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I wouldn't say your entirely guilty of that. I mean, you're an actor, acquiring a variety of personality traits is kind of part of your job. And it really only bugs me when people attempt to mimic those characters and their intelligence just so they can put other people down.Spider RedNight said:
Ohhhhh yeah, that's like a dick move. Like the holier-than-thou "this character is SOOOO me so I can get away with being a jerk because LOOK HE'S DOING IT". Yeah, I totally get where you're coming from~Jolly Co-operator said:
Well, somebody I know did this the other week, when watching a friend play MGS: Revengeance.
We acknowledge that this game has a high cutscene to gameplay ratio, the first person I mentioned, dislikes this, which is understandable. But what irks me is how he goes about saying he dislikes this. He doesn't consider for a second that this is personal taste, he flat out calls it a bad quality game. I tried my best to politely get across why he should reconsider his stance, but he refused. I gave up. He still hadn't budged from "bad game".
If you're indisputably correct, don't budge. But if you're dealing with subjective matters such as opinions and refuse to accept that it's "just you". Sorry, I don't respect that at all.
But that doesn't mean you're not allowed to have a "bad opinion" every now and again. I don't like Portal! I'm subscribed to Smosh! I'm practically a heathen to some people! But I'm totally capable of acknowledging 95% of the time Smosh is low-quality and to 95% of people Portal is a fantastic franchise.
We acknowledge that this game has a high cutscene to gameplay ratio, the first person I mentioned, dislikes this, which is understandable. But what irks me is how he goes about saying he dislikes this. He doesn't consider for a second that this is personal taste, he flat out calls it a bad quality game. I tried my best to politely get across why he should reconsider his stance, but he refused. I gave up. He still hadn't budged from "bad game".
If you're indisputably correct, don't budge. But if you're dealing with subjective matters such as opinions and refuse to accept that it's "just you". Sorry, I don't respect that at all.
But that doesn't mean you're not allowed to have a "bad opinion" every now and again. I don't like Portal! I'm subscribed to Smosh! I'm practically a heathen to some people! But I'm totally capable of acknowledging 95% of the time Smosh is low-quality and to 95% of people Portal is a fantastic franchise.
Passive aggressive comments. My current housemate is a prime example as he can keep it up for hours in a tone that somehow grates against my nerves and renders them raw in moments.
I'll go with something pretty light because I don't want to write a rant about the shit people do at work (Everything. Everything everyone ever does at work is annoying)...
'Hipsters'- Or rather, calling people hipsters. It implies they're doing whatever it is they're doing to show off, basically. In actual fact, people don't actually give a piss about what you think of them. It's become kind of a catch-all term to deride anyone dressed in a way that doesn't conform neatly into a preexisting stereotype or 'normal', which is pretty fucking terrible. How dare they be different.
'Hipsters'- Or rather, calling people hipsters. It implies they're doing whatever it is they're doing to show off, basically. In actual fact, people don't actually give a piss about what you think of them. It's become kind of a catch-all term to deride anyone dressed in a way that doesn't conform neatly into a preexisting stereotype or 'normal', which is pretty fucking terrible. How dare they be different.
When people go out of their way to ignore your existence.
I went to visit my mother in the hospital the other day and I went to get on the elevator with my Dad and pressed the button for the floor I was headed to. In walks a woman and I ask "what floor you heading up to"? Since I was right next to the panel with the buttons. She doesn't even look at me, doesn't say anything and reaches passed me and presses the button for the floor she was going to, and proceeded not to say anything on the way up. I ran into her again on the way down and it was the same thing.
After we got down to the lobby she marches out with her nose literally stuck in the air a bit. I just looked at my Dad and said "is it just me, or did the temperature in here just drop ten degrees"?
I went to visit my mother in the hospital the other day and I went to get on the elevator with my Dad and pressed the button for the floor I was headed to. In walks a woman and I ask "what floor you heading up to"? Since I was right next to the panel with the buttons. She doesn't even look at me, doesn't say anything and reaches passed me and presses the button for the floor she was going to, and proceeded not to say anything on the way up. I ran into her again on the way down and it was the same thing.
After we got down to the lobby she marches out with her nose literally stuck in the air a bit. I just looked at my Dad and said "is it just me, or did the temperature in here just drop ten degrees"?
Honestly I'm usually too busy thinking about what I'm doing to be that annoyed by anything anyone else is doing. Unless by doing so I can feel better about myself.
Well there is when someone just walks up and directly insults you. Sometimes I smoke an actual cigarette instead of using an E-Cig. Once while smoking a cigarette a woman walked up to me and said to my face: "How does it feel to be a second class citizen?" To which I responded right back: "I dunno. How does it feel to be a first class *****?" She was so insulted, but what do you expect when you insult someone to their face? Also when someone wearing a skimpy outfit with bra straps showing insults my taste in fashion. What is wrong with people!?
Also when I talk to a non-trans friend about being trans and they say: "I understand exactly what you're going through." No, it seems like a nice gesture to say it, but it's not really, and it makes you seem like an ass having actually said that. If you're not in my situation, then you're not going to understand my exact situation, that's fine, and it's fine if you sympathize. Just don't act like you do understand when you can't possibly.
Also when I talk to a non-trans friend about being trans and they say: "I understand exactly what you're going through." No, it seems like a nice gesture to say it, but it's not really, and it makes you seem like an ass having actually said that. If you're not in my situation, then you're not going to understand my exact situation, that's fine, and it's fine if you sympathize. Just don't act like you do understand when you can't possibly.
I feel that. Although now that my calorie counting app can do full recipes with button presses I'm less generally pissed about it. I can alter them to reflect what actually went in or just use the premade one. This comes in handy when you want to demonstrate what "just a little butter" did to a given meal.cthulhuspawn82 said:
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Time-estimators who are consistently and significantly wrong. Double points if they refuse to acknowledge this. Whenever a person I works with tells me this or that will take an hour for me to do I mentally add three, and whenever he tells me what time he will get to the office I instantly change it to be an hour later. He is slowly becoming self aware however, if only because I am so consistently able to predict his lateness that I schedule around a mental clock I keep for him and a couple others.
"I am so sorry for being an hour late to this meeting!" "The meeting is just starting, it was scheduled for 2:00" "Oh I must have marked it down wrong" "No, Roy changed the time." "Yeah sorry, something came up and I must have forgotten to tell you."
Something is always a long lunch or a peaceful bit of time to work.
I can confirm this. I'm 35, and I haven't really overcome this so much as just gotten really good at hiding it. I hate confrontation, but since I work in customer service, I don't really have much choice. I can stand there and politely deal with an angry customer with a perfect smile on my face, but the whole time my heart is racing, and I have my hands held behind my back because they're shaking. I really don't like dealing with people I don't know.WonkyWarmaiden said:
You should work at a smaller school. At one of the high schools I attended(I went to four different ones), I took the Algebra II honors course. Our teacher was a legitimate mathematician(not some coach who got stuck with a math class), and we only had six students in the class. It was the best class I ever took. We didn't do homework because everyone in the classroom was focused on the topic, and we even had time to engage in class discussion about the history of mathematics. As I said: best class ever.Auron225 said:
People who declare them to be the absolute authority and supreme representative to whatever label they champion.
Any experience you've had pales to what they know. The ability to have forward thinking and a flexibility can not be tolerated, because it would question their dominion over Logic Itself, as their holy title bequeaths them. You'll never know as much as them. You'll always be wrong unless you completely parrot them. And you are obviously their enemy if you just question.
If you want an example, go to any twitter feed long enough and just wait. They are looking for big enough crowds to spread the word.
As on the same vein
People who only think their causes matter
Listen, I want everyone to be happy. I want everyone to go on doing whatever they are doing. Your beliefs, good deal. Keep on doing that.
But if you have issues, it's important. You need to work that out. You should get everyone it affects and we'll get together and we'll do what we can.
... That being said.
If I have issues to, and you expect me to put all of my resources into solving your issues and mine can be done 'once yours is addressed', we almost officially became enemies.
Case in Point: One of my oldest friends recently became a Feminist. I get it. She sees injustice in the world towards women, yeah, go for it.
But then she started to ask me about my beliefs, my ideas and feelings. It honestly felt like she was probing me for any sexist ideas so she could unleash and educate me about how wrong I am. I think she sufficiently found nothing, so she suggested I become a feminist to get the word around.
Personally, I stopped doing labels a long time ago. Back when a twenty year old me decided to call himself a Black Militant. Why? There's also been social injustice against all minorities, but it always seemed like Blacks got a heavy dose of it. Now, whether or not that was actually true or because I was so close to the issue being black, never can say. But what I do realize is that I made more personal enemies trying to get the word out than I ever did 'enlightening' anyone. I said as much.
She said "well, yeah. I remember then. But this is a real social issue that needs addressing"
That got me a little heated.
I explained that I do think women need more representation in life, but for you say that your issue is something that needs addressing and Social injustice towards minorities is not a real issue that needs addressing, we might have an issue.
She goes on to tell me that of course Social Injustice towards Minorities is a serious issue, but social injustice towards women is a more pertinent cause.
She said that to a black man. In a time where not only a lot of us are being gunned down in streets by Officers of the law and getting off without any issue, but in a time where there are gaggles of people ready to pop on twitter or a news outlet and yell "LOOK AT WHAT HE WAS WEARING, HE'S JUST A THUG." and that to be still socially acceptable. And even fucking echoed.
I closed the conversation soon after that.
Any experience you've had pales to what they know. The ability to have forward thinking and a flexibility can not be tolerated, because it would question their dominion over Logic Itself, as their holy title bequeaths them. You'll never know as much as them. You'll always be wrong unless you completely parrot them. And you are obviously their enemy if you just question.
If you want an example, go to any twitter feed long enough and just wait. They are looking for big enough crowds to spread the word.
As on the same vein
People who only think their causes matter
Listen, I want everyone to be happy. I want everyone to go on doing whatever they are doing. Your beliefs, good deal. Keep on doing that.
But if you have issues, it's important. You need to work that out. You should get everyone it affects and we'll get together and we'll do what we can.
... That being said.
If I have issues to, and you expect me to put all of my resources into solving your issues and mine can be done 'once yours is addressed', we almost officially became enemies.
Case in Point: One of my oldest friends recently became a Feminist. I get it. She sees injustice in the world towards women, yeah, go for it.
But then she started to ask me about my beliefs, my ideas and feelings. It honestly felt like she was probing me for any sexist ideas so she could unleash and educate me about how wrong I am. I think she sufficiently found nothing, so she suggested I become a feminist to get the word around.
Personally, I stopped doing labels a long time ago. Back when a twenty year old me decided to call himself a Black Militant. Why? There's also been social injustice against all minorities, but it always seemed like Blacks got a heavy dose of it. Now, whether or not that was actually true or because I was so close to the issue being black, never can say. But what I do realize is that I made more personal enemies trying to get the word out than I ever did 'enlightening' anyone. I said as much.
She said "well, yeah. I remember then. But this is a real social issue that needs addressing"
That got me a little heated.
I explained that I do think women need more representation in life, but for you say that your issue is something that needs addressing and Social injustice towards minorities is not a real issue that needs addressing, we might have an issue.
She goes on to tell me that of course Social Injustice towards Minorities is a serious issue, but social injustice towards women is a more pertinent cause.
She said that to a black man. In a time where not only a lot of us are being gunned down in streets by Officers of the law and getting off without any issue, but in a time where there are gaggles of people ready to pop on twitter or a news outlet and yell "LOOK AT WHAT HE WAS WEARING, HE'S JUST A THUG." and that to be still socially acceptable. And even fucking echoed.
I closed the conversation soon after that.
People who always have something sexist, racist, classist, or homophobic to say for just about everything annoy me. But for more common annoying behaviors:
People who interrupt
People who will keep talking even after you've told them they are bugging you(I have seriously told someone to shut up on several occasions only to be continually ear raped by them anyways)
People who brag about everything and try to make every accomplishment you achieve out to be shit
People who talk/whisper as they read
People who ask really fucking rude/insensitive questions
People who complain all the time to you(and you listen because you're not an asshole) but then when it comes time for you needing a shoulder to cry on they whine that you're "complaining too much".
People who interrupt
People who will keep talking even after you've told them they are bugging you(I have seriously told someone to shut up on several occasions only to be continually ear raped by them anyways)
People who brag about everything and try to make every accomplishment you achieve out to be shit
People who talk/whisper as they read
People who ask really fucking rude/insensitive questions
People who complain all the time to you(and you listen because you're not an asshole) but then when it comes time for you needing a shoulder to cry on they whine that you're "complaining too much".
People with hyperactive agency detection. The kind of people who simply cannot fathom that things in the world are complex and cannot be boiled down to "evil people are causing it, because I say so".
This kind of behavior is pretty much a staple of conspiracy theories, but I am seeing it every single day in my environment as well. Like when the company car breaks down under one of my co-workers and he will explain to me in great detail how it was the previous guy who used it that broke it (probably on purpose) and then gave it to him so that he would take the blame, because that guy is obviously a scheming asshole. After all, he did this, therefore he mist be a scheming asshole. Then circular reasoning, cognitive biases and the rest of the fallacy brigade starts rolling in and I want to chew off my own ears. -.-'
This kind of behavior is pretty much a staple of conspiracy theories, but I am seeing it every single day in my environment as well. Like when the company car breaks down under one of my co-workers and he will explain to me in great detail how it was the previous guy who used it that broke it (probably on purpose) and then gave it to him so that he would take the blame, because that guy is obviously a scheming asshole. After all, he did this, therefore he mist be a scheming asshole. Then circular reasoning, cognitive biases and the rest of the fallacy brigade starts rolling in and I want to chew off my own ears. -.-'
"Why are you complaining when X is worse off?"
Look, I get it. Yeah their life is very much indeed harder than mine. But everybody likes to complain some days. Hell, people need to complain otherwise they can go postal. Just because somebody has a better life than somebody else doesn't mean they can't complain about it.
"I've been doing X recently and it's SO GOOD can't believe I never did it before"
Recently been acquainted with a vegan like this. Holy shit.
Also people putting wet spoons back in the sugar/coffee/whatever. Curse you peeps.
Look, I get it. Yeah their life is very much indeed harder than mine. But everybody likes to complain some days. Hell, people need to complain otherwise they can go postal. Just because somebody has a better life than somebody else doesn't mean they can't complain about it.
"I've been doing X recently and it's SO GOOD can't believe I never did it before"
Recently been acquainted with a vegan like this. Holy shit.
Also people putting wet spoons back in the sugar/coffee/whatever. Curse you peeps.
I have a couple one rather petty and one that can really get me boiling.
The petty one is people who leave time on the microwave timer. I honestly don't know why it bothers me so much but it does.
The more serious one is people who bring religion (any religionreally but christianity in particular since that's most common around me) into any and every conversation. My grandma is like this. She watches nothing but church programs and csi. Talking to her is like walking through a minefield. What's gonna get her going this time?
Imagine my horror when the best option for college anywhere I could afford was a Baptist University. Curriculum actually wasn't that bad though they tried their hardest to shoehorn religion into each class. The students though. Quite a few of them were exactly this kind of person. Surprisingly not so much with the professors. Several of them seemed just as annoyed when attempting to cram religion into the class.
The petty one is people who leave time on the microwave timer. I honestly don't know why it bothers me so much but it does.
The more serious one is people who bring religion (any religionreally but christianity in particular since that's most common around me) into any and every conversation. My grandma is like this. She watches nothing but church programs and csi. Talking to her is like walking through a minefield. What's gonna get her going this time?
Imagine my horror when the best option for college anywhere I could afford was a Baptist University. Curriculum actually wasn't that bad though they tried their hardest to shoehorn religion into each class. The students though. Quite a few of them were exactly this kind of person. Surprisingly not so much with the professors. Several of them seemed just as annoyed when attempting to cram religion into the class.
I always find this the weirdest thing, it's happened twice to me with strangers.KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime said:
One time I was hanging out with my girlfriend and we were at a train station when a guy just out of the blue said "What's with your hair? Are you gay?". I didn't miss the irony of the situation. He ended up apologizing to me before leaving. Weirdest thing.
There was another time where I was heading to a class Kinesiology building and as I was about to pass a guy he looked at me and scoffed saying "I bet you're not here to work out." No... I wasn't in fact, but I had a good deal more muscle on me than he did.
I don't think I'll ever stop being dumbfounded when it happens.
My beef is the weird way that people get judgmental of people who try to be charitable or support a cause. For some reason giving to charity, helping out at homeless shelters, being a vegetarian, or protesting all seem to earn you more derision from people than praise. The automatic assumption is that they're just doing it so that they can be holier than thou, or they feel uncomfortable like they're being judged because they aren't doing it as well.
You see this all the time in media and tv too, how often is the charitable person ever actually charitable? They almost always turn out to secretly be snide, awful people.
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What grades do you work with?Auron225 said:
I'm a big fan of math as well, it's a pretty large component of my degree and it also gets me with how dismissive people are of math. From some of the friends I talk to, it sounds like what happens often is that someone gets behind or lost in earlier grades, and since everything is built on what they learned then they can't understand any of the new material. Gives a lot of people the impression that math is like magic, a set of arbitrary rules that work for... some reason.
It probably doesn't help that a lot of teachers don't even try to explain why something works the way it does. My brother's learning trigonometry and angles in a circle right now, and he kept asking me for help because he didn't have the slightest idea why any of the rules were the case. You get some weird rules there too, like how the inscribed angle is one half the central angle. Nobody even tried to tell him why that worked, they just told him that it worked and that he should take it for granted.
In my opinion, you're losing a lot in a math education when you just feed someone a bunch of rules and expect them to memorize them without any sort of understanding