Annoying Social Habits of people you've met

[FoolKiller]

I hate it when people ask "How are you" or something similar cause the answer is always "good"

Let's be honest, "What's up?" "How's it going?" "What's going on?" "How are you?" etc are never actually meant to be answered. It is just meant to be a greeting. If you actually attempt to answer the question with something other than your own form of question or a simple "good" they obviously look suddenly uncomfortable.

They were not really asking you a question, rather acknowledging your presence, which they do not care about.

 

[nk4e]

Let's be honest, "What's up?" "How's it going?" "What's going on?" "How are you?" etc are never actually meant to be answered. It is just meant to be a greeting. If you actually attempt to answer the question with something other than your own form of question or a simple "good" they obviously look suddenly uncomfortable.

They were not really asking you a question, rather acknowledging your presence, which they do not care about.

I never knew that...so is "Peace" really a term that could be used for leaving?

 

[FoolKiller]

I never knew that...so is "Peace" really a term that could be used for leaving?

You've never passed someone you knew and you both just kind of nod and say, "What's up?" without stopping to actually talk? Maybe it is a Midwest thing but it happens all the time to me, even at work.

The most conversation I have in this situation is:

Me: Hey, what's up?
Them: Not much.
Me: Cool.

Or

Me: How's it going?
Them: Good. You?
Me: Can't complain.
Them: Nope. See ya!

In either situation neither of us actually stop walking in opposite directions, so the final reply is typically said over the shoulder.


As for the peace thing, as in someone is leaving and they say, "I'm out of here, man. Peace!" I have no clue where that came from, but I have heard things like that or "Peace out" by someone when they are leaving or whatever. I personally don't say it.

 

[Rykon Zero]

I hate it when people ask "How are you" or something similar cause the answer is always "good"

When that happens, I just say "Blarg."

 

[Gil]

I never knew that...so is "Peace" really a term that could be used for leaving?

AS in: "Peace be with you".

I use it and try to mean it for those people that I care for.
Those that I don't have any real feeling for or are new to me get "bye" or some other variant...

Oh, I have another one:
People that bring their dogs to your house uninvited.
I love dogs, but my wife is not that fond of them, Neither are my cats.
She likes them in their own environs where she doesn't have to deal with either end.
IF you live in this town, you'll be home soon. The dog will be okay.
If you live out of town, that's what dog boarding is for.
IF you are a friend, and you ask, I might consider dog-sitting for as long as a weekend, IF and only IF your dog is well behaved, and doesn't annoy my cats too much.

And people that assume that just because you are in health care, you will allow them to hit or threaten you.
IF you are old and senile, you may get A pass.
Otherwise, it may just be a real good thing that we are ALREADY in a hospital.
Keep your hands to yourself!

 

[nk4e]

You've never passed someone you knew and you both just kind of nod and say, "What's up?" without stopping to actually talk? Maybe it is a Midwest thing but it happens all the time to me, even at work.

The most conversation I have in this situation is:

Me: Hey, what's up?
Them: Not much.
Me: Cool.

Or

Me: How's it going?
Them: Good. You?
Me: Can't complain.
Them: Nope. See ya!

Oh, never mind..though sometimes I usually nod my head respectfully.

 

[Steele_obsidion]

OK, I have like 90 and some of them are repeats but still.

1. Cell phones in the movie theater. Turn it off or on vibrate please, and dont TALK ON IT DURING THE MOVIE!!! please take your conversation outside. i dont care that your boyfriends sister is having the baby RIGHT NOW. that doesnt pertain to me, its not my sister, (and it better not be) please take the converation OUTSIDE.

2. Cell phones while driving. Im not against it just when you cant drive while talking. Its been tested (look up the myth busters episode) people drive worse on their cell phone then they do when their drunk in some cases!

3. Merging at the LAST minute. Your not going to get there ANY faster if you merge at the LAST minute. and i sure as hell am NOT going to let you in if you merge at the last possible second.

4. Mini Vans. If you own a Mini van, your just asking to be ridiculed. their ugly and just prove beyond a shadow of a doubt you have NO taste in cars. if you want a van get a VAN.

 

[FoolKiller]

4. Mini Vans. If you own a Mini van, your just asking to be ridiculed. their ugly and just prove beyond a shadow of a doubt you have NO taste in cars. if you want a van get a VAN.

First, do they still make full-size vans for consumer use?

Second, do those vans get the same cost, fuel efficiency, handling, safety features, and options as a mini van?

I think your beef should be with the auto companies for encouraging eth mini van over a full-size van.

Min vans are perfect for people who will often need to move more than four people around but still want the convenience of a car.

Honestly, I have never met someone that finds mini vans to be an annoyance, and didn't have to drive one.

 

[ramchargerQC]

the things that piss me off the most is when someone listen to music and you talk to him and he always says, sorry i dont understand can you repeat?

 

[nk4e]

the things that piss me off the most is when someone listen to music and you talk to him and he always says, sorry i dont understand can you repeat?

If you know that if that person is wearing headphones, wait till that person takes them off or lowers the volume. Easy as pie.

 

[Turbo Lag]

People wearing headphones means that they don't want anyone to talk to them. Atleast that's the message I get.

 

[FoolKiller]

People wearing headphones means that they don't want anyone to talk to them. Atleast that's the message I get.

Except I have had someone in headphones ask me a question, but then when I answer they go, "WHAT?"

 

[bergauk]

I have my headphones to a decent volume to where I can hear people and communicate with them at the same time. But honestly I do have hearing loss in my left eat so I generally do say "WHAT?" when people ask me stuff regardless of whether or not they're on or off.


EDIT: I hate it when people listen to iPod's really loud in class and then when you ask then to turn it off they can't even hear you. Theres no reason to listen to music that loud in a school setting.

 

[Philly]

You've never passed someone you knew and you both just kind of nod and say, "What's up?" without stopping to actually talk? Maybe it is a Midwest thing but it happens all the time to me, even at work.

I think it must be a Midwest thing, at least the "walk-by conversation." I was used to a "sup, man", "sup" walking by in high school so it was pretty alarming when people were asking conversation starters. And I still don't know what to do about the "How's it going" that people give...

As for the peace thing, as in someone is leaving and they say, "I'm out of here, man. Peace!" I have no clue where that came from, but I have heard things like that or "Peace out" by someone when they are leaving or whatever. I personally don't say it.

I generally use it interchangeably with "later" and "see ya" when leaving friends. I'm guessing it came from California, but who knows.

 

[FoolKiller]

And I still don't know what to do about the "How's it going" that people give...

If they are obviously not intending to start a conversation just say, "Can't complain," or " Fine."

Now, if you get further south you can slide in a "Pretty good," or even, "Purty gud." But be careful around the "funny" country boys like my uncle who loves to come back with, "I don't know about good, but you sure ain't pretty."


Or if you want to throw them completely off just give them an, "I'm Sooper! Thanks for asking!"

 

[Steele_obsidion]

Ive just never liked Mini Vans, i have a thing against soccer moms, and in some cases like mine a soccer dad. ugh. the full size vans, DMC makes one, and they have a 15inch tv, a bench seat that folds down into a bed, the only thing they dont have is fuel economy, like 15-18MPG other than that i just think their much cooler than a mini van, or get a van from the 70's with a water bed in the back and a giant dragon painted on the side hahaha

 

[Turbo Lag]

If they are obviously not intending to start a conversation just say, "Can't complain," or " Fine."

Now, if you get further south you can slide in a "Pretty good," or even, "Purty gud." But be careful around the "funny" country boys like my uncle who loves to come back with, "I don't know about good, but you sure ain't pretty."


Or if you want to throw them completely off just give them an, "I'm Sooper! Thanks for asking!"

Sometimes I get really, really annoyed with people like that. I just end up replying with "not very good actually, blah blah blah" and explain my whole problem to them. It sometimes sends a message over to the other person, depending if they're intelligent enough to work it out.

 

[buickgnx88]

Ford, GM, and Dodge still make full size vans, but if people don't plan on towing large boats, hauling more than 8 people, or becoming an electrician, they tend to go for the car based vans, rather than the rougher-riding truck based vans.

 

[Kylehnat]

the things that piss me off the most is when someone listen to music and you talk to him and he always says, sorry i dont understand can you repeat?

The flip-side of that is the person who just starts talking as if you can hear them. All it takes is for you to make eye contact with me, say "hey" or something, and give me 2 seconds to pull an earphone out. That'll save you from having to repeat the question, and save me from having to look like an asshole.

 

[Thiele]

1. Cell phones in the movie theater. Turn it off or on vibrate please, and dont TALK ON IT DURING THE MOVIE!!! please take your conversation outside. i dont care that your boyfriends sister is having the baby RIGHT NOW. that doesnt pertain to me, its not my sister, (and it better not be) please take the converation OUTSIDE.

Haha mum did that once, it was embarrassing.

2. Cell phones while driving. Im not against it just when you cant drive while talking. Its been tested (look up the myth busters episode) people drive worse on their cell phone then they do when their drunk in some cases!

I don't know about where you live, but here it's illegal to talk on a phone while driving (unless it's hands-free, but even that is going to be banned for L and P-platers sometime soon )

3. Merging at the LAST minute. Your not going to get there ANY faster if you merge at the LAST minute. and i sure as hell am NOT going to let you in if you merge at the last possible second.

I'm not sure on this one, here the rules say that whoever is further behind must let the other car merge so if the car in the inside lane (the lane that's being merged into) is further behind than the merging car must slow down and let the merging car in but i'm not sure if that's relevant.

4. Mini Vans. If you own a Mini van, your just asking to be ridiculed. their ugly and just prove beyond a shadow of a doubt you have NO taste in cars. if you want a van get a VAN.

I see lots of minivans around here but i don't think people are too fussed. I certainly don't want one, but i don't care when i see one.

 

[Omnis]

Okay, my English professor is really annoying me. She says "then" more often than valley girls say "like". She's so petite and cute, but it's as if she used to be hardcore valley girl, and then when she became a professor she turned her "like"s into "then"s. My speaking professor from last year would've blown her own brains out by now.

So then this is an example of a typical sentence then, as spoken by my current English professor now then. Maybe then I'm just being OCD about it then, but then it's really grating when you have to listen to it at least 50 times then during a lecture then.

 

[Prosthetic]

"Whats up" conversations are popular here in NorCal too.

As for minivans... My mom has a 97' Dodge Caravan Sport and we only have 4 people, but we used to go on road trips a lot so we needed something big, comfy, reliable and have decent gas mileage. Big check mark next to all of them.

I go to a continuation school and a majority of the people their are "blacks" (don't call me racist here because I'm not) And pretty much every single one talk completely incoherently and saying the N word every second or so for good measure.

 

[BayConRong]

What irritates me is when black people call eachother the N word yet if i go up to him and call him that I get called a racist.

 

[Omnis]

Okay, my English professor is really annoying me. She says "then" more often than valley girls say "like". She's so petite and cute, but it's as if she used to be hardcore valley girl, and then when she became a professor she turned her "like"s into "then"s. My speaking professor from last year would've blown her own brains out by now.

So then this is an example of a typical sentence then, as spoken by my current English professor now then. Maybe then I'm just being OCD about it then, but then it's really grating when you have to listen to it at least 50 times then during a lecture then.

Okay, I found a podcast with her on it. I can tell she's trying hard to supress the "then"s but they still are there.

Check it out: http://podcast.broward.edu/~mminassi/MinassianHigginsCarverCathedral.mp3

 

[Philly]

What irritates me is when black people call eachother the N word yet if i go up to him and call him that I get called a racist.

I think that stems from years of whites calling them that, so it's automatically a racist term from somebody of another race, but obviously a black wouldn't use it derogatorily on another black. In my experience in high school, which was very diverse and I don't think you'd see anything like this in proper West Michigan, when a white person (or whatever) got to be pretty good friends with a black person, then it was OK to use the N word.

 

[Steele_obsidion]

I think that stems from years of whites calling them that, so it's automatically a racist term from somebody of another race, but obviously a black wouldn't use it derogatorily on another black. In my experience in high school, which was very diverse and I don't think you'd see anything like this in proper West Michigan, when a white person (or whatever) got to be pretty good friends with a black person, then it was OK to use the N word.

Here in Ann Arbor, Damn its funky, when i was in High School all it was was N this N that, and the principal was even after people who said it. and he was black! It was foul language he would say, i saw a few kids get in school suspension because of it. I even saw a fight start because of it. but it was "justified" because the kid was white. or so the black kid said. the white kid said it jokingly to his black friend who laughed, while another took offence.

Wow.



I also hate hate hate People OBSESSED with Fashion/Style. as in, i was watching TV, (it was Bravo channel, i was flipping and stopped because...) these "hotter" (good looking by today's standards, not at ALL my taste) girls were pulled over, for not having a license plate on their Hummer (i do believe it was an H2. and they probably worked for the company as the hummer had an all over the car decal.) well they had no license plate.

why you ask?

It didnt look good on the car.

They had no license plate because the California License plate did not look good with the paintjob/decal of the hummer. did they keep the plate IN the hummer? NOOOOO they lost it. and then proceeded to whine and moan because they got a ticket that daddy couldn't get them out of.

Parents are good for somethings, but you shouldnt call your dad every 2 seconds because you got in trouble. you should learn that....

A. Money cant buy everything. Just because daddy owns a Lamborghini doesnt mean you can get out of trouble.

B. Sometimes you just gotta effin deal with life and accept what happened/what you did. insetad of whining and not getting your way.

C. The police can be asses. However, they are just doing their job, there is no reason to throw a fit on the officer because YOU got pulled over instead of the guy going "like 90" in the fast lane a few seconds ago.

D. Learn car maintenance! Just a little goes a LONG way! you sont need to know how to change an alternator or a blower motor, just learn BASIC maintenance! I saw a girl who killed her SUV. the tow truck took like 4 hours to get there, she was stranded, and when they checked it out, she had siezed up the engine because she ran out of oil. she hadnt EVER changed the oil. and the first thing she does... the FIRST thing. "Daddy, can i have a new car?" he said no.

She cried, carried on. whined.

it worked. the @#$%^&*! softie caved and for her birthday (a few weeks later) The 1996 Nissan SUV with a siezed engine (which was in GREAT condition, almost mint btw) got replaced by a BRAND NEW Jag. XK8.

Why?

Why cant i have rich parents?

I could @#$%^&*! get a new car! one that doesnt leak oil!

 

[Thiele]

What irritates me is when black people call eachother the N word yet if i go up to him and call him that I get called a racist.

That happens with aboriginals here...

 

[nk4e]

I think that stems from years of whites calling them that, so it's automatically a racist term from somebody of another race, but obviously a black wouldn't use it derogatorily on another black. In my experience in high school, which was very diverse and I don't think you'd see anything like this in proper West Michigan, when a white person (or whatever) got to be pretty good friends with a black person, then it was OK to use the N word.

I believe that there is different uses for the N word and I think that it is also used it as hateful meaning also.

 

[Simplex 4100U]

I believe that there is different uses for the N word and I think that it is also used it as hateful meaning also.

if you need a definition of the N word, just go watch Michael Witherspoon's special on HBO, he gives a pretty good definition/difference between a Black Man, and a N[fill in the blank].

anyway, what i hate is:

-Prius owners/drivers[Most Chevrolet hybs get more MPG than the Prius]
-Ferrari owners/drivers[i don't think Ferraris could be any more flamboyant looking. they look awesome, but the people driving them need to not look so freaking retarded... and i do mean mentally ill...]
-Little kids on XBOX LIVE[they need to run over. by their parents. seriously. these children are spawn of the freaking devil. if you laugh at a video of a guy being flamed by one of these kids, one of them will find you and make you suffer for absolutely no reason... that's why as soon as they start talking, i quickly mute them, put their rep down, and report them for spamming.]
-Short black kids that think they're pimp[they're just not, and they're annoying as hell. you're not pimp if you need 5 telephone books to see over the damn windshield.]

 

[Omnis]

Michael Witherspoon? You mean John?