I'm the exact same. I always have to have the volume at a sound, solid number. It's bafflingly nonsensical, but I can't help it. Same with the other two examples.Zak757 said:
Strange things that get your blood boiling
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People who watch reality television. Seriously, there is no actual reason to be any more annoyed by people watching X-Factor or Honey Boo Boo than there is anything else out there, and I don't even really watch TV.
But god dammit do I want to strangle every idiot who gawks at it then complain about the people they see on them DESPITE the fact it's deliberately filmed and edited to make the different from you as freakish as possible so you will tune in. It's like watching a child smacking itself in the head with a crowbar and crying when you tell it to stop.
Excuse me I need to go repair the numerous holes I've just punched into the wall.
But god dammit do I want to strangle every idiot who gawks at it then complain about the people they see on them DESPITE the fact it's deliberately filmed and edited to make the different from you as freakish as possible so you will tune in. It's like watching a child smacking itself in the head with a crowbar and crying when you tell it to stop.
Excuse me I need to go repair the numerous holes I've just punched into the wall.
The term "weeaboo" would probably be my newest one. Mainly when it's used to dismiss a person's opinion, since apparently what you think doesn't matter/should be ignored if you're a fan of another culture/language. Of course it's really just another stupid insult used by trolls and after so many years on the internet those type of insults are easily ignored, but for some reason seeing that silly term makes me really POed. Thankfully there's the ignore list for people that like using it, maybe I've just been unlucky but from my experience they usually don't say anything I want to read anyway.
I once heard my dad say the phrase "easy, tiger!" It made me want to hurt a lot of people in increasingly unspeakable ways just to make the mental pain go away...
Now he does it just to wind me up...
Now he does it just to wind me up...
People who think that all anime is "naughty tentacles", all male characters are "humping like bunnies to please the weirdo fangirls" and all visual novels are "hentai".
There's a special place in hell for those people. And you know what... it might actually be justified in some way. By western standards, the Japanese are a very odd people (their pull-your-weight work-standard, obsession with making everything cute to make a thin barrier to protect themselves with their crippling despair, and the fact that Cat Soup exists) and some people just take a few darkly comic jokes in anime too far without knowing anything about the anime itself.
"naughty tentacles" aren't actually all that tolerated in Japan, for obvious reasons, and it gives them a somewhat bad image.
I also fucking hate popular LPers. They are all obnoxious pricks who made me laugh once or twice, but only out of despair and as a defense mechanism. I fucking hate those people. One LPer/steamer who is actually funny, Supergreatfriend, is known for his bonderline stoicism, choice of games that are so bad it's good, and blatant disregard for offensive or misogynistic things, before going into emotional rants about something minor and trivial. And he's entertaining, funny, but gets very few views.
Pewdiepie is a loud, idiotic, obnoxious douchebag whose only slightly entertaining trait is his absurd hatred of wooden containment mechanisms. And even then, that's about as entertaining as giving a 3-hour lecture on the history of etcha-sketches.
There's a special place in hell for those people. And you know what... it might actually be justified in some way. By western standards, the Japanese are a very odd people (their pull-your-weight work-standard, obsession with making everything cute to make a thin barrier to protect themselves with their crippling despair, and the fact that Cat Soup exists) and some people just take a few darkly comic jokes in anime too far without knowing anything about the anime itself.
"naughty tentacles" aren't actually all that tolerated in Japan, for obvious reasons, and it gives them a somewhat bad image.
I also fucking hate popular LPers. They are all obnoxious pricks who made me laugh once or twice, but only out of despair and as a defense mechanism. I fucking hate those people. One LPer/steamer who is actually funny, Supergreatfriend, is known for his bonderline stoicism, choice of games that are so bad it's good, and blatant disregard for offensive or misogynistic things, before going into emotional rants about something minor and trivial. And he's entertaining, funny, but gets very few views.
Pewdiepie is a loud, idiotic, obnoxious douchebag whose only slightly entertaining trait is his absurd hatred of wooden containment mechanisms. And even then, that's about as entertaining as giving a 3-hour lecture on the history of etcha-sketches.
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I have a blind, burning hatred of extraneous apostrophes in fantasy and sci-fi languages. I am often mocked for this, but I've devoted a lot of time to conlanging[footnote]How much time? Enough that the word "conlanging" doesn't sound ridiculous to me anymore.[/footnote] and it pains me to see it done poorly.
I know what that's like - your first bugbear. I get really annoyed if the tv I'm watching volume isn't set to a number that is a multiple of 5. Any numbers in between just won't cut it.SilverBullets000 said:
Anything on the front page of a tabloid newspaper. If you think that constitutes "news" important enough to appear on the front page then I'm afraid at least some part of your brain isn't working.
Forced apologies. That's one of the worst. A public figure makes a statement, which somebody somewhere is inevitably offended by. The whole thing is blown out proportion desperate to turn everything into a major scandal until person who made the original statement is forced to apologise. Because an apology someone is forced to make, whether they actually mean it or not is the best kind of apology there is. Really.
90% of all Youtube commenters. Seriously, it's a cesspool for stupidity. Especially when it comes to fandoms. PewDiePie's in particular. While I myself love PewDiePie and find him quite entertaining, so many of the comments are either poorly written, don't make sense, are trying to appeal to him, filled with the ugliest of emoticons, or the worst, people who try to promote their own channel by spamming the comments.
Another thing I don't understand why, but I hate people on Twitter who ask celebrities and people they like to follow them with the "please follow me, it would mean the world to me and I'd be so happy" bullshit. Like, what changes in your life by Johnny Depp reading that you ate breakfast? Why would he even follow someone who just randomly asks him? Are you living in some sort of weird fantasy where your boring everyday tweets will indirectly seduce him?
And the final thing, people who feel the need to update their social networks with every single facet of their life. I don't care that you had coffee with your boyfriend like you do everyday, it's not relevant or interesting in any way!
Another thing I don't understand why, but I hate people on Twitter who ask celebrities and people they like to follow them with the "please follow me, it would mean the world to me and I'd be so happy" bullshit. Like, what changes in your life by Johnny Depp reading that you ate breakfast? Why would he even follow someone who just randomly asks him? Are you living in some sort of weird fantasy where your boring everyday tweets will indirectly seduce him?
And the final thing, people who feel the need to update their social networks with every single facet of their life. I don't care that you had coffee with your boyfriend like you do everyday, it's not relevant or interesting in any way!
The rules. There's too damn many. I'm not talking about laws, as much as unwritten social rules, largely problematic because they are unwritten, and you're left to guess them. And there seems to be more rules than ever now.
If you get something wrong, people will start hurting you, trying to make you go away, and if you keep getting things wrong, they'll get rid of you. It seems so unfair. I've tried all my life to please "the normal people" to stay out of their way, to prioritise their rights over mine so they won't harm me. It's absurd. You stand in the wrong place for too long, you've broken the rules. You look at the wrong person, you've broken the rules. Fuck, your choice of hat can lead to you breaking the rules. None of it makes sense, none of it makes for a nice world, but they still get to decide the rules, and they still get to hurt you if you try to resist.
If you get something wrong, people will start hurting you, trying to make you go away, and if you keep getting things wrong, they'll get rid of you. It seems so unfair. I've tried all my life to please "the normal people" to stay out of their way, to prioritise their rights over mine so they won't harm me. It's absurd. You stand in the wrong place for too long, you've broken the rules. You look at the wrong person, you've broken the rules. Fuck, your choice of hat can lead to you breaking the rules. None of it makes sense, none of it makes for a nice world, but they still get to decide the rules, and they still get to hurt you if you try to resist.
Let's Plays. Maybe I've just been seeing the wrong ones (getting most of my exposure from the ones my brother spends most of his days watching)but I've yet to witness one that doesn't at some point devolve to "screaming in silly voices with a game in the background". And then there's plenty of LPers who make that their entire thing. The more savory of the lot also have a clever routine where they keep mentioning how they're going to rape everything in sight. With their penises. And some of these get millions of views. They're professionals!
Whenever I do watch them (to see what the gameplay of a game is like mainly) I have to put them on mute because they're so incredibly obnoxious. Except for this one I found demoing the Oculus Rift with Outlast. He talked like a normal person, and had no intention of trying to inject all of the winning personality the other popular Let's Player's put into theirs. Of course, he only had a couple thousand views. Probably because he didn't scream enough and didn't talk in a stupid voice
Even without all of those factors I just don't get the appeal. Why I'd want to watch someone else having fun playing a game is just something I don't get. Maybe if I couldn't play the game because of some circumstances? Or if it's really, really bad and I don't want to buy it? Even then I would much rather just see the game without the flavorful commentary
Whenever I do watch them (to see what the gameplay of a game is like mainly) I have to put them on mute because they're so incredibly obnoxious. Except for this one I found demoing the Oculus Rift with Outlast. He talked like a normal person, and had no intention of trying to inject all of the winning personality the other popular Let's Player's put into theirs. Of course, he only had a couple thousand views. Probably because he didn't scream enough and didn't talk in a stupid voice
Even without all of those factors I just don't get the appeal. Why I'd want to watch someone else having fun playing a game is just something I don't get. Maybe if I couldn't play the game because of some circumstances? Or if it's really, really bad and I don't want to buy it? Even then I would much rather just see the game without the flavorful commentary
Except for my given example (see OP), I don't mind people watching it. The people I DO mind are the ones who sit there and complain about how horrible Dance Mom's is for the kids and then...continue to watch Dance Mom. It's the same people who cry about how shameless paparazzi are for stalking celebrities while buying tabloids (thus giving the paparazzi the only reason to exist).Nadia Castle said:
People who use the word 'decimate' wrong. It sounds cool, but I find it hard to take anyone seriously when they say decimated when they mean annihilated or destroyed.
Vocal clarity on intercoms. Is it a rule to have the worst possible technology? It always seems to sound like they all bought $15 walkie-talkies from Wal-Mart to install in their equipment and give out to their employees. I have never been able to understand a damn thing anyone says on a taxi or bus radio, so I always have to ask someone what they said and they're usually just as clueless. It's even more aggravating when the computer announcing the destination via the on-board speakers is perfectly audible.
This came into play when a few of the subway stations were shut down and the train was going to be rerouted at a certain location. Problem is I had no idea what they said and neither did my neighbours until after it happened.
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This came into play when a few of the subway stations were shut down and the train was going to be rerouted at a certain location. Problem is I had no idea what they said and neither did my neighbours until after it happened.
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watch?v=_tOakzcUx_A
For me, it's my boyfriend calling me a Bidoof [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Bidoof_(Pok%C3%A9mon)]. Now, I started calling him that because for situations where I'd be inclined to call him an idiot, I wanted to go with something less mean. So I went with Bidoof. However, he just calls me Bidoof all the time.
Bidoof isn't even an actual insult, hell I kinda meant for it to be endearing, but it pisses me off to no end.
Bidoof isn't even an actual insult, hell I kinda meant for it to be endearing, but it pisses me off to no end.
Gah yes! Finally someone else thinks the same. I don't know why I wanna punch his(?) face! >;o it's such a punchable face.SirBryghtside said:
And yes, sorry JoJo XD
OT: A weird one for me is parents who post CONSTANT PICTURES OF THEIR KIDS D; I don't know anyone who cares about your kid so much they want to see a picture of them every ten minutes or every time they move or every time they have something to it. I understand a kid is your world, but just being all about your child and a 'mother' rather than a 'person' isn't a good idea. Your life doesn't stop when you have kids and thinking people want to see 50 pictures of them doing absolutely nothing all day is ridiculous.
I love seeing my friends kids but their is an overkill.
Another one is people kissing on TV and public noisily. They sound like pigs and it makes me feel sick. I saw a couple in Subway who just stood blocking the queue because they were snogging and groping and wouldn't move.
I may be in love but I don't think I've EVER been that level of... expressive. Putting your partner down for 5 minutes while you do something shouldn't be so difficult.
To be fair, they really didn't explain that bit in the movies, which is what the vast majority of people familiar with LOTR have experienced rather than the novels (I haven't read them myself but I've since learned the answer to that particular question).TrulyBritish said:
As for me, a few things. It's a bit hard to pin them down because whether or not I can remember something seems to be heavily tied to a) current emotional state(not great, but ere is not a place for venting) and b) emotional state of the memory. In the case of frothing rage, panic attacks, or any other period of severe emotional distress (a significant portion of my life due to a relatively minor disorder which is basically by definition overreaction and self-exacerbation), shit's hard to remember if not outright repressed.
All that comes to mind immediately is stickers (though that's more a very deep physical disgust), and instances of the usage of the word "thusly". It comes up as red on the spell checker for a reason folks; by using it you are painting yourself as the person the word was designed to mock: people who are attempting to affect sophistication by modification of their own limited cache of "big" words with suffixes or other such superfluous syllables. Thusly is a joke word; use thus. It literally has the exact same function and has no connotation of pretentiousness.
It is harder than it looks to not go on a largely incoherent rant about the molestation of language by idiots.
Oddly enough, I also get very frustrated when people talk in absolutes about any art or media (since media are largely subjective). Or maybe a better way to say it is fanboyism. "All x is shit" "this game is literally flawless", "x is shit" (especially after they enjoyed it before but grew tired of it. Retroactively changing an opinion is a subset which does make me VERY angry. Not sure why). I just see no value in completely ignoring any possible benefit or merit of something, or actively hating something so trivial as the media people enjoy. It's an expenditure of energy to ultimately no gain for any party involved.
'cept reality shows and tabloids. They really do have basically no measurable merit except vanity so great it could feed the starving populations of Asia. The whole damn continent.
I really hate when you have a popular figure with hundreds or thousands of followers that blindly accept everything they say. Pretty much any sort of social media has it with the popular figures spouting some bullshit and anybody who disagrees is immediately swarmed by their fans/followers until they up and leave.
That shit just rubs me the wrong way. Let the two have a proper debate, don't just swarm the opposing opinion for fuck sake. Suppose it's not very strange though, just the first thing that came to mind of something making my blood boil
Also, "blogging". I just hate the fucking word and the act itself doesn't sit well with me either. Sort of ties into my first example. Why people give two shits what some random person has to say is beyond me. Especially when it's nothing that hasn't been said a million times before.
That shit just rubs me the wrong way. Let the two have a proper debate, don't just swarm the opposing opinion for fuck sake. Suppose it's not very strange though, just the first thing that came to mind of something making my blood boil
Also, "blogging". I just hate the fucking word and the act itself doesn't sit well with me either. Sort of ties into my first example. Why people give two shits what some random person has to say is beyond me. Especially when it's nothing that hasn't been said a million times before.
Well apart from the usual stuff that would make any normal humans blood boil, I would have to say clothes hangers are my mortal enemy, I can't stand them and they truly make me irrationally angry to the point that I have the almost irresistible urge to destroy them by any means necessary. I think it stems from growing up and having like 100 different hangers, hanging up in my cupboard and nothing hanging on them, they would get tangled and you'd pull one out and the lot of them would come out you go to pick them up and sort them out and they are just one big tangled infuriating mess. I hate them, it's making me annoyed just thinking of them.