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

[Barbas]

Anyone who uses the term Zionist, Patriarchy or other similar. I don't care how good a point you're making, the second the Zionist conspiracy or evil patriarchy gets mentioned, you're no different to moon landing hoaxers and I lose all interest in your discussion.

Hey, check your privilege, man. Police state, man. Legalize that shit. Hitler Hitler something Hitler.

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.

I-I try to be funny, s-senpai ;_;

OT: Passive aggressiveness

It really shouldn't piss me off but it does and I have lost my ability toucan

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.

People at my work leave the kitchen in such a fucking state. Microwave door left open and/or with the cycle not cancelled, so it still has the remaining seconds left on the clock; making tea/coffee and pouring half the ingredients over the surface but not cleaning it up; choosing to clean up some dirty spills with the dish towel; not cleaning their own dishes so the sink gets cluttered and unusable.. the list goes on.

CNUTS.

 

[GabeZhul]

Ignorant people going around telling others what to do/teach/learn/believe in. This particular umbrella pretty much covers everyone from fundamentalist creationists to quantum-chakra-based new-age woo-peddlers. They are everywhere, and one would think my skin would get thicker after a while when dealing with them so much, but instead my skin only seems to be getting thinner upon hearing the same tired, fallacious "arguments" and "philosophies" and other things they have no idea about.

Also, conspiracy theories. They are almost under the same umbrella as the first group, except while the first thrives on ignorance, the latter does so on cynicism and paranoia. I mean, have you seen the amount of conspiracy theories rising up from the whole Charlie Hebdo ordeal?! And if 9/11, Kennedy and Moon-landing conspiracies have taught me anything, they will only get worse, dumber and even more widespread with time. And, being the idiot I am, I always try to argue with these people for no apparent avail, which would be no big deal except one of these people is my own father.
And my friends wonder why I have no faith in humanity... -.-

 

[Izanagi009_v1legacy]

As an anime fan, fanservice still makes my head go completely red and my blood boiling.

It really shouldn't. I'm a 20 year old male; I should at least be able to snark it off with a reflexive comment or at least just be able to enjoy the TnA show. Instead, I have made tirade after tirade on the effects of fanservice on the industry, the tropes behind it, how those tropes are detrimental and so on.

Also, sex and violence for sex and violence's sake. I know that it's a juvenile fantasy and that I like some of those old grindhouse movies and shows but most of the time, having a ton of blood, gore and sex on screen for no other reason than to seem superficially mature just makes me go all woeful and hateful.

 

[rgrekejin]

People who use the phrase "voting against their interests".

This is typically used by people who are trying to imply that a group of people has somehow been tricked or manipulated into voting for a person or a policy that is going to work against the best interests of that group. It's incredibly condescending, because it implies that a. all people who share a single demographical characteristic (e.g. Black people, the middle class, Southerners, etc.) are a single monolithic voting block who are all identically interested in the same things and b. that one should always vote for the policy that is in your own immediate self interest regardless of other considerations.

For example, say there was a nationwide vote on whether or not we should seize all the assets of everyone who lives in California and split them up among the people in the other 49 states. As a resident of a state other than California, if I voted against it, people would say that I "voted against my interests", not understanding that the reason I voted against it is not because I somehow thought that I would be better off if the law in question didn't pass (I wouldn't be), but because the law in question is morally wrong.

It's a smug, idiotic way of trying to convey that you know more about what's best for a person than they themselves do.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

Reboots of good movies. Ok if the movie came out 50 years ago then fine, but movies that are 10 years old? They are thinking about rebooting Saw. If you want to reboot a franchise, then reboot a film that sucked but had a great concept.

 

[Scarim Coral]

My brother seeing how he went back to his place nearly a month ago. Maybe it is the fact that the next time I will see him, he will STILL give me the same old craps he always say every single time he come over (what are you doing with your life, why you still work there and what do you normally do on your day off)!!!

 

[Suhi89]

Loose instead of lose.

Less instead of fewer. Now I'm a staunch supporter of descriptivism and I know that it's entirely irrational to get annoyed by this, as everyone knows what is meant, but god it irritates me.

My other half is Canadian, and she apologises for everything, especially if I'm venting (usually about someone saying condone when they mean condemn, grrr that irritates me too). Then when I get mad at her for apologising for something that wasn't her fault... she apologises. The reason I dislike this is because it makes me feel bad for making her feel guilty, even though I'm not mad at her, I'm mad at the CIC or something.

Non-static avatars. For a while I had a ton of people with moving avatars on my ignore list but I was missing what a bunch of people had to say so I unblocked everyone, but now they hurt my eyes every time I browse the forum.

None of these are particularly important, and my life would be much better if I didn't get annoyed at them, but irritate me they do.

 

[happyninja42]

People who use decimate wrong.

It means to reduce by a tenth, or by 10% or by a factor of 10, whatever version it is, not "totally destroy their forces" like most people actually use it. But it seems every fantasy book, or sci fi book about space battles, or hell, even regular world stories that involve mass destruction of some kind, use "decimate", and it annoys the hell out of me.

The tendency in anime for the characters to repeat to the audience what just happened as if we were blind idiots.

*Extended scene of a woman shapechangeing into a giant serpent woman, that stands over 15 feet tall with coiled tail* *Character gasps* "That woman! She just transformed into a giant snake!" .....NO SHIT! WE JUST SAW IT!!

 

[Alleged_Alec]

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".

Why do you hate Bob Ross? =(


My own pet peeve: people who say "that's offensive" like it is an argument. It's a fucking opinion, and even then: so what. I get offended at something as well from time to time. A joke doesn't become unfunny because some people feel offended by it, nor is an opinion of someone else invalidated by it. All you're doing by saying that phrase is instantly shutting down all discussion on the topic.

 

[Armadox]

The tendency in anime for the characters to repeat to the audience what just happened as if we were blind idiots.

*Extended scene of a woman shapechangeing into a giant serpent woman, that stands over 15 feet tall with coiled tail* *Character gasps* "That woman! She just transformed into a giant snake!" .....NO SHIT! WE JUST SAW IT!!

This I give the benefit of the doubt when it comes to writing. The problem here is that the scope and view of the characters do not necessarily relate to the knowledge that the viewer knows. That bit of exposition on their situation could be there so that the viewer knows that they saw it as well, or simply them expressing awe at the absurdity of the scene. It really comes down to the type of show and situation.

What I'd like to see is the snake lady transform, and none of the characters react or even move like they even noticed it at all. How much of a mind-fuck would that be if nothing in the show correlated with anything you're seeing as the viewer, and the show goes through a regular day but you get to see these random moments of supernatural or magical themes and tropes that doesn't effect the show at all.

 

[A_Parked_Car]

Picking an entirely random, petty thing, the complete ineptitude that the mainstream media has for reporting on military issues. To a layman a given article may not seem too bad, but dear God are journalists clueless when it comes to military stuff. You would think they would have a few people around that know things considering how much reporting is done on various conflicts, but nope. A lot of the stuff is a ten-second Google search away from being corrected, but apparently even that is too much effort.

 

[Altar]

When people use sentient instead of sapient. Normally I don't care how bad someones grammar or whatever is, to a certain degree at least. However that, that just argh... just gets to me.

 

[Gray-Philosophy]

should of
could care less
then/than

Gah! God fucking damnit stop!

typos, missing apostrophes and improper punctuation is fine, I'm not perfect either. But those are completely different words!

 

[happyninja42]

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This I give the benefit of the doubt when it comes to writing. The problem here is that the scope and view of the characters do not necessarily relate to the knowledge that the viewer knows.

I would agree if the shots weren't so obvious. The examples of this type of thing that I'm referring to are when it's blatantly obvious to the viewer and the characters. I'm not talking about them doing the change in hiding, I'm talking about doing it in the middle of a field, surrounded by people, in broad daylight. And the transformation takes like 5 minutes, involves lots of pyrotechnics and screaming on the part of the changer. This isn't a subtle thing, and the characters stand there watching the whole thing. THEN they go *gasp* "She just changed into a giant snake!" That is the kind of scene that annoys me. It's a total waste of dialogue to declare that to the audience. Everyone involved is well aware of what just happened.

That bit of exposition on their situation could be there so that the viewer knows that they saw it as well, or simply them expressing awe at the absurdity of the scene. It really comes down to the type of show and situation.

I gotta disagree, sorry. If they said something like "What the hell?!" or "I don't believe what I'm seeing!" then I could buy the "expressing awe at the absurdity of it". But that's not what's going on in the examples I mean. It's just a verbal recap of the past events. Maaaaybe this is something that was originally split by a commercial break? And so they are saying this to remind the goldfish with a 3 second memory what just happened in the previous clip. But I don't think so, because the culprit of this that I am mostly drawing from is Inuyasha. And the few episodes of that turd that I watched were on tv, which had commercial breaks, and these moments wouldn't fall in between breaks. So I don't know. I just chalk it up to terrible writing, and an inability to understand how "show don't tell" works in a visual medium. Or maybe it's just a cultural thing. Given how much hentai involves the dialogue of them giving a thrust by thrust commentary of what we're obviously seeing going on, in a way that is completely unrealistic.

What I'd like to see is the snake lady transform, and none of the characters react or even move like they even noticed it at all. How much of a mind-fuck would that be if nothing in the show correlated with anything you're seeing as the viewer, and the show goes through a regular day but you get to see these random moments of supernatural or magical themes and tropes that doesn't effect the show at all.

Oh I would love that. I'd also like to see a movie where one character is aware of the 4th wall stuff, but everyone else thinks he's just crazy/stoned. Like when the music starts getting tense because they're going to be attacked, the Aware guy starts looking around and says "uuuh, guys, do you hear that?" And they all just look at him, annoyed, and then wander into the haunted house.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

People who leave tables in a state, especially places that have a tray system. Admittedly I might have done that when I was younger, but since working in a cafe I realise how much of a lazy asshole I was being. Seriously, even if you're not going to take the tray off the table, you could at least gather your crap onto it. The poor saps that are going to have to clean up your mess are probably on minimum wage, you don't need to make their lives any harder.

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

People still say that? Jesus. Is it still 2010?



Oh, and people getting pissy about the 'could(n't) care less' thing. A) There are literally hundreds of other phrases in English that make far less sense. B) Do you have no concept of interesting use of language? Are tone and sarcasm alien to you? Every single time we have a thread along the lines of 'Stupid expressions' it always comes up fifteen times, get over it.

 

[visiblenoise]

People who use decimate wrong.

It means to reduce by a tenth, or by 10% or by a factor of 10, whatever version it is, not "totally destroy their forces" like most people actually use it. But it seems every fantasy book, or sci fi book about space battles, or hell, even regular world stories that involve mass destruction of some kind, use "decimate", and it annoys the hell out of me.

Where do you get your obscurely literal definition of the word from? Latin studies?

 

[happyninja42]

People who use decimate wrong.

It means to reduce by a tenth, or by 10% or by a factor of 10, whatever version it is, not "totally destroy their forces" like most people actually use it. But it seems every fantasy book, or sci fi book about space battles, or hell, even regular world stories that involve mass destruction of some kind, use "decimate", and it annoys the hell out of me.

Where do you get your obscurely literal definition of the word from? Latin studies?

From various sources, including Fallout New Vegas, where Lanius kills 1/10th of the forces, and also from dictionaries. I am well aware that the common usage of the word is to mean "the destruction of a massive amount of someone's forces/lands/etc" but the way it's actually used, is in direct contradiction to it's original meaning. And it annoys me.

 

[Ihateregistering1]

When people say "because reasons" (or "because ponies", or take your pick). At this point this really shouldn't bug me, especially considering it only seems to exist with people posting on internet forums, but it's like nails on a chalkboard to my brain. I think it's annoying because it's not something you'd use in real life, because it sounds completely nonsensical and doesn't really prove anything, yet for some reason it's acceptable in internet discourse.

People posting endless stuff regarding their kids on Facebook. It's annoying, and it's really tempting to be extremely cynical and make fun of them for it, but then all you do is sound like a grouchy asshole. But it's really dumb because all I have to do is just ignore their post (or unfollow them) and problem is solved, so it really shouldn't annoy anyone.

 

[Someone Depressing]

People who think that the police make laws.
People who stand in the middle of escalators. Note that in Scotland, this means, everyone. We are literally so fat that we even see escalators as an excuse to stop and rest for a bit.
People who play games on public computers, like in libraries or schools.
People who refuse to take responsibility, or who at least refuse to apologise for things that they have blatantly done.
People who attempt to "fix" my spelling mistakes. By "fix", they mean "Americanise" it.
People who are real SJWs. I didn't think they were real. Oh but no. They're real.
People who refuse to "become part of the corrupt system".
People who believe in ghosts because there is no reason not to believe in them. There is also no reason to not believe in Santa Claus. If you're going to believe in insane bullshit, then at least come up with a good excuse.
People who use "literally" as hyperbole. No, you could not literally eat a horse. You only went for a jog. You would choke and die.
People who think that sperm are proto-people. They are DNA with cute flappy tails. You have never been in your dad's balls.
People who do not listen to me, and will thus become zombies of the alien race descending upon us. They didn't listen to me, to me about my tin hats and my ways. Oh, but who's laughing, now that they're all shackled to the assembly line before they are cast out into the galactic void? The rest of us are sitting ducks. They know our weaknesses now.
People who create overly long lists of people who make their eyes twitch with rage despite doing nothing wrong.

 

[Vault101]

Anyone who uses the term Zionist, Patriarchy or other similar. I don't care how good a point you're making, the second the Zionist conspiracy or evil patriarchy gets mentioned, you're no different to moon landing hoaxers and I lose all interest in your discussion.

people who dismiss terms without actually understanding what they mean *ZING*

OT: people who play classical music because they think it will make their children smarter and not out of any actual appreciation for it