Infuriating social faux pas

[orangeban]

People who lean over my shoulder while I'm on the computer, and are more often than not eating, usually gum or an apple.

Edit: Oh, and even more annoying, people who are rude to me for no reason. I don't care if we're on a sports field and it's all exciting, or if we're playing a videogame and it's tense, you don't have to shout at me, you don't have to be rude, you can say please.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

*people who wear hats inside. once you leave the foyer, you hat comes off.

I never got that, and I deliberately wear my hat inside because it's my hat, and I can do what I want with it.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

People who don't wash their hands after they go to the bathroom. Infuriating and absolutely vile to boot.

Quite possibly this so many times you will never see an end to the post before you die.

I can't stand people not washing their hands after they've been to the bathroom. It's unhygienic and you don't get that soapy goodness. One that goes hand in hand with this one is people not showering. You should shower once a day, twice if you think you have to, it's a matter of grooming rather than hygiene.

 

[The Bum]

People who completely ignore someone else in a conversation.

 

[WWmelb]

*people who wear hats inside. once you leave the foyer, you hat comes off.

I never got that, and I deliberately wear my hat inside because it's my hat, and I can do what I want with it.

Agree with Lev the Red. It may be old fashioned but it's a simple issue of manners. It's how i was brought up and it really irks me. Especially TV presenters inside a studio wearing hats. God i want to set it on fire.

Oh and Ickorus' avatar. It makes my eye twitch... lol jk

 

[The Preened Mr. Fust]

Oh my where to begin...

People who intentionally leave messes under the reasoning that it isn't their job to clean it up.

Blurting out a rude question; It isn't hard to think of an alternative that doesn't make you look like a rube.

Unhygienic habits. That is absolutely awful, end of story.

Any eating sounds whatsoever, especially in public areas.

Attention hogs in all of their ugly forms, especially in Tabletops.

The concept of sending 'Thank You' cards for any sort of card received seems absolutely ridiculous to me.

Considering text-speak acceptable speech in face-to-face social situations.

That person who tells stories of past glories all of the time, including the ones you've already heard before. If all you ever talk about is the past glories, it becomes painstakingly obvious you aren't making any present ones.

The concept of "fashionably early/late". Being unreliable is never in fashion.

That one guy who always dresses in the "Whatever I found on my floor" style calling out the dress style of anyone else. Don't do this.

THAT GUY at the D&D Table. You know the one.

Someone who always has a story to match -any- story you tell. See 'Attention Hog'.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

*people who wear hats inside. once you leave the foyer, you hat comes off.

I never got that, and I deliberately wear my hat inside because it's my hat, and I can do what I want with it.

Agree with Lev the Red. It may be old fashioned but it's a simple issue of manners. It's how i was brought up and it really irks me.

But manners aren't universal, you shouldn't expect people to do what you consider polite when they might have a completely different idea. Sure, in your own home ask people to take their hat off, but anywhere else you shouldn't have a problem.

 

[^=ash=^]

Resting the head on the left hand, while having the mouse on the right one, just like you're doing right now.

STOP WATCHING ME!

For me it would be when strangers put "mate" on the end of anything they say to you. For example: When they bump into someone and they "Sorry mate" I apprectiate the sentiment, but just sorry would be fine.

 

[warrcry13]

I don't like when anything captures my image. I jokingly say it steals your soul. I literally cannot stand it. I will every now and then let someone take my picture but am immensely uncomfortable with it. I also hate it when people decide to use the urinal right next to mine when 5 others are not being used. Also people ask me for my opinion on something and then get angry at me over my opinion. SO I stopped giving my opinion and now people say "jeeze have an opinion for once."

I also don't like it when someone watches me play an RPG that has choices. Unless I invite them to watch. Look this is an insight into my thought process I don't want you have so bork off.

I don't like when people are in my personal space. I don't like when people touch my earring, or my glasses without me having given them permission. Yes those are very personal items. They are a part of me.

I also won't get a haircut at a barbershop/salon or whatever the hell you want to call it. (This reason is completely crazy) It is part of my essence, and no one should have access to it. (that also goes for why I don't let people touch my glasses or earring.)

Now I feel slightly crazy.

 

[TriGGeR_HaPPy]

People smacking their lips when they eat. Fills me with mindless rage for some reason.

This. So much this.
There's this 1 group of people who come into the Comp Sci common room at Uni. Of course, lots of people do, to chat, have a break, get something to eat or drink, etc. But these guys are the loudest eaters I've ever had the displeasure of meeting.
It's especially bad when there's a bit of a lull in the conversation, because all you can hear is this other group of people who I swear are having a contest to see who can chew the loudest, and who can have their mouth open the widest.
*shudder*

The 'less than educated' individuals who play music out loud on public transport (often with terribly bad quality speakers such as from a phone).

$10 will get you a pair of earphones, not everyone wants to hear your horrid music.

This as well.
I recently had a guy on the same train as me who had headphones plugged in, but had the headphones hanging around his neck, and the music playing very loudly so that he (and everyone else) could hear anyway.
I... I just couldn't understand that. I still can't. >_>

Luckily, not much else bothers me. At least, not as much as the above 2.

 

[Flames66]

*people who wear hats inside. once you leave the foyer, you hat comes off.

I never got that, and I deliberately wear my hat inside because it's my hat, and I can do what I want with it.

Agree with Lev the Red. It may be old fashioned but it's a simple issue of manners. It's how i was brought up and it really irks me.

But manners aren't universal, you shouldn't expect people to do what you consider polite when they might have a completely different idea. Sure, in your own home ask people to take their hat off, but anywhere else you shouldn't have a problem.

I agree, if I am in your house then that is fair enough, if I don't like your house rules I don't have to be there. However anywhere else I decide what happens with my hat and if you touch it without my permission, even in your house, it's slapping time.

For me it would be when strangers put "mate" on the end of anything they say to you. For example: When they bump into someone and they "Sorry mate" I apprectiate the sentiment, but just sorry would be fine.

That seems to be the norm around where I live. I do it with many people I don't know but it depends on how they address me first. I usually don't speak first in any conversation which gives me a chance to decide which speech mode I should be in. The interesting thing is, once you are in my circle of mates, I don't call you mate any more.

 

[Eventidal]

People who don't wash their hands after they go to the bathroom. Infuriating and absolutely vile to boot.

People who are way too uppity and overly clean about everything, including those times I do use the bathroom and don't remember to IMMEDIATELY WASH MY HANDS AFTERWARD OH GOD WHAT A SICK AND DISEASED PERSON I AM. You'd think with their overreactions that I just pissed all over my hands or shoved them up a cow's ass in there.

Seriously, we have immune systems for a reason. Unlike most people I know, I actually trust mine, and it rarely fails me. I hate dirtiness to the point where I don't think I could ever work in the kitchen in fast food, but I'm no germaphobe. Sure it's gross but no moreso than accidentally spitting in your face while talking or coughing without covering their mouth. And of those three, it's the least likely to ever actually harm you in any way...

Other: people who make incessant, repetitive noises. Drives me insane.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

The Banter Queens:

I like banter (in moderation). However, there's always that one guy who just doesn't know when to fucking stop! He'll go on and on and on long past the point when every reasonable person has stopped laughing and started inwardly vomiting at his increasingly crude jokes. The only people who still find it funny are his knuckle dragging friends, who will guffaw like slack-jawed yokels at their friends ability to make coherent words come out of his mouth for hours.

I hate that guy.

 

[White-Death]

-When people always bring up religion in conversations, & try to convert you.

-That one guy in your class who goes out of his way to make fun of you, contradict you, & say 'Oh my god, shut up' when you try prove a point to the teacher.That guy also tries to make you lose in everything that has competition(EG:Standing on my hand WITH STUDDED BOOTS during a rugby match,continuously kicking my legs during the 500 meter sprint etc..) AND calling everything you say & you like 'gay'.That is a bad habit most people here in Ireland have, IT'S SO ANNOYING.

-People glued to their phones, never having any Idea of their surroundings.

-People who CONSTANTLY TEXT.Even in the middle of class.My class got a weeks' worth of detention because half the class were texting.

-People who SLOWLY walk side by side in a small corridor.Thankfully, I'm quite large & tall for my age so I can easily barge through them, but my point remains.

-People who stroke your hair, which only happens when I'm talking to(NOT CHATTING UP) girls.So what If I have long hair, I'm not a fucking cat.It's bloody disturbing.GIVE ME MY PERSONAL SPACE DAMN IT.

-People who say; 'You have a horrible taste in music, you should listen to this'.I get that too many times.& I also hate when someone DELIBERATELY stands beside you with their phone with earphones plugged out & blast the music you don't like so you can't hear your own music.

-People who say you SHOULD change your lifestyle.I get this a lot also, I swear, I will go on a killing spree if someone asks me that.

-Finally, people who MUST leave the bus before you, even if you are getting off at the same stop, they are in NO RUSH what so ever, but no, they MUST be first to get off, no matter what, & they ALWAYS push & shove through.I actually lost my nerve to a girl who did that to me, I Openly called her a total ***** to my friend, & she just stared at me, & what I said after that has bestowed to me the sweetest reaction to defeat ever.I just said, ''Yeah fuck you, I just said that''.

 

[Patrick Buck]

People who butt in. My friend does that. And People who one-up. He also does that.
But he's also a terrible lier, so I know he's making shit up, and he know's i know. So I'm telling a story, and he butts in, and makes it sound like his is better, and mine is shite, and then I call him out on it, or ask a detail, and it falls apart, and he looks like a dick. Yet he always does it. *Sigh*

 

[Lawnmooer]

People who start talking over someone else, be it someone else who is talking to me or me when I'm trying to say something. It really bugs me because it shows that you think what you have to say is much more important that what anyone else has to say (Often it is some crap that no-one gives a damn about)

People who make a lot of noise while eating or eats with their mouth open. Seriously, close your fucking mouth when you eat, I don't want to see what you're chewing on or even hear some of the noises that I can't even make when trying... Even worse is when my dad does this, when I was young he was telling me to eat with my mouth closed a lot (I didn't have very good manners as a child) and he goes off and does it all the time (I have to wear headphones and turn my music up to not hear him when he eats in the same room as me, when I find it impossible to hear people talking at me loudly from a couple of feet away with the original volume)

People who play their music off their phone/ipod speakers in public. Sure you and your 2 mates love that crappy music, but the other 10-30 people in the area think it's a pile of crap.

All the religious people that try and convert you. Seriously? You don't see me going around trying to convert you to atheism (Except that one joke time where I gave a Johovah's Witness a leaflet I made about it to stop them coming to my house) so what gives you the right to try and convert me? Luckily I do actually have a shirt with an inverted crucifix I can wear through town to stop them bothering me for a while.

People who think they know more about my life than me. "Dude you should really..." what the fuck do you know? I have a plan, I will be achieving that plan (Due to I actually do what I say I will) I don't need you telling me what you think I should be doing at that particular time, or any time for that matter, if I wanted your opinion on it I would ask for it.

 

[Areani]

A particular friend of mine who constantly speaks out against another member of our class, no matter what the situation, and also goes out of his way to comment on things he doesn't like. The fact that he can't seem to comprehend that different people like different things, and is always deriding people who don't like the same things as him and think the same way as him drives me up the wall.

Dude, I wonder if we know the same guy. Seriously, the "people have different opinions"-argument just doesn't work him. Doesn't help that he forms his opinions on things, whether it be movies, music or games, at a moments notice. Apparantly he can immediately tell if something is good or bad. And one of his favourite pastimes is talking shit about people. Urgh

I feel a bit like a hypocrite saying these things about him, but I need to get it out of my system.

 

[WWmelb]

*people who wear hats inside. once you leave the foyer, you hat comes off.

I never got that, and I deliberately wear my hat inside because it's my hat, and I can do what I want with it.

Agree with Lev the Red. It may be old fashioned but it's a simple issue of manners. It's how i was brought up and it really irks me.

But manners aren't universal, you shouldn't expect people to do what you consider polite when they might have a completely different idea. Sure, in your own home ask people to take their hat off, but anywhere else you shouldn't have a problem.

IMO there are a certain set of manners which are or should be universal (or nearly so) and up until recently, they were for the most part.

These are : Go inside.. take your hat off. Say please. Say thank you. Hold the door for women and the elderly and impaired. Offer your seat on public transport to the above. And for the love of god don't spit it in public places.

Like i said, i'm a touch old fashioned, but hey. Manners are not a bad thing, and don't take a lot of effort.

And the argument "i don't think "x" behaviour is rude so its a-okay for me do "x" behaviour without consideration for social etiquette doesn't fly with me. i know that's putting what you said a little more harshly, but that's the impression i get coming from the general public these days.

 

[Baneat]

1. People that want to bum cigs from strangers. Then feel the need to tell you their life story because you gave them one. I was giving you one so you would go the hell away.

I see that as polite, if I give someone a cig I'd rather they acknowledge it by making conversation rather than just fucking off. If it's a street-wanderer you often hear really funny stories - stick around for lols.

 

[mental_looney]

Touchers.

I get it people like to make contact and stuff but someone you don't know very well being overly toucher really creeps me out. Same for personal space invaders.