Stuff that REALLY annoys you.

Ollie · Post by **Ollie** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:10 pm 0

Cyclists who think that red traffic lights don't apply to them.

Also (for balance), motorists who think that red traffic lights don't apply to them.

The ghost of raids past · Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:47 pm 0

Bus lanes sitting totally empty ot containing a bus with 2 people sitting on it, while the road they run alongside is choked with cars

ddraig · Post by **ddraig** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:56 pm 0

Ollie wrote:
Also (for balance), motorists who think that red traffic lights don't apply to them.

Thats funny, I just saw a car casually drive through a red light this lunchtime, while I was crossing the road at an intersection..at least he paused for me to make it across the zebra crossing

It was right near a cop shop too.

Some of my pet hates are minivan drivers in general (the ones that drive like nobs I mean), and people who drive in the fast lane and dont get over, despite not going that fast. That happens in Michigan quite a lot. I go into Canada and everyone seems a lot more considerate of fellow drivers and the fact that just an easy turn of the power steering allows them to get over without much effort at all.

Harlequin · Post by **Harlequin** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:08 pm 0

A related one...

Drivers who do not stop for me at zebra crossings, especially those who drive past with mobile phones in their hands.

mamemeister · Post by **mamemeister** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:11 pm 0

People who look at you like you're a pervert when you smile at them.

People who cant say thank you when you hold a door open for them.

sack · Post by **sack** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:11 pm 0

drivers who use their indicators in the following manner:

1) turn corner
2) nearly hit cyclist/pedestrian/other driver
3) turn indicator on
4) question, whilst using obscenities, the perceptiveness of the party nearly hit - after all they should've known you were turning by virtue of the fact your indicator was turned on (..eventually).

Next person to do that to me will be walking around for the remainder of the day with an indicator stalk rammed up their arse and if they really piss me off the airbag will still be attached to it which will provide amusement as i kick them in the bollocks to trigger it

Cloudane · Post by **Cloudane** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:23 pm 0

Crossings that take so long between pressing the button and actually taking effect that even on a mega-busy road you find a safe gap in the traffic before it finally pulls its digital finger out and activates. So you're already across the road and a couple of hundred yards away when you hear the "peep peep peep!" and feel really guilty knowing how annoying it is to be in a car waiting at a crossing with nobody in sight.

Thus you get the eternal dilemma of "do I annoy people by not pressing the button and just waiting for a gap, or do I annoy them by pressing it and crossing before it's activated?"

Females who are all two-faced or play coy or whatever. One minute they're all sweet and smiling and flirting, then when you hint that you particularly like them they pretend not to hear you. You try to ask them out and they skirt the issue. Then they'll talk to you again as if nothing ever happened and let you flirt with them a bit and lap up the attention, and then the next day completely ignore you. Look, I LIKE you. I'm just an ordinary nice guy, not really after getting into your pants, nothing malicious, I just like you. So why treat me like crap and mess with my mind? You don't have to like me back if you don't feel that way - just say you're flattered but not interested, hell just tell me to feck off and die, it'd still be less hurtful!

Heaven forbid you actually agree to go out for a simple coffee or something. I mean I plucked up the courage to ask you out, don't I even get the coutesy of a "no"?

No wonder homosexuality is becoming more popular. Guys are so much more open and honest.

kalmar · Post by **kalmar** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:30 pm 0

Harlequin wrote:A related one...

Drivers who do not stop for me at zebra crossings, especially those who drive past with mobile phones in their hands.

A good slap to the roof with the flat of the hand will often amuse..

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:45 pm 0

The ghost of raids past wrote:Bus lanes sitting totally empty ot containing a bus with 2 people sitting on it, while the road they run alongside is choked with cars

Yeah. Those car drivers really annoy me too.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:46 pm 0

kalmar wrote:
Harlequin wrote:A related one...

Drivers who do not stop for me at zebra crossings, especially those who drive past with mobile phones in their hands.
A good slap to the roof with the flat of the hand will often amuse..

Conversely, peds who just stroll blithely out onto light-controlled crossings even when the man is clearly red and the light is clearly green (nearly scored a dopey woman doing just that driving back through Ireland).

Harlequin · Post by **Harlequin** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:47 pm 0

Cloudane wrote:Females who are all two-faced or play coy or whatever. One minute they're all sweet and smiling and flirting, then when you hint that you particularly like them they pretend not to hear you. You try to ask them out and they skirt the issue. Then they'll talk to you again as if nothing ever happened and let you flirt with them a bit and lap up the attention, and then the next day completely ignore you. Look, I LIKE you. I'm just an ordinary nice guy, not really after getting into your pants, nothing malicious, I just like you. So why treat me like crap and mess with my mind? You don't have to like me back if you don't feel that way - just say you're flattered but not interested, hell just tell me to feck off and die, it'd still be less hurtful!
Heaven forbid you actually agree to go out for a simple coffee or something. I mean I plucked up the courage to ask you out, don't I even get the coutesy of a "no"?
No wonder homosexuality is becoming more popular. Guys are so much more open and honest.

That is, regrettably, largely untrue in my experience. I have experienced the same behaviour from blokes a great many times. I doubt that many women, however, react as aggressively as many men do when they have no attraction to your gender.

kalmar wrote:
Harlequin wrote:A related one...

Drivers who do not stop for me at zebra crossings, especially those who drive past with mobile phones in their hands.
A good slap to the roof with the flat of the hand will often amuse..

They are too fast for me, especially as this tends to happen when my hands are full of carrier bags.

skip · Post by **skip** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:49 pm 0

The complete bullshit sequence of steps required to copy photos from my camera and put them in the right place even though I've set the preferences for this numerous times. The incomprehensible inability to set the photos to auto delete. The stupidity of bundling heaps of photo software that although individually are okay, all have their flaws and don't always work nicely together. Picasa, although quite nice, also is flawed.

Fucking Windows - plug and play my arse.

I want a Mac now even though I can't afford one for another month

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 11:02 pm 0

I find a good rule of thumb is just not to install software that come with cams, explorer is good enough with picking up cams and moving the pics about and nothing beats a properly organised folder structure.

Kamineko · Post by **Kamineko** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 11:03 pm 0

People who are crap at stuff which is trivial. (I don't mean stuff which is trivial to me, I mean stuff that is trivial. Really trivial.)

Those danged terrorists.

Bus stops where buses don't.

Being 'ahead of the curve'... I guess that's the correct term. You hear about something, then two weeks later nobody will shut up about it. Man, you have no idea how much I love not being at school any more.

"Objection!"

skip · Post by **skip** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 11:11 pm 0

Spirit wrote:I find a good rule of thumb is just not to install software that come with cams, explorer is good enough with picking up cams and moving the pics about and nothing beats a properly organised folder structure.

I'm figuring out that I shouldn't have bothered installing the software...or at least the gf shouldn't have...

Half the reason I'm frustrated is that I am rather obsessive about file structure being 'just right', yet the software is doing it's best to mess with it. I've much preferred the previous 5 years when I've ben 98% on a Mac *sigh*

Using 2K on this box, it's only for an interim period though while I'm sans Mac. And the work PC I'll be getting soon is a very recent XP laptop, so soon I'll have the best of both worlds.