Pet Peeves

[theBruiser500]

I absolutely hate it when I'm walking in an aisle or sidewalk or whatever, and there is a group of people walking in the opposite direction. And this group of people is walking side by side and there is not enough room for them (2 or 3 people) and me to all be side by side on the sidewalk at once. And their group of people does not collapse temporarily, they make me stand aside while they pass. Super gay.

[drdre2001mm]

What's even super-gayer about this is that your letting it get the best of you.

[theBruiser500]

Shut up dredre, moron.

[JustSomeJackass]

I hate it when you are playing miniature golf and you are on a 2-level hole...and you have to putt the ball into one of three holes. The middle hole is very small and has a pipe that leads directly to the hole, and the other two are larger and are sloped to make them easy to hit, but the ball ends up 25-30 feet from the hole.

I hate it when you hit it in the middle hole and then the F*%king ball comes out of the pipe and jumps over the hole and ends up even further away than if hit in one of the other 2 holes. Is it cheating to record a "1" on the scorecard in this instance??? And is it bad sportsmanship to grab 3 or 4 large rocks and cram them in the center pipe to keep anyone else from possibly making a hole-in one? Final question...in this instance, am I justified in screaming a barrage of 4-letter words, given that I playing with my 10 and 11 year old sons?

[drdre2001mm]

Now that is definitely something to get frustrated about. If you curse in front of your sons then well...

[JustSomeJackass]

Another pet peeve of mine is that my sons' baseball league does not (officially) keep track of the score so there is no W-L record and everybody gets the same little sorry ass trophy at the end of year.

What lesson does this tecah our kids? They should learn early that there are winners and then there are LOSERS.

[drdre2001mm]

Another pet peeve of mine is that my sons' baseball league does not (officially) keep track of the score so there is no W-L record and everybody gets the same little sorry ass trophy at the end of year.

Hey when I was younger I was in one of those leagues. But after every game we got freee Slush Puppies!!!!

[JustSomeJackass]

When TV sportscasters are interviewing super-star athletes and ask them how they think they will perform in any given game, and they respond with the standard "We just play them one game at a time" or "I'll just do my best for my team and we'll see what happens." Just once I would like to hear what they were really thinking.

Announcer: "What do you think about today's match-up?"

Star: "Oh, we're going to kick their ass...Have you seen them play lately? They SUCK!!"

[JustSomeJackass]

another thing I can't stand...The sober female friend of a drunk girl. The drunk one wants to party, have an orgy, do all kinds of outlandish things...you could be just getting ready to leave the bar with her...all 5 of you...and then some b!tch comes up and says..."Come on Shellie, I'm taking you home. I promised so-and-so that you'd get home safely"

They counteract any advantage the drunk girl's state of reduced consciousness had given you.

[BonJoviJones]

Hand rankings that list "Royal Flush" above "Straight Flush"

It's the same freakin' hand! You wouldn't put "Broadway" between "Straight" and "Flush", would you?

[Ulysses]

Just keep walking. They'll move out of the way.

[Homer]

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Just keep walking. They'll move out of the way.

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I must look like a total pussy, because they won't move out of the way for me. I just walk right into them and get shot dirty looks.

[spamuell]

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Just keep walking. They'll move out of the way.

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I must look like a total pussy, because they won't move out of the way for me. I just walk right into them and get shot dirty looks.

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Do you look like your avatar? /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[chabibi]

i [censored] hate that. i was at a bar when some cutie grabs me, and she was really hot i can get hot girls but i gota really work for it, so when i was grabbed by her it was a real treat. anyway she grabs me to dance then just starts making out with me. i pull back and say "wow you have a toung ring" and give her a liottle smile, she replies with " and i want to use it on you" (btw she was super trashed, you could tell by the way she was walking/talking) she grabs me gentelly by the hand and we start heading for the door when her fat sober bitch of a friend notices us and grabs her by the other hand and pulls her away in to the crowd. i bet if she wasnt so fat and jealous she would have let me leave /images/graemlins/mad.gif

[Homer]

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i [censored] hate that. i was at a bar when some cutie grabs me, and she was really hot i can get hot girls but i gota really work for it, so when i was grabbed by her it was a real treat. anyway she grabs me to dance then just starts making out with me. i pull back and say "wow you have a toung ring" and give her a liottle smile, she replies with " and i want to use it on you" (btw she was super trashed, you could tell by the way she was walking/talking) she grabs me gentelly by the hand and we start heading for the door when her fat sober bitch of a friend notices us and grabs her by the other hand and pulls her away in to the crowd. i bet if she wasnt so fat and jealous she would have let me leave /images/graemlins/mad.gif

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Yeah, I hate fat people too. I also hate people who care about their friends.

If that chick really wanted to go with you, she wouldn't have let her friend drag her away.

[The Dude]

It bugs the hell out of me when either of my roommates takes a [censored], leaves skid marks all in the bowl, and fails to put the lid down on the seat. In fact, it bugs me when they leave the lid up anyway, but particularly so when there are sh[/i]it streaks in plain view.

[Sponger15SB]

I had it when my [censored] stupid friend beats me in NFL blitz, but only because some bullshit like 3 random ass turnovers by me or him getting the frickin kickoff like 7 overtimes in a row.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK THAT

-$15 /images/graemlins/mad.gif

[Ray Zee]

its your side of the walkway stay on it. a person needs to stand up sometimes. same on a plane. when the fat slob blubers over onto your seat with you. i tell him where the middle of the armrest is and to remain on his side. ofcourse if it looks like you get a black eye, discreation plays a part.

[AngryCola]

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its your side of the walkway stay on it

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That is what I do. Right before I run into them, they move. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Tyler Durden]

I hate when my idiot roommate comes home at 3 in the morning and is really loud b/c it doesn't occur to him that someone might be asleep.

But I yelled at him really good for it today.

[Ian J]

I hate it when people don't answer their cell phones. Not someone who does it every once in awhile. I'm talking about friends who pick up their cell phone once every 10 times you call them. What's the point of owning one?

[PoBoy321]

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If that chick really wanted to go with you, she wouldn't have let her friend drag her away.

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Well that's not true. Drunk girls are completely powerless to their bitchy friends. Believe me. I'm dating one of the bitchy friends. We were out a while ago with some of her friends and this one girlfriend of hers got trashed and was all over some guy. My girlfriend starts going into the whole "we need to get you home" thing and I was like "hey, let her have her fun. She's a slut anyway, you know she'd do it if she were sober." So I get a death glare, no pussy for like a week, and some poor bastard got cockblocked.

[brassnuts]

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I hate it when people don't answer their cell phones. Not someone who does it every once in awhile. I'm talking about friends who pick up their cell phone once every 10 times you call them. What's the point of owning one?

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Maybe they just screen their calls.

[PoBoy321]

This is kind of a corollary of the sidewalk thing, but it's worse when it happens on stairs. I mean, if it happens on a sidewalk, you can step into the street or something, but when you're walking up a flight of stairs, and there's a big group coming down, where are you gonna go? And if they start bumping into you, you've gotta grab the handrail to make sure you don't lose your balance and tumble down a flight of stairs. I mean, why can't stairs be just like driving? Stay to the right, that way no one bothers anyone else.

Oh, also on escalators. When you're going up an escalator and there are people in front of you, and you want to walk up rather than just stand there and let it carry you up, but you can't because they're standing there. They should stay to one side so that people can walk by. I know that this is kind of an unwritten rule on the DC metro (where the escalators are literally HUNDREDS of feet long), but it should apply everywhere.

[Ianco15]

I hate it people dont give a courtesy wave when I'm driving and go out of my way to do something for them. For example if I let them into traffic or something and they dont even acknowledge the favor I have done for them. I didnt have to let them in, and when I do I expect a courtesy wave. The same goes for people who dont thank you when you do other simple favors for them (like holding open the door).

[Ianco15]

Another thing that pissed me off that I just remembered... I was taking a flight on Southwest which is open seating and I got an isle seat which I really happy about. A few minutes later this middle aged lady got on the plane asked me if I could move into the middle seat so she could have the isle seat. I gave her the seat, which I now regret. What a bitch to ask me to give up my seat! Why should she get it? Damn, I just pissed myself off thinking about that. Basically, I really hate it when people ask you to do something for them but you really cant say no, because if you do you come off looking like an ass. I couldnt say no to the lady and come off looking like a total jerk.

[Cornbread Maxwell]

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Another thing that pissed me off that I just remembered... I was taking a flight on Southwest which is open seating and I got an isle seat which I really happy about. A few minutes later this middle aged lady got on the plane asked me if I could move into the middle seat so she could have the isle seat. I gave her the seat, which I now regret. What a bitch to ask me to give up my seat! Why should she get it? Damn, I just pissed myself off thinking about that. Basically, I really hate it when people ask you to do something for them but you really cant say no, because if you do you come off looking like an ass. I couldnt say no to the lady and come off looking like a total jerk.

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Funny how poker theories apply so well to life. This and the sidewalk/escalator examples are basically like position raises in poker from a loose-agressive player (the person who won't move out of the way on the sidewalk or unexpectedly asks for your aisle seat on an airplane), and you are stuck defending your vunerable blind.

More often than not a real life 're-raise' is called for in this situation, thereby giving yourself a prime opportunity to retain your aisle seat or position on the sidewalk, but in practice most people fold and give up their seat as to avoid confrontations (basically looking like a jerk, as you put it).

If you were to 're-raise', and either 1) not move out of the way on the sidewalk or 2) refuse to give up your aisle seat, more often than not you and the customs that pertain to society will profit from the situation.

Anyone else think this way? /images/graemlins/confused.gif

[youtalkfunny]

Well, since you asked:

--People who bump into someone they know on a busy sidewalk, or in a busy hallway, and they stop walking to chat, and they stay RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF EVERYTHING! No matter how much they get knocked around, they won't consider moving out of everyone's way to have their conversation.

--People who stand in doorways. You see this one a lot in the poker room, or at restaurants, or any other place where you might have to wait for a seat. They can stand anywhere in the building, but they pick a spot in the doorway. And when you say to them, "Excuse me, I'd like to get by," they step out of your way...THEN RESUME THEIR SPOT IN THE FREAKING DOORWAY!

--There are people who don't listen to what you're saying, they just wait for you to finish talking so that they can begin speaking. I don't mind that. I do have a problem, though, with those who don't try to HIDE the fact that they're not listening. They sigh, roll their eyes, check their watch, and my favorite, when you're voice sounds like it's coming to the end of a sentence, THEY DRAW A DEEP BREATH AND HOLD IT, until it's their turn to speak, so that they don't miss the oppurtunity. Because it would be unbearable to them to have to sit through one more sentence of SOMEONE ELSE talking to them.

--When the dealer asks a player to move over to help square up the table, and the guy moves a half-inch--usually he just shifts in his chair, and the chair doesn't move at all--then he gives the dealer that look that says, "What? I moved! Why are you looking at me?"

--The guy in the poker room who thinks that the tv closest to him is HIS tv, and should be set to a channel of his choosing. Go ahead and try to change it, and watch this guy. He'll jump up and scream as if you had just burst into his living room and commandeered HIS tv.

(This one's not just a poker thing. When I was booking sports in Vegas, I had a guy in a Red Wings jersey tell me that EVERYONE in the sportsbook wanted the sound on the Red Wings game. "NO ONE is watching that basketball game!", he insisted. "That basketball game" was Game One of the NBA Finals.)

--When the guy at the drive-thru gives me my change, he lays the bills flat on the palm of my hand, then he drops the coins onto the bill. I've got to make a quick snatch before the coins slide off onto the ground. Why can't he put the COINS in the palm of my hand? Then, as my hand closes, I can grab the bills with my fingers. I can't be the first person in the world to have thought of this.

[gamblore99]

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Another thing that pissed me off that I just remembered... I was taking a flight on Southwest which is open seating and I got an isle seat which I really happy about. A few minutes later this middle aged lady got on the plane asked me if I could move into the middle seat so she could have the isle seat. I gave her the seat, which I now regret. What a bitch to ask me to give up my seat! Why should she get it? Damn, I just pissed myself off thinking about that. Basically, I really hate it when people ask you to do something for them but you really cant say no, because if you do you come off looking like an ass. I couldnt say no to the lady and come off looking like a total jerk.

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in a study by miligram and sabini students asked strangers for there seat on the subway, and 56% gave there seat up, without any justification. seems kinda similar

[gamblore99]

1) irrational people. sometimes when you and people you know have a problem, and you try to discuss and find a solution, some common ground, but they just restate there point no matter what. they dont even try to refute you, or work together, they just repeat there arguement exactly the same.

2) cats. they suck

3)girls who lead you on without any intention of following through. seriously, this should be illegal. Like flirting is ok, but it gets to a point where its very obvious, and if the girl doesn't want any of it, she should give some indication instead of putting her arm around him and laugh at his jokes. [censored]!

[bunky9590]

If they don't move, lower your shoulder. I don't have this problem they move for me. If I remember your picture correctly, Lowering your shoulder won't help. /images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[Zeno]

Only one Pet Peeve: God.

-Zeno

[Monkeyslacks]

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Oh, also on escalators. When you're going up an escalator and there are people in front of you, and you want to walk up rather than just stand there and let it carry you up, but you can't because they're standing there. They should stay to one side so that people can walk by. I know that this is kind of an unwritten rule on the DC metro (where the escalators are literally HUNDREDS of feet long), but it should apply everywhere.

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It may be an unwritten rule, but no one informs the tourists and weekends can be a huge pain in the ass as a result. I was out yesterday and had to deal with this at least 5 times. There was an Amish convention or something in town and people in funny hats were absolutely everywhere.

I over reacted the last time as I heard the train pulling in.

"God damn it Ephraim! MOVE!"

[jar]

Escalators is Germany often have signs, "Links gehen, rechts stehen", meaning go on the left, stand on the right.

[dsm]

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I hate when a group of people walking in the opposite direction will not temporarily collapse.

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I think it's best to just stop and stand your ground, rather than barreling through them like somebody else suggested. If you're the polite/shy type (which it sounds like you are) stay to the right of the sidewalk, and when they get about six feet in front of you just stop and start fumbling around in your pocket like you're looking for something. Look at the ground too with a preoccupied look on your face (Where in the ***k did I put those certs?). They'll go around you for sure,...they'll have to.

My pet peeve: Talkers and loud eaters at the theater.

-dsm

[Beerfund]

Girls that won't have sex with me, like Annie Duke. /images/graemlins/mad.gif

[Blarg]

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The sober female friend of a drunk girl. The drunk one wants to party, have an orgy, do all kinds of outlandish things...you could be just getting ready to leave the bar with her...all 5 of you...and then some b!tch comes up and says..."Come on Shellie, I'm taking you home. I promised so-and-so that you'd get home safely"

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That was a good one.

Here are some of mine.

8 inches of pencil and a quarter inch of eraser.

People who leave the faucet dripping. What's so hard about just shutting the darn thing off all the way? You're already right there in the room -- you're touching the darn thing already!

People who leave empty milk cartons in the fridge, or that last 100th of an inch because they don't want to make it look like they took the last of it.

People who when you buy a pizza, eat as fast as they can so they can eat twice as many slices as anyone else while still paying the same cost when you split the bill.

People who try to short the bill at a restaurant.

People who decide the top or bottom of the escalator is the perfect place to take stock of the planet, consider their options, light up a smoke, make a call on their cell phone, and just generally show the world how into themselves they are and how the rest of us can kiss their ass.

The poker table equivalent -- the guy who holds the whole table hostage by waiting till the action is on him to start telling a story. In a home game, a variation of this is picking that time to run to get a beer or some cookies or whatever.

People who walk into any place and think everyone owes them attention. This is often done by street bums and racists(often the same people), who think that if you haven't noticed them and instantly made them an intimate and welcome part of your life, you're "disrespecting" them or somehow owe them an apology for living. An example: I remember reading the newspaper on my long subway ride home one day and some kid saying loudly to me, "Hey, don't be down because I'm brown." I didn't know when he got on the subway car, and can't say I cared -- I hadn't made eye contact with anyone for probably 15 minutes or more -- but apparently our relationship was a lot more important and symbolic to him than it was to me. I didn't even know we had one; in my ignorance I had thought I was just reading a newspaper, not engaging in an aggressive and unspoken dialogue with someone who deserved much better from me. How foolish of me!

Old ladies who think they're entitled to stab you with the ends of their umbrellas, step on your feet, ram their shopping carts into you or whatever, without ever apologizing. This behavior is exclusive to old ladies; I have absolutely never seen an old man do it, but have seen decades of this pointless and angry aggression from old ladies.

Store clerks who treat you like gold when you wear a nice crisp shirt and like crap when you wear a t-shirt.

Dirty dishes, especially dirty silverware. Ever see a piece of rice or something stuck on a fork and ask for a fresh one? I expect better from a restaurant. Worse is when it's at someone's house, though. I don't want to embarass the host, but really get grossed out by dirty silverware and don't want to eat off it. Ever have the host come back with ANOTHER dirty fork? NOW what do you do? (sigh) It REALLY detracts from the meal for me. It's not quite as bad, but I don't like getting a supposedly clean wine glass that has lipstick on it either. Many people just have no standards when it comes to cleanliness. Washing a dish clean really isn't hard, and it seems the least you can do for a guest is offer them clean dishes if you're going to feed them.

Hmm..what else...people who let their kids scream in restaurants. Or anywhere else, really, but restaurants are the worst. That's supposed to be normal and a sign of good parenting, so I guess I'm a terrible person who knows nothing.

People who let their dogs poop on your lawn.

People who allow vicious behavior in their dogs or train them for it, especially when they let those dogs out.

Salesmen of any type coming up to your table in restaurants. You can get guys coming up who want to take a picture of you with your date, then a guy wants you to buy roses, then the first guy comes by to see if you've changed your mind about the pictures, then a guy comes up wanting to sell you cigars -- Jesus Christ! Talk about being intrusive and destroying the experience. Restaurant owners who put up with this crap should be shot.

Oh, and my three rules for bums and real or imagined "charities" -- I will NOT give money for any reason in three places -- when I'm on the toilet, when I'm in traffic, and when I'm eating. These are sacred activities, and it's either extremely inconsiderate or outright dangerous to be begging for money at those points.

Ok that's enough for now.

[Blarg]

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If that chick really wanted to go with you, she wouldn't have let her friend drag her away.

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Not true necessarily, at all. Not very fair, either.

Most people are VERY different when alone and when with their friends or different combinations of friends. Each of us is a different person to different people, who have different expectations and understanding of us. Sometimes that's less or more under our control. Each new friend, family member, or stranger added to a group can change our responses and personality as the tone of the group changes and the individuals adjust.

I find women are especially that way. They can be very protective and intrusive with each other in a way men are not, and they can also be very cruel and spiteful to each other and extremely judgmental and jealous, not least about men.

The last thing the average woman is, is completely the same around friends and not, and when woried about their judgment, especially when it comes to sex. I'd be amazed if anyone has not been in situations where women who have been open or even assertive on their own have been seen to have a personality change or seem to shut down when their friends and/or family, or even another woman they don't really give a damn about, appears. The power of judgment and the need to fit into expected societal norms, even anticipated or merely feared judgment, by others is huge. All the more so for women.

That's one reason women often enjoy and need the "excuse" of being drunk before hooking up with men. They are constantly worried about what other people think and even what they think about themselves, whereas guys not only don't worry nearly as much, but wouldn't give a damn if they even thought about it.

[Blarg]

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If that chick really wanted to go with you, she wouldn't have let her friend drag her away.



Well that's not true. Drunk girls are completely powerless to their bitchy friends. Believe me. I'm dating one of the bitchy friends. We were out a while ago with some of her friends and this one girlfriend of hers got trashed and was all over some guy. My girlfriend starts going into the whole "we need to get you home" thing and I was like "hey, let her have her fun. She's a slut anyway, you know she'd do it if she were sober." So I get a death glare, no pussy for like a week, and some poor bastard got cockblocked.


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You're my hero, man, seriously. That took stones to do. Most guys I know are completely pussy-whipped.

[Blarg]

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--The guy in the poker room who thinks that the tv closest to him is HIS tv, and should be set to a channel of his choosing. Go ahead and try to change it, and watch this guy. He'll jump up and scream as if you had just burst into his living room and commandeered HIS tv.

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First come, first served, man. There are exceptions, like when EVERYONE wants to watch something else, but by and large I think you missed on this one. Nobody who says anything like that would ever admit to what I'm about to say, but the truth is, if the situation were reversed, you wouldn't like some dude waltzing in and changing the channel while you were already watching something(and who knows how many others were too). You'd think that was some amazingly egotistical SOB.

That would be like someone walking over and sitting in your lap because he figured it was his chair now, since after all, he wanted it.

[BusterStacks]

My biggest pet peece is lack of personal accountability:

a) Hey alcoholics, alcoholism is not a *disease*. Here's an idea, get a hold of your life and put down the bottle. This absolutely drives me nuts when people place the blame on alcohol instead of themselves, and I have to encounter these people ALL THE TIME due to my DUII.

b) Hey fat people, you don't look good! You're not big and beautiful, you're overweight and repulsive. Plus-size fashions should be burned, all you are doing is encouraging these whales to continue being fat. It's unhealthy, unnatractive, and is completely being excused by society.

I could go on, but it's putting me on tilt. If you think of it, do this today: watch how people word things so as not accept blame for something that is clearly their fault. Bugs the crap outta me.

P.S. - I also hate it when my girlfriend will ask me if I did something that I had no idea I was supposed to do and therefore is obviously not done. Example, she gets home from work and is like "Did you clean the bathroom?" and I'm like "Wtf no, do you want me to?" and she's all like "Fine, I guess I'll do it"... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH.

[Blarg]

Haha, that's pretty funny. Obviously it's going to continue forever because it works on you, too. Probably increase. You must like it on some level more than most people probably would, or you would talk with her about it and get her to knock that crap off. Give 'em an inch, they'll take a mile, so...I wonder what other mind games she's going to work into the equation for you?

[Diplomatdcm]

Really, knock someone down, don't take that [censored]. I never get out of the way.
Dave

[mmbt0ne]

Kind of like the car wave thing, I hate it when people don't say "thank you" after I hold the door open for them. I remember I opened two straight doors for someone going into the dorms freshmen year, and he never said thanks. I purposely went up the stairs a little faster so that I could slam the third one in his face instead of holding it open for him.

The other thing is Co-National Champions. Look, there aren't mulitple nations that LSU and USC are the champions of, there is one nation and multiple champions. It's National Co-Champions.

[ilya]

I hate it when I try to hit on a girl and she spits in my eye and smacks me upside the head.
Actually wait, what am I talking about. I don't have the balls to hit on girls.

Seriously though,
it annoys the living daylights out of me when people leave their popcorn buckets and wrappers and all that trash behind when they're walking out after the movie. i don't care that there's some guy paid to clean all that up; that's no excuse for being a rude slob. argh it makes me so angry sometimes, i really feel like those people deserve a good beating.

[PoBoy321]

No, it didn't take stones to tell her that her friends a slut, it just took honesty. It took stones to tell my girlfriend that one of her friends has nice tits. It took stones to get caught staring at her friend's tits 4 times and say "Well, what do you want me to do? It's why she's wearing that shirt, isn't it?" And then, this is quite possibly the ballsiest thing I've ever done around my girlfriend, she decided that it'd be fun to play strip poker with a bunch of her friends, so I won a hand, and instead of telling my girfriend to strip, I told her friend to. God I'm an awful person. Oh well, she puts up with it so I guess I'll just keep pushing the envelope.

[PoBoy321]

Wait, Amish people on the escalators? I thought that was against their religion or something. Anyway, i'd rather it be amish people because at least you know that if you ask them, they'll move. The worst are fat people who take up the whole width of the escalator, so they have to turn to the side to let you pass (which is probably more physical activity than they've done in the last week) and then give you attitude about it. I was coming home from a bar with my friends one night when we heard the train pulling in, so we tried to run down the stairs, but got stuck by some fat, ugly, jabba-the-hut looking latina bitch. So we ask her to move and she starts giving us attitude. We wound up missing the train and my friend goes off on her. "Jesus christ, you fat [censored] bitch. Y'know, I bet that if you'd eat one less twinkie a day, we'd be on our way home right now. [censored], couldn't you have taken the elevator? At least you'd fit in there, but I guess you'd snap the rope. Actually, nevermind. Take the elevator next time. One less fat, ugly bitch in the world is fine by me." By the time I finished laughing, Metro was escorting my friend out of the station and the girl was crying. That was great.

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

Doesn't bother me. I don't stand aside, nor do I slow down. They almost always move.

[ilya]

Yes but you have battle armor and scary ridges on your face.

[Blarg]

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instead of telling my girfriend to strip, I told her friend to

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Funny stuff.

[chabibi]

let me explain something. this girl was so trashed i probably could have just [censored] her in the bathroom. she would have gone home with a chimp if her bitch friend didnt stop her

[Porcupine]

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Oh, also on escalators. When you're going up an escalator and there are people in front of you, and you want to walk up rather than just stand there and let it carry you up, but you can't because they're standing there. They should stay to one side so that people can walk by. I know that this is kind of an unwritten rule on the DC metro (where the escalators are literally HUNDREDS of feet long), but it should apply everywhere.

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I find that this crap is terrible in Vegas - something about lots of tourists, everyone being on vacation and lots of things to look at. It pisses me off most on the people movers in front of Mirage, Caesars and Ballys. I don't mind people standing, but don't block the whole walkway.

[Homer]

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If that chick really wanted to go with you, she wouldn't have let her friend drag her away.

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Not true necessarily, at all. Not very fair, either.

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I didn't read the rest of your post. Basically, it pisses me off that of all things, the poster's biggest pet peeve is a "bitch" who cares enough about her friend to not let her go [censored] some random guy while in a state in which she obviously cannot make logical decisions. If she wants to bang random guys while sober that is one thing, but for the poster to take advantage of her while she can barely stand up straight doesn't make him much of a man. He might as well just get some roofies. It is no different in my book.

[Homer]

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let me explain something. this girl was so trashed i probably could have just [censored] her in the bathroom. she would have gone home with a chimp if her bitch friend didnt stop her

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You are a waste of a human being. Honestly. Think about what you just said and explain to me how her friend is a bitch. She sounds like a friend I'd like to have.

[SmileyEH]

Massachusets drivers doing 65 in the left lane, not driving at all in the right lane, and going 70 in the centre lane.

You guys need to come to Toronto to learn how to drive.

-SmileyEH

[Slacker13]

Driving slow in the left lane is the most annoying.

[banditbdl]

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When the guy at the drive-thru gives me my change, he lays the bills flat on the palm of my hand, then he drops the coins onto the bill. I've got to make a quick snatch before the coins slide off onto the ground. Why can't he put the COINS in the palm of my hand? Then, as my hand closes, I can grab the bills with my fingers. I can't be the first person in the world to have thought of this.

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I freaking hate this. As an added bonus I had an injury some time ago where I was unable to fully supinate my arm in order to receive the change. Effectively leaving my palm about 20-30 degrees from flat so all the change would immediately go sliding out of my hand. In order to not lose all my change I had to put my hand out like a claw palm down and wait for the drivethru guy to figure it out so I could grab the coins and bills out of his hand.

[spamuell]

Stupid drivers who don't indicate at junctions so you have to slow right down, only to discover you would have been able to go anyway.

Stupid drivers who get pissed off with me when I don't indicate at junctions.

Seriously, driving around North London pisses me off immensely.

[slickpoppa]

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When the guy at the drive-thru gives me my change, he lays the bills flat on the palm of my hand, then he drops the coins onto the bill. I've got to make a quick snatch before the coins slide off onto the ground. Why can't he put the COINS in the palm of my hand? Then, as my hand closes, I can grab the bills with my fingers. I can't be the first person in the world to have thought of this.

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I freaking hate this. As an added bonus I had an injury some time ago where I was unable to fully supinate my arm in order to receive the change. Effectively leaving my palm about 20-30 degrees from flat so all the change would immediately go sliding out of my hand. In order to not lose all my change I had to put my hand out like a claw palm down and wait for the drivethru guy to figure it out so I could grab the coins and bills out of his hand.

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Sometimes when a cashier does this to me i will intentionally tilt the bills towards him so that it spills onto the counter. I then stand there motionless until he picks up all the change.

[Blarg]

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If that chick really wanted to go with you, she wouldn't have let her friend drag her away.



Not true necessarily, at all. Not very fair, either.



I didn't read the rest of your post. Basically, it pisses me off that of all things, the poster's biggest pet peeve is a "bitch" who cares enough about her friend to not let her go [censored] some random guy while in a state in which she obviously cannot make logical decisions. If she wants to bang random guys while sober that is one thing, but for the poster to take advantage of her while she can barely stand up straight doesn't make him much of a man. He might as well just get some roofies. It is no different in my book.


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You're presuming way too much, and far too complacent about doing so. That's just excessively sloppy thinking.

Since you seem set in your ways and unwilling to think about alternatives, you may not be interested in thinking about why you might have been incorrect or extremely presumptuous, but here's a few reasons for starters.

You weren't there at the time.
Therefore you are in no position to really judge how drunk the girl was.
You don't know what the girl really wanted, drunk or sober, or even if there's a difference between the two. You make very emphatic assumptions regarding both of the above.
You don't know the poster. Therefore it's out of line to imply motivations or personal outlooks on your own and then pronounce a very harsh judgment based upon ignorance.
You don't know the "bitch," therefore you don't know what she was like or what her motivations really were.

You have simply chosen to look at things in the way least flattering to the poster, most flattering to the "bitch"(not my term -- but I don't know her any less than you do), and in a way that ascribes the least amount of self-awareness to the girl.

This is bundling one extreme outlook upon another.

And that is not fair.

I find it hard to believe there isn't some sort of motive you might have for being so reactionary that comes from something other than the post itself. I have known many people who think that there is something inherently wrong or predatory in sex. I have no idea if you are the kind who thinks that "good girls don't have sex" or that people who are drunk, at any particular level of drunkeness, are actually not themselves or incapable of acting to their own ends in accordance with their own desires. It's hard to imagine seeing the situation as described by the poster being construed in the relatively...umm...shall we say "satanic" light in which you have construed it without thinking that maybe someone has jumped the gun just a wee bit in bashing another poster.

It appears to me you were working more from the violent mental images in your own head than really relating to the story as described by the original poster.

[Homer]

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If that chick really wanted to go with you, she wouldn't have let her friend drag her away.



Not true necessarily, at all. Not very fair, either.



I didn't read the rest of your post. Basically, it pisses me off that of all things, the poster's biggest pet peeve is a "bitch" who cares enough about her friend to not let her go [censored] some random guy while in a state in which she obviously cannot make logical decisions. If she wants to bang random guys while sober that is one thing, but for the poster to take advantage of her while she can barely stand up straight doesn't make him much of a man. He might as well just get some roofies. It is no different in my book.


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You're presuming way too much, and far too complacent about doing so. That's just excessively sloppy thinking.

Since you seem set in your ways and unwilling to think about alternatives, you may not be interested in thinking about why you might have been incorrect or extremely presumptuous, but here's a few reasons for starters.

You weren't there at the time.
Therefore you are in no position to really judge how drunk the girl was.
You don't know what the girl really wanted, drunk or sober, or even if there's a difference between the two. You make very emphatic assumptions regarding both of the above.
You don't know the poster. Therefore it's out of line to imply motivations or personal outlooks on your own and then pronounce a very harsh judgment based upon ignorance.
You don't know the "bitch," therefore you don't know what she was like or what her motivations really were.

You have simply chosen to look at things in the way least flattering to the poster, most flattering to the "bitch"(not my term -- but I don't know her any less than you do), and in a way that ascribes the least amount of self-awareness to the girl.

This is bundling one extreme outlook upon another.

And that is not fair.

I find it hard to believe there isn't some sort of motive you might have for being so reactionary that comes from something other than the post itself. I have known many people who think that there is something inherently wrong or predatory in sex. I have no idea if you are the kind who thinks that "good girls don't have sex" or that people who are drunk, at any particular level of drunkeness, are actually not themselves or incapable of acting to their own ends in accordance with their own desires. It's hard to imagine seeing the situation as described by the poster being construed in the relatively...umm...shall we say "satanic" light in which you have construed it without thinking that maybe someone has jumped the gun just a wee bit in bashing another poster.

It appears to me you were working more from the violent mental images in your own head than really relating to the story as described by the original poster.

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You can type fancy stuff all you'd like, it won't work on me.

Here is what the guy said:

let me explain something. this girl was so trashed i probably could have just [censored] her in the bathroom. she would have gone home with a chimp if her bitch friend didnt stop her

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[daryn]

hmm that is a tough one to refute. i am going to have to agree w/ homer.

[Homer]

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You don't know what the girl really wanted, drunk or sober, or even if there's a difference between the two. You make very emphatic assumptions regarding both of the above.

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I never claimed to know what the girl wanted sober. I even suggested that she might want the same thing when sober as when drunk, and if so, that's fine. But to take advantage of someone who is falling down drunk, who would have "gone home with a chimp", is wrong. You will never convince me otherwise, no matter how many fancy arguments you make.

-- Homer

[WDC]

I hate it more when you are behind these doofuses and because of oncoming traffic you can't easily get around them so it takes you twice as long to get somewhere. I work in dowtoen Minneapolis and Use the skyways almost exclusively so I can behind three or four chatting slow walking selfish moraons for bloacks at a time.

Another thing I hate is finding someone elses turd in the tiolet at a public restroom.

[WDC]

I coach in one of those leagues and I think they are good. At that age it should be about learning and teaching. There is plenty of time for competition. If I caught any player on my team keeping score they had to run the hill at the next practice.

[Blarg]

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You can type fancy stuff all you'd like, it won't work on me.

Here is what the guy said:

let me explain something. this girl was so trashed i probably could have just [censored] her in the bathroom. she would have gone home with a chimp if her bitch friend didnt stop her

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Your original response came before the poster posted this. ALL your presumptions were made without adequate information, and your resultant response was very harsh and judgmental. You can't get in the way-back machine and reverse time.

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You don't know what the girl really wanted, drunk or sober, or even if there's a difference between the two. You make very emphatic assumptions regarding both of the above.

I never claimed to know what the girl wanted sober. I even suggested that she might want the same thing when sober as when drunk, and if so, that's fine. But to take advantage of someone who is falling down drunk, who would have "gone home with a chimp", is wrong. You will never convince me otherwise, no matter how many fancy arguments you make.

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You only cast doubt upon either her sobriety or what she might have wanted whether drunk or sober after both your post(first) and the original poster's second post(second). Your first response was quite a leap.

By the way, a surprising number of women DO go home with chimps and even like and prefer them, and banging in the bathroom is about a million miles away from the worst or most outrageous thing most people will ever do, drunk or sober.

That's something even the original poster wouldn't know about, and he was actually there at the time. Nobody knows what anybody else really wants.

If the girl was really incapacitated, it's one thing. She didn't sound anything like that according to the first post, which is the one you responded to, or the second post, which is not the one you responded to.

The second post by the original poster casts the guy in a different light, but not either of the girls. Perhaps he agrees he was a scumbag or trying to be one; certainly his idea that the girl would go home with a chimp doesn't seem respectful of either the girl or himself, and more presumptuous than insightful about the girl. I don't think anyone can speak for the girl's motivations or desires one way or the other, except for the girl herself, who had no particular desire to work it all out under pressure on the spot or tell anyone.

Anyway, it seems there's a lot of confidence about a lot of assumptions going on here, both from people who were and weren't there. I wouldn't be surprised if the actual girl involved had a different and more realistic take on things than everyone present at the time and everyone in this thread commenting about it.

[chabibi]

Homer does make a point but let me clear my name. the girl came in with a group of girls who were obviously the party bunch. they drank the most and were often the ones jumping on the bar so i have no reason to believe that she wasnt going home with some other guy, and if she is it may as well be me. by the way her and most of her friends acted it is my guess that this is a standard weekend thing for them to do.
i am also not some predator like you would like to believe. i do not go out and seek the drunkest girl in the bar and take her home. she had just grabbed me out of a crowd of guys and i was just going with the flow. i am also not a rapest. if i sincerley felt that she was in a mindset that she could not make any clear decisions ie. passing out while im fooling around with her i would have used better judgment for my sake and hers and not attempted anything. finally the girl that grabbed her was by far the least attractive of the bunch and looked rather misrable wathcing all her friends have a great time. i honestly believe that while she may have been only trying to be a good friend, jeal;ousy played a substatianl part in her leading her friend away. as a matter of fact i didnt mention her other girlfriends gigling as they watched us walking to the door wich leades me to believe that they were okay with it

[Topflight]

Here is my pet peev:

Ok, you know how when you park your car in a parking lot, every now and then you find a spot that is a "pull through." So you pull straight through and you don't have to back out when you leave. That is hot.

Well, some parking lots have one direction lanes and the spots are at an angle. I HATE when idiots pull through here. I can just see them being excited about their pull through spot. Now when they leave they are forced to drive the wrong direction down the one way lane.

When I see cars parked like this I seriously want to just wait by their car and beat the [censored] out of them when they get back. IDIOTS!

[youtalkfunny]

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--The guy in the poker room who thinks that the tv closest to him is HIS tv,...

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First come, first served, man. There are exceptions, like when EVERYONE wants to watch something else, but by and large I think you missed on this one.

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You're right, of course.

I was talking about the guy who can't believe we're not going to keep the Weather Channel on when the Monday Night Football game is about to kick off.

And since we're back in the poker room, here's another:

A new player, chips in hand, approaches a seat that has been empty for over an hour, and as soon as he gets within two feet of it, one of the players blurts, "Dealer, I want that seat!!!"

Extra points if more than one player put in a claim for it, then argue bitterly about it.

[brassnuts]

Oh yeah, I hate DVDs that MAKE you watch previews.

[plaster8]

I don't want to get involved, but it just struck me as funny that the guy with the Ron Jeremy pic by his name could possibly be conceived as the "kind who thinks that 'good girls don't have sex.'"

[Rooster71]

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I absolutely hate it when I'm walking in an aisle or sidewalk or whatever, and there is a group of people walking in the opposite direction. And this group of people is walking side by side and there is not enough room for them (2 or 3 people) and me to all be side by side on the sidewalk at once. And their group of people does not collapse temporarily, they make me stand aside while they pass. Super gay.

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People who just stand and linger around in doorways (usually talking) irritate the hell out of me. I have CMT (a variation of Muscular Dystrophy that affects my legs) and as a result I have very poor balance. When some fat slob is just lounging in a doorway, I often bump into them (usually unintentionally) unless it is a really large doorway. This drives me nuts. Most of the time I'll say "excuse me", but quite often I'll bump into them anyway. But I'm not really concerned with hurting anyone's feelings if they are too stupid to not understand that they shouldn't block doorways.

I wish I was about 6'6" and in good physical condition, then I would just flatten the fat slobs.

[nicky g]

Tourists on the London Underground. This is where all sorts of annoying behaviour comes to a head. Blocking escalators, blocking platforms, blocking the entrance to a train that's about to leave, swinging into you with backpacks etc etc. There should either be an exam to pass before you're allowed to take the tube, or only London residents should be admitted. Preferably both.

[nicky g]

Also, people who eat with their mouth open.

Hmmm, there are loads more but my mind has gone blank.

[cjromero]

How about people that won't let you get off the elevator before getting in themselves?

Or cashiers that ask if you have anything smaller when you try and pay for something with a $20 bill?

[MHarris]

Lousy tippers, particularly those who've been in a business where employee's incomes are based primarily on tips. I went out for a few beers with my buddy a couple weeks ago and the bartender was someone we had both worked with in the restaurant business. She kicked us a free round and generally took better care of us than any other bartender there ever does. I give my friend enough cash to cover my drinks plus a pretty generous tip. He pays with a credit card and while he's fumbling with the slip he mumbles, "$5 is OK, right?" Um, yeah dick, if you want to insult the girl who just gave you a free round.
Girlfriends who try to turn anything and everything into a [censored] confrontation. "Hmmm....I'm lacking drama in my life. I think I'll pick a fight!" No [censored] bueno.
Crappy beer.
MY sister goes and buys a BMW, then cries that she can't afford a Florida vacation. As if she could afford the vacation BEFORE she bought the car.
Crappy steak. Also, burnt steak.

[B Dids]

A few of mine

1- As somebody mentioned, people who have conversations in the middle of sidewalks, doorways and other high traffic areas. This is especially true in super markets once you factor in shopping cards, or on walking/running paths with strollers.

2- Anybody over the age of 18 who has their mother call their college to try and solve problems. If you're old enough to take a college class, you're old enough to handle your own business.

3- People eating on while on the phone, especially if they made the call. Just horrible.

4- Kinda with people who wait till it's their turn to act to stand up in poker, smokers who can't pick good times to go outside and smoke. My sister is horrible at this, if she needs a smoke, no matter what she's doing, she'll drop everything to fill that need.

[Rick Diesel]

So I'm at work, in the public restroom, throwing down on a nice, peaceful curveball, when some nasty dude sits down in the stall next to me and starts playing the ass trumpet so loud I can barely think. I mean, in your home is one thing, but you should exercise a little bit of restraint when you are in public.

Rick Diesel

[beerbandit]

i hate it when someone uses the rest of the toilet paper and uses the empty roll and spinner to rest the new roll on.

replace the roll and throw the tube away dammit, youre just sitting there anyway.

cheers

[Blarg]

I have the counter to the bad tipper thing. The waiter/waitress who expects that lousy service is perfectly fine. And contrary to the entitlement mentality of waitpersons in general, bad service is NOT uncommon, nor is mediocre service. Same goes with the attitudes that come with. GOOD service is far less common than it should be -- giving good service seems like a no-brainer to me, as even one customer can make a decent difference in your hourly rate. I'm constantly amazed by waitresses who, when you ask them for a napkin or a new fork or a refill glass of water or iced tea, come back 10 minutes later or have to be flagged down 15 minutes later because they forgot. Now my food is cold, I've been thirsty a long time and so I haven't wanted to eat and get even thirstier, etc. Taking a new order or wandering around chatting up friends does NOT take priority over taking care of existing customers, especially if it just takes a 20 second trip to the counter to pick up a couple of napkins or something. I can't count the number of times I've had to go up to the serving areas myself and ask for a fork or a refill or something because the waitpersons really didn't care one way or the other when, if ever, any of your needs were addressed.

[SmileyEH]

Agreed. I gave a $2 tip on a $50 dollar meal once because it took an hour and a half to get served, and an hour from sending cheque back with credit card to receiving credit card.

Worst service of my life.

-SmileyEH