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What ANNOYS you the Most
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People who don't pay attention to what thread they're in. 
(just teasing)
Here's a real one: sportscasters who constantly say
"If you're <the team/player>, you want to..."
Why not just say
"<The team/player> needs to..."?
(just teasing)Here's a real one: sportscasters who constantly say
"If you're <the team/player>, you want to..."
Why not just say
"<The team/player> needs to..."?
This annoys me almost every day:
Americans do not know how to queue.
If you go to a fast food restaurant or similar establishment pretty much anywhere in Europe, you will find people neatly in line waiting to be served. Its readily apparent who, out of the numerous patrons within the facility, has not yet placed their - and whom has not been served.
The mid-western Americans I deal with seem not to have gotten the message on this (fairly basic) activity. Walk into a McDonalds, Arby's etc. at a reasonably busy hour - and you will be presented with a literal mob of people randomly standing or milling around, mouths agape, with no perceptible indication as to whether they are waiting for their (previously) placed order; whether they are still deciding if they want to eat there; or if they are waiting for the arrival of their accomplices in the armed robbery they are planning on pulling off.
Next up: The morons who think that the (only) doorway or vestibule for a busy restaurant is a good place to stop and hold a conversation.
Americans do not know how to queue.
If you go to a fast food restaurant or similar establishment pretty much anywhere in Europe, you will find people neatly in line waiting to be served. Its readily apparent who, out of the numerous patrons within the facility, has not yet placed their - and whom has not been served.
The mid-western Americans I deal with seem not to have gotten the message on this (fairly basic) activity. Walk into a McDonalds, Arby's etc. at a reasonably busy hour - and you will be presented with a literal mob of people randomly standing or milling around, mouths agape, with no perceptible indication as to whether they are waiting for their (previously) placed order; whether they are still deciding if they want to eat there; or if they are waiting for the arrival of their accomplices in the armed robbery they are planning on pulling off.
Next up: The morons who think that the (only) doorway or vestibule for a busy restaurant is a good place to stop and hold a conversation.
The use of golf as a verb
People that are too lazy to go back and pick up their mess when they miss the trash can with paper towels in public restrooms
Soccer players who fake injury
Flopping in the NBA
People that are too lazy to go back and pick up their mess when they miss the trash can with paper towels in public restrooms
Soccer players who fake injury
Flopping in the NBA
"I'm not saying he's guilty" and then acting like it's already been decided that a person is guilty.
How about: "Don't take this the wrong way, but you're a useless moron...." etc.
Or: "With all due respect, you aren't fit to host the bacteria that swim in your bladder.."
Count your blessings. We got half an inch of snow last week, and from Atlanta all the way up to Chattanooga, there were hundreds of cars abandoned by the sides of the roads, everything shut down, and kids were trapped in schools all across the state.
If we got 5 inches, I don't know what would happen. Probably something like a snowy version of Beyond Thunderdome.
That's a bit misrepresentative of what we had. We got 2" or so of snow, but we had several hours of freezing rain in sub-freezing temps in the hours leading up to it. Then we had municipalities, counties and employers realize they f'd up by opening for the day and put about 2m people on the already problematic roads at the same time. Nobody moved, which only served to keep the DOT trucks from being able to treat the roads and helped the ice form even thicker. By the time mid-late afternoon rolled around the interstates had turned into ice rinks and were full of cars. The slow movement helped break the ice up a bit, but by then it was too late and the stuff would just re-freeze immediately.
We didn't get hit nearly as bad as you all did down in Atlanta, but still had to put up with a smaller scale version of the same problems.
The stupidest thing was that schools and businesses didn't start letting out until it was far too late. It started snowing around 10, and by 10:30 it was blatantly obvious things were gonna be terrible. But everyone waited around until 12:30 to shut everything down, which ended up causing a huge scramble on the roads, and all kinds of panic resulted.
Just a half inch of snow, and you couldn't even go 5 minutes without hearing about various multicar pile ups and roads shutting down all across the area.
A complete cluster all the way around. All the while you have Deal and Reed taking turns blaming each other and NWS rather than talking about how to make sure it isn't such an abomination next time this happens.
Come to think of it.....THAT is what annoys me the most.
No. It'd probably be pretty bad 'n rad. Right down the street at the local children's park is a jungle gym that would TOTALLY make for an awesome thunderdome.
1. People chewing food loudly
2. Sweaty people at gym who leave all their sweat on all the machines
3. Ghetto people who think they are on top and better than everyone
4. People who tailgate you even though your already going 5-10 mph over posted speed
5. Might get flamed for this one but I don't support gays and hate it when they are showing "gay pride" in public and then you get flamed for giving your opinion on why you think being gay is wrong.
2. Sweaty people at gym who leave all their sweat on all the machines
3. Ghetto people who think they are on top and better than everyone
4. People who tailgate you even though your already going 5-10 mph over posted speed
5. Might get flamed for this one but I don't support gays and hate it when they are showing "gay pride" in public and then you get flamed for giving your opinion on why you think being gay is wrong.
golf |gälf; gôlf|
noun
1. a game played on a large open-air course, in which a small hard ball is struck with a club into a series of small holes in the ground, the object being [/I]to use the fewest possible strokes to complete the course.
2. a code word representing the letter G, used in radio communication.
verb [ intrans. ]
play golf : [as n. ] ( golfing) a week's golfing.
intransitive |inˈtransitiv; -zi-|
adjective
(of a verb or a sense or use of a verb) not taking a direct object, e.g., look in look at the sky. The opposite of transitive .
I'm with you on this one. I might be hypersensitive or something but certain foods and certain chewing "methods" really grind my gears. There's a certain someone (who will remain nameless) who manages to chew loudly even with their mouth closed. HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN? WHY IS THIS SO ANNOYING?
People who chew noisily with their mouths open should do jail time. Some of the people I work with are animals. Somebody I work with is actually considering quitting because she has been moved to a desk next to someone who eats at his workstation all day long.