Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[Ruldra]

Women.

http://imgur.com/a/r5kEb

[mesh control]

Relevant:

[RGC]

More genuine irritations:

1. "I was like" - What's wrong with good old fashioned "I said" or "I thought"?

Person1: Had a meeting with my boss. She said I won't be getting that pay-rise after all.
Person2: Really? That sucks!
Person1: Yeh, I was like "Jesus Christ, you can't do this to me!"

Have I misunderstood the usage here? In conversation, I can't see how Person2 knows whether Person1 said, or merely thought that last line? I suppose it's all about context, and being familiar enough with whoever is speaking to know whether they're referring to thoughts or speech. It's so commonplace now, that I've found myself doing it on occasion, whereupon I'm like "for fucks sakes man!" (at which point I get strange looks).

2. Crumbs off the kitchen floor getting stuck to my socks.

[emphatic]

On a related note, monitors/TVs that supply bogus EDID info (which seems to be the majority of them because of a mix of faulty assumptions in the standards and the vendors just not giving a shit).

I used this: http://entechtaiwan.com/util/moninfo.shtm to get a proper .inf file that I used in WindowsXP.

[ratikal]

Women.

http://imgur.com/a/r5kEb

Didn't read but the fact that it took 10 seconds just to scroll to the bottom said enough. What the fuck.

[Ex-Cyber]

Google results being flooded by dozens of Usenet/forum/mailing list scraper sites that all copied the same fucking thread.

[xbl0x180]

More genuine irritations:

1. "I was like" - What's wrong with good old fashioned "I said" or "I thought"?

Person1: Had a meeting with my boss. She said I won't be getting that pay-rise after all.
Person2: Really? That sucks!
Person1: Yeh, I was like "Jesus Christ, you can't do this to me!"

Have I misunderstood the usage here? In conversation, I can't see how Person2 knows whether Person1 said, or merely thought that last line? I suppose it's all about context, and being familiar enough with whoever is speaking to know whether they're referring to thoughts or speech. It's so commonplace now, that I've found myself doing it on occasion, whereupon I'm like "for fucks sakes man!" (at which point I get strange looks).

I actually go out of my way to not say the word "like," except for where it is correct. I also go out of my way to poke a bit of fun of others' overusage of the word. "Then I said to her, 'I, like, like you, man'."

Another thing that annoys me is the way things are stated. I think this is mostly a Southern California thing, but it's spread out to other parts of the U.S. (maybe the world) whereupon the speaker states a lot of things in the tone of a question. God damn, do I hate that. I just stare back intently trying to count how many questions they're asking as they're saying something to me. My only response to them is, "Whoa, there, give me some time to answer your first question before you fire away four more!"

Also, girls... more to the point, girls who are taken and those who are not. Girls who are taken = perfect match for me. Girls who are not taken = a landmine that was left behind for me to step on. What the hell?! It's a bit frustrating. I suppose the stars were outta alingment

[emphatic]

When you buy an expensive book and the price tag is so damn hard to remove that it leaves a nasty mark on the dust cover.

[mesh control]

Ebay users who leave negative feedback and don't message you prior.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

The Xbox 360 dashboard. Rarely connect it to the internet except to update games, boyfriend recently did an update, now the dashboard is plastered with ads everywhere. Thanks Microsoft, I love having the boxes I use to navigate games being a tenth of the size of the boxes for your ads of retarded looking rappers/jumping children/families. I also love how when I'm browsing my list of games, I don't have an option of 'sort by full games'. It's either demos, ones from XBLA, Indie games, or (ugh) Kinect, but there's not 'all full games' sort option.

Only thing keeping me from selling in disgust is the genuinely good games I have for it that are worth putting up with this nonsense.

[louisg]

Relevant:

Sadly, that's also how I find most people work. I'll never understand it.

[xbl0x180]

Relevant:

Sadly, that's also how I find most people work. I'll never understand it.

Dude, it's the Ladder Theory. It's all explained by the Ladder Theory... but it's also partly trying to beat the off-side rule when it comes to meeting girls. You can't just hang out at the goal line waiting for the ball to roll your way to kick it into the net

Related:
http://www.brotherswithnogame.com/paral ... side-rule/

[louisg]

Relevant:

Sadly, that's also how I find most people work. I'll never understand it.

Dude, it's the Ladder Theory. It's all explained by the Ladder Theory... but it's also partly trying to beat the off-side rule when it comes to meeting girls. You can't just hang out at the goal line waiting for the ball to roll your way to kick it into the net

I think there's maybe a tendency to give people more credit than they deserve, which is how you get disappointed . There are an awful lot of shallow people out there.

[xbl0x180]

What I see in that cartoon is that displaying earnest interest in a girl's activities and hobbies calls out for being friendzoned/ignored, whereas focusing on your own hobbies and activities, and only turning to a girl to go out for a date leads to higher chances of... going out on a date. Ergo, the little dude just wasted his chance at just asking her out to some douchebag. It's annoying that a guy can't try to relate to a girl on a deeper level initially, but that's how it works in the real world

[mesh control]

fuck, this shit's confusing.

[Nate]

I love it when I pay my cable provider $120 (last Wednesday) and I call to check my "bank acct. balance" daily to see if and/or when they've processed the payment, then two days later I have that amount ADDED to my acct. instead of charged, so I call the cable company back this morning and they inform me that the payment has gone through and there are no "pending transactions on my account", so then I call my bank and speak to some girl with a highly "ghetto" dialect/drawl who explains to me that my cable company probably hasn't been able to process the payment and that they will try up to three times to attempt to do so (or something cause I could hardly understand what the fuck she was saying) and that "it could take up to five business days for the payment to go through".

Basically, they're both fingering each other; so, I'm a little "leary" on whether or not I should deposit any more cash - because, who's "screwing the pooch" here?

[ratikal]

RROD's

;_;

[Ex-Cyber]

What I see in that cartoon is that displaying earnest interest in a girl's activities and hobbies calls out for being friendzoned/ignored, whereas focusing on your own hobbies and activities, and only turning to a girl to go out for a date leads to higher chances of... going out on a date. Ergo, the little dude just wasted his chance at just asking her out to some douchebag. It's annoying that a guy can't try to relate to a girl on a deeper level initially, but that's how it works in the real world

What I see in that cartoon is the heartbreaking destruction of a perfectly good CRT.

Also, the heartwarming story of a GURL who honestly just WANT SUM FUCK and how she met a guy who wanted the same.

[ChainsawGuitarSP]

My bloody PSP batteries dying without me even touching the thing! how ironic that it's become one of my worst systems to play on...

[ShmupSamurai]

Fickle "Spring" weather....one day it's nice around the mid-60's to 70's, the next it drops to 40-somethin' like an ice brick and then shoots up to freakin' 89 degrees the day after!

I'm like: "Nature...MAKE UP YOUR @#$%@%in' MIND ALREADY!"

[Ed Oscuro]

Fuck you, I'd love to have one day of 40 degree weather. 89 degrees would be terrible for the plants but ungodly fun all the same. 89 + banks of receding snow = whoaaaa maaan



And yet I can't complain, from the standpoint of the weather, here in Michigan this has been a VERY unusually snow-free winter. Only a few good snowfalls all season - very unusual.

In b4 "anthropogenic climate change is a hoax" too

[Ed Oscuro]

Relevant:
http://i.imgur.com/1hfIJ.jpg

If that was really how it worked, the world would be a much better place.

[rapoon]

Women.

http://imgur.com/a/r5kEb

LOL! That's awesome!

[Skykid]

Women.

http://imgur.com/a/r5kEb

Jesus, that's fragile.

At least she kept her word.

[Ex-Cyber]

Forum posts that end with a line like "Sent using <app> on my <mobile device>". Sometimes I wonder whether the person posting even knows that their app is inserting that obnoxious shit. If anybody actually non-ironically puts that in manually, I weep for humanity.

edit: also, "flavored vodka". They apparently call it this because calling it "gin" would engender unrealistic expectations.

[emphatic]

Installing a flip switch for your cabinet and then when you put in that one PCB that doesn't allow screen flipping by dip switches(the whole reason a flip switch is needed), it WON'T LET YOU INSERT COINS!

[Leader Bee]

People who talk about having their accounts "hacked" (FB, hotmail etc) when in all honesty they're just not careful enough about not revealing sensetive information about themselves or just straight using simple passwords.

Sat here listening to a workmate whining about having her accounts hacked and i'm sat here thinking "You do know what hacked means, right?"

[BareKnuckleRoo]

Sat here listening to a workmate whining about having her accounts hacked and i'm sat here thinking "You do know what hacked means, right?"

Holy fuck, this shit's annoying. I used to work at a university tech support center as a student and you would not believe how many people handed out their account password to phishing emails on a regular basis despite the constant reminder that we never ask for it, let alone need it.

The worst though was the time some guy who worked in administration called asking for tech support for his cell phone when he was in a car. No, he wasn't a passenger; he was driving. It was a tad disillusioning to have to explain to someone most likely pulling in a nearly six figure salary that it was a bad idea to call for tech support for your phone while you're driving.

[iconoclast]

People who talk about having their accounts "hacked" (FB, hotmail etc) when in all honesty they're just not careful enough about not revealing sensetive information about themselves or just straight using simple passwords.

Sat here listening to a workmate whining about having her accounts hacked and i'm sat here thinking "You do know what hacked means, right?"

In a similar vein, it's annoying when celebrities say stupid shit on Twitter and then claim their account was hacked after coming to their senses. Or maybe Kurt Angle is the only one who does this, I dunno.

[BulletMagnet]

My bloody PSP batteries dying without me even touching the thing! how ironic that it's become one of my worst systems to play on...

I actually took the battery out of my PSP some time ago, I only bother to play it when it's plugged into an outlet.