Infuriating social faux pas

[The Funslinger]

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.

2. People that brag about really expensive stuff that someone bought for them. I just got a brand new car, it's a BMW. Did you buy it. No my parents got it for me. Hey way to earn it you jackass.

3. People that ***** and moan that there is nothing to do. You suggest something and they shrug it off. Either take my idea or think of your own, I am not hear to get you out of your fun funk.

In answer to each of your statements:

1) I may not smoke, but I personally don't like people who go up to random people who aren't even their mates and ask for a cigarette. You don't go up to that random guy with a bag of jelly babies and ask for a handful, do you?

2) Oh that pisses me off to no end. My parents recently helped me get this fantastic coat, and I spent the next couple of months paying it off. Then there's this guy I know, who owns at least two of every console from the last two generations, has Xbox Live and has money to burn on snacks everyday. His mum is a single parent living off benefits, and is in and out of hospital with some nasty medical bills for things that aren't on the NHS. They're basically struggling to make ends meet. So I asked him why he didn't sell some of the games and consoles he doesn't play anymore and cut back on the sweets. His reply does "my mum doesn't want to."

Fuck. That. Shit.

3) It's weird, I haven't been bored in four years. I'm that at peace that I can lie on my bed and do nothing for hours at a time, just staring at the ceiling.

 

[Montezuma's Lawyer]

That one person who feels obligated to give their opinion on everything, even if they don't have a clue what they're on about.

the word for that is officious. i think...

I think that word sounds stupid.

Captcha: Knowledge. Istonol

 

[Phasmal]

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.

This. We had a new guy start at work a few weeks ago - we shook hands, and it was fine. Then, next time he came in the same room as me, put a hand on my shoulder and started talking to me.

It had been a long week, so I took two steps away from him, turned around and said "never touch me again".

To date, he has not broken the commandment.

I had a doctor just like that.
He never actually did anything weird but he was too touchy, it was really creepy.
I only saw him once (for excema) and he kept needlessly touching my hands. (I know it was needless, I've had excema a long long time).
I cant reccall his name because from then on I just called him Dr Creepy.

As for what I hate: Spitting in the street.
Its filthy.
No one wants to see you gobbing, pack that shit in.

 

[The Funslinger]

This is definitely bad, and should be punished (if not with death then perhaps dismemberment), but what bothers me more is when youre walking down a pavement or hallway wide enough for four people abreast, and there are two guys walking side by side, arms out in what is presumably "gansta mode", staggering from side to side in a way that makes it impossible to pass.

That's the sort of demographic I tend to annoy the hell out of, with statements such as "you know you're supposed to take the hanger out of your shirt before you put it on, right?"

 

[The Funslinger]

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.

This. We had a new guy start at work a few weeks ago - we shook hands, and it was fine. Then, next time he came in the same room as me, put a hand on my shoulder and started talking to me.

It had been a long week, so I took two steps away from him, turned around and said "never touch me again".

To date, he has not broken the commandment.

I had a doctor just like that.
He never actually did anything weird but he was too touchy, it was really creepy.
I only saw him once (for excema) and he kept needlessly touching my hands. (I know it was needless, I've had excema a long long time).
I cant reccall his name because from then on I just called him Dr Creepy.

As for what I hate: Spitting in the street.
Its filthy.
No one wants to see you gobbing, pack that shit in.

As for the touching, I had a friend who used to come up to me and give me a kidney stinger (where you jab your fingers into someone's side roughly where their kidney is. It feels horrible, though weirdly you don't feel anything when you do it to yourself)

Put up with that for a few months, but he stopped quite quickly when I turned around and punched him in the face.

As for spitting, I walked past some people who kept doing that. I was freaked the fuck out. How much saliva can you generate!?

 

[Shakomaru]

*people who wear hats inside. once you leave the foyer, you hat comes off.
*flat-billed baseball caps. why do people think they look cool and why do hat makers feel they can charge twice as much as a normal ball cap?
*people who wear ridiculous hats just for sake of being different/to get attention. i love my ushanka, but i only wear it when it's genuinely needed.

i have a lot of hat-related pet peeves...

To add to that, people who wear said hats backwards.People who argue about things they don't know anything about, People who try to insult others by calling them gay When they Both Know that it isn't really an insult. .....I have weird friends....

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

You're having a debate with someone and they begin to say 'This is what you think and this is why it is wrong'. But they then get what you actually meant completely wrong so you interrupt to correct them and they are all like 'This is the problem with you! You don't let anyone finish!' therefore making you look, or feel, like you are completely neurotic and arrogant.

It's pointless to let you finish when you have completely misunderstood what I said! I have a friend who does it all the time and it really, really gets on my nerves.

Also people who constantly text/facebook on their phone while you are trying to talk to them.

 

[Flames66]

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.

I disagree with two of those. One is the hat thing, but you know about that. The other is holding doors for women. If it is convenient and polite to do so, I hold the door open for anyone, being a woman has nothing to do with it.

 

[Flying Dagger]

the awkward moment when you read through this and in your head you go:
"tick, tick, tick, tick, oh one I don't do... wait... tick..."

 

[Oly J]

I cannot believe nobody has said this yet, (at least not in the time before I clicked onto the page) but Spoilers, and not online spoilers because they are avoidable but the walking, living, breathing spoilers that you just can't seem to convince to FUCKING STOP! now I'm somewhat tolerant of this because I know it is quite easy to spoil something by accident...we've all done it but there's always that one guy, who can't resist telling you about a shocking or conclusive event in any given story, which completely ruins any value of it!

the worst example was one guy, who, knew that a friend and I watched Naruto, and we hadn't got onto Shippuden yet, and then he blurts out and spoils a character death JUST BECAUSE HE THINKS IT MAKES HIM MOMENTARILY INTERESTING!!! y'know what the worst part was, I said "dude shut up we haven't got there yet" his only response was "oh well you were gonna find out eventually anyway" THAT'S NOT THE FUCKING POINT! spoiling something accidentally is forgivable, particularly if you apologize for it, but if you're one of those fond of deliberately spoiling something and then acting like you've done the person a favour by destroying any emotional weight said event may carry?...you people just make me see red...so do those who spoil something for you and then expect it to have the same impact regardless...seriously spoiling a story should be a crime

 

[Eri]

*people who wear hats inside.

Why would you care? How does this affect you?

 

[Lethos]

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

This, so much this. Hate it whenever my brother comes back from uni because he has such shit hygiene. Insists on walking around everywhere with his hands around his cock as well.

 

[Owlslayer]

Well, people who spit are pretty annoying. And people who don`t realize in kinda need some personal space. I`ve met a few people who, when talking, come so close that it`s quite disturbing. Feels weird. But maybe it`s just me, and I´m overly sensitive. Who knows.

 

[merck88]

Drinking before 5. I mean, it's 5 o'clock somewhere! amiright?

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

The one-upsman. The one who hears you tell a story, then immediately chimes in with his own. If it's a story about something you've accomplished, he'll try to make it seem insignificant compared to his own. If it's about something else, he'll talk about something similar that he feels will make him seem more interesting/knowledgable. They always do this, even if it's blatantly bullshit. You can easily tell these apart from people who just think "I have an interesting story on this topic too, if I share it they might find it entertaining" by the smugness they radiate and the fact they do it all the god damn time.

Don't be that guy.

I heard he recently went to elevenerrife after hearing that others went to tenerife!

OT: I hate it when people who you haven't seen for years walk by you asn stop to say hi... This bit is not so bad, but it takes the piss when they say at the end 'OH, we are so going to have to meet up for a coffee to catch up soon...

This pisses me off for many reasons! First, we hadn't spoken for years, we both know that we arn't going to suddenly become friends and actually take the time to 'catch up'! The reason we didn't keep in touch was that we don't have that much in common, and frankly, I find you rather boring...

Secondly it just shows that they wern't listning to a bloody word I was saying!! When I run into someone in my home town, in the 2 minute speil I give to tell them what I am up to, I will always mention that I no longer live in my hometown, and I am just visiting... That mean I WILL NOT BE AROUND TO MEET UP FOR 'a coffee and catch up'!!! I'ts nice to be damn blatantly ignored!

 

[As Seen On 360]

People who stay glued to their phone the whole day. Because, you know, it's really urgent that they respond to "lol im bored wut r u doing", rather than pay attention to what's around them. In short, people who are too self important and egotistical.

Also, people who speak and use "Like" and "I don't know" which accounts for 50% of the words they've said. Not sure where the self esteem went but they have to take ownership of what they say, rather than including words that remove all personal responsibility from their opinion.

I think given a boring situation most people would whip out their phone and do something interesting. If its happening to you a lot i would look into reasons why. But hey thats just my take on it.

I was referring to people that look at their phones all day long, not during conversation with me. I don't care who it is, no one's got an urgent enough conversation that they need to space out in the middle of the day. I'd find texting more tolerable if people actually talked about something, anything signicant.

Like people who write a book whilst sitting in public, it's more of a cry for attention to show how important they are than anything else. Most functions of a cell phone are used constantly to do frivolous things, which would be fine if you weren't bumping into people in the hall and making it their concern.

 

[Anthony Wells]

*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.

i hate it when i do something nice with manners and get yelled at for it... seriously it happens.. i hold the door open for elderly then the young perso behind them gets angry because i didnt hold the door open for them.. (they were far away at the time) I take my hat off in restaurant and any other place with food (once i sit down of course)..but normal buildings i do not because thats not how i was raised..i was raised to take my hat off at tables and at restaurants and to hold the door open for others (even when i get yelled at for it..im waiting for a woman to clal me sexist for ti so i can slam it in her face just liike i would any guy getting angry at me..)

 

[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.

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.

Well, alright then. You do what you want, but I'm not going to change in the slightest.

 

[Shavon513]

Idiots talking or giggling in a quiet zone at a library. Especially teenagers who think they are above the rules.

Gawd, that makes me sound like an old fogey.

 

[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.

'Manners' are a bad thing when they're enforcing sexist ideals. Like treating women any differently for no real reason. The door is not so heavy for her than she can't open it herself, nor is a ride on public transportation so ardous that the average women is going to die from not having a seat. Manners are just socially defined rules, they're hardly above scrutiny just as society itself is not.

I had a feeling someone would be of the belief that "chivalry" is sexist. It's not. I was brought up without a father, only a mother and a sister, and it's out of respect and courtesy, not out of believing that a woman is inferior and cannot do these things herself. If anything, it is elevating women to a higher standard than men, lowering the male to mere servant. But that's taking it to an extreme.

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.

I disagree with two of those. One is the hat thing, but you know about that. The other is holding doors for women. If it is convenient and polite to do so, I hold the door open for anyone, being a woman has nothing to do with it.

And yes, i hold the door for anybody who is close by, but i will wait for a longer time to be polite to women, and especially pregnant women, the elderly and those with disabilities.

I don't actually lose my head at people that don't hold up to the same set of manners that i do (apart from spitting in public which is just ... well... ewww) I just live by my own standards and live and let others live.

Surprisingly enough, even though i may have come off as kind of idealistic and fanatical, it's the inability to tolerate others and the way they do things that pisses me off more than anything lol

EDIT: I'd never touch anyone or anyone's hat without their permission. Even if they didn't take it off in my house.