Minor things that annoy you

[Deleted member 449757]

Do you know that feeling when you walk around in public, you think you have to fart but it ends up being explosive diarrhea as a side effect of your AIDS medication? That's annoying.

 

[chardog]

When you ask your friend to pick you up at the airport at a specific time and they don't leave the house until you text them that you've arrived. And you spend the next 40 minutes looking for their car and watching everyone else from your flight leave.

Bet your friend is annoyed you asked….. get an Uber next time, not that much.

 

[chardog]

People who don't shut the refrigerator all the way and don't hear or care to hear the beep that tells them the door is open.
I don't care if it's your house or mine, if that shit is beeping, I'm going to shut that door for you.

My wife would talk with one of her gal friends for months, one particular gal friend, divorced, would have the low battery smoke detector go off. This would go on for months…….

 

[toasty]

when you drank all your beer before passing out in the 2nd quarter of monday night football, then you wake up and have to choose between taking your wife's last peach coconut raspberry IPA or breaking in to the liquor store again for your breakfast beer.

 

[toasty]

when you get on the scale and you are 2 ounces away from your target wieght, then head to the bowl, fill it with a rock pile that the kid from free solo would have trouble summitting even using ropes, and then get back on the scale and it says you are still 2 ounce too fat.

i mean I just expelled about a pound of matter, how did that not effect your judgement of me as a human being you little high and mighty body fat reading piece of shit

 

[Your Salad]

My wife would talk with one of her gal friends for months, one particular gal friend, divorced, would have the low battery smoke detector go off. This would go on for months…….

NOOOOO.
Divorced, single, married. There can be no beeps.
Its a hill I'm ready to die on.

 

[Your Salad]

when you get on the scale and you are 2 ounces away from your target wieght, then head to the bowl, fill it with a rock pile that the kid from free solo would have trouble summitting even using ropes, and then get back on the scale and it says you are still 2 ounce too fat.

i mean I just expelled about a pound of matter, how did that not effect your judgement of me as a human being you little high and mighty body fat reading piece of shit

@toasty
If you look in the mirror and like what you see and you are a sane person, you're doing it right.

 

[650lb Sumo]

Robotification

Robots answering phones
Cashless businesses
Businesses where you can't just walk in but have to book on the internet
Businesses not responding to letters, only electronic communications
Shops throttling the human cashier supply to nudge you into using the robot


Subjugation

Employees trying to dominate you / make you jump through hoops / follow their script

You bring your groceries to the till:

Employee: Do you have a loyalty card?
Employee: Would you like to upgrade to blah blah?
Employee: Do you need a bag?
Employee: Would you like any Aeros for 50p today?

etc.


Unnecessary Questions

'People' will try to browbeat you into answering unnecessary questions as a way of psychologically subordinating you and feeling powerful.


Interrupting

A large share of the population don't have the patience for you to speak five words without interrupting. Or they do but they again just want to dominate. They will get louder and ruder as you cycle back. Their interruptions also usually fail to anticipate what you were going to say correctly. The member of the public is supposed to be the boss and the employees or government 'public servants' are supposed to follow our lead, not the other way around.


Overfamiliarity

We've lost the ye/thou distinction in English (yes I know, not 100%) and it's lost a lot of ground in Norwegian and some in Russian. We should bring it back. Also when you go to the doctor, or the car dealership or whatever you should be addressed as Mr Starmer, not 'Keir', by strangers, who are often young enough to be your children or grandchildren.

Where are titles and surnames still used?

Boarding School
the Military
legal matters


Excessive Car Use

I live in a town with tourism totally out of proportion to its size. There are dozens, maybe over a hundred buses a day and several trains. There's also a park and ride, and another large car park on the edge of town. The town is small, so most people could easily walk from there to the centre and back. Nevertheless, the town is RAMMED with cars, choking the roads, releasing pollution of various kinds, noisy, unsightly, slowing down pedestrians at crossings and parking unlawfully and often getting penalty charges for so doing. Also delaying necessary traffic.

When there's a big event, fair, agricultural show, monster trucks etc. somewhere there are terrible traffic jams because 99% of people come in their cars. They also don't set off early, taking into account the peak traffic. Unless there's a railway station nearby, or bus lanes all the way, which there usually aren't around here, getting the bus won't save you from the traffic jams. You have to set off HOURS early, or be prepared to walk some distance (often along roads without pavements). There aren't cycle lanes either so I wouldn't try that. A motorbike would work though.

On the subject of buses and trains a great number of smaller railway lines and stations were shut in the 50s and 60s. With the rocketing population and cost of living we could really use them now. Sometimes you can have I'd say, 250 people waiting for a bus here, and they send double deckers every half hour, which can take ~90 people, although some passengers are already on and going further, so the bus won't have 90 places the great majority of the time. They also get later and later as they trudge through the tourist traffic jams.

 

[toasty]

When u do a well thought out deep meaningful life changing post and get 0 fucking likes but the idiot that post a mike perry gif in response gets 24 likes and 7 replies

 

[Satur9]

People who don't close the toilet cover before flushing
People who answer questions with a question
People who ask the same question only with slightly different wording, to phish for a gotcha moment

These tiny divots behind my ears where no razor can touch, making me need to pull out the electric trimmer when shaving my head.

 

[Fedorgasm]

When you ask your friend to pick you up at the airport at a specific time and they don't leave the house until you text them that you've arrived. And you spend the next 40 minutes looking for their car and watching everyone else from your flight leave.

Sounds like your friend is trying to train you to not ask him to pick you up at the airport.

 

[Fedorgasm]

When u do a well thought out deep meaningful life changing post and get 0 fucking likes but the idiot that post a mike perry gif in response gets 24 likes and 7 replies

 

[pugilistico]

1. Where there is a long line of cars at an exit ramp and several assholes drive all the way to the front and try to cut in actually stopping the middle lane. FUCK THEM.

2. Servers who are rude. Bitch get another job if you can't pretend to be polite.

3. Mosquitos. Fuck those bastards.

Mosquitos are more than a minor annoyance for me after living in tropical countries and seeing my friends get dengue. Fuck them. They are an existential threat and must be dealt with as such.

 

[Legumes]

People who don't shut the refrigerator all the way and don't hear or care to hear the beep that tells them the door is open.
I don't care if it's your house or mine, if that shit is beeping, I'm going to shut that door for you.

You need to hang out with more poor people that don't have refrigerator door alert systems.

 

[jimbob27]

Folding and putting away clothes.

Specifically, items that really don't need folding. Underwear, tracksuit bottoms, non-wrinkle t-shirts.

It just feels like an utterly pointless and repetitive task, yet just bundling them into the drawer is too chaotic. I live alone so nobody even sees my clothes drawers, but I still have to fold everything for reasons I can't quite grasp.

 

[Your Salad]

You need to hang out with more poor people that don't have refrigerator door alert systems.

Nah, I don't think so.
I'm not living so far above the poverty line that I can't speak about said stuff.

 

[toasty]

When you wake up a see a text from a friend letting you know that someone you went to high school with 35 or 6 years ago died.

And you were friends with that person from 4th grade until like 9th grade, but then you started partying and got in with the "cool" kids and kinda left that friend behind.....So you feel like shit for having not been a truly good friend like all those fucking after school specials and Inside Out 2 show you you should've been...

So now your depressed because someone you haven't spoken to in almost 4 decades died and you wouldn't even know if fucking social media didn't exist or your friend respected the fact that you don't do social media to avoid exactly this kind of feeling

Then they send you shots of all the people you also haven't seen in 4 decades saying nice things about that person, even though you saw them treat that person like dirt for the 4 years they were in school together..

So now I'm angry at the hypocrisy of all the people that evidently don't feel guilty at all for rejecting this person that you at least treated as a friend for a number of years,,,,,No they just front and virtue signal their own kindness by typing a few cliches making them look all sad and say how special and kind that person was when you were young, but had he asked them for a date or if he could come to the kegger, they would've laughed in his face......

Oh and the same person just finished sending you a shit ton of pictures from the reunion these people just had and how the 1 really hot girl from Jr. high School is still amazingly hot while the rest of us have all crumbled to shit. I mean what the fuck is it where one person gets perfect genetics and evidently has a stress free 4 decades or so that leaves not a wrinkle or ounce of fat on them and the rest of us turn into bulbous vile piles of randomly hairy putrid goo?

So basically I am annoyed at Mike. Yeah Mike. Mike is the fucking problem,,,,,

Not that I was a clueless stoned idiot bumblefucking my way through social situations and not living up to my own internal standards of honor and friendship and decency. Or that I failed at accepting myself for the genetically inferior creation I am but still loving myself and manifesting joy and love throughout the universe while projecting confidence and pursuing my passions and not peeing myself a little and going all Raj Koothrapali around even mildly attractive females

Nope the problem is Mike,,,,,,fuck him and his fucking facebook account. how do you block motherfuckers like mike on your phone?

 

[Your Salad]

Mosquitos are more than a minor annoyance for me after living in tropical countries and seeing my friends get dengue. Fuck them. They are an existential threat and must be dealt with as such.

I guess frogs are their only benefactor?
Mosquitos can get fucked.

 

[Your Salad]

When you wake up a see a text from a friend letting you know that someone you went to high school with 35 or 6 years ago died.

And you were friends with that person from 4th grade until like 9th grade, but then you started partying and got in with the "cool" kids and kinda left that friend behind.....So you feel like shit for having not been a truly good friend like all those fucking after school specials and Inside Out 2 show you you should've been...

So now your depressed because someone you haven't spoken to in almost 4 decades died and you wouldn't even know if fucking social media didn't exist or your friend respected the fact that you don't do social media to avoid exactly this kind of feeling

Then they send you shots of all the people you also haven't seen in 4 decades saying nice things about that person, even though you saw them treat that person like dirt for the 4 years they were in school together..

So now I'm angry at the hypocrisy of all the people that evidently don't feel guilty at all for rejecting this person that you at least treated as a friend for a number of years,,,,,No they just front and virtue signal their own kindness by typing a few cliches making them look all sad and say how special and kind that person was when you were young, but had he asked them for a date or if he could come to the kegger, they would've laughed in his face......

Oh and the same person just finished sending you a shit ton of pictures from the reunion these people just had and how the 1 really hot girl from Jr. high School is still amazingly hot while the rest of us have all crumbled to shit. I mean what the fuck is it where one person gets perfect genetics and evidently has a stress free 4 decades or so that leaves not a wrinkle or ounce of fat on them and the rest of us turn into bulbous vile piles of randomly hairy putrid goo?

So basically I am annoyed at Mike. Yeah Mike. Mike is the fucking problem,,,,,

Not that I was a clueless stoned idiot bumblefucking my way through social situations and not living up to my own internal standards of honor and friendship and decency. Or that I failed at accepting myself for the genetically inferior creation I am but still loving myself and manifesting joy and love throughout the universe while projecting confidence and pursuing my passions and not peeing myself a little and going all Raj Koothrapali around even mildly attractive females

Nope the problem is Mike,,,,,,fuck him and his fucking facebook account. how do you block motherfuckers like mike on your phone?

I'm in the middle of an argument regarding the type of cheese put on a Tri Tip sandwich.
Thank God I don't do social media.

 

[mozfonky]

When you ask your friend to pick you up at the airport at a specific time and they don't leave the house until you text them that you've arrived. And you spend the next 40 minutes looking for their car and watching everyone else from your flight leave.

i had the opposite a couple weeks ago, was texted at 4am for an 11am flight arrival. wouldn't have been too much of a problem but I didn't plan to have gas money for it and I've been pretty short for the last couple months, had to say I couldn't make it.

People have a way of complicating things, everytime. There've also been times when I've driven them to the airport and was told to be at their house 2 hours before I had to, another time, I couldn't get their car out of the garage because some of their workers had landscaping stuff right outside, in the way. People have a way of making things complicated. I'm finding myself just saying no more than I used to. I don't get the logic of asking for a little help and then doing things to make it hard to give them help.