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When someone spits on you while talking, especially into your mouth.
It not only annoys me it grosses me out.
— Carrie Elle from Indiana | Other | 2.12.2010 | Comments (0)
People who expect you to be in a jovial mood for no apparent reason through the entire month of December.
So what if you're unemployed, your grandmother is in prison and you ex-boyfriend just ran over your dog? It's Christmas! Smile!
— Layla from Texas | Other | 12.25.2009 | Comments (3)
Acting as if you are in a race when doing regular activities.
I'm sorry I didn't know this was a race!
— last_nerve from x-as | Other | 1.2.2010 | Comments (1)
When people try to make you feel bad for not going outside on a beautiful day.
My roommate would do this all the time. She'd go biking or to the park to read, then come home and tell me about how perfect the weather was outside. She'd say, "I can't believe you didn't go outside today, it was the most beautiful day EVER. You really missed out."
I could really care less when I, unlike you, had shit to do! Don't patronize me for staying in one day just because you had one fabulous day out.
— whothegoods from California | Other | 12.2.2009 | Comments (6)
The dried lotion booger stuck on the nozzle of the lotion bottle.
That little dried bit of lotion gunk somehow gets stuck to your hands, face, etc, and will never go away! Especially disgusting looking when it is green lotion like olive oil or cucumber.
— Adelaide from Chicago, IL | Other | 11.19.2009 | Comments (2)
Waiting for U.P.S.
They show up anytime they feel like it (between 8am and 6pm) and then just drop your package on your porch and walk away. No signature, nothing. They don't even ring the doorbell to let you know the damn thing is there.
— Acacia from Peoria, IL | Other | 11.11.2009 | Comments (0)
People leaning on, touching, etc. other peoples' cars.
Its not your property! You - yes you! Stop your kid grabbing my car handles, and don't you dare casually lean on it while chatting someone up, either. Its rude. And its not yours. Although you give us a great laugh when we set off the car alarm and got to watch you leap 10 feet in the air.
— Bree from Ohio | Other | 7.3.2009 | Comments (3)
Excessive and difficult-to-remove packaging
The scissor-resistant rock solid plastic tidily encasing the back-up alarm clock I just bought, the paper liners around the peanut butter cups I would like to repeatedly shove into my mouth, the wax paper, foil, more wax paper, plastic, and tape archaeological excavation that divorces me from the bagel I just ordered ... I hate all of you. You are wasteful, and so often stand between me and the things I want. And you make me look stupid when your over-complicated nature foils me every time.
— Amanda B. from The Jerz | Other | 12.11.2009 | Comments (2)
When people try something one time and then consider themselves experts at it.
— Ardoin A. from NOLA | Other | 5.17.2009 | Comments (2)
Hearing about the recession.
Let's just sit back and enjoy it, ride it out, or whatever, instead of talking about it all the time. It's hard to find any news items that aren't about it, and as someone without any money to recess, it's not very interesting.
— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Other | 4.9.2009 | Comments (6)
When the headline of an article poses a question which the story refutes.
Headline: Is all of earth's oxygen thick with heavy poisons, making human extinction an inevitability?
Article: Most scientists say no.
Headline: Will city pet owners have to install tracking devices / remote control mines in their pets anuses?
Article: One guy thought this was a good idea, but then everyone else said it was totally crazy and there's no way it will happen, go figure.
Headline: Can hackers break into your computer and take picture of you through your web cam, then place your image on security camera footage of someone committing a murder?
Article: It happened in one isolated incident which we'll cover for a few weeks, but probably wont happen ever again.
This is rampant, fear-inducing, paper-selling hogwash!
— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Other | 1.16.2009 | Comments (1)
Coming into the room and announcing: "It's so quiet in here!"
Was.
— Ethan Grome from America | Other | 1.29.2009 | Comments (2)
When people leave gigantic decorative pumpkins on their lawns/steps/patios for Halloween or Thanksgiving, but once in place, they "realize" the pumpkins are too big to lift a second time and let them rot in place.
Did this not occur to you BEFORE you allowed your tumescent 67 lb squash to disintegrate into an enormous, putrid pile of goo? The autumn is so much more joyful now that I can enjoy the additional cheer of sailing down a sidewalk on a slick of rotting vegetation and having to de-slime my dog's face with an entire pocket-pack of tissues every time I walk by your house.
— Diana from Brooklyn, NY | Other | 12.21.2008 | Comments (2)
Daylight Saving Time
Sure, I'd love to get up an hour early, and then drive to work while it's still dark. Assholes.
— Li from California | Other | 5.28.2009 | Comments (4)
Planned "ladies nights," especially those where the hosts make a big deal out of the whole "no men allowed" aspect of things should one happen to walk by or ask "what are you doing?"
Gender segregation of this sort does not lead to women who are somehow more empowered, and in my experience, the supporters are usually really unhealthy in their dealings with men (and unwilling to do anything about it other than avoid them in really sanctimonious ways). Not only that, these occasions usually result in much shit-talking *about* men, which is pathetic and counterintuitive to the whole idea of strong, independent people with vaginas. I don't want to brush your hair for you, I don't want to discuss chocolate as though it is a spiritual path and not a food, and I don't want to hear how you hate your body but it's okay that we're talking about it because it's "just us girls". The last time the "separate but equal" doctrine worked--oh, wait, IT DIDN'T WORK.
— Diana from Brooklyn, NY | Other | 12.9.2008 | Comments (10)
Things that are wet that should not be wet.
Examples--Unwittingly sitting in a dewy chair at an outdoor cafe, someone handing you a dripping wet fork pulled from the dishwasher before the drying cycle is done, or trying to dry your hands with a hand-towel that appears dry but is not and only spreads the wetness around on your hands.
— Lars from Austin, Texas | Other | 5.18.2009 | Comments (0)
Mothers who keep telling me that "I'll change my mind", after I tell them that I don't want kids.
I have this happen to me all the time: in-laws, co-workers, etc. It's getting to the point where I've stopped telling people that I don't want kids, and just tell them that I can't have any due to a medical condition. Unfortunately, this white lie doesn't bring me peace either, because the "sympathy" begins. It's my choice whether or not I want kids, I don't need to be told that I'll change my mind, or that you feel so sorry for me, since I can't have any.
— Mitsu from Ottawa, Ontario | Other | 7.13.2009 | Comments (12)
— lean from cbus | Other | 5.15.2009 | Comments (0)
Breaking the last cigarette in the pack, rendering it unsmokable...
— Sharon from Tel Aviv, Israel | Other | 11.8.2008 | Comments (1)
People making the same "hot" face for every photograph.
This is often a lip-pursing, sucky-suck, down-angled face for women, an aloof, empty-headed, slack-mouthed, head-cock for men.
— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Other | 8.4.2009 | Comments (0)
— Rudolph from Brooklyn | Other | 10.22.2008 | Comments (6)
When your favorite porn star gets breast implants.
— Chance Hobson from New York, NY | Other | 3.28.2009 | Comments (1)
Out of town guests who think they're doing their host a favor by expressing no opinion about what activities they want to do while in town
The guest who says they just want to hang out and go with the flow while in town usually secretly expects a full itinerary of events to be in place upon their arrival.
— Vagina Jones from Aberdeen, WA | Other | 10.21.2009 | Comments (2)
When people open their mouths when applying mascara or putting their contacts in
— Hainette Funicello from Malibu | Other | 8.13.2009 | Comments (3)
adults with braces
My shrink just got them. And after eight years together, I might have to leave him. He has a lisp now, and looks like a pre-teen in the above-the-chin-below-the-nose area.
— Hairnette Funicello from Aberdeen, WA | Other | 10.28.2008 | Comments (2)
When a friend of yours writes a work of fiction and one of the characters is very much non-fictionally based on you and is even called a variant of your name.
It goes to print this week. I'm getting lawyered up. How am I going to sell my life story to Lifetime Television if she sells it first?
— Head of the Hobocamp from Brklyn, NY | Other | 9.12.2008 | Comments (0)
The fact that the weather reports daily icon always show the most unpleasant aspect of the day's weather, though it may only account for a few minutes of activity.
If there is a rain storm which, during the summer, only lasts about ten minutes, the icon for the entire day will show a thunder cloud, causing you to despair and cancel outdoor engagements. But in reality the rest of the day is dry and quite pleasant. Are the weather reporters this desperate for action?
— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Other | 10.18.2008 | Comments (1)
Successful people who say they were terrible at the menial job they had when they were younger.
I can't stand it when a very successful person laughs and says that they were terrible at the menial job they had when they were younger. The best example of this is the actress who, in an interview says, "I was a terrible waitress ... ha, ha, ha!" The implication is that waiting tables is beneath them, they were meant for bigger things, and that being a great waitress somehow requires a lack of artistic talent, and a lack of noble ambitions.
Anyone who is intelligent, hardworking, and has a small degree of humility should be a great waitress. It's not funny to muse on how your shitty work ethic allowed you to rise to the top of your profession.
— DannyG from New York, NY | Other | 2.6.2010 | Comments (3)
Last names that could be first names.
People who have last names that could be first names. Idiots.
— Nikki from London | Other | 10.30.2008 | Comments (6)
Christmas Trees on the Street Post-Christmas
I don't care much for the holiday anyway, but to see the once-doted-over princess of the holiday, thrown out on the streets like a dead whore a day or two after December 25th is just pathetic. Why not have another living plant to decorate which continues to live on after the holiday's death like, say, Jesus did.
— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Other | 9.18.2008 | Comments (3)
kids wearing those wheelie-shoe things
Where do you get off, kid, joyfully gliding through life's more mundane situations (e.g. airports, long lines at the post office, subway platforms) on the back of your heels? Oh, how I wish you, with the toe of your shoe cocked toward the heavens, would lose your balance, land on your head, and crack your skull.
— Hairnette Funicello from Malibu | Other | 1.15.2009 | Comments (7)
Journalists quoting internet comments.
Can reporting be any more lazy?
— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Other | 2.24.2009 | Comments (0)
— frank duBose from new york, new york | Other | 2.15.2009 | Comments (0)
Cup-and-ice accidents that make me look foolish.
When I am drinking from a glass with ice in it and the ice freezes to the bottom for awhile, only to dislodge itself onto my face when I tip the glass back more vigorously.
— Diana from Brooklyn | Other | 1.9.2009 | Comments (1)
The coaster sticking to the bottom of a glass when the glass is raised.
It usually falls off mid-sip and annoys me.
— Biffy from Brooklyn, NY | Other | 10.6.2009 | Comments (2)
— Hairnette Funicello from Malibu | Other | 5.1.2009 | Comments (1)
When a movie rental place does not have anything but the latest hollywood teen flick.
Blockbuster on Myrtle Ave. in Brooklyn sucks extra bad. I go there because it's the only place around to get a last minute movie (when NetFlix has not come in yet). The weirdest thing is how all the Hasidic Jews can be seen renting the bad teen movies.
— Nissniss from Brooklyn NY | Other | 3.18.2009 | Comments (0)
Threading needles.
When I imagine hell, it involves an infinite number of small-eyed needles that need to be threaded. Oh, and Hitler's usually there too.
— Schnucky from Tuscaloosa, Alabama | Other | 12.22.2008 | Comments (1)
When you are expecting a chocolate chip, but it turns out to be a raisin. Oh the disappointment!
— Tatertot Smith from Brooklyn, NY | Other | 11.30.2009 | Comments (8)
— carrie g. from aberdeen, washington | Other | 1.7.2010 | Comments (4)
When you have the best dream ever, then waking up to find out it wasn't real.
— Bob Nyak from San Diego, California | Other | 1.26.2010 | Comments (3)
Saying that men watching their own kids are "babysitting."
"Brian's babysitting the kids tonight, so I can go out." No, he's not. They're his own kids. It's called parenting.
— Jess from Ohio | Other | 8.6.2009 | Comments (4)
Having to Jog in Place.
When you go for a jog and get stuck at a red light and you are forced to run in place like an idiot on the corner.
— DKtothemuthafuckinM from Kelv | Other | 1.26.2009 | Comments (5)
