Memery again?

[flewellyn]

I suppose I'm having more fun creating memeish things than participating in other, prefabricated ones.

So, here we go.

Make a top ten list of things that people do which annoy you.

Answer in comments! :-)

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[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Well, if you don't like them, then just don't respond, neh?

[limpingpigeon.livejournal.com]

10.) Being told I can't do something because I'm a woman (unless that something is "produce sperm")

9.) Having someone "dumb down" a conversation topic because they immediately assume I won't know what they're talking about (i.e.- instead of assuming I'll ask questions if I don't undersatnd something)

8.) Being given a hard time for not being as knowledgable in a subject as another person.

7.) Chew with their mouths open.

6.) Use their car horns for non-emergency situations (the horn is not there for you to express your disgust over the light being red)

5.) General disregard for other people (ex. A woman who continues to wear perfume, even knowing that they have a coworker with an allergy to it)

4.) Being unable to acknowledge that there are valid viewpoints other than their own.

3.) Not putting their cellphones/pagers in "silent" mode when they are at a movie or other performance where the ringing is disruptive.

2.) Answering that ringing phone while still in the theater.

And the number one thing people do which annoy me...

1.) Refusing to realize that I am completely uninterested in having a conversation within an hour of waking up, especially if the conversation involves answering questions.

[eclipsis.livejournal.com]

Oh, what fun!!! (In no particular order)
I hate it when people:
1. Snap at me when I ask a question, but then insist there's nothing wrong.
2. Refuse to help me, or berate me when I need help, but are perfectly willing to call me up when they have a crisis and want my help.
3. on that note, ONLY call me when they need something.
4. Are so desperate to have a converstaion that they sit there on the phone/IRC/ICQ/AIM and respond to everything I say with 'Really'? Or say/type things like, 'Blah blah blah'
5. Have the delusion that I am OBLIGATED to hug them or greet them in some special way that if I don't do, they have the right to get offended and yell my name 50 times until I do. Ugh.
6. Eat the food that I bought for myself and not asking or replacing it.
7. Ask about my Elanor flower tatoo, "Is that real?"
8. Stand me up--I can't handle it when people do that...I lose it
9. Give me sarcastic responses when I've had a bad day and need sympathy.
10. Make me wait on them--either a phone call or a visit. I'd better get chocolate, flowers, and a big apology if I have to wait for someone more than 30 minutes.

That was a great stress reliever, thanks Flew!! ;-D

[eclipsis.livejournal.com]

ooo, crap!
I have to add another one; I know that's 11, but this one jerks my chain:
11. SMOKING when I am EATING!!!! For that matter, smoking within 10 feet of me!!!!!! UGH.

K, done ;-)

[cherrypep.livejournal.com]

Hmm... here we go. Fun fun!

1) Male superiority complex (smirking, condescending, argumentative asshole behaviour).

2) Disagreement by reflex. eg. foreach(statement_heard) { statement_heard.viewpoint.oppose(); }

3) Brandishing utter ignorance as though it were a shield against all evil (many managers do this, as do certain traditional types of women who seem to believe that it is appealing to refuse to learn to wire a plug or delete email even on the fiftieth consecutive day of asking).

4) People who turn up six hours late every single time and provide some terrible explanation about shopping or emailing, when the truth is closer to 'I went to a mate's house to watch the footie, since my mate is more interesting than you are plus I know you're too apathetic to yell at me'.

5) People who ignore me for several years running and then walk up to me going, 'Hi, how's it going? Incidentally, I was wondering if you could - well - my computer seems to be broken, and I was thinking... you like fixing PCs, right?'

6) The willingly gullible in search of a sensation, five second attention span, soundbite types.

7) Tories (traditional British conservatives) and perpetual Microsoft-is-my-friend hyper-capitalist I Scratch Their Backs And They Will Some Day Scratch Mine delusionists.

8) People who eat with their mouths open and drink like ancient plumbing.

9) People who visit my house, rearrange my stuff, read my correspondence and eat the chocolate Easter eggs from my fridge because 'I clearly didn't want it', in the clear knowledge that I am too apathetic to yell at them for it.

10) Those who fall asleep in the middle of watching movies, talking or in the pub - in your company - but miraculously manage to stay awake when other people are also at the event. Those who merely find movies boring, like my mother, are excused on the grounds that sleeping no matter the company is egalitarian...

and of course, 11) People who complain about other peoples' behaviours on yet other peoples' livejournal comments :-)

[parrhesia.livejournal.com]

Annoying things:

Using shorthand that saves the writer a few tenths of a second but causes everyone else who reads it to have to decode it, like " r u goin 2 b l8?"

The use of the word 'girl' to describe women. (Admittedly, sometimes women do this themselves, and I suppose I can't be annoyed by that.) But it can be, and often is, somewhat demeaning. I'm sure most men would not appreciate being called 'boy'.

Gee, that's all I can think of right now. Sorry I couldn't think of ten. Maybe that's a good thing? :)

[momily.livejournal.com]

1. I'm with Kerry: smoke while I am eating.

2. Tailgate me while driving.

3. Drive like an idiot, in general. (that would include lack of turn indicators/lane changes, cutting in front, etc.)

4. Spit in public places.

5. Omit brushing their teeth.

6. Design stupid parking lots.

7. Refuse to accept reality.

8. Call in anonymous, hate-filled screams to the local paper's "Talk to the Times" feature, in which they announce that "Democrats" and "liberals" are ruining the country by being liberal Democrats

9. Refuse to clean up after themselves.

10. Be George W. Bush, Don Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, John Ashcroft, Dick Cheney, or Paul Wolfowitz