What idiosyncrasies make someone sad in your eyes?

People who know porn stars by name make me sad for them. My heart breaks a little for adults who say grace before eating. People and their beat up Tupperware in the lunchroom makes me sad.

Paying to post on an internet message board
Braggarts both annoy and sadden me.
Saying grace shows humility, to me. But I'll agree on the lunch containers. Alas, I am one of those people, along with many if not most of my coworkers eating leftovers alone in our cubes, mere feet apart from each other.
OP's issues with people who say grace tells me that he's someone I wouldn't really like to get to know.
Saying grace doesn't show humility. At its best it shows appreciation.
Saying grace is a bit off. Maybe a silent something, okay?
Adults who count down to anticipated events using the words "sleeps" in place of "days".
Idiots who start threads like these so they can come off as funny or superior and fail miserably.
People who make judgments about other people, without knowing a thing about them. To me, this is probably the worst one, because if everyone stopped doing this, I GUARANTEE the world would be a much happier place.
Peoole who argue about the iPod/ android. People who clearly have no life but pretend otherwise. People who make a point of saying that they don't care for expensive clothing when really they couldn't afford it anyway. People who don't mentally evolve at all, think they know everything are judgmental. People who are proud of being racist, anti intellectuals, mostly people who don't realise how small minded they are and how they miss out on life.
People such as OP makes me sad. It is sad that people like OP has to looked down on people to make them feel superior. OP, have you ever thought that people you mentioned do not NEED for you to feel sad for them? Did they ask you to pity them? You are the pathetic one.
People who buy regularly from QVC make me sad. People who buy Quacker Factory from QVC make me REALLY sad.
Social climbers and power junkies. Power is the most useless and ephemeral thing there is.
People that are so lonely that they pay for companionship, paying to post on a message board, paying people to have sex with them, joining those on line dating sites, that kind of desperation makes me sad.
People on Tumblr in general, especially those over thirty who write impassioned screeds about stuff like My Little Pony, or who think they're sophisticated Anglophiles for watching shit like Dr. Who.
R14 did you opt for celibacy instead? That's a pretty concentrated group regarding companionship. It's almost as though you have experimented in each of them.
People who inject a laugh whenever they talk. I suppose it's like saying 'umm' or 'you know', but the laugh is much more noticeable and makes the speaker sound retarded.
R16 is embarrassed by his own whore mongering behavior, I'm sad for him.
Dr. Shepherd, would you please increase the dosage in R11's meds? The current dose doesn't seem to be effective anymore.
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People at work who have Focus on the Family emails in their email box and who listen to the Focus broadcasts on their car radio on the way in. And then quote the BS like it is facts.
R10, you seem to be describing yourself.
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I find people who choose to judge others solely on an individual idiosyncracy without the perspicacity of mind to reason WHY this idiosyncracy would exist are pitious wretches who besmeerch humanity in its entirety by their malfeasance
Someone please take away R22's Book 'O Big Words
What Context?
people who eat at crackerbarrel
R21,so you are saying Im a racist, and have no life, argue about iPhone vs android, bash expensive clothing, based solely on the fact that I find this things sad??? You are an idiot.
R10
fan boys and fan girls who make tumblr accounts.
[quote] who think they're sophisticated Anglophiles for watching shit like Dr. Who Hey! Lay off Dr. Who. Since discovering it this summer I am enjoying every last ridiculous thing about it. It's just what sci fi should be - ridiculous and fun. I'm sophisticated and shit. I swear.
People who judge others based on their faith and/or religious habits who spend money to post bullshit threads on an online discussion forum make me really sad.
Adults who are into comic books. I see this a lot with gay guys - comic book nerds. Guys who are over 30 who don't have a career (ie, they work part time, work retail, live off others). People who have no frame of reference for current events or pop culture from the last 20 years.
Oh, the irony of R28's post. Because religious people NEVER judge, right?
Poor people with hopes and dreams.
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Judgmental pricks like OP make me sad. They spew meanness and bad energy everywhere they go, and generally make the world suck.
People on this board who are judging me by calling me judgmental make me sad. I am not judging anyone by their idiosyncrasies. I am just saying they make ME sad, not that the person is sad. That has everything to do with who I am and not who the other person is. And I am being judgmental when I call you people idiots for saying judging people is bad. Everyone judges people, it's part of our survival instinct. "Is this person crazy, should I walk past them.". They maybe saner than you but you make the call out of your own protection. You're a hypocrit if you say you don't judge people and stupid if you think you should stop. It's when you continue to believe in your judgements when facts tell you otherwise that it becomes a problem.
People who think "faith" is so unquestionably wonderful that it's off-limits for discussion make me sad. If the "faithful" would stop flying planes into buildings, we wouldn't be able to comment, now would we? And yeah, an adult thanking an invisible sky-friend before every meal is sad to me, though plenty of people who share your group delusion probably think it's a sign of humble wholesome goodness, I'm sure, so keep at it.
People with big fat asses who pour themselves into skin-tight pants and then are constantly pulling down the back hem of their shirt/blouse/sweater/whatever, thinking they're "hiding" something.
I have a coworker who walks with a noticeable limp. It always makes me cringe and sad at the same time. I try to downplay it by making the same joke about his limp once every few months. It's weird....
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Faggots who think they are in any position to pity someone.
People like r37. Incredibly, pathetically, tragically sad.
People who feel compelled to tell you how much they paid for everything and what designer brand it is. Insecurity, grew up wanting, what?
People whose self-worth is defined by their possessions.
It makes me very sad that the datalounge webmaster is so cowardly that he or she is deleting any thread that mentions cancer hoaxster, and general psycho, Tig Notaro. I'm not sure it's an idiosyncrasy, but it is idiotic and deeply lame. I know that Lavely and Singer feeds this timid webmaster lies . They should look into things and realize that deleting the threads is a pathetic and corrupt thing to do. First Amendment rights, for god's sake. Why is this Z list opportunist wielding so much power? It's insane.
R41, is that your way of having this thread deleted?
I was surprised when someone I knew said that seeing men reading alone in restaurants made them sad. I go to restaurants alone all the time. And read. I *love* it. It's my quiet time, away from work and distractions, where I can enjoy a good meal (without the issues of having to do dishes, or cook, or clean) and read an enjoyable book. I was totally stunned that anyone would look at me and be SAD for me when I did that. I tried to explain it to her... it's like a little vacation get-away, disappearing into a book and enjoying a good meal and not having to deal with anything else. I don't often get uninterrupted periods to just sit and read, so getting away for a nice meal in a nice restaurant to read and eat is one of my personal joys. I think some people wasting time and energy feeling "sad" for someone else they see, when they don't really know the whole story, is just silly.
You can't control your feelings R43. You can only control your reactions to your feelings.
Morons like r37 who get a thrill from bigot-based trolling.
Delusional people. LOL. I know one who's currently digging her own grave.
Someone who can't imagine going to a restaurant by themselves and reading makes me sad.
r42- The webmaster only deletes any thread that mentions Tig Notaro in the title. Tig's lawyers have backed down from their threats that anytime the word "tig" is mentioned datalounge will be PUNISHED. Hope that info calms your nerves.
Allison Hart
People who believe what they hear from a motivational speaker at a sales seminar
I agree with R10.
Being PPSM.
People who exude a faint aroma of loaded Depends make me sad.
Teardrop
People who like the movie "Prometheus" make me sad.
Tell us more about her, r46. Is her name Tig, lol
people who shit in public make me sad. and people who post youtube videos of it make me sadder.
The people in the condo next to mine make me sad. There is dog shit all over their yard, they have a huge grill and children's scooters in the yard-it makes it look I moved next to a trailer park.
[quote]People who know porn stars by name make me sad for them. Mary!
[quote]People and their beat up Tupperware in the lunchroom makes me sad. Adults who cannot use the correct verb conjugation make me much sadder.
Being a shrill food Nazi, always loudly judging others, never giving anyone any peace, always trying to control others and force their own (demented) standards on everyone... It's just sad and pathetic. They're so angry and hateful. Maybe they'd be happier if they just had a fucking donut and managed to not beat themselves up and feel guilty about it.
People who blindly vote for only one political party.
People who ever vote for any Republican ever.
OP makes me sad for the human race
I love reading alone in restaurants, too
Applied to the DataLounge: People who gush over the doings on The View or the morning network "news" programs and personalities.
The way "truth" now is subject to anybody's own crazy manufacture and invention, like Republicans and newscasters, and loud people (usually with big money) who make themselves heard. (like Donald Trump).
Pop stars and rappers who sing about all their new found fame and fortune, how they own a yacht now and then list the designer labels they can now afford. They're so shallow and needy for approval it's just pitiful.
the need to wear ear rings, caftans.
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In the 70s, before she was admitted to a psychiatric ward in Connecticut, my sister new ALL the names of the actors/actresses in the TV program, "Maud", including Adrienne Barbeau. From that moment on, I never forgot who Adrienne Barbeau was.
Men who insist on wearing gold tiaras after Labor Day.
People who still talk about est training from the 70s.
OP makes me sad. I thought nannies like you wanted people to stay away from fast food by packing their own lunches....... but now you're bitching because their tupperware isn't pristine.
Jesus, r10, if you want to see someone judgmental, look in the mirror.
[quote]I thought nannies like you wanted people to stay away from fast food by packing their own lunches....... but now you're bitching because their tupperware isn't pristine. It's not that they are packing their own lunches that makes me sad, or the fact that their tupperware isn't pristine. It's just imagining them in their kitchens alone, at night, scooping out their left overs into these beat up containers. Maybe it's my imagining of their sad lonely life as reflected in the use of the same container year after year. The thought breaks my heart thinking of them.
People who loudly and relentlessly trumpet how "non-judgmental" they are, and whose sole critique of the world is how "judgmental" every "preference" is. These millions of people make me sad. It's as if their cowardly lack of discernment, or ability to have any standards, or even passionate preferences is some kind of virtue! Who are they helping? Other people too sniveling to enjoy baked over mashed potatoes? Sad. And annoying!
Religious nuts are the most pathetic individuals. Sad.
People who earnestly post prayer-like things on FB make me sad. They used to annoy me, but they really, truly think Jesus is going to swoop down and help Hurricane Sandy/West, Texas/Boston/the latest American disaster victims. Older men/women who hit on much younger people and really believe that the younger people find them interesting or attractive.
[quote]People who make judgments about other people, without knowing a thing about them. To me, this is probably the worst one, because if everyone stopped doing this, I GUARANTEE the world would be a much happier place. But that would mean no Datalounge. And since we can have that, I agree, nothing provokes my disdain like people who carry on over porn stars. Seldom has so little been given to so many by so many. Stud Steele is dead... yes, let's start rending our garments.
[quote]Older men/women who hit on much younger people and really believe that the younger people find them interesting or attractive I don't think they really believe that they'll be found attractive. I think that they just think that if they hit on enough young people the law of averages will provide a few young people with low enough self esteem to get them some action.
People incapable of maintaining relationships.
Gays who can't integrate.
Wow, there's something really sad about someone who likes to post about how other people make him sad for their personal idiosyncracies, OP.
Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes.
Friends who dropped me when I came out to them who can't ever admit they were homophobic idiots. Not even forty years later.
Bitter Betty at r83
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Americans absolutely obsessed with the British monarchy, the way the titles are conferred, the order of succession, etc., etc. The only reason Brits are given a pass on this (IMO) is because the monarchy is actually part of their national identity. And though I would imagine those Brits who are repositories of monarchy trivia may tend to be conservative (bleh), I see it as on par with anyone who gets nerdy about the history and/or customs of their own country. To each their own. But the whole point of American history and it's existence was the rejection and overthrow of a monarchy. Why romanticize the very thing that's abhorent to your national political identity? Granted, I'm guessing most of the U.S. monarchy lovers probably know fuck all about politics. But they can tell you in breathless detail why Diana was the Princess of Wales, but not Princess Diana and why Princess Michael is not Princess Entitled Cunt (or whatever her given name is).
People who begin their sentences with "basically" or "Sadly". Also (and I'm going to soon start a grammar queen thread on this), people (including YOU RACHEL MATTHEWS!) who don't know a gerund from Geronimo and that it requires the possessive.
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Kisses to R82!
The people who fall victim to multi-level marketing make me sad. I don't see how they can't understand there will never be any money in it. Why do they want to beleive in it so badly? Any "business opportunity" that requires you to "invest in your future" by buying materials and attending seminars may be primarily in the business of selling those things. It's not a new thing either. Why do they still fall for it?
Conspiracy Theorist kooks Any twenty something that thinks Ron Paul is an ideal candidate because he wants to legalize Pot and not have war. But really it is all about the pot for them! Both are equally scary and sad.
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I pity all the little people.
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I pity the people who missed paying thousands of dollars for "est training" in the 70s, and now fall for "The Secret" training of the 00s.
I just want to echo what R89. Especially with the Ron Paul acolytes. It's just sad they can't see how utterly misguided and misinformed they are...
I mean, we aren't in a place to judge IF someone is a sad individual, but there is such a thing as second-hand embarrassment. It cannot be controlled.
I worked with someone who was having a bad day and said, "at least American Idol is on tonight." I have my favorite shows too but I don't count on them to make my day better.
People who say or write "Sending Love and Light!" when of course, you're doing nothing. Same for all the prayer weirdos frankly. Useless.