Things People Say That Piss You Off

[FunkEngine12]

When someone says, in response to anything, be it movie, game, book, play, whatever, "It wasn't trying to ______". Yes, there are situations where leaving out an element of a play or game can be beneficial. Scott Pilgrim would not have been nearly as good as it was if it had tried for more mass appeal, and Half-Life and it's children wouldn't have been as tightly designed and fun to play if they had tried to allow for extra features like multiplayer. However, when I'm talking to a friend and they respond to my complaints about a film's lack of characterisation or a book's lack of coherent narrative and they respond that those things weren't what they were "trying to do," that doesn't make the book, film, game, whatever any better, it just shows that the people behind it were lazy.

 

[Dr.Sean]

SAME DIFFERENCE

 

[Shadowseraph]

"Anime and manga is SOOOOO much better than comic books."

 

[Noah Maxin]

Saying gay as an insult.

 

[Noctius]

when people say that portuguese from brazil is the same from portuguese from Portugal
HALF THE FREAKIN WORDS ARE COMPLETLY DIFERENT
ice cream is gelado in portuguese and sorvete in brazilian

 

[Shadowseraph]

Amen.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

"It's wrong to judge people"

How do you mean wrong? Like, it's not moral? Yeah, that's a judgment of me judging, which makes you a hypocrite. What you are saying is "I want to do what I want to do. How dare you say it is immoral! Don't judge troll!"

EDIT: People saying "Haters gonna hate". OK. Your point? Because the only thing you can pull from that is an ad hominem attack.

 

[Fraeir]

I hate... political correctness. In most cases, I consider it to be worse than what it's trying to prevent. Maybe it's due to me having learned this from the wizard of words himself, George Carlin, that no single word is offensive or bad by itself.

('bad' word in spoiler in order not to piss anyone off, I know there can be some touchy souls here, so if you opt to see it, now it's your own choice. I blame political correctness.)

"For instance, there's nothing wrong with the word ****** in and of itself; It's the racist asshole who's using it that you ought to be concerned about! I don't like words that hide the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth, like that there is a racist and a bigot in every living room on every street corner in this country."

- George Carlin

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Here's a concrete example of what piss me off about it.

Like when people say the correct term for "black" is 'African American' in any (granted, American) show, my first thought is: "That might apply to you guys, but what can you call, say, a black Norwegian? 'African Norwegian'?"

I'm sorry, that's a retarded sounding term, and sounds even worse in actual Norwegian.


I recall hearing a black man on Norwegian TV say he honestly preferred the term 'negro'. Now there's a man who's grown up and deserves a pat on the back. And a cookie.

 

[The_Amazing_G]

"Don't worry about it" and "That's so gay".

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

I really hate it when people correct me by getting all nitpicky about words and phrases.

Yeah, I'm looking at YOU!

 

[The_Amazing_G]

"Anime and manga is SOOOOO much better than comic books."

HA ha yes. But it's all according to cultural preferences. People shouldn't say one thing is better than another just becasue they personally prefer it. It's ok with universal truths, though, like: "Pie is better than getting your arm ripped off."

 

[Giest118]

People who are offended when the word "gay" is used to describe something stupid.

It's like they don't know that words can change their meanings over time, even though the word "gay" has already gone through a change of definition. Thanks to homosexuals, there is one less word to describe happiness.

/thread.

Period.

 

[arrow_storm]

Oh so many...

1. Correlation proves causation
2. Slippery slope arguments
3. Confusing 'Sarcasm' with 'irony'
4. Horrible, horrible puns
5. Misuse of 'light-years'

Of the five, the last is the worst in my book. Light-years are a unit of LENGTH. LENGTH. Get it? Length NOT freakin' TIME. One of my friends actually had to stop me from slapping someone when they did this.

 

[King Toasty]

Oh, I thought of another one.

"Firefly was canceled by Fox."

No. Didn't happen. God, no, that'd be a stupid move on Fox's part. No one would do that.

NO ONE. NO ONE DAMMIT. IT'S ON HIATUS, OK? IT'LL BE BACK. ONE DAY. ;~;

 

[Hoboape]

When people insist they are right while stating no factual evidence to prove it.

Example:I was arguing with a friend of mine and he insisted that the language Jewish people spoke in was called Jewish. Even after I said that the most widely spoken language was Hebrew but there were many others (even going so far to show him the wiki page on the subject) he still insisted he was right.
One of the few times I have wanted to punch him right in the temple for being a stubborn arse.

 

[Mr. Brightside]

The use of the word "moreish" absolutely horrifies me, I simply cannot stand it!

 

[YourMom]

I hate it when people talk about what things people say to them that are annoying, and I REALLY hate it when they make a thread about it.

Well done, you came onto this thread to tell everyone how much you didn't like this thread...

Why bother?

I also think its annoying when someone doesn't get my joke.

 

[xXAsherahXx]

The phrase "fish and chips" or literally anything anybody in congress says (Barrack had the right idea walking out of that one meeting, if it were me, I would have thrown a chair at Eric Canter)

I dislike going off topic, but what's this in relation to?

I'm not really in tune with American political occurrences.

A brief run down. The debt crisis over here is making everyone go crazy and the republicans have basically shut down and decided to play the waiting game while everybody tries to figure out what to do.

If the left comes up with a plan, the right shits on it and calls it "propaganda from the left" or a "conspiracy from NPR"

The left is equally unable to cooperate, but is still trying.

 

[Mr. Brightside]

Probably mentioned already, but people who do not know the difference between 'your' and 'you're'. I mean come on, it is not fucking hard to figure out!