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Thin Privilege posted:Also: There's a guy like this at my work. Another coworker mentioned that Fat Bottom Girls had just came on his MP3 player and rap hating guy went on a rant about how much he hates rap and how he was disappointed that the other coworker was listening to it and he should listen to rock instead if he has good taste and so on and so forth. None of us bothered to tell him it's a Queen song because we were trying too hard not to laugh in his face.
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When you're in the middle of a conversation or doing something and the person you're with gets up without a word and walks away. Basically my bf does this - we'll be talking about something or about to do something and he'll get up to walk to the kitchen to drink some water or whatever. Really if he ever said "I'm going to grab some water" as he did it I wouldn't care at all, but otherwise it feels like he's just completely leaving the conversation which is really annoying.
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Slow eaters. Let me just sit here for 20 minutes watching you eat. Can't leave the table, as that'd be rude, so I just get to either stare into someone's chewing face, or look off into the distance. Conversation would be a distraction, but it would prolong the entire problem. I think it's a stupid piece of etiquette. Particularly if they're eating chicken wings.
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Jan 3, 2016 11:23
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As for texting and calling repeatedly, my dad has that horrible habit where he'll call my cell phone, and if I don't reply right away, he calls the house phone, leaves a message, then calls my cell again. He might leave a voicemail...but none of his messages are ever anything but "hey call me back!" Actually LEAVING a message with what he wants is too complicated.
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Jan 3, 2016 15:22
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I really, really hate "call me" texts. No, you call me, or tell me what you want in the text. Also people who aren't aware of how loud they are talking (or don't care). I don't know if this is an autism thing or what, but in the movies the other night during the previews I heard someone whisper to a guy asking if he wants anything to drink, and the guy practically shouted over the already pretty loud previews playing. My cousin also does this at restaurants when giving his order. If everyone at the table and the waitress flinch when you start yelling your order, it might be a sign you need to lower your drat voice. I know they are capable of talking at a normal volume, they do it all the time during normal conversation, but in certain situations when someone asks them a question they crank the volume up to 100% when answering.
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Jan 3, 2016 15:49
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Hummingbirds posted:Before I got diagnosed with/treated for ADHD I was like this. Trust me, it's just as annoying to have to ask people to repeat themselves because your brain didn't absorb what they said despite you looking directly into their eyes when they talk to you. Yeah, tell your bro to get tested. Driving is pretty dangerous for ADHD people since anything can distract us, and it's why I don't have a full license or car. He isn't being weird or rude, it's just that he literally cannot process more than a certain amount of stimulus. Even while on medication I have to physically put down what I'm doing and look the person in the eye to hear/understand what they're saying. It sucks 
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Jan 3, 2016 16:43
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 Holy poo poo, maybe I have ADHD. I have to ask people to repeat themselves all the time, because if there's other noise going on I literally can't process the words, even if I can hear just fine.I hate when I'm texting back and forth with someone and suddenly they try to call me. Like, I get that some things take way longer to text than to just call and have a little conversation (and I'm probably somebody's pet peeve here) but I hate talking on the phone and I don't want to get sucked into a ten-minute conversation when I'm trying to do other things. It's much easier for me to just read/send a message here and there when I have a second, rather than stop what I'm doing to focus on a phone convo. Actually, now that I think of it, this is probably connected to the above issue. Also, book blurbs/synopses that refer to events or characters that don't come up until a good ways through the book. The synopsis on the last book I read mentioned the main character travelling with two other characters, one of which didn't even show up until 60% of the way through, and the other literally didn't appear until 80% through and would have been a neat little surprise if I hadn't been loving waiting for it because of the synopsis. It also spoiled what would have been a decent twist by revealing one of the main characters as a traitor. What's the point of this?
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God Over Djinn posted:I have the opposite of this. Someone close to me somehow just can't process more than one source of sound at once. If you're in the car with him, he refuses to have the radio on unless everyone stays 100% absolutely silent. If you talk to him or to anyone else in the car, the radio instantly gets turned off and won't go back on again until everyone's silent again. If he's playing a game or listening to music and you say something casual that doesn't even require a response, like 'hey that's neat' or whatever, he has to turn it off and then have you repeat yourself. He swears up and down he doesn't have any hearing problems and his hearing seems normal otherwise, like he doesn't ask you to repeat yourself a lot during a normal conversation or anything. And it makes me absolutely insane. I just want to be able to point out a pretty sunset while listening to music okay Its a known fact that humans aren't really capable of dealing with multiple things at a time, only rapidly switching their focus from one to another.
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It may have been mentioned here before, but the new use of the word 'salty', to mean being irritated. I've only seen it on these forums, and I can't imagine how it sounds cool to use by people. Whenever I imagine someone saying it in real life, it's a horrible bro using it. "Dude, you're getting a little salty there about a word. Chill, yo! Let's take the jeep to the mall to help you cool down!" Hate it.
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Jan 3, 2016 22:21
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Murphy Brownback posted:Also people who aren't aware of how loud they are talking (or don't care). There was this dude who used to ride my regular commuter bus whose ordinary speaking voice was louder than some peoples' shouts. (He claimed it was because he used to work construction and couldn't help it.) And that fucker would have long, extended "conversations" (monologues) about whatever was on his mind every drat day. I usually listen to music on the bus, and there were days when I couldn't drown him out even with my music turned up all the way. I'm blaming him for any eventual hearing loss I suffer, basically.
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Jan 3, 2016 22:39
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well why not posted:Slow eaters. Let me just sit here for 20 minutes watching you eat. Can't leave the table, as that'd be rude, so I just get to either stare into someone's chewing face, or look off into the distance. Conversation would be a distraction, but it would prolong the entire problem. I think it's a stupid piece of etiquette. Particularly if they're eating chicken wings. Mannnn... when I was a kid, my step mom was the slowest eater. She'd take like a minute gathering together a bite on her fork, and then lift it, hold it, stare off into space, and then make some inane observation about nothing in particular. Then she'd eat it. She would barely have started by the time the rest of us were done.
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Jan 3, 2016 23:52
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Murphy Brownback posted:Also people who aren't aware of how loud they are talking (or don't care). There's a guy like this in my office. I cannot stand it and it's not like I can get away from it. The wearing of headphones in my office is also discouraged so I can't drown him out either.
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Jan 4, 2016 00:40
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The opposite of "100 texts in a row" is pretty bad too. A: Hey, you have any plans tonight? B: Just sitting at home B: What's up? And then no reply for 16+ hours. Are they just hitting send, dropping their phone, then diving out the nearest window action movie style? Also, when people are reading the newspaper and instead of just turning the pages they pull out each page as they are finished with it and throw it into a pile. Then when I go to read the paper every page is loose in a random order with half of them folded the wrong direction so it takes a few minutes to reassemble it. I know that print media is mostly dead, but it's still shocking to see people who actually don't know how to operate a newspaper or magazine.
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Jan 4, 2016 01:18
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People who yell at the TV. So it's sunday, football, hooray! Everyone's just sitting there yelling and screaming at the TV set, clapping and cheering. The players can't loving hear you. You have zero input on the game, yelling at them to run faster achieves nothing.
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Nuebot posted:People who yell at the TV. So it's sunday, football, hooray! Everyone's just sitting there yelling and screaming at the TV set, clapping and cheering. The players can't loving hear you. You have zero input on the game, yelling at them to run faster achieves nothing. autism spectrum disorder
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Jan 4, 2016 01:33
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Nuebot posted:People who yell at the TV. So it's sunday, football, hooray! Everyone's just sitting there yelling and screaming at the TV set, clapping and cheering. The players can't loving hear you. You have zero input on the game, yelling at them to run faster achieves nothing. Do you get mad when people laugh at the TV too? The comedians can't hear you laughing after all, so it doesn't compute. Or how about crying when something sad happens? A logical robot wouldn't do this so why do people do it? It's sports, people get emotionally invested in it. Sitting in absolute silence watching football is incredibly boring. My pet peeve is having to explain that no, I don't actually think the players can hear me or my yelling is effecting the game. It's always anti-football nerds too.
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Jan 4, 2016 02:00
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Nuebot posted:People who yell at the TV. So it's sunday, football, hooray! Everyone's just sitting there yelling and screaming at the TV set, clapping and cheering. The players can't loving hear you. You have zero input on the game, yelling at them to run faster achieves nothing. Because it's exciting you goober.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:The opposite of "100 texts in a row" is pretty bad too. My mother does this thing where she'll call me and when I try to call her back, no answer. I imagine that she just tosses her phone into the backyard after the first attempt/
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Jan 4, 2016 03:33
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Nettles Coterie posted:I hate when I'm texting back and forth with someone and suddenly they try to call me. Like, I get that some things take way longer to text than to just call and have a little conversation (and I'm probably somebody's pet peeve here) but I hate talking on the phone and I don't want to get sucked into a ten-minute conversation when I'm trying to do other things. It's much easier for me to just read/send a message here and there when I have a second, rather than stop what I'm doing to focus on a phone convo. Actually, now that I think of it, this is probably connected to the above issue. I don't mind when people phone me, and I don't have a problem phoning businesses, but I hate phoning people and almost never do it. It just seems really rude - I don't know what they're doing, if they're busy or in the middle of something, but I'm going to just interrupt them and make them talk to me? No, I'll send a text so they can just reply whenever they've got a minute. I know that technically people can just not answer the phone if they're busy, but no one does that. The phone rings, they answer, regardless of what else is going on.
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Murphy Brownback posted:Do you get mad when people laugh at the TV too?  cash crab posted:My mother does this thing where she'll call me and when I try to call her back, no answer. I imagine that she just tosses her phone into the backyard after the first attempt/ One guy I know has a habit of turning his phone off immediately after he finishes a call for some god forsaken reason so I'll miss a call, get a message like "Hey, call me back it's important!" and then upon calling him back, I find out that his phone is off. Then he gets mad no one calls him back.
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Nuebot posted:One guy I know has a habit of turning his phone off immediately after he finishes a call for some god forsaken reason so I'll miss a call, get a message like "Hey, call me back it's important!" and then upon calling him back, I find out that his phone is off. Then he gets mad no one calls him back. Someone should tell him.
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Jan 4, 2016 04:22
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I have three cat's deliverie's to the back etc WHO TAUGHT YOU TO USE APOSTROPHES IN ALL OF YOUR PLURAL WORDS????
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Retail Slave posted:I have three cat's Username/post combo, I looked behind the counter at my local supermarket's deli once and my inner grammar  just about died; every box was naturally labeled as a plural of a product and every single one had innapropriate apostrophes. Even some customer-facing signs they put up do it.
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Oh god, plural apostrophes are my biggest grammatical peeve. Incorrect apostrophes in general, actually. They're really not that hard! Is the word you're looking for a contraction, or two words shortened into one? Is it possessive, indicating that the noun is the owner of another object? Awesome! Jam an apostrophe in there! Is it neither of those things? THEN IT DOESN'T NEED AN APOSTROPHE. Especially if it's a character name for your fantasy novel.  (Of course I realize that after writing all this, it's extremely possible that I forgot another usage for apostrophes. So I apologize in advance for potentially not even knowing what the gently caress I'm complaining about.)
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Parasol Prophet posted:(Of course I realize that after writing all this, it's extremely possible that I forgot another usage for apostrophes. So I apologize in advance for potentially not even knowing what the gently caress I'm complaining about.) Plurals of single letters, e.g. "dot your I's and cross your T's."  E: That's a massive edge case though, you're essentially not wrong. AlphaKretin has a new favorite as of 07:06 on Jan 4, 2016 |
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AlphaKretin posted:Plurals of single letters, e.g. "dot your I's and cross your T's." Optionally numbers and
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AlphaKretin posted:Username/post combo, I looked behind the counter at my local supermarket's deli once and my inner grammar One day I was in kind of a bad mood, and stopped at a local convenience store to pick up a couple of things. I saw plural apostrophes everywhere, immediately walked out, and went to a nearby grocery store. My wife thinks I'm super anal about it, but it seems to be getting worse all the time. BigBallChunkyTime has a new favorite as of 15:05 on Jan 4, 2016 |
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:The opposite of "100 texts in a row" is pretty bad too. 1) Text someone from one room. 2) Leave that room without taking your phone with you. 3) Make all your friends mad at you forever. I have been very guilty of this. In my defense, I was not used to living in an apartment with more than one room yet. 
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Nettles Coterie posted:Today's peeves brought to you by: apartment hunting From a while back, but I can help shed some light on why some of this irritating poo poo happens:
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Captain Lavender posted:Mannnn... when I was a kid, my step mom was the slowest eater. She'd take like a minute gathering together a bite on her fork, and then lift it, hold it, stare off into space, and then make some inane observation about nothing in particular. Then she'd eat it. She would barely have started by the time the rest of us were done. Yes, yes, yes, a thousand times yes! My mother is the worst to eat with. She eats slower than anyone in the world, won't let you leave the table when she's eating, and incessantly asks for new hot water for her tea at restaurants. It's polite to obey the rules of the house when you're visiting so I put up with it but it's definitely irrationally irritating. She always sits as far away as possible from the salt and pepper at the table, even though she's the only one in my family that uses salt or pepper. We all use hot-sauce but she never lets it be on the table. Just the mother-loving salt and pepper shakers. Being asked to pass the salt drives me insane. Even when I place the salt right by her plate, she still asks for it. It's right loving there!!! Just pick the fucker up and don't interrupt me!!! The tea. The endless hot water to re-hydrate the thrice used tea bag. One has to watch her slowly finish her tea, be it hot or cold, while no conversation goes on. We all just stare into space, uncomfortably listing to the slowest eater on the earth sip at her tea. God almighty, it's sit, chat, eat, pay, leave. I don't want to watch you fuss at a glass of water, we can talk at home. Also people that eat their fries before their burger. What the gently caress? My daughter does that and it drives me nuts.
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mostlygray posted:Also people that eat their fries before their burger. What the gently caress? My daughter does that and it drives me nuts. People who eat their burger before their fries. That's the main course, the fries are the appetizer!
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Also, fries get lovely way quicker than a burger.
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When you go to the grocery store and every single hand of bananas is solid green. When you go to the grocery store and its busy as gently caress and people don't seem to notice and stop and chat in the middle of the isle or park their cart and then stand next to it pondering which box of pasta or whatever to buy. Why yes, I enjoy having to make tick tock noises behind your inconsiderateness; and then I enjoy the glare you give me like I'm the one being annoying. When you go to the grocery store at like 2am and there is a full family shopping; with 2 adults and 1-4 kids running around late at night. Why can't one of you stay home and watch the kids while the other does the shopping? It probably doesn't help that I live near one of the only WinCo's in the area and people come from all around to shop there for cheap.
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When you're behind someone at a traffic light and they start to sloooooowly inch forward when the light is nowhere near changing. I feel compelled to inch up behind them, lest I look like the idiot who leaves too much space between herself and the car in front of her. Bonus points if, after being so eager to go, the light turns green and they just sit there for several seconds doing God knows what. Or just people who do that in general. Hey! loving pay attention! I got places to be, here! 
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You have to always obey the tyres and tarmac rule so don't be scared to leave a gap It's there so you have manoeuvring room in case you need to make way for emergency services etc. If you're bumper to bumper then you can't move and Grace Jones will break into song.
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DavidAlltheTime posted:It may have been mentioned here before, but the new use of the word 'salty', to mean being irritated. I've only seen it on these forums, and I can't imagine how it sounds cool to use by people. Whenever I imagine someone saying it in real life, it's a horrible bro using it. Although it has seen an odd resurgence in these forums recently, it's pretty old. George Carlin used it in a way that suggested it was a fairly common term in Class Clown, which was 1992. And regarding fries before burgers. Burgers are better, so you save them for last. Also you don't want your mom eating all your fries, so you got to get rid of them quick. (This is also from 1992) Lemon has a new favorite as of 19:24 on Jan 4, 2016 |
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Lemon posted:Although it has seen an odd resurgence in these forums recently, it's pretty old. George Carlin used it in a way that suggested it was a fairly common term in Class Clown, which was 1992. Or 1972, if you buy vinyl.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Or 1972, if you buy vinyl. You know, I thought that sounded a little too recent. Guess I'll never make a good reporter!
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Well then there should be a rule: 'If you're George Carlin, you can say salty. Otherwise, knock it off.' I'd also like to add 'The person at the front of the advance left turn line not noticing when their light turns green', to my list of pet peeves. I've started to time how long it takes these idiots to proceed into the intersection and it's not uncommon to get to four or five seconds before they move, which is an eternity while driving. Ugh.
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On the flip side of painfully slow eaters, my husband is a painfully fast eater. When we go out for a meal he just puts his eyes down and eats, he doesn't stop to talk. If anybody remembers Homer Simpson line 'can't talk...busy...eating' that's my dinner partner.
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