People that do shit that makes you crazy?

[ohiosmith]

The jerk that on every golf shot yells "in the hole"! In your hole douche!

[NYC_SKP]

1. My GF yells that, doesn't bother me a bit.

[ohiosmith]

2. Tell to STOP IT!

Oh! I get it! Never mind!

[cliffordu]

3. Well.....

[HopeHoops]

5. Yeah, but she ask you to do the back nine?

[NYC_SKP]

10. 9?

You mean there are 8 I still haven't found?

[HopeHoops]

11. (inches)

[NYC_SKP]

12. I'll have to go there twice!

[AsahinaKimi]

21. Ya know....

ITS a lot better than yelling...

FIRE IN THE HOLE!!!

[ohiosmith]

29. Yikes!

[krhines]

67. hahahah

great

[awoke_in_2003]

71. I am going to have

"Fire Down Below" stuck in my head now

[rug]

38. Does she sound surprised?

[NYC_SKP]

44. Nah, she's on to my tricks and knows when it's coming...

My ninja skills all gone!

[HopeHoops]

4. The douchebag cyborgs with the ear thingies shopping while yacking.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. They're more annoying in the airport lounge.

The smaller the lounge, the louder they talk, apparently.

[HopeHoops]

7. And I don't need to hear about their gout, anal warts, zits, wax jobs, etc.

[ohiosmith]

8. Wax jobs maybe!

[HopeHoops]

9. Not in the frozen food section, thank you.

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. Or where they should meet for lunch

That drives me nuts. Why does everyone in the room need to know you're meeting Martha at noon for a salad?

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. My favorite cell phone story

I was in line at Target behind a woman who was talking on her cell phone. The clerk finished ringing up her purchases and told her the total. The woman kept talking. So the clerk again told her the total. She kept talking. So the clerk, for the third time, a little bit louder, told her the total. The woman took her phone away from her ear, looked at the clerk and said

"Can't you SEE I'm on the phone??"

I thought I was going to bust a gut I was laughing so hard.

[Iggo]

56. Long loud monotone "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..." usually does the trick.

Kinda like the college kids do before a kick-off.

And it's fun, too!

[applegrove]

13. I hate parents that walk along the sidewalk with their kids on a busy street, and don't hold their

kids hands.

[Kennah]

14. One could view that as natural selection ...

... but by and large most species strive to survive.

[Kennah]

15. Many of the bullshit answers from IT, and I work in IT

Was talking with a coworker recently. She told me a couple of all but automated excuses she hears.

"Bandwidth. No we can't do that. Bandwidth."
"Privacy. No we can't do that. Privacy."

I told her it's basically a game of brinksmanship in which they are daring you to call them liars. Of course, one does not have to be confrontational.

"I don't buy that argument."
"Well, let's test it to be sure it is a bandwidth issue."
"Let's put the issue to policy. We have attorneys who can determine if this really is a privacy issue."

[ohiosmith]

52. Used to drive me nuts.

[Quantess]

16. Getting drawn into boring details of conversation, with boring questions.

Last edited Sat Jul 21, 2012, 10:58 PM - Edit history (1)

I am completely serious, here.

I live with someone who asks me tons of boring questions that I don't know the answer to, and don't care to know. Questions about shit I would never remember, but that she for some reason thinks is important. OMFG I don't give a shit! Who gives a FUCK?! Is going through my mind when I get these boring-as fuck questions.

Or questions like "Why do you eat food like that? Does your mom do that? Does your dad eat food that way?" Why do you give a fuck about how I prepare my food? Why would you think I had memorized all their ages, how many rooms in their house, if they have a fireplace, the date and time their shop closed, whether they slice onions lengthwise or sideways? I wish I could say that to her face but I can't.

This may be one of these INTP / ENTP things (I am both the Extrovert and Introvert at times but usually an introvert). I like to see the larger, cohesive picture. I am not a detail collector, especially not boring details.

Thank you for letting me rant!

[liberalhistorian]

22. OMG, that sounds just like my mother, lol!

And then she gets upset when we don't have any answers and starts yammering about how self-centered we are 'cause we don't pay attention to stuff like that and we need to LOOK at things and LISTEN to people, etc., etc., blahblahblah. We're in our forties and it still drives us nuts, though we should be used to it by now.

[Quantess]

23. Yep, I rent a room at your mom's house!

May as well be her!
I live with an retired, older relative who has children who are in their 40s. But she has a good sense of humor, so it's okay.

But yes. I had no idea there were so many boring questions that could possibly be asked, because there are an infinite number of them! It makes me appreciate the good questions.

[BlueJazz]

26. Why do you say "yep" in your post when most people say "Yes"

I had a friend once that would say "Yep" whenever I asked him something but he moved to
Alabama and I never saw him again. I used to drive him to work and we would chat but
frankly, I got tired of his long talks about absolutely nothing. He would blather on and on about
topics that I had zero intere.....

[Quantess]

27. No, I am in a relatively odd situation

living overseas, where I don't get to speak english very often, and I might be losing my english skills.

But you know... if someone wants to talk about boring topics and ask a bunch of boring questions, it is less boring if it is not in your native language.

[BlueJazz]

48. You do know I was trying to be funny?

[Quantess]

50. Oh, good.

I wasn't sure if you were complaining about "yep" or being funny.

[pipi_k]

39. The endless stories...

One of my sisters is like that.

She left Mass for FL in the mid 1980s and moved back last year. I saw her last weekend at a family party.

I can't remember if she's always been this way or what, but her stories go on and on and on and on...twenty minutes or more and I forget what the point was.

Also...and picture this...watching her is like seeing Stevie Wonder performing a song. She raises her head and closes her eyes and may as well be talking to just anyone. Or no one. I was seriously tempted to get up for a soda or cooked shrimp during one of her stories last weekend, and might have chanced it if there weren't others around who might have ratted on me.

[BlueJazz]

47. ..."or cook shrimp"

ON EDIT: I thought (at first) you said "Cook Shrimp" ...as if she wouldn't notice if you got up, peeled some shrimp, cooked them, got the sauce, ate the shrimp..came back to were she was sitting and said "Oh, that was interesting"

[pipi_k]

57. To tell the truth...

I probably could have gone out on a shrimp boat, caught them, cooked and peeled them, and made up the cocktail sauce and she still wouldn't have noticed.




Actually, my second husband had an old female friend who used to call him occasionally. She was a real nice lady, but damn, what a talker. Many times I saw him lay the phone down in the middle of one of her monologues, pour himself a beer, take a leisurely pee, then go back to the phone and she's still going on...

[BlueJazz]

81. Oh..Geez..That's funny !!

[Diclotican]

112. pipi_k

pipi_k

Well, that is not me and my brother, No one of us like to talk on the phone - so we say what we have to say - and would rather go to each others house than to talk for hours on the phone.. I think the "record" of sorts, are 2 minutes..

Diclotican

[Chemisse]

82. I just can't stand people who talk too much.

I rode to an event recently with a nonstop talker. I just stopped responding after a while. She didn't care about hearing anything I would say; it was all about her, ad nauseum.

[tomp]

97. there is a level at which talking too much...

...becomes pathology. i have a low tolerance for non-essential speech.

[liberalhistorian]

55. I wonder if that's an "older woman"

thing? My mom is of that generation and all of her friends do that as well; maybe they learned it as "good communication skills" and equate it to being interested in people and things? Because I'm a gal and gals my age and younger, and even in their fifties, don't do that.

[progdog]

69. This is the funniest thread I've read on DU

in a very long time. My mother has been like that all my life.

[turtlerescue1]

17. The person who has never had to take a chance in their life,

and lectures when someone dares to. Like life has never been a challenge for them, and they cannot conceive that it could be for anyone else.

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. Dave, the "Yuup" guy on Storage Wars

[sharp_stick]

65. My wife hates Dave

If I'm in the other room when she's watching this I'll hear YUUUUP! Followed by a muttered "Shut the hell up".

[From The Ashes]

111. My usual response to that YUUUUUP is...

...'geez, what an asshole!'

[Populist_Prole]

24. Blowhards that won't shut the fuck up about sports

Always wanting to talk sports all the time. Specifically; Those who reply to my statement that I'm not into sports AT ALL as if I actually said I didn't like their favorite team. They then launch into all the reasons "their" team is so great, and despite all me expressions and body language showing utter indifference, they just babble on about players/coaches/stats minutia.

Fanboys of other things are equally bad, whether TV shows, motorcycles, whatever. You make the most general comment on anything and they want to argue with you by arguing esoteric technicalities about 50 paces down a path you couldn't give a fiddler's fuck about.

[pipi_k]

40. I gotta laugh

OK I love football and will talk about it with anyone who wants to.

But golf...baseball...tennis...etc.

I could give a rat's ass, and quickly become bored/annoyed

Of course, it's probably my own fault because I try not to be rude and very likely seem as though I really do care, so it only encourages them...

[Mopar151]

62. And they want to heckle whatever your interest might be.......

Stamp collecting, mountain climbing, or Top Fuel dragsters, it's all nothing compared to their boy of the moment ......

[Populist_Prole]

73. Yes, all the time

Some will even ask about your hobbies/interests, not out of genuine curiosity, but to try to make you look eccentric in front of other people like them. There are some, I swear, that if your conversation is NOT peppered with references to sports or pop-culture of the moment, or sayings thereof, they look at you like you're some overly stuffy academic.

[nytemare]

25. Lately, all the posts calling Romney "rMoney".

I don't like the bastard, but reading rMoney did this, rMoney did that, rMoney lied again, etc gives me a fucking brain spasm. Call him Mittfuckbrain Romneypotamus for all I care, it is easier to read than rMoney. rMoney just does not FLOW properly.

If I am trying to read a paragraph with any type of cohesive thought, and pay attention to the subject matter, seeing rMoney takes the needle right off the record.

Sorry if I've offended anybody.

[awoke_in_2003]

72. That is ok...

I hate it when people do things like us "4" for "for" or "2" for "to".

[KamaAina]

76. Well, you probably offended Rmoney himself

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=991311

[Bertha Venation]

28. When attorneys congregate at my desk to have their oh-so-important conversa-- excuse me, conferences

[pipi_k]

41. Wow...aside from being distracting...

I would call that incredibly rude because it suggests that you are a fixture, like a desk, instead of a human being.

[Bertha Venation]

51. EXACTLY!

Thank you, pipi. I have been trying to pinpoint exactly why this bugs me so, and you've done it for me.

[Generic Brad]

30. Aggressive drivers weaving in and out of traffic

They could kill someone with their careless back and forth driving. I especially hate when they tailgate, then pass up, then abruptly cut over and force me onto the shoulder.

[RebelOne]

35. Yes, they annoy me also.

They never seem to be happy with the lane they are in.

[rrneck]

31. People who don't know how conversation works.

They ask me a question and they interrupt me in mid sentence to either take off on a tangent or argue with what they think I'm going to say.

Especially when they ask me about something complicated which takes time to explain.

Maybe I should just say, "42. Now leave me the hell alone."

[RiffRandell]

32. People that call you back after you dialed a wrong number.

I understand people may think a potential client/business associate might be calling, but sometimes I dial a wrong number and hang up. Then I get a call back from the person saying "yeah, you just called me?" I just say yeah, I dialed the wrong number...sorry.

I think what sent me over the edge was when I called a family member in CT from my phone# in GA in the morning and got a wrong number. About 11 pm I was almost asleep when a woman called all rude saying the same thing. Best I could figure she might have thought she was being cheated on, but like I said it was an out of state number.

If someone calls me and I don't recognize the # and no message is left, no big deal.

[demguy_5692]

36. those people are probably the worst IMO

truly irritating..

[hlthe2b]

37. You do realize some of us use our cell phones for business as well, responding to emergencies

When someone hangs up without leaving a message, I HAVE to call them back to make sure they weren't unintentionally cut off while trying to reach me for emergency purposes.

Not to mention that just hanging up without indicating the call was in error is just plain rude.

[RiffRandell]

53. I agree with you.

I don't hang up on live people--I'm very polite if I got the wrong number. I hang up if I get the person's VM.

[NewJeffCT]

54. I loved a scene with Danny DeVito in Ruthless People

He's being interviewed by a young police officer (Judge Reinhold, I think). The phone rings and he replies, "sorry, she can't come to the phone right now, because my #&!@ is in her mouth." (It might have been he/his, too)

He then hangs up the phone & looks at Reinhold and says, "I love wrong numbers."

[quakerboy]

94. Ive been getting calls from a wrong number

I cant even recall the country, but its an out of country number. Or at least thats what I believe, given the extra digit. 502 xxxx xxxx. They are damnably persistent. Two or three calls a week, minimum. For over a year now.

[tru]

108. so you woke them up or whatever

and they figure they'll return the favor.

[femmocrat]

33. Outdoor burning.

Why do these yahoos have to burn crap every damn day? The trash co. takes anything. And what they don't take the junk-pickers will scavenge.

Never fails, as soon as we get a day cool enough to open the windows, there will be noxious smoke wafting in.

[obxhead]

80. You need a fire hose

or a water balloon cannon.

[raccoon]

34. People sitting next to me talking with their hands and invading my personal space.

I put my hand up as a barrier.

[femmocrat]

42. Yes! Don't you hate it when...

they grab your arm or put their hand on your leg? OMG, I practically scream out loud.

And I hate "close-talkers" too. Can't they tell by the way I keep backing up that they are too damn close?

[benld74]

43. 2 parter - 1st those who LIE - 2nd those who can DO SOMETHING about it AND dont!

[frogmarch]

45. Nitpickers

People who pick apart every single thing other people say.

"Last weekend we went to a Celtic music festival."

"You actually left home on Thursday, so technically you didn't go on the weekend, and anyway, they played other music besides Celtic, and technically it wasn't a festival per se."

Like that. GAH!

[pipi_k]

59. OK confession time...

I am a nitpicker. Not a serious nitpicker, but a nitpicker all the same, especially with Mr Pipi, who has a tendency to forget or leave out details or change things around a bit in a story.

It's something I need to be mindful of all the time, and I often find myself having to clench my jaw to keep from opening my big mouth and looking like an insufferable boor.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

46. Stepkids who don't listen to me and don't do what I tell them to.

GAAAHHHHH!

And I am not the stepmother from hell. I'm pretty nice.

[Jamaal510]

49. People who are really into astrology

and believe that all people who happen to be born under one zodiac sign have the same personality. Also non-rich people who support trickle-down economics in hopes that they'll be rich one day, too.

[pipi_k]

60. Oh yeah?

Well I'm a Libra, and I believe there are two sides to every story...

[KamaAina]

77. You must be a fire sign

[Jamaal510]

84. Nope. Gemini.

[Sentath]

114. I'm a Scorpio

WE don't believe in astrology.

(P.S. If you ever meet someone proud of being a scorpio, run)

[Iggo]

58. People who talk with their hands while driving.

People (same ones) who I'm sitting right next to in the car, and who insist that I'm not listening to them because I'm not looking at them. Listen dipshit, SOMEBODY's gotta watch the road and it sure as fuck ain't YOU!

[hifiguy]

61. Jackasses who get off of escalators and STOP.

Are those of us behind these morans supposed to levitate or something?

People who, as soon as the elevator doors open, charge in like a herd of wildebeest on speed. Wait til the people IN the elevator get OUT, dickbrains!!

Hammerheads who are so obsessed with their "devices" that they don't even watch where they are walking.

[mikeysnot]

70. I concur on all

... Hey I finally broke 1k posts! Only took me ten years....

[Arugula Latte]

90. Yeah!

Hate those mo-rans!!!

[tomp]

98. agreed. nt

[blueamy66]

63. people who do not use their turn signals

how freaking hard is it to notify others that you are turning or changing lanes?

are you that important and/or busy that you can't spend one second to flip the damn thing on?

[Iggo]

64. Also...

...a turn signal isn't to tell me what you're doing. It's to tell me what you're GOING TO DO.

(Morons.)

[Populist_Prole]

74. OR

Let's say you're going to make a turn ( especially a left turn ) from a side street onto a main road. It's heavily trafficked, so windows of opportunity to pull out are few and far between....and brief. Anyway you're your head is doing the back and forth thing monitoring traffic and you see a "window" to the right; You look left and see a car approaching and you're waiting for him to pass on by you ASAP before the "window" of opportunity to the right fades...but it doesn't look like you'll make it. Just then, that car approaching from the left I spoke of makes a right turn on to the road you're trying to pull out from....without signaling. Had they signaled their intention to turn, I could have pulled out before that window of opportunity faded.

On another note. Once I confronted a co-worker about passing me and changing lanes in front of me without signaling on our way to work. It's a high-performance car and that means to him he gets to drive like an obnoxious ass. I brought it up in as pleasant and non-confrontational way possible, and he just shrugged and looked surprised I would care about such things. To him, as long as a collision never actually occurs, he can't understand why I'd be upset at such a close call. Next time I'll ask him if Jesus would signal; He's a major fundie type. F*cking hypocrite.

[rateyes]

113. just a little unsolicited advice...

I have seen accidents happen when a party does turn on their right turn signal, but is turning right just beyond the street the other person waiting to pull into traffic is on. Just because the signL a right turn doesnt mean they are necessarily going to turn on the road you are on.

[blueamy66]

75. you got it

burns my ass

[sharp_stick]

66. The ones that piss me off even more

than the average asshole that refuses to use a turn signal are the ones who are at a full stop and then turn on the fucking thing.

Two weeks ago I'm at a stop sign facing a car coming in the opposite direction. Neither one of us signalling so I start moving as soon as she does. She then turns on the left turn signal, while in the intersection and honks at me! There's no one around so I politely stop in the middle of the intersection to ask if she needs help understanding where the turn signal is on her car and would she like instructions on its proper use or where she can stick it.

[yesphan]

68. Along these lines.

Approaching stop light, cars both in right and left lanes stopped. I chose to stay in the left lane as I will be turning left in a couple of blocks. Cars accumulate in both lanes to wait for light. Light turns green and the car in front then hits the turn signal. I now have to wait thru another cycle as the car in front can't turn until yellow because of opposing traffic. If the car in front would have had signal on earlier, I could have chosen to change lanes to avoid, but no !

[KamaAina]

78. People who ride their bikes on the sidewalk

even when there's a bike lane on the street!!!

Illegal in many places. Not here, apparently.

[chknltl]

79. No. Already crazy to start with, need no outside assistance. eom

[TrogL]

83. Loud talk on the LRT

People are trying to read or even sleep and people are bellowing at the top of their lungs. Is often cell phone users who need to turn their own volume up so they can hear it, or some foreign languages - Cantonese and some of the East Indian dialects seem to be the worst offenders.

[Historic NY]

85. My brother calls on cell direct connect & won't come up for air...

so I can tell him to STFU...

[KegCreekDem]

86. How about DILLs?

How about the DipsyDoodle in the Left Lane (DILL) driving at the exact same speed as the car beside them in the Right Lane. There are 5 cars behind the DipsyDoodle in the Left Lane (DILL) but the DILL still feels it is their godly duty to be sure that no one exceeds the speed limit and passes. The DILL is blithely untroubled by the road rage building behind her. I have been a passenger with a DILL and still can't fathom such self-appointed traffic clogging, self-serving behavior.

[FoxNewsSucks]

87. I get where I'm going quickly.

And those people sincerely make me wish I could have a rocket launcher mounted to my front bumper and that it were legal to use one.

Anytime someone comes up behind me, whether I'm speeding or not, I make sure they can pass me. I can't understand why anyone would deliberately obstruct other drivers.

I've also noticed that people who complain about tailgaters are often the Left Lane Bandits you describe.

[Art_from_Ark]

93. You would hate driving in this part of Japan, I think

The speed limit's already pretty low (25-30 mph for most roads), but invariably I'll come upon someone who thinks that even going 25 on an open road with good visibility is just a tad too fast. So they'll go at their snail's pace, with a green light in the near distance. Then, as the light starts to change to yellow, they'll speed up and then zoom through the intersection as the light is turning red.

[KegCreekDem]

95. Yes, I think I'd have to get out and walk. n/t

[proud patriot]

110. See my post below

they drive me nuts too

[sakabatou]

89. People who don't have table manners

Like chewing loudly or with their mouths open.

[Skittles]

91. receiving emails like this

As we discussed, I would like to delete the below dataset/entry as part of cleanup effort this weekend on ##Lpar. But the below dataset is Not cataloged and could not able to delete it. Please do the needful by deleting the same.

[Arugula Latte]

92. Gym Grunters.

Shut the fuck up. We're not impressed with your exertion.

[King_Klonopin]

96. Hell is other people...

My Top Ten

10) People who brake first, then put on their turn signal -- kinda defeats the purpose.
9) People who leave meandering, endless voice mails. Brevity is a virtue possessed by few.
8) People who misuse the term "literally".
7) People who pepper their speech with the word "like".
6) People who use the subjective case pronoun after a preposition (e.g. "between she and I ...&quot
5) People who use "Obamacare" derisively, as if the notion of affordable healthcare for everyone should be mocked.
4) People who say "Democrat" Party. How old are you, 13?
3) People who use a checkbook to buy a loaf of bread in the Express Line. Really?!
2) People who are obsessed with their friggin' cell phone.
1) Mitt Romney every time he opens his goddamn mouth.

[Javaman]

100. No 8...

just a moment ago a guy just told me about a movie he and his wife saw that "literally" scared the crap out of him.

I guess they go through couches pretty quickly in his home.

[MADem]

102. That is one of the better "first posts" I've seen here! Welcome! nt

[spinbaby]

99. I work in a cubicle next to a crinkler

He eats crap like chips and popcorn, apparently one sliver at a time, crinkling the bag all damn day long. How can someone eat a bag of popcorn for three hours straight? Crinkle, crinkle, crinkle, crinkle. He's otherwise a sweet guy, but I may have to kill him.

[ret5hd]

101. You could probably do it in plain sight of everyone in the office...

and when the police came they would say "No officer, didn't see a thing."

[MADem]

103. Buy him a bowl and ask him to use it!

Tell him you'll kill him if he doesn't!

[prole_for_peace]

104. The guy in the office next to me always using the speakerphone.

ALWAYS! He is hard of hearing so he has it turned WAY up and his work conversations can last up to 45 minutes. I would think that using the handset would make it easier for him to hear; I can't seem to understand anyone on the speaker.

The only bright side to his conversations is when he or the person he is talking to gets upset about something. Once he was talking to an IRS agent and both of them were being all kinds of huffy. I got some co-workers to gather in my office so we could listen and giggle.

[nolabear]

105. People who parallel park so no one else can get in.

My office is on a neighborhood street, with lots of driveways. So help me some people purposefully park so only one car will fit there rather than two, or leave half a car's worth of gap on either side.

If I was the keying kind...

[Bertha Venation]

106. Attorney. On conference call. On speaker. Office door open.

[Freddie]

107. Body odor.

Soap, water and deodorant are cheap and plentiful in this country. Even worse is people who use too much cologne to cover their body odor.

[proud patriot]

109. that car in the left lane of a light 20 ft back from the car in front of them making it impossible

for me to move to the left turn lane and making me sit thrugh 2 rounds of lights .. grrrrr

selfish , oblivious people who think they are they only one on the planet