Things that inexplicably annoy me...

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  1. Lea`Brooks

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    OH GOD, B. So much B.
     
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    B, all the way
     
  3. KaTrian

    KaTrian A foolish little beast. Contributor

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    People who tell me how I should woman. I am a woman, I know how to woman. I know they often mean well, some of them genuinely want to improve the society we live in, but it still annoys me. Patronizing, molly-coddling talk, as if I was a precious little baby who can't even wipe her own ass without first internalizing some list à la "Ten Things Women Need to Learn about Wiping Her Ass." Shit, I guess I've been doing it all wrong. I didn't realize the way I've thought about and went about ass-wiping so far hurt me so much!
     
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    People who insist on sharing their toilet habits.
     
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    Yanno what's annoying me today? My freaking cats!!!!

    For those who don't know, cats often pick up on the attitude of the people and the environment around them. So if you're agitated, then you're cat will be agitated.

    I have four cats. Four, great, stereotypical cats. I have the sweet one, who loves to cuddle and get pets. I have the scared one, who hides upstairs, doesn't like strangers, and stays away from the other cats. I have the hyper one, who wants to play all the time and pisses off the other cats with his hyperness. And I have the bitch, who hisses at every cat, growls at strangers, and tries to be top cat in the house.

    I recently got a roommate. He also has a cat.... who is a bigger bitch than my cat. She claws every thing and every one, growls or hisses if you even look at her, and is always causing trouble. She's constantly trying to "play" with my cats, but it's overly aggressive, so they just chase each other around the house, hissing and clawing each other up.

    Needless to say, they've made everyone's mood in my house quite sour. So now ALL of my cats are hyper at the same time, fighting, clawing the carpet, getting into shit they shouldn't be getting into....

    I may have cat soup for dinner.
     
  6. Lemex

    Lemex That's Lord Lemex to you. Contributor

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    It really, for some reason, annoys me when people clearly make stuff up. The most recent thing was the crazy idea that the UN started every war since WW2.
     
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    I hate seeing bad grammar or punctuation in places neither of them belong.

    I hate bad, un-thought-through design that jars with the senses.

    I hate the current round of smug Britishness, because London is apparently the centre of the universe now. Smug smug smug.

    I hate that I can't have a Pug right now because my landlord - whose pockets I line, month-in, month-out, says I can't.
     
  8. Link the Writer

    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    When I'm surfing the internet (bonus: eating food) and an ad for saving starving children pops up with the world's most miserable looking child staring right at me and phrases like 'today, you can be this child's hero'.

    I mean, wow, thanks a lot you insidious advertisement bar. Now I feel like a raging douchebag, a colossal asshole. Here I am in a warm, cozy environment eating lazily on my sandwich and that kid in the picture probably hadn't eaten in weeks and sleeps out on the side of the road in the freezing rain. What makes it worst is that if I click away from it, it makes me feel like I don't give a shit about the kid.

    Basically, ads that do nothing but make me feel like a monster because I don't do anything to help starving kids or homeless pets. >:[
     
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    Lemex That's Lord Lemex to you. Contributor

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    For some reason, this image really annoys me. I don't know why:

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    This is the way I feel when watching Comedy Central. I'm watching a roast or something, laughing at the jokes, and then they suddenly cut to one of those ASPCA commercials showing all these abused animals, with Sarah McLachlan or some reasonable facsimile telling me, voice cracking with barely-held-back-tears, how much these poor animals are SUFFERING and it's ALL MY FAULT for not sending money! So there I am, crying over the suffering animals, and the commercial ends and we're back to the jokes. So I'm laughing again until the same damned ad comes on a second time and makes me cry.

    I hate having my emotions jerked around like that.

    Come on, Comedy Central! You're Comedy Central - don't put on sad ads! Put on funny commercials so I can keep laughing - that's why I'm watching you!
     
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    So um, presumably the picture is of Rene Descartes, utilised only so they could facilitate an awful play on words? Is that about the size of it? If so, that annoys me more than the image per se.
     
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    'Day-car'. Not 'Des-cart-es'. :/
     
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    :confused: Given that the material was in the bin, I thought the word play was Descarted/Discarded.
    Yours isn't much better, mind.
     
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    Lemex That's Lord Lemex to you. Contributor

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    That's what I was thinking, but 'des-cart-ed' isn't how you are to pronounce it I don't think. I was always told to pronounce it another way - which I think is why I find it so annoying. :p
     
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    I agree, and your pronunciation is correct. First year Philosophy class at Uni, many moons ago. The demon hypothesis, amongst other things.

    I follow you now. It is annoying.
     
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    Lemex That's Lord Lemex to you. Contributor

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    Sorry, I'm tired. I could have made that clearer. :p
     
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    I think you mean smug London-ness - I'm a Brit, and I get annoyed with London being all that exists.

    Though this wasn't helped when Bob Dylan (OK, back in the 60s) did his UK tour. London, Edinburgh, back home.
     
  18. minstrel

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    Okay, this doesn't inexplicably annoy me, but it sure does explicably annoy me:

    When did poll results become news?

    I see on more than one cable news channel that, when they're reporting on something political, they have a graphic at the bottom of the screen, updating in real time, providing the audience's reaction to a poll question relating to the story. Yes or no? Positive or negative? Bar graphs update as the dolts at home weigh in with their utterly uninformed opinions.

    Do you think polar bears are endangered? the poll asks. Do you think it's going to rain tomorrow in Raleigh, North Carolina? the poll asks. Do you think Person A is guilty of murdering Person B, even though Person A hasn't even been charged with that crime yet? the poll asks. Do you think the New England Patriots can repeat as Super Bowl champions, even though the football season isn't even going to begin until September? the poll asks. And the news channel dutifully gathers the poll results and shows them to us, almost as if they're news! Almost as if what the uninformed public thinks about random future events matters!

    It's like asking Elmer Fudd what he thinks about stem cell research. It's like asking Homer Simpson what he thinks about Schopenhauer. It's like asking a random group of kindergartners what they think about quantum mechanics and the discovery of the Higgs boson.

    Argh.
     
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    Or there will be segments where they'll play a phone conversation from a viewer, apparently who will give out his/her own opinion on whatever subject matter they're talking about.
     
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    The news in general annoys me. A station back home used to report the results of American Idol the day after the episode.

    ....Really?
     
  21. minstrel

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    Another thing: I was watching a channel just this past weekend (CBS?), and they had an ad saying "Watch Super Bowl 50 here on February 7!"

    Damn. This is April, people! Football season doesn't even start for four and a half months, and you're already advertising the Super Bowl? Jeez. I used to think it was bad when they starting Christmas advertising at Halloween, but this is way worse!
     
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    On the subject of American sports, why do they insist on calling the baseball competition the World Series? No one else gives a shit about baseball, much less plays it. Why then, would you call it the World Series? The World Cup in football is legitimate enough for obvious reasons, representative nations of the world are involved but why arrogantly insist on this mantle for this particular Americentric, domestic competition????
     
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    Actually, a lot of nations play baseball: Japan, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, etc. The World Series is a misnomer - it's just the championship of American baseball. Teams from elsewhere in the world don't compete in it. It's a perfect example of American egomania - "We're world champions! Even though we didn't play any teams from anywhere else, we're world champions!" Argh.

    Oddly, there's the Little League World Series - a World Series for kids' teams. It actually has a real claim to being a real World Series, because Little League teams from around the world play in it. There are Japanese teams, Mexican teams, Australian teams, Taiwanese teams, etc. etc. Kids from everywhere play in the Little League World Series. Whoever wins that actually has a legitimate claim to the title of World Champions. Just goes to show you the kids do it right and the adults are fools. :)
     
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    Baseball is also big in Korea, Venezuela, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Curacao, Aruba, and to a lesser degree, Panama, Colombia, and Canada. In 2014, 30% of the players on the opening day Major League Baseball rosters were born outside the United States.
     
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    When the cynical voice in my head (not literally a voice, mind you more of a gut feeling) tells me to go online and be a cynical asshole for reasons even I don't know, or do know and know it's childish. I try to reason with it, but it's like speaking Latin to a dog. It won't work.

    When my generalized anxiety disorder decides to either make me feel regret for something I didn't do or something I did years ago, or make me panic at all the horrible scenarios that could happen within the next 24 hours. Again, try to reason with it. Doesn't work.

    Basically, I've got a cynical old man living in my head and his bunkmate/flatmate/whatevermate is Mr. Anxiety who wants me to either be afraid of something or be regretful over something that I did/didn't do years back.

    Oh, and when people complain about my hobbies. So what if I like American baseball? it's not like I'm tying you up in a chair, taping your eyelids open and forcing you to watch with me. You let me watch what I want, and I'll let you watch what you want and we'll both be happy. ¿Si? ¿Comprende? I think Doctor Who is a godawful show, yet you don't see me asking why Britain has a chronic obsession with this show/complaining about this show.

    ...I am also annoyed at my own hypocrisy. I know I have the right to dislike certain things, but really? I complain about a show under the same breath as 'you don't see me complaining about this show'?

    #WhitePeopleProblems/#FirstWorldProblems/#Hypocrite
     
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