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

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

I don't hate people who are constantly passive-aggressive, but I wish more people told them when they start acting like social gonorrhea instead of pretending it's funny or trying to ignore the hippo shitting in the room. I guess nobody likes dealing with a shitting hippo. I know the feeling, by the way; my level-up cockatoo got hexed and now I'm stuck at 14.

I wish people would do that more often too. I frequently get nasty and passive-aggressive without realizing it and wish more people would go "bro, you're being a dick." so I can check myself before I wreck myself.

OT: Nearly everything at one point or another. I'm an emotionally unstable and easily annoyed person.
Trying to work on that though.

 

[Starbird]

Tailgaters, when I'm already 5km over the limit.

The phrase 'U mad?'

The friend zone.

Bosses who give you make-work when you are done with actual work.

Being late.

 

[Fractral]

People who talk during lectures. If the lecture is boring you, maybe you should have taken a different subject, huh? Perhaps one that doesn't require you to pay close attention all the time so you don't get left behind?
People who 'reserve' computers in the Library by getting there early, signing in, locking the computer and then buggering off for the rest of the day. Some days I've gone into the computer suite and seen two thirds of the computers unused- all of which then turn out to be locked with no sign of the person who locked them to be seen.
And many, many more inconsiderate things people do at Uni.

 

[Johnny Impact]

OT: People who like to think they're funny but are, in reality, merely tedious, nasty and endlessly self-referential little narcissists with all the wit and social grace of a cock scribbled on a toilet wall. It shouldn't piss me off, though, because people like that are far and wide and about a dime a dozen.

That's always a good one. There's a ridiculous blowhard at my work. He claims he once intimidated a man so badly, the guy killed himself rather than face what he thought was about to happen. And that's just one of his stories.

OT: People who cut others off in traffic.
As disrespect goes, I suppose it's really pretty minor. For some reason, it's precisely because it's a small thing that it's so goddamn fucking infuriating. We teach three-year olds not to push each other out of the way at the drinking fountain. How does anyone reach adulthood without learning this?? For other people to pretend I don't exist, just so they can be one space forward at the next light.....I was about to say those people should just die, but I'll go one better. They should have to watch their children die. Slowly. In puddles of their own waste. At the end of a terrible, agonizing, protracted illness.

 

[sageoftruth]

Any time things become inconvenient due to an area having lots of people in it. Another way to look at it is me going,
"Waah waah! I don't wanna have to share this place with other people." Of course, that just makes it worse, because cognitive dissonance sucks too.

Then there's the general interaction between pedestrians and drivers in my town. Neither trusts the other and neither respects the other and every time I see a driver blow by a cross walk, or a pedestrian cross in the middle of a busy street without looking, I look like I'm about to pass a kidney stone. As much as I'd love for my town to spontaneously become Berlin and have everyone respect the rules, I know I can't change that just by following the rules myself.

 

[sageoftruth]

Tailgaters, when I'm already 5km over the limit.

The phrase 'U mad?'

The friend zone.

Bosses who give you make-work when you are done with actual work.

Being late.

I'd also like to add the phrase, "Butthurt". I wish that word would go away. I feel that it encourages trolling and demonizes the victims of it.

 

[Queen Michael]

People who say "Have a blessed day" or "Blessed be" or "God bless you" when they're leaving. It really annoys the piss out of me. I know they're just trying to be polite, and wish me a good day or whatever, but the default "I'm inserting my god into this social interaction" always throws me off. I want to comment about how I don't believe in their god, but thanks anyway, but then I don't want to seem like a jerk, so I tend to simply say "Thanks, have a nice day".


Also, I hate the way some singers do "vocal gymnastics" with songs. It's usually christmas songs, but any time some singer, usually a female singer from what I've seen, starts going up and down the vocal range while singing some song. It's usually some "classic" and they're "spicing it up" with their own flavor, but all it sounds like to me is vocal masturbation. Yes, I get it, you have a wide vocal range, now shut the fuck up or sing the song like it's supposed to be sung. Stop showing off and self-grandizing, in some thinly veiled excuse of just embracing the music.

I agree with everything here so damn much.

The vocal gymnastics are so annoying. "Joy to the World" wasn't written for you to show off your vocal range. Pick a song that actually requires that range instead.

And people saying "Blessed be" are the most annoying people ever. It's part of the modern Wicca movement, which can basically be summed up with "use gratuitous dated language, because that's more religion-y and, like, spiritual." And all the examples you cite seem like passive-aggressive ways to show off that the speaker is following the Right Faith and youuu aaaaren't.



And also, modern Wiccans and white Buddhists. Too many of them are just into vaguely "feeling spiritual" without genuinely believing in it. Generally they want a religion that they can put back in the cupboard when they don't feel like being spiritual. Credit to Muslims and Christians: All the ones I've met genuinely believe in God, as a being that's there whether you like it or not.

The worst is when somebody says she believes "in karma, and that if you do bad stuff then bad stuff will happen to you." These people usually don't read up on what the faiths that teach about karma actually say is right or wrong. A girl I know said that, and explained that this belief kept her from snapping at people. I pointed out that everyone on Earth's got different sets of morals, so she'd need some sort of reason to assume hers are the right ones. Luckily, she saw my point.

(And no, these aren't universal truths, just my general experiences.)

...Yes, I need a hobby.

 

[Ravenbom]

Parents who let their fucking kids run around stores like it's a fucking playground at recess.

I think some people are forgetting OP and I say my annoyance is something I shouldn't say anything about because I don't have kids, I don't know what it's like.

I do however know what it was like for me and I definitely was NOT allowed to run around stores and treat every public place of business like a goddamn playground. At 5 years old, I had to hold an adult's hand in crowded public places and was taught to respect the people around me.


One more thing I shouldn't complain about by I do: having sex with a girl and then cuddling afterwords is great up until she asks the stupid question all girls inevitably ask, "What are thinking?". There are few things more annoying and unappealing than that question after sex.
I shouldn't complain because, sex, but on the other hand every girl asks it and it's hard not to groan when a girl asks that after sex. Especially since there's a good chance I'm half-asleep by that point.

 

[Pete Oddly]

Minor fuckups causing me to lose patience and make matters worse. It's a cycle of frustration made worse by the knowledge it's my own damn fault. I'll give you an example:

I buy a 12 pack of sausages. I take out individual freezer bags to separate the sausages into groups of three for easy defrosting. I begin putting the sausages into the bags, but every now and then one turns lengthwise on the way to the bottom of the bag, forcing me to either jiggle it into place or take it out and put it back in. This happens a few times, and I start to get impatient. My impatience causes me to fumble the sausages more, the fumbling makes me even MORE irritated, which causes more impatient fumbling. Eventually, in a slow-boiling flusterfest, I drop one on the floor. Super rage ignited! Sausages thrown into the sink in angry petulant fit! FUCK SAUSAGES!

This kind of thing happens to me all the time. It's worse when it happens playing a videogame.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

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

I've only ever been to Tampa which I believe is the only Floridian city where water doesn't just manifest in the air. Aside from the gills though, your people seemed about as normal as everyone else on the East Coast of the US.

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I'm going to take the easy shot and go with games that are released piece-meal. Not just things like pre-order bonus content but when four different stores have their own pre-order incentive. What's worse though is when some aspect of the game is or has been hyped up (like say, a character race that is supposedly extinct or a side-character who is really important to the overall lore) but is then locked away behind either an arbitrary paywall or is gated in some other way. If you bought Arkham City used, then you don't get to play as Catwoman (who is important to the lore and who was hyped up during the pre-release marketing slam). If you didn't buy a special edition of Mass Effect 3, you didn't get to play as Javik (I think that was his name) a member of a race who was thought to have died out 50,000 years before the trilogy takes place.

I'm not saying Evolve's devs are being under-handed shitheads, I'm just saying that if I ever get that game, it'll be years from now when there's a definitive/complete edition.

 

[Madame_Lawliet]

Trolls.
Trolls piss me off, and I know what you're thinking, "Well of course trolls piss you off, THEY'RE TROLLS! THAT'S WHAT THEY DO!" And yeah, you're right, but it doesn't change the fact that they are annoying, exist for the sole purpose of making everyone's internet experiences worse and more toxic, and sometimes cause serious problems.
For example, how many of you have heard that cultural appropriation includes things like eating sushi, wearing jeans, and learning other languages? Well, here's the thing, it doesn't, those things are not now, nor have they EVER been included as forms of cultural appropriation by ANY serious Anthropological or social study on the subject (and yes, cultural appropriation IS an actual Anthropological concept, it was not invented by Tumblr, Google it), and anyone who's done their research on the subject will know that. The reason people sometimes think they are is because those ideas were spread around by trolls in an attempt to make so-called "SJWs" look bad, and as a result we have a group of misinformed people on Tumblr who found those troll posts and believed them, a group of misinformed people on Reddit who found those troll posts and use them as evidence that "SJWs HAVE GONE TOO FAR!" and we have a group of people desperately trying to un-do the damage that these trolls have done.
Not only that but they've made surfing social media a toxic chore, made online gaming a terrible experience, and become the absolute bane of anyone who wants to talk about something seriously on a forum (to the point where my very use of the term "cultural appropriation" may upset some people even though it's not my intent in doing so, due to just how bad an image the concept's been given by trolls).
I know I shouldn't let trolls get to me, that's what they're after in the first place, but as someone who's always had a little bit of difficulty telling apart sarcasm from earnesty, trolls make my internet experience significantly worse than it otherwise would be.

 

[Twintix]

The reason people sometimes think they are is because those ideas were spread around by trolls in an attempt to make so-called "SJWs" look bad,

OK, I decided to jump into this thread again when I saw this post.

Honestly, I agree. I saw a post that said that liking white bread was racist. I refuse to believe that anyone seriously holds that belief. I, too, think that many of the so-called "SJW" posts on tumblr are created by trolls who want to create a boogeyman/laughing stock by making other people look bad. (HURRHURR LOOK AT THESE STUPID PEOPLE AND THEIR STUPID BELIEFS) So far, they've done a good job, I think; It feels like tumblr has become a punchline in many areas of the Internet.

Then again, this is the Internet, so it's hard to tell. I'm convinced that at least some of them are troll blogs, though.

 

[Slenn]

People who cross the street without respect to the crosswalk sign. Their logic at an intersection seems to be "Are there cars coming? No. Then I'll walk across the street. Since there's a traffic island, I can hazardously place myself next to the flow of traffic when it does come." I see this every day at the intersections as I go to school. I seriously worry about the logic here, since it's a traffic accident waiting to happen. And we're in the day and age of the distracting smartphone.

Okay, maybe that's a bit of a good reason to be pissed at something. Please be safe, people.

 

[happyninja42]

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I agree with everything here so damn much.

The vocal gymnastics are so annoying. "Joy to the World" wasn't written for you to show off your vocal range. Pick a song that actually requires that range instead.

And people saying "Blessed be" are the most annoying people ever. It's part of the modern Wicca movement, which can basically be summed up with "use gratuitous dated language, because that's more religion-y and, like, spiritual." And all the examples you cite seem like passive-aggressive ways to show off that the speaker is following the Right Faith and youuu aaaaren't.



And also, modern Wiccans and white Buddhists. Too many of them are just into vaguely "feeling spiritual" without genuinely believing in it. Generally they want a religion that they can put back in the cupboard when they don't feel like being spiritual. Credit to Muslims and Christians: All the ones I've met genuinely believe in God, as a being that's there whether you like it or not.

Interesting, where I live, the people who use "blessed be" and all that, are exclusively Christian. I can't recall ever hearing a pagan/wiccan/etc ever using that phrase around here. Granted I'm entrenched in the middle of the American Southern Bible Belt, so that's not a surprise. But of course, given Christianities trend of co-opting other religious doctrines/practices/symbols, and saying they're actually Christian in origin, this wouldn't surprise me. xD

 

[Starbird]

I have no issue with 'Blessed Be' or any kind of religious greeting.

About trolls - yeah. It bugs me because I just don't get it. People who put time into annoying other people rather than...you know, actually enjoying the game. It makes me wonder just how attention starved they are in real life. Heck, I'm a miserable lonely 30 something - but I'm still a moderately pleasant person online.

 

[Phasmal]

The city I work in.
I should be used to all the people and the buskers and the other people asking you for money and the cyclists and the noise. But I'm still not.

Plus I got hit in the back by a cyclist the other day too and my back still kind of hurts. :c

I'm used to living in places where people mind their own business, but here they'll just come up to you and start talking to you and asking you for money/try and give you some Jesus. Do not want.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

People passing judgment on me based on the shows I watch. I'm usually more of a "to each their own" sort of person, which is why I don't understand this bugs me so much. But when I get teased for liking "shows for little girls" (no prizes for guessing which one I'm talking about), or "part of the problem" for watching competitive reality shows, I kind of lose my cool. I don't yell at anyone, but I shut my mouth and start saying non-committals, because I know that if I start trying to defend my tastes, I'll end up in an argument.

Along the same note, more extreme members of the same fanbase as mine. It's really easy to just say "don't judge a fanbase by its most out-there members", and just relax with the knowledge that someone strange liking the show doesn't affect the show itself...but damn it, Rule 34! You're making us look bad! Stop it!

 

[SmittyMcBrimstone]

Superiority, plain and simple. Especially when undeserved. Even if you were the f*cking messiah, I would hope you could act like a normal human. But it is so much worse when they are so far up their own digestive tract that they look like some kind of mutant Ouroboros. I used to have a calculus class where a girl sat in the very front just chatting away with the teacher. But when someone asked a question, they would turn around and hiss, telling us to pay attention like she was. Best part was that she was about as politically aware a pebble with a bit of poo smeared on it. I usually don't post on the Escapist, but this topic really struck a chord with me.