Things that continue to annoy you

And Just Like That annoys me.

It annoys me when the women I work with wish each other "Happy Mother's Day!" around that day. My mom always said: The only person you should wish a happy Mother's Day to is your mother.

Afaik men don't wish each other a happy Father's Day. At least I hope not.

The irrationality on DL during political season. The majority here prove every logical fallacy there is. It's quite unsettling, infuriating and dull as fuck to watch this place lose all reason.

"It's not me who's crazy, it's the world!"

[quote] The majority here prove every logical fallacy there is.

R3 So true, unfortunately. It seems a lot worse, lately, too.

R4 You're just proving the point.

The preponderance of people watching videos on their phones in public with the sound on.

People who play music at the beach.

This was common when I was a kid, when people played the AM pop stations on their tinny transistor radios. It wasn't usually bad. The radios were not loud. And at least it was pretty good music, at that time. Now people play music very loud, either something in another language, or EDM, with a persistent, thumping beat.

Facebook, and how stupid people think it’s necessary

Isn’t that fading though?

The phrase "do keep up"

“What do you want for dinner?”

“Idk, you pick.”

“Tacos?”

“No, I’m not really in the mood for tacos.”

“Okay, so, what sounds good?”

“Idk, you pick.”

Fat cows who can walk around a store for 30 minutes and shop. Bring everything out to their car. But can't walk for another 30 seconds to put the shopping cart back. They just leave it in a parking space.

My take out website just informed me "We're on a journey to reduce single use packaging."

Journeys really fucking annoy me.

When I go to a restaurant with my husband and he calls the waiter/waitress by name. He'll crane his neck and go out of his way to look at their name tag just so he can say "so what do you recommend today, Jessica?"

Not sure why, but it drives me nuts.

Jobs where you are required to wear a name tag.

Not getting a "thank you wave" after letting a car cut in front of me in traffic. It makes me instantly enraged. Just raise your hand and give me even a half-assed thank you! You don't even have to actually wave. Just something. Anything. Acknowledge my goddamn driving benevolence, you ungrateful bastard.

Similarly, when you stop to let someone cross the street and they don't acknowledge you.

Cyclists. It bears saying again and again and again.

In my job (normally not one where people would wear a name tag) they made us wear lanyards with our names on them. Also we were supposed to add our pronouns, which I said no to (I wasn't alone). After about a year, no one wears the lanyards.

Annoying.

The same security guards at reception who expect you to show your ID every day.

Having to ask for people's IDs every day

The bitches at work

People who don’t keep up but feel the need to share their stupidity with the rest of us.

That would be a sizeable contingent on the political threads. I'm a reliable Democrat but some of those people embarass me. It's like North Korea with them.

Ugly people, stupid people, rude people, godless people, black bananas, TV commercials,

[quote] My mom always said: The only person you should wish a happy Mother's Day to is your mother.

My sister was the first of us siblings to get married. When her anniversary rolled around, I was talking to our mom about what I should get Sis for an anniversary present. Mom said that anniversaries are for the couple to buy each other presents (not for me to be buying the couple a present).

A friend, when ordering a drink at a restaurant, will always say: "I'll have a beer." Inevitably, the server will have to tell Friend what kinds of beers they have, blah blah blah. IMO, friend should just say what kind of fucking beer he wants.

People who meet on the street, then stand in middle of sidewalk talking.

People who get all their news from NPR and then share deep thoughts like, “you know, the word Islam means Peace.”

It drives me crazy when a website takes an extra second to load ads or other junk, and just as I’m about to click on something, everything shifts around, and I end up clicking the wrong thing.

Love the album cover photos by Herb Ritts. Shot in Hawaii. Wardrobe /styling by Fleur Thiemeyer. Art direction by George Osaki.

But do they annoy you?

That's by design, R31.

Sites that demand complicated passwords. Get lost.

Negaters/one uppers.

People who don’t know how to take charge drive me absolutely wild with frustration. And yes, that includes my partner. We were at his sister’s shared house, and one of the dumpy roommates had a precious 4-month-old black lab puppy. The moment I touched that poor baby, I could feel every single rib, and it made my blood boil.

While my partner and his sister were whispering about sneaking the dog some food - like that would solve the problem - I couldn’t stand it for another second. I marched right up to that obese sow and demanded she either start feeding the dog properly or hand it over to me. And yeah, it pissed her off, but you know what? Good! Her anger just proved she was full of it because she had the nerve to lie to my face, claiming this puppy weighed 40 pounds when it was clearly starving.

When it comes to situations like this, there’s no room for tiptoeing. You have to go in headfirst, and if it means making people uncomfortable or angry, then so be it. The well-being of that innocent animal was on the line, and nothing else matters.

r37, did you take the dog?

R38 The flabby hag wouldn’t give it up, but my sister says the dog’s doing better now.

My sister-in-law ***

Family stickers on the back of cars.

Nobody cares that your stick figure son plays football, or that there’s a “baby on board.”

When I'm at a restaurant and ask for water and I get a tiny cup. Meanwhile the lady next to me asks for a soda and she gets a fucking bucket.

NYC has an unfortunate amount of tourists this time of year. They walk four across on the sidewalk, making it impossible to pass, and they stop constantly for pictures, blocking your path unless you want to be rude and ruin them by just walking through. Guess who’s rude? Moi.

R37 Any reason why she wasn't feeding the dog?

[quote] A friend, when ordering a drink at a restaurant, will always say: "I'll have a beer."

It works on tv shows.

Apartment building neighbors who stand in the corridor chitchatting loudly. Go inside, for fuck's sake.

At the gym:

People who don't wipe the bench, equipment, or machines off after using them.

Men who leave a mess in the locker-room. There's a basket within easy distance to throw the used towels, but they fail to use it. Guys who leave the dry cleaner's hanger or other debris in the locker they've used. Men who don't shower before entering the steam room or sauna (I won't even go into a hot tub).

Tip jars everywhere! Why do you need a tip for bagging a pastry in a bakery shop? Or ringing up merchandise at the cash register? Tipping is out of hand in the USA.

Having to pump my own gas.

When I make an over-easy egg and overcook the yolk! It just happenen this morning, Here's hoping my day gets better.

Right now, my Threads account being spammed with posts about Oasis. I fucking hate Oasis.

r48 move to NJ.

R41 Bumper Sticker - "My Son Can Beat The Crap Outta Your Honor Student"

Hearing "No Problem" after thanking server or sales clerk.

"Happy Birthday In Heaven"

"You got this".

Oh, fuck, yes, R54!

R47, I can relate. The thing that drives me most crazy is when a good-looking muscular guy wears a thin tank top; his nipples approach its cut-out on the sides, then you see the slightest sliver of nipple, then it retreats back into the tank top.

If I have the opportunity to spot someone on a bench press, I let my fingers go underneath the bar and lift the side of the tank top, where I at least see a full nipple bud and sometimes the entire circumference of the areola.

Wow, daring and risqué stuff, R57

Do the bare legs of chairs and dressers turn you on, too?

My kitten's growth spurts. He's eating his mum out of house and home.

Laundry. It never fucking ends.

The New Democratic Party. I may have to vote BC United just to toss David Eby's useless, ineffectual ass out of office October 19th.

Leaf blowers...It's bad enough when gardeners come through, but now there are these electric versions for everyday use. The neighbor across the street used hers this morning for about 45 minutes as she cleared her garage, walkway, and driveway of every speck of dirt or dust imaginable. She was even blowing it into her garden and lawn. Of course, she blew it all out into the street from whence -- once the wind changes direction, it will all blow back onto the drive, walkway, and lawn.

Brute meanness. If you have to be mean, be clever about it. Otherwise, you're a bore as well as an asshole.

The cleaners start with their leaf blowers at the mall garden near my gym at 5am. I know because that is when I am at the gym pre-work.

The unspoken rule that we have to thank servers or sales people. Fuck that shit. They should be thanking us. Lazy fuckers would not have jobs if we did not shop at their stores.

[quote] The cleaners start with their leaf blowers at the mall garden near my gym at 5am. I know because that is when I am at the gym pre-work.

I had to deal with that when I lived in Arizona. Drove me nuts.

When politicians pander to us all at once and say, “The A-MER-ICAN PEOPLE! rather than “Americans”.

When politicians try to act like they care by talking about “Sue and Bob in Penciltucky,” like we’ll believe their pretend story more.

Leaf blowers are a menace. I also think they blow a lof of crap into the air, like allergens, that would not bother people if they were left lying in gutters and along curbs.

Not sure why, but Kate Hudson and her singing.

Micro penis.

Concert films where they keep cutting to the audience reaction. I don't need to see that.

In New York City, referring to every deli and convenience store as a "Bodega" Bodegas are small groceries in Spanish-speaking neighborhoods. You won't find one on the Upper East Side, Forest Hills, Riverdale or Bay Ridge. It's not a generic word.

R71 That annoys me, too, and I don't even live in New York! But I hear people referring to all these various stores as Bodegas, now. On podcasts, etc. I'm glad you mentioned it.

A post in another thread just reminded me of this other thing. People who go out walking the dog, or just walking, at night, on not-well-lighted streets, wearing all black, or all-dark clothing. Who sometimes cross the street in front of you. This is actually more than merely annoying.

My mom, when I was a kid, used to *make* me wear something light, if I went out at night, on foot---even a stocking cap, anything. She was right.

“suppose to”

R1 people who bemoan it and say it sucks and yet watch it and discuss every stupid detail annoy me even more

When driving, someone who comes up from behind (in a different lane) and then stays in my blind spot. I have a reverse camera and that's all. Blind spot meaning, slightly behind me, near my rear quarter panels. Why?

People who walk past you really fast on the streets and are all "Excuse me...excuse me" as if the streets are theirs, as if they are entitled to not have to wait for others to pass like the rest of us.

The flipside is people who walk really slow as if they're on a scenic tour....or thepeople that take up the entire sidewalk.

People that take 3 hours on the ATM/Cash machines.

Sock lint under my big toenail.

This is a weird one, but -- when people cross in front of you (usually in a store parking lot) and you have to stop for them, cross on the diagonal, for no reason. It takes them at least twice as long to cross the road vs. if they walked straight across. Move you ass!

your

People who leave shopping carts in a parking space when there are corals all around.

Ok here's one that all my female relatives: one upping each other, most commonly regarding 2 specific things. 1)what a busy/exhausting week/month they've had or 2) how little they've eaten today (or how full they feel even after eating the teeniest amount if food and will be "skipping dinner for sure") . It's so obviously a competition, particularly between my SIL and my sister. Not one mentions how many things they had to do this week and how exhausted she is because X and Y and the other answers back how she's even more tired because X,Y and Z.

Am I alone here?

Also, supermarkets, particularly in NYC where the aisles are so narrow it is impossible for a person to pass past someone else. And if a person is taking 30 minutes to decide what brand of canned peas she/he wants and you need to get past them, you're screwed.

^ Especially when there are displays every 5 feet, blocking half the aisle.

R81, i am more annoyed by skinny actresses pretending that they eat hamburgers and pizza all the time.

I did have an overweight friend at work who i never saw eating (at work) anything but bananas and crackers, maybe. She had surgery and i drove her home and picked up some groceries she wanted (orange juice and bananas). I put the oj in the fridge. No food in there.

I realized she only ate takeout foods, never cooked. Hence, overweight.

Idiots from Europe who eat out in NYC restaurants and pretend they don't know what a gratuity is.

Idiots from the USA (the few who have a passport) who don’t understand that in many other countries, people are paid a living wage, and as such, tipping is not required.

People on their first trip to another country who feel the need to share their stupidity on Insta with the rest of us regarding “Ten things that I don’t understand about English supermarkets” or “OMG the service in economy on Asian airlines - I got a whole can of Coke!” or “guys you won’t believe what coffee is like in Sydney - they still have Starbucks but nobody drinks it!”.

Stay at home you dumb basic cunt - nobody is interested.

People from one country who go to another country and complain about or ignore established practices there because they think their way is the only way.

A bit similar to R81, a woman I work with always has to tell me how exhausted she is from her two-hour walk, or riding her exercise bike. Or how hungry she is and how she had some tiny meal, earlier, that wasn't filling. But she's maintaining her weight. Or how she had to get up at dawn to do her exercises because her husband was going to the airport. Who cares?

I'd rather keep it a secret, how much time it takes to maintain my weight, etc. I'd rather have people think it's effortless.

[quote] Also, supermarkets, particularly in NYC where the aisles are so narrow it is impossible for a person to pass past someone else. And if a person is taking 30 minutes to decide what brand of canned peas she/he wants and you need to get past them, you're screwed.

And they stock shelves during opening hours so you have to navigate around pallets and boxes, and try not to trip and break your neck.

Drunk people meandering in the bike lanes.

I get it; the lanes are right next to outdoor smoking and you want to stretch out. I can’t see you when you’re lying down. Plus, you’re wearing all black.

R91 I worked in a big supermarket when I was young. As one of the senior stockpersons I would unload the boxes from the pallets in the storeroom onto trolleys and then send the trolleys onto the floor to drop the boxes for the juniors to unpack and shelf the items. Now I see people dragging out the mountainous pallets directly onto the shop floor. Worse the person moving the mountain often walks backwards. Pity the customer who is in their path.

Fairway is the biggest offender here in NYC.

When newspapers shut down comments on certain subjects.

But you're either in or you're out, everything is on the table or it isn't. The cynical bait and switch annoys the fuck out of me. (And for the record, I'd happily see comments sections sealed off forever. Why here you ask? Here makes me laugh, occasionally. Comments sections are typically humourless.)

Bruh.

I look down on people who use this word so hard. You are basically worthless to me.

The overuse and improper use of the word literally is a close second.

With “basically” a close third.

People who ask questions on forums like the DL, which could easily and more quickly be answered by googling, especially when they have typed “I’m too lazy too look it up”.

Why is that?

“To” not “too” - oh dearing myself.

R87, indeed, and there is a plethora of videos of Europeans doing the same thing about their visits to America. It’s tiresome either way. Yes, we don’t include the sales tax in the posted price. Get over it and adapt. Nobody who lives here cares that you don’t like it.

[quote]especially when they have typed “I’m too lazy too look it up”.

R98, I'm with you on that. It's the same when they blatantly misspell something and add "I know that's how it's spelled, but I don't feel like looking it up."

And, while we're at it, people who make videos about (say) a historical topic and then butcher the pronunciation of every name and place, adding "I'm sure I'm mispronouncing that." If you're going to the trouble of making the video, go to the trouble of looking up how to pronounce "Nebuchadnezzar".

Shut your provincial whore mouth R100

^^^"I know that's NOT how it's spelled ..."

Oh, dear.

The sound of lawn mowers, leaf blowers and weed whackers.

The absurd, endless standing ovations at the Cannes and Venice film festivals.

[quote] It annoys me when the women I work with wish each other "Happy Mother's Day!" around that day. My mom always said: The only person you should wish a happy Mother's Day to is your mother.

[quote] My sister was the first of us siblings to get married. When her anniversary rolled around, I was talking to our mom about what I should get Sis for an anniversary present. Mom said that anniversaries are for the couple to buy each other presents (not for me to be buying the couple a present).

Your mothers sound like wretched, thoughtless, nosy, anti-social cunts whose passings will be celebrated. 🎉

“For sure” as used in interviews by athletes (especially tennis) players who speak English as a second language.

R71 that might have been true. You might want it to be true now, but it is no longer their. The horse left the barn and the word usage morphed. That’s how language works, and evolves. You lost that battle a while ago.

Package store? Corner market? Korean market? Corner deli?

no longer true*

My GOUT- The Rheumatologist increased my daily dose of Allopurinol by 100 mg to a total of 400 mg per day yet beginning yesterday another bout of Gout appeared.

" Would you like to sign up for our Rewards program?"

Although we have your credit card details on file please enter this one time code to make payment.

Chatty Cathys

Shaved 🪒 Pubic Hair

Cock Rings

Tattoos

Listen to Marlon Brando up there^

“Wadda ya got?”

I'm for wishing everyone a Happy New Year, or whatever, because it's not a holiday for only some people. I work with at least 10 women, and the ones who are mothers wish each other a Happy Mother's Day. They don't, of course, wish it to the women who are married without children, or the other women without children. But I don't think, if there's any purpose to Mother's Day, it's so a lot of then can be exclusive and wish each other a happy holiday. That's why I think you should stick to saying it to your mom.

Pronouns

A DL one - a new comment I write doesn't immediately appear on the thread. Instead I get a notice on the watched threads so I have to click back onto the thread to see what I posted.

That doesn't happen to me.

^ It's annoying when people assume their experience is the only experience that has ever happened.

When there’s a line anywhere and 1 lunatic, when they are next, stands 20 ft from the counter until he/she is called.

How does that make that person a lunatic? Maybe they don't want to crowd the counter until called.

R121, location matters. If this is at a pharmacy - practically the only place I wait in line these days - naturally I stand a little distance back to give the customer some privacy at the counter.

At other line-prone places, like the DMV, there's one line for multiple stations, so if I'm next, I'm waiting some distance away from the counter.

R2 Black men certainly do. Where you live at?

People who squeeze next to the machine you are on at the gym as a short cut trip rather than walking around to the pathway like everyone else. Please respect my personal space!

In a magical world r124

[quote]When there’s a line anywhere and 1 lunatic, when they are next, stands 20 ft from the counter until he/she is called.

If the cashier isn't ready to immediately ring the next person, it gives them a few seconds to finish whatever they're doing without the distraction of a customer unloading merch on the counter they may be using to retag items.

It also may be a regional habit- when/where I grew up, we waited until we were called, so I just assumed everybody did it and still often do it out of habit, although I generally start walking towards the counter as soon as I make eye contact with the cashier.

[quote]R103: ^^^"I know that's NOT how it's spelled ..." Oh, dear. --R101

'Nebuchadnezzar' is the correct spelling.

"It's annoying when people assume their experience is the only experience that has ever happened."

Spopken by bigots since the dawn of time.

“alot” - I thought that this abomination was dying out, but it keeps popping up,

"Everyday" (adjective) instead of "every day." As in "Happy birthday in heaven. I miss you everyday." Arrrrrrrrrrrghhhhh.

“Everyday” IS the adjectival form of “every day.”

Nobody sad that it’s not, R132.

R71 haha. Because my ma’s people are Latino I grew up saying bodega just as you described but one point I had a big group of West Indian friends. One time we were in East Flatbush and my Guyanese beat friend was like this is Brooklyn, “it’s called the corner store”.

Bodegas have cats.

Whistling. This guy at my gym whistles constantly. It's so shrill and annoying. Shut up!

Rusty Beck on Major Crimes. Worst gay tv character ever.

I have misophonia for two specific sounds. One of them is whistling, R136. It sets me off and apart from anything else is just as invasive as people on speaker on their phone in public - nobody wants to hear it. I’ve asked people near me, such as in the office, not to do it. They usually say that they don’t know that they’re doing it.

The other sound is people chewing on their food really loudly. Oh, and one other - people talking with food in their mouth. As a consequence I find dinner parties unite challenging.

“Quite” not “unite”.

I also find autocorrect annoying when I miss it.

People who don't bother signalling when they're turning. Like, why should I? How does it benefit ME?

On tonight's "Jeopardy!" repeat, Amy's chest hair was still clearly visible. Why didn't the producers digitally remove this prior to rebroadcast? Enough of this passive aggressive crap!

Farah Fowler?

R140 They should really be murdered as far as I’m concerned.

R132 You appear to have misunderstood my post.

As did everyone else, R144 - but I’m sure that you know what you meant, and that’s all that matters.

R145 I explicitly stated that "everyday" was the adjectival form. And my point (and beef), as illustrated in the example provided, is that it's consistently misused. You do realize that "I miss you everyday" is incorrect, do you not?

"An everyday wardrobe" = correct.

"I miss you every day" = correct.

You're welcome.

DEMETRIA OBILOR AND HER CONSTANT POSTING OF HERSLEF IN HORRIBLE OUTFITS THAT SHOW OFF HER FAT FUCKING HOCKS AND FUPA!

What if you miss a Ho in day but not in night 🤨?

When all car lanes are moving identically on a busy road and I momentarily leave a smidge of extra space to avoid tailgating, some twat invariably slips in thinking they’ve found an escape hatch.

When I’m already driving faster than the speed limit, and some cunt behind me is still breathing down my neck because he wants to go even faster.

Bitch, you should be wayyyyy behind me, at an increasing distance!

Yes of course R146!

R121 You're annoying.

That isn't how I meant it. I just thought you might like to know it's not happening to everybody so maybe you should try to figure out why it's happing to you. And if it wasn't you who posted the original comment that's even more annoying.

R90 I think it's a form of virtue signaling.

People at crowded gas stations who leave their damn cars by the pump after they're done and waddle into the convenience store for snacks to stuff their faces, blocking access for the other cars waiting for their turn at the pump. Take two second and park it in the lot, lardasses.

^*seconds

Barnes and Noble used to give customers a lot of comfortable chairs so you could sit and read for hours and then they cut back and cut back and now you have to stand up reading for hours.

I DID misunderstand r131’s post. I apologize.

People in stores who suddenly appear and think saying “Excuse me” immediately entitles them to reach and interrupt what someone else is doing.

Woman I used to work with: We would be having a one on one conversation, she would be giving me her full attention and vice-versa. Then another person would walk up and say hi, and she'd turn to talk to that person and ignore me from then on. Saw her again recently, at a get together, and she did the same thing.

This thread has turned into a full-blown-cuntathon

R157 Aww... Thanks. Happens to me too. Group hug.

(HOC) Lane ONLY: High Occupancy Cunting

Most of this thread…

R157 don’t apologize. Fake it and cunt back…

When you need help/advice with some repair type of thing, and go online to find an article or a video. And you just want the instructions or the advice. But the writer or YouTuber begins with "Back when I was growing up in Kentucky, we never had to worry about things like this, because my daddy..." Just tell me how to fix the problem.

I have r165’s complaint about DL. If it’s a performance or people embarrassing themselves, video is fine but DL posters who use YouTube to report basic news events just seem like mouth-breathers.

R165, also when you just want find a recipe on line and you get the entire life history of little, sweet grandma and how she smuggled the sourdough starter in her panties from the Old Country. Just give me the recipe.

[quote]Woman I used to work with: We would be having a one on one conversation, she would be giving me her full attention and vice-versa. Then another person would walk up and say hi, and she'd turn to talk to that person and ignore me from then on. Saw her again recently, at a get together, and she did the same thing.

Do you live in Los Angeles, by any chance? This is a regular issue I have with Angelinos, who think I'm the rude one for feeling annoyed by people who enable interrupters.

When people who can't mimic accents think that they can mimic accents. My sister thinks she can mimic an Australian accent and she can't.

When people think they can sing and they really sound unpleasant. E.g., Rajiv Surendra, who is talented at SO MANY different things. It's enviable. But his singing voice is unpleasant (IMO) and he insists on singing in his YouTube videos.

Rajiv is also not good at imitating accents.

People who use the non-word "lil" rather than "little".

It's neither cute nor endearing.

Or "liddle," R170.

As in Trump saying, "Liddle Adam Shiiit!"

Angelenos!

Those that rub up against your body as they pass you and don't apologize for invading your personal space. If I can feel it, so can you.

This guy..

R170 li’l is a legitimate contraction of little.

Oh, r169, I have a friend who does this, and it gets on my last nerve. Once I overheard her saying “actually, I’m kind of known for my accents,” and I had to restrain myself from saying “oh, honey, sure, but not how you think.”

Talking at the breakfast table.

People who take their dogs out for walk after work and practically strangle them when the dog wants to sniff at something. Look, bitch/bastard, you were at work for how many hours? You can give your dog a leisurely walk around the complex. Where I live, it's a condo complex with a circular street. Let the dog walk around a lap or two and enjoy the outdoors and sniff butts for a few minutes! Will it kill you?

There was one guy (who I haven't seen in a long time) who would grab the leash so hard, the dog would yelp. He damn near picked it up by the leash once or twice. It took all I had NOT to say something to him. It was a small dog, like a boxer or boxer mix.

“Out the yingyang”

R150 That's life in L.A., baby.

Unsolicited political texts

The continuing pretense that the mob of criminals known as the Republican party are actually a political party. They are not. They are a gang of mobsters who want to rob you, work you like a slave, and then kill you when it would cost them anything to keep you alive.

At the grocery store: "Would you like to round up for children with cancer?"

Um no, I give enough to charity, and I'm not letting you have a tax break with my 35 cents.

Child Abuse Prevention Month

Women continue to insist upon wearing yoga pants and other workout clothes to nice restaurants.

I cringe every time I see it.

^ You mean the customers or the waiters?

R168 No, I don't live in Los Angeles.

It's not really enabling interrupting that I mind, it's that the person I was talking to just turns away to laser focus on the other person when I'm still standing there, doesn't include me in the new conversation or introduce me (if I don't know the person). Eventually I just have to walk away because I'm not going to stand there being annoyed.

...and ignored.

R159, I totally understand. I don't interrupt conversations just to say 'Hi' to someone. I've had people come up to me and say, "Why didn't you say hi when you walked by?" I tell them, I didn't want to interrupt your conversation. If you think I'm rude for not interrupting just to say good morning, that's on you.

I don't think people understand I'm saying the person I was talking to was the rude one for interrupting her conversation with me, not the person who came by and said hi. That person was not interrupting, just joining the conversation. It's the woman I was talking to who then shuts me out of the conversation that bothers me.

People that don't introduce people to each other.

I always do this. If I feel these 2 people don't really know each other (but they both know me), I'll introduce them.

Sometimes I think people just want their friends all to themselves.

I even had a "friend" (new in town) that I introduced to all of my friends. This bitch immediately started trying to become friends without all of my friends (and not including me). I

Friends who propose to do something together (city trip, restaurant, going to the movies..) and then somehow try to turn you into the organiser "because you are so good at it".

Used to go along with it and do all the work. Now I turn around and say, "Why don't we both look for two good options..." or "let's have a video call tonight and we both look at Google Maps to see what destinations appeal to us".

Selena Gomez’s speaking voice. It’s the embodiment of “I can’t even.”

Morons, mainly on Facebook and X, starting some self-indulgent boring prose with "So..."

The "demure" "trend."

R195 I didn't think it was funny when that trend was barely one minute old

Guys that I think of as being older than me and then I realize they're probably TEN years younger than me.

r97 Good for you! I hope you a have a solid bowel movement soon.

Totally agree, R198 - literally and basically, bruh.

Got a new job 3 months ago and no one can spell my name. It’s not long, it’s not hard to spell. At first I thought it was passive-aggressive but I now believe they’re just idiots.

Also, people who zip behind you when you’re backing up in a parking lot.

R159 were the Helloers men. I’m betting they were. She was probably fangurling.

[quote]it's that the person I was talking to just turns away to laser focus on the other person when I'm still standing there

I was agreeing with you, R190. The person who stops talking to you enables the interrupter by reinforcing them with attention, and is even more annoying than the interrupter themselves.

Stains that will not cum out of my favorite dresses no matter what I try.

neighbors who leave their property in common areas like hallways in apartment buildings.

That thing called a blinker has a function.

Posters who fill these threads with complaints about other drivers or carts in the middle of the aisle at the supermarket. What a waste of time.

unsolicited hall monitors

People who play loud videos on their phone in coffee shops or restaurants.

Pumpkin fucking spice.

Why is this such a cultural phenomenon? All the fraus are getting ready to cup cradle with the pumpkin spice lattes.

Threads that never die.

Women.

FAGS.

The nonstop grubbing for political donations all summer- sometimes up to 20 calls/texts a day.

R207 that was totally uncalled for.

It was totally called for and will be roundly ignored. For some DLers, bossy boots is a sex life.

Posters with no sense of humor^

How my computer ear plug cord is always twisty.

Front loading washing machines. They’re garbage.

Hoarders and packrats. People who won't throw anything away, even something that's old and broken.

Losing one of the rubber cushions from a pair of earbuds

There is a woman in my neighbourhood whose sneezes sound like a high-pitched banshee.

I would prefer for her to keel over.

Garrulity and gossip.

Hearing the same crappy royalty-free music used over and over again in YouTube videos

What do you expect? You have to pay to play.

Today I went to Starbucks. The barista discovered no espresso was coming out of the machine, so she said it was broken. After I waiting in line to receive the refund, the manager came back from a break and the barista told her about the espresso machine. The manager went over, lifted the bean container off of its grinder base and put it back. Viola! Problem fixed.

Time and time again, I see someone from Gen Z display no critical thinking skills. They don't even attempt to address a problem. After my twenty minute wait, I received my drink. No apology from the barista...

Cockrings

Right now I’m stuck behind a frau waiting to check in for my appointment. She’s digging through her purse looking for her insurance card pulling out wadded tissues, pens, mints—all the time chatting with the receptionist so she is distracted slowing everything down.

The receptionist asks her to sign and initial forms and she has questions on how to do it. She then compliments the receptionist on his hair and outfit and still hasn’t signed her forms. I want to sucker punch her.

When people on tv refer to Trump as President Trump. He's not the president anymore and hopefully it will stay that way.

When you report some malfunctioning machine at the gym. Last week I reported a flickering fluro light and it's still flickering.

I'm annoyed by people who are annoyed by things that don't really impact them in any significant way.

When the ranch dressing turns out to be creamy Italian.

All the white fur my dog has been shedding everywhere and she's a large dog. Unknown to her, she has an appointment with the groomer tomorrow.

R217 you are my future partner. Whoever invented machines like that— there isn’t a grease fire hot enough.

R227 That’s always been common. Whenever someone becomes president that was their honorary title until eternity. It’s just weird now because we have a sitting President and we’ve never had a president to run again after having faced defeat.

John Leguizamo. Just shut up already!

[quote]The preponderance of people watching videos on their phones in public with the sound on.

[quote]People who play loud videos on their phone in coffee shops or restaurants.

Fuck! I'm so sick of these people!

R230, I'm with you on this.

In our old office building, we had a very small cafeteria. It was actually 2 guys who cooked basic things like hamburgers and made sandwiches. There was a small salad bar I used to frequent. They didn't have those little plastic cups for salad dressing so you had to put the dressing on your salad bedore you left. I got all the way up to our third floor office to eat. One bite and I knew something was off. I thought the Ranch dressing had gone bad. Nope. Someone had refilled the bottle with BLEU CHEESE DRESSING!!! I hate BCD; tastes like Ivory Soap to me.

R233 nobody calls Baeaxk president Obama

Barack

Most parking spaces are too narrow

Banks that take too much ID before they put you on hold & then ask for the same ID once someone gets on the horn

If you work in a service job or industry and get all kinds of questions or complaints and your customers don't understand the concept of triage. HELLO! The burning pile of shit in the lobby or crowdstrike disaster is going to get more attention than your minor inconvenience. Deal with it!

The person who sits in front of me and reclines their seat all the way for the entire flight. Every fucking time.

R240 I know it’s so annoying. What is the point of talking to that fkin AI bitch, and then the actual person comes on the line and asks you the same shit. One day I had a complete melt down coming off a weekend binge and flipped out after repeating the same info to the AI operator, human # 1, and human # 2. I told them all to die in a cancer radiated thermal oven. Once I calmed down and they helped me I did apologize however.

Another motorist complaint - a driver stops too far back at a red light and proceeds to inch up until it turns green.

When people don't GO when the light turns green.

When people drive below the speed limit and when they see that mafuckin light change yellow they speed through the light. You cocksucking animal. You could have been driving faster the whole time.

Every time I’m in line whether 1 person is in front of me or 5, there is always a problem. Always. Just once I’d like to stand in line and hear “next” 30 seconds later.

When you get stuck in the left lane to pass a car because nobody will let you back in to the center lane.

People who post lame lisp jokes on the Brady thread.

You don't pass another car unless you actually have room to do so.

R245, I don’t mind the first person hesitating briefly to be sure no one’s running the light. I mind all the people behind him who don’t follow promptly when does head off.

R246, you know they do that just to be irritating, right? I’m convinced of it.

People who don’t know what they want at the movie theater concession stand until they’re standing in front of the clerk, even though they’ve been in line for 10 minutes and the menu hasn’t changed in 20 years. Then, apparently not having eaten for a week, they order enough food to feed an army.

It annoys me that they have changed history. The Germans it seems never were involved in WW2. The allies did not fight Germany they fought Japan, Italy, and the Nazis.

A gutless take on history

[quote]Let the dog walk around a lap or two and enjoy the outdoors and sniff butts for a few minutes!

I am sure that many a Datalounger engages in similar behavior for a lap or two.

And the French were heroic resistance fighters and not Nazi-loving collaborators R253. And Japan had not been brutalizing China for ten years before Pearl Harbor.

Those who go on and on about antibiotic resistance becoming worse and worse and deadlier and deadlier. Some even claiming that 40 million will die by 2050 from antibiotic resistance.

Hogwash

Not close to 40 million deaths , a whole million less. New research puts the number at a mere 39 million excess deaths from antibiotic resistance.

Just remember boys to do your part and take some antibiotic pills every time you have hook up sex.

My dustbuster just fell off the counter but I didn't feel anything. Am I becoming desensitized to small earthquakes and or incipient building collapse?

GPS that thinks I know how far 800 feet.

Freaks in front of me in the coffee line who order "Venti Iced Caramel Macchiato with almond milk and an extra shot of espresso. Have the caramel drizzle divided equally in the bottom and on top of the foam, with light ice. Add 3 pumps of mocha syrup, 2 pumps of toffee nut syrup, and a sprinkle of cinnamon on top. Serve it in a grande cup with a separate cup of ice on the side and a packet of Sweet'N Low."

STAY HOME, WHORE

Are the Kelce brothers going to be in every tv ad now?

People who don’t use paragraph breaks in long replies

^They seem to abhor punctuation, as well.

Those complicated, frozen drinks from Starbucks seem like the perfect thing to order ... at Starbucks. (It's the kind of thing that's harder to make at home vs. a cup of hot coffee.) If all you want is a cup of coffee, why not make it at home or get it at Dunkin' Donuts or McDonald's.

Also on GPS...

"Head east"

What am I, Coperni us?

Mention of GPS reminds me - the death of good, detailed paper street maps. (ADC was the brand in my area.) Sometimes, I want to map out my route and get a sense of the entire area. Maybe I want to explore a bit, not just get from one place to another.

Do they still publish the Thomas Guides for LA? Those were great.

Overdone auto-responses like “ma’am this is a Wendy’s.”

Chime in when you can come up with your own material instead of regurgitating shit you read on reddit. Grow a brain.

R265 A lot of navigation systems give you the option to pick a route and to avoid motorways. I find that choosing this option usually takes me through charming villages and scenic spots.

I know it’s not the same thing, but if you haven’t tried it, give it a go!

Very true, R267. My Dad lives in Orange County, NY. Instead of taking highways or paying tolls, we take a lot of back roads. We went to see him this past Saturday and it was a beautiful, relaxing hour and 15 minute drive each way. I had no idea how many farms there were going through northern NJ into NY state.

Now that’s a clueless post^

NJ is the Truck Farm State

R269, most of the farms are in southern and central NJ. I specifically mentioned those in northern NJ (Sussex County). NJ is the Garden State, not the 'Truck Farm State,' whatever the fuck that means. We have a few farm markets near where I live so I'm well aware there are farms in northern NJ.

Yup, that’s how dumb they are in Jersey, folks —

Reaction videos.

People who are chronically late despite years of mockery, lecturing, and being left behind (as we are preparing to do now).

You'd think after "years" you'd be used to it, R273, and either accept him as he is or drop him. He's not going to change. In fact, mockery and lectures is almost guaranteed to make him even later.

You can’t change him —you can change your attitude towards him

r274 and r275 chronically late!

You give the person that is usually late a time to arrive that is 30 minutes earlier than everyone else.

I tried that, R277 — and then all of a sudden they are on time, and mad that they had to wait 30 minutes for you

Nosy neighbors who play gatekeeper, watching your comings and goings. Get your own life!

And, r278, they use that one time they were on time as evidence that they’re not habitually late!

Exactly, R278. Chronically late people love to find one example when they weren't.....and exagerrate it to 'both sides' the debate.

Shhh R270 let’s keep R269 confined to the Turnpike.

Truck farms are why it’s known as the Garden State.

Don’t they teach you history in NJ?

The source of the Garden State’s nickname

JFC, people! Way to beat a dead horse. THERE ARE FARMS EVERYWHERE IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY!!!!!! I rarely have any reason to drive through Sussex or Warren County so YES! I was surprised. I've spent pletny of tine travelling through central and southern NJ so I was more familiar with that part of the state.

Happy now?

Things that annoy me? People who just can't let things go. See. R282, R283, R284.

People without basic knowledge of their own state.

Gays in the gym constantly hopping from one machine to another and back

They call that circuiting. I call it machine hogging.

[quote] People who are chronically late despite years of mockery, lecturing, and being left behind (as we are preparing to do now).

People who enable late people: "Let's give him 15 minutes more." Fuck that.

Close talkers, low talkers and loud talkers.

Everyone got a dog during the Pandemic, and now my neighborhood is a fucking kennel.

No one outside of the NY archdiocese gives a rat’s ass.

Dust.

Idiots on the WalkAway tiktoks. A dumber group of people I have never seen. And I used to volunteer at a state mental hospital.

To R68, Well, Kate is the biggest whore west of the Mississippi River. Seriously, Jezebel, Harlot, Whore of Babylon.

And she can't fucking sing& her moms has had the same hair style since 1968.

That my dentist wants me, someone on provincial disability, (I get $1535 monthly, rent is $1205) to pay $50 for a basic cleaning is fucking outrageous.

The gov't should be covering that like [bold]used to

I was kind of annoyed at work, today, that the people who insisted on a meeting (short notice) "showed up" for the Zoom, but refused to turn on their cameras (I've never met these people in person, so I don't know what they look like). My coworkers and I switched on our cameras. After a while, I turned off my camera, as well.

This was a 2-hour meeting and these fuckers who wanted the meeting kept their cameras off.

Is that normal?

How large was the meeting, R298? It's usual in large meetings for people who aren't presenting or moderating to keep their cameras off.

In a small meeting these days, leaving your camera off is rude in most circumstances, but sometimes (for example, you're in your car or waiting at the airport), it's necessary.

Many are probably getting blowjobs during Zoom.

For some reason, when I click on a YT link, I get rounds of ads that I can't stop. I have to go back, click on the link, go back, click on the link, repeat, until I can actually watch what I want to watch.

It annoys me that I allow things to annoy me. Getting annoyed solves nothing, it serves no purpose, nothing positive comes from it. Most of the challenges in life don't annoy us, we just deal with them, why do we allow this or that random thing to get under our skin so much.

r302 you said it!

I try to follow stoicism, which holds that one of the few things under our control is our reaction to stuff. While I'm a long way from not letting stuff get to me, I'm getting a lot better at asking myself: Is this feeling doing me any good? The answer is usually obvious and it gets easier to push it aside having acknowledged it's pointless to feel it.

R299, it was around 8 people. 4 from my side and 4 from their side. Like I said, it was short notice, at their urging. They needed our help.

When possible, I like to leave my camera off, but this was just odd. They also were very looong winded.

R304 stoicism works miracles in combination with daily meditation.

I continue to be annoyed that YouTube ads are SO MUCH LOUDER than the videos they randomly interrupt. I am, not just continuingly, but increasingly annoyed by the length and frequency of ads on YouTube.

I am even more annoyed that I'm thinking of caving to pressure and paying for ad-free YT. If anyone here has already caved ... is it worth it?

An ad-blocking browser puts an end to that annoying crap, r307.

I’m annoyed by sandwiches and the letter P

Ridiculous non-words such as “swole” and “thicc”.

R307, yes, IMO, YouTube Premium is absolutely worth it. No ads. No interruptions.

The only problem is that some YouTubers get sponsored and insert their own shills for a product. But you can skip through it.

Flies that sneak into my house. Get the hell out!

Amen, R312! Every fall, they get in somehow. Shoo, fly! I keep a can of Raid around to spray them, the little fuckers.

R308, thanks for the suggestion. I'm usually watching YouTube on my TV. Can you install an ad blocker on a smart TV? Also, what happens when an ad blocker is applied to YT? Do you just get silence, or does it skip the ads? I'm surprised YT hasn't found a way to get around that. (Yes, I am a tech ignoramus, at least on this topic.)

They are not "getting in." They are born there. Somebody'sbeen laying eggs in your undies!

Using the customer-service chat option and getting connected to a "virtual assistant."

Ditto, R315. When I have internet/cable issues, I know I have to unplug the modem, wait 10 seconds, and plug it back in. I've been doing that for over 25 years. When that doesn't work, and I call to speak to CS, they ask me if I've done the unplug-replug thing. I reply yes, I've done it 2x, but they still make me do it while they're on the phone. I've been a customer for over 30 years (two different residences but same cable provider) so I think I know what to do by now.

Oh.... and having to FAX documents (medical referrals, etc) to doctors and other providers. And then hoping the receiving fax isn't lying curled up somewhere behind a reception desk after it spat itself out, or that the damn 1997 machine wasn't out of ink when someone (hopefully) got around to faxing it over. It's 20fucking24.

Diarrhea

Thread freaks on DL who not only have to tell you where to go but have to get out in front of it.

If there was a God, they'd get out in front of a commuter train.

Elevators. When people run to the closing doors and stick their arm in the gap so the doors open, they enter then they just stand there, having delayed everybody else, but don't push the "Door Close" button.

Conversely, people who enter the elevator and immediately press the "Door Close" button with complete disregard for anybody behind them who might get slammed by the closing doors.

Both these behaviours are very common in Singapore, for some reason.

The close door button doesn’t do anything in that situation. It’s all in your head.

Thanks for your valuable input, R321, but you're wrong.

Prove it

…How often have you been in an elevator, either by yourself or with a group, and you mash the ‘close door’ button to close the doors as quickly as possible to get where you need to go? You might be surprised to learn that pushing an elevator’s ‘close door’ button likely does nothing and has been that way since the 1990s. There’s a good reason these buttons wouldn’t work. It came about because of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990. Elevators had to be open for at least three seconds to allow someone with a disability enough time to get inside the elevator. Any elevators built after the Act were either built with an ineffective or “dummy” ‘close door’ button or the button was not wired to the control panel. In some instances, an elevator can have a ‘close’ button that works, but it should only work after the built-in delay was done. In these cases, the elevator door would already be closing before the ‘close’ button became operable.…

Theatre queens

Prove what to a nonentity on the DL, R323? I tell you what - as you're obviously invested in this, how about you pop over to Singapore, go to the office building in China Square Central on Cross Street and ride up and down in the elevator a couple of times then report back?

I worked there for three years.

You'll need to start with a passport, which you no doubt don't have, and the airfare (ditto).

Thanks for the explanation R325 but FYI Singapore is a city state in South East Asia, so is unlikely to be covered by the "Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990".

No on cares about Singapore. Neither the DL nor 99.9% of the posters are in Singapore.

Pedants who use some random reference to a foreign country (after conveniently omitting such fact from their earlier post), in a belated effort to “one-up” the DL.

It’s always embarrassing when you’re made to look stupid, isn’t it, R327? You must be used to this.

Actually, R328, I did say in my post R320, that this often happened in Singapore.

Only on the DL would some parochial clot think that mentioning having lived in a foreign country would be an effort to “one-up” the DL. I’d say that some of you need to get out more but that’s pretty salient based on many threads in the DL.

You assume people bothered to read the last sentence of your post. You assumed wrong—it wasn’t worth the effort. That’s what annoys the DL—

R327 are you saying that something that happened outside the experience of most of the DL and beyond the continental USA, that it didn’t happen ?

You should check out the “What do you hate about American culture the most” thread for some examples of American myopia. But of course you’d never look at a thread like that.

No problem, R331 - we're only talking about elevator etiquette and functionality in a place that you haven't been to - not a big deal in the grand scheme of things.

But if people on the DL make sweeping statements about and show their ignorance of places that are outside their (possibly, "your") experience, then I am happy to try and educate you and show you a different perspective. If you can't cope with that shocking threat to your sense of national self-worth then that's a little silly on your part and speaks volumes, but you are free to scroll on by.

Petty fights that break out on the DL because someone said something I don't like. Or the infinite posts that continue to defend your position. Oh, and the name calling. Bitches, how old are you?

My colon.

Drivers who try to clean their windshield while going 50 miles an hour. The spray, at that speed, is barely hitting your windshield. Not to mention whatever you think is on the outside is most likely on the inside. I had my car washed this past Sunday and would prefer NOT to have your WW fluid all over it!

Not to add fuel to the fire about elevator close buttons BUT, the same holds true for the Walk buttons at crosswalks. The button just lets the system know to show the walk symbol the next time traffic allows. If it actually stopped traffic each time the button was pushed, traffic would be at a standstill.

I NEED ice in my beverages!!

Telling us the President can control the weather, and that the distress in North Carolina is being ignored because it's Republican.

And people believe it!!!!

Videos where the volume default is maximum.

Doesn’t so much annoy me as amuse me, but I’ll park it here.

Eldergays (of whom I am one) making what they think is a scathing comment on someone’s DL post and who insist on calling the other poster “dear”. When I see “dear” as a put down I hear my great aunt Josephine who lived in a spotless house with plastic covers on the furniture and who went to bed every night at 7pm, wearing a matinee jacket for extra modesty.

Porn sites with inaccurate dick sizes listed for their actors. I saw a scene where two guys do a dare to measure their dicks. One of the guys, who the sites always say is 7" came in at under 6".

Videos where the volume default is maximum.

Or where the default is mute.

Winter is coming... drivers who don't clear the snow from their roofs.

Nazis, Republicans and undecided voters.

R343, let's add people who come from places where it never snows who decide to drive in the snow anyway. They're the ones who come to a dead stop at bottom of a hill or upward-sloping on-ramp and thus haven't a prayer of making it to the top.

Throw in people who think having a four-wheel drive vehicle means they can still do 70 mph on ice.

R345 you can drive 70 mph on ice, you just can't stop.

In Canada R346. In the US most roads slope away from the center so it's hard to remain on them.

New Indian immigrants from India and surrounding simialr countries. Im not racist but they are the most ignorant sacks of shit which exist .

Actually all newly arrived immigrants annoy the fuck out of me because they come from their backward shit- hole countries with their stupid fucking homophobic and racist opnions and keep these sentiments when they arrive in the West...

Actually all newly arrived immigrants annoy the fuck out of me because they come from their backward shit- hole countries with their stupid fucking homophobic and racist opnions and keep these sentiments when they arrive in the West.

Posts like R350 help me to understand the MAGAT thought process a little better.

When you telephone a company with an enquiry and the first response is do it online. If I could do it online I wouldn't be calling you, jackass.

Im not MAGAT- infact very far from it

Show-off (s) -people who show off-

Stupid fucking ignorant people, I hate them

When i visit a website and place items in the shopping cart without goi g through with the purchase, later I get a msg from said online store reminding me that I have left some items in the bin/cart. Um no I didn’t forget it....

People who concatenate - “atleast”, “abit”, “alot”, “asmuch” - and people who turn nouns into adjectives - “he was very bias”, “that was so cliché” etc.

In other words, stupid people with no command of the English language.

Unfortunately it’s only going to get worse.

To R37, I have done the same thing with people who mistreat animals.

This mother fucking cunt. I'd love to run into him in the street and bash his insolent fucking face in.

Trans people and “nonbinary” people. This is not your community. It never was. Get lost.

Just to add to R360 - start from scratch and build your own community. We’re done and not taking any new applicants.

It’s taken a long time to speak to some company rep. They explain in excruciating detail why you’re wrong, you needed to go online first, how you can escalate your concern …,,, and then …. “ is there anything else I can help you with ?”

Yes asshole , the first issue I raised with you

[quote]Im not racist but

People who say/type shit like this, especially when they don't use apostrophes.

R363, what are you the grammar police????

What's wrong with playing music at the beach?

Drivers in my neck of the hood , they're out to kill

R365 It's a public space, shared with other people, who may not share your taste in music.

What's wrong with the sound of the waves?

I bet you use your phone on speaker in public as well.

People like r364 who don't understand the point of the thread.

R364 you should have inserted a comma after "you".

r365, as long as you're wearing earbuds, nothing.

People on trains who make a huge production out of stashing large, wheeled carry-on suitcases the overhead bins, only to then block the aisle midway through the trip as they take their stowed suitcases out of the carry-on to root around in for some minor thing like a book or a bag of chips.

Other people can't get past them in the aisle (to get to the bathroom, for example) until they're done taking their sweet-ass time rifling in the suitcase.

Mein Fuhrer.

Zzzzzzzzz.......

People on the train who stare . Read a fucking book or pretend to scroll your fucking phone ! Ffs

Bus drivers with loud radios or music. Then they say they can't hear the bell when you ring to get off.

I saw this guy get on a plane. He put his suitcase into the first available overhead spot that he saw, then walked to the back of the plane. Technically, what he did was OK, I guess. But how about looking for overhead space in the vicinity of your seat?

I'm guessing he was making sure that HIS SUITCASE got a spot in the cabin.

Annoying!

Other drivers. I must remind myself not everyone is perfect at it as I am. LOL!

R375 when I find that someone has done that so that there is no carry-on space left for me above my seat I remove the offending baggage, place it in the aisle and stow my bag where it belongs - above me.

It's always people on the cheapest fares stowing their stuff above the First/Business class seats. I won't stand for it.

R377, this guy didn't stow his bag in first or business class, just in the first few rows of economy. I don't think you're allowed to shove stuff into the overheads in first and business. You'd get a scolding from the FAs.

Storybook tv commercials. Life is wonderful if you buy this. Happy families that are perfect.

This happens most often in the US and FAs will, on occasion, scold. But my favourite response is when the FA sees what's happened, waits until the culprit has made their way to row 99 or whatever then grabs the bag and gate checks it, then tapes the gate check tag to the space where the bag was. It's a nice little surprise to the dickhead from row 99 as they disembark. I've seen that a couple of times.

Never cross an FA!

I’m sorry you feel that way

People that leave dried up disinfectant wipes on machines at the gym. It's good that you are using them but please remove your trash.

My downstairs neighbor who patrols the building and grounds so I am forced to chat when I go out.

Hungry cunt came through

At the drive-thru car wash when the employees hover around the payscreen as if I am incapable of inserting my credit card and selecting a wash.

R352 Especially inane when you're calling your internet provider for a connection issue.

To R352, it happened to me last Wednesday, 30 minutes online with the internet provider, 25 minutes on my cell phone.

Finally, I called Marcus, my internet guy for the company I work at, got a call 7 minutes later from the provider, at my home in 10 minutes. Fixed the problem, and it wasn't my fault.

Philippine call centers.

R385, employees? The car wash I use has no employees on site. None. It's fully automated and so much fun to use. I'm not normally into BDSM or humiliation, but when those brushes are smashing against the car, I can't help but think, "beat me! I'm a fag!"

Watery semen, especially in porn. What is it with these guys whose cum is slightly cloudy and runny, like diluted coconut water? If your ejaculate doesn't look like it could repopulate the planet - ugh, total turn-off.

Parade coverage on the radio. I'm looking at you, 1010 WINS, with your nonstop, real-time ladies' basketball ticker-tape-parade color commentary for endless stretches. I mean.... Go Liberty and all of that, but is there seriously nothing else happening in NYC?

Rampant stupidity

When this site indicates there is a new entry on a thread but there isn't as you have already read the last one.

R393, do you have any users blocked? if there's a comment from someone you've blocked, the site will indicate the entry, but you won't see it.

Occasionally a film is worth seeing on the big screen. Annoyance arrives when, before the main feature, about half an hour of adverts are hurled at your face, volume increased pointlessly. Products you'll never buy, other films you'll never see. When I can be bothered, I try to get my timing right to avoid all that garbage.

White "guilt"/saviour complex.

How my washing machine has an alarm go off when the door is open for me to put the liquid in. I wait till there is a water fill before adding the laundry liquid.

Pissing every 30 minutes

People who believe and act like you want to befriend them. If these peopple only knew the intense anger and hate I have for them

Newsman on local TV was bummed to learn it was going to rain on Halloween. I’m in the Midwest. TV is in a Midwest city. We’re near drought status right now. We haven’t had any measurable rain in one month. After he said bummer to some much needed rain he said well maybe some of you want rain for your lawns. I couldn’t believe he could be that oblivious to the fact that in the Midwest we grow crops. Not inside the city but all around it for hundreds of miles in radius. How self centered!

The Benny Hill music.

Listing to people say "Thank you for your service" every time someone says they served in the military.

Enough.

Don't you remember the rain soaking and ruining the homemade costume you spent hours on making, R400?

Give the kids one night they will enjoy thoroughly. I doubt the farmers all these decades minded Halloween. It's one day. If there's a drought, one day of rain will not alter the condition.

When YouTubers get a hold of the same song and it's in nearly every video or short. The current one is whatever song goes "we were just kids when we fell in love" or something like that and the previous one was "oh no, oh no, oh no."

DL being down.

[quote]When YouTubers get a hold of the same song and it's in nearly every video or short.

TikTokers too. Cf, "they both reached for the gun" from Chicago.

My small town's Facebook grievance group. This week they are all asking if Halloween can be moved to Friday because it might rain Thursday.

R407, when I was a kid, I seem to remember that trick-or-treating was moved to October 30 one year because the 31st fell on a Sunday. If the forecast for Thursday is for rain, moving trick-or-treating to the night before seems reasonable. But (a) Halloween is specifically October 31, just like Christmas is December 25. You can't move it; and (b) having trick-or-treating in November is just stupid, and so are your neighbors. You're right be annoyed.

“… is wild”.

Jesus all those braindead people just parroting the slang-du-jour 🤢

r404, OMG, that Oh, no, oh, no, oh, no song grates on my nerves. Glad I'm not the only one!

"(Remember) Walking in the Sand" is one of the great 1960s girl group songs, by the Shangri-Las. That baby-voiced version mentioned by r410 and r404 should be grounds for their banishment from DL. Baby-voicing is more annoying than vocal fry and upspeak combined.

R72 A Bodega is small grocery in Spanish neighborhood. Suddenly it's being used to describe any deli, many in Upscale neighborhoods with no customers who speak the language.

When Amazon notifies me that a package has been delivered after I've gotten out of the shower (I shower around 6 pm) and am not dressed adequately enough to be seen in public. We have a common hallway in our building and I'm forced to go out in my ratty but comfortable robe. I ain't getting dressed (putting on underwear, pants, and a top) just for a 90-second walk to the garage and back.

Speaking of Amazon, when I have multiple packages being delivered (auto-delivery of cat litter and whatever I allow myself to purchase once a month) but they aren't delivered at the same time. The litter was delivered at 9:30 am and the other package was delivered around 8 pm. It's dark by 7 here in the northeast and we have bears, bats, and foxes. Who knows what could get in my garage in the time it takes to open, get my package, and close. One day I opened the garage to go to work and a chipmunk scurried out!

What an eventful life you lead.

Amazon delivery vans illegally parked and blocking a lane of traffic so some asshole can get home delivery of kitty litter.

Nice try, asshole R415. Each building has a large courtyard so there's no blocking of traffic. Not everyone lives in NYC.

Stupid people who type “suppose to”.

I'm not a grammar NAZI and I usually hate them. However, I hate when people use alright instead of all right.

When I call in my prescriptions and I get an hour later and they still aren't filled. They did that today, they told me give us 30 minutes. That really ticks me off.

When a doctor's office has you fill out your details online before an appointment and then when you appear in person you have to do it all again on paper.

r420 it's so ridiculous that this is the workflow. Why have all the fancy digital shit when you're going to ask me to fill out paper work once I get to the office. Funny thing is, providers hate doing anything that they deem as redundant, yet us patients have to do it all the time.

The influx of names Pascal, Mescal in media.

People who drive under the speed limit. Get off the road!

People. So many are fucking annoying, self-serving & self-involved, lazy, boring and kind of dumb.

Podcasters and guests who wear big ass headphones. They are so pretentious and unneeded.

R3

How are you feeling now?

R411

Have you heard Aerosmith’s version?

R426, he is correct.

I possibly already nominated this but...people that you see regularly that snub you. A head nod or just a smile can acknowledge without requiring the commitment of a chat. Acting like you are invisible seems passive aggressive.

Websites that ask for feedback immediately after a purchase or use. Phone customer services do this too. I am only interested in providing this if the service is very good or very good not just average.

...very good or very bad...

The way podcasters speak.

Stuff that keeps falling on the floor.

Such impudence.

Gravity

it just keeps trying to bring me down.

People who are unable to write a plural of a word ending in “ist” - I don’t know why, maybe they think that it sounds the same.

E.g. the plural of extremist is extremists. The plural of racist is racists. The plural of physiotherapist is physiotherapists.

It has become more prevalent lately.

Upspeak. Seems like it's become normalized. One of my coworkers even writes (texts, emails) in upspeak - question marks (sometimes even multiple ???) after every sentence.

Stickers on produce

R430 Yes! Especially when they clobber your inbox with multi-page Survey Monkey idiocy -- like "How likely are you to recommend [brand] to friends and family?" followed by an absurd number of options ranging from "Extremely likely" to "likely" to "somewhat likely" and 10 other incrementally shaded replies all the way down to "Not at all likely." They can also eff off with their intrusive "abandoned cart reminders."

[quote] E.g. the plural of extremist is extremists

Right, and when exactly did white supremacists become white supremists (sic)?

Yeah that’s a new one to me, R439. I remember Kamala using it recently but figured that it was a slip of the tongue.

Apparently a bastardization in use since the 1890's.

Appointments that need you to text a confirmation the day before. I said I was coming!

Bro

Billionaires who think being a billionaire isn't rich enough and will continue to screw over anyone they can, even their entire country for even more money. Fuck them, I hope the Democrats tax their rich asses back into middle class.

Black English and Indian English are a terrible combination.

It produces nonsense polysyllables that tend to rhyme badly.

wearing shower caps out in public.

People at the self checkout who run into problems paying and it holds everyone up. I don't know what is so difficult.

r447 The worst are those cunts who put each item on the stand rather than putting it directly in the bag. They deserve a lifetime of hard labor.

R420, and then when you see your health care provider, they never glance at the paperwork and just ask you the same questions.

[quote] The worst are those cunts who put each item on the stand rather than putting it directly in the bag. They deserve a lifetime of hard labor.

At my local supermarket, it works better if you dump everything on the platform, and then bag it afterward.

r450 Know that there are people behind you in line praying for your imminent demise.

wearing shower caps out in public.

have never seen this.

r450 same with mine. If I try to scan and immediately bag, the stupid voice thing starts yelling at me "unidentified object in bagging area" over and over again. One of the workers told me to scan everything then bag everything all at once. That tends to work. However, I still go to a full-service checkout most of the time.

People who type " should of" what the fuck is this? And there are seemingly educated types who do this

R449, and now that doctors are so busy seeing multiple patients at a time, they ask "why are you here today?" Really??!! YOU told ME to make a follow up appointment in 3 months!! I'm here because I had no other plans on Friday at 10 am. I miss my previous PCP; she knew what I was there before she walked in the door to see me.

I am irrationally annoyed by this culture of youtubers filming themselves in their cars.

Crying, ranting, delivering news about their life or health, answering questions about themselves they claim subscribers asked them, reviewing fast food, etc. etc.

I recently watched a youtuber taste test a frozen food item she baked in her oven, then she went and sat in her car to eat and review it. How frigging ridiculous is that. I unsubscribed, she's too stupid for words.

Beggars, the homeless ones and the young kids begging on the street for Amnesty International, ASPCA, Save the Children and all the other scams.

fucking parents who shout good job at there kids for things like merely remembering to breathe.

^^^while the kid is running all over the sidewalk and parents are like "fuck you!" to the other pedestrians.

To R453, I always tell the "Voice" Stop telling me what to do, U don't know me, Ur not the Boss of me!!

Selfie.

What's the point?

All these political ads on metro NY TV. You see one add for the Rs and then, immediately following that, one for Ds. In the last week, I've been seeing one for some guy that's gay, for abortion rights, and something else BUT he's a Repub.

When I'm driving in the car, singing my head off, thinking I'm doing pretty good. I can fucking sing. Then Google cuts in to tell me to take the next right, I hear what I really sound like as the music stops. EEK

Amazon hates this....

People telling me to calm the fuck down. Every Repub lican needs to be erased from the earth by every means available. But start with the billionaires. since they could not have won the election without them and without the scam that was Citizens United.

when people lug all their shit and junk down to the curb and put a free sign on it. hoping that someone will take away their shit for them.

President Donald J Trump

Soon very soon to be potus JD Vance

I will say Biden did tow things the last week to try to throw the election to Trump (a hurt ego is a powerful motivator). Bear in mind also that he never saw Trump as a big threat like sentient people do. 1) he called Trump supporters "garbage" which is probably the only thing he has said in months that everybody in the country knows; and 2) he apologized to native Americans for the boarding school programs where the children were forcibly taken to residential schools to Americanize them. Both comments were intended to inflame the racists and therefore make Kamala lose.

Stupid American people who are fucking morons annoy me

WTF did they do?

R470 they just told the Dems and DL to go fuck themselves is what they did. America sadly has spoken.

Fucking misogynist, racist, sexist and homophobic hillbillies, and the party that played them.

Now going to sit back and watch laughing they get screwed by that orange troglodyte.

Agree with all of the above - but I came back to this thread for a break from the election nightmare.

those bumpy yellow median lines on the road. One inch over and your car vibrates like that submarine that imploded. IF I WANT TO FALL ASLEEP I WILL.

People who say mentee instead of protégé.

my apartment bedroom faces the building carpark which has lights on at night that stream in when I want to sleep with window open.

when the 'Welcome back Pick up where you left off' does not work on a word document I have been accessing.

items with no shelf price at the market.

Managers and management that refers to themselves as leaders and leadership. The same "leaders" who refer to their staff as if they are the leader's slaves, as in "my nurses" or "this is Mary, one of my nurses." The arrogance and grandiosity is annoying.

Trader Joes baked goods that mold up within 24 hours of purchase.

r480 in a way, that's a good thing. That means those products have very little preservatives and other weird chemicals.

I'm annoyed that half the state of NJ is on fire! They are predicting rain this evening....it's a good thing!

R481 Half the state? What, like the Pine Barrens? I miss all this stuff now that I'm on a Trump news blackout.

^^^Wow, he really controls you, doesn't he.

No it's been wonderful, now I get to be as ignorant as the majority of America - without the Fox disinformation. Should have done it years ago.

I find a periodic News fast to be beneficial to my overall well-being. Don't do it for too long.

^^^Why did you watch Fox?! Good you are no longer watching any legacy media. What has become abundantly clear in the past six months, even to the most dim, is how it is all lies and propaganda. I skim only the A section of the NYTs and have done so since during their support of the Iraqi war. It was an epiphany. Once you see the truth, you can see it everywhere and cannot not see it.

There is an interesting article in the New York section of the NYTs about the smoke condition here and the causes.

Ignore the question about Fox news.

R486 I've never watched Fox. I'm just differentiating my brand of total news ignorance from that of apparently the majority of Americans' Fox propaganda inflected stupidity.

Back to the beyond annoying fire engulfing half of New Jersey??

r489 they're predicting rain later on this evening. Fingers crossed.

YouTube videos I have to press twice to pause.

Al, would you just call the number and see what Medicare offers we have been missing out on???

Chappell Ruin, can she go away?

The aggressiveness of people’s driving - speeding, tailgating, overall lack of patience…

Last week I was coming home on the highway - a 2-lane where both lanes are travelling in the same direction. A transport was as close as it could possibly be behind me. This went on for a while. I was going about 5 kilometres over the speed limit (I’m Canadian) and was in the slow lane. The transport eventually started to pass me, but was barely making any effort to speed up. This also went on for a while with the transport barely making any progress. I could see at some point the turn signal flashing at the front side of the transport to get back in my lane. Normally, I’d slow down and let the person in, but this asshole was the one who should have slowed down and gotten behind me again. I don’t know why, but this really ticked me off at the time. I didn’t let him back in because my exit was coming up. Rant over.

The relentless shop like a billionaire ad on YouTube

Just tonight I also got rear-ended by a jacked up truck that was chasing another car.

Mmm, a rear-ender!

What is a transport? An 18-wheeler truck? A bus?

Bitchy Queens.

Queens yammering on about which countries they are emigrating to because of Trump.

Never. Going. To. Happen.

Touch screens that don't respond to my touch.

Queue jumpers

Stickers on new cookware that are a bitch to remove.

People who scratch the hell out of the cookware in every Airbnb. Are there that many idiots cooking with damaged Teflon?

Outlook.com email AI copilot summaries. Who the fuck asked for this?

A transport is an 18-wheeler, yes. We call them transports here.

People who crack their knuckles. Especially at work. The younger cohort seems to have no self-awareness regarding knuckle-popping in meetings or in shared workspaces.

Didn’t know that was an uncouth thing to do, R505

Cooking show hosts "trying" to pronounce "Worcestershire sauce." They think it's so cute that they can't pronounce it. I was saying it from the time I was a little kid. How hard can it be.

R505, just relish the fact that they will get arthritis one day.

- Ms. Wivestail

“I was today years old when…”.

katherine heigl and her fucking dog food.

r507, YES!!! It's fucking annoying. First it was charcuterie, and it was ever so cute that people pretended not to know how to pronounce it. So fucking cute!

The page is not responding.

Car alarms.

people who think their pets are their fur babies and all that rainbow bridge shit. It's your fucking pet.

Ever since the company loaded all these AI softwares it's impossible to fill in an online form anymore.

On any law/court show where the character says "RE-mand", with an emphasis on the first syllable. It should sound like "remind" or "rewind."

That smug bitch - what was her name?

Celeste Homely?

A real priss.

When Brits say the word "vulnerable," seemingly in 3 syllables without the "l"--like "vunrable." It sounds weird to me.

And for some reason, the word keeps popping up lately in the UK shows, films, and podcasts that I consume.

Excessive use of "inverted commas" aka quotation marks.

R518 oh that is how I pronounce it, too.

Also “med’cines” and “necc’ssry” (necessary).

R27, Fuck you! Pedestrians have the right of way!

My coworker, who I've always thought of as really smart, just said "new-kyu-lar" the other day. I think I'll give him a pass. But if I hear him saying "Real-a-tor," I will have to reassess.

My runny nose. Two days. I'm dropping Benadryl before bed and hope it's gone in the morning.

Popcorn hulls stuck between my back teeth and gums

The use of the term "fever dream" which I am coming across every day lately.

To R524-You made me laugh, blame Satan for the popcorn hulls. Good idea!

To R523-I have the same problem, I blow my nose all day. My granddaughter calls it the foghorn.

Next week I have to share the office with four republicans. It will be hell.

“Myself and…”.

Screamers at the local park. Can't you enjoy your ball game without having to yell your head off?

People who fucking stare. Mind your fucking business will you, cunt!

Fake people. The bitches at the office are fake as fuck

Having to have a different plug adapter for every country. I bought one in Germany...you would think it would work in France just over the border. Oh no. France has a different type. Fucking ridiculous.

Essential work strikers that can hold the whole state at ransom and inconvenience the general public.

Having a different butt plug for every country.

BBC America shows Law & Order and Bones, but not Law & Order: UK.

Recycled paper bags at the market that fall apart or break their handles if your item is heavy.

Wooden cutlery and straws that have replaced plastic ones.

This is not the kind of wood I want to be tasting!

Humorless, stupid individuals on the DL who have zero chance of changing.

Clogged toilets in the work restrooms, and the people who clog them. What a drag.

Also, I'm increasingly annoyed by the sound of high-heeled shoes. In particular, there's a woman at my job who's been wearing the same pair of ankle pump boots every day recently, and the force of her footfall is massive--it sounds like hammers when she's coming through the office, even on the industrial wall-to-wall carpeting that we have throughout the department. She is not a physically large person, making the sound of these boots seem strangely out of proportion to her physical mass.

r539, there should never be footwear you can hear.

When Muriel cuts down the Notifications.

The brand of rice I buy comes in cellophane so thin that it is very difficult to open without it ripping too far and spilling rice out.

[quote] there should never be footwear you can hear.

I hate it when my shoe squeaks, especially at the office. It always seems to be my right shoe and my right shoe only that squeaks.

Christmas music (beginning at the end of July with 'Balsam Hill Trees') FFS it's the middle of November and by now I'm ready to smash the TV or punch Mariah Carey in the face or both

I hate Mariah Carey, and I really hate her song. You are correct, "that evil Balsam Hill commercial " was played in July.

That it is 1:06 am and I am still sitting at my computer and not upstairs in bed getting some needed sleep.

The homeless people talking on their cell phones at the freeway exit

That is a pet peeve of mine as well, R539, especially the high heels that you can hear coming down the hall 5 minutes before the two legged horse arrives. Don't these women realize how fucking annoying they are?

Clomp! clomp! clomp! Make way! very important business lady coming through! Clomp! clomp! clomp!

Ignorant people

Cowards

It seems to be a general conditionnowadays R551

Lying employees, it's soooo easy to prove they're lying.

Why do they try, especially when every keystroke is doubled-monitored in the company.

Gen Zer's (the under 34-year-olds) are the worse liars.

To R549, I used to call them the"clicky-clackers" or the Clydesdales stomping down the marble hallways when I worked in the financial district in NYC.

Stupid people, if you're not going to tell the story correctly why tell it at all!!

The Christmas crazy peoples who are trying to "take over the THANKSGIVING holiday" and making it part of the Christmas season.

Fuck off, it's my favorite Holiday, you bastards. I start Christmas decorating on December 1st.

My shoulder bursitis.

You reminded me-I need to take my Advil.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and everyone else on DL!!

We're having 22 people for dinner today.

I really hate dtrump-his people.

I hope they all die in a grease fire.

Phillywhore would you like for me to paypal you the money for a registered account?

I still can't figure out why it can take "7 to 10 days" for me to stop receiving emails when I click "unsubscribe".

Why was the "Harris campaign Advisor " Internal polls post shut down!!

Weather forecasts that are wrong.

R562 and they send you an email to say they will be no longer sending you emails. That's an email!

Subscriptions that are simple to sign up for but a pain in the arse to cancel.

It continues to annoy me that I'm invisible to HOT guys.

Flatulence. Mine and especially yours.

When I go on a company's website for support and they don't even recognize their OWN MODEL NUMBERS.

People that over-pronounce names to make them sound exotic. eg. Honduras, Manuela Carrero.

Excuse me?

to show that I do not understand what you have said. Why not just say that?

The unbridled negativity and need to attack anyone who disagrees with an opinion personally.

The billionaire class needs to be destroyed. They have proved they are worse enemies than the Russians and Chinese ever were.

More like hostility, R572.

Having a nagging cough you can't get rid of, or having to listen to someone else who has one.

People who drive under the speed limit.

People who sneeze really loud. I know it's not voluntary, but it's annoying to me.

My loudmouth neighbor downstairs who yells his cell phone conversations in the hallway so I have to create white noise to drown it out.

The troll who creates Condi, Lindsay Lohan, Pam Anderson, etc posts and fills the up with his own replies like they’re all from different posters. This person is a big loser and stinks up the DL. Posts a lot in late afternoons and early evening. Be on the look out.

Others’ humming, whistling or mumbling.

People talking with food in their mouth, loud chewing sounds and the licking of fingers with that audible smacking sound at the end.

This should also be cross-posted to the "Signs that people are trashy" thread.

Shit like this:

[quote] What is the benefit of sucrose in the cleanser? I am insulin resistant so I'm curious why that would be in there.

A question posted on Ulta regarding a Clinique product.

Best of the year lists when we have just started December.

Any Democrat who speaks out against Biden's pardon of Hunter.

Trainers at the gym who talk to you just to drum up business. After you say no, they are a ghost.

R585 it's really just another form of prostitution.

Favorite websites that suddenly delete your access code. WTF!

"Karmle" instead of "caramel." There's an A there... CAR-a-MEL. I understand that the former is an accepted pronunciation, but that's something that annoys me every time. Also, Feb-YOO-ary. There's an R after the b, bitches.

A doctor who charges $250 for a 10 minute consultation.

The cleaning lady bashing the vacuum into the baseboards.

R588 I know a very affected English queen who pronounces it “car-a-MELL”.

He grew up on a council estate but likes to pretend that he’s borderline aristocracy, which is amusing, at least.

r588, I use the word spelled caramel, as the browned sugar, coloring agent and hard crack sugar syrup and is pronounced caramel.

But if you add butter or cream and transform caramel, pronounced caramel, it becomes caramel, pronounced carmel. Like in soft caramels, caramel popcorn, caramel sauce, salted caramel, all pronounced carmel. When you transform caramel, the second A becomes silent.

See, so when I write it, there is no difference, you would have to be in the room to hear me pronounce it carmel corn, to know the difference. By then, I am annoying others but not being annoyed myself.

Delays in delivery.

When I’m trying to nonchalantly open the wrapped saltines from the breadbasket and the static cling makes the #%^*+€ plastic wrapper adhere to my fingers.

It takes 36 minutes of graceless twitching to dislodge it.

Sorry about the sneezing very loudly, even though I had my nose fixed after the car accident.

It's still really loud-My bad. I blow my nose & the BF says it sounds like a foghorn.

People that address you by your first name before they have asked permission. That's MR. GOLDFARB, to you.

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