What relatively minor thing makes you angrier than it should?

People who are unnecessarily loud in restaurants. When I hear someone laughing way extra loud or talking louder than others, I want them to choke on their food.

But, lots of stuff gets on my nerves more than it really should. I should probably be medicated.

My dog slurping water from hsis bowl really irritates me. Then again, ALL slurping noises do.

children

Cycling on the sidewalk/pavement.

The new neighbors throwing all their recyclables and food scraps into the black bin, filling it up and making it unavailable for the rest of us in the building.

(They're from Texas and obviously don't know any better.)

Jerks who leave their shopping carts within 15 feet or less from the cart corral!

I'm with R1 -People have lost the ability to be considerate while out in public. You don't scream and yell in restaurants. I won't tolerate that from a three-year-old, let alone a thirty-something.

“Disorganization”. I put that in quotes because, for example, I have chicken broth cans lined up in a row in my cupboard. My parents will just throw random cans in there anywhere without a thought.

“Do you have clam chowder?” they may ask.

I don’t know, let me turn around every fucking canned good I have because you just randomly throw shit in the cupboard.

I do not know at what point I became such an anal-retentive asshole, but I’m guessing mid 30’s.

All the above. Also, people walking slowly in front of me. People walking on the wrong side of the sidewalk. People cutting me off to exit the train first - then walking super slow (was so tempted to bump an old dude who did that to me today, but he was old and I’m kinda nice, so...)

That is not a small thing R6, those people should be shot.

what a lovely thread

Joggers

Dumbfuck group of people who take up entire sidewalk and when they’re walking towards you, they expect you to get out of their way to let them keep walking. It’s like they’re trying to test you to see if you’d acquiesce. I never do of course and just keep walking my side of the sidewalk while I look at the moron walking towards me. They all eventually step back once they know I’m not accommodating their entitled behavior in public space. The worst offenders doing this are teen girls, young women (teens to 20s). I’ve noticed that men don’t usually pull this shit.

Au contraire, R11. This is a lovely thread! It made me feel better, hearing that others are annoyed by the same things I am, and that we are all acknowledging that we shouldn't get so angry about these things. Sounds absolutely healthy to me!

People who, are obviously not handicapped, parking in the designated parking spots.

I’m far too stoned on the Devil’s Lettuce to let anything really get to me, quite honestly.

People who call me without introducing themselves. It’s basic phone etiquette to introduce oneself before demanding to know the identity of the person they’ve just called. Especially now, when the average American gets 10 spam/scam calls a day.

What’s your name, r17?

People who think they can't wait in line with the rest of us. "Oh, I just have a quick question, I'm not doing anything major." Tough shit, fucking whore, get to the end of the queue.

[quote] People who, are obviously not handicapped, parking in the designated parking spots.

I’m sorry, I disagree with this. There are several conditions that are not visible to the naked eye that could make one technically handicapped and unable to walk long distances. My father was one.

Visually, you’d never know it, but it was a legit placard. Every time I see someone who doesn’t “appear” handicapped, I think of him.

People who are inconsiderate - completely unaware of how their actions affect others.

Maybe this isn't minor though but I try to calm myself and not let it affect me. In the past I would say something, but nowadays, it's not worth it to engage.

For R6

Guys who start riding their bikes while still on the rail platform. The platforms have multiple signs instructing patrons to wait till they're off the platform before mounting their bikes, but no. These jerks will wheel their bikes off the train, get right on and start riding, and then they act annoyed at all the people in their way.

I live in an apartment building with 12 apartments and a very small compactor room on the floor. It drives me nuts when people don’t break down their cardboard boxes before putting them in the room. Ideally, large boxes should be brought down to the lobby but they just pile them up unbroken in the room. Bastards!

Our houseguest, who is doing nothing wrong.

I manage a big group so I would say employees who are passive-aggressive and overly dramatic and bicker with co-workers. I hate it and tell them to knock it off.

1) People saving seats. 2) When I see plastic bags in my apartment building's compost bin.

People who stop walking

- at the top of stairs,

- at the entrance to an elevator or escalator

- in the middle of the sidewalk to chat

People who walk in groups 3 or 4 abreast or cannot walk in a straight line, so veer aimlessly from one side of the sidewalk to the other like those police cars on freeways trying to keep traffic behind them moving slowly.

They just put bike lanes on my street and it's fucked up the entire street.

People who make wide right turns. Several times I've been behind a car that is signaling to make a turn, and as I get ready to pass them, they go far to the left of the lane before turning right. You aren't driving a 16-wheeler, hug the curb!

R27 here. I'll expound on 1) because thinking about it has made me angry. One example is when on flights one person in a couple or a group pays for early boarding and then saves the seat(s) next to them/all around them waiting for the other person/people. Alternatively when you pay for an aisle seat on a plane and a family who made last minute reservations gives you shit when you don't give up the seat you paid extra for. It's cheap and tacky. Another example is when you choose a seat and then a big group comes in and fills in all around you and they make your life miserable by talking over you or passing things between each other with you in the middle. I've even made a little visual to explain this. It's like they try to make you miserable so you fuck off and let another person in their group sit there. When I'm with my family or with a group I am extra vigilant about people doing this. I tell people point blank that I am not saving seats for them and that if we're not sitting contiguously, to not bother the other people around us. Once I even refused to save seats on a ferry for my parents. Tough shit, mom. As someone else pointed out earlier in the thread, groups of young women tend to have the worst courtesy in public. Apart from families, groups of young women are the most rude and passive aggressive about making 'their space' known.

Another thing that annoys me is when lesbian couples go to the bathroom together. What the fuck are they doing in there?

I don't even know why it matters to me, but when people overly-exaggerate when speaking. "Omg, this weather is PHENOMENAL." "This food is freaking amazing." "This is the best coffee EVER."

Drivers who cut into lines.

Humans - all of them and anything they do.

People who ask questions relating to career when first meeting you. Feels like they are trying to find out how you can be of use to them.

People who are hired to run things, but who have minimal qualifications for the job they're being hired for. They come in and make a bunch of changes that make zero sense and ignore the advice of the people who knows how things are supposed to work. Ugh.

People who walk their dog in the cemetery when there are signs everywhere stating that dogs are not permitted in the cemetery.

Is anyone trying not to become angry over these instances?

R38 many of us, yes.

Packaging of any kind. I'm always on the floor bleeding, sweating and crying, trying to get something open.

Yes R38, and that is a really good thing to bring up.

My annoyance at R8 can easily be corrected, and I’m trying to just let it go. In the grand scheme of things, it isn’t important. I still get annoyed, but then I have to think to myself, “Really? There are worse fates”.

R6 though ... those people should still be shot. It is pure laziness and I’m not having it.

People who subject others in their vicinity in public to their videos, music, or phone conversations. Don’t put that on speaker!! I don’t want to hear your stuff!!!!

And thanks to all bus drivers, managers and librarians who ask patrons to turn down the volume or plug in earphones.

Agreed with OP - there should be more noise laws around mufflers and motorcycles. I'm sick of hearing these things roaring down the road at midnight.

Question - do motorcycles HAVE to be that loud?

Do "libertarians" count?

1. Constantly barking dogs

2. People who bring very young children to funerals and refuse to leave their seats when the child starts screaming.

3. Construction equipment with the obnoxious high- pitched " beep beep" backup sound, which go on for hours.

My roomie has turned one of my outbursts into a running joke. We both love the band Motörhead. Yet, we have neighbors who work on their cars well past midnight. I was roused one night and furiously expounded, “those goddamn Motörhead’s!”

Stupidity

Formerly royal duchesses writing op-eds.

The culture around pet ownership in general these days. Since leaving the city I actually witness less of it firsthand, but before I moved I would accidentally see at least 5 dogs take a shit per day. At LEAST. Driving or walking, it was on every street. It’s vile.

Someone send r40 a bag of potato chips.

Neighbors who use their garage solely for storage. It’s designed for cars, put them in it!

Whistling

Dog owners who treat their dogs like people. They are fucking dogs. They are canine companions to humans. They are not practice babies. They are not the sibling you never had. They are dumb beasts who lick their own balls and drink from the toilet. Stop dressing them up in people clothes.

Undecided voters! How the hell can you be undecided when one side is clearly a smelly pile of shit?

EVERYTHING

As if r54 wouldn’t lick his own balls if he could.

You must be new here OP

There are no minor things that make DLers angry,

Every transgression is a major one.

Including not using commas.

When someone is at a red light and runs their hands through their hair in the rear view mirror in an exaggerated way like an orgasmic Herbal Essence shampoo commercial.

R54 I disagree. I think dogs are angels on earth to help us through life.

People who idle their cars for no reason.

Someone in front of you in the gas line, talking on a cell phone while trying to get the pumps to work. Or the self serve checkout line for that matter.

It's not a minor thing, it's a major thing. People who deliberately dig their heels in the ground whenever at place that's extremely busy, and go out of their way to take their good old sweet time on purpose because they know there is a long line of people behind them. We're at the height of a global pandemic, now is not the time for you to pull that selfish shit for attention!

When Alexa pretends that she doesn’t understand me!

People that think "I's" is a word. As in "Mom's and I's top movie star is Tom Hanks."

I never noticed until recently and now I hear it all the time. Often, it is the same people who pronounce "button" and "mountain" as "buh-in" and "mou-in." Which is another source of irrational anger.

Mom and I's favorite mou-in is the ma-er-horn.

R13, a few years ago I was walking down a sidewalk when a group of young women came walking towards me in the opposite direction. There were probably about six or seven of them and they were completely fanned out so they were taking up literally the entire width of the sidewalk. I saw them coming -- I was paying attention to the other foot traffic, though they weren't -- and I began to walk as close to the curb as literally possible without actually having to go into the street, but that wasn't enough to get any of them to give an inch. So, as I walked by the group, I bumped into one of them -- quite hard, as a matter of fact. The one I bumped into gasped as if in surprise, at which point I screamed, "You're gasping because you think I bumped into you, even though it was actually YOU who bumped into ME, because I tried to avoid you but you wouldn't give so much as an inch?! You selfish, stupid bitch!!!!" Or words to that effect.

The all-lowercase troll is working my last nerve. "yesterday I pooped 837 times, is that normal?" "would you die if you drank only urine?" etc.

It just needs to go away.

Pedestrians who deliberately slow down their pace to purposely inconvenience cars waiting for them to cross.

i know what u mean r68 and i totally get it

[quote] 2. People who bring very young children to funerals and refuse to leave their seats when the child starts screaming.

Do you work in the funeral industry R46 or just know a whole lot of people who've died?

Books that are titled " The (whatevers) Daughter". They are everywhere now. After the hundredth book was released with a name like The Traitors' Daughter or whatever you would think that authors' would take note to stop using that overdone and off putting title. Even Christina Crawford was imaginative enough not to title her book The Actress' Daughter.

People who insist on putting their drinks on the furniture without using a coaster!

You'd think they were raised by wolves!!!

Fat people.

This isn't as common anymore but I used to get annoyed when critics would call an actors performance " a revelation". For some reason the turn of phrase irked the fuck out of me.

People who insist on reminding me that 1964 was 56 years ago.

In my mind it was just yesterday and that is all that matters!!!

Sorry, R12, but I have to speak up for the joggers--I'm forever having to deal with meandering, clueless walkers and asshole bikers who fly by yelling "ON YOUR LEFT!!!" as though that absolves them of any responsibility to yield the right of way to the pedestrians they're blasting past.

Major companion annoyance to some of the ones noted above: People who, DURING A PANDEMIC, walk down the sidewalk with their faces buried in their phones, thereby putting 100 percent of the responsibility for avoiding collision upon whoever is walking in the other direction, rather than everyone paying attention to other traffic on the sidewalk and everyone compensating a little bit to avoid bumping into each other. This is incredibly annoying even under normal circumstances, and especially at a time when it's important for people to keep as much distance from each other as possible, I REALLY FUCKING HATE THIS.

At first I thought he meant those goofy looking pants with the ribbed cuffs R77, but you're likely right--IIRC, "joggers" was a 70s era word for runners, and this being DL....

Sheryl Crow. A very minor artist who pisses me off without fail. Her music defines middlebrow AND she dated professional cheater Lance Armstrong. Cunt.

Your relentlessly moronic and insipid posts, multiple accounts and responses do it for me OP.

R31 yes, if you ask someone to move it needs to be to an equal or better seat. I once was on a small plane with a single seat that I had specifically chosen in the first row. A young straight couple boarded and the female asked if I would switch seats to a seat on the two seater side with less leg room next to someone so that she and her boyfriend could sit one behind the other?! When I declined she sighed dramatically and said “uggh, some people!” for all the plane to hear. The guy she tried to sit me next to became the hero when he moved behind me also getting a better seat.

Oh, God, R82. I did a similar thing: refused to give up an aisle seat for a middle seat. I posted it a while back here on DL and posters really lambasted me. It was almost like a joke, how much flak was dished out in response to my comment.

It wasn't a male/female couple, it was an adult son and his father. The son ended up sitting next to me. I said: sorry about that, but I purposely chose an aisle seat. He said no problem and was actually cool (friendly, no hard feelings) throughout the flight.

I used to travel a lot and just got tired of being asked to give up my seat.

[quote] I once was on a small plane with a single seat

Boy, that was a small plane.

OP do you live in a trailerpark?

People (specifically relatives and friends) who drop things like utensils on the floor and put them back on the plate or counter without cleaning them. Or, they drop food on the floor, pick it up and still eat it.

The 5-second rule is a lie, idiots. The floor is not clean enough to eat off of, perhaps not even if you're cleaning it every damn day. And If you have dogs and cats, forget about it.

Straining pasta!

R20 I understand your point. I give the benefit of the doubt to elderly individuals and those that struggle to reach a cart for support. But I have no time for high schoolers or young adults that "run" into a store to get an item. In addition, I am really pissed when a car has two people in it and one goes into the store while the other sits in the car. When I question them, I learn in 2 seconds if they have a legitimate reason. When I get accused of being a sexual predator or that they served in the military...it is BS. Assembly hearings have been held on this issue and the DMV has been instructed to find a solution. Not only are they violating the law and taking handicap spots from those in need, but they are also costing cities a large amount of revenues. See the attached article.

Also from the Sac Bee: Last year, a California audit revealed an impossible statistic: More than 26,000 people over age 100 in the Golden State had blue disabled placards, allowing them to park at any street meter for free, all day, or at prime blue-stenciled stalls at the front of store parking lots.

But there are only about 8,000 people older than 100 in California, and not many of them are driving anymore, according to state officials. Those vehicles parking for free with at prime spots with centenarian placards are likely being driven by children or friends of formerly disabled drivers who have died, or in some cases by others who purchased the placards illegally. “A disabled placard is a crucial right,” said Pat McConahey, spokeswoman for Disability Rights California. “It allows people with disabilities to move around the community like everyone else.”

Just inside the city limits, in Old Sacramento, Investigative Reporter Thom Jensen found nearly every disabled parking spot was taken. Dozens more metered spots also had cars and trucks in them - parked free of charge.

The first visibly able-bodied placard holder Thom saw was Julie Silver, a cashier from Willows. Silver said that after 40 years of working on her feet, on hard surfaces, her knees give out from time to time - making it difficult to get around.

Julie Silver, from Willows, parks her truck in a disabled parking spot in Old Sacramento Silver said knee surgery was out of the question, so her doctor signed the papers allowing her to get a placard that she can use for the rest of her life.

"It's just easy for me to do the handicapped," Silver said. "I do it, because I can." Silver added that the placard was "very easy" to get.

Downloadable applications are on the DMV website. Fill it out and get a doctor to sign off that you medically need better parking access, and a disabled placard is as good as yours. Fewer than 100 yards away, a man parked in the same spot during the first three days of the ABC10 investigation. He too seemed to have a normal gait, but a Department of Motor Vehicles Investigator told ABC10 you can never assume placard abuse simply because a driver looks healthy.

"It's tough." said DMV Investigative Supervisor Tom Edwards. "You can't always see people's disabilities."

DMV Investigations Supervisor Tom Edwards says finding placard abusers is not always easy The man who parked in front of the same business three days in a row said he was hit by a truck four years ago. He wouldn't give his name, but he said, "Some days I can walk, and some days I can't."

One out of every 8.8 licensed California drivers has a disabled placard allowing them to park almost anywhere for free The numbers in California make you wonder if a lot of people are gaming the system. The average number of California placards, and disabled license plates, on the road over the past three years is 2.5 million. There are 22 million licensed drivers in the state. That's one placard for every 8.8 drivers.

Assemblyman Mike Gatto, a Democrat from Los Angeles, says his research shows when expired placards and temporary placards are figured into the equation the number of disabled permits is actually 3 million - meaning closer to one in seven drivers has the free parking option.

If I go to a deli or bagel store, it’s usually very early in the morning. Where I live most of these places are in a place with a large parking lot because there’s usually other stores and/or a supermarket that shares the parking lot. At that time of the morning, none of the other businesses are open so it really pisses me off when people park in the fire zone to go into the deli when the parking lot is literally empty and you could grab a legitimate space an extra 10 feet away.

Are you that fucking lazy. I swear if I was a cop working at that time I would drive around to all these stores at that hour and issue tickets to all these cars.

Probably an ERJ-145 R84. They typically have two seats on one side and a single on the other. One of the most comfortable regional jets out there.

Bless your heart, r90.

Just. Well, just bless it.

When the Keurig waits until the last minute before telling you it needs water.

Cake shows in general and cakes that aren't cakes but "things" in particular.

if you hear a rude booming voice "Is there a back up cashier available?".... it's me.

Replies like R88. Educational, yes. Boring, for sure

R54 my father always joked that in his next life he wanted to come back as a dog, but only in the USA. He said he'd get better treatment as a dog than he did as a human being (sadly, that statement isn't too much of an exaggeration).

R46 - I was in my otherwise all-female office one day as that "beep-beep" sound went on for seemingly hours. I finally yelled out, "Would whichever one of you keeps backing up, please stop!". I crack myself up.

Well I have two one is when you hold the door open for someone and they say nothing and the other is when you say hi to a stranger and they say nothing back.

Since we are in the era of Zoom and Team meetings I get angry at participants who feel the need to add their opinion, however wrong or dumb it may sound. They know little about the topic being discussed, but they feel compelled to show how “smart” they are. These people are usually invited as a courtesy, but they think they are invited because they are important. Just because you can’t see the look I’m giving you idiot, doesn’t mean I’m not giving you the look. I can sit through a whole meeting and say very little because I know it’s better that I listen and digest material instead of sounding like a moron.

People who only want to talk about themselves when chatting online.

R13: The worst offenders are tall straight guys who are "asserting dominance".

Grateful I don't have to go to any of r98's meetings. I hope his cunt falls off, and he can never get it to fit properly again, no matter how many times he tries to reinstall it.

[quote]I think dogs are angels on earth to help us through life

Could you please get your angel to stop shitting on my lawn? TIA!

There is no backup cashier.

Corporate is keeping in store staffing as lean as possible.

You'll just have to wait to return your skidmarked panties you only wore once before they like, broke.

Before Bezos destroyed Whole Foods there were cashiers on every register. Now they only have two registers staffing the joint at a time. Luckily they just put in the self checkouts.

R104 doesn’t even recognize the irony in his post.

Whe you email customer service and they reply and tell you to call. Bitch i emailed for a reason, i work and i cant call when youre open!

I hate it when people hold a door open for me when I am really really far away, and when I try to wave them off, they persist. It's the worst when it's an elevator, because they are inconveniencing the people on other floors waiting. Now I feel pressured to hustle my old ass eighty feet across the parking lot. Bitch, when I call out "please don't wait for me," I mean it! The Pacific Northwest is chock full of this "performance courtesy."

I get the joke now R91. I’m an airplane nerd, and my mind went automatically to seat layouts.

You’re a good man, r108. You truly are. And I’m glad you got it.

People who check other posts people have started here and then attempt to belittle them. Clearly they have far too much time on their hands.

Since you mention it, OP, some idiot in my neighborhood needs a new muffler. He just drove by. In normal times, I'd gossip with my neighbors and find out who it is. Here's hoping someone on his block sets his car on fire, or, failing that, calls a noise complaint in to the police.

youtubers that troll for money

people who say rod iron and chester drawers

People sitting in their parked cars. I have no idea why they're sitting in there, but they are. Not in a parking lot, not eating, but just parked on a residential street and SITTING in there. You'd be stunned at the number of people there are in parked cars; pay attention to it some time. It drives me insane. Why are you in there? Are you watching me? Can I not commit a single indiscretion in public (quick scratch of the crotch, talking to myself) without someone having to see?

[quote] people who say rod iron

Huh?

When people start the umpteenth thread on something we've been discussing ad nauseam, ie Hillbilly Elegy

Women who talk in breathy/baby-voices.

I can accept that some women naturally have remarkable small, demure voices, but I think that number is small. For the rest, I'm convinced that it's an affection used to manipulate straight men and undermine other women.

^affectation

R114 it should be wrought iron, not rod.

When describing a fence- the fence is made of wrought iron, but dumb people mistake it and say rod iron

Nelly gestures.

People speaking to me at work when Im getting out of my car in the morning. Bitch, Im enjoying my last few moments before I have to deal with your ass!

I always look into parked cars to see if anyone is in it. Doesn't bother me if there is but I'm paranoid so I look.

Usually someone is sleeping or fucking around with their phone.

People sitting in parked cars are cheating on their partners and having phone conversations with their side piece.

Ditto when someone is walking around a park or other open area, talking on their phone.

I tried calling "customer service" and got the computerized voice of a woman who gave me two choices, neither of which I wanted. There was no option for " other."

R116, you’ve described the entire female population of Russia.

[quote] People sitting in their parked cars. I have no idea why they're sitting in there, but they are. Not in a parking lot, not eating, but just parked on a residential street and SITTING in there.... Why are you in there? Are you watching me?

I sit in my car, sometimes. No, I'm not watching anybody. Usually, I've got the AC or heat on & I'm regrouping between doing two different things (putting away my debit card, crossing things off my day planner, etc.).

My car is relatively new, really clean inside, and it's a comfortable place for me to relax a bit before I do the next thing.

People feel it's okay to film every interaction on their phones. Unless you're a public person, even in public there is an expectation of not being recorded. If it's illegal to tape a person's conversation without their knowledge, why would it be okay to film them without their knowledge or against their wishes?

In my state you can tape someones conversation and you don't need to tell them R126.

Yes, states vary on what's legal. In my state, it's legal to record a phone conversation if one party knows it's being recorded. It's called one-party consent.

Debra Winger. In general.

R113, speaking of which--a few weeks ago, I came home late on a Thursday, and went out to water my front lawn at 9pm. (Here in LA, we have watering schedules, and mine falls on Tues, Thurs, and Sundays). So I'm watering for a good 20 minutes, when suddenly out from my neighbor's black SUV parked at the curb in front of my house steps my neighbor, and without a word she heads into her house. I thought, so all this time she's been sitting in her car, possibly watching me water the lawn? It was kind of creepy.

People who hang out in their garages.

Our neighbors across the street are always either sitting in cars parked in front of their house OR they are hanging out in their garage with the garage door open.

We have small front yards, so this means I have to interact with them every time I set foot outside my front door.

THEY. ARE. ALWAYS. THERE.

They’re trying to avoid the people inside the house for a few minutes. They’re not staring or caring about you.

For some reason parking and then sitting in your car a long time before getting out. What the fuck are you dicking around with for 20 minutes, bitch? Park, open the door, and get your ass to where your going. Even when you're not affecting me in any way, it still irrationally pisses me off.

My neighbor and his fuc in leaf blower . This summer it was every morning at9:00 AM . Even on the weekends! I do much want to give him a push broom and shove it straight up his ass !

[quote]They just put bike lanes on my street and it's fucked up the entire street.

That's a minor thing?

I was part of a scheme (well, I signed the petition & tweeted) to get the one near me removed AND WE WON! Announced just today!

R107, my husband calls them The Helpers. Love to stop traffic to let a pedestrian cross at random spots on a busy road- that’s another example.

Very PNW.

[quote]We have small front yards, so this means I have to interact with them every time I set foot outside my front door.

Interact?

[quote]My neighbor and his fuc in leaf blower . This summer it was every morning at9:00 AM . Even on the weekends! I do much want to give him a push broom and shove it straight up his ass !

What leaves need to be blown in the summer?

R2, I hate human snoring or even the sound of someone breathing. Snoring is my hell.

But I can handle any noise from an animal (except some hideously loud dog barking probably). Love hearing cats or dogs snore, lol.

Also: loud cars, loud music, loud movies, children, sirens.. any sound that is TOO LOUD.

Soap operas.

Not the real life ones, but the ones on day-time TV (that seemingly many on here obsess about).

They make you angry, soap operas?

I love you people! All your posts are spot-on. DL has this topic every now and again and it makes me smile. Sometimes when I'm feeling enraged about something trivial, I ask myself, what would DL say..

R 135 there are the little buds from the trees in the spring summer , then the leaves in the fall . He is an inconsiderate douche and if I could make him go bye bye I would .

R138 it’s the falling buds in the spring and then falling leaves in Spring .

I can tune out leaf blowers, can not tune out construction noises or fireworks.

I never want to see or hear another firework after a summer of 8 hour shifts of fireworks being set off by neighborhood mouthbreathers who want to make boom boom bright lights.

R138, if it is raining or otherwise you let pedestrians have the right of way because they are not seated in a climate-controlled convenience.

My unreasonable rage is reserved for assholes in cars who fuck up traffic while they veer in and out of lanes looking for sex workers

-on a major avenue

-during rush hour

-across from a over-booked covid testing site

-with only the wet and angry first responders trudging past in just bad micro skirts. Seriously, nobody owns a three-panel mirror in this town. Yeah, I’m also unreasonably angry about the shit quality of our fuck-me wear. It doesn’t have to be low quality to be sleazy.

[quote] Packaging of any kind. I'm always on the floor bleeding, sweating and crying, trying to get something open.

I was going to mention packaging adhesives.

Motorcycles that are hideously loud.. why is this even allowed?

People who complain about smells etc. when they're standing in the middle of a fish market but have a habit of cooking ten pounds of bacon for breakfast.

I get irritated by people who hit “reply all” to large group emails and group texts.

[quote]get your ass to where your going.

Oh, dear!

R150, why do these idiots do this?! Drives me nuts.

My boss will occasionally send an email, “Make sure you get such-and-such done before the end of the day” and you get 10,000 (ok, I’m exaggerating) responses “I did it already,” “I just completed it,” “I plan on doing it later,” etc. STFU and respond to him only. Jesus!

And most of the time a response isn’t even required to begin with. It’s a reminder.

Young families who all live in houses with huge back yards, but who have to do EVERYTHING, with their screeching, dumb-ass crotch fruit, out on their FRONT LAWNS or IN THE STREET. What the fuck? When lockdown started in the spring, it was intolerable. They'd glare at anyone who dared drive a car on any street they had deemed a playground, which was all of them. Hiss-ssssssssssssss.

People who don't want group responses shouldn't send group emails. As for group texts, I'm not going to go through every unknown phone number to determine whether who needs a response or not.

People who call, presumably to check on you/connect, but who immediately launch into boring descriptions of shit you don't care about. I love my oldest sister, but JESUS FUCKING PETE, I had to listen to her blabber ad nauseum about the Macy's parade and every damn thing in it, then natter on about the dinner she was making for Thanksgiving. She's not senile and she otherwise has great social skills, but I just about hung up on her. She's not the ONLY one. I cut the conversation short-short-short when it turns to endless doctor appointments.

You missed the point, r154.

If a group email is sent to you, you have no control over that and if everyone starts responding to all, even if it has nothing to do with you, it gets frustrating.

Or, as in the example above, a boss sends out an email to everyone, why does anyone care that your brown-nosing ass did the assignment already? Just reply to the boss that you did it.

Coworkers showing up at 0759 for their shift that starts at 0800. These are of course the 'pets', who can do nothing wrong.

Inexplicable, over-the-top worship of babies in our culture. True, they deserve our care, attention, and affection ... but it's out of control. EVERYTHING has to center around babies and little 'kiddos'. Ugh, that WORD!!!

R155,

Team Sis here. We didn’t even need to know your comment, but you shared it though, didn’t you?

R157, when my mother was working that would drive her up the wall. She used to say there are people who, if it takes a half hour to get to work on a given day leave their house at 7:30 to be there by 8.

Rain? Leave at 7:30.

Snow? Leave at 7:30.

You have to allow for extra time in certain conditions. It would drive her batty. lol.

Officious old biddies this time of year who are DESPERATE to provide the BESTEST HOLIDAY EVER, and who become huffy and rude in traffic, in stores, etc, as they singled-mindedly carry out their elaborate plans -- which practically no one ends up giving a shit about.

One cannot fail to wonder how scintillating a conversation one would have with r155 once he gets past his whining, kvetching, pissing, and moaning.

When a website has a “thread watcher” that tells you there are five posts out of a total of 158 you haven’t seen but insists on delivering you to the very top of the thread regardless.

-r162- I'm actually a damned good conversationalist. I know when to listen, when to speak, when to move the conversation in a different direction. I was a reporter in my past life, so chatting with people and gaining actual rapport is fun, easy, and interesting for me -- but the other person has to take a fucking BREATH once in a while.

R164, I’m r159, and I love ya anyway.

We’re just breaking your balls.

At least I am.

Well, at least you spelled "BREATH" correctly, r164.

I hate hate hate people who don't at least acknowledge an email. You write them an email to provide them with some information and a simple thanks or received is all you need and you get *crickets*. I hate that and I hate them.

Leaf blowers, the Monster of Autumn

People who are having sex during a pandemic!!! Stay at home and jerk off to pornhub. Some people are just a small step above animal with how often they listen to their urges.

OP, I’m with you. There’s someone who drives a car like that exactly twice a day, one of the trips is always around midnight. The car sounds like it’s farting. It’s the same car, I’ve looked. What a empty life to get pleasure out of annoying people.

[quote]People who are having sex during a pandemic!!! Stay at home and jerk off to pornhub.

You stay home and wank - what other people do with their penises is none of your business.

R150 - I was in a big meeting (like 100 people) at the university where this guy kept asking the Vice-Provost tough questions. She accidentally did a reply-all saying, "Wow, he is a piece of work, isn't he, what an asshole!". I've always wondered how her apology to him went - she didn't send one out reply-all.

Which reminds me, assholes who have to ask continual questions at the end of a meeting or conference call. Just STFU and call the person you’re asking. We don’t all need to hear it.

R171 Whore!!!

^ JEALOUS!!!

No I’m trying to live where we are headed towards: a post-sex society of social distancing. I love it.

[quote]No I’m trying to live where we are headed towards: a post-sex society of social distancing. I love it.

Yeah, right...SURE you love it.

R177 as a matter of fact I do. I’ve never liked being intimate and always thought of the chase as overrated. I guess I’m just better than to listen to my animalistic urges. There’s so many more pleasures in life.

I’ll take things fugs tell themselves to feel better for $400, Alex.

[quote]Coworkers showing up at 0759 for their shift that starts at 0800.

I don't understand. Even if they don't show up till 30 seconds before their shift starts, they're not late, as long as they're ready to begin work right away. But if it takes them another five or 10 minutes to get themselves together and settled before they actually start, I can see why that would be annoying.

I live in an older apartment building...the walls are paper thin. My neighbor stands outside socializing at all hours, or she'll stand outside her door just to talk on her phone. You hear it all. She seems to never sleep and plays music 24/7. Other people in the complex can be heard outside shouting and arguing at any time of day or night.

Yes, I plan to move but my lease isn't up until March. It didn't bother me so much when I was gone 10 hours a day at work, but now that I'm WFH it makes me feel stabby on a regular basis. Of course, there were plenty of different annoyances at the office.

People at work who are chatty but are the most insipid conversationalist. They’re the ones who can’t appreciate silence and always have to converse with others about random, insipid shit in their lives. They don’t talk about their own opinions on interesting experiences, topics or events of the world. No, these fraus overshare or talk incessantly about themselves or their kids. It’s like no, bitch, I don’t care about what mobile phone completely or plans you have, and no I don’t care about your gynecological problems or how many miscarriages you had. I am a gay man who’s your professional colleague, I just know that you have a cunt I don’t need to know what’s going on with your cunt.

^^^meant to say mobile phone company. I just had a frau in my clinic go on and on about her phone company and plans for a good 45 minutes when all I wanted was peace and quiet so I could look over my patients for the day.

So say excuse me, gurl...you sound weak and wet.

I once confronted my neighbor about noise/disturbances and she told me she had a gun and did nothing about the noise. So don't get all righteous, R184. It isn't always a panacea to tell people off.

People who don't use BCC when sending out an email to a group of people who don't all know each other.

Same with people who send out group texts to people who might know each other, but aren't all necessarily programmed into my phone.

Leaf blowers don't bother me any more. I went to a party at a house, didn't really know the guy whose house it was. Started talking about yard work and his leaf blower. B/c he was cool, I said: "You really use a leaf blower?! They're so obnoxious!" He laughed and said that it saved him tons of time when doing yard work. Whenever I hear a leaf blower, I just think about that really nice guy and how much time that leaf blower saves.

What does the nice guy do with all the time he saves blasting deafening decibels and blowing toxic dust into the air? Is he working on a cure for brain cancer?

To supplement my story at R187, when I was young, I was my dad's chosen one (out of several kids) to do yard work. I absolutely hated it. Therefore, IMO, anything that can help you get through yard work quickly is a plus. I guess leaf blowers replace raking.

Some day, maybe a more quiet leaf blower will be invented.

[quote]I’ll take things fugs tell themselves to feel better for $400, Alex.

You mean, Ken.

R189 your story at R187 positively required no supplementation.

Loud rap music

That's MINOR, R192?

Lol, R191, watch out, I may supplement my story again.

[quote] You mean, Ken.

I’ll never accept that. I’ll watch, but I’ll be kicking and screaming the whole time.

R193, you're right. I stand corrected. Loud rap music is not minor, not by a longshot.

Yeah, loud rap music drives me nuts. A car parked outside our building on campus and the whole building was shaking for half-an-hour. I finally went out there and the car was so dark inside, I couldn't see a thing in there. Didn't stop me from wagging my finger at them and threatening to call the police! They were probably pointing a gun at me - I was so mad I had momentary braveness.

Even quiet rap - why has fucking rap gone on for all these years, - why didn't they kill it off, like disco, which wasn't nearly as bad? They just re-named it with the moronic "Hip Hop".

Thank you DL for reminding me why we live in the countryside. Human beings are insufferable.

People who love to hear themselves talk.

The horrific sounding vocal-fry which is becoming escapable.

People, who seemed proud, of their ignorance.

R200

Sorry for the crappy grammar.

Datalounge NEEDS an edit button and STAT!

^^^^ Jesus, I meant to sign as R201

Sorry to R19

I am overwhelmed at the moment.

Listening to conspiracy theorists talk.

Listening to someone refer to "God" or "Jesus," just assuming that you have the same beliefs as they do.

Whole Foods is a pissing contest for women. Got my kids, got my husbands credit card, got my Audi...

For the life of me I have never understood a car getting ticketed for a loud muffler when nearly every damn motorcycle is louder than the worst car.

In SF where the rent is fucking high enough, we have greedy landlords who want even more $$$ lining their pockets. Studios which are usually 450-600 sq. ft. are now remodeled as 1-BR apartments in order to jack up the price as 1-BRs are more expensive than studios. I saw a remodeled former studio (under 460 sq. ft) that they want rent of $2350. It just gets on my nerve that someone would charge that amount, thankfully the apartment is still listed so at least not a lot of dummies are falling for that shit.

Punk kids

People who can't just lock their car, they have to make it honk fifty times or when they get up to go to work, honk-honk the car unlocked and start it remotely at like 5 am.

Thanks for waking up the neighbourhood again fuckface.

The sounds of pets snoring and munching food is sweet. Humans snoring and slurping food is revolting.

Dogs lap water. That’s how they drink it. I’m as grumpy as hell but getting annoyed by that is ridiculous.

R208 my neighbours like to play dueling car lock honks with each other when they come home from work. They think it's the epitome of cuteness.

People on the sidewalk making eye contact with drivers creeps me out. I never do that and can't believe how quickly some people zero in through unwashed tinted glass.

My neighbour was outside this morning cutting his grass. Just last week we had 20 inches of snow and he was outside with his snowblower four times. I feel that he's the kind of guy who can't just sit still. Or maybe he hates his family and looks for any excuse to go outside.

Jeebus, where do you live?!

20 inches of snow already?

Upspeak, vocal fry and people starting sentences with “So..” on NPR. Cannot listen anymore.

Don’t even think of watching Shark Tank.

Shit, every question is answered with “So....”

[quote]Some day, maybe a more quiet leaf blower will be invented.

And until that day arrives, USE A FUCKING RAKE!!!

It makes me unreasonably angry that I still get irritated by minor things. When will I be perfect? Damn!

Bumper stickers blaring, “Bikers Are Everywhere,” or “Watch for Bikers,” etc. And they’re not referring to bicyclists.

Motorcycles speed in and out, and in between traffic, sometimes racing each other.

It’s all I can do to avoid the crazy fucks.

People who narrate themselves. “Hmm, what should I have for lunch? Why, I think I’ll see what’s in the refrigerator. Oh, that looks good!” Etc.

The "watch out for motorcycles" signs also look like the "don't tread on me" signs - that's not a coincidence.

Yankee Candles

Kohl's coupons

Drivers in general bug the fuck out of me.

Hyperbole.

"I have the greatest husband in the world!"

Really? You sound childish, and I know you caught him looking at porn during the reception at your niece's baptism.

Stores that constantly have everything "on sale," except that the regular retail price is ridiculously overpriced, so it's just a big scam. CVS, Kohls, and Macy's are some of the prime offenders.

R226 speaking if CVS, their receipts annoy the fuck out of me. What a waste of paper.

John Belushi

Royal Tiaras and Crowns

This is REALLY minor but they’re always flashing the “Breaking News” message on Wolf Blitzer’s show on CNN.

Also, Chris Cuomo has become unwatchable.

I'm with you R230 -- I first noticed this in 2016 at the Democratic National Convention. It was there all day long -- "BREAKING NEWS: Hillary Clinton to speak at 8:00 PM." As if the nominee's time slot hadn't been arranged at least two years in advance.

R231 I think you’re right! That’s when I started noticing it, too. Evidently Breaking News only occurs when Wolf is on!

[quote] This is REALLY minor but they’re always flashing the “Breaking News” message on Wolf Blitzer’s show on CNN.

Completely disagree.

This is not minor at all, much less really minor. Aggravates the shit out of me.

The toilet paper in the can at work is terrible quality - like the stuff you used to have in elementary school.

It comes in a can?

No wonder it’s terrible. Do you have to carry a can opener with you all the time? Ya know, just in case?

People saying that they "text" someone ("She text me blah blah blah" or "I text her blah blah blah").

It's TEXTED.

R219- The no helmet laws in some states coincide nicely with their high death rates . Coincidentally those states also host "bike weeks"

R236, I had an argument with a coworker years ago about that. Her argument was there’s no such word as “texted.”

R238 your coworker is/was incorrect.

"News" spokesmodels who speak like cavemen.

E.g., where a normal person would say "The East Coast is bracing for a major snowstorm tonight. Meteorologists expect up to 20 inches to fall in parts of Pennsylvania and New York State", the anchorbots say, "The East Coast. Bracing for a major snowstorm tonight. Meteorologists, expecting 20 inches to fall in parts of Pennsylvania and New York State."

When did it become de rigueur for them to replace verbs with gerunds, or omit them altogether? David Muir is by far the worst offender (or, as he would say, "David Muir. By far, the worst offender") but they all do it now.

While we're bitching about news formats, there's a new style of news writing that drives me up the wall. A traditional headline would say " Rollercoaster accident injures 2". Now it will say something like " They Boarded the Rollercoaster. Then The Cable Broke". I find it irksome.

[quote]When did it become de rigueur for them to replace verbs with gerunds, or omit them altogether?

Noticing Shepard Smith doing it 20 years ago.

Other Americans...

I hate that "Don't tread on me" bullshit, R221--if your bumper sticker or license plate says that, then get your ultra-right wing ass off the roads that our collective tax dollars all pay for. We do still live in a SOCIETY, fucked up though it may be.

Tv and films shot with a grey blue tint. It's horribly depressing and unattractive.

[quote] replace verbs with gerunds,

That’s LITERAL VIOLENCE!!

Dog owners who think everyone loves their "fur baby" as much as they do. God forbid you don't fawn over their precious animal; you'll be scowled at like you just called their mother a whore.

The way Netflix and Amazon make you grab for the remote quickly if you want to watch the credits.

It is not just them R248. I eventually just look up the movie/TV show on the internet to see who was in it.

When all I want in the world is to sit and read in peace and someone just.keeps.talking.🤬👍

TV shows & movies that are underlit to the point where I can’t see who is who. HBO has so many of these. Off the top of my head, that “horror” show (quotation marks because it wasn’t scary) with Jason Bateman looked like it was shot in a cave. I stopped watching it, but caught what I think was the end of the series, which was actually shot in a cave.

Earbuds are good for that, r250.

You’re ignoring them because you can’t hear them over your “music.”

Standing in line.

Cyclists.

When people call me on the phone.

Sometimes...just the presence of other people.

When people will call and not leave a message as if you're supposed to call them back and know whether or not it was a mistake.

The new dog yesterday barks everytime she sees me. She is small and only nipped once at my finger. Normally doesn’t bug me too much.

As I sat down on the toilet she began barking as if she could see me.

^^

WTF?

R256 I read that as spoken word poetry

When I read a story and then I see the have established a gofundme. Especially when they ask for, as an example, $10,000 and they get a lot more than that. Once you reach your goal shut it down. Lately I've read that quite a few are scamming gofundme.

People making bullshit claims in their comments and then ignorantly telling people to ‘Google it’.

Whistling. A habit of the most vexing people.

Grown-ass adults who use their phones as security blankets and have the same bent posture as every teenager around the world.

Women ahead of you on line at the supermarket who wait till their entire load is packed and only then start rummaging in their purses for cash, cards, or chequebook, something they could have done whilst their groceries were being totted up and packed.

Drivers who pull out in front of you from a driveway or corner when you're ten feet away from them, whilst behind you there is no one for 100ft.

Company men--and women.

They don't own the business but act like they do. As if the success of the business rests squarely on their shoulders.

Tailgaters. People who ride my tail when there are ten cars in front of me on a one-way residential street. What the fuck is that?

R262 Not only pull out in front, but then proceed to drive 10 mph.

People who get into their cars and look at their phones instead of freeing up the parking space.

Gentlemen who don't leave a thank you note after [italic]un coup d'un soir.[/italic] I always leave a gracious note with a single yellow rose on their pillow.

And they are still trying to remember who you are R267. Lasting impression, not so much.

Nothing "relatively minor" about it, r266. It's a parking lot, not a phone checking lot. Get in your car and move the fuck OUT, bitches.

Stick figure bumper stickers. Especially on a 2004 Chevy Suburban.

^ LOL those sticks are in college by now!

[quote] It's a parking lot, not a phone checking lot. Get in your car and move the fuck OUT, bitches.

If you didn’t read this while making the “out” motion with your arm, you’re not doing DL right.

People walking slowly. People driving way under the speed limit.

Car alarms.

Any necessarily loud or unexpected mouth noises: chewing, audible yawning, WHISTLING. Oh gods, I hate whistling.

I enjoy David Lynch Films, in part, because it makes people who think I am intolerant of noise experience what misophonia is like. Fight or Flight.

R275 I hate guys who whistle, too! It always seems like an attention grab. And sadly, it IS always guys...

I whistle, r276. I don't even know I'm doing it. I've always expressed subtext through music. But I have spent most of my time alone for years, even before Pandemica.

Whistling to yourself is fine. It’s guys who whistle on the street that annoys me.

Though I will take it over car alarms, cars without mufflers and loud chewing.

I want to go on a date with a whistler now.

R279 just put your lips together and blow.

Eagerly, r280!

People who stop and wait for a specific parking space to open. It does not matter to them how much traffic may be backing up behind them. Or that there are open spaces a couple hundred yards away.

I usually value time over space. So I will park further away so I can get out and get things done quickly. The people who invest so much time in getting spaces closer to their destination make no sense to me and annoy the fuck out of me.

R282 - ha - my dad ALWAYS parks about as far away as he can from our destination, even when there are open spots right in front. Drives all of us crazy.

That extra 15 seconds of walking is just torture.

I will often park farther away in an empty part of the parking lot.

Yet when I return to my car after shopping for like 20 minutes, there is always a car parked on either side of me.

Usually parked very close to mine. Bonus points if they are trying to leave at the same time as I am, and I have to stand there and wait for mommy to install her 4 kids in car seats.

Meanwhile, 2/3 if the parking lot is empty.

[quote] my dad ALWAYS parks about as far away as he can from our destination,

If you’re a man, it doesn’t matter. If you’re a 4’10” female, you’re going to park as close as you can because it’s safer than parking far away, where there are few people. Easy to be grabbed far away & never be seen again. More difficult to grab someone while there are other people coming & going all around you.

With the rash of hundreds of women grabbed and disappearing everything, this is a genuine real concern.

Cars driving by, the visibility of a heavily used parking lot, none of that deters them. Only proximity to the store or office building provides safety.

People who mispronounced "GIF" with a hard-G.

It's "JIF" people. Like the peanut butter. I worked with the team that invented it back in the early 90s. Nobody ever said "GHIF" like it was "Gift" without the T.

If you can say "Gin" you can say "GIF" properly.

I never even heard anyone mispronounce it until around 2000... now it's fucking everywhere. STOP IT.

R288 I guess then we should pronounce it Jraphic Interchange Format vs. Ggggggraphic Interchange Format?

Pray tell, how does one pronounce Graphic like Jif the peanut butter. You techies should have hired a linguist to be part of the team.

R284 - oh, sorry, I thought the thread was "minor things" that make us angry.

[quote]It's "JIF" people.

People who leave out essential punctuation. Or is there such a thing as a "JIF" person?

It should be pronounced with a hard G. Jif sounds stupid.

R289, you hit on the other thing that pisses me off... absolute MORONS that thing the pronunciation of an acronym is dictated by the pronunciation of the words that make up the acronym.

That is not only not a rule, it's complete bullshit, and you already know it.

How? Because you don't pronounce laser as "Lah-seeer". Dumbass.

The pronunciation of "Graphic" has nothing to do with the pronunciation of "GIF". Acronyms are pronounced ON THEIR OWN, as they are. And you surly know how to pronounce "gin", yes?

It's just "GIN" but with an F.

It's not rocket science.

You can pronounce it correctly, or you can sound like a complete retard and say "GHIFF"

JIF sounds correct. "Jiff and Jaypeg" rolls of the tongue.

GHIFF sounds like you're a retard who can't speak. And it's indistinguishable from the way most people say "gift", which makes a lot of sentences ambiguous. It's stupid. It's wrong. Stop it.

R293 is in dire need of a tranquilizer or booze. I've never seen anyone get so worked up over the name of peanut butter: JIF! Oh my!

“Surly” is surely right, R293.

No, r285, I’m sorry I’m going to have to throw a flag on your post.

That is NOT minor and those people should be shot right where they stand!

[quote]If you’re a 4’10” female,

It depends on how much she weighs.

Fat people are harder to kidnap.

Simple mechanical failures: a printer, a toaster, door hardware that closes but doesn't quite catch properly and springs open the moment you sit down...

I can keep it together for unpleasant human interactions, for complex mechanical and system problems (a car that won't start or an airline departure delayed multiple times), for most anything else in life, but a simple thing like the spring catch in a toaster can sometimes make me want to destroy the machine.

It's the idea that a very simple thing, with but one simple function as it's reason to exist, when it fails is somehow taunting me on some primitive level.

Inspired by the "gif" comments:

Clique is ALWAYS pronounced "kleeeeeeek". It is not pronounced like "click".

"Ique" is always prounced "eeeeek". Always.

Mystique, pique, physique.

It's not a mouse clique or a guitar pique or a mystique incantation.

Get it right.

R299’s post reminded me since it’s similar:

Apps that don’t work correctly or they work intermittently.

If I’m using your app as a GPS device, make that shit work. If it doesn’t work, or stops working midway through, I’m fucked.

It’s little things in apps that really grind my gears. Such as when it’s not intuitive in the least. “Why the fuck would I have to scroll all the way to the bottom to get to that button when common sense says that’ll be one of the most used buttons?!”

I hear you, R301. Lately I've been greatly annoyed by technology that works intermittently, One example: I recently tried to scan a photo, and the scanner was not working, it kept giving me some weird error message. I retried it about eight times and got the same error message every time, even after rebooting and turning the power off and on at least once each. I was all set to give up and make plans to go out and buy another printer/scanner when I tried it just once more for the hell of it, and it worked perfectly.

Another example: Earlier today, I could send emails normally on my desktop computer but couldn't receive incoming emails, kept getting an odd error message about some problem with the password. Again, I closed the app (Thunderbird) and even did a hard reboot of the computer -- still no incoming emails. I was getting ready to call a tech-savvy friend for technical assistance when, suddenly, all of the delayed emails started appearing, and now everything is working normally.

Very frustrating because these problems seem so random and inexplicable.

Not using your blinker. I don't give a shit what lane you are in, use your blinker to let others know you are making a fucking turn.

R298 this gives a whole new meaning to that U-Haul joke...

Rolling Coal trucks

People who say "less" when they should use "fewer".

When I run into someone I know who’s wearing dark glasses, and they do not lower or remove them for a second when we begin to chat.

Don’t people realize that’s rude?

Running into someone, period.

Posters who read malicious right wing subterfuge into everything when the reality is that right wing trolls (and DL definitely has them) are not *remotely* subtle . An example would be someone saying that the Kennedys'were overrated and getting a response of " Well they were better than your hero Trump!". Or a post saying that SNL isn't that funny getting a retort of " You're just mad they made fun of Republicans". And so forth.

R288 the file format of which you speak is pronounced with a hard G, not a J. It is GIF, most certainly not JIF.

People who are retarded and say “could care less” or “ can care class.” It’s COULDN’T care less, or CAN’T care less, dumbass.

I would nominate R308 for the Archetypal Data Lounger of the Year Award, but he would hate the attention:

[quote]Running into someone, period.

R294 you are passionate, but incorrect. It’s a hard G, doesn’t sound like a J.

R310, R313

Peanut butter is disgusting and reeks so I would prefer to say it with a hard g, It also sounds "proper". The soft g sounds "stupid".

Running into someone who’s on their period.

Finding the empty lane in a store and going through there to search for items you need, and all of a sudden find someone standing right next to you, trying to reach in right where you are standing. From my experience, it is usually foreign looking women. They have no idea of what the meaning of personal space is, even in a pandemic.

The hands on the hips model pose with duck lips. I just want to create a slap line, just like the woman screaming in "Airplane!".

[quote]People who are retarded and say “could care less” or “ can care class.”

I guess as long as you go to a class, r311, you'll eventually get it right.

It’s “could”. Not couldn’t, r311, & not can.

And “I could care less” is the correct regionalism. It’s all in the intonation. Think Judy Holliday in BORN YESTERDAY, as she plays solitaire, bored, talking back to her mobster boyfriend.

You have to say it with a shrug in your voice.

It’s a New York thing. If you’re from out of state, don’t even try it, you'll irritate r311.

Car windows that are tinted so dark they're effectively blacked out.

Windowless mini-vans

[quote]And “I could care less” is the correct regionalism. It’s all in the intonation.

So you could care less because you care a lot? And if you care so much that caring less about it is a possibility, why say anything at all?

That isn't correct in English. Maybe it's an ESL thing.

R322 Honey, neither is the term “who all” correct in English, but some of us use it all the time.

I guess you need to have grown up speaking literate English to be able to use playful English variation and slang correctly.

I'm loving this thread and have definitely laughed out loud at my desk, a few times, while reading it. Thank you DL. Love the snark.

R227 you can ask CVS to not give you receipts now and they email them to you. It's great.

R269 and others hating "phone checking lots" (priceless!) I agree! Nothing worse than waiting for a parking space and there's something sitting in their car, engine on usually, doing NOTHING in particular! Get the hell out!

My addition:

Cyclists who want the same traffic rights as automobiles but don't stop at stop signs, don't use hand signals when turning, and who impede the flow of traffic. If you are a cyclist who is trying to make a point about sharing the road and using the god damn left turn lane, your ass better be fast enough to get yourself and others through the light! Otherwise use the crosswalks like a normal person!

R315, the soft G sounds proper. The hard G sounds... retarded. Like a spaz. Nobody with any decency or decorum says "GH_GH_GH_GHIFF".

It's "Jiff", like it or not. That's how it was created. It's the pronunciation that makes the most sense, that sounds the most correct, and is how the creators intended. You can pronounce it "JIFF" or you can pronounce it wrong.

R310 is simply wrong.

You can assert anything you want. That doesn't make you right.

I love this topic, because it is basically all DLers do all day long is obsess about relatively minor things that make them far angrier than the things should.

We could have as many threads about this topic as there are about Broadway or the Trump impeachment vote.

[quote] Don’t people realize that’s rude?

I have to admit, I didn’t realize it and I don’t agree it is.

If I’m somewhere that requires me using sunglasses why the hell would I take them off just to greet you? Don’t you know what I look like?

Gwen Stefani is unrecognizable.

Misspellings in chyrons.

R212 There is a woman in my apartment complex who does this every day. She walks her dog while dressed in a tiny sports bra and very thin, skintight leggings with no jacket even when it's 50 degrees outside. She checks out every person in every car she passes and then cranes her head to see if you are looking at her in the rear view. So fucking thirsty. Nobody gives a fuck, hun. She probably changes in front of the open-blinds window too.

R328, with masks, especially, I won’t always recognize someone in sunglasses.

No one talks about Gifs enough for it to matter how it's pronounced

Music concert footage that keeps cutting to the audience. I don't want to see the audience. A big culprit is the Today show when they do live concerts outside and we repeatedly get shots of the audience mugging for the camera. Ugh.

This is totally my dad...

Parents who swear in front of their kids. You know they're raising a new generation of trash.

People who look at me in my car when I talk to myself or sing along with music. Bitch, I’m talking in the phone with Bluetooth for all you know. Stop looking at me strange.

There is one circumstance in which I agree I’m being strange and that’s when I suddenly realize I’ve been doing my Mick Jagger imitation to a Stones song (usually Tumbling Dice. That’s a real sassy one). You’re right, I look insane.

Nothing worse than waiting for a parking space and there's something sitting in their car, engine on usually, doing NOTHING in particular! Get the hell out!

Fuck you I’m reattaching my phone so it will play music. I hate the fucking Bluetooth, it craps out on me. I’m very hot & sweaty because i walked across a 100 degree parking lot and I’m putting the AC on super high and cooling down before pulling out because I want to be able to drive without sweat in my eyes. I take a few sips of my cold drink because I don’t drink & drive - literally. When I’m driving my eyes are on the road & my hands stay on the steering wheel because people drive like fucking nuts around here. I pull down the mirror & see if my hair got blown around walking through the store exit and if it did, I’m gonna fix it with my hand.

Now I’m ready to pull out, bitch. Not a moment sooner.

[quote] I’m very hot

We’ll be the judge of that.

Fuck you, r339. Fuck your phone. Fuck you right in the ass with your phone. It is a parking space, not a phone adjusting space. Park closer if it's 100 degrees out, Twatella.

Wow. Dafuq I did?

r341, I am SO very sorry. That diatribe at r340 was addressed to r338, who has no reason to live.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

You know I love you, r342. I couldn’t stay mad at you after last night anyhow.

People leaving face masks in shopping carts.

People who litter.

People who are provably wrong about things, but insist they're right.

R345 littering isn’t minor, those people should be shot.

People who wouldn't shower before going to the gym and stank the place up with their Cap'n Crunch ass and ball sweat smeared across their person.

[quote]R17 People who call me without introducing themselves. It’s basic phone etiquette to introduce oneself before demanding to know the identity of the person they’ve just called.

I worked for a busy attorney, and at least once a day someone (usually another lawyer) would call and snap, “Put Martin on!”

I’d pause and say, “Who [italic]are[/italic] you?”

(Like a $500 an hour lawyer is just going to run to the phone for whoever squawks out their name! Jeez.)

^^ I mean, I can just imagine my announcing, “Some stranger on line 3 demands you pick up.”

That would go over well.

[quote] People who mispronounced "GIF" with a hard-G.

I heard about the correct pronunciation only very recently.

R288 Let's torture these techies who've unleashed on us so many things that constantly malfunction, or don't function rationally or smoothly..

I can't remember that I've ever had a gif malfunction, but broadly speaking.

People who start a question with "Can I ask you a question?".

People standing so close to the elevator door that they have to walk backwards when someone steps out.

R320, I'll agree that "I could care less?" would be acceptable if it were spoken with the clear upward inflection of a question, thereby implying "No, I couldn't care less.". But when it's just stated flatly without that inflection, it's obvious that the person doesn't understand that the phrase is supposed to be "I couldn't care less," and the reason they don't understand is because they have no comprehension of how words work together. Unfortunately, this seems to be a losing or lost battle, like "soundtrack" vs. "cast album," because almost everyone I know -- even smart people -- now says and writes "I could care less" rather than "I couldn't care less."

People chomping gum and blowing bubbles. Tacky and gross.

People eating and slurping sodas during movies. Can you not go a few hours without stuffing your face? When did Americans get the idea that they must have food all the time?

Two things immediately come to mind:

1. People who use poor grammar, especially those who relatively educated and should know better. I listen to quite a few podcasts and am constantly surprised at the number of bright people who don’t know the basics of elementary grade-level grammar.

2. People who drive recklessly. About a month ago I was on the highway travelling the speed limit or slightly above. A truck was ahead of me. There were highway signs indicating the road was going to narrow from 2 lanes to one because of construction. A car passed me and tried to cut in front of the truck driver at the point the lane narrowed. To my shock, I watched the truck refuse to let the car in. They battled it out trying to cut the other off and actually collided with each other more than once. The truck won out. The car had something torn off and sticking far out on its passenger side. Either that or it was a part of the truck. Once we were back to 2 lanes, the car pulled up beside the truck and must have motioned it to pull over which it did. I passed them when each was parked on the side of the road. Neither had gotten out yet. The driver of the car was a woman. I can only imagine the conversation the two of them had!

[quote] 1. People who use poor grammar, especially those who relatively educated

Tee hee.

“who are”

You got me, R356. I proofread that more than once.

I know, Plum. I was just teasing you.

The irony was just too much to pass up.

Slow music at the gym. Yes my gym is open.

People who don't close up the spaces in traffic. Not "traffic," but the other day I was at McDonald's drive-through. The guy in front of me left such a huge space between his car and the lane to get into the drive-through that I didn't realize he was waiting to get into the drive-through. So, I drove into the drive-through lane. Turns out, he was waiting to get into the drive-through, also. Saw him in my rear-view mirror. At least he didn't go ballistic on me.

That superfluous backtick character at the end of the " Your Old Republican Name ` " thread. It's driving me up a fucking wall!!!

1) People who try to use the words ‘whom’ or ‘whomever’ but fail miserably. 99% of the people who try to do it in their Facebook comments get it wrong. It’s so tragic. Why did this have to become a thing anyway? Who put the idea in people’s heads that they should all aspire to be ‘whomever’ users?

2) Mouth sounds while someone is eating. And I don’t mean open mouth chewing—I mean *closed* mouth chewing. It is somehow so much worse. It sounds all slimy and gurgly and nasty. Chewing with your mouth closed is so that other people don’t have to see the food as it’s being chewed inside your mouth, right? Well, I’d rather see the food than hear closed mouth chewing sounds. I swear, someone chewing with their mouth open is pretty gross but closed mouth chewing is ten times grosser. My boyfriend is a main offender. There are at least a half dozen other things he does that annoy the hell out of me all day long, but I’ll spare you.

3) This current trend for movie artwork (poster art, blu ray & DVD art) where a pink/orange/purple color fade across the image is seemingly mandatory. Oh my god. Scroll through the movies on Netflix or Amazon and notice how many of them there are now with that color scheme. It’s pathetic and unimaginative, everyone is just following the trend, like most of pop culture does nowadays.

Reading this thread is very soothing. The “large group of young people taking up the entire sidewalk” is near the top of my list, and I have bumped into those people on purpose several times. Like, what the fuck is wrong with you? Not even one or two of you can stand to walk behind someone else in your group for two seconds to let someone pass in the opposite direction?

I even did it to an older woman who was walking the wrong way (walking on her left hand side) in the subway toward me. I was not going to budge. Didn’t care. Fucking cunt.

I also will shoulder-check any person (again, usually a small group of very young people / teens) who try to board a subway car the instant the doors open, before letting a single person off first. I will fucking walk into them so hard, and I do not give a shit. No one has ever turned around and tried to come at me afterward, but I’d kick them in their fucking head if they ever did.

Oh, that reminds me of the time these two young assholes (one bitch, one gay guy) joined their friend in line in front of me and my bf in the checkout at Uniqlo. They were not in line ahead of us, and they had no right to cut in front just because their friend was directly in front of me and my bf. They each had their own merchandise they were paying for, separate transactions. It wasn’t just like they were saddling up to her to chat with her and they weren’t buying anything. My bf and I told them they didn’t have any right to do it, but the fat bitch who let them cut in front of us said “That is how it works.” No, it isn’t.

If that ever happens again (if I ever go into a store again, ha) I’m going to just walk in front of them and dare them to cut in front of me again. I’m still mad about that bitch and her friends at Uniqlo.

The way that this website date-stamps posts from two days ago as “Last Sunday” when they really mean the Sunday that was just two days ago. If today is Tuesday, then “Last Sunday” should refer to the Sunday that passed NINE days ago. A post that was submitted to Datalounge on the Sunday that just happened TWO days ago should be date-stamped as merely “Sunday” or “2 days ago” like on every other fucking website.

I’ve complained about this before but was rebuffed by another DLer, but I know I’m right. The fact that this is a thing only on DL should be a dead giveaway that it’s wrong.

It’s not as if date-stamping a post as “Tuesday” is going to confuse someone who’s reading it on Thursday. What, is someone gonna see “Tuesday” and think “Wait, was this posted from the future?” Of course not. You’re gonna know if you’re reading it on Thursday that it was posted two days ago, on Tuesday, you don’t need the word “Last” in there, unless it was posted on Tuesday THE WEEK BEFORE—you know, the week that every sane person would refer to as “last week”.

This pisses me off to no end.

People that write novels on DL that no one cares to read R363

My apologies to R363. I meant R362.

I am both R362 and R363! FUCK YOU, I’ll kick you in your fuckin’ head, too!

[quote]If today is Tuesday, then “Last Sunday” should refer to the Sunday that passed NINE days ago.

No. Wrong.

Today is Tuesday. If I say "Next Saturday" I mean the very next Saturday that we encounter. If I say "last Saturday", I mean the very previous Saturday.

If I MEANT the Saturday AFTER the next Saturday, I'd say that "Saturday after next".

I literally LOATHE people like you who get this so spectacularly and OBVIOUSLY wrong, yet insist you're somehow right.

"NEXT" does not mean "the one after the next one I encounter" dumbass. So NEXT FRIDAY is just three days away, and LAST Friday was just 4 days previous.

Why do you want to complicate something so simple and obvious?

People who get bent over those of us who use the term "pop" vs. "soda". "Soda" just means plain seltzer water to us, "club soda", or "sparkling water" as it's been popularized these days.

R367. You absolute DUMB FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT.

NEVER on this website will there be a DATE STAMP FROM THE FUTURE. Whenever there is a date stamp naming a particular DAY, it should be assumed to be the most recent day BY THAT NAME. If something was posted Monday, (two days ago now on the east coast of the US) it should be date stamped as “Monday”, not “Last Monday”.

“Last Monday” ALWAYS will refer to Monday of LAST WEEK, not the Monday that just happened TWO DAYS AGO.

If I’m so wrong, then show me another fucking website that uses this method of time stamping its users posts. I fucking DARE YOU.

Well then R362 and R363 no one cares about your novels or sequels.

Anyone on social media who posts either “Sunday Funday!” or “drinking adult beverages!” Along with a selfie of them guzzling.

[quote] If something was posted Monday, (two days ago now on the east coast of the US) it should be date stamped as “Monday”, not “Last Monday”.

Why? The two terms mean exactly the same thing. The latter is actually slightly more specific. Just "Monday" could mean ANY Monday, really. "Last Monday" is meaningful, and it really seems like you're both an idiot and an asshole to not get this very simple thing, let alone to be BOTHERED by people doing it just fine, and you insisting they all be wrong.

Seriously, there's something deeply wrong with you.

[quote]“Last Monday” ALWAYS will refer to Monday of LAST WEEK, not the Monday that just happened TWO DAYS AGO.

This is, of course, flat out wrong, and I have no idea who mis-educated you, but you need to unlearn this bullshit right now. Nobody who is SANE and RATIONAL believes such utter and confusing nonsense.

You've already lost this battle, you completely irrational and insane person.

R372, there is some ambiguity around these terms, which you’ll see if you read about the subject. Just Google “What does last Tuesday mean?”, and you’ll see that while there is a lot of discussion, most people adhere to my thinking, not yours. But the simple fact that there’s *any* ambiguity should tell you that Datalounge’s method of timestamping should be avoided. I have frequented a lot of message boards over the last 25 years and can’t think of another that uses this method of timestamping. Can you?

Even this site didn’t use this current method until its unfortunate overhaul a few years ago.

But to further elucidate:

[quote]The two terms mean exactly the same thing. The latter is actually slightly more specific. Just "Monday" could mean ANY Monday, really.

No. If someone reads a post on this site and it’s timestamped “Monday”, that person will know that it was posted on the most recent Monday. Not the second most recent Monday. Not some Monday in the future. You acknowledge at least that much, I hope? We can’t read posts that were sent from the future. Not on this site anyway.

As for “Last Monday”, the most recent Monday was two days ago, so if you told me your uncle had just died and I asked you “What day did he die?”, you would say “Monday” if he’d died two days ago. You wouldn’t say “Last Monday” if you meant two days ago. No native English speaker would say that about the Monday that just passed two days ago (or what was little more than 24 hours ago, in reference to Monday, December 7, 2020). You would say “last Monday” if he’d died on Monday the previous week, especially if today is only Wednesday. (The further you get away from a day, the less ambiguity there is, generally speaking.)

If you disagree with the above, frankly I’d say you’re just being willfully obtuse, i.e. a troll.

As for your other examples in your previous post—irrelevant as they may be to a matter that only concerns *past* events (in this case, posts that have already been published to Datalounge)—I disagree with those as well. If you said to me on Thursday, “Meet me NEXT Saturday,” I’m going to assume you mean Saturday of the following week, not the Saturday two days from Thursday. Any person you said that to would assume you mean the following week, 9 days away. You wouldn’t say “next Saturday” if you meant “the Saturday two days from now”, you would just say “Saturday”.

To put it another way, let’s say today is *Thursday*. What do you call the coming weekend—the one that might start as early as *tomorrow*, if today is Thursday? Would you call it “this weekend” or “next weekend”? They do not mean the same thing, and I am fairly certain most people would agree with me.

Are you a non-native English speaker or something? I cannot imagine how someone could have such ass-backward notions about these phrases and be so sure he’s right. Again, Google it.

[quote]People who try to use the words ‘whom’ or ‘whomever’ but fail miserably. 99% of the people who try to do it in their Facebook comments get it wrong. It’s so tragic. Why did this have to become a thing anyway? Who put the idea in people’s heads that they should all aspire to be ‘whomever’ users?

Perhaps yourself or someone else gifted whomever with the idea.

Reminder to self: stay out of R362's path, still smartly badly from that incident in Uniqlo where he lacked balls to correct a queue-jumper, he's hell-bent on bead-butting and causing harm.

Straight people getting all the financing for gay films and straight actors getting the best gay roles.

[quote] People who get bent over those of us who use the term "pop" vs. "soda". "Soda" just means plain seltzer water to us, "club soda", or "sparkling water" as it's been popularized these days.

This person is obviously from or lives in a flyover state.

Pedestrians who walk with traffic, not against.

I know this post is about things that annoy you, but I love both R372 and r373’s passion for their respective arguments.

[quote]People chomping gum and blowing bubbles. Tacky and gross.

Worse yet, people not chomping gum but still managing to blow bubbles.

As a genealogy fan, old obituaries on, say, a Thursday, will often begin, "On Wednesday last, so-and-so died". You mean the day before, or the week before?

People who think the triangle yield sign is an octagon stop sign.

I was in Sedona, AZ, with a friend who said he needed to drive because he'd get car sick, otherwise. Sedona has lots of roundabouts or rotaries. Friend could not figure out how to use these roundabouts. Stopped, then immediately veered out of the roundabout (turned right), even though that's not where we were heading.

R376 asks for a glass of water. "Ok, so, would you like Aquafina, Fiji, or Evian?"

[quote] who said he needed to drive because he'd get car sick, otherwise.

He didn’t really get car sick. He was sick from those extra commas you gave him.

How filled with hate I've become. I didn't used to be like this and I'm not sure what made me like this, but some days I feel like all I do is hate.

l'm not either of the guys arguing about "last Tuesday," but today, Wednesday, December 9, if you mention "last Tuesday" or "last Monday" to me, you're talking about Tuesday, December 1 or Monday, November 30.

[quote] How filled with hate I've become. I didn't used to be like this and I'm not sure what made me like this, but some days I feel like all I do is hate.

R385, I feel like that, sometimes. At least you can recognize it. I hope you can get on a different path.

[quote] l'm not either of the guys arguing about "last Tuesday," but today, Wednesday, December 9, if you mention "last Tuesday" or "last Monday" to me, you're talking about Tuesday, December 1 or Monday, November 30.

Exactly. Most people think this way.

That's insane though. If you mean that, R388 or R386, just say what you mean "A week ago Monday".

Most Americans will understand “last Monday” as the Monday from the previous week, especially if we’re currently in the middle of the week.

“When did such-and-such a thing happen?” “Monday.” (Clearly understood to be the Monday from a couple days ago; no further clarification, as in “a week ago Monday”, is needed.) “Last Monday” = clearly understood to be the Monday from the week prior to the current one... unless you live in a country where this phraseology isn’t standard.

The word ‘last’ refers more to the week it occurred and not specifically the most recent occurrence of that day.

It isn’t ‘insane’ if it’s understood by most people in a culture/region.

R390, I think you are confusing "the Monday before last" with "last Monday."

"Last" means the most recent. I have never heard it used to refer to the second to the last.

That is indeed insane

Litter. People who litter should be publicly flogged.

R390, if it were "clearly understood" we wouldn't be having this argument.

No, it's not clear at all. It's ambiguous as hell. And stupid. If you're going to take the "Next bus", that doesn't meant you're going to wait for the bus AFTER the next one. You're going to take the NEXT one. That's what the word "NEXT" FUCKNG MEANS, DUMBASS. If you say that the last french fry you ate was cold, you don't mean the one BEFORE the last one you ate.

Why are you trying to complicate things?

Today is Thursday. If I say last Monday, it was just three days ago. Period. Under no circumstance would any reasonable person assume it was 10 days ago. If I MEANT 10 days ago, I'd say "A week ago last Monday".

[quote]Today is Thursday. If I say last Monday, it was just three days ago. Period. Under no circumstance would any reasonable person assume it was 10 days ago. If I MEANT 10 days ago, I'd say "A week ago last Monday".

Do you live somewhere other than the US? Here, if on Thursday, I refer to the day that took place three days ago, I simply say "Monday." If I say "last Monday," I am clearly talking about the day that took place ten days ago. Pe.Ri.Od.

[quote] Today is Thursday. If I say last Monday, it was just three days ago. Period. Under no circumstance would any reasonable person assume it was 10 days ago. If I MEANT 10 days ago, I'd say "A week ago last Monday".

No. Today is Thursday. If, sometime today, I was having a conversation with someone and said, “Last Monday, I went for a five mile walk,” I would be referring to November 30, not December 7. Maybe it’s a regional thing, but my “last” means the week before, not the same week.

Straight people on Datalounge.

Holy shit shut the fuck up already. Way to ruin a good thread.

R397 I know. Really. Threads that get past 200 posts move slow enough when scrolling down without having to get past a petty bitch fight that takes up another 100 posts.

Yentas like R397 and R398.

Fat little whore who can't stick to a Pageant diet.

[quote]If I say "last Monday," I am clearly talking about the day that took place ten days ago. Pe.Ri.Od.

I've lived in the US all my life, and I know you're fucking full of shit.

If I say "Last Monday" i can't imagine ANYONE who would think I meant 10 days ago. Because I don't associate with CLEARLY INSANE PEOPLE like you.

You're so wrong, and you should feel bad.

[quote]No. Today is Thursday. If, sometime today, I was having a conversation with someone and said, “Last Monday, I went for a five mile walk,” I would be referring to November 30, not December 7. Maybe it’s a regional thing, but my “last” means the week before, not the same week.

THen you're an idiot, and you're wrong, and you're being needlessly complicated and confusing, and just flat out stupid.

HOW THE FUCK DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE TO YOU?

It's like you have no clue what the words 'last' and 'next' mean. THEY HAVE DEFINITIONS.

You're a fucking moron.

R390, R394, and R395 makes me wish stupidity was painful.

Jesus.

"When I say something, I don't actually mean what I'm saying, you simply have to engage in a complicated series of illogical hoop-jumping to figure out what I really mean".

People who bitch about "last" Monday or Tuesday or whatever day.

In the U.S., in those circumstances Monday and last Monday mean the same thing.

Maybe you live in some corner of the south or midwest where they say pop for soda? There are a lot of verbal oddities in those places.

The last time I took my crazy 🤪 pills was last Monday. When did I take my crazy 🤯 pills last?

Listen up, dumbasses.

The day that happened four days ago is “this past Monday.”

The day that happened 11 days ago is “last Monday.”

Having said that, just use the fucking date to clear up ambiguity. “On December 7, I drank myself into a coma after reading this stupid fucking thread.”

Monday, Tuesday, etc., are days of the week, any given week; a week (beginning on any day, with seven days before and after) is the context for these kinds of references. Today is Thursday the 10th--if someone asks when I did something and I say "Saturday" or "THIS Saturday," it's understood that that means Saturday the 5th. If they ask when I will do something and I say "Saturday" or "THIS Saturday," it's understood that that means Saturday the 12th. If "last" or "next" are thrown in, it indicates that particular day in the previous or following week.

This actually has interesting implications far beyond the days of the week: Understanding and relying on context seems to be a skill in danger of vanishing in our society.

Some bitches just live to fight on DL...

I gotchu, r409.

What doesn't make me angry is when I block posters tying up threads with nonsense and it cuts down to a third of what it was before.

[quote]What doesn't make me angry is when I block posters tying up threads with nonsense and it cuts down to a third of what it was before.

People trying to "erase" me...

As if my words, my being doesn't matter!

As if I don't exist!

[quote]The day that happened four days ago is “this past Monday.” The day that happened 11 days ago is “last Monday.”

Precisely.

Now, R402 and R403, please promptly go fuck yourselves. TODAY.

Cyclists who want to obey pedestrian and vehicular traffic laws when it is convenient for them. Nothing worse than a cyclist who wants to ride in front of a car, like he or she is on a vehicle, but then runs a red light.

Thread hijackers.

And, for the record, the summer of 2019 is “last summer.” The summer of 2020 is “this past summer.”

[quote]Do you live somewhere other than the US? Here, if on Thursday, I refer to the day that took place three days ago, I simply say "Monday." If I say "last Monday," I am clearly talking about the day that took place ten days ago. Pe.Ri.Od.

[quote]And, for the record, the summer of 2019 is “last summer.” The summer of 2020 is “this past summer.”

I honestly think may be "clear" to some people, but not to others. I was born and raised in the U.S. and have lived here all my life, but I am still sometimes confused when people say "last Monday" or "last summer," because I realize different people mean different things when they say that. And whatever one's opinion, I think it's arrogant to INSIST that one way is OBVIOUSLY "right" and the other "wrong," and to use annoying expressions like "Pe.Ri.Od," when obviously there is disagreement on this matter.

r408 nailed it. I was about to post the exact same thing.

I don't see anybody defending the poster who insists differently.

I see that Datalounge today (12/10) refers to posts made on 12/8 as "last Tuesday," so Management has put its thumb on the scales, I guess.

R418 I didn't know that Muriel was a diction expert too!

Oh you better believe she...oh, you said diction. I misheard.

Never mind, carry on.

R392 Glad to see someone else is as offended by litter as I am. I was once walking with a co-worker friend, when someone walking towards us threw litter onto the sidewalk. I yelled at them for being a pig as they walked past us. My co-worker friend was outraged that I did that and told me it was none of my business! When it happens before my very eyes, it becomes my business!

Also, while driving and you are kind enough to let someone exit a driveway and get into traffic a head of you, and they don't acknowledge and say say thank you or wave thank you. Fuck them!

Good one, r421! I forgot about that one.

Hot chocolate bombs. Irritate the fuck out of me.

r423 What is a "hot chocolate bomb"?

I’m not familiar with those, r423. What are they?

these?

They look fucking awesome!

What kind of monster wouldn’t like those?

I still think the idea that in December 2020 anyone using the term "Last Summer" to refer to two summers ago, is ridiculous.

Using “This past summer” to describe the summer of ‘20 is more than appropriate. Think of “last summer” as another way of saying “The summer of last year.” Oh, and while we’re at it, get over it.

And count me in as another who hates drivers who don’t give a wave of courtesy after being let over. Scum of the earth.

The DL snowflake drama queens and their infernal "Shopping for Groceries is Like Hell Right Now" threads. Not an IQ above average body temperature among them.

[quote]Today is Thursday the 10th--if someone asks when I did something and I say "Saturday" or "THIS Saturday," it's understood that that means Saturday the 5th

If it's Thursday the 10th, and you say you did something "This Saturday", I'd ask how the fuck you managed to do something in the future. "This Saturday" is clearly the 12th. Dumbass.

Penny loafers

What's your position on tassel loafers R432?

R421 Yes. A thousand times yes to both of those. I live in a "luxury" apartment complex (I wouldn't go that far, but it is fairly decent). In the past month or so, a terrible litterbug has moved in. Last weekend they left a full take out container, including the separate little container for sauce just sitting in the middle of the sidewalk. Really?? Would you mind not being a fucking pig and put your shit in the trash can so we don't all have to step over it to get to our cars? And the other issue with people being rude as fuck and pulling out of their parking spot when you are literally RIGHT behind them already going. Someone did it this morning and then saw someone they knew walking in the parking lot and stopped right in front of me to chat. NO, you inconsiderate asshole, you're are not blocking me AGAIN. I drove around them. Sorry but the whole fucking world doesn't stop to cater to you. Sorry about your ME FIRST!! ME FIRST!!ME FIRST!! bratty, pathetic and selfish attitude.

This Monday madness is aspie catnip!

Pets in supermarkets and drugstore chains. Anywhere that has food. Service animals are one thing. But frauds who bring in their lap dogs or worse, ancient flea bitten hounds who look like a stink. It’s become a real issue. Now I’m grateful for Instacart.

[quote] If it's Thursday the 10th, and you say you did something "This Saturday", I'd ask how the fuck you managed to do something in the future. "This Saturday" is clearly the 12th. Dumbass.

But nobody would say “this Saturday” in your scenario.

In your scenario they would say Saturday or last Saturday.

Whenever commercials for "Chrisley Knows Best" come on, I get so angry I have to leave the room.

I am really starting to get angry about the whole "alternative facts" thing. My old opinion was that if people wanted to be stupid and believe lies, then just let them. But now alternative facts are starting to branch out. There are just some things that are just not up for debate. The always increasing hostility to intellectualism is concerning.

r293 what is the correct way of pronouncing Jake Gyllenhaal?

There is also the Souhernism “this coming Monday.” (As in: it’s three days from now, technically a new week, but I’m trying to be clear about it)

That is NOT how you make a good cup of hot chocolate. That's how you make a cup full of hot glop.

[quote] I've lived in the US all my life, and I know you're fucking full of shit.

[quote]If I say "Last Monday" i can't imagine ANYONE who would think I meant 10 days ago. Because I don't associate with CLEARLY INSANE PEOPLE like you.

Does anyone associate with you, though? Because I can’t imagine anyone wanting to.

Also where do you live, exactly, where this manner of referring to days of the week is normal?

I mean, precisely where do you live. As in, full address—street, city, ZIP.

ALL the stuff mentioned on here makes me angry, surprisingly. Except the nonsense about "last Sunday" and "next Monday", of course, which is not even worth thinking about; oh yeah, the pronunciation of "GIF" is also insignificant (they are largely being replaced by different file formats now, so the 'controversy' is just about done for, anyway). Even more surprising to me is that I don't sense that I spend my days filled with rage, even though so much about modern life irks me.

[quote] [R408] nailed it. I was about to post the exact same thing.

[quote]I don't see anybody defending the poster who insists differently.

I noticed that, too. I guess Datalounge isn’t all bad, or even mostly bad—it’s just a select few nutjob assholes who make it feel so toxic.

SANE PERSON: “Constipated, are ya? When did you last have a bowel movement?”

R 402/403: “Last Wednesday.”

SP: “Oh my god, 9 days without a bowel movement!?”

402/403: “No! Only 2 days!”

SP: “Oh, that’s not too bad I guess. Why didn’t you just say ‘Wednesday’?”

R442,

Ohhhhhhhh. They put that IN the hot chocolate?

Then I see your point. I thought they were candies that people called hot chocolates.

If they put those giant balls (heyyy!) IN the hot chocolate, I’m with you.

People are still posting Trump threads.

At what point in 2021 will the 2015 bump queen get over it already?

r448 Eventually his sponsor's telling him over and over that he's on a dry drunk will sink in, and he will stop. Or he will drink and make even less sense than he already does.

It’s tuna FISH when it’s in the can, not tuna. “Tuna” is when you’re having the fish in steak form.

That lousy people always get away with being assholes.

So has everyone bought their Christmas jifts yet?

Ahh this thread is sooo funny..best laugh in a while, thanks a lot!😄

And I grew up in the CA, US area. There is no way I would say "tuna-fish" except maybe at an aquarium.😂

Tuna is a the actual fish.

Tuna fish is Tuna Salad made by your mom or Grandma that was either Starkist of Chicken of the Sea or Bumble Bee and served on white bread

Tuna Salad is the same as Tuna fish, but you call it Tuna salad when you bougie.

[quote]Also where do you live, exactly, where this manner of referring to days of the week is normal?

The real world? The logical, sane, normal, rational, reasonable world where morons haven't tried to redefine 'last' as "the one before the last" and "next" as "the one after the next"?

Seriously. I couldn't possibly get directions from you, because when you said take the next left, you'd probably mean the second left. Dumbass who thinks "next monday" is more than a fucking week away.

Jesus.

R445? "last wednesday" was two days ago, and it's just BIZARRE to think anyone thinks it means 9 days ago. Where is the logic in that? It makes zero sense. What is wrong with your brain that you'd think 'last wednesday' means "the wednesday before last"?

^Because, retard, LAST Wednesday is referring to the Wednesday of LAST week. This past Wednesday was the 9th. On what level of West Bumfuck hell did you grow up in?

[quote]And I grew up in the CA, US area. There is no way I would say "tuna-fish" except maybe at an aquarium

It's tuna fish. Refer to R455 for further explanation.

It is now Saturday morning, December 12th. I took a nice long leisurely drive on Thursday, December 10th. There is no way, if I'm chatting with someone right now and happen to mention my drive, that I'm going to say "Last Thursday I took a nice long drive." It doesn't even sound right. I could say the day before yesterday, sure. But if I want to name the day, I'm certainly not going to say "Last Thursday."

Ok I think we can all agree now, finally and forever that two days ago would be last Thursday and Thursday-before-last was a week ago Thursday.

^Absolutely not.

Parents renting or buying their problem children houses in other cities and dumping their problems on unsuspecting neighbours.

People who do not use their turn signals.

[quote] Tuna fish is Tuna Salad made by your mom or Grandma that was either Starkist of Chicken of the Sea

So wait. Is it tuna or chicken?

My sister's excessive use of glitter.

Is she a stripper?

When the plastic mat under my desk chair starts to crack, and pieces of it start to break away. I know they make glass ones now that don't break but they're like several hundred dollars.

Here R468

R458, you really ARE fucking stupid. There's nothing about 'weeks' in the phrase 'last Monday'.

Days exist as their own things. When you MEAN the Monday of last week, fucking SAY it... "A week ago Monday".

Jesus, why are you trying to make things so difficult and confusing? It's like you LIKE being ridiculous and wrong.

The definition of "Last Monday" shouldn't depend on what day it is, and what day you start your weeks on (some consider Monday the first day of the week, others Sunday, just as one example).

Why are you fighting so hard and so vociferously for something that is arcane, ambiguous, difficult to explain or understand, and whose definition changes constantly depending on which day of the week it is? I mean... WTF, dude?

It's really simple. "Next" and "past/pervious" have definitions that shouldn't be fucked with. Days come in a constant stream, they aren't rigorously boxed in by arbitrarily defined weeks. Last Monday was 5 days ago. Not 12. If you say "This Monday" it's kind of ambiguous all around, becaue it could be past, could be future, who knows. I always say "This coming Monday" or "This past Monday" to be specific and clear.

Mostly because loonies like you think it's actually POSSIBLE for next or past Monday to be more than 7 days away. It never is. I'm sorry to tell you. That's just absurd.

When referring to a day gone by, just use the date.

[quote] I always say "This coming Monday" or "This past Monday" to be specific and clear.

So do I, nitwit. That is why Monday Dec 7 was THIS PAST MONDAY and the Monday before that, which was Nov 30, is LAST MONDAY. This does not take a genius mind to figure out. But then again, look at who I’m talking to.

[quote]That is why Monday Dec 7 was THIS PAST MONDAY and the Monday before that, which was Nov 30, is LAST MONDAY.

No. "This past monday" and "last monday" are the same day: 5 days ago.

If you mean something MORE than a week ago, then you have to SAY that, dumbass.

"A week ago this past Monday".

Again, you seem seriously stupid, that you can't understand something so goddamned simple.

[quote] Again, you seem seriously stupid, that you can't understand something so goddamned simple.

Oh, you mean like proper comma usage?

Team r472!

KLAN GRANNIES

It is not logically possible for 'next xDay' or 'last xDay' to ever refer to a day more than 7 days ago.

For obvious reasons.

If you think 'take the next left turn' means take the second left you come to, then you're an idiot. Just like if you think 'next monday' means the monday AFTER the next.

R475 = Team fucking stupid

[quote] If you think 'take the next left turn' means take the second left you come to, then you're an idiot. Just like if you think 'next monday' means the monday AFTER the next.

You’re being overly literal with this. Common usage of these days-of-the-week phrases doesn’t mirror walking/driving directions phraseology. Again, if it’s Thursday, say at 8pm, and you want to make plans to see someone Saturday, two days later, you’re not going to say “See you next Saturday,” because that’s going to sound like you want to see the person the following week, *9 days in the future*, not 2 days in the future. “Saturday” and “this Saturday” mean the same thing. “This Saturday” and “next Saturday” do not. I’m sorry, I know this is hard for you. But you really are in the minority on this one.

You’re also a toxic asshole.

Although, I did just think of a way days of the week phrases relate to directions. Say you’re a pedestrian and you pass another pedestrian on the sidewalk *in the middle of the block*. That person asks for directions. You say to them, “Keep walking straight and take the next left. Not THIS left onto this street we’re approaching, but the next one.” That person would understand that you mean to take the left on *the next block*, even though the cross street you’re closest to is technically the next one where they could take a left.

Does that make sense, or is that too confusing for you, too? If it is, you’re probably autistic.

[quote] If you say "This Monday" it's kind of ambiguous all around, becaue it could be past, could be future, who knows. I always say "This coming Monday" or "This past Monday" to be specific and clear.

It’s usually not unclear if you’re talking about an event that has happened, or one that has not. I don’t think it could be ambiguous unless you’re looking at that phrase completely out of context, which... when does that ever happen in normal daily discussion, or—more to the point—on a discussion board that dates posts that have already been made and not future ones?

However, I DO agree with you it’s a good idea to say “this coming Monday” or “this past Monday”.

The truth is, if I were talking to a friend on Friday and he said, "I went to the drugstore on Monday," of course I would assume without question that he meant four days earlier, whereas if he said "I went to the drugstore last Monday," I would probably think he mean 11 days earlier, but I wouldn't be sure, because it would also occur to me that maybe he meant four days earlier. The important thing is to use whatever phrasing makes clear exactly what you mean.

This is like those people who say that dinner is lunch if lunch is the bigger meal. Or lunch is supper. I cannot remember what it was.

It is some weird protocol from the 19th century forgotten by most, but kept alive by prisspots on Datalounge.

Vastly more people would assume your friend meant the Monday of the previous week, not the most recent one, R483.

But for our confused, toxic friend in this thread, I recommend this reading explaining things. It’s for the UK, but I think it applies to the US as well.

[quote] Vastly more people would assume your friend meant the Monday of the previous week, not the most recent one,

Sorry, that’s not what I meant to write. If your friend said he went to the drugstore Monday, I would assume the most recent Monday. If he said “last Monday” I would assume the Monday from the week prior. So I agree with you 100%.

[quote] Vastly more people would assume your friend meant the Monday of the previous week, not the most recent one,

Sorry, that’s not what I meant to write. If your friend said he went to the drugstore Monday, I would assume the most recent Monday. If he said “last Monday” I would assume the Monday from the week prior. So I agree with you 100%.

[quote]Vastly more people would assume your friend meant the Monday of the previous week, not the most recent one,

Maybe. Nevertheless, if my friend said "last Monday," it's not 100 PERCENT clear that he meant the Monday of the previous week (11 days earlier), rather than the Monday of the present week (four days earlier). That's why there is SOME room for confusion -- because I might think it possible the he used the phrase "last Monday" to mean the most recent Monday. And the proof that it's possible he used the phrase "last Monday" to mean the most recent Monday is that some people in this thread obviously use the phrase in that way.

End of story. I hope.

I think R473 might have a touch of Asperger.

[quote]No. "This past monday" and "last monday" are the same day: 5 days ago.

No. Nope. Nah. Never. Non. Absolutely not. No Bueno. Now fuck off. Not tomorrow, or next Monday, but right now.

Team r472 here, too. Muriel misuses “last.” For instance, if today's Saturday, Muriel calls two days ago “last Thursday.” Why?

If it was 2 days ago it's just “Thursday.” No need for a modifier. As someone said upthread, clearest is best.

Fuck, LAST Thursday? Looks like a good thread too & I missed it—after a week, everyone's already said everything, and gone home. How’d I miss that thread, for a whole week?

What R491 said. It's contextual.

Another vote for r472.

However, I can see where the other side gets their thinking. Maybe if the champion of that side wasn’t frothing at the mouth, we could have found common ground and moved on.

Thanks! R469

Drivers who drive slow in the left lane. Left lane is for speeding, if you can’t get with the program, go to the right lane with the rest of the losers.

And Supermarkets without express checkout lines. I always run in quickly to get maybe one or two things and I inevitably get behind half a dozen hoarders who are stocking up for the entire winter.

On Monday, I rode(PAST TENSE) my bike 5 miles.

On Monday, I will(FUTURE TENSE) ride my bike 5 miles.

Don’t use ‘last’ if it trips you up.

On the previous Monday, I robbed a bank 🏦😊

Not using the Oxford comma enrages me. Failure to use it leads to degeneracy of the likes of enjoying cheap polyester and voting for Donald Trump.

R495, a lot of times this is because the exit is on the left.

Would it not be easier (and safer) if all highway exits were on the right? Most are anyway.

Safer? Perhaps.

Sometimes, from an engineering perspective, that’s not a possibility.

A lot of times the slow drivers in the left lane are going to make left turns - they just have a habit of moving over there about 5 miles ahead of the turn.

[quote] Would it not be easier (and safer) if all highway exits were on the right? Most are anyway.

If you’re talking about roads with left exits then there should be a traffic light with a turning lane arrow. The turning lane is separate and only begins about 100 ft away from the light. I think the poster is talking about expressways & parkways where there aren’t any traffic lights and someone goes into the left lane & drives slowly.

The left lane is supposed to be a passing lane , though, not a driving lane. You go into the left lane to speed up so you can pass the slowpoke who is in front of you in the right lane. People use it as “the fast lane” though. I try to avoid using the left lane because police will absolutely pull you over for speeding in the left lane & not passing a car when they need to make a quota. Right lane = fewer speeding tickets.

The lack of left turn signals in LA. They have some, but not a lot and they are not consistent. It would solve a lot of problems.

R501: What about the ones who "move over into the left lane" 20 MILES before their left turn? LOTS of drivers are apparently terrified by the anxiety of having to move into another lane, and so they plod along in the "passing" lane, oblivious of their rudeness. If I were the king of this country, I would require ALL who seek a driver's license to sign a notarized Affidavit, in their own native language, swearing that they are fully aware that slower traffic is required by law to remain in the right-hand lane except to pass.

R502 in the US, highways do not have turning signals. The idea is that once you are on them, you do not have to stop till you get off.

Highways include expressways and parkways, which are usually state roads, but we also have a system of interstate highways.

And the exits to the left always cause traffic problems. If a driver is not familiar with the road, they often do not slow down near the left lane exits. And if traffic is backed up, you get a lot of collisions.

Stores who put the absolute slowest cashier in the store on the Express Checkout lane - that completely defeats the purpose!

The idea of people having to form separate lines in front of multiple cash registers. It’s just the luck of the draw whether you get to make your transaction in the order in which you lined up. All depends on how fast the transactions in front of you are. You could get stuck in the slowest lane, while other customers who walked up minutes later than you get to complete their transaction and leave before you. How is that fair?!

Each store / fast food restaurant / etc. should have one line that snakes around, with a “rope” that guides people in a sort of S-shape. That way, it is truly fair, and there’s no way for some Johnny-come-lately to be served before you.

Supermarkets and McDonald’s are the main offenders.

Someone with just one item has to wait for the 10 people before them that have a cart full R507? That is not the most efficient way to get people through the line. What bothers me is the line that states 15 items or less and you have people that clearly have more than 15 items. 10 sodas, nope they are all sodas so they are considered 1 item.

Sagging pants.

[quote] [R502] in the US, highways do not have turning signals.

Yes they do, hon. I use them all the time. Light is red but has a turn signal, which is an arrow. It’s red, yellow or green. It allows you to make a right or left turn while oncoming traffic is stopped or is slow enough that you can make a turn.. It’s a turning lane, with a turn signal. And lots of highways have em.

R510 Those are used on ordinary roads.

However on highways, (interstates and expressways) they are not used. Cars are not supposed to stop and there is no oncoming traffic to cross. Our highways have on and off ramps. Once you exit the highway, you will encounter traffic lights, but not while you are on it.

The picture shows what an American highway looks like and gives a sense of why traffic lights would not work on such a road.

The headlights that are on many cars these days that are so frickin bright, it seems like they have their brights on, but they don't. I'm blinded by these cars at night.

R511 doesn't know the distinction between a Highway and a Freeway.

Everything irritates me these days. I guess it’s just a sign of the times.

Keyboard clicks...others, not mine.

R513, we do no have freeways on the east coast, so I really do not know what the difference is.

I am sorry, I did not realize the picture was a freeway. But it looks just like a highway.

(I always assumed that when people from California say freeway they meant the same thing that we mean when we say highway.)

I was going to say litter as well, but R392 beat me to it. I cannot imagine the mindset that says it’s OK to throw trash on the ground. Why do people deliberately make their cities uglier?

Litter, ugly architecture and cars without mufflers drove me from my last city of residence, so I guess they aren’t minor things after all!

Which city was that, R517?

When I leave NYC—and I will—I will tell people it was because of all the ugly new glass-and-steel (but mostly glass) buildings they keep putting up. And those staircases (inside said buildings) with the glass sidings attached to the handrail with those metal discs ... I HATE that look. It’s worse than brutalism. Does it have a name?

God, I hate EVERYTHING about the modern era.

Here’s a picture of the staircase design I’m talking about. Hopefully this Pinterest link works. Zoom in on the glass “siding” on the staircase, and you’ll see what I mean. That kind of design is often visible in the lobbies (the walls of which are all glass, naturally) of new apartment buildings in my neighborhood in Brooklyn. I have friends who live in new buildings with that design, too.

R516, a west coast freeway is the equivalent of what we in the east call interstates. In Los Angeles, they have "the 405" and "the 10." Instead, we have "I-95" and "I-80." Highways are the state roads the interstates and freeways replaced, such as routes 22, 3, and 35 in NJ.

I wonder why they’re called “the freeway”, “the 10”, etc. when they’re part of the Interstate system. Why don’t East Coasters call I-95 “the freeway”? How did that regionalism come to be?

For one thing, r521, the interstate system isn't always free in the east. You pay to drive on the Jersey Turnpike (I-95) or the PA Turnpike (I-76). Parts of I-80 are also toll roads. You don't pay to drive on freeways out west.

[quote] The picture shows what an American highway looks like and gives a sense of why traffic lights would not work on such a road.

Say hello to Nesconset Highway, according to Wikipedia an. east-west Highway in NYS. I’m sure though, you’ll insist it can’t possibly be a highway, because it does not fulfill your rigid imaginary idea of what a highway is.

I drive on Nesconset Highway all the time. It has traffic lights & left turning lanes.

I drive on Nesconset Highway all the time. It has traffic lights & left turning lanes.

[quote]What relatively minor thing makes you angrier than it should?

When people spend tremendous amounts of time arguing bitterly over ridiculously minor points, such as the exact definition of a "highway."

:-)

Well, do reference the thread title, R526...

My pet peeve that annoys beyond all bounds of reason is grammar. Very specific thing. The aforementioned "less" instead of "fewer" by people who should know better is one thing. I'm thankful my grocery store has properly labeled "10 items for fewer" lanes.

But a new one has cropped up only in the last year, and that's the incorrect use of "ran". In things like "did you ran the new script?" Using the past tense of 'run' when the past tense is already indicated by the actual verb. "I ran the script" is correct". But "I haven't ran the script" is just so wrong. I'm hearing it more and more and it annoys the living shit out of me.

You’re obviously in the wrong thread, R526.

[quote] I drive on Nesconset Highway all the time.

Nobody actually “drives” on that road.

Oh, sure, you may park on it. Inch along on it or walk faster than cars on it. But drive? Nuh-uh.

Is there EVER a time that damn road doesn’t have traffic?!

Kim, there's people that are dying...

When people wear so much cologne, it reeks up the whole building. I shouldn't be able to taste your fucking cologne in my mouth, nor should my eyes burn or should it be so strong as to give the people around you a headache. Jesus did you take a bath in it???

In relation to r532,

Cologne is for after a shower, not instead of.

Better yet—don’t put on cologne, and don’t take a shower, either... as long as you’re sexy.

Remarkably similar to the recent "Meaningless things that annoy you " thread.

So glad I found this thread. I don't feel alone anymore. Where do I start?

1) People who put their conversations on speakerphone on transit buses. They need to die.

2) People who have to speak at high pitches in public and add in the aforementioned, dreaded vocal fry.

3) People who put their masks on at the entrance of stores/public spaces while others who have already been wearing them have to wait for these lazy fuckers to put theirs on.

4) When there are numerous other seats on the bus or at the cinema, and that person just has to sit so close to you. Really? Same with the gym. There are ten treadmills and you need to run on the one beside me?

5) I concur with the sidewalk issue. Also, people who choose to not walk to the right. It's social etiquette.

6) People who knowingly cut in front of others in line and then when called out still proceed to place their order. Assholes.

7) People - usually women (sorry) - bathing themselves in the most hideous perfume where you can smell it miles away.

8) People who do not respect your personal space. Please don't put your hand in front of mine at the grocery store to grab that can of soup. Wait your turn or say excuse me.

9) People at the self-checkout who scan, bag, and pay for their items while talking on their phones. You're not multitasking; you're being a fucking asshole.

10) People who come onto transit buses with their personal shopping carts and insist on standing at the front, blocking others from getting on the bus.

11) People not social distancing, disregarding the arrows on the floor and pushing their carts down the aisles like it's The Fast and the Furious.

12) People who don't wear masks (okay, a big one but it's worth saying again).

R536, your number 10 reminded me of another subway peeve: people who are standing in front of the doors while riding the train and refuse to move an inch when the doors open. It either delays the train because the people waiting to board at that door have to enter single-file, or worse, it prevents people from boarding at all, depending on how crowded the train is. Maybe that isn’t such an issue in the time of COVID; I don’t know.

Ugh, r537 - that should be my number 13. It annoys me, too.

r536 Love you, sweetie. We hate ALL the right people.

Bad, obvious hair weaves, wigs and extensions.

Gwen Stefani

the loud tailpipes, at least here in Manhattan, really started coming back into fashion with BLM and Covid. The uptick in outdoor dining due to Covid became an opportunity for young BLM boys to assert their individuality and presence, by blasting their pipes up and down the city streets. It’s crude, but effective.

An explanation of Highways

Back when we had concerts : Singers that encourage the audience to sing for them.

It's not rational (but that's the point) - I can't stand coming here and reading about people's experiences who live in New York. Particularly their negative experiences. Although I also can't stand listening to their positive experiences. Or hearing them brag about their city. I don't really care about New York or what you do there. I don't live in an apartment complex, I don't care if you have a doorman or not. I don't ride a bus, I don't take a transit bus. It's only interesting to you.

[quote]People who are standing in front of the doors while riding the train and refuse to move an inch when the doors open.

Yeah, I really HATE that.

[quote]The loud tailpipes, at least here in Manhattan, really started coming back into fashion with BLM and Covid. The uptick in outdoor dining due to Covid became an opportunity for young BLM boys to assert their individuality and presence, by blasting their pipes up and down the city streets. It’s crude, but effective.

It's gotten really bad, but I wasn't sure if it was related to BLM, or perhaps to Trumpets showing their contempt for society in general, or just a general expression anger and lawlessness during a pandemic. Or maybe it's a combination of all three.

And I, r545, do not want to read one more time about you flyovers' issues with "he didn't put on his left turn blinker" or "I haaaaaaaaaate people who don't bring the cart back to the corral."

Fuck the living shit out of you, you stupid car-driving cunt. Fuck you with a roll of quarters that were used in Aldi carts and not cleaned for covid.

R547 Something else : That NY thing of calling everyone who doesn't live in the city of New York a "flyover." You don't even acknowledge there can be other metropolitan areas in the world. Everyone who doesn't live in NYC must be from Hooterville.

Multiple threads complaining about the rape and child sex abuse videos being taken down from PornHub. Are your fingers too weak from beating off to use search.

R537 YES!

I’d like to add saying “dropped” instead of “released.” I always picture a horse taking a huge shit. Also, saying “receipts” instead of “proof” or “evidence.” And the absolute worst is “clapped back,” but I think it’s on its way out.

Well, r547, I don't mind seeing the NYC centric posts. I can relate to many of them. But that should not be confused with a global metropolitan perspective. Many of the posts focused on NYC are quite insular and not that different from the McMansion owners in Atlanta.

I don't mind people who live in NYC commenting but for example there's a Leaving LA thread, where so many people there were comparing living in LA to New York. Like, who even mentioned New York? It's in every thread. I don't go to a thread about LA to read about New York. Mind you it would be fine if some felt compelled to compare their experiences living in both places, but it was this attitude like "well if you don't want to live in LA, New York has such and such..." as if these are the ONLY two places anyone would choose to live, or could have an interesting experience. I've been on this forum a couple years and it just has started to get to me.

[quote]That NY thing of calling everyone who doesn't live in the city of New York a "flyover."

In my experience, only the most insufferable New Yorkers do that, a relatively small minority. It's not common.

Sometimes washing machines have a door lock mechanism that won’t let you open them for a minute or so after the wet clothes have spun. [italic] I’m standing here, clothes. You cannot hide forever!

People who will not remove their backpacks on subway trains or narrow shopping aisles.

R545, R548 etc. Alicia Keys New York song is so fucking annoying I don't even like her good songs anymore. It's a race to get the fucking thing turned off before I can stab myself in the ears with pencils whenever I hear it. Strangely enough I don't mind Billy Joel's New York State of Mind. (His daughter's version also incites the urge to ear stab though. Get your own music Alexa!! Better yet...don't. Please stop singing altogether.)

Other people getting away with abusive, destructive, or otherwise immoral and unethical behavior.

People like my BIL who has inherited close to $1 million over the years and acts as if he worked hard for what he has. No; he was just a member of the lucky sperm club. Fortunately my sister spends faster than he earns so I imagine they're up to their asses in debt.

Don't worry R545. We all know that YOU'RE the center of the universe.

What a twat!

R548 They don't refer to the West Coast as "flyover".

There's is a bank at work, containing three elevators that all open excruciatingly slow. If I happen to be running late on any given day (that doesn't happen often), it passes me off even more. I don't expect them to slam open like the Paris Métro, but fuck me. And the damned building is less than ten years old, so it's not a question of the age of the elevator.

I love the posts from NYC posters. I don't live there but have been there and know enough about it to have a sense of the city, and I feel a comfortable familiarity when I read those posts.

As a New Yorker who has complained about New York on this site—let me just say I have no sense of pride from living here, and I don’t think I’m better than anyone who lives in “flyover” country or any other city (well, except maybe Portland...). This city is annoying, overpriced, and OVER, and frankly I’m embarrassed to live here. If my apartment, my friends, and certain job opportunities didn’t exist, I’d be gone.

[quote][R547] Something else : That NY thing of calling everyone who doesn't live in the city of New York a "flyover." You don't even acknowledge there can be other metropolitan areas in the world. Everyone who doesn't live in NYC must be from Hooterville.

[quote]They don't refer to the West Coast as "flyover".

I didn't say where I was from and was immediately referred to as flyover because I don't live in NYC. The reply post was funny, though. But flyover itself as a term makes me annoyed, even though I actually live on the East Coast. But I mean people live in Boston, Chicago, Baltimore, DC Miami, wherever.

People who stand too close to you in a pandemic.

Conspiracy theories really piss me off

What also pisses me off is when you question something that doesn't really add up, you get called a conspiracy theorist when you're just trying to discover the truth.

Yeah fine r538 but as for your #8, I’ve been standing behind you at the soups, for at least five minutes while you decide which soup YOU'RE going to buy, so I’m going to just nip in there and get MY soup. In & out. No excuse me, no niceties. Save us both some time. Tick tock.

I even tried to go around the other side of you and you body-checked me. Nice move, but I’m getting my soup & get out. Jesus, if it’s going to take you a half-hour to pick out your soup, have a little consideration.

Sorry, meant r536.

Signed r568

Sorry, meant r536.

Signed r568

People who use the word 'flyover' have a really low IQ.

I agree with R17. I'm getting tons of spam marketing callers. Now I just make fun of them.

I asked "Preston" the other day how big his cock was and he hung up on me!

I assume it wasn't that big....

R564 But the tone of your original post sounded insular and provincial. The "flyover" business was just an extension of that.

Do you have some sort of envy or feeling of inferiority about where you live?

Senior citizens lined up in the convenience store buying their lottery tickets at 7am when I need to get to work.

[quote]There's is a bank at work, containing three elevators that all open excruciatingly slow.

This is a minor thing that annoys the shit out of me... people not using adverbs.

The elevator doors open excruciatingly SLOWLY.

Funny, r575, what got me in that sentence is what does a bank have to do with elevators?

The way the sentence was written I thought he was going to tell a story about an ATM, lack of change or something. It took a turn with the elevators.

Pronouns in twitter bios

R572 "Preston" does seem like a strange name for an citizen of India.

Not really minor but sick of these celebrities who are vague about sexual abuse/assault allegations but do not name names.

Give us names. Otherwise, you look like an attention whore and do NOTHING for victims.

R579, I agree 100 percent. I think it's very counterproductive when they do that.

That my ebay sales have been really shitty this year. Items that are worth at least $100 selling for half that because no one wants to buy from Canada.

I don't like the blue filters on all the movies now, and some TV shows. I bet some of you don't even notice it, it's so pervasive. Makes everyone look sickly.

[quote]a west coast freeway is the equivalent of what we in the east call interstates.

R520 I thought a freeway is the equivalent of what we call in the East, an expressway.

Maybe not minor because I do think they are a danger but those insanely bright headlights that many cars are equipped with now. If the asshole behind you has them they light up the interior of your car like stadium lights and actually make it difficult to drive.

Some asshole behind you tailgating when when you are going at an easy clip and they could easily pass by in the left 3 lanes that are completely open.

Maybe not minor because I do think they are a danger but those insanely bright headlights that many cars are equipped with now. If the asshole behind you has them they light up the interior of your car like stadium lights and actually make it difficult to drive.

Some asshole behind you tailgating when when you are going at an easy clip and they could easily pass by in the left 3 lanes that are completely open.

People standing with their hands on their hips in a crowded area (back when we had crowded areas).

People who don’t take off their hats in a movie theatre. And of course they sit right in front of you.

Then again, who knows if I’ll ever be back in a movie theatre, but you get my point.

The large pickup trucks that park next to me that make it hard to back out.

Those super bright, blue-white car headlights really are fucking god-awful. One of the worst things about living in this era.

When people emphasize the wrong words in a phrase. For examples: It’s CHRISTMAS cards, CHRISTMAS shopping and CHRISTMAS cookies, not Christmas CARDS, Christmas SHOPPING and Christmas COOKIES.

The Weather Channel's web site. We just had our first snowfall of the year, but the home page of their site will have you thinking there's an F5 snow tornado headed your way, and raging wildfires approaching you at the same time.

[quote]Those super bright, blue-white car headlights really are fucking god-awful. One of the worst things about living in this era.

I used to wish L.A. Law or The Practice were still on TV so we could watch an episode in which someone sued a car manufacturer because of an accident caused by those blue lights. The plaintiff woul win, of course.

When people insist on backing into parking spots... blocking traffic in both directions as they endlessly try to line up. Jesus, stop. Pull head in like EVERYBODY ELSE. You're not special!

People who drive SUVS and crossovers when they don’t really need one.

How do you determine whether they need one or not R594?

25 ft school bus 🚌 for1 person

Reductio ad absurdum arguments make me completely dismiss the other person.

Lawyers

Until you need one.

R35, when someone asks "What do you do?" I say "When?" If they want to know something that's hone of their business, I say "Can you keep a secret?" When they eagerly say "Yes," I reply "so can I."

People who say "ATM Machine" and "VIN Number" The don't know what the initials stand for.