Annoying Social Habits of people you've met

[Turbo Lag]

The usual pack of 14y old girls in Shopping Centres who have to take photos of themselves. I know many girls like this, annoys the crap outta me.

 

[Blackbird.]

The usual pack of 14y old girls in Shopping Centres who have to take photos of themselves. I know many girls like this, annoys the crap outta me.

That and sometimes even younger than that with phones jabbering away almost everyone in the group is either doing said above and texting or talking on their cellphones. Sheesh, I had to wait awhile longer then that for a phone. Plus not to stereotype but usually everyone little kid I see like that is one of the snobbiest kids i've seen/met.

 

[GT Pro]

- Straight Edge

As much as it can be annoying that people proclaim proudly that they fit the description of 'Straight Edge', I'll admit that I fit the description as well.

And on the phone topic as well, any kid under the age of 16 playing on their mobile phones be it outside in public or inside in the classroom I dislike. Especially when using them inside, and checking them for 'messages' from all their 'friends' every damn minute - you're in a classroom to learn, to gain an education that will serve to foster your future and your success. Simply throwing away the tens of thousands of dollars your parents pay on school fees per year in the hope that you will be able to craft a future for yourself is just immoral.

 

[Diego440]

- The assumption that because you run in a marathon means you're somehow better than everyone else.

From that one, I'll say people who study or have graduated in engineering/medicine/architecture and assume they're the smartest people on the planet.

The key point is asking them the difference between blurring a picture with the blur tool or with the gaussian blur.

also:
- Men who shave their legs for social reasons rather than sporting.
- earrings on any part of the face that is not the ear, tthe nose, the lip, the tongue or the eyebrow (i.e. the mustache, or below the lips, or just in random places around the cheek)

 

[Turbo Lag]

That and sometimes even younger than that with phones jabbering away almost everyone in the group is either doing said above and texting or talking on their cellphones. Sheesh, I had to wait awhile longer then that for a phone. Plus not to stereotype but usually everyone little kid I see like that is one of the snobbiest kids i've seen/met.

Agreed 100%. Although I did get a phone when I was 9, since I had to take much responsibility at a young age. I don't think what you said is a stereotype, it's about true. The kids have absolutely no respect for anybody else, and always invade privacy and must be 'loud' and annoying. I hate the little kids who swear on trains, play music outloud with their phones and hog the space.

 

[Blackbird.]

Agreed 100%. Although I did get a phone when I was 9, since I had to take much responsibility at a young age. I don't think what you said is a stereotype, it's about true. The kids have absolutely no respect for anybody else, and always invade privacy and must be 'loud' and annoying. I hate the little kids who swear on trains, play music outloud with their phones and hog the space.

Ah! Which brings me to my next one:
- When I'm at school at break/lunch/going to next class there's always some kid with iPod speakers in their backpack or their hands blaring Rap... Always rap. Sometimes I'd love to bring some speakers in there and blast some In Flames or some kind of metal. Of course that'd be hypocritical and just as well 90% of my school enjoys rap so i'm only one of the 10% that find it annoying.

 

[Diego440]

- People who have aggressive dogs and walk them on a very loose leash, or sometimes without a leash, and when you're walking yours with a friggin' leash!, they just warn you about their dog.
- People who own very coward dogs and don't use a leash, that when another dog comes to play, they start whimpering and running away... and then the owners get mad at you and your dog for scaring said dog away.
- People who don't pick up their dog's poop.

- Americans who all of a sudden start typing words in British English (i.e. programme, theatre, colour, neighbour) to appear more... bohemian?

 

[Turbo Lag]

All the way with you, IMO rap is rubbish. Another one, people who think they know more about something than you, when you clearly know well that you know more. For example, people who argue cars with me at school simply cannot face that their dream car (Usually a Skyline GT-R, a bit of a stereotype) isn't good at some points. It's either that or "MY BUgaTi iz bettar than evarythang!!!1". It's Goddamned annoying.

 

[Greycap]

- Men who shave their legs for social reasons rather than sporting.

Adding to that, men that dress like girls, act like girls, are impossible to distinguish from the girls... and I'm not talking about transsexuals here. It may be fashion now but I can't stand it.

 

[Turbo Lag]

- People who have aggressive dogs and walk them on a very loose leash, or sometimes without a leash, and when you're walking yours with a friggin' leash!, they just warn you about their dog.
- People who own very coward dogs and don't use a leash, that when another dog comes to play, they start whimpering and running away... and then the owners get mad at you and your dog for scaring said dog away.
- People who don't pick up their dog's poop.

+1. I have a local park near me, it's always full of people with their dogs not on leashes and you can never go there without stepping on some crap.

 

[GT Pro]

Agreed 100%. Although I did get a phone when I was 9, since I had to take much responsibility at a young age. I don't think what you said is a stereotype, it's about true. The kids have absolutely no respect for anybody else, and always invade privacy and must be 'loud' and annoying. I hate the little kids who swear on trains, play music outloud with their phones and hog the space.

And the abhorrent fact is that there are now so many of them. Less and less can you find a teenager with a sense of respect for others, and if you live in Melbourne, and thus have been atleast once to the prime area of said pitiful teenage immaturity you will know what I mean.

Even people my age are still showing signs of it, and they don't even go to a public school where the only ounce of respect seen is the... oh, wait, there isn't any. At all. 👎

 

[Blackbird.]

- Americans who all of a sudden start typing words in British English (i.e. programme, theatre, colour, neighbour) to appear more... bohemian?

Honestly the more you're on this board the more you use it just without noticing... Sorry!

Turbo Lag: Yeah that's kind of a pet peeve of mine if they're right then they're right but when I try to tell them otherwise when I know it's true... usually a car. They try to deny it and won't take my word for it. So usually I just use the internets for proof then they just say whatever. This is usually my family by the way who challenge me. I'm usually good for modern cars, i'm ok with my classic/muscle cars but my dad knows nearly everything about the car once he glances at it haha!

And the abhorrent fact is that there are now so many of them. Less and less can you find a teenager with a sense of respect for others, and if you live in Melbourne, and thus have been atleast once to the prime area of said pitiful teenage immaturity you will know what I mean.

It's usually the girls too. Sure us guys are good for doing the stupid crap. But girls are the ones that have the bad attitudes and immature. We're (mostly) immature for our actions.

 

[killer450235]

And now for a bit of self-loathing... There is one thing I catch myself doing that I kind of find annoying. When people call me by my name and then ask me a question, my answer is always, "What?-- Oh, [answer]." It's like the "What?" is a reflex and I can't always shake it. It's weird.

Anyway, onto the habits of others:



- Making false correlations.
- Inferring causation from correlation.

and three I encountered tonight at the fights:

- People who listen to loud music, or think the louder, the better.
- Crowding around bands/their speakers playing deafeningly loud music.
- Yelling "Hit him!" at a boxing match.

So you REALLY went out of your way to tell me that?Nice.

 

[Turbo Lag]

Those little kids have a lack of a brain and conscience. They don't have a clue of personal space whatsoever. Lucky for me, I've somehow managed to go to a good primary school where most kids are taught this. Nearly all of the guys from my school, who now go to the same High School, always end up getting awards for being 'good' etc.

Woops, overread your comment's Blackbird. Nobody in my family likes cars at all. They just know them because they are...basically a part of normal life these days.

 

[G.T]

- People who talk loudly on phones on the bus, made even more annoying if they're talking about personal things.
- The same as above but talking to friends sitting next to them
- 12 year old kids playing violent video games yelling down their mics.
- When my friend whines up his girlfriend while she was driving her car with me and another friend in the back. He knows she becomes a very aggressive unsafe driver when annoyed, and annoyed her anyway.
- When a friend complains about lack of money to go around my house/go where I want to go when I've paid a lot several times to go around their's. Even after I've offered money.
- Stupid people with little common sense. Not that I know many like that anymore, but I used to.
- Mine's_GTR's no. 2 point - I have that exact conversation with a few people occasionally.

 

[Loon]

*People who whine and complain. Somethings I can understand, but I really don't like it if a group of us are working or something and people are complaining about how hard something is or how much of a pain it is. Get over it, I am.

*People that complain about not having any money, but are always spending what little they have on useless stuff. I have no sympathy at all.

 

[F1GTR]

- People that ask if I can do a shoot/create a poster for free since "they don't have that much money." Yet you're organising an expensive party at an expensive club? Ok then.

- Apple Stores.

 

[Pupik]

• People who say "...Is that MySpace? Lemme see your MySpace page!" every time you are in front of a computer. Do people not realize there's about 1 billion registered domains, most of which are far more entertaining? And that I'm 34 years old and not running for public office, nor selling my talents and therefore do not have nor need a MySpace page?

• Adults who insist on touching things on your desk (or car, or home, on your person). They need to touch everything you own (your cell phone, camera, book, pen...) and you don't know even them well. We're not at a children's museum.

• People who claim things are wrong, fake, re-used, and have NO proof to back up their statements. Saying "It's true!" does not automatically qualify your statement. If that's the case, I'm the Boogey Man, fear me.

• People who are obsessively negative or positive, and want to drag you down to their level by attacking everything you say. Take your smug ideas and write a book, don't force it on me.

• People who ask you for the truth but can't handle it, even when stated in the most diplomatic, politically-correct, and G-rated manner. These people probably still wet their bed.

• People who smoke or run their car's engine at a gas station. If your kids can't handle 5 minutes at a gas station without a DVD player running and A/C, please turn them over to the state, because you're a lousy excuse of a parent who failed Chemistry.

• People who believe that talking on your cell phone at a gas station is somehow even more dangerous than the above scenario. These people should not be allowed to handle an automobile, since they have no clue how it works, and probably still believe in ghosts.

• People who spit on the floor, and are not choking. Go die. Now.

• People who say "..that's how we do it in/at ___..." to excuse piss-poor behavior. Tough crap, welcome to Florida, here's the law, read it here, or read it in a jail cell. "It's not where you're from, it's where you're at."

• People who would rather spend 5 minutes chiding you for a nearly-pointless mistake or typo rather than taking the 10 seconds it takes to fix it. As a suitable revenge, I'll be pleased to take them to the airport when they're in a hurry, and forget how to get there.

 

[Joey D]

- People who think you have to buy an American car even though many American cars are built in other places around the globe. They are also the same people who will kill you if you buy a Honda Civic even though it's built in Ohio.

- People who say something is "fake" or "photoshopped" all the time on the net, the DYSAGT thread has this occasionally. If it has a Porsche GT2 bumper, wheels, spoiler, badge, etc. then it's probably a GT2, not a 911 with several thousand in body work.

- Elitist people who criticise you for having political beliefs other than their own and immediately think you are wrong for having them because you haven't read eighty books on the subject...my class on the Cold War were full of these people.

- People who think others from another culture as wrong for what they do even though the people being criticised live in their own country thousands of miles away.

- Bible Thumpers, if I need to find Jesus all the time then he really should consider getting a Garmin.

- People who think science is wrong.

- People who assume I should be able to do anything and everything because I have money, and on the same token belittle me when I don't give them, charity, or really anyone other then myself some of it.

- Blind fanboys.

- People who think one product = God....alla Mac's, GT-R, PS3/360, etc.

 

[Alex.]

Danoff, what's wrong with rap music? rap songs can be as deep and meaningful (abliet idiotic and meaningless with some examples) as any other song.

 

[Omnis]

Danoff, what's wrong with rap music? rap songs can be as deep and meaningful (abliet idiotic and meaningless with some examples) as any other song.

Yeah, pretty collectivist there, Danoff. "Rap" is all about content.

So you REALLY went out of your way to tell me that?Nice.

No, I didn't. You just happened to provide me with a perfect example.

 

[TB]

From that one, I'll say people who study or have graduated in engineering/medicine/architecture and assume they're the smartest people on the planet.

I'm married to a nurse, have met plenty of her doctor co-workers and been in numerous meetings with doctors about my son (so on both a professional and social level), I work at an Engineering firm and have a close working relationship with numerous Architects and can absolutely say that they do not think they are smarter than everyone else. At least not around here, anyway.

My annoying social habit - Trying to steal Fatmouse's™ thunder.

 

[Pupik]

My annoying social habit - Trying to steal Fatmouse's™ thunder.

Apparently it came early this year. I've contemplated its retirement...

 

[Joey D]

Danoff, what's wrong with rap music? rap songs can be as deep and meaningful (abliet idiotic and meaningless with some examples) as any other song.

I'm more curious what he thinks is wrong with soccer.

 

[Barracuda]

- Spoiled brats whose parents buy them a nice car and proceed to drive it like a toy. A good example being a kid at my school whose parents bought him a Stage 3 Roush Mustang and from what I've heard hes already almost flipped it.

- People who chew with their mouth open. It's absolutely disgusting and drives me up a wall.

- People who yell at me because I politely ask them to chew with their mouth closed. My dad being the biggest example of this. He knows I can't stand it but still continues to eat with the manners of a bear.

- People who stare at me like I'm going to kill their children. Every time I go into Target I get people that give me strange looks. I've even been standing in line and had a mother slightly look back at me then push her kids in front of her.

 

[Omnis]

I'm married to a nurse, have met plenty of her doctor co-workers and been in numerous meetings with doctors about my son (so on both a professional and social level), I work at an Engineering firm and have a close working relationship with numerous Architects and can absolutely say that they do not think they are smarter than everyone else. At least not around here, anyway.

Yeah, that's true. My grandpa is a doctor, but take him away from medicine and forget about it.

The only people who think they're smarter than everyone else are tenured college professors.

- People who stare at me like I'm going to kill their children. Every time I go into Target I get people that give me strange looks. I've even been standing in line and had a mother slightly look back at me then push her kids in front of her.

They're afraid you'll find out that their children chew with their mouths open.

 

[exigeracer]

Cheapskates. I've worked retail for a while, and there's always someone who finds a loophole or minor discretion that can save them a little money. Sometimes my cashier'll make a mistake charging someone, then they demand the refund. It'll take me 5 minutes, making everyone in the situation angry (me, my cashier, them, every single other customer in line) all for THIRTY FIVE CENTS. Suck it up cupcake, some fights aren't worth it. Or the people order two shots of espresso in the biggest cup available, then go and fill the whole thing up with milk meant for regular coffee drinkers. If you're tight on cash, try cutting the Starbucks entirely.

Loudmouths/exhibitionists. People who yell at strangers from cars, sing loudly with their friends, talk to you/get in your face when you walk by them and their friends, people in bars who think they're in their friend's bedroom and behave stupidly flamboyant. If I'm in a particularly bad mood and someone gets up in my face on the street and I just stop and give them a dirty look they proceed to act like I'm a huge dick for having something wrong with them strolling around singing D.A.N.C.E. in people's faces. Mind your own freaking business.

 

[91hondawagon]

A couple from my personal experience:

• Having all of your friends text each other while they're sitting at the same table in a restaurant.
• People who bring calculators to grocery stores to make sure the checkout clerk gets it right.
• People (mostly females) who fake-cry just to get out of a well-deserved speeding ticket.
• Have religious people make friends with you until you find out they're just trying to convert you to their religion.
• Riding shotgun while my friend drives 60mph in a residential neighborhood while messing with his iPod.
• Those that stereotype a whole group/race of people just because of one bad experience.
• Classmates that don't know what George Bush did wrong, but know that he's evil and Barack Obama needs to be president.
• On that note, supporting Obama just because it's fashionable.
• High-school juniors with new Land Rovers who never go off-roading.
• Those who get all of their political ideas from Fox News or CNN, and then use their "knowledge" to start ridiculous political arguments.
• Without being asked, showing off expensive toys (iPhone, PS3, etc.) just to let you know how rich they are.

And the most maddening one:

When asking for a girl's phone number, you get: "Nah, just find me on Facebook!"

 

[Danster]

My Little list of Pet Hates:
1. Overpaid Employees
2. People who sit in a corner and do nothing but text the person sitting next to them.
3. People who buy overly Expensive watches (ex. £4000/$8000 Rolex)
4. Kids who lack knowledge about the modern world.
5. People who sit in business class on airplanes and think they are superior.
6. Grown Females wearing Soccer strips (UK Problem)
7. 8 Year Old girls with playboy merchandise in thier bedrooms (Growing UK Problem)
8. Elderly People at airports who hold up already sluggish, Qeues
9. Elderly Drivers (Over 75)

You May and Probably will be offended by one of the above.

 

[skynyrd]

Thought of a few more.

Arrogant bosses who think that when you hired on, you also handed over your soul.
People who treat salespeople badly.
People who buy 10 items and then hand over a dozen coupons.
People who think serviceperson = slave.