Questions you hate being asked

[CManator]

*Person Sees my tattoo"

"Cool! Did it hurt?"

"No, having someone inject ink into my skin with various sharp needles for about an hour didn't hurt at all, it felt like sunshine and double fucking rainbows"

The funny thing about that response is that tattoos, sunshine, and double rainbows can all make a grown man weep (I am a night person so yes sunlight can bring tears to my eyes)

OT: My biggest peeve has to be "What are you thinking?"

I can undestand why you ask, me being a quiet person and all, and I am obviously not in a waking coma. But more often than not there is nothing specific on my mind (if there was, you would know) I just get lost in random thoughts, like when you're listening to somebody talk and the transitions are so smooth that you don't realize they've changed the subject about 5 damn times, and when you snapped me out of it by asking what I was thinking, i pretty much forgot what I was thinking about anyway, but I'm too annoyed by the question to calmly explain this all to you, so even though it will disappoint you, I will summarize for your convenience.

"Nothing."

 

[-Drifter-]

Making a note here:

Asking people about the things they hate = Guaranteed Successful Thread.

 

[Dr. Thrax]

Why don't you have a girlfriend?

God I hate this question. I get it from my grandparents and it infuriates me.
"Why don't you have a girlfriend?" "Yeah, I know. You want great grand-kids. TOO FUCKING BAD."
Oh how I wish I could say that...

 

[Quazimofo]

There are things I hate being asked. I can't seem to nail any of the good ones down. But I can remember that I don't like explaining obvious things, so the question of "Why?" at an inopportune time can be irritating.

well, there is a sure-fire solution to solve all of those "Why?" questions.

simply answer one of the following...

FOR THE EMPRAH!

FOR THE GREATER GOOD! (in a sterotypical yet slight japanese accent)

because the numbers SAY SO!!

why not?

Because pluto isn't a planet anymore!

or any other number of silly, preferably referential, sentences

 

[The_Evermind]

"Can you explain that in laymen's terms?" In reference to my dissertation. It's on simulating topological quantum computation, does it sound like there are layman's terms? I have the choice to either a) Say no, look like a prick, or b) Try, look like a prick.

You could always try "If I could explain it in laymans terms it wouldn't need a whole dissertation now would it?" or "If it could be put in laymens terms I wouldn't needed to have spent x years studying it."

OT:I recently moved cross country and so I'm getting sick of "So how do you like California?" It's not like I don't understand asking the question I'm just getting sick of it and I never know what to say, I mean its just a city not that different from where I used to live so I usually end up commenting on the weather.

I also have a personal vendetta against people asking me where I want to eat out but that is because I just never want any specific place and have a terrible memory so I don't know what is close by.

 

[FalloutJack]

There are things I hate being asked. I can't seem to nail any of the good ones down. But I can remember that I don't like explaining obvious things, so the question of "Why?" at an inopportune time can be irritating.

well, there is a sure-fire solution to solve all of those "Why?" questions.

simply answer one of the following...

FOR THE EMPRAH!

FOR THE GREATER GOOD! (in a sterotypical yet slight japanese accent)

because the numbers SAY SO!!

why not?

Because pluto isn't a planet anymore!

or any other number of silly, preferably referential, sentences

I'm gonna go with..."Reply hazy. Ask again later.".

 

[Death God]

"Are you gay?"

Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against gays or lesbians but I have been asked this question so many times because (A) I don't have a girlfriend, (B) I have a lisp since I was 5, (C) I am very kind and thoughtful of others, and (D) because I used to walk on my tip-toes and now have a weird way of walking ( I used to love pretending to be a ninja). So people need to seriously stop asking me. It is getting a bit old.

YO

DUDE

RIGHT HERE

WANTED TO BE A VELOCIRAPTOR WHEN I GREW UP

*brofist*

FINALLY! Somebody gets it!

*brofist*

 

[GonvilleBromhead]

I get the colour blind "what colour is that" question. It is intensly irritating, and leads to my usual answer of "How on earth should I know? You're the one who can see the dratted light spectrum correctly, you bally well tell me!"

"Why are you wearing a suit" - my preferred mode of dress is a vintage suit, shirt and tie, so I get this a lot. My usual answer is "because they wouldn't let me kn the train naked" seems to stop it happening again.

"How do you pronounce this word?" - I have a pretty posh English accent, hence the question

"Why exactly were you singing a spoken word version of Gangsta's Paradise whilst wearing the uniform of a First World War British Infantry Officer?" is another one. "Because that's how I roll, mother****ers" seems to quell them

 

[FriendGuy]

Being 6 feet 8 inches tall, whenever someone approaches me for the first time to start a conversation, these questions will inevitibly be the first ones asked:

1: "How tall are you?"

I've taken to making up random heights now...

The second question will always be:

2: "Do you play basketball?"

To which I reply "No, should my unusual height create a greater disposition for liking such the sport?"

I hate it even more when people preface the question of "How tall are you?" with "I know you probably hate being asked this".

Then why are you asking it!?

 

[Pegghead]

I get constantly asked if im american because of the twang in my voice. Im not, Im AUSTRALIAN GODDAMIT!

...dont even sound like a real american....

Holy shit...are you me?!

As for me, "Are you ok?". Now look, if your friend is looking a little down and you ask if there's something troubling them then that's fine (and a very good thing to do). However, just because I'm not, at a particular moment, dancing down the street grinning from ear to ear doesn't mean you can automatically assume there's something wrong with me. I consider myself a pretty happy guy, but a vacant expression doesn't mean I'm considering suicide. Rather, it means that keeping up a big, goofy grin 24 hours a day is both a bit pointless and can get sore after a while.

Another thing people used to ask me is if I'm gay. Why, you looking for a boyfriend? Not that I'm insecure or narrow-minded or anything, but what I want to have sex with is a bit of a personal subject (even if there is nothing to really hide).

I also hate it when people ask me "How do you spell your last name?" Easy. Spell it the way it sounds. D-E-L-G-A-D-O, not Deglardo (Where the fuck did you even get the R?) or Deglado or Delgato.

D-d-Delgado?

Charyou Tree...

 

[Ch@Z]

"Ooo, you speak x language!? Say something in x language!" Does anyone know what to say in any language when asked that?

Yup, I get that all the time here in Japan.

I now just say the Japanese word for "English" when they ask me to speak English.

 

[JayElleBee]

"What's your story about?"

Since I wing it when I write stuff and make it up as I go along, I generally have no clue what my story is about. And there's usually a few doses of big gay smut in there too, so the fact it's my mother or grandmother who asks me is just awkward.

 

[SadisticBrownie]

I despise most forms of social contact, especially with relatives. The worst question, however, is easily "what are you going to do?" I just dropped out of Uni, so that one's been pretty frequent.

 

[Suicida1 Midget]

I hate it when kids ask/beg me to join x clan. Because game night friday amd a possible mlg team with a group of sqeakers is wroth it.(its not.)

 

[Dr. Thrax]

D-d-Delgado?

Charyou Tree...

I didn't get the reference until I looked it up. (Yay Google!)
Fortunately for me I'm male, so at least I'd still be alive.

I don't really get the "Are you gay?" question a lot (Other than the "OH MY GOD YOU'RE GAY?!?" when people find out.), I mainly get "Why don't you have a boyfriend?" and "Oh! You and (X) would be so cute together! Why don't you go out?" Because 1) You have crappy taste in men, 2) He's creepy as all hell, 3) I'm not looking for a damn boyfriend as I've told you FIFTY times already, back the fuck off.

 

[gphjr14]

"What are you?" In regards to my ethnicity.

I can't go more than a few months without someone asking me this.
I need to get an arm tattoo of Africa a shamrock and a dream catcher so people will stop asking.

That and people like to touch my hair (it's curly long) which is the main reason I keep it cut short.

 

[Blobpie]

"What are you doing?" "What are you going to do for school?" etc etc

This bothers me because..... I don't know. Nothing interests me at all, I look at all of the occupations out there and nothing appeals to me.

 

[Twilight.falls]

Being 6 feet 8 inches tall, whenever someone approaches me for the first time to start a conversation, these questions will inevitibly be the first ones asked:

1: "How tall are you?"

I've taken to making up random heights now...

The second question will always be:

2: "Do you play basketball?"

To which I reply "No, should my unusual height create a greater disposition for liking such the sport?"

I hate it even more when people preface the question of "How tall are you?" with "I know you probably hate being asked this".

Then why are you asking it!?

I'm somewhat shorter than you, a mere 6 foot 3, but I get asked that a lot. Just as you said, the first thing ANYBODY ever says to me when I meet them is "You're tall, do you play basketball?"

I feel your pain.


I also hate when people ask "What are you listening to?" Do you really need to know? I usually listen to piano and violin, something people my age don't seem to do a whole lot. I get strange looks when I'm in the mood to answer truthfully, otherwise I just say "Music".

Also, I'm half Thai. I don't see it, but a lot of people are able to instantly deduce that I'm asian when they see me. Of course, they always jump to either Chinese of Vietnamese. When I say that I'm Thai they usually ask "Can you speak Asian?!". No, can you speak American? And if you meant "Can you speak Thai?", the answer is still no. I was born in the US, raised in the US, by two English speaking parents.

 

[RemoteControlRox]

"Your name's Roxanne? Like the song?"
No, not like the song. Not at all.

It's only worse if I'm not asked that, but just sung at (good lord that is an atrocious end to that sentence). Yes, har har, how original. It's as if I haven't heard bad singing several million times before.

But I'm pretty sure anyone with a name that's included in a particularly famous song has to deal with that sort of thing. 'S just an irritation. I ignore it for the most part.

 

[ace_of_something]

If you're married and do not have children. People will ask you frequently "when are you gonna have children?"

Being 6 feet 8 inches tall, whenever someone approaches me for the first time to start a conversation, these questions will inevitibly be the first ones asked:

1: "How tall are you?"

I've taken to making up random heights now...

The second question will always be:

2: "Do you play basketball?"

To which I reply "No, should my unusual height create a greater disposition for liking such the sport?"

I hate it even more when people preface the question of "How tall are you?" with "I know you probably hate being asked this".

Then why are you asking it!?

6'6 I feel your pain. Usually I just reply with. "I played hockey"
I really want to say "How much do you weigh?"