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

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Shut up dredre, moron.

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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?

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

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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.

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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!!!!

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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!!"

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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.

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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?

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

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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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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? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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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 [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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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 [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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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.

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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.

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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 [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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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.

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

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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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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.

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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.

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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

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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]!

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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. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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Only one Pet Peeve: God.

-Zeno

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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!"

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

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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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.


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

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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.