Trivial annoyances

Nate Dorward · September-18th-2003, 01:04 AM

This is a thread for things you hate, the more trivial the better.

1) Yogurt with gelatin in it. Milk products shouldn't wiggle or look like aspic molds.

2) CDs which have a single flimsy piece of square paper for an insert, rather than a folded piece or booklet. The square always falls out, or gets mashed by those little plastic half-moons that are supposed to hold it in.

3) The fact that it seems I can't go into any public place without there being an out-of-tune radio or badly skipping CD on the sound system.

4) Recipes that call for half a teaspoon of an ingredient which you need to buy in a huge jar or bag, & which otherwise is of no use for any other recipe.

Hm, two hatreds to do with food, two with music. This probably tells you all you need to know about me.

john williams · September-18th-2003, 01:44 AM

1) Movies that have the lines "I'm too old for this shit" or "I've got a really bad feeling about this." Stop already!

2) Commercials that SHOUT at me to buy some shit I don't want or need.

3) R&B which isn't R&B

4) Dobby from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

5) Harry Potter.

6) Harry Potter's annoying friends.

7)Chris Columbus. The 'director' not the explorer.

john williams · September-18th-2003, 01:58 AM

Also: Those annoying so called 'secret tracks' [often untitled] at the end of many rock albums.

Brian Olewnick · September-18th-2003, 08:46 AM

Men wearing shorts with their shirts tucked in.

Shaving cuts that refuse to coagulate (I've got an all-time winner this morning)

Jimmy Cantiello · September-18th-2003, 09:00 AM

People who leave a mouthful of milk in the carton and put it back in the fridge.......................

shrugs · September-18th-2003, 09:20 AM

People who leave a half a cup of coffee in the pot or pour a cup before the whole pot is brewed
People who drive 60 in the fast lane when the speed limit is 65
People who assume that their knowledge of all things military is enough to form their own opinions because they know a lot about politics
People who claim that all records are full of clicks and pops

bluenoter · September-18th-2003, 09:21 AM

Instructions that include the word "simply," as in, "Then simply torque the widget 52 degrees clockwise." I interpret "simply" as a warning that it won't be simple.

john williams · September-18th-2003, 09:39 AM

Opening the shrink wrap on blank CDRs & Videos. The little tag thingy often breaks.

Men who wear shorts, long socks & sandal combos particularly if, as Brian said, their shirt is tucked in.

Men, but for some reason usually women, who are extremely large and insist on wearing lycra bike pants, with their shirt tucked in.

Pete C · September-18th-2003, 09:42 AM

Bars, clubs or restaurants that offer 12 kinds of beer, but none of them any good.

Restaurants where 5 of the 6 desserts offered are chocolate.

strich · September-18th-2003, 09:44 AM

People completely (mis)using the phrase "I could care less", when they intend exactly the opposite: "I couldn't care less".

Enforcer · September-18th-2003, 09:46 AM

1. We have email, digital cable and cell phones that can take pictures, but they can't make a f**king disposable coffee cup that won't spill everywhere when you hit a bump in the road.

2. Left turn stoplights that don't flash red but instead stay solid so I can't turn until I get the green arrow. Because I'm too stupid to know when to turn. I can't rely on my own instincts to tell me that I shouldn't drive into an oncoming truck. Luckily, I get my "smarts" back when I make it to the next intersection, where I'm allowed to turn on a flashing red.

3. People who drive *under* the speed limit. If you have that much time to get wherever you're going, then *leave later*.

4. Full serve gas pumps taking up what could be self serve pump space. If you use full serve gas pumps in 2003, and have the physical ability to pump gas yourself but choose not to, then you should have your ass removed, you spoiled f**k.

5. If you tell the kid you want the food "to go" before he's ready to ask you, he asks you anyway.

6. People who order a big, frothy, f**king foo foo coffee drink at 7:00 in the morning, which takes so long for the kid to make that I have to stand in line for 10 minutes to get a cup of black coffee that I could have walked behind the counter and poured myself in 10 seconds. Hey, let me break the news to you people: That foamy, caramel covered, whipped cream topped, pseudo hot chocolate you're drinking is supposed to be taken at f**king *apertif* time. So come back at 7:00 tonight and get it, because the rest of us addicts who can't peel our eyes open without a cup of caffeine promise not to jump up your ass about it by then.

Larry

MRS · September-18th-2003, 09:58 AM

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Originally posted by JBW
1) Movies that have the lines "I'm too old for this shit"

What?! Where's Noj? Or, more importantly, where's Mister...............................

bostontricky · September-18th-2003, 10:14 AM

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Originally posted by Larry Nagel
6. People who order a big, frothy, f**king foo foo coffee drink at 7:00 in the morning, which takes so long for the kid to make that I have to stand in line for 10 minutes to get a cup of black coffee that I could have walked behind the counter and poured myself in 10 seconds. Hey, let me break the news to you people: That foamy, caramel covered, whipped cream topped, pseudo hot chocolate you're drinking is supposed to be taken at f**king *apertif* time. So come back at 7:00 tonight and get it, because the rest of us addicts who can't peel our eyes open without a cup of caffeine promise not to jump up your ass about it by then.

Hardly a trivial annoyance, Nags. This should be a felony offense.

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Why do I have to shell out $35 to get the soundtrack to Pink Floyd's "The Wall" when I can buy the whole fucking movie on DVD for $19.99?

Monte Smith · September-18th-2003, 10:46 AM

How about cursing in public? I don't mean bad-mouthing in general when you are with friends, but just plain obscenity for no reason in front of kids and strangers. Two days ago I was in the Safeway buying green onions and these two punk college kids were going "Fuck this" and "Motherfuck that" right in front of a toddler in the seat of a grocery cart and his horrified mom. That isn't right. Then before that, I came out of the frigging library of all places to behold the spectacle of a man on his cell pone screaming repeatedly "Pay the goddamn bill, just pay the motherfucking bill" with tons of young grammar students standing around observing his lack of self control. What a disgrace.

Pete C · September-18th-2003, 10:48 AM

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Originally posted by Monte Smith
a man on his cell pone

Now I can't stop singing "Jubilation T. Cell Pone."

I hate when that happens.

Jazzzoline · September-18th-2003, 10:51 AM

Naked men, still wearing their socks.

False intellectuals. Those who use 30 letters words in 1000 words sentences to explain simple things.

A boss being low profile.

Pete C · September-18th-2003, 10:52 AM

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Originally posted by Jazzzoline
Naked men, still wearing their socks.

Technically that's not naked. And what kind of movies are you watching?

Jazzzoline · September-18th-2003, 11:07 AM

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Originally posted by Pete C
Technically that's not naked. And what kind of movies are you watching?

In a movie, I call it "comedy" not "annoyance".

Noj · September-18th-2003, 11:08 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Michael Schaumann
What?! Where's Noj? Or, more importantly, where's Mister...............................

Murtaugh: "Who?"
Riggs: "That same albino jackrabbit son-of-a-bitch that killed Hunsacker."

My trivial annoyances:
1. People who act and talk like Lomburgh from OFFICE SPACE--my department's manager being the prime example. This guy is frickin' Lomburgh.
2. Drivers who tailgate.
3. Litterbugs

Dan G · September-18th-2003, 11:10 AM

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Originally posted by Larry Nagel
6. People who order a big, frothy, f**king foo foo coffee drink at 7:00 in the morning, which takes so long for the kid to make that I have to stand in line for 10 minutes to get a cup of black coffee that I could have walked behind the counter and poured myself in 10 seconds. Hey, let me break the news to you people: That foamy, caramel covered, whipped cream topped, pseudo hot chocolate you're drinking is supposed to be taken at f**king *apertif* time. So come back at 7:00 tonight and get it, because the rest of us addicts who can't peel our eyes open without a cup of caffeine promise not to jump up your ass about it by then.

Then there's my morning trip to Tim Hortons. For those who live outside of Canada, Hortons is our version of Starbucks, but better coffee, better food. There's one on every third streetcorner in every city and town across the country. It is a national institution, yet some people still don't understand it:
Customer: I'll have a coffee please
Attendant: What size?
C: What do you have?
A: Small, medium, large, extra large
C: How big is a medium?
A: There's all the cups right there.
C: OK, I'll have a medium.
A: And what woud you like in it sir?
C: Some milk and a half a sweetener.
A: And would you like anything else to go with that?
(At this point, Dan sits down on the floor and starts to cry)
C: A bagel.
A: What kind would you like?
C: What do you have?
A: All these ones on the rack behind me sir.
C: (stares at rack for a few minutes) Whole wheat & honey.
A: (turns around, reaches for bagel) We don't have whole wheat & honey. Did you mean whole wheat? Or Oat & honey?
C: (stares again)Oh, ummmmm....whole wheat?
A: Would you like that toasted or plain?
C: ummmmmm....toasted
A:Would you like cream cheese on it?
C: Yes.
A: What kind?
C: What kinds do you have?
(At this point as the attendant begins to name the dozen flavors of cream cheese, Dan falls asleep on floor. You'll have to imagine the rest of the conversation for yourself.)

clinthopson · September-18th-2003, 11:25 AM

Those goddam seals on medicine and vitamin bottles that need a jackhammer to take them off.

That incredibly unpenetrable plastic stuff that things come in these days.

People driving the speed limit when everybody else is going 80.

People who stop two car lengths behind the car in front of them at a stop light thereby blocking the left turn lane.

Insipid salsa.

Republicans.

bostontricky · September-18th-2003, 11:31 AM

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Originally posted by Dan G
Then there's my morning trip to Tim Hortons. For those who live outside of Canada, Hortons is our version of Starbucks, but better coffee, better food. There's one on every third streetcorner in every city and town across the country. It is a national institution, yet some people still don't understand it:

And I couldn't understand why the hell I couldn't get an iced coffee at a Tim Hortons in Fort Erie earlier this summer. "Well, we have our (frozen presweetened slushy stuff), or we could put some hot coffee in a cup and put some ice in it." Jesus, get with the programme already, people.

Anyway, Tim Hortons is the Canadian version of Dunkin Donuts. No one derserves Starbucks, in its original format, or any local variaton thereof. Venti this.

Pete C · September-18th-2003, 11:34 AM

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Originally posted by clinthopson
Those goddam seals on medicine and vitamin bottles that need a jackhammer to take them off.

Hey, you leave those seals alone.

blawless · September-18th-2003, 11:42 AM

Booger flecks above the urinal. Eeeugh!

When you pull some dried skin off the bottom of your foot, and instead of coming off clean, it pulls and pulls and leaves a long, bleeding gash. Yow!

Sticky floors. They makes my flesh creep!

Condescenders, naysayers, self-aggrandizing lecturers and opinion-givers, and the rest of the humorless, petty, and transparently insecure mass of bozos that seem to be everywhere, flicking boogers, spilling cola, and giving you nasty looks when you’re just trying to give some feet a little TLC at the end of a rough day. You know who you are! Losers!

Monte Smith · September-18th-2003, 11:45 AM

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Originally posted by blawless
Booger flecks above the urinal. Eeeugh!

When you pull some dried skin off the bottom of your foot, and instead of coming off clean, it pulls and pulls and leaves a long, bleeding gash. Yow!

Sticky floors. They makes my flesh creep!

Condescenders, naysayers, self-aggrandizing lecturers and opinion-givers, and the rest of the humorless, petty, and transparently insecure mass of bozos that seem to be everywhere, flicking boogers, spilling cola, and giving you nasty looks when you’re just trying to give some feet a little TLC at the end of a rough day. You know who you are! Losers!

This post is the rawest expression of petty annoyance I have ever beheld. I love it!

shrugs · September-18th-2003, 11:46 AM

These super macho guys who call everyone that drinks something other than a black cup of coffee a wuss.

vibes · September-18th-2003, 11:47 AM

People who talk to you when you're using a urinal.

Salaried employees who never work more than standard company hours.

Co-workers who only know how to talk about what kind of alcohol they're going to have this weekend.

People who argue about what kind of music sucks, which musicians suck, what's better, etc.

People who announce everything they do as if the rest of us actually cared.

In-laws

Liberals

Overly zealous religious people

Tailgaters

People who complain about problems but don't offer solutions.

bostontricky · September-18th-2003, 11:48 AM

Go ahead and drink your wussy coffee, shrugs. Just don't get in line in front of more than one of us here before lunch.

MRS · September-18th-2003, 11:56 AM

Listen, blokes. . .I need my cell phone for work. Cisco pays for it. It's always on vibrate. I leave public establishments if I must answer it. I use it for personal reasons as little as possible.

This hour's bitch: Last night I was at an unsavory OUTDOOR tavern BELLY UP and this mother fucker tells me my cigarette is bothering him.

MRS · September-18th-2003, 12:00 PM

. . .before you attempt to peel off the sticker atop the jewel box, unhinge the box, thereby peeling the sticker off will be unnecessary.