Name something that really shouldn't irk the living shit out of you, but does anyway.

[Zavulon]

I don't know why, but here's something that pisses me off no end: during prescription medication commercials, they throw in the disclaimers by having a supposed doctor rattle them off to a supposed patient.

I can't explain why, but this irks the living shit out of me.

You?

[Forkboy]

1. Hearing people eat.

And moths. :shrug:

[Zavulon]

2. Actually, now that you mention this,

hearing people brush their teeth drives me up a fucking wall.

[fight4my3sons]

25. Hearing people eat is mine too.

Really it makes me insane to the point that I feel like my head is going to explode.

[Ariana Celeste]

30. that's like nails on chalkboard to me

worst part about it is my SO is kind of a loud eater. :/

[Lucy Goosey]

72. "hearing people eat" is exactly what I was going to post

Also, hearing people slurp their drinks.

[BlueStateGirl]

99. me, too

[last_texas_dem]

3. Yeah

The worst was this very cheesy one where they read the disclaimers by pretending it was a conversation between a medical school professor and his students...

[khashka]

4. Children

or rather bad parenting. I shouldn't dislike the kids I should dislike the parents. But I do. And it's not really their fault, but their parents'.

Khash.

[Initech]

5. People who put their kids names on the back of their car.

[Kutjara]

6. The ones that really get me...

...are the "My Child Was Milk Monitor of the Day at Elmer Fudd Elementary" bumperstickers. It's all very well being proud of your child, but some of these stickers are really grasping at straws. They may as well say "My Kid is Dumb, But He Tries."

[Zavulon]

9. .

:rofl:

[Initech]

10. There is some Christian school where I live...

That hands out "student of the week/month" stickers to probably everyone at that school. I saw one car that was absolutely covered in them and my first thought was "today's student of the week - tomorrow's brown shirts".

[Kutjara]

13. It conditions the little tykes...

...to attach value to meaningless symbolism (which is, I suppose, what Christian education is all about). It's also, as you suggest, a great way of training up a new generation of "I was only following orders" conformists.

But won't it be sad when this whole generation, retired and reminiscing to their grandchildren, only has a lifetime of "Employee of the Month" certificates and gold stars for superlative burger flipping to look back on?

[Initech]

46. Yup.

This combined with the community in which I live (Orange County... the land of excess wealth and republicanism) is what produces future Ken Lays.

[Kutjara]

70. I'm less than ten miles up the road from you,...

...in Brea, so I know exactly what you mean.

[mwooldri]

51. On the license tag? In that case I'm guilty as charged.

My van is registered NicKF - It's a North Carolina "Kids First" plate with NIC in large letters.

But the van is off the road (mechanical problems) so that tag is going to be handed in and I don't know if I want to pay $83 for a new plate when a regular plate is $28.

Mark.

[Initech]

64. No, I'm talking bumper stickers.

Like this:

[bluesbassman]

66. Where can I get one of those?

I have got to have one! Way too funny!:rofl:

[Petrushka]

91. What!? No new baby SHIT in the ASS family . . . yet!? (eom)

[Z_I_Peevey]

83. Have you seen the new Dead Relative variant?

Big windshield decals that blare "In Memoriam, Dufus Dufrane, etc. etc."

I assume these decals are aimed at those members of the public who miss seeing the Dufus Dufrane Roadside Plastic Flower Memorial.

[redqueen]

7. Getting turned on by things I don't want to be turned on by.

x(

[LanternWaste]

15. There's just so much in your statement that arouses my curiosity

There's just so much in your statement that arouses my curiosity to no end. But, I'll leave it alone (and to my imagination....).

(If it helps, I can always give you the number to my imaginary therapist...)

[Sheets of Easter]

8. Those medical dramatization shows, like "Diagnosis X."

They take a real doctor who has worked on a medical mystery of some note, and lump him/her with a cast of 8th-rate "actors" to dramatize the condition. Ironically, the doctors seem to have better acting skills than the actors themselves.

It's not so much the poor dramatization that irks me; it's the fact that the writers always throw in some inane subplot involving the acting extras.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

97. I call them 'bed races'.

Those medical shows consist of a doc pushing a bed down the hall. Like those strange bed races, where people take an old fashioned cast iron bedframe with wheels and race it down the street.

Oh, and the injuries are so unrealistic. Little bitty scratches, a tiny bruise.....yeah, suuuure. :rolleyes:

And the blood is always bright red. When it clots, it's brown.

The courtroom shows are just as bad. The lawyers say outrageous things that would get them thrown in jail for contempt in the real world.

I guess I've just spent too much time in the real world.

[Connonym]

11. whistling

I can't stand the sound of whistling. Birds either for that matter.

[graywarrior]

76. Whistling makes me want to commit murder

Or at the very least, maime the whistler for life.

[MichiganVote]

12. people who lie about me

[Zuiderelle]

117. That used to bug me no end.

Now I've had so much practice, I don't care a bit what people say about me. :)

[LanternWaste]

14. it's enough to drive me cuckoo-bananas!

There was actually a thread about mine earlier (unbeknownst to me until just a few minutes ago)

It's... Flip Flops worn at work. Especially the flapping noise they sometimes make.

I have no room to talk-- if I had my way, Members Only jackets would still be required for Office Casual, so obviously I'm no great master on fashion nor style.

But Flip-Flops... ugh! Everywhere I go-- the grocery store, the movies, to rent a movie, out to eat-- flap, flap, flap.

I sometimes think that were E. A. Poe alive today, his poem 'The Bells' would have been written as 'The Flip Flops'-- it's enough to drive me cuckoo-bananas!

[sammythecat]

116. I especially love that sound they make,

just before the flop, when they're peeling of the sticky foot.

Shnick flop, shnick flop. AAAAhhh!

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. People with avatars for non-existent ball clubs

:P

[Zavulon]

21. Ouch!

At my expense, but I must give credit where credit is due: nice shot.

I can't bring myself to root for another team. I rooted for the Expos from their first year to their last. Now they're in my back yard and I don't give a shit - it just isn't the same. :cry:

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. It is unusual that you lost it when they came *to* you

But then, no one rules their emotions in sports any more than they do in other affairs of the heart.

[Zavulon]

54. It's hard to explain, but

I did live in Quebec and went to Expos games as a kid. I still overwhelmingly prefer the NL brand of baseball, but I can't look at the Nats and see them as my team. I've tried, but I can't.

[Oeditpus Rex]

60. No explanation necessary

How did I become a Dodgers fan living 106 miles from San Francisco but 333 from Los Angeles, and with a dad who was a Giants fan? :shrug:

Such things cannot, and need not, be explained.

[Starry Messenger]

17. that is irksome

Mine is hearing only one side of a phone conversation. It's not the noise...it's just that I can't hear what the other end is saying and my brain keeps trying to fill it in based on what I *can* hear on my end. Irk. The advent of cell phones and the fact that I take public transit made getting an iPod practically a mental health necessity. :grr:

[cloudbase]

18. The mi'su'se of apo'strophe's for a 'start.

"Should of" for "should have."
"Loose" for "lose."
A million other things, too, but I'm learning to cope.

[Mad_Dem_X]

20. Oh dear Lord, yes to the apostrophes!

Especially on signs of businesses. OPEN ON FRIDAY'S...Friday's what?

Apostrophe abuse is my #1 pet peeve!

[Brigid]

19. People who haven't showered.

Then they enter an enclosed space like a bus or an elevator. Even my cats' litter box when it needs cleaning smells better than some of them. x(

[TK421]

22. People who interrupt me when I'm speaking, and attempt to talk over me...

I want to fucking strangle them....it's so rude :mad:

[Bake]

23. CLOWNS!!!!!

Freakin' CLOWNS. That is all.

Bake

[Zavulon]

65. Hadn't thought of that. Good point.

I hate clowns, too. Except for The Joker. :)

[Monk06]

105. Gold painted 'robot' mimes and their one dimentional "ZZZEEEE" sound effects

First rule of mime asshole, NO SOUND EFFECTS

[NewEnglandGirl]

24. When I am Leaving the grocery store

and someone or more than one person are standing in the doorway, blocking the doorway to check their receipts. You say excuse me but they don't even hear you and I wonder why they think the exit is a good place to stand and do that.

[femmocrat]

26. People (men) who play with the change in their pockets.

I think its some kind of sublimation.

[Monk06]

106. No it's to cover up the fact that they're playing pocket pool.

[grannylib]

28. "acrost" instead of "across" and "axe" instead of "ask"

That and "I seen..."

I shouldn't be so picky, maybe, but those drive me batshit insane. And the mixing up of its/it's.

[NewEnglandGirl]

49. How about "youse" (for plural of you)

That gets on my last nerve. What are all of "youse" doing this weekend? :eyes:

[DarkTirade]

Yeah, that's just silly.

It's easier to say 'y'all'.

:P

[grannylib]

67. Or "alls you got to do..." *shudder*

[Carnea]

101. We have fired people for AXE......

Good lord a friend of mines daughter started saying axe in the third grade it irked my friend to no end. She figured her daughter had a new friend at school and had picked up a bad habit. So she went to the parent teachers conference all ready to ask the teacher where her daughter had picked it up from. Well as the story goes the first words out of the teacher mouth was "I suspect you are gonna axe me about the homework i've been givin." Well I'm half surprised fire trucks and helicopters were not called. The other strange thing is my both my friend and her daughter are black so my friend is a bit hypersensitive to poor language skills. The teacher in question was a young uneducated white girl from the inner city who had no place in the class room.

I've seen many people held back in life due to poor grammar and language skills. It's such a sensitive subject I wonder if many of them know why they fail.

[quiet.american]

29. All the constant yak, yak, yakking 24/7 on cell phones. Take a break already! nt

[Monk06]

107. Phone jammers who stop in the middle of a busy sidewalk and gesture while talking

So that they take up 80% of the public space.

Mean while their friends stop next to them and
take up the other 20%.

Sometimes I feel like sucker punching them into
the middle of next week.

[mentalsolstice]

31. People who get in the "10 items or less" checkout w/20 items

I'm fine with 11 or 12 items, hell, I've done it. But give me a break when it's a frikin' cart load and they know the cashier is going to be too polite to refuse to check them out. I don't frequent Wal-Mart, so I don't know what happens there. It does happen all the time at Target. I also shop at Publix, but I don't see anyone there trying to pull this.

[NewJeffCT]

57. That pisses me off, too... especially

when two people take like 25-30 items and split it into two orders.

[AlCzervik]

32. popped collars, people on their stupid blue tooth things loud talking, stfu

i don't care what you're having for dinner asswad. Land Yachts parked in the "Compact" parking spaces, it's not for Compact tanks shitheads and lastly when you're done writing your check for your shit don't keep standing there writing it down in your check register, get going and do that in your car or land yacht that's parked in the compact spot while you're loud talking on your bluetooth thing.

[Lex]

33. stupid personalized license plates

irk me

not all of them, just the stupid or dull or indecipherable ones

[AlCzervik]

35. have you seen the stick figure stickers people put on their back windshields?

like one for every member of their family plus the pet? One of my neighbors has them, she's always worried about child molesters so i pointed out to her that her stick figures were a handy inventory sheet for pedophiles.

[Lex]

36. omg yes . . . insufferable! I always want to have a scary devil one

to stick on there as an addition. LOL about the "inventory."

I saw a license plate last month in my town that said:

4+1nHVN

Which I guess meant 4 living kids plus 1 that died? And they chose that as a license plate sentiment? WTF is wrong with people?

[AlCzervik]

37. yikes.

[madeline_con]

110. Post #64 too funny

[mentalsolstice]

34. Another one: Those big-assed shopping carts for kids

The big chunky, plastic ones that look like race cars. You know the ones, you can't get past them in a grocery aisle. You simply have to make a u-turn, and go up the next aisle and then back down the opposite end of the aisle you wanted to be in because mom spent 10 minutes comparing prices b/t Ragu and Classico.

[Zavulon]

62. I'll give you another one...

...at the grocery store I usually do my shopping, there are little carts for the kids to push, each with a tall pole that has a metal "shopper in training" sign at the end. The signs are eye level for lots of people, and the store is crowded enough without fifty of these little dipshit carts being added to the mix.

[Zuiderelle]

118. Better than a kid crying the whole time because you don't let him use one.

I wish they would ban them completely. Then there wouldn't even be a choice.

[lunatica]

38. The telephone converstation commercials!

They're getting real popular on the radio. They pretend they've called into a radio station to talk about something that's on the air and it's really a pre-programmed commercial. There's one on the Stephanie Miller show where she talks to tanya Roberts about some hotel in Las Vegas.

Crap! It really pisses me off!

[Guava Jelly]

39. When people question me.

I'm like :wtf: :shrug: Didn't you get the memo??? When I am wrong, I am still right!!! :eyes:

[AlCzervik]

40. out of touch much McCain?

:hi: :rofl:

[Guava Jelly]

41. My Friends....

:rofl: Um.. I think we should stay in Iraq for 100 more years. :D :woohoo: :sarcasm:
:hi: ;)

[azmouse]

42. People at ballgames who have to keep shouting "Let's go (team's name)"

I just want them to shut up.

Oh, and people that talk on their cellphones while waving at the camera in the ballpark.

[Zavulon]

61. Let's not forget "DE-fense! DE-fense!"

Like the players on the field, court or ice are likely to respond with "Hey, guys, these fans have a good idea here. Let's try to keep the other team from scoring!"

:eyes:

[Blue Diadem]

43. dish, drawer, dish, drawer, dish, drawer, dish drawer

I hate that commercial. Makes me want to throw things at the tv.

[Twillig]

44. Checkout line aggravation not yet mentioned.

people who pay in exact change in front of you at the checkout counter. That shouldn't bug me, but it does.

The reason it does is because the lady in front of you/me never opens her labyrinthine purse until she finds out that the total didn't come out to an exact dollar amount!


(men collect loose change, see the post above about men rattling change in their pocket. I can't recall seeing a man pay in exact change, ever. Bad memory perhaps.)

[Starry Messenger]

85. my husband

But I think he's the exception that proves the rule. Not only does he pick up every bit of loose change we encounter on the streets, sidewalks, floors, etc. he also digs through all that to pay exact change. Sometimes he waits until the cash drawer is open and the checker is dispensing change before he lights up "oh, I have three pennies!" and breaks them out and...well. I love him, but...

MPK

[Zavulon]

87. Welcome to DU :)

Although I have to admit I do the same thing as your husband. You and my girlfriend could get together and have a blast talking about this to each other.

[Starry Messenger]

90. thanks!

I've often wondered if it's because he's never worked a cash register job. I teach now, but I worked at bookstores for a couple of years. But I can also understand the satisfaction of having exact change at the time of your transaction. :)

[Zavulon]

92. Well, I

never worked a cash register, either. I think my habit comes from another habit: to stuff ridiculous amounts of items in my pockets. I've got a knife in each front pocket, a keyring the size of a baseball, pens, a money clip (with a third set of blades), a small box with pills (acid reflux) and so on. As such, I try to minimize the amount of coins in my pocket, but of course it takes me ages to fish them out.

[LisaM]

45. People who get in the seat in front of me on an airplane

then tilt it back so completely I can't do my crossword puzzle. Also people who pay for stuff at lunch places with their credit or debit cards and then don't write in a tip.

[Initech]

48. That pisses me off royally.

I travel with my laptop all the time and one time I was on a United flight coming back from Denver and this jackass in front of me leaned back on his chair so hard that it almost broke the screen in half. :grr:

[LisaM]

50. Did you kick him?

I always try to kick those people the rest of the flight, every chance I get.

[Initech]

63. I almost put my fist through his chair when he did that.

[Madrone]

89. LOL - I have to admit, I don't get this one.

You mean when they put their chair back the WHOLE 1/2 inch? Bastards! :grr: LOL

When it comes to airline seat hatred I HATE that the chair only goes back 1/2 inch!!! I am in serious pain on flights and there's no way to make it comfortable. 1/2 inch recline is like a cruel, cruel joke of a tease.

[Monk06]

108. Thats when those packets of chili oil from the chinese egg rolls come in handy

Lean over a little drip on the eyes and that
seat is going to be reoriented upright post
haste.

[terrya]

47. People with more than 10 items in the express line at the store.

That pisses me off to no end.

[Digit]

102. I had 14 items, and the Express Lane said 15 items or less...

The guy behind me I guess had not paid attention and kept griping about me having too many items. He did not just make ONE remark, he kept harping on the fact that I could not count, etc.
I am partially disabled and have difficulty standing for too long (need knee replacement). I was within my limit and the fact that he had only a couple of items did not matter as I was being rung up before he even got there.
I did not have any coupons and paid in cash.

This guy was about half my age with his young son in tow. He truly would not shut up.

I felt the blood flowing into my face as I became angry and embarrassed at the same time.
I finally turned to him and called him an asshole.
Not my best moment, but I felt liberated.

So before you count items, please determine how many items the lane allows.
I am sure you did....this is more for others rather than for you in particular.

[bluesbassman]

52. Women who wear open back shoes at work .

And then flap up and down the halls all day.

Only kidding! I just wanted to see redqueen go ballistic again.:evilgrin:

(I really do like them, kinda have a mild foot fetish:silly: )

Edit for spelling.

[Liberalynn]

53. Hypocritical people

I know you are not supposed to "judge others less ye be judged" but hypocritical people bug the crap out of me.

Like the preacher who tells you what a sinner you are, then goes out and does something a thousand times worse than you would ever think of doing.

But I am a hypocrite myself, I know this. I love animals but am not a veggan.

So I guess I irk the crap out of myself. ;)

[The Traveler]

55. Traveler

That asshat really pisses me off.

[no name no slogan]

56. bald guys who never take off their hats/head cover in public

Guess what? Even though you're wearing a hat, or a bandana, or a doo rag, on your head, we KNOW you're bald. We don't care-- and neither should you!

// Leif Garrett, I'm looking in your washed-up teen-idol direction...

[NewJeffCT]

58. People who vote Republican

pisses me off to no end, especially when it's against their own best interests.

[S n o w b a l l]

59. The lounge nt

[fizzgig]

68. the kitchen cupboards being left open

and the dishwasher being loaded in a way i deem 'wrong'

i should not really give a shit about these things, but there are days that one of those will send me into a profanity-laden rage and the occasional fit of crying

and yes, i am on medication :P

[driver8]

71. My wife leaves the cupboards open and it drives me insane!

I don't know what it is, but I absolutely hate that!

I am on medication, also...

[fizzgig]

75. it's such an inane thing to get worked up about

but the mere sight of it is sometimes enough to send me right into orbit :rofl:

[madeline_con]

111. Until you bang your head on one! n/t

[Carnea]

77. My girl complains about both of these

She needs medication. She also throws out the entire roll of toilet tissue if it touches the floor.

[fizzgig]

79. the toilet paper thing seems a bit much

but we all have our little neurosis, right?

[ZombieHorde]

69. When people jerk suddenly as you bite them and then your jaw is forced open more than it should.

:mad:

[shanti]

73. gum poppers

they drive me WILD! oh, and people who talk LOUD on their cellphone on the train, looking around all the time to see if anyone is paying attention to them. :argh:

[regularguy]

74. Flip-Flops on the subway. Yech!

Why do I give a crap? I have no idea. But you're not in Key freakin West, it's the Broad Street Subway, put on some GodDamn shoes!

[RadiationTherapy]

78. Human contact and interaction. nt

[Phentex]

80. Celebs who become experts on a subject

just because something that happens every day to other people finally happens to THEM!

[mac56]

81. Two things: (1) Boom cars. (2) The Wave.

That is all.

[WinkyDink]

82. My husband's new habit of driving by holding the cross-bar, NOT the actual wheel part.

[one mean sheath]

84. ohhhh how long my list is

choice favorites, however:
definitely hearing people eat.
people humming or singing to themselves in public.
bad piercings.
badly trained dogs (that belong to other people).

oh, and hipsters and their laskjfdhgaljfd nikes. grrr argh.

[undeterred]

86. People who are talking on cell phones all the time.

I think they're talking to me and then I realize they aren't.

[one mean sheath]

113. i think everyone is nutty

cause all these people have bluetooth deals and little ear buds and i think they're talking to themselves. but they're really on the phone. boooo.

[Zavulon]

88. Going with my "doctor's office in commercials" pet peeve, I have to add

that last night I saw one in which a doctor is reciting the aforementioned disclaimers to a fiftysomething male patient. The doctor tells him "do not take this medicine if you have liver or kidney problems or are nursing."

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

First of all, isn't it the doctor's job to know if the patient has liver or kidney problems and tell the patient rather than prescribing this fucking medication without knowing?

SECOND OF ALL, SINCE WHEN DO FIFTYSOMETHING MALES NURSE?

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH! :mad:

[woo me with science]

119. LOL Good catch. nt

[MrScorpio]

93. Eating anything crunchy near my ears

That's a sure ticket to Palookaville

[Athens30603]

94. I think it's laughable when...

People who own cell phones walk around holding the phone up to their ear and are obviously not having a conversation. This happens all the time on campus and in retail situations with me. It's generally a girl/woman (I have only seen a few men do this)and they're walking around with their fancy phone held right to their ear. I had a woman in front of me at the grocery store once doing this and when it was time for her to pay she made it super obvious she was never having a conversation at all by placing the phone down on the counter, completing her transaction and then putting the phone back to her ear.

All without ever saying a word into the phone.

[Pharlo]

95. People who do not comprehend the difference between the verbs

'to borrow' and 'to lend'. Instead of saying "Can you lend me a quarter?" they ask "Can you borrow me a quarter?" Sends me into orbit. I understand what they're saying and know what they mean, but DAMN! It's their native language. You'd think they'd learn the difference between borrowing and lending.

[Athens30603]

96. That's the same as when...

...people conflate "scratch" and "itch". (i.e. I'm itching this patch of dry skin on my arm.)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

98. Endemic bullying and humiliation in our society.

Dominant males and their dick waving contests make me ill. They think they live in Chimp World. They are no better than chimps -- fighting to dominate other males, and fighting to possess a subordinate female.

This is reflected in the Survivor type TV shows, or The Apprentice, or Hell's Kitchen, where public humiliation and verbal savagery is thought to constitute entertainment.


:grr: Nope. It's not entertainment. It's humiliation and cruelty.

[Skittles]

100. hearing people whistle

I really despise it. Also when I can hear someone walking (usually women in high heel shoes). :(

[Merrick]

103. Chronic texters / cell phone addicts

I was at the movies last week, and I'm not exaggerating, the guy sitting in front of me pulled out his cell phone, flipped it open (emitting a bright, distracting glow from his display screen) to check it for - whatever - no less than 50 times in 45 minutes until I asked him to cut it out.

but no, I shouldn't not be irked by this. These people are pathetically sick.

[krispos42]

104. Insurance forms

I cannot deal with the entire concept. I snap.

I can do my own taxes, no sweat. Filling out applications or enrollment forms, fine.

But the mere thought of trying to understand anything relating to health insurance makes my temper as brittle as glass. So I wind up not doing them at all or something. I just can't deal with the stupidity.

It's the same feeling you get when your sibling beats you like 20 times in a row in a game without apparant effort or concern.

Gah!

[papapi]

109. Pubic hairs on the urinal.

[BlueCollar]

112. MORANS who place the change on top of the bills and then

hand me the receipt on top of it all...

Hand me the change first dammit, then hand me the folding stuff.

Just thinking about it is starting to piss me off...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

114. My ink pens and pencils ---Don't touch them !!

They are Mine! Mine! Mine!

:shrug:

:D

[IDemo]

115. Used of the word "issue" in place of "problem"