What 'bugs' you?

[banquo's_bumble_puppy]

me- hot dog buns that fall apart
telemarketers
spam
obnoxious cell phone users

[Russ]

whiners
10lbs of ego in a 5lb bag
spam
people who drive slow in the left hand lane
people who think the way I am is more worth changing than the way they are. :o




(edit to correct typo)

[Candy]

finger print smudges on the shared computer at work
leaving my car window down when it rains
mean people

[farmerjumperdon]

The propogation of ignorance
Anti-intellectuallism
Humans that prey on other humans
Professional athletes that go on strike (can't seem to make ends meet on a million buck a year)
Organizations that market stuff they know is dangerous and/or addictive to children (oops, that's already covered under humans preying on humans)
Politics as usual (covered 2 or 3 times above)
War (also covered multiple times above)
The sorry state of our educational system
Mosquitos the size of small birds

Given a little time and creative license, I can link these all together; except for maybe the mosquitos. For them, I blame god.

[jfribrg]

The self-importance of the talking heads on those Sunday morning "news" programs

The perpetual mediocrity of my local professional sports teams

That girl down the street when I was in high school who wouldn't go out with me on a date (it was 25 years ago, but it bugged me at the time).

The guy in the cube next to me who desperately needs to take an antihistimine but refuses to and instead sniffles and sneezes all day.

[Russ]

The guy in the cube next to me who desperately needs to take an antihistimine but refuses to and instead sniffles and sneezes all day.

You might want to cut they poor guy some slack. It is possible, if he's like me, that he can't take enough antihistimines to supress all the pollen that bothers him. This time of year I live on a steady diet of scrip antihists and still blow my way through two boxes of Puff's a week. :cry:

[Crazieman]

Spam
Spiders
People who troll politics into non political discussions
Luddites
Being single
Contact lenses falling off my fingers
Self-appointed attitudes
Needles, knives, and other sharp, pointy objects

[Trebuchet]

Taxpayer funded sports stadiums for teams owned by billionaires.
Politicians. All of them.
Pointy-haired management.

[mike alexander]

Anybody who uses the phrase "But the fact is..."

[SeanF]

"irregardless" whenever it's used, and "literally" used metaphorically.

I once heard a radio commercial for a local cell phone provider that said, "Our latest promotion has had customers literally coming out of the woodwork." I just though, I'd pay to see that! :D

[Trebuchet]

"irregardless" whenever it's used, and "literally" used metaphorically.

I once heard a radio commercial for a local cell phone provider that said, "Our latest promotion has had customers literally coming out of the woodwork." I just though, I'd pay to see that! :D

Right, that literally drives me up the wall! :D

And here's another: "News" sources that can't be bothered to check facts before they report them. Becoming more and more prevalent.

And one more: Abuse of the apostrophe. Seems like hardly anyone gets them right, usually inserting them wrongly into plurals. Or as they would say, plural's.

[Maksutov]

"irregardless" whenever it's used, and "literally" used metaphorically.

I once heard a radio commercial for a local cell phone provider that said, "Our latest promotion has had customers literally coming out of the woodwork." I just though, I'd pay to see that! :D
Those must have been awfully small cell phones to be useful to termites... :D

[Maksutov]

-Round hot dog rolls that often rotate onto their side, spilling the toppings. Whatever happened to square-bottomed hot dog rolls? They were common in Connecticut when I was a kid.

-Telemarketers. I just don't answer the phone and let the machine sort 'em out.

-Televangelists. 'nuff said.

-Network TV, prime time, news shows that think what they're doing is as important as the news, cops/lawyers/doctors/situation comedy/"reality"/etc. shows. What Newton Minnow said back in 1961 still applies today. (http://www.quoteworld.org/docs/nmvas328.php)

-Drivers who ride your rear bumper when you're going 5 MPH over the speed limit.

-People who can't go anywhere without constantly talking on their cell phones. I wonder with whom they constantly talked before they were given their little toys?

-People who take up two parking places with one vehicle.

-Movie goers who need constant explosions, car chases, sex, and violence in order to maintain their attention. Character development? What's that?

-Pop-up ads during those few TV shows I actually watch.

-Channel logos in the lower right hand corner (and sometimes in other corners too) that won't go away and seem to be constantly getting bigger. Trio TV (http://www.triotv.com/) is the worst, with a big, obnoxious red logo that takes up about 1/8 of the screen. Watched that channel for about 5 minutes and then quit it permanently.

-TV ads that consist of people staring at you.

-TV ads that are constant speed-ups/slow-downs/quick cuts/flashing. Some of us might actually be interested in information about the product rather than the agency's attempts to create a "mood". Plus for epileptics and migraneurs, the flashing means either a switch to another channel or looking away from the TV.

-People who pick up something in the frozen food section, and then decide they don't want it and leave it...in the canned foods section.

-"New, improved" products that fail to mention what's new and has been improved. Usually on closer examination, the amount of product has gone down, and the price has gone up.

-Workers who expend minimum effort, are sullen and uncooperative, "extend" their breaks (especially smokers), constantly complain about working conditions, and then expect juicy raises when it's review time.

-Individuals who are ignorant and proud of it.

[Gillianren]

rude smokers

that series of awful, awful David Spade commercials wherein it's implied that it's the poor, working schlubs that do phone service work rather than the companies themselves that are at fault

that idiot who called me up yesterday wanting me to help his campaign to "clean up" television

TNT's and Spike's enormous, moving, noise-making ads during shows

the fact that it took my boyfriend six weeks to replace one cable on his computer (which is why I've been gone so long)

"creation science"

the fact that I probably can't get a ride to Orting this weekend to see my friends

moon hoax people

ice bullet people

the fact that it took me three days to weed through six weeks' worth of new threads over at the MythBusters board, literally hundreds of which were repeats of pre-existing threads. (and that is literal--one forum had added over fifty pages of threads.)

people who think bad spelling and grammar are cute

my boyfriend's mother, most of the time

[Andromeda321]

Premeds.
People who deliberately say my name incorrectly after I correct them.

[Nicolas]

People who deliberately say my name incorrectly after I correct them.

I have a French name (my real name) and currently, I live in the Netherlands. Somehow, I can identify with your comment :roll:
(though in many cases, they continue to say it incorrectly without noticing it themselves, or correct themselves after saying it wrong again)

[Jpax2003]

People who can't follow directions.

People who ask for directions than refuse to follow them.

People who get lost and blame the person next to them for their failure to follow directions.

People who spread lies about other people.

Roaches.

[paulie jay]

Telemarketers - these days I just say "Could you hold for a minute?" and when they say yes I place the phone on the coffee table and get back to what I was doing. Had one guy on for 23 minutes before he finally hung up. I figure it's not costing me any money and at least they aren't bothering anyone else if I've got them tied up!

Junk mail - I always ensure that I post their "relied paid" envelopes. If they are going to fill up my mailbox they are at least going to pay the price of an extra postage stamp!

Spam - enough said

Smokers who think that they have rights. If I lit a fire under their bedroom window they'd complain quick enough.

People who won't take responsibility for their lives.

People who don't know the difference between "there", "their" and "they're".

Musicians who don't know the difference between a major 7th, a minor 7th and a dominant 7th.

spelling edit

[Maksutov]

[edit]Musicians who don't know the difference between a major 7th, a minor 7th and a dominant 7th.

spelling edit
How about keyboard, etc., players who think there are only two keys: C Major and A Minor?

[paulie jay]

:lol: =D> :lol:
And the ones who use the "transpose" function on their keyboard so that every song "plays" in the C position regardless of key!

[jrkeller]

People who drive with a cell phone in one hand and a cigarette or lipstick in the other.

Spyware

Spam

Thug Rap and the clothes that go with it.

People who believe in these wild conspiracies, like the moon hoax or the secret NASA transmissions, even though for their theories to work, well established laws of physics must be broken.

The people who support our local school district's proposal to build a 25 million dollar, 12,000 seat football stadium. Even for TX that's a lot.

Several politicians, who I won't name to keep this thread from becoming political.

[Andromeda321]

have a French name (my real name) and currently, I live in the Netherlands. Somehow, I can identify with your comment
(though in many cases, they continue to say it incorrectly without noticing it themselves, or correct themselves after saying it wrong again)

*GASP* I have a French name too!!! :D :D :D Only I don't live that close to France but still: is that an excuse for thinking it's cute to say "yuh-vet" after I've already corrected you on it? :-?

[Maksutov]

have a French name (my real name) and currently, I live in the Netherlands. Somehow, I can identify with your comment
(though in many cases, they continue to say it incorrectly without noticing it themselves, or correct themselves after saying it wrong again)

*GASP* I have a French name too!!! :D :D :D Only I don't live that close to France but still: is that an excuse for thinking it's cute to say "yuh-vet" after I've already corrected you on it? :-?
You should have heard how Yvette Mimieux's name was butchered by Americans back in the early 1960s! :roll:

[collegeguy]

sherdog forum members relating everything to the illuninati.

woowoos and conspiracy theorists who scare people.

The KND (I hate how much my little brother likes them, they are not good role models for kids :x ).

Spam ( I always get lots of it).

The price of college books (they are really expensive).

[Candy]

Getting caught up in a Soap Opera. #-o

[mid]

One word: Processes.

Perfectly normal word, I don't mind it per se. But for some insane reason, managers have taken to elongating the last syllable to Processees. This drives me up the wall at the moment.

[Maksutov]

One word: Processes.

Perfectly normal word, I don't mind it per se. But for some insane reason, managers have taken to elongating the last syllable to Processees. This drives me up the wall at the moment.
Well, you can't grow the business into a lean profit center empowered for the 21st century without shifting the paradigm through the processees required to take it to the next level, you know...

[weatherc]

One word: Processes.

Perfectly normal word, I don't mind it per se. But for some insane reason, managers have taken to elongating the last syllable to Processees. This drives me up the wall at the moment.
Well, you can't grow the business into a lean profit center empowered for the 21st century without shifting the paradigm through the processees required to take it to the next level, you know...

You forgot to mention achieving synergy while creating a win-win that produces actionables that sustain our market position.

Yes, I know people that actually talk like that, and the scary part is that they don't even realize that they're talking like that. That is one thing that bugs me to no end.

Another thing that bugs me is that EVERYONE thinks they can do graphic design. Marketing people, account managers, editors, salespeople, they all think that they know something about design and typography, when most of them haven't even taken one design course in their lives. People won't tell auto mechanics how to do their jobs, or electricians how to do theirs, but they will happily tell a graphic designer, "I think you should use the font Tahoma in this project." Really. I went to college for four years to learn my skill and have ten years of experience in the field. How long did you go to school for design? None? That's what I thought. :roll:

[Maksutov]

One word: Processes.

Perfectly normal word, I don't mind it per se. But for some insane reason, managers have taken to elongating the last syllable to Processees. This drives me up the wall at the moment.
Well, you can't grow the business into a lean profit center empowered for the 21st century without shifting the paradigm through the processees required to take it to the next level, you know...

You forgot to mention achieving synergy while creating a win-win that produces actionables that sustain our market position.

Yes, I know people that actually talk like that, and the scary part is that they don't even realize that they're talking like that. That is one thing that bugs me to no end.

Another thing that bugs me is that EVERYONE thinks they can do graphic design. Marketing people, account managers, editors, salespeople, they all think that they know something about design and typography, when most of them haven't even taken one design course in their lives. People won't tell auto mechanics how to do their jobs, or electricians how to do theirs, but they will happily tell a graphic designer, "I think you should use the font Tahoma in this project." Really. I went to college for four years to learn my skill and have ten years of experience in the field. How long did you go to school for design? None? That's what I thought. :roll:
I get the same feeling when overpaid, executive idiots decide to drop by and tell me, a 30-year professional in quality control, engineering, and assurance, that "Quality is everyone's responsibility."

They get upset when I point out that such dilutions lead to trouble, and, based on years of experience by ISO, the various armed forces, aerospace industries, and others where product quality is often a matter of life or death, that quality is, of course, expected of everyone, that it is everyone's objective, must be part of their training, job skills, and work culture and environment, and something that they are held accountable for, but that the ultimate responsibility lies with the folks who are charged with seeing that quality is achieved and maintained, i.e., us. Everyone contributes, but the buck has to stop somewhere.

To paraphrase a popular saying, "When everyone has responsibility, no one is responsible."

[Argos]

What bugs me? Almost everything in life.

[mid]

they will happily tell a graphic designer, "I think you should use the font Tahoma in this project."

I may not have studied design during my college years, but even I know that the only sensible response to anyone suggesting the use of Tahoma is a punch in the face. I hate that thing.

[Maksutov]

they will happily tell a graphic designer, "I think you should use the font Tahoma in this project."

I may not have studied design during my college years, but even I know that the only sensible response to anyone suggesting the use of Tahoma is a punch in the face. I hate that thing.
Funny how most folks who like that font tend to be from either Washington state or Oklahoma. :D

[Doodler]

Neoconservatives who can't differentiate between a Christian and a Republican.

Ebonic English.

Cults of Personality.

Demogogues

Limited space exploration budgets

Foreign aid

Welfare

Byzantine Tax Forms

Bi-lingual government documents

Bi-lingual phone information service

American Idol

Knee jerk legislation

Border guards who aren't allowed to use lethal force.

The speed of light.



Those are the highlights, anyway.

[Glom]

AFAIK nothing. I'm not important enough. I can't see MI5 having any interest in what I'm saying.

[Maksutov]

AFAIK nothing. I'm not important enough. I can't see MI5 having any interest in what I'm saying.
What?

[mid]

No, that's who bugs you. :D

To which the answer is The NSA, if you believe that paranoid nonsense about Echelon.

[sts60]

Oh, sure, next you'll be telling us that NSA agents don't routinely rappel out of black helicopters and that you can't get super-high-resolution color video satellite surveillance anytime, anywhere, on demand when you are in charge of said hordes of NSA agents.

But as to the original question: I'm bugged by having no clue what someone is talking about. For example,

ice bullet people

Maybe Gillianren will take pity on my ignorance...?

[weatherc]

they will happily tell a graphic designer, "I think you should use the font Tahoma in this project."

I may not have studied design during my college years, but even I know that the only sensible response to anyone suggesting the use of Tahoma is a punch in the face. I hate that thing.

I am absolutely, one hundred percent serious when I say that someone suggested I use that for a project once. It took every fiber of my willpower to keep from punching that person in the face, or at least from calling them an uninformed troglodyte.

[Captain Kidd]

But as to the original question: I'm bugged by having no clue what someone is talking about. For example,

ice bullet people

Maybe Gillianren will take pity on my ignorance...?

I think it's the "JFK was shot multiple times but by ice bullets so they melted thus leaving no evidence behind" people.

[edit: oh yeah some contributions]

People that think that by bolding everything on the website it'll make it stand out more and thus be identified as of the upmost importance even though everything is bolded so you can't tell what's empahsised. Then I have to go behind them and clean it up.

Last second mergers. Today somebody waited until the lanes had seperated (interstate split) and whipped across the white hashes and almost forced a semi to swever into the next lane of which I happened to be occupying at the time. Add also the ones that fly up the megering lane and whip over right before the barrels starts forcing me to slam the brakes on praying the guy behind me is paying attention.

rush hour in general (fortunately I get to work early and leave early so I miss most of it)

telemarketers that call my cell phone (Id love to find out who sold my number)

having a program do what you tell it to do and not what you intend it to do.

[Jpax2003]

One word: Processes.

Perfectly normal word, I don't mind it per se. But for some insane reason, managers have taken to elongating the last syllable to Processees. This drives me up the wall at the moment.Maybe they are speaking processese, a language derived from english but based on the idea of working towards a goal without ever actually meeting it.

[Jpax2003]

[I get the same feeling when overpaid, executive idiots decide to drop by and tell me, a 30-year professional in quality control, engineering, and assurance, that "Quality is everyone's responsibility."Next time they say that, just respond with "Yes, but Quality Control is mine."

[Maksutov]

[I get the same feeling when overpaid, executive idiots decide to drop by and tell me, a 30-year professional in quality control, engineering, and assurance, that "Quality is everyone's responsibility."Next time they say that, just respond with "Yes, but Quality Control is mine."
Funny you would mention that. At times I've responded along those lines. The comeback is something like

But we've facilitated the actualization of the empowerment of the vertical and horizontal factors of the enterprise such that distributed deployment of the quality function is optimized.
I wish I were making this up, but that's not necessary. I'm just relating what's provided to me by up-and-coming Six Sigma blackbelts who have decided that independent quality oversight is unnecessary, and who also, BTW, cannot read CAD/CAM or blueprints. I did manage to get rid of two blackbelts by putting them in situations where they demonstrated their own incompetence. More keep showing up from corporate.

But then such useless "technical" abilities might get in the way of their vision, mission, and goal of "growing" the business.

http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0304/wuerg/vomit-smiley-017.gif

[Doodler]

But we've facilitated the actualization of the empowerment of the vertical and horizontal factors of the enterprise such that distributed deployment of the quality function is optimized.


Great mater mundi... I'm not sure what's scarier, the fact they rattled that off to you unscripted or that I understood it without needing a translator and stiff drink.

[Gramma loreto]

Telephone terrorists -- Those annoying people (usually at work) who call and take you hostage. You know, the ones whose introductory exposition utterly fails to inform you of the purpose of their call any time within the first five minutes. Then...then...when they finally do get to the point, they re-examine it, re-evaluate it, and restate it from numerous perspectives. They compose variations on the theme...none particularly useful...but all excruciatingly inane. Some even devolve into irrelevent personal conversation in which no one else on the planet has the remotest interest...yet they go on and on and on.

The pervasive...and dare I say, gratuitous...over-usage of the ellipsis...like just now...in this very sentence...but not the previous paragraph because they were completely justified...really.

Other irksome outrages of a political nature not appropriate to this board.

Earth muffins.

People that question the pedigree of my chocolate Labrador Retreiver who then go on to tell me about the yellow/black Lab mix a friend of theirs once had...

[Jpax2003]

But we've facilitated the actualization of the empowerment of the vertical and horizontal factors of the enterprise such that distributed deployment of the quality function is optimized.
I wish I were making this up, but that's not necessary. I'm just relating what's provided to me by up-and-coming Six Sigma blackbelts who have decided that independent quality oversight is unnecessary, and who also, BTW, cannot read CAD/CAM or blueprints. I did manage to get rid of two blackbelts by putting them in situations where they demonstrated their own incompetence. More keep showing up from corporate.At that point you could give them a look of epiphany and say something like "Oh, you don't need me then? Oh, wow, maybe I can retire early..." and walk away. Of course they may let you go if they really don't think they need you.

Or you could say something like this:
The equilibrium of quality coefficients across the vertical and horizontal factors may be optimized and yet produce an output that is sub-optimax. Quality Control is a cross-disciplinary filtration technique that reduces the need for overhead-intensive and process inefficient micro-management structures that also allows for the acquisition and allocation of sub-optimal material and human resources further reducing expenditures and maximizing the profit structure. BTW, I made that up.

[Gillianren]

But as to the original question: I'm bugged by having no clue what someone is talking about. For example,

ice bullet people

Maybe Gillianren will take pity on my ignorance...?

over on the Mythbusters board, where I am also a regular, there are about 1500 threads--not posts, threads--about how to make an ice bullet. sometimes this is Kennedy-related, sometimes not. sometimes you refute the Kennedy angle, and they ask why you brought it up.

the annoying part, other than the fact that none of these people know a) what a search function is or b) how to use either it or reading previous threads to see that their idea has already been posted, is that you will patiently explain some law of physics like "no, but ice melts when exposed to the heat of exploding gunpowder," and they will argue w/you. I mean, you guys only think Moon Hoax People are bad because you have never seen an Ice Bullet Person in full throes of insanity. at least the Moon Hoax People have a tendency to pick one point to hang on to and ignore any challenge to it. with Ice Bullet People, it's like sowing dragons' teeth. you shoot one idea down (no pun intended), and another springs up in its place--and you've already refuted it somewhere on the other thousand-plus threads, so you know what's coming next and why it's wrong, and they keep going.

well. as I said, it took me three days of sorting to read just the threads that I found of interest on the MB board, and there were a few dozen new ice bullets. and PMM's--perpetual motion machines. and probably a hundred or more that can be found by a simple look at Snopes, but you suggest it, and it's like you're turned green: do research?

pant pant pant

okay. I'm better now.

[Jpax2003]

My HS chemistry teacher told me she had a dream of being shot with an ice gun. So I designed on that might work. Freaked her out, but I still passed the course.

[Gullible Jones]

People who lack all traces of compassion.

YECs.

People who insult me the first time they see me, before they even know my name.

Kids who goof off in class.

Script kiddies.

People who try to fit others into stupid stereotypes.

Religious zealots who want the world to end.

People who won't let reality affect what they think.

[Frog march]

Adverts that talk about killing germs in toilets. What does it matter if there are germs in toilets? I just think of the environmental damage caused by the chemicals that go down the toilet to kill germs.

[mid]

Adverts that talk about killing germs in toilets.

The worst is the statement that they kill X% of all known germs. Partly because a really facetious question about how many UNknown germs it kills is on the tip of my tongue, but mainly because when X < 100 it tells be nothing at all. What are these remaining 1%? Are they commonly found in bathrooms? What detrimental effects do they have? I don't care if your bleach can kill 99 different types of bacteria unique to the upper Amazon if it isn't going to clean the stuff actually found in the loo.

[mid]

Last second mergers. Today somebody waited until the lanes had seperated (interstate split) and whipped across the white hashes and almost forced a semi to swever into the next lane of which I happened to be occupying at the time. Add also the ones that fly up the megering lane and whip over right before the barrels starts forcing me to slam the brakes on praying the guy behind me is paying attention.

Keeping the traffic bunched so they can't bully back in is hilarious, though. There are few sights on the road more funny than a BMW owner parked in the merging lane because the constant stream of 50mph traffic in the correct lane won't let him in.

[Bob]

"irregardless" whenever it's used

I cured myself of saying "irregardless" a long time ago when a friend pointed out it was a tautology. I didn't believe it initially but a little dictionary work showed it was so.
But this morning I was listening to an interview with Bill Gates and he said it. Language evolves, and if the most competent human in the universe leads I may have to follow.

[Maksutov]

"irregardless" whenever it's used

I cured myself of saying "irregardless" a long time ago when a friend pointed out it was a tautology. I didn't believe it initially but a little dictionary work showed it was so.
But this morning I was listening to an interview with Bill Gates and he said it. Language evolves, and if the most competent human in the universe leads I may have to follow.
You realize that those are very inflammatory remarks you've made, such that if someone finds them flammable, or even inflammable, this thread may be subject to inflammation, but not "flammation".

For me I'd rather enjoy the darkness and a night of good observing, than light a candle and ruin the whole thing. 8)

[Donnie B.]

Speaking of inflammation: Poison Ivy! (and/or other poisonous plant life).

I seem to get a dose every spring. This year I was ultra-careful to clean up after doing work outdoors, and still got a miserable case. I'm on oral steriods to try to knock it down, but it's slow going.

Aaaaaaaaggggghhhhhhh!!!

[Richard of Chelmsford]

Spiders.

A lot of modern Americanisms (but not all Americanisms) and British or Australian people who copy them.

People who invade my home with outside noise. I've had many a serious row with some of my neighbours.

Disgusting eaters.

Wooden politicians.

Traffic jams.

[Richard of Chelmsford]

Plus people who refer to my wife as my 'partner.'

Plus electronic gadgets, like remote controls and mobile phones which have no way back if you make a mistake and press the wrong button.

[Maksutov]

[edit]Plus electronic gadgets, like remote controls and mobile phones which have no way back if you make a mistake and press the wrong button.
Right on, brother!

One guy at work got so frustrated when all the pagers were replaced with cell phones that had more dead ends and one-way streets than Boston, that he finally tested the thing's impact resistance when hurled against a concrete wall at 90 KPH.

As with a lot of hardware/software, one wonders if the designers ever actually used the end product. :evil:

[Richard of Chelmsford]

PLUS women in shops who lick their fingers whilst serving you, often with food.

It's a filthy habit and the UK is endemic with it.

[Maksutov]

Last second mergers. Today somebody waited until the lanes had seperated (interstate split) and whipped across the white hashes and almost forced a semi to swever into the next lane of which I happened to be occupying at the time. Add also the ones that fly up the megering lane and whip over right before the barrels starts forcing me to slam the brakes on praying the guy behind me is paying attention.

Keeping the traffic bunched so they can't bully back in is hilarious, though. There are few sights on the road more funny than a BMW owner parked in the merging lane because the constant stream of 50mph traffic in the correct lane won't let him in.
Ha-hah!

What's even better (here in the States) is when there is a neck-down due to construction, and the signs say "Merge To One Lane" about a half mile before the construction actually eliminates all but one lane...and there's a yuckie in a BMW who ignored the warnings and stayed in the "closed" lane to cheat and jump ahead of everyone else, except that, now, the BMW yuckie, in the closed lane, isn't being let in by anyone.

Except that eventually some other blood-sucking BMW yuckie who decided to stay in the "open" lane decides to let the spawn of the devil in.

Ah, but if only there were a NASCAR fan ahead of that merge who would then slam on the brakes!!! :evil: :D

I'm sure that the latter has happened at least once on I-40 in Tennessee! =D>

[Paul Beardsley]

People who are not scared of spiders. (This line is not original to me, alas.)

The run-down of the year's forthcoming films that consists of: a list of remakes of films that were fine the first time round and don't need remaking, a list of remakes of films that don't deserve remaking, and a list of sequels to films that you just know are going to be exactly the same as the previous film except they'll spend a lot of time reminding you "they're BACK".

People who have absolutely no comprehension that what they are doing has an effect on other people.

The bit at the climax of the film when the hero meets the mass-murdering villain and has the chance to kill him, but says, "If I did that I'd be no better than you," so the villain gets the chance to murder a load more innocent people before the sequel.

Adverts that put across the message that men are worthless and women are better off without them. It's not just that they do it, it's the way they do it as if they are putting across some really deep and surprising insight.

[Gillianren]

those commercials where the woman gets home from work to an entire family waiting for her to cook dinner.

[Richard of Chelmsford]

People who address mixed gender groups as "You guys."

[Candy]

those commercials where the woman gets home from work to an entire family waiting for her to cook dinner.
That is a great one. :lol: =D>

[A Thousand Pardons]

I cured myself of saying "irregardless" a long time ago when a friend pointed out it was a tautology. I didn't believe it initially but a little dictionary work showed it was so.
I'd like to hear that story! :)

[Paul Beardsley]

those commercials where the woman gets home from work to an entire family waiting for her to cook dinner.
I can't offhand recall seeing such an advert. Perhaps we don't get them over here in the UK.

[cyswxman]

A lot of driving gripes in here. A couple of mine:

The latest fad, particularly here in Wyoming, of construction crews that, in order to patch a 40 foot section of pavement, will reduce the road to only one lane of traffic for 4 miles either side of the patching, then use a pilot car which goes 15 mph through the entire length!!!!!! :evil: :evil:

Another is when, at a traffic light that just turned red, one lone car pulls over to the far right lane on a multi-lane road, but intends to go straight, thus blocking everybody behind him who want to turn right! :evil:

[sarongsong]

A lot of driving gripes in here...Yep, and it's gone ballistic (http://www.detnews.com/2005/nation/0505/01/natio-167009.htm) again in Los Angeles. The U.S. Post Office gets my vote for the moment. Went to mail 2 packages yesterday. After standing in a 20-person line, I spotted a new self-service machine 'designed' to allow patrons to weigh, stamp and mail their items. After pressing all the right buttons (touch-screen options), the Payment screen appeared. "Insert credit card/debit card", complete with a diagram indicating which side of one's card to insert. After 'failing' several times---"Unable to read card", I reluctantly got back in the now 25-person line. As a postal employee passed by, I remarked the machine wasn't working and maybe an "Out of Service" sign would be helpful. He just grinned and pulled me over to the machine, re-punched my earlier options in and said to insert my card again. He reached out and flipped the card over---just the opposite direction the machine's diagram had indicated. When I asked why he hadn't put up a note or something to indicate this, he grinned again and said that he could get fired for such an action, but had 'put in a notice' to his supervisors. Ahh, progress!

[Crazieman]

A lot of driving gripes in here...Yep, and it's gone ballistic (http://www.detnews.com/2005/nation/0505/01/natio-167009.htm) again in Los Angeles. The U.S. Post Office gets my vote for the moment. Went to mail 2 packages yesterday. After standing in a 20-person line, I spotted a new self-service machine 'designed' to allow patrons to weigh, stamp and mail their items. After pressing all the right buttons (touch-screen options), the Payment screen appeared. "Insert credit card/debit card", complete with a diagram indicating which side of one's card to insert. After 'failing' several times---"Unable to read card", I reluctantly got back in the now 25-person line. As a postal employee passed by, I remarked the machine wasn't working and maybe an "Out of Service" sign would be helpful. He just grinned and pulled me over to the machine, re-punched my earlier options in and said to insert my card again. He reached out and flipped the card over---just the opposite direction the machine's diagram had indicated. When I asked why he hadn't put up a note or something to indicate this, he grinned again and said that he could get fired for such an action, but had 'put in a notice' to his supervisors. Ahh, progress!

Yeah, they're ridiculously obsessive about beaurocracy.

At least my supervisors like to mock those kinds of rules. The ones above my supervisors are the nutty ones, but we get away with a lot.

They STILL insist we have meetings and discuss policy changes concerning things that have nothing to do with our department.

[A Thousand Pardons]

When I asked why he hadn't put up a note or something to indicate this, he grinned again and said that he could get fired for such an action, but had 'put in a notice' to his supervisors. Ahh, progress!
Call a TV station. I bet I'd see it on the news tomorrow. :)

[Candy]

When I asked why he hadn't put up a note or something to indicate this, he grinned again and said that he could get fired for such an action, but had 'put in a notice' to his supervisors. Ahh, progress!
Call a TV station. I bet I'd see it on the news tomorrow. :)
Trouble maker. :wink:

[A Thousand Pardons]

It just seems like the sort of ironic bit that I've see a lot of lately. Kinda like Runaway American Idol Curiosity

[pumpkinpie]

People who say "how are you?" for a greeting. Really, if I pass a coworker in the hallway, I'd rather he or she just say, "hi." That's all I say. I really don't want to get in to how I am doing. And I'm sure they really don't want to know either. Usually I just say fine, which most of the time is true. But when it's not and I'm in a really bad or sad mood, I hate having to tell that little white lie to avoid talking about it.

[Jpax2003]

A lot of driving gripes in here...Yep, and it's gone ballistic (http://www.detnews.com/2005/nation/0505/01/natio-167009.htm) again in Los Angeles. The U.S. Post Office gets my vote for the moment. Went to mail 2 packages yesterday. After standing in a 20-person line, I spotted a new self-service machine 'designed' to allow patrons to weigh, stamp and mail their items. After pressing all the right buttons (touch-screen options), the Payment screen appeared. "Insert credit card/debit card", complete with a diagram indicating which side of one's card to insert. After 'failing' several times---"Unable to read card", I reluctantly got back in the now 25-person line. As a postal employee passed by, I remarked the machine wasn't working and maybe an "Out of Service" sign would be helpful. He just grinned and pulled me over to the machine, re-punched my earlier options in and said to insert my card again. He reached out and flipped the card over---just the opposite direction the machine's diagram had indicated. When I asked why he hadn't put up a note or something to indicate this, he grinned again and said that he could get fired for such an action, but had 'put in a notice' to his supervisors. Ahh, progress!Ya know... if you use a card reading machine often enough, you can tell which side is supposed to go in without needing to read the sign. This happens at the grocery store sometimes, I just swipe, rotate, swipe, flip, swipe, rotate, swipe, until it takes. The only time I have had problems with swiping a card is when I try to get my boarding pass at the American Airlines kiosks at the airport. They only accepts real credit cards, not bankcards even if they have a creditcard logo. At least Delta accepts my bankcard for ID purposes.

[sarongsong]

Ya know...if you use a card reading machine often enough, you can tell which side is supposed to go in without needing to read the sign....I just swipe, rotate, swipe, flip, swipe, rotate, swipe, until it takes...You're quite right, Jpax2003, but the way the USPS one works is just the opposite of what is 'normal', plus the misleading diagram caused me to believe maybe the magnetic stripe on my card had reached the end of its life. To try reversing the card meant I would have had to re-enter all the mailing selections before re-trying, so, figuring a brand-new USPS machine couldn't possibly be wrong #-o, and I did follow its directions to a 'T', just gave up, in favor of getting back in the ever-growing (4 PM) counter line. While the clerk who showed me the correct procedure did save me the ordeal of going thru the whole line, it was just the knowing grin he used that was the icing on the cake. Won't happen again.

[Doodler]

After last night, I can definitely add Home Owner's Associations to my list. I could describe to you the Zoning Board Hearing I witnessed between a bunch of neighbors whining about a guy in their development who wanted to put an addition on his house to accomodate his brother's family moving in, but I could only do so in language so harsh that the BA would drive my virtual backside several meters into the ground when he dropped the hammer on me.

[Superluminal]

HBers who complain that us PANs keep using the same old arguements over and over, never realizing that if they could come up with something new, we wouldn't have to use the same old arguements over and over.

[Trebuchet]

"Interstitial" internet adds that hijack the page you've tried to link to and won't let it load for 10 seconds.

Microsoft. My wife and I spent about three hours last night trying to get a page of mailing labels to print. Nothing whatsoever about the process was the least bit intuitive.

[paulie jay]

Trebuchet, I don't know if you use Firefox, but if you do try downloading an extention called Jump Link. Once installed what you do is right click a link and select either "Jump Link", "Jump Link In New Tab" or "Jump Link In New Window" and you won't be redirected. It may not be available for all links but it's very handy.

[Trebuchet]

I seem to mostly run into this during my lunchtime browsing at work, where we can't install anything.

I have Firefox at home but haven't started using it as my primary browser yet. Probably should go ahead and do that.

[paulie jay]

Yeah! But take the time to go through the extensions and download the ones that will benefit you.

[darkhunter]

Tailgating drivers

Drivers who given the choice for changing lanes a little earlier and having plenty of room and cuttting off/tailgating, choose the cutting off/tailgating option

Drivers who tailgate and yell, give abusive getures, flash their lights, etc. for driving the speed limit

Drivers that do something utterly brain-dead stupid then get mad at you for being in their way....

People who give a 10 minute reply to a yes/no question

People who take over a task when asked a simple yes/no question

Being looked down on because I'm "just a mechanic (http://usmilitary.about.com/od/airforceenlistedjobs/a/afjob2a6x2.htm)" (that's just the job itself--not including all the other supervisory responsibilies I have as an NCO (http://usmilitary.about.com/od/airforce/l/blranks.htm))

edit: The thing that bugs me the most: Stupidity

[pumpkinpie]

The street I live off of is a 30 mph zone but a pretty main drag, leading right to the beltway. I usually drive about 35, but still get people tailgating. When they do, I slow down to 30. Hey, it's still the speed limit! Of course, that can make them mad. One day I had two people pass me--but it's not a street where you're supposed to pass! So that makes me mad! I honked at them, but what else can you do? Actually, the second person passed when I was actually going about 35. There is a left turn lane at some points in the road (although you're not supposed to use it to pass) and by the time he started to pass I had pulled into the left turn lane to get onto the beltway. He actually slowed down, rolled down his window, and yelled, "get off the road if you don't know how to drive!!" Ummm.....I really don't know what he meant. I was going over the speed limit already---sorry if I wasn't going 15 over like you wanted to! It's a residential area, very hilly, no sidewalks, frequent pedestrians on the streets. It's for their safety that it's 30 mph and I want to obey that.

I know it could be a bad idea of me to "slow down" and give these speedy drivers even more road rage. But really, I have the right to go the speed limit and not get persecuted!