NationStates Jolt Archive

What is the one thing that really shouldent annoy you, bot really drives you up the wall.

Mine is creaky chairs. Just, YARG !

Drawers and cupboards left open, even just a crack. Actually, just a crack is MORE annoying than wide open.

People who just sit in the left lane, even when they aren't passing anyone...which includes about everyone from Maryland...grrrrr....

Cracking knuckles. And chewing with one's mouth open.

Cry babies.

The way certain of my countrymen pronouce words. I work with a girl who says the word "Bottle" as "Bockle". Every time she does, i seethe inside.

people who have pet peeves

Dress codes. Hate em. And I REALLY hate suits. Especially the tie. I'll never understand why an anachronistic, obsolete strip of cloth tied around your neck is supposed to be 'professional' looking. *bleah*

People who ask you a question but don't wait for an answer.

People who put form over function.

People who go 10 under the speed limit

People who clear their throats incessantly.

1. People cracking their knuckles

2. Smoking in general

3. When people put an empty milk bottle back in the fridge

4. When someone eats the last muffin you had been saving for after you lost an extra two pounds

5. When you go to pour the water to make the coffee and there isn't enough water in the kettle.

6. People who laugh at everything you say.

Sorry, loads of things annoy me.

other people having a conversation near me that doesn’t involve me or when someone that a conversation is about has the same name as me or has similarity's to me

and maybe people who disagree with me for no reason other than "it's just [insert word depending upon views]" or when they just turn it into taking the piss e.g. whatever retard

Where to begin...

- People who think that the belief that something is wrong is a phobia. People think that just because I believe it's wrong for a man to spend each night in a differrent woman's bed (and vice versa) and that two men/women shouldn't sleep together I'm afraid of promiscuous people and gays/lesbians.

- Locals who use a left turn only lane to shoot ahead in traffic. Tourists have an excuse. For all they know it could be a four lane highway turning into a four lane highway. Locals should know that the lane is strictly for providing access to the shopping center.

- People who force others to yield the right of way, even when legally it belongs to the other person. This includes running people into the turning lane to get past them at the last possible minute when lanes merge, people who turn into the west bound lane when someone is crossing the east bound (almost got side swiped yesterday because some punk kid did that), and pulling onto a road from a stop sign when another car is 25 ft. or less away.

- People who think they can ignore laws just because they think they're stupid. This includes minors who smoke just because it's stupid to have a law stating that you have to be at least 18 to smoke. Same with 20 year olds on down who think the same about the minimum drinking age.

- People who keep flashing their high beams behind you when you're going the speed limit. If it's an emergency turn on your flashers and I'll pull over to let you pass. If you're running late learn to leave early enough to get to work when you get behind someone who doesn't want to get ticketed for speeding. *hint* people tend to drive slower when they have difficulty seeing, such as when they have high beams reflecting off of the mirrors *hint*

- People who pass on the shoulder while you're waiting for a dump truck to pass to make a left hand turn.

- Cops who watch a person pass in a pedestrian only lane (minimum $250 fine around here), then pull you over minutes later because they can't see your temporary liscence in your back window. I love how the cops around here care more about making sure vehicles are legal than they do keeping little kids from getting run over.

- People who say you have an obligation to turn in a fugitive, then ride your arse for being a "narc" when you do.

- People who see words as racist when the word itself is older than the country of the word's origins knowledge of the existance of the race. For example, I once made a comment that a guy throwing fries at a person with Down's Syndrome working in an area McDonald's was acting like a savage. My American Indian girlfriend's sister thought I was making a derogatory comment about Indians. She may have a different dictionary than I do, because none of the dictionaries I've consulted link the term savage to any race.

- United States citizens who go on about how bad this country is, but won't get off their arse to work hard enough to save up and move to a different country.

- People outside of the US who think they have a right to determine who our president is. Remember Brittania's letter writing campaign to the US urging people to vote for Kerry? If I would have been a Kerry supporter I would have changed my vote to Bush just out of spite.

- People who think throwing insults into their arguments, no matter how well reasoned the argument itself is, is a viable method of debate.

- People who kick someone out of an online game just because they're new. I've played Red Alert 2 for years, then when I decided to go online I'd try a quick join and get kicked out just because the host hadn't seen me around before.

- People who think everything has to be done as fast as possible. Haste on the job leads to sloppy results. The need to make a thirty minute drive in fifteen minutes leads to potentially fatal accidents.

Sorry I went with more than one when one pet peeve was specified, but everything that annoys me is a pet peeve.

I have a lot more pet peeves, but I'm running short on time so I'll post the rest later.

chewing with mouth open
the f-bomb
talking about how evil wolves are
foxes and wolves killed for sick, homocidal pleasure or for spite
hardcore liberals
hardcore conservatives
hardcore moderates
hardcore atheists
hardcore theists
the race card
the current form of affirmative action(it doesn't help anyone at all.)
soviet-style commies
the "everything's Bush's fault" crowd
the smell of chicken
the taste of chicken or turkey
PETA

Reverse Racism

Popping bubble gum

People asking me what I'm doing, when I'm right in front of them doing it

Incessant sniffling

Hackneyed proverbs and idiotic phrases, such as: sorry, but/I'm a child at heart/takes one to know one/grass is always greener on the other side/embrace diversity/strangers are just friends waiting to happen/you're never fully dressed without a smile/that's just your opinion/it may or may not be/save a tree and send an email

CAPSLOCK

Loudmouthed, bitchy women who suddenly flip out and try to turn trivial matters into power struggles, using "Bitch on Board" stickers and wearing "Warning: I'm a bitch" tshirts

X-treme marketing

Attention whores

Black guy/white guy comedies

Grammar nazis

Fanta commercials

The Orbitz commercial that advises everyone to "don't think!"

People who drown themselves and everyone around them in perfume, saturating the room with their vile stench

Bitter old hags who think they're superior

Arrogant, uninteresting, self-proclaimed intellectuals who are really just bullshitters and pseudo-assholes

Drugs that have worse side effects than the problems they solve

Strangers who feel the need to initiate conversations and fill them with pointless small talk

Greetings such as: hi, what's up?/hey, how's it going?/are you having a good day?/anything new?, when they already know the answer. I don't fucking know you, get away from me. Quit spewing bullshit in a half-assed attempt at politeness but not really caring.

people who speak in absolutes

eg ALL (blank) are stupid
(blank) NEVER say anything intelligent