Topic: Things that Tick You Off (the Venting Thread)

[Biollante]

Sometimes, I have issues with rage.  XD  It's good to let it out, so maybe use this thread to explain certain things that annoy you, tick you off, or just get on your nerves.  Doesn't have to be extremely serious things.  Could be small, trivial things as well.

Note:  I don't think it should be anything forum related.  We want to avoid this thread being used for flame wars or trolling I think.

For me right now:

1.  People that Interpret Half Baked Academic Criticism as Fact

Note, this is not an argument against theories that are based on actual facts like say Global Warming.  It's against ideas created in obscure academic journals eons ago which then a few arrogant and pretentious people feel the need to extrapolate to things like comic books, movies, and cartoons in other settings like they're scientific laws of some kind.  Their problem is they don't realize it's merely opinion.  They also feel they have the right to speak for entire segments of the population, when they're obviously ignoring widely held alternate viewpoints within those segments.

2.  People that Use Passive Aggression

Personally, I think these people are more slimy than people that just use obvious aggression.  Basically, it's a method where you can act like a total jerk, tell someone off, and treat them badly and unfairly, while pretending you're still a sweet innocent angel at the same time.  Pretty much the most obnoxious behavior ever.

3.  People that Still Don't Take Hip Hop Seriously 30 Years Later

Recently, there was some "intellectual" idiot on TV who wrote a book or something about how hip hop culture influenced President Obama's election.  He was waxing poetic on all this junk but then wrote the music itself off as "just silly."  I mean give me a break.  How is stuff like Public Enemy, the Wu-Tang Clan, or the Roots "just silly" and not as legitimate as any other band?  It's still kind of unbelievable to me that this attitude it is still out there.

4.  Movie Remakes

This whole trend just needs to stop already.  It's been done to death over a period of ten years.  This recent "The Thing" remake, which is a total retread btw despite being framed as a prequel (thus it being named the Thing minus John Carpenter's name), just took the cake for me.  I mean, I didn't see this film, but reading the reviews just sent shivers up my spine.  Every single review said the only major contribution of this film was extremely fake looking CGI being used to replace the very disturbing and realistic prosthetic special effects in the original movie.  Just seems like a real sad state of events.

[Tuxedo Mark]

For me, I'm probably going to list mostly trivial things, since stuff like obnoxious bosses, work pressure, etc., are covered in another thread.

1) People that say "Howdy". This just sounds really hickish and unintelligent to me. I'm fine with "Hey", "Hi", and "Hello", not "Howdy".

2) Strangers that ask me "How ya doin'?", "How's it goin'?", "What's goin' on?", etc. I know they have no actual interest, so why ask me (worse if I happen to be in a bad mood at the time)?

3) Strangers that ask me any of the above but DO have an interest. Why? They don't know me. I don't know them. Leave me alone.

4) People that ask me any of the above as a greeting (instead of saying "Hey", "Hi", or "Hello").

5) People that call me "Boss", "Chief", etc.

6) People that say "the other day". This is what I like to call "inspecific specificity". The word "the" implies specificity, but then they don't specify. Either specify the day or say something like "a while back", "a few days ago", etc.

[aamrun]

Know it alls ( that's why I am not fond of Dilton ) and rude people

[Jabroniville]

1) People who get uppity if you don't say "please" when you tell them the total of their order- Some people get INSANE over this, and raise an enormous stink that makes them seem far ruder than some clerk who just said "OK, that's 4.36" without adding a meaningless pleasantry to the end of it.

2) The idea that you can't fire someone for being an addict because "he has a disease". Thankfully this hasn't happened to me yet as a Union steward, but the very idea that they argue this is ridiculous to me. No "disease" forced them to put a bottle in their hand.

3) The idea that disagreement online automatically has to turn into a flame war. This has somehow gotten worse since the late 1990s when I first got into the internet culture (and it was pretty bad back then- every forum had at least one or two hardcore defenders of people- wrestling forums had guys defending even the WORST wrestlers).

4) ABC cancelling "Pushing Daisies". I know it's been half a decade, but I'll never stop being sore about it. Stupid ABC .

5) "Corrective Courtnies"- This is the phrase I give to the people who ALWAYS feel the need to correct you about everything- even the most minor stuff. People who correct grammar (especially if you made only one simple mistake, like saying "except" instead of "expect", that still lets you easily read the sentence) can be bad about it, but the worst are the "um, Actually..." types. "The Office" went into detail about how this type of personality is annoying- they feel the constant need to correct and disagree with the most minor elements of a comment (especially regarding continuity or an exact quotation), as if they're eternally proud of always being right. This got so bad in the "Star Trek" fandom that some forums banned the phrase "actually" outright.

It bugs me enough when it happens to me (I type too quickly to proofread sometimes, and I have a pretty bad memory at times, leaving me open to making mistakes- getting called out "publically" for them is annoying), but when I see other people's threads reduced to constant squawking about minor errors, it gets even worse. Like at www.atomicthinktank.com (a forum for a Super-Hero RPG), when people post "Builds" of characters in the "Roll Call" section, and have others always harping at them for accidentally putting a Template error by re-posting something from another build. That's the type of thing that should be PM'd, and ESPECIALLY shouldn't be openly joked about in the main thread. It's horribly rude, and I don't get why people think it's okay.

[Captain Hero]

5) "Corrective Courtnies"- This is the phrase I give to the people who ALWAYS feel the need to correct you about everything- even the most minor stuff. People who correct grammar (especially if you made only one simple mistake, like saying "except" instead of "expect", that still lets you easily read the sentence) can be bad about it, but the worst are the "um, Actually..." types. "The Office" went into detail about how this type of personality is annoying- they feel the constant need to correct and disagree with the most minor elements of a comment (especially regarding continuity or an exact quotation), as if they're eternally proud of always being right. This got so bad in the "Star Trek" fandom that some forums banned the phrase "actually" outright.

It bugs me enough when it happens to me (I type too quickly to proofread sometimes, and I have a pretty bad memory at times, leaving me open to making mistakes- getting called out "publically" for them is annoying), but when I see other people's threads reduced to constant squawking about minor errors, it gets even worse. Like at www.atomicthinktank.com (a forum for a Super-Hero RPG), when people post "Builds" of characters in the "Roll Call" section, and have others always harping at them for accidentally putting a Template error by re-posting something from another build. That's the type of thing that should be PM'd, and ESPECIALLY shouldn't be openly joked about in the main thread. It's horribly rude, and I don't get why people think it's okay.

I tend to be a Corrective Courtnie...but with my OWN posts...like, I'll type out a well-crafted response, and then I find one typo, and I'm like...AUGH!!!  I rarely do it to someone else though...unless it's an error that makes it sound like a 'Damn You Autocorrect-esque' error, in which case, it could be funny. 

[Captain Hero]

Okay...I'll preface this by saying that there's one thing here that could potentially be controversial.  You have been warned.

But, things that tick me off personally are...

1.  NEGATIVE PEOPLE:  Having had family members who are constantly negative minded and having the 'woe is me' attitude, I've developed a little bit of a negative attitude myself...towards them.  (Funny how negativity breeds negativity).  I mean, I get that people have bad days, or even bad weeks even...but sometimes, people should take a step back and realize that maybe their negative mindframes are driving people away, rather than attracting them.  Believe me, it's a lesson that I had to learn the hard way.

2.  UBER-RELIGIOUS PEOPLE WHO USE THE BIBLE AS AN EXCUSE TO BE A JERK

This is the controversial opinion that I was prefacing earlier.  It's one thing to be proud of the religion and faith one practices.  I haven't an issue with that at all.  As long as your beliefs aren't forced on me, you're free to practice whatever religion you want.  But when people use those religious beliefs to belittle, bully, and commit hate crimes against someone else because of what the Bible supposedly says (and keep in mind that in my opinion, there are MANY different interpretations of the book) is inexcusable, and in my harsh opinion, is a slap in the face to whatever religious practices they claim to practice.  Example:  Westboro Baptist Church.

3.  JERSEY SHORE:  No offense to those of you who watch it, but I think that show kills more brain cells than drinking an entire 24 pack of beer.

4.  BULLIES IN GENERAL:  Not that I want to go into great detail about it, but my high school years were very tumultuous because of constant abuse and torture I went through because of my classmates.  I feel so strongly against bullying that I even started up a support group for victims of bullying last year on Facebook,

[aamrun]

Hey, Captain Hero ! This Westboro Baptist Church is really funny ( good thing though, they haven't taken up guns like their Islamic counterparts )

BTW, shouldn't descrating the US flag be a punishable offence in the US ?

[Tuxedo Mark]

Another thing that ticks me off: cute female characters being killed/maimed in movies/series.

[Captain Hero]

Hey, Captain Hero ! This Westboro Baptist Church is really funny ( good thing though, they haven't taken up guns like their Islamic counterparts )

BTW, shouldn't descrating the US flag be a punishable offence in the US ?

Don't know for sure as I'm Canadian, but I am sure that some law exists somewhere...

[Biollante]

Hey, Captain Hero ! This Westboro Baptist Church is really funny ( good thing though, they haven't taken up guns like their Islamic counterparts )

BTW, shouldn't descrating the US flag be a punishable offence in the US ?

Desecrating the US flag is protected by the freedom of speech in the US.  You can't be punished by the government for it, becuase it would be unconstitutional.  Whether or not you think its in bad taste is another matter.

[Tuxedo Mark]

More pet peeves:

*people that whistle in public (I had a customer recently that came into my lane with his cart and did nothing BUT whistle while I asked him if he was ready to check out. It was clear that he wasn't interested in talking, so I just went to my register and let him follow me.)

*people that engage in small talk

*people that overly joke/laugh, especially at "jokes" that are dumb / suspend common sense

[Biollante]

Another thing that ticks me off: cute female characters being killed/maimed in movies/series.

Well, obviously what you like is what you like.  Really don't need much more explanation than that nor do you need to justify it.  But then again, why get mad about it?  I'm just curious.  If female characters are going to be equal to male characters in stuff, they should be just as likely to buy it as the guys.

Not that I'm not affected by my favorite characters dying.  Sometimes I end up crying like a baby.  But you have to expect that to happen sometimes.

[Tuxedo Mark]

Another thing that ticks me off: cute female characters being killed/maimed in movies/series.

Well, obviously what you like is what you like.  Really don't need much more explanation than that nor do you need to justify it.  But then again, why get mad about it?  I'm just curious.  If female characters are going to be equal to male characters in stuff, they should be just as likely to buy it as the guys.

Not that I'm not affected by my favorite characters dying.  Sometimes I end up crying like a baby.  But you have to expect that to happen sometimes.

Well, I have a "preserve the pretties" mentality. I hold cute females to a much higher level of awesomeness than the mere male characters, so I expect them to survive anything and everything.

[Jabroniville]

Another couple things:

* As a chashier, when I check someones $50 or $100 bill (to see if it's fake), people go "It's good- I made it this morning!" like it's the funniest freaking joke they've ever heard. I swear I've heard this joke over one-hundred times, and I remind people of that every time they make the comment. "If it doesn't scan- it's free" is another one.

* Smug people in general. I'm pretty self-effacing, so I have a low opinion of people who act self-superior and smug about everything. Liberals are bad for this- I'm pretty socially-liberal myself, so it bugs me to see people I agree with do the "I'm better and smarter than you because I don't believe in God" act. I used to be a pretty smug atheist myself back in the day, and I learned to get over it. It only hurts your own position to act this way. This is also why I find "Corrective Courtneys" so annoying (just corrected my original spelling of the phrase )- it's like they're fighting for Nerd Points by being right about everything.

[Biollante]

* Smug people in general. I'm pretty self-effacing, so I have a low opinion of people who act self-superior and smug about everything. Liberals are bad for this- I'm pretty socially-liberal myself, so it bugs me to see people I agree with do the "I'm better and smarter than you because I don't believe in God" act. I used to be a pretty smug atheist myself back in the day, and I learned to get over it. It only hurts your own position to act this way. This is also why I find "Corrective Courtneys" so annoying (just corrected my original spelling of the phrase )- it's like they're fighting for Nerd Points by being right about everything.

I don't think it's liberals.  It's more like privileged, sheltered, upper class people.  Some of these people come from families with similar educational backgrounds and live in the same geographic areas that tend to be more liberal, so the overlap can be misleading. 

For example, I knew a white person that was from a certain part of California that was absolutely convinced that any instance of a black character in anything using any kind of slang was "racist."  My argument was it was all right as long as it was actually legitimate for the character's background.  Say if the character was young, from Oakland, and associated with other people that used actual Oakland slang, it may be ok for that character to use slang. 

She couldn't see this though.  And she was also constantly judging other people as being bigoted when they weren't.  The problem wasn't that she was liberal.  It was more about her being a stuck up sheltered snob.  A middle class "liberal" form Chicago that has been exposed to more people isn't going to act like that.

As for the atheist thing, I think it depends on the situation.  If you are having a debate about global warming or something, and someone comes in to a thread with the argument that "global warming doesn't exist because we should trust in God" or something inane like that, some of those people need to be called out on it. 

I have encountered one really wacked out condescending athiest.  He was a college professor that flew into a fit of rage on the subject.  However, in general, I think the amount of Christians out there that pretend like they're under attack just due to the fact that people believe something different than them easily dwarfs the amount of annoying atheists. 

This comes from someone who was raised Baptist by a Baptist minister's daughter, so I have had a good amount of exposure to religious people in general and understand that not everyone of them is like that.  However, when you let certain people in your group run a muck instead of standing up against them, and those people try to force theocracy on everyone else through the political system, you have a problem.