Things that bug me [abridged]

[TraditionalNonconformist]

In the spirit of Calvin & Hobbes, I have compiled a short list of things that piss me off. I encourage you to do the same. Revel in your negativity! It's good for you!


RIAA
Hollywood
TV
politics
those ubiquitous yellow plastic bracelets
those ubiquitous ribbon-shaped car magnets
most people
excessively chipper people
fanaticism
any variety of mania or madness
excessive emoticon use
EAU: excessive acronym use, lol
stupid kids
stupid parents
manipulative people
manipulative corporations
feel-good movies
groupthink
pseudoscience
commercial trance muzak
the euphemism popcorn movie
real-life television drama
long fingernails, even on a sexy lady
Xtream marketing
most government agencies
”target-tats”, y'know, those tattoos hovering just above some girl's ass crack
prepackaged lifestyles
fast-food joints
useless knickknacks
the “funny” pages
fashion industry
flower industry
greeting card industry
product-placement
t-shirts that say things like “Princes”, “hot shit”, “super-bitch” or anything like that
t-shirts “advertising” some fake sports team, restaurant, or event, but really advertising for the overpriced clothing store.
b*llshit censorship
excessively negative people

[daughterofeve]

Ditto:


Hollywood
TV
politics combined with fake and biased 'news' broadcasts attacking
those yellow bracelets that i can never find at Wallmart, and everyone i ask says they got it from someone at school! (livestrong, right?)
too much fanaticism
stupid kids
stupid parents
groupthink
fast-food joints
fashion industry
t-shirts that say things like “Princes”, “hot shit”, “super-bitch” or anything like that
t-shirts “advertising” some fake sports team, restaurant, or event, but really advertising for the overpriced clothing store.
excessively negative people


(lol.. does this qualify as groupthink? ..then again, most of us are INTPs here, so..)

[Shai Gar]

john howard (PM)
mark latham (PM)
bob hawke (PM)
the fact that i will never beat bob hawkes drinking record
The Republican Party
The Liberal Party
The Democrat party
The Australian Labour Party
Ralph Nader
Censorship
Channel 7 News
Channel 9 News
Channel 10 News
SBS News
ABC News
Politicians who can be/are bought
My Own Political Party
Misinformed Bigots
Misinformed Morons
Misinformed Political Activists
George Bush (both)
Bill Clinton
Blinky Bill
The New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
That i havent been laid in ages
Christian Fundementalists
Muslim Fundementalists
that howard and bush arent dead yet
the fact that i know a beautiful(bar her smile) 17 year old who is almost 18 and wants to fuck me but i cant stand her intellectually
the fact that i got to 30 things so damned easily
my inability to name things
MSN instant messenger
ICQ instant messenger
children today
children in yesteryear
psychologists who have never heard of MBTI and yet say i have avoidancy issues because i never finish anything
whiney bitches
everyone comparing me to albert einstein just because i can read and i revel in it.
everyone who isnt me
goodyear's new tires that i almost broke my knife on
the goodyear tires that i DID break my knife on
chihuhaus (the only creature on this planet mosquitos included who are damned to hell at conception)
fat women who call themselves beautiful
fat guys who call themselves buff
women in general
men in general
any car without a v10 engine
4WD's without bullbars
software that says it is compatable with operating systems and isnt
operating systems that will not load up exactly as they are supposed to
microsoft
dell computers
micheal dell
the fact that i went past 50 and didnt even notice, i should stop now but i really want to keep going.
people who are patriotic to parties/banks/nations/companies that are not loyal to them

[matthew0028]

The phrase "the exception that proves the rule"

[Shai Gar]

oh yes, thank you daughter of eve i forgot a few


fashion industry
girls who change wardrobes every season because of the fashion industry
fashion magazines
fashion television shows
reality television shows
sarah-marie from big brother
everyone else from big brother except for johnathan (the one guy i liked, because he pissed everyone else off)
daughterofeve
fast food joints
the fact that big macs arent really big
the fact that to get a burger that is the same size as a burger from my local fish and chips shop that costs 4 dollars i have to spend $13.65 to recreate it at hungry jacks (burger king for you yanks)
yanks
poms
mexicans
mexican'ts
the french
ze germans
the scots
irish people i meet at national parks who think they are better drinkers than me because they are irish and then they back down when i start drinking bicardi (700ml) straight from the bottle with no chaser.
the limited number of emoticons
the people who use emoticons
people who really do know better but defend the republican party anyway just to piss me off
i dont own a porsche 906, or a 2003 peugeot 4002
i own a honda scooter that is my age (21)
that i have already clocked up 75 reasons to bitch to my friends, and that i can make one of those bitches last at least an hour
that my mate had his ps2 stolen and another mate had his xbox with his/dalans/my morrowind games saved on it.
that i cannot gain enough employment to rekick my business building excercises off the ground
that i cannot find a fence for the DVD Burner i found, or the car CD player without cords that i found.
that i have spent the last few years studying international relations and i have not got a degree, and my years of study do not matter towards a degree even if i went for one
that asis and asio requires a minimum 3 year degree
my hair

[Shai Gar]

this is just a quickie because i have to go watch the phantom of the opera at the cinema in a moment (i am sure that will give me new ideas)


the fact that everyone knows my name at the pirate.planetarion.com forums and i have been a friend to nearly every moderator there at one time or another, that i have been a regular known character there since janurary 01 (almost four years ago, for you texans in here :D) and yet i am still ban on sight in there.
that i can get around those bans so easily and even when they place them on my ISP i can dodge them
that the admin once banned everyone in australia just to keep me out, and then unbanned everyone in australia because one of his moderators came from here
the fact that kurashima(forumcoder) told me he was going to displace jammyjim(forumadmin) and make me a mod and it never happened
that kurashima didnt get banned for it
mexican hairless dogs
games that i download that cost 64mb and they dont work when i have downloaded them

[Nindy]

Blinky Bill
MSN instant messenger
children today
women in general
men in general
1- Hey, I liked Blinky when I was little, lol.
2- MSN rocks.
3/4- Thank you for being bugged by me, and thanks again. (as a female adolescent I count myself in both the children and women section)
5- I can understand that you're bugged by yourself, yes.:)

[Seraph]

1. Small children
2. Babies
3. The word "mum" (British slang)
4. Sexhounds
5. Liberals
6. Conservatives
7. Women who take too long in public restrooms
8. Men who piss on the toilet
9. Guys whose pants hang down so far you can see their boxers
10. Tube tops
11. Those tops that make you look like you're pregnant...I forget what they're called, but they suck
12. ESTJ's
13. The fact that extroverts rule the world
14. People who can't spell
15. Teenagers who try too hard to rebel
16. The band Simple Plan
17. Enya
18. Sonic commercials
19. Hugs
20. Oust commercials
21. Stereotypical housewives
22. Sluts
23. Dirty old men
24. How bananas, apples, and avocados spoil in record time
25. Milk, and all the ads for it
26. People who can't hold a decent conversation
27. Nazi teachers who squelch your potential
28. Lame movies (Superbabies, Son of the Mask, Fat Albert)
29. Lame movie sequels (Bridget Jone's Diary 2, Meet the Fockers)
30. Mondays

[daughterofeve]

oh yes, thank you daughter of eve i forgot a few


daughterofeve
yanks
the people who use emoticons
people who defend the republican party
George Bush
Christian Fundementalists
everyone who isnt me
microsoft


Wow.. I've been here less than a month, and already i'm making enemies.. or just annoying people profusely! 8O

Yes, I'm an American, I use emoticons alot, am planning to register as a republican, I believe that Goerge Bush is doing a great job as the President of the US, I am a Christian (and you probably would label me a fundementalist, though I don't like that term), I'm one of the billions of people that isn't Shia Gar, I use a microsoft computer.

[booyalab]

Wow.. I've been here less than a month, and already i'm making enemies.. or just annoying people profusely! 8O

Yes, I'm an American, I use emoticons alot, am planning to register as a republican, I believe that Goerge Bush is doing a great job as the President of the US, I am a Christian (and you probably would label me a fundementalist, though I don't like that term), I'm one of the billions of people that isn't Shia Gar, I use a microsoft computer.

You don't annoy me! try harder!

[file cabinet]

sure some stuff bug/irritate me but not enough to make a list.

[Shai Gar]

you dont have me as an enemy, you merely bug me sometimes
now i went to see the phantom of the opera last night and i came back with these things that bug me

the fact that i cant find anything in the movie that bugged me
teenagers who think that TPOTO is a chance to make out noisily while i am listening to the music i love
teenage girls who think that TPOTO is a chick flick
teenage girls who say a quarter of the way through TPOTO "isnt this over yet?"
teenage boys who dont shut their mentally retarded girlfriends up
assault is illegal
so is murder
even in defence of a brilliant movie that they are talking/making out through
teenagers in general
teenage boys who dont shut the hell up during the opening sequence
teenage boys who try to insult you for crying at a masterpeice
teenage boys who blubber after you punch them into the cinema wall
teenage girls who try to defend their boyfriends with slaps
teenage girls who yell when i punch them too. (sexual equality people)
the fact that that the cinema wont hold that movie for a few more years just so i can watch it every week
christian fundementalists who dont like the term christian fundementalists :D
american spellings of english words
Enya
hugs
kisses on the cheek (unless they proceed either to my dick or mouth)
holywoods insistence on dumbing down otherwise enjoyable movies so that children can see them without their bitchy parents complaining
sheila brolfwaski (spelling?)
fat girls in tight clothing
people who insist on touching me when i damned well know it is NOT going to lead to sex
people who say they are italian when they were born in australia, so were their parents, and grandparents, they have never even left the country and they dont have dual citizenship.
the mafia (quite like the yakuza)
FBI
ATF
DHS
SecretService and Schutzstaffel

[daughterofeve]

you dont have me as an enemy, you merely bug me sometimes

16. christian fundementalists who dont like the term christian fundementalists :D
17. american spellings of english words
lol.
Well.. I don't like having enemies anyway, so i'm glad of that :-)

oh.. like theatre and colour and cheque...
yow! i started looking at a list of all those words spelled differently.. that's alot of words!


You don't annoy me! try harder!
Hmm.. I could start spouting off bible verses if you like :P

[Shai Gar]

heh bible verse quoting is fun to annoy people

[TraditionalNonconformist]

I’ve been reminded of a few:

pompous asses that don’t shut up
R.E.M.
Dave Matthews
Having to go to sleep
Having to wake up
conservative wackos
liberal wackos
my old self
my current self
mood-altering drugs – don't tell me how to feel!
Star Wars
artificial lens-flares
hackneyed gimmicks – not that I don't do this
making an ass of myself (frequently. Currently?)
the inefficiencies of the English language (oops, i after e 'cept after c!)
adding unnecessary vowels to words. Colour? Bah!
small talk
people that think their genes deserve to be passed on
that I'm socially inept
that I read slow
that I write slow
that I don’t know how to express myself except through cynicism and apathy
that I enjoy cynicism and apathy a little too much
shaving
"cool" shoebox SUVs
that ignorance is not bliss

anyway, I try not to care what other people do as long as I can ignore it and it only hurts themselves but I still find their behavior funny and confusing.

[songbird36]

I'm extraordinarily upset by the excessive use of dot points

[Crazy]

OK, here is my list.

1. Making Lists
2. Thinking about things that bug me
3. Anything made of matter
4. Anything not made of matter
5. Idiots
6. Morons
7. closed-minded persons


I'm sure I could come up with alot more, but it is starting to bug me. Also, if anyone was wondering, yes, I do fall into at least one of those catagories, and yes, I bug myself too.

[Shai Gar]

people who spell incorrectly on purpose, simply to be efficient (ppl 4 u luv)

[indie]

Well, it's not much, but here's mine:
people who turn into the wrong lane when making a left turn
those who do not appreciate the genius of bands like Morrissey and REM
shameless worshipers of the TV program Friends
commercials for makeup and shampoo


:)

[songbird36]

women's magazines
dripping taps
infomercials
ex husbands...

(just for starters)

[hemanthraz]

1. People who claim im not sensitive to their feelings
2. People who refuse to debate and take up sides
3. My boss
4. Love stories with happy endings
5. People who ask if cant be normal for atleast sometime
6. People who manipulate me into doing things
7. People who dont understand sarcastic comments
8. People who smile all the time for no apparent reason
9. Motivational book writers and readers
10. Pretentious movies
11. Overly patriotic people
12. Aliens in movies [ the ones in books are usually a saner and more peacefull lot]

lots more but i hate
13. Typing long messages

[Mr. Good Beats]

1. The government
2. People who whine about the governemnt
3. Democracy
4. People who whine about the government but do not realize their democratic right give them the power to change it
5. People who are intent on staying ignorant
6. People who can't let an introvert be
7. People who expect one to smile all of the time
8. Method Man went hollywodd (or tried)
9. Pot is illegal
10. Idiots that think pot should be illegal
11. People in general
12. The fact that girls will not approach a guy
13. One can not get a BJ and just be left alone
14. People who think I have a problem and want to 'help' me (fucking roommate)
15. People who are ignorant as hell, but think their big shit (fucking roomate)
16. When I forget to write a word down because i think i already have
17. That communism will never work
18. Organzied religion
19. People who preach (teachers, idiot roommates, etc)
20. Referring to rap music as crap music and finding it amusing
21. People who refuse to get to know you, but think they do
22. That this list is entertaining me right now
23. Cigarettes are legal
24. Thinking cigarettes should be legal and not pot
25. Thinking because one does not smile he is an asshole
26. That i haven't been laid in forever
27. The pope
28. God
29. Televangelists
30. People who stare back
31. Not being high right now
32. That fact that it bugs that I am not high right now
33. I work all weekend long
34. Im broke
35. Shit still needs to be done before I get my expensive little piece of paper
36. Thinking grades actually matter
37. Thinking university actually matters
38. Society
39. Extroverts that have to talk to everybody
40. Especially when you do everything to not talk to them
41. Small talk
42. Inane conversation as intellectual conversation
43. Close-mindedness
44. Other people's messes
45. More resources are wasted trying to repress 'free' speech instead of guns or other bullshit
46. Sean combs
47. Garbage marketed rap (thank god for mos and kweli)
48. 'Pop' music
49. Slutty girls under the age of 25
50. Kids that act grown-up
51. That there are other people besides me on the planet
52. Im not secluded on Hawaii
53. that I can not kick the living shit out of kids that act grown-up

That's enough, this could go on forever.

[jyakulis]

6. People who can't let an introvert be


Agreed. Take my ESTJ roomate lecturing me on my history of being aloof and it being an issue with people. And that's a problem why..........? I keep to myself I don't see how not bothering people annoys them lol it baffles the mind. I mean I put up with his need to blurt out EVERY insignificant irrelevent thought he has and don't complain. The kid never god damn shuts up. Maybe I should start telling him all his non-aloofness is annoying me.

[jyakulis]

1. Slow walkers
2. Gross unkept feet
3. People that have gross unkept feet but still fill the need to torture me by wearing sandles
4. People that walk on the left side of things thus confusing the whole system of keeping to the right.
5. Joe Piscapo
6. Baldwins
7. Late nite talk show hosts other than Conan (Dave has his moments)
8. A further extension of 7: Carson Daly
9. N00bs in any context
10. fake people
11. money grubbing wenches
12. Bands that formulated there name from something a cashier said to them aka here's your NICKLEBACK
13. Extension of 12: bands that openly attack the guitar work of a good meaniful band: Soundgarden Apparently Soundgarden's guitar work is just too muddy for the krogers
13. Further extension of 12: The kroger brothers
14. Highly liberal people
15. Highly conservative people
16. People that call me dumb for blatenly using my Pittsburgh accent. Even though I use it strictly for personal amusement and nothing more
17. Television
18. That red headed chic comedian I forget her name but I wanna strangle her
19. Rosie O'loudmouth
20. People that tell me what to do
21. Action movies that follow the formula of a tough hard nosed white male in the leading role with a zany loud mouth black man side kick and a cop that just seems to get in their way
22. Real hippies
23. People that bitch that you never talk to them yet make no effort to reach you themselves
24. Any restaraunt that follows the TGI Fridays make up aka dingbats applebees flingers whatever you get the idea
25. Mcdonald's new late night menu
26. Sting's persistent butchery of classic police songs. The last debachery with none other than sean paul
27. extension of 26: sean paul
28. New school rap
29. People that are honestly really into new school rap
30. Cold weather
31. Second rate guitar solos
32. Religious freaks
33. The fact heather locklear isn't ever gonna ask me to marry her
34. The last two star wars movies
35. This commercial with george bush and bill clinton asking for money i'm watching right now lol
36. major league baseball
37. extension of 36: the yankees
38. allergies
39. People that opt for blue cheese over ranch
40. all the time i wasted thinking of this stuff

[Mr. Good Beats]

I can't believe I forgot the thing that bugs me the most: These goddamned canadian winters

[L. Bartholomew]

how bout:
people (especially those that don get it that you hate them or that you want them to leave you alone.)
gay people that feel the need for everyone to know and then get all indignant when people don't "accept" them
people who make a big scene of their emotions so that everyone will feel sorry for them
ummmmm... wow. people suck.

[booyalab]

how bout:
people (especially those that don get it that you hate them or that you want them to leave you alone.)
gay people that feel the need for everyone to know and then get all indignant when people don't "accept" them
people who make a big scene of their emotions so that everyone will feel sorry for them
ummmmm... wow. people suck.

I agree with everything but people in general.

I'll do one more, people who use faulty inductive reasoning. (i.e. whiney people suck, therefore all people suck)