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I hate the sound of people eating when it's quiet.. even myself.

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Haha that's exactly the same as me, particularly the last part. The thing is, I'm sure everyone has weird obsessions and interests that they don't tell anyone other than a few people. If playing fantasy games for many consecutive hours is your weirdest interest then that's probably a good thing.

Hmm, well I would guess there are websites for those interests as well (but I'll keep those interests anonymous).

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I think this mostly summarizes how I feel ...

I'll just say that I don't like ad nauseum "my life sucks" complainers, evangelical vegetarians, and homophobes. Seriously. Your life doesn't suck, meat is delicious, and gay people are NOT scary.

Okay, some of the following is serious, and some in jest. Sorry, I just kind of bunched them all together. It gets more serious near the end:

I get annoyed when...

1. ...people don't flush the toilet in public bathrooms

2. ...people flush, but pee all over the floor and seat.

3. people grunt, groan, moan, or do that throaty sound where it sounds like you're going to spit a bunch of mucus from the back of your throat/sinus... in public bathrooms.

4. ...old guys fart near you 'cause they just don't care. (though it's funny at the same time)

5. ...people leave bubble gum deposits everywhere.

6. ...people borrow only movies from the library (I have to admit I'm just kind of snooty that way)

7. ...people are so cautious about driving that they don't go when they're supposed to (e.g. making right turns- if you live in the U.S., or merging into traffic, or making left turns through traffic, etc.).

8. ...people are inconsiderate bullies when they drive.

9. ...people yell and shout obnoxiously in public places.

10. ...people take an interesting thread and go in a completely different, much less enjoyable, direction. (though I've probably been guilty of collaborating in something like this too, at one time or another)

11. ...people friend you online then start spamming you with anything and everything that interests them.

12. ...girls in their early teens dress like hookers.

13. ...gay people/advocates start talking/propagandizing in such a way as to imply that assimilation is the only form of tolerance.

14. ...people portray asians as ugly Chinglish-speaking wusses in comedies.

Of course, I'm guilty of plenty of my own faults, and this is by no means to be taken as a holier-than-thou post.

This post has been edited by finalalias on 21st February 2011 17:51

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*lots of pokemon things*

People who go in-depth complaining about video games (kidding).

Well, I wasn't complaining about video games as much as I was complaining about people complaining about video games...which, admittedly, is not much better.

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Haha, this one is pretty silly, but it drives me absolutely nuts when I see people wearing bluetooth headsets in places where they can't or shouldn't be answering phone calls. I think they already look ridiculous enough in non-handsfree situations as it is, but I was seated on a plane next to some guy who had his headset on for the entire flight. Are you going to answer a call if it comes through? Just take it off. Additionally, some guy kept his on for the entirety of my sister's Masters graduation and it drove me up the wall.

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In the night there is something wild
Can you hear it breathing?
And hey, put the laptop down for a while
In the night there is something wild
I feel it, it's leaving me

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3. people grunt, groan, moan, or do that throaty sound where it sounds like you're going to spit a bunch of mucus from the back of your throat/sinus... in public bathrooms.

I have to comment on this one. I do this. Its mostly uncontrollable. I have a condition and this happens to me all day long (including while Im asleep).

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3. people grunt, groan, moan, or do that throaty sound where it sounds like you're going to spit a bunch of mucus from the back of your throat/sinus... in public bathrooms.

I have to comment on this one. I do this. Its mostly uncontrollable. I have a condition and this happens to me all day long (including while Im asleep).

Wow, I didn't know it was uncontrollable for some people. Sorry, didn't mean to offend anyone.

I'm glad I learned something here- next time I can give the person the benefit of the doubt.

Ok, so this one really drives me nuts.

Say the bathtub/shower area hasn't been properly cleaned in a while. I'll get fed up with it, take everything out, scrub it 'til it's sparkling, and rearrange everything in a neat, orderly way. Even clean all the shampoo bottles and replace the razers, wipe down the shower curtain, everything. After hours of scrubbing (I'm throrough and easily distracted!), I'm pretty proud of the finished product.
Whoever's living with me-- husband, roomate, sibling-- comes in, takes 30 seconds to look at it, and tells me the way I have everything is organized is all wrong, even though there WAS no organization before I came in. What? If you're even going to say something, why'd you let it get so bad in the first place?

Oh, that drives me crazy.

That happens at work, too. They didn't make ANY cakes for the night shift at the bakery, so I got a few ready. They didn't look picture perfect, but at least there were options for customers. We would've gotten in so much trouble if the store manager saw the decorators had left without doing those cakes! And the next day, those same decorators had the nerve to complain on how the cakes looked?

Not only did they sell, but you forfeit the right to complain about how a job is being done the second you don't do it. You're giving someone else fair game to come in and do it their way ><

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People that aren't me.

Let me narrow it down -- people who are Josh Alvies.

Anyways, I go to the gym, a lot. I go in there, I do my workout, and I leave. I wish I could say the same for everyone else. The following is a list of things I cannot stand.

1) People who spend more time posing/talking/walking around than they do lifting.

2) Women who wear makeup/men who wear hats. Especially when they wear their baseball hats sideways or wear beanies in summer.

3) People who feel compelled to lift next to you to show their superiority. I'm not there to get in a competition, so please go away and give me space.

4) People who just don't know what they're doing. I teach PE and I am also a state record holder. But I will not come up to you and tell you you're doing something wrong, and if you cannot handle the weight, either ask for a spot or do something else.

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People that aren't me.

Let me narrow it down -- people who are Josh Alvies.

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2) Women who wear makeup/men who wear hats. Especially when they wear their baseball hats sideways or wear beanies in summer.

Let me just say that I agree with both of these points that I've quoted. Mainly the first, but yeah, the second drives me nuts, too. I know I probably sound like an old codger saying it, but having to buy a hat that is three sizes too big just so you can put it on your head at a random angle and still have it fit just looks silly. But, hey, it's just an annoyance, do what you want.

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Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

With regards to the gym, I have a few other issues. People who: 1) use the squat rack (when I need it for squats!) for things like curls. 2) don't put weights and other equipment back where they go or, worse, leave stuff all over the floor. 3) grunt loud enough to drown out a jet engine.

As a more general annoyance, I HATE it when people smoke or fart around me. Neither is cool nor funny, and I don't wanna smell either one.

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I have a few things to say on this topic. I don't like arrogant or elitist people or people that think they're better than everyone else.

I don't like people who interrupt people but this is in an all the time manner. Sometimes people interrupt by accident because they get excited about something.

I don't like people that are so nitpicky about grammar and punctuation and spelling when someone posts a topic. If you can understand what the person is saying, then just leave it alone and don't pretend you don't understand either. Not everyone got A's in English, or had the best teachers or even are native english speakers and many different communication habits especially eletronically can influence this and I just consider someone complaining about this all the time to be unreasonable, elitist jerk.

I also don't like it when just because I don't agree with a practice that someone partakes in that it automatically means that I "don't accept" or "hate" them when that's not true. i don't have to like everything a person does to like them or love them.

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2) Women who wear makeup

Most women then..

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2) Women who wear makeup

Most women then..

Gabe was talking about behavior in the gym. Gotta watch out for those context clues, bud.

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Quote (Gabe @ 23rd February 2011 20:39)

Anyways, I go to the gym, a lot.  I go in there, I do my workout, and I leave.  I wish I could say the same for everyone else.  The following is a list of things I cannot stand.

1)  People who spend more time posing/talking/walking around than they do lifting.

2) Women who wear makeup/men who wear hats.  Especially when they wear their baseball hats sideways or wear beanies in summer.

3)  People who feel compelled to lift next to you to show their superiority.  I'm not there to get in a competition, so please go away and give me space.

4)  People who just don't know what they're doing.  I teach PE and I am also a state record holder.  But I will not come up to you and tell you you're doing something wrong, and if you cannot handle the weight, either ask for a spot or do something else.

I mentioned in passing before that I avoid the gym. You've nailed the exact reasons right there. I understand if you're training for a sport or keeping healthy in an environment which encourages it. However in my experience, the other 90% of people who go are doing it to feel psychologically better about themselves or go because they know people who do, or see it on TV, and think it's something they should do to fit in. I don't want to take away from someone's enjoyment of something that makes them feel good, not at all, but the behaviour that annoys me especially is how seriously and competitively some people take it in a social sense. People who go to make themselves feel good because they can lift or run more than someone else reeks a lot of insecurity. Crippling insecurity.

Actually, any of this typically human but nonetheless annoying demonstrations of insecurity make me shake my head a little, especially if it involves money. Things like big, bright, expensive impractical cars, or expensive vulgar jewellery or someone who... wait a minute I've already covered this in my first post here.

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4. ...old guys fart near you 'cause they just don't care. (though it's funny at the same time)

Personally, I can't stand burping or farting by anyone, anywhere, so I'm going to be a terrible dad. I watched the extended version of Lord of the Rings with a guy who's personal hygiene is probably about twice as better as mine, yet he burped constantly through the entire 4 1/2 hours of the last film. I wish I was exaggerating. He burped once every 5 or 6 seconds, for over 4 hours.... just little ones that were perfectly audible over the film. At times I started pulling my hair painfully. Thing is, I've said to him so many times that he's got to stop, that if I were to tell him again I'd turn into the grumpy guy that complains a lot.

This post has been edited by sweetdude on 4th March 2011 18:56

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Me on the Starcraft.

Ok, so I've mentioned people who brag, but I haven't mentioned the opposite, which is also annoying: OVerly self-conscious people.

This is one reason I hate hanging out with girls. Don't spend 30 minutes complaining about how fat you got after high school. Spend 30 minutes jogging instead.
I get it. You aged and kept eating fatty foods like a frat boy and then you didn't like the results.
Can we move on now? PLEASE? You hit the freshman 15 four times already, and everyone sees it, so just do something about it and stop pitying yourself. I know that's really awful of me to say, but I have friends who are absolutely gorgeous. I see it, all their friends see it, their boyfriend sees it. They see someone ugly, and I'm just really tired of telling them how great they are just for them to go fish for compliments another day. No one can make you feel pretty enough if you don't feel it yourself, and especially if you have no reason to feel it.

I am a huge believer in loving yourself. Either change what you don't like, or make peace. Don't dwell on your flaws, because no one else is. Why waste the time? There's so much more to you than your looks, anyway. Personality and the way you carry yourself have a huge effect on your looks, and you can't exactly see that when you look in a mirror.

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You're telling me that there's no hope.

I'm telling you you're wrong.

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Gabe was talking about behavior in the gym. Gotta watch out for those context clues, bud.

Ah. My bad.

And Relm, you really nailed it in your last paragraph that's so true.

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When people refer to Final Fantasy IV as Final Fantasy II or when people refer to Final Fantasy VI as Final Fantasy III.

Especially annoying when one is looking for sheet music for III's boss theme and keeps finding VI's The Decisive Battle.

Hell, it's only one obnoxious arpeggio I need (the one at 0:16). I know every other part of the song.

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YOU CARRY
EAT A BAG
LEMON-DY
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JIM CARREY
IN A BEAR
HEAVEN PEE
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People that state their gaming opinions as fact, as if the goodness of a game and its enjoyment factor isn't subjective. That just because they don't like a game they think everyone else shouldn't like it either.

People still stuck in the console wars. Each console has its strengths and weaknesses that appeal to different people. The Wii isn't my favorite console because it doesn't cater to my gaming needs but I wouldn't say that it sucks or is a bad console. I found this in the old Nintendo v.s. Sony debates in the early days. Pro Nintendo fanboys could not see the strength of the Playstation particularly in the RPG section.

I hate people that say that just because you like Final Fantasy VII that you are a Final Fantasy VII fanboy.

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Recently Finished: Fire Emblem: Awakening

Favorite Game: Suikoden III

People who think they are much smarter than they really are. I'm talking well beyond Lake Wobegon Effect levels here (that's usually people underestimating what "average" really is, from what I've seen).

People who refuse to grow up. This is something I've discovered in the last few years, as there are a lot of people who use college as an excuse to delay growing up. Most of the people I go to college with act less mature than most of the people I went to high school with.

When it comes to politics, religion, etc, I generally don't care what people believe. What is more telling to me is why you believe it and the way you understand how people reach beliefs you disagree with. If you're particularly ignorant in the way you go about those, then you'll get on my nerves. Granted, an ignorant person I disagree with will get on my nerves faster than the ignorant person I agree with (until you hit a certain stupidity threshold, then the one I disagree with will just cause me to roll my eyes and the one I agree with will get a OMGWTFSTOPTALKING).
What I mean by having an ignorant understanding of those that disagree with you is if you believe in X and assume the only reason people have to believe in Y is if they are racist/greedy/evil/etc. The worst I've seen was someone who honestly thought that everything she thought was absolute fact and no one ever actually disagreed with her. If you said anything contradictory to her it was because you were trying to personally hurt her.

Other than those things, I'm usually tolerant of things I find to be negative qualities in people. Unless someone has a really odd combination of negative qualities. Like a co-worker I'm currently having problems with - she's both extremely snobbish/stuck up and has zero class.

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Dear Paladin. I flat out refuse to grow up. I hope this doesn't affect our relationship too badly.

Also anyone read JD Salinger's Catcher In The Rye? I think it's more popular in North America but gosh, the narrator could fill this thread 5 times over..

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I did read catcher in the rye. guy was a jackass but I still enjoyed the book for some reason. But that does remind me of the least attractive quality that I find in a guy. Arrogance. I'd be much lest disgusted by a guy that picked his nose and ate a booger in front of me than blatant arrogance. I prefer secret arrogance, like mine. I might think I'm smarter than someone but I will never say it out loud.

Oh also people that disagree with you just to disagree, even when they might in actuality agree with you. Pisses me off.

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Currently Playing: Final Fantasy XIV: ARR, Attack of the Firday Monsters, Animal Crossing: A New Leaf, Lego City Undercover, Kingdom Hearts 1.5 Remix

Recently Finished: Fire Emblem: Awakening

Favorite Game: Suikoden III

I believe Stephen Lynch sang it best: Is it wrong to wish for SIDS? Or hell lady, if you won't hit them unconscious I will!

And why the **** did you bring 'em to watch The Hangover?!

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Also anyone read JD Salinger's Catcher In The Rye? I think it's more popular in North America but gosh, the narrator could fill this thread 5 times over..

Do you mean you could write about the narrator 5 times over or his complaints 5 times over? Both would work I think. I still think it's a great read anyway.

In the spirit of trying not to be a hypocrite here's my behaviours that I think (or know) annoy other people:

Always trying to be right. I'm flexible with this, so I'll acknowledge a wrong but then somehow construe the wrong into what I believe so that it fits, or adapt it in a more complete way. So changing my mind about something takes a really long time. It might come across ok in a conversation, and I do try to listen to people as much as possible, however I try to come up with a lot of unconventional ideas and defend them all the way. In a conversation it's fun but annoying when I don't shut up about it. Especially annoying in pillow talk when I'll freely chat away when she's trying to get to sleep. Just admit you're wrong! I just like trying to convince people until they say I'm correct.

Hearing. Honestly I'm totally deaf in one ear and it must be a bloody pain to have to talk to me, especially if I'm in a place with background noise. I'm used to people sometimes shouting at me when I ignore them. Getting my attention can be really difficult too. If I'm walking on the street or something people can say my name about 10 times at increasingly loud volumes until I notice. Also selective hearing. I'll reply with an answer to what I thought they'd said which has absolutely nothing to do with what's going on. Also also, zoning out of a conversation when I can't be arsed having to listen. I can get these silent spells when people think they've said something that's upset me. I think the whole mix of these things must get really tiring for people. Anyone who knows Professor Calculus from Tintin, Calculus is me in 30 years.

Pride. I suppose this ties in a bit with the other two. I have a lot of pride in what I do and what I think. It doesn't mean I'm got an inflated sense of self-importance or anything like it, it means I'm very happy with the way I do things and I won't change. It must be really annoying to the people who care about me and want me to understand that I'm being stupid. I won't wear a hearing aid because of pride, as an example.

Being closed off. I've been told a number of times that it's annoying when I might start talking about something only to say "actually it's nothing", when there's definitely more to say.

Not reacting well to things. A lot of the time I react wrongly to situations. The most frequent example is when someone is really enthusiastic about something and I don't really understand why, so I can't relate or be happy that they're happy. I'm not at all pleased with myself when I kill the mood and I will absolutely not fake happiness or any other emotion for that matter.

Facebook. I deleted my Facebook about 7 months ago. I basically used it as a glorified PM system and thought there was no point in my having it. People have regularly told me that it's really annoying not being able to contact me or show me things... Because apparently phones, Skype and emails are too difficult. Or even just waiting until we see each other face to face. I'm not sure this is really a behaviour it's more to do with pride and being right all the time, I will not change my mind!

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Scepticism, that dry rot of the intellect, had not left one entire idea in his mind.

Me on the Starcraft.

Totally going to add on, haha.

People who repeat the same stories to you even after you tell them you've heard it before!
Storytelling is an art, yeah. But I have a pretty decent memory and if I didn't particularly find the time you wore mismatching shoes funny the first time, chances are by the second time I'm bored.

It really sucks, because I'll meet someone and think, hey, they're really funny and cool. Turns out, they have about 10 cool stories about themselves they just keep on repeat so everyone knows about the time they made a cute remark on Obama's presidency.

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People who repeat the same stories to you even after you tell them you've heard it before!

I have the unfortunate pleasure of a Mother who is in many aspects wonderful, but with this being one of her major flaws.

A typical scenario:

Mother - "Did I tell you about Tom's dog?"
Me - "Yes"
Mother - "Well what happened was..."
10 minutes later
Mother - "... so he ended up homeless"
Me - "Yeah, you said"

I have so many things that annoy me, but in keeping with the thread topic I'll try and stick to the short(read: long) list of behavioural bothers, but generally just personality characteristics, of what seems like most people I meet.

• People who feel the need to tell you something you already know
• People who smoke outside and still seem to manage to blow cigarette smoke straight in my face
• The fact that my landlord checks the fire alarms in my building at 0800 on tuesday mornings, my only day off
• My boss changing my workin hours when I'm not at work and still expects me to be on time
• People in shops such as PC World or Curry's who pretend to be experts in what they're selling, when clearly they are just going by the price
• Using emotes as punctuation it boils my blood
• When video game developers decide to put in a section of a game that isn't meant to be fun or challenging, but just because they're SOB's
• Going to my favourite guitar shop and seeing the poor excuse for a human being in emo form trying to pretend he knows music
• People who say 'A is better than B' having never tried one of them, or even having not tried either and just having it on what they think is good authority from a friend and are only mentioning it to seem interesting
• People who like coffee more than tea, WTF is wrong with you?
• People who go to 'higher ranked' universities than you even though you worked your arse off and got amazing grades but their daddy played golf with the chancellor or something
• Minecraft griefers
• People with terrible grammer; in my locale a common error(and idiocy) is to spell 'would have' as 'wud ov'. Now, there are four things I hate about this statement, the first being the shortening of 'would' to 'wud', the seconf being the error of using 'of' instead of 'have', third would be the pointless use of a v instead of an f for 'of'(since they're so close to each other on a qwerty) and the fourth thing I hate about this statement are the people who use it.
• The use of portmanteau to combine two synonyms to create a third synonym. An example could be guesstimate. Guess and estimate are very similar terms, although estimate usually has just knowledgeable justification, guesstimate is just another 'Americanism'. Forgive me if I seem to be insulting Americans there, I'm not. I'm simply saying you have a knack for bastardising the language. That brings me to my next point.
• The use of the word 'Aluminum', even though IUPAC and pretty much every country in the world besides the two NA giants use Aluminium.
• People that get offended when you tell them the truth. You can sit in art class and someone will be completely bring new meaning to still life on one side of you, and on the other can be some poor chap looking like he's trying to draw what he imagines last nights supper looks like about now. You complement the good drawing and if the person who is clearly meant for different endeavours wants your input they'll expect you to sing praise about it, however once you tell them it's a little less than stellar they sulk, or even become angry at you. This is a perfect situation in which to keep your pimp-hand strong.

I have plenty more, but I need to sleep off some of thing rage.

This post has been edited by iSeizmik on 27th May 2011 02:17

But... but Aluminum makes more sense! Where does the extra i come from? The Latin suffixes are -a and -um.

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I get annoyed.... Um. When people (this is America again) complain about gasoline prices. It's just obnoxious to me for several reasons.

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But... but Aluminum makes more sense! Where does the extra i come from? The Latin suffixes are -a and -um.

Same goes for calcum, sodum, magnesum and potassum. I personally don't mind aluminum but I say aluminium.

This post has been edited by sweetdude on 27th May 2011 11:03

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Scepticism, that dry rot of the intellect, had not left one entire idea in his mind.

Me on the Starcraft.

Wow, I didn't know that about aluminum.

But I disagree that 'ium' is any less Latin than 'um'. You find it in third declension words when they're genitive plural. The following thread may be helpful to distinguish when to use -um and when to use -ium:
http://www.textkit.com/greek-latin-forum/v...php?f=3&t=11334
I'm not sure if 'alum' is third declension, but it kind of sounds like it. And according to wikipedia, the iupac recognizes 'aluminum' as an acceptable variant.

...and iSeizmik, you misspelled grammar.

This post has been edited by finalalias on 27th May 2011 13:46

People who immediately speak up to remind you it's called football, not soccer. These people never seem to mind you using a different term for any other word, but god help you if you say soccer. It's like they're willing to accept that different cultures use different words for certain things, but they absolutely WILL NOT bend on the soccer vs football issue.

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