I hate people who wear cold weather gear in warm/heated places
People who use their turn signal AS THEY’RE TURNING. You asshole! You’re supposed to do it a bit before you turn to let people know your intent. There’s no point in signaling as you’re turning because I CAN SEE YOU TURNING! Fuck!
And usually all the cars around them had to wait six years because they weren’t aware of the upcoming turn (busy intersections).
So generally I use turn signals correctly. But there are a few times I don’t for particular reasons.
If I am sitting at the rightmost lane at a busy intersection and intend to turn right, I honestly tend to not turn on my right turn signal. The ambiguity of whether or not I’m turning or going straight helps keep assholes behind me from honking at me. I’ve found that an unfortunately large amount of people get impatient when someone in front of them is turning right on red onto a busy road. They honk and act like assholes because they want you to dangerously jump into traffic and not wait for a clearing so they can go sooner.
I know I could turn on my turn signal and just let an an asshole lay on their horn, but honestly I really truly prefer to avoid that.
Happens all the time yeah.
Audio messages, I hate them with a passion. Sometimes I just refuse to listen to them. Can’t search them for info, and why tf do you assume I can just stop my day to listen to this shit I don’t have my goddamn headphones connected all the time, and I’m not about to put the phone to my ear for a full 5 minutes and no talk looking like a goddamn weirdo.
I just ignore them completely. They don’t exist for me. Depending who it is, I can say “I didn’t have time to listen to it but next time if you text/message I can probably get back to it faster.”
Someone does this in a group chat I’m in, it drives me crazy.
I used to be in a group chat of just voice notes.
put the phone to my ear
Clearly you would look more normal if you blast it on the speaker while holding the phone in front of you, like everyone else. /s
It’s so inconsiderate too. If you want to use your voice then use voice-to-text and send a text message.
I’m not a hater but I understand the sentiment. I only exchange audio with very few people I feel comfortable with we both want to listen to our shit for that long, and I never expect a quick reply.
Randoms or new acquaintances sending audios without asking permission first usually annoy me.
I’ll make one exception for audio messages: the other person being in a situation where they cannot easily type the message, but it’s not an emergency. Hands full, driving, inclement weather, etc. I take it as an implicit “this message is important, but not drop-everything-else critical.”
People who get offended by a behaviour that doesn’t affect them at all
Better not lock eyes with Mr. Birthday Celebrations in this thread
If you’re sweating so much you smell bad and are working less because you’re overheated and you’re wearing a North Face™ mountain climber ahh jacket in a packed Amazon Delivery Station during peak time where there’s like 100k packages being delivered today, yeah, I’m offended as hell.
And… My mother forced me to wear my jacket when shopping as a kid and I’d be overheated and nauseated, and she’d shop for at least six hours, and I wouldn’t be allowed to take the jacket off because “we’re leaving soon get over it” like you didn’t say “soon” three hours ago. I’m offended at people who do that on purpose.
buildings with upward-facing spotlights, especially single-family homes with façade lights. it’s like nobody cares about light pollution.
I’ve been considering reporting streetlights that don’t point straight down because they technically violate city codes.
Oh shit I’ve always liked the way those looked. I thought they made the house look fancy but I never considered the light pollution.
Biweekly and bimonthly each also meaning their respective reciprocals.
(Every two periods, or twice a period.)
If a technical term such as a frequency specifier has multiple incompatible meanings then it has no value and needs to stop being used entirely. Or one of the meanings chosen as correct and the others rejected forcefully (good luck with that)
Fortnightly is every two weeks, bimonthly in every two months. Biannual is twice a year, and biennial is every two yeara.
Fortnightly is fine, so is biennial.
All of the other bi-timeperiod words are worthless because they mean both twice each time and every two times.
It’s funny that there are two unambiguous alternatives to bimonthly, but they both mean 2x/month: fortnightly and semimonthly.
Both German and Dutch distinguish their equivalent words with clear prefixes meaning half- and two-. The English word was unclear after 1066 since the French word bimensuel would have been used by the new bosses. And that means 2x/month. English used bimensual for a while before developing a new, worse word with the Latin origin bi- and the Germanic origin -monthly. And it seems to have been ambiguous from the start. So this has probably been messed up for almost 1050 years.
Maybe we should resurrect the Old English prefix twi- to make a new(old) 1x/2months word twimonthly or more intuitively, twomonthly that we can use in opposition with halfmonthly.
I hate people who wear cold weather gear in warm/heated places
Schizophrenic people are very likely to do this. I work in mental health and this was mentioned in our training. At my location maybe 1/3-1/2 of folks wore one or more puffy jackets all summer long.
That’s really interesting. Is it known why? Do they not feel overheated or something?
Interesting, is that a comfort thing? Like wearing headphones everywhere with nothing playing in them?
Birthday celebrations
Birthdays make me so uncomfortable. Even when they’re mentioned in work chat and it’s flooded with gifs/“happy birthday!”s, I just don’t get it.
Same. I still don’t know the social script in these scenarios. Do I individually thank everyone for their birthday wishes? Do I thank everyone with one message after it seems like everyone’s done? How long do I wait? What if someone jumps in after I do that with a belated happy birthday?
It’s uncomfortable for me too. I asked HR to keep mine private at work, but before this I would just react with a like to the wishes and write a short thatnk you all at the end of the day… The late wishes I would just ignore…
The concernedly rising sightings of “could of” and “should of”. And it’s always the native English speakers. It irks me every time I see it. Why are you making such an obvious mistake? The sentence doesn’t even sound coherent. How about you speak the sentence aloud and see how wrong it sounds?
But spoken it’s fine. It’s could’ve.
It’s when that gets written as “could of” that it becomes an abomination…
I have definitely heard “could /should of” by native speakers more than once.
What do you mean you’ve heard “could of”? Of course you would have heard that. That’s literally how it’s pronounced. It’s just not spelled out that way, as the above person noted. People end up erroneously writing it like that because that’s how you say it out loud.
Do you pronounce “could’ve” in a way that doesn’t sound like “could of”??? Curious to know what that would sound like.
the way yoga instructors speak, for some reason. I don’t hate Yoga itself, just that fake calm voice makes me pretty mad. I could relax much better if the instructor just shouted like a drill sergeant all the time
Same. I hate how TikTok popularized it for things that have NOTHING to do with yoga or relaxing and so many youtubers copy TikTok either ironically or unironically, and it’s hard to escape.
I used to work in an email heavy industry, so people who don’t use email or more specifically what I call “threading” right.
Changing the topic (so that the discussion no longer relates to the subject line), replying to add someone in without reattaching the relevant attached files, not using redirect email functionality, including screenshots that either lack relevant information due to poor cropping or forces the recipient into retyping its contents by hand all make email super annoying to deal with. And what’s with being expected to confirm you received each and every email? Ever heard of read receipts?
Also, people who don’t read error messages. As a web developer (or more broadly “computer person”) I cannot count how many times someone has sent me a picture of an error asking me what to do. 90% of the time the error itself tells you exactly what to do. Why do I need to read it for you?
- TikTok.
- Short form videos.
- Tutorials in a 10 minute video format. Just give me a list of instructions I can skim to find the thing I’m looking for.
- Influencers and “content creators”. Please get cancer and die.
- YouTube after 2011 or so
- Monetization of platforms
- The way software development evolved from a highly praised skill to being regarded as nothing more than a fleshbased code printer for creating more shareholder value
- How the art scene is now mostly relying on social media exposure and followers
- so, Actually most of the modern internet.
- The lie that you can become rich and succesful by working hard and putting in the hours
I can go on for quite a while. Millenial disillusionment is real.
People that leave trash in my car, usually the same people that exclaim “your car is so clean” when they first get in and see that it’s completely empty save for a few things in the glovebox.
The smell of coffee. I don’t know what’s wrong with me (or alternatively the vast majority of people) but it smells as disgusting to me as a steaming pile of dog poop. I learned to ignore it to some extend but I still hate it in all its variations: The powder, freshly roasted beans, freshly brewed coffee, cold coffee, coffee breath, …
I learned to ignore it to some extend
That must not have been an easy thing to do, and I feel for you knowing how omnipresent coffee is. Heck, I had my first coffee I was not 9 year-old. I remember it vividly, it was a large and thick cup (to my kid eyes at least) half filled with black coffee (not the tinted water many people erroneously call ‘coffee’), without milk but with sugar, way too many. I liked it, probably because of the too many sugar in it, and I never quit drinking coffee for 50 years or so, up until very recently and only because my doctor told me so.
As for the smell, obviously I would not compare it to poop like you did but I reckon there is one thing they may both remotely share, very remotely though, a kind of ‘earthy’ smell?
Did you switch to something or off caffeine altogether? Black tea is much nicer haha
Yep, I drink tea (I already was) and decaffeinated coffee. For the most part, I drink good old water.
Little squirts of pure vanilla are quite nice complement for tea, particularly earl gray
/me dutifully write this down.
Never tried that, thx for the suggestion.
Maybe I phrased it in a confusing way. Coffee does not smell like dog poop to me. It’s just exactly as disgusting. Can’t really compare it to anything else but it’s a very intense smell that I just can’t stand. I noticed that microwaving chocolate milk can lead to a similar smell but by far not as bad as coffee.
It’s not roasted stuff in general that I despise and also not related to milk.
Double spaces in text
Please call me if you encounter these issues
Hate to be that guy again, but you forgot the period at the end of your sentence.
Aaaaand that’s a Level 3 misdemeanor for attempting to correct an officer of the law.
Internal affairs will be in contact with you shortly.
We’ve investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing
I’m guilty of making that typo but sometimes mobile keyboard adds extra spaces
I’m fine with it on social media, but on websites, articles, research papers etc I see it as a lack of quality control. It’s very easy to fix too, just hit ctrl+F and type space twice to find any.
I hate it when people put a space before periods and commas , yet it’s something I often notice with older people .
There’s a reasonable explanation for that one, namely: the French.
The use of “alumni” in the singular. A person is an alumnus or an alumna, the alumni are always a group. Seems to be a very American usage, and I don’t know why it feels aggravating where other Americanisms like positive anymore don’t.
True, but if I used alumnus instead of alumni, wouldn’t I just sound pretentious?
Conversely I hate the trend in English language to keep the original pluralization rules when adopting words from other languages. Just anglicize it to “alumnuses” or “alumnis” (if you want that to be the singular). Rules of the original language don’t matter any more when you use it in English.
