What's bugging you? (2006)

[brewers19]

? People who sit behind homeplate with a cell phone and wave whenever they're on camera.

 

? People who, when shown on the scoreboard at a sporting event, wave at the scoreboard rather than at the camera.

 

? People who don't shovel their sidewalks and then it eventually turns to lumpy ice.

 

? Internet shorthand.

 

? Security devices and packaging on CD's and DVD's.

 

? 8 year olds who dress like hookers.

 

? People who do a bad parking job and neither have the sense nor the courtesy to fix it.

 

? Soap that doesn't lather, no matter how hard you try.

 

? People who use the word 'times' when they actually mean 'multiply.' It's a preposition, not a verb.

 

? Being put on hold because of call waiting.

 

? When people have sprinklers in their yards such that you can't walk past on the sidewalk without getting wet.

 

? When someone parks their car across the sidewalk in their driveway.

 

? People who don't turn on their headlights when it's raining or dark out.

 

? Commercials that give absolutely no reason why someone should buy the product.

 

? People who say 'excuse me' and think that it then makes it okay to be rude and push in front of you.

 

? People that constantly smell like coffee.

 

? When people don't fold up newspapers properly after they're done reading it, so that it now is all lumpy.

 

? People who talk to themselves out loud, seemingly for the sole purpose of getting other people to ask them about it.

 

? Screaming, but especially by girls in unneccessary situations.

 

? Sick people who didn't have the sense to stay at home in bed, and now I have to listen to their hacking coughs and sniffling all day long.

 

? Trucker hats in any sort of existence.

[Brian the Automator]

Brewers19 and Casey1992 pretty much summed it up for me.... although I try my hardest to not smell like coffee, at least my breath. I don't Febreeze myself after having my morning coffee though..

[hawing]

Tip of the cap to both 19 and '92.

 

To spin off some of your points a bit:

 

? 8 year olds who dress like hookers.

 

My bigger beef is with those who make it possible/acceptable for 8 year olds to dress like hookers: Clothing manufacturers, advertisers, retailers, and the adults who (presumably) agree to buy these things for children.

 

? People who, when shown on the scoreboard at a sporting event, wave at the scoreboard rather than at the camera.

 

Thank you. I've made it a point to take note of the camera locations from our humble terrace box section and intend, if ever captured, to stare at the camera and mouth something like STOP IT, or just slowly shake my head.

 

? Being put on hold because of call waiting.

 

Especially when the person who puts you on hold is the one who called you. This has happened to me a surprisingly high number of times at my workplace.

 

Dr. Laura.

 

This is (a small) part of the reason why I will not get a Ph.D.

 

? People that constantly smell like coffee.

 

Or cigarettes. Worse yet would be a combination. At the library we can always tell when we get books back from a smoker because of the smell. The coffee smell admittedly does not last as long.

 

And that brings to mind another thing...

 

People who highlight or otherwise mark up library books. Even with pencil, someone has to erase the marks (on your tax dollar). How hard is it to understand that library materials are shared property, which is different from private property?

[1992casey]

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Dr. Laura.

 

This is (a small) part of the reason why I will not get a Ph.D.

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I thought of making a hawing comment when I wrote that, but I refrained. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

 

 

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Being put on hold because of call waiting.

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I will never, ever put that service on my home phone. On my cell phones, I ignore the beep and continue with the current conversation.

[1992casey]

Some more:

• Saying eye-RACK instead of ear-ROCK.
  
• Thunder. (Imagine getting a 65 pound dog out of a bathtub that's a step up from the floor.)
  
• Houses without enough electrical, phone, or TV outlets.
  
• Having to travel out of town to get the right dog food.
  
• Dog food that's only readily available in 7 pound bags.
  
• Being forgotten about when I'm placed on hold, especially when all I want to know is how long a place is open that day.
  
• Spell checkers that change my spellings and capitalization when I dang well know how I want things typed. (I guess Microsoft is policing our English.)
  
• Rural electricity that browns out or surges on a daily basis.
  
• Web pages which automatically play music.
  
• Web pages which use fonts that are too small, then screw up when I override the author's "judgment".
  
• Making a phone call and trying to figure out the right sequence of numbers to punch to be able to talk to a real person.
  
• People who want to borrow my car just because it's better than theirs.
  
• Signs on Illinois highways that aren't placed over the lane you'll need to be in.
  
• Finding out about road construction half a mile before it starts.
  
• Reconstruction of the Dan Ryan Expressway.
  
• The shortage of high definition TV channels and broadcasts.
  
• Satellite and cable receivers that have connectors on the back that don't work because the software isn't programmed to know about them.
  
• Restroom faucets which are supposed to automatically turn on, but don't.
  
• The fact that Tracfone's tech support is in Colombia and that many of the technicians can't understand my English. (I'm OK with asking technicians to repeat things; I just don't want to have to be the one doing the repeating. Actually, some accents in this country are harder to understand than the foreign ones.)
  
• Calling someone's tech support, then ultimately having to teach them the solution to the problem I called about in the first place.
  
• Use of the word gay when the subject at hand has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
  
• Web pages which present long documents in light text on a dark background.
  
• Flights from Milwaukee to St. Louis with a layover in Miami.
  
• Commercials for obnoxious FOX programming during Packer games.
  
• Rabbits which consume stuff in my garden before I can.
  
• Four inches of snow in October before leaves are done falling from the trees, causing a mess in spring.
  
• Pierced body parts anywhere away from the ears.
  
• Cell phone contracts; I have prepaid phones with two companies.
  
• Satellite TV contracts. Too bad it isn't practical to always avoid those.
  
• Dialing a phone number without knowing whether it's going to be a local call or a toll call. (It happens in the 414 area code when you have to put a "1" in front of everything in 262. And it happens here in the northwoods where we have 7-digit local calls and 7-digit toll calls. Sadly, the landline company doesn't know about cell exchanges; you find out when you get your bill.)
  
• Whenever I have one more web page to look at and some server decides to burp.

I'd add saying Foxfire instead of Firefox, but usually it turns out to be too funny to be annoyed.

[brewers19]

This is gonna turn into a contest between Casey and I of who can come up with more.

 

Restroom faucets which are supposed to automatically turn on, but don't.

 

Or how about those faucets where it's like a giant button that needs to be held down, and you can only wash one hand at a time.

 

? When sitting in a classroom at a desk and the person in front of you leans back to stretch and smacks you in the face with their arms.

 

? Those ribbons on the backs of cars.

 

? When people pass on the shoulder during heavy traffic.

 

? People oblivious to the fact that not showering makes them smell bad.

 

? People who display the confederate flag anywhere.

 

? When stuff is purposely spelled with a K instead of a C, e.g. 'Krazy' or 'Klassic.'

 

? People who, when turning into a parking lot or a side street, feel the need to practically come to a complete stop before making the turn.

 

? People who hang around and chat in high-traffic areas where they're in the way of everyone, yet don't have the sense to step somewhere more out of the way.

 

? When two or three people are walking side-by-side down a hallway or sidewalk, and don't move for people coming the opposite way.

 

? When smokers hang around outside the doors to buildings which makes everyone else have to walk through their smoke to get inside.

 

? People who, when walking down a hallway or stairs, decide to stop in their tracks and talk to someone, without regard to the other people walking behind them.

 

? Political ideologues, for any party.

 

? Vegans, especially the ones here at college. Currently, about a quarter of the available food is vegan; but they want half the food to be, despite the fact that they make up less that 10% of the college population. And they campaign for grass-fed beef and free-range poultry, even though they wouldn't eat the stuff if it were. Also, when they try to make you feel guilty about not being a vegan.

[PeaveyFury]

A few fresh on my mind from the weekend:

 

-People at stadiums on cell phones who are talking to someone else at the stadium and proceed to standup and wave their arms frantically to try and get someone on the opposite side of the stadium to see them amongst the 80,000 other people in the stadium somehow.

 

- People at bars (usually guys) who get so absurdly drunk that they proceed to dance around like idiots, interupt your group/conversations by poking their heads in and singing at the top of their lungs or to yell something stupid, etc because they think they're being clever and cute. Which goes right in-line with...

 

- People at bars (usually guys) who get so absurdly drunk that they proceed to aggressively go after any woman in the bar, whether their clearly there with another guy or even if the girl clearly tells them to leave. Usually accompanied by random 'wandering hands' and last night even witnessed a guy trying to 'dance' with a girl and he tried to remove articles of clothing. Yipe.

 

- Female friends who continually date jerks and scumbags, then are the only one shocked everytime when things don't work out because the guy turns out to be a jerk.

[DHonks]

- Female friends who continually date jerks and scumbags, then are the only one shocked everytime when things don't work out because the guy turns out to be a jerk.

 

along these lines:

that the best looking women, even those with good personalities, date these aforementioned guys. 90% of guys look at it and ask why she's with the jerk, but somehow the girls are blinded, until they break up.

[1992casey]

Of course, I consider myself a nice guy and I don't mean to single you out, but you've walked right into one that bugs me:

a contest between Casey and I

In this case, it's Casey and me. The verbiage requires an object, not a subject. The easy way to be able to test what's correct is to plug in a plural pronoun (a contest between us rather than a contest between we. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

 

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Or how about those faucets where it's like a giant button that needs to be held down, and you can only wash one hand at a time.

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Or faucets that choose the temperature for you. Combine our three faucet complaints, then picture trying to fill a dog's water bucket at a highway rest area. (No, you can't use the 'bubbler' for that.)

 

 

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When people pass on the shoulder during heavy traffic.

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Ah, yes. That reminds me that you're from Illinois.

 

Here's a complaint that isn't mine, but it's along the same line. A friend just moved up here from Missouri. It drove her nuts that people would say ditch instead of shoulder. The ditch and the shoulder are two separate things. You can be on the shoulder and not be in trouble. If you're in the ditch, you're always in trouble.

 

 

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When smokers hang around outside the doors to buildings which makes everyone else have to walk through their smoke to get inside.

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Worse is when you go indoors and have to walk through the smoking area to get to the non-smoking area. And I find it odd that at Miller Park, people have to go indoors to smoke. (I actually don't like cigarette Nazi-ism but feel that common courtesy should prevail.)

 

 

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Political ideologues, for any party.

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I almost put "Republicans, Democrats, and Independents" on one of my lists. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

 

Here are a couple more:

• Men's rooms in Mexico that lack toilet seats, even in very nice places. Heck, when you're eating the food down there, you tend to need a toilet seat more often than in the States.
  
• TV commercials that are way louder than the rest of the programming.
  
• People who talk on cell phones at stadiums, then express annoyance that those around them are too loud.

[hawing]

a contest between Casey and I

 

In this case, it's Casey and me.

 

And you thought you were the Grammarian, 19. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

 

Also - I think I can guess at least two things that Peavey did on Saturday (and into Saturday night).

It's probably even harder to distinguish yourself from the 80,000+ others at 'a stadium' when 79,000 are wearing red. But it doesn't stop folks from trying!

[PeaveyFury]

Also - I think I can guess at least two things that Peavey did on Saturday (and into Saturday night).

 

Friday night as well. My wallet is much lighter today for some reason.

[madcrewfan]

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Being put on hold because of call waiting.

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I generally don't answer the incoming call if I'm already talking to someone, unless it's a call that I was expecting and/or need to answer. When I do need to talk to that other person, I'll either end the call I'm on straight up or tell the person I have another call I need to take and I'll call them back.

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Soap that doesn't lather, no matter how hard you try.

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Isn't that generally caused by having hard water, rather than being a defect of the soap?

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Sick people who didn't have the sense to stay at home in bed, and now I have to listen to their hacking coughs and sniffling all day long.

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What if you don't have paid sick days and need to pay the bills?

[madcrewfan]

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The shortage of high definition TV channels and broadcasts.

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How did you survive before HDTV? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

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The fact that Tracfone's tech support is in Colombia and that many of the technicians can't understand my English.

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I had a guy from India or somewhere similar one time with Cingular. Had to ask the guy to repeat everything he said three times. Sorry, but there comes a point when the savings of having call centers in third world countries isn't worth it because people get annoyed that they can't understand a thing the tech is saying, calls take three times as long as they should, and people end up dropping the carrier because they are not happy with certain problems they can't get fixed. Get people that know what they're talking about that speak English.

[madcrewfan]

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Or how about those faucets where it's like a giant button that needs to be held down, and you can only wash one hand at a time.

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YES! I will never understand why someone thought that was a good idea. Even worse are those paper towel dispensers that have a long bar across the bottom of the dispenser you have to push back to get the paper towel to come out, and then the paper towel comes down IN FRONT of the bar! So now you have to reach behind the paper towel to keep pushing the bar. Not to mention that bar is really unsanitary because of all of the people who think they don't need to use soap when they "wash" their hands. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/sick.gif I hate any dispenser with a lever or button of any kind you have to push to get towels because of those people.

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Those ribbons on the backs of cars.

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Or more the fact that they have them for everything now, up to and including your favorite sports team or charitable cause. I saw a van once that seriously had about 15 of those ribbons on it for different things. Just makes you want to rip them all off.

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People who, when turning into a parking lot or a side street, feel the need to practically come to a complete stop before making the turn.

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Sometimes you have to slow to a crawl to pull into some parking lots to avoid scraping the bottom of your car on the pavement because some idiot designed the driveway wrong.

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When two or three people are walking side-by-side down a hallway or sidewalk, and don't move for people coming the opposite way.

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I don't move for those people. They'll get a shoulder from me if they're too stupid to realize that they need to move. Happened all the time walking to class when I was in school. Exceptions were made for football players that outweighed me by 200 pounds though. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

[brewers19]

In this case, it's Casey and me.

 

And you thought you were the Grammarian, 19.

 

I'll admit, you got me there, Casey. No need to be a Toxic Granny, Hawing. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

 

Isn't that generally caused by having hard water, rather than being a defect of the soap?

 

Sometimes that's the case. But I remember my mother always used to buy bars of these weird fragrance soaps that wouldn't lather, but normal soaps worked fine.

[splitterpfj]

People who take one step off an escalator and stop, forcing you to either plow over them or do some sort of moonwalk around them.

[mothershipconnection]

Condescending people who explain things and end each sentence in "ok?". Often this is a southern thing, but nobody does it like Bill O'Reilly. I had to work with an old guy that talked like that all the time and I wanted to slap him and let him know that I've got 8 years in college, and he doesn't need to act like he's dumbing things down, especially because he consistently mispronounced words.

 

Panera Bread

 

The Packers

 

Towns that don't plan well and develop everything in one area with insufficient roadways.

 

The fact that myspace is one of the most popular sites in the world yet never works well and it takes forever to load.

 

Any rap song about rims or cars.

 

People who decide that the H in many words is silent. "That Gilbert Brown is one yooge yooman being".

 

Ridiculous, three hour commercial breaks on talk/sports radio.

 

Having highly-educated friends that all feel like they have to claim to enjoy jazz music because they're educated.

 

Volkswagens

 

People falling for pseudoscience and buying snake oil. They realized 100 years ago that colonic irrigation and toxic poop buildup is pretty much bogus, yet people fall for it today.

 

In a similar vein, people who think or claim that all things that are natural are completely safe. Alright infomercial guy, let me shoot you up with this big syringe filled with cobra venom because it's all natural. Also, I've got some natural hepatitis blood here, care to pour it in you open wounds?

 

Paying a one day late fine when you return a DVD 15 minutes late.

 

When the campus parking office changes the most convenient lot from commuter to resident pass, tickets you $35 on the first day of school for parking there, and says they won't drop the fine because the change was posted on their website.

[wisconsinfan47]

Ridiculous, three hour commercial breaks on talk/sports radio.

 

I hate this one. Often times I'll just be driving for 10-15 minutes at a time, and if i feel like listening to sports/talk radio in the car, I have to pray it's not on commercial break or I won't get to listen to the show I won't. Oh well. Boo Hoo. for me.

 

Here's another (rather trivial) one: When a Kleenex box is down to it's last few tissues, and everytime you take one out of the slit, the next one falls back to to bottom of the box, and you have to dig to get it out.

[valpocrewsader]

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When a Kleenex box is down to it's last few tissues, and everytime you take one out of the slit, the next one falls back to to bottom of the box, and you have to dig to get it out.

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Or how about when you first open that box and the kleenex is so jam-packed in there that you're left holding shards of tissue on your first six or seven grabs?

[burniebrewer]

Any rap song about rims or cars.

 

Isn't that every rap song?

[Fatter than Joey]

Ok Into the fray.

 

"Houses without enough electrical, phone, or TV outlets."

 

Outside water faucets needs to be added to this list -- Apparently everyone who designed houses pre 1980 had ample supply of 700 ft. garden hoses.

 

People who think they are intellectual because they don't have TV, and then do not understand any references to pop-culture.

 

Brusied Bananas

 

When my wife uses knives to open pickle/jam/jelly jars.

 

Kevin Costner.

 

Toothpaste that gets squeezed only from the middle of the tube

 

Printers that cant pick up only one sheet of address labels.

 

Meth Labs

 

Chiropractors -- We get a piece of mail every now and then from "Dr. Suzy", who seems to know that everyone in our family needs spinal adjustments.

 

Shower Doors -- In a fit of rage I threw mine out this weekend and replaced them with the rod and curtain -- my kids and wife seem to think that pushing outward on the doors opens and closes them. Then they don't stay on their track.Plus they get that film on them and look gross.

[NeedMoreFans]

I haven't done posted in this thread in a few days, so time to add a few more...

 

State Street in Madison becoming commercialized

 

My wireless card disconnecting from my wireless network every time I move my computer (I have a laptop and my router is 6 feet away from the computer)

 

Trying to find a part-time job to supplement my new job (substitute teacher in Madison...finally)

 

Not getting called to go into my new job

 

Being bored all day

 

Not knowing HTML or whatever I need to know well enough to bullet my items

 

People who don't pull up far enough in their street parking spot, thus making the spot behind them useless

 

Drivers who don't use their turn signals

 

Drivers who drive in the left lane of the freeway who are going slow and won't get over to the right lane to let you pass them

 

My parents comparing my wedding next summer with my sister's wedding in a couple weeks

 

People trying to tell me what to do with my life

 

 

Sorry that there are a lot of personal things on there, but I've been keeping it in lately, so it feels good to let it out. I'll add more non-personal things later.

[madcrewfan]

Cities that take forever to plow roads/clear snow after a snowfall. Are you listening City of Madison?!?!?!?

 

People in school at UW who take the bus from Memorial Union to the top of Bascom Hill. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/mad.gif

[1992casey]

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First, when you write a reply, make sure the HTML radio button is selected in the formatting area (below the subject box).

 

Then you can use code like this:

 

 

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brewers19 is using an actual keyboard character rather than creating an HTML list. On a Mac, it's option-8. I don't know the key combo in Windows, but it'd be in the Character Map program somewhere.

[BrewCrewLifer]

This happened back in August actually, but what's bugging me is parents who can't control their kids. At the Minnesota zoo, a little 9yr old girl climbed over a large set of boulders, and over a wall/fence and got her finger bit by a meerkat. While all of the meerkats had been vaccinated for rabies noone knew for sure whether or not any of them had it. So you would think the little girl would get her rabies shots and be done with it, right? Well... you'd be wrong.

 

As opposed to getting rabies shots for the little girl, the parents decided they would make the zoo kill all 5 of the meerkats that were outdoors (as they couldn't tell which one bit the little girl) to check to see if any of them had rabies.

 

How is it that when a little girl who's parents are not watching her, climbs over an embankment and a wall (which is no easy task as I've been told by friends who used to work there), proceeds to get bit by a meerkat, and then the meerkats are the ones who are punished? They did nothing wrong, simply being the wild animals they are. And as it turned out none of the meerkats had rabies so basically they were killed for no good reason. Now I highly doubt meerkats are cheap at all, so now they zoo had to replace them. I am willing to bet the parents didn't have to pay any of those fees, and probably talked about suing the city/state for not making it harder for kids to climb over the walls. Walls/fences are there for a reason!

 

Now I am only 21, so I don't have kids and can't pretend like I know how to raise them. But I know darn well that if I ever did something stupid like that not only would I have had to get the rabies shots (which I have heard are quite painful), but that I would also have gotten a good slap on the rear.

 

Just my 2 cents.