's the point of a blog if 90% of it is nothing but little or no content reblogs?

 

[OldNewNewOld]

My mirror. Every morning it shows me the same thing. Is it creatively bankrupt? Why does it always rehash the same character?

On a serious note, bad driving, careless driving, assholes park their car like they own the whole parking lot, assholes who don't realize that the yellow light before the green is "prepare to start" and that they should start with the green light. In a fucking traffic light that can have 10 cars drive through normally, only 3 drive because each of the morons doesn't start when they should. Careless pedestrians. Stupid parents that let their stupid brats run around at the edge of the road...
Yes, today I'm mad at people on the street who don't know how to walk or drive like normal people should walk and drive. Nothing can ruin my day as easily as few assholes on the street and I don't think it will ever change. I know me getting pissed off at those things won't change anything, but it still happens.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Er...the OP seems to be describing behaviour that is potentially really dangerous. Surely people really, really should be angry with people who do that?

 

[Jiggle Counter]

Lack of parking spots at my university.

I agree, they should have at least 8 floors of underground parking, 6 areas of above-ground parking, and I know this will cause shit but minimize the disabled signs, we have entire rows of designated disabled parking areas and I've never seen a car parked there, ever, except for that one time the Ambulance double-parked there to take someone away.

 

[The Wykydtron]

People who say Thank you or Sorry whenever you loose to them at Hearthstone. It is such a small thing to get angry about but they just won they are clearly not sorry, and while they could be simply saying Thank you for a good game in my head they are saying Thank you for an easy win in a really smug voice.

The other thing is when people say Pound and not Pounds. My Dad does this alot and it drives me crazy and I honestly cannot tell you why. 'Just had to get new tires for the car cost me 400 pound' NO! it cost you 400 Pounds! With an s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh he's on low health, i'm on high health I should have the win next turn!

*Force of Nature/Savage Roar combo*

"Hmm, well played"

It's worse from Hunter players too, thinking they're so good at this game. Rexxar even says well played in such a smug fucking voice.

How to Hunter:

Step 1: Hit face
Step 2: Ignore all board control and continue hitting face
Step 3: Win the game even when your board has been cleared because you overextended and Mage wiped it when she hit turn 7 oh it doesn't even matter because Stupid Shit is broken

OT: I can't really think of something that really annoys me just from the top of my head, I could say something because tumblr or something feminist but to be honest, I've have never taken part of the discussions and all I see are the "check your privilege" people on tumblr and honestly I cannot take it seriously. No really, the fuck is that phase supposed to be?

I'm waiting for the moment where everyone over there drops the pretence and goes "surprise, we were trolling you all from the start!"

Honestly, I just love when some poor misguided tumblr fool tries to post on 4chan and get fucking ruined. The funniest shit you will ever see.