So, I was having a discussion IRL and thought it'd be interesting to share with other CDers here. What are your biggest pet peeves?

My biggest two in order are:

A. People who write or bend and tear their books, general mistreatment of books really.

B. People who misuse a/an. Nothing grates me when I read or hear people say 'an doorbell or 'an car or 'an street and 'a arrow' or 'a airplane. I'm not even a grammar nazi but that just bugs me.

People throwing me at the ceiling. But now I'm being literal, which annoys quite a lot of people, so I'll just answer the question properly.

People with no respect, or no concept on how respect works.

People who constantly pester me with irrelevant things and such.

People who constantly disturb me when I'm playing video games and such.

People who have spoken English all their life still making grammar mistakes that are typically made among ten-year-olds. I understand if English was your second language, but these people I know have spoken it all their life!

People who do not listen, or are too stubborn to do or try anything for no reason whatsoever. That's just stupid.

People constantly being loud no matter how many times you ask them to be quiet, or people who make the TV, radio, etc. unecessarily loud. It makes my ears hurt, and it annoys me to no end.

People who do not shut things off behind them. If no one is occupying the room and people can see just fine, then you leave the light off. If you are the only person in a room and you leave, TURN THE LIGHT OFF BEHIND YOU! What is so hard to understand there, I'll never know.

Spoiled brats.

And most all ***holes in the world that think they are superior to everyone and that if it is not their way of thinking or doing something, then it must be completely wrong.

That's all I can think of right now. Children and annoying sounds are also on the list somewhere.

Do people actually say things like that? I get that people sometimes say 'a' instead of 'an', but generally not the other way around.

People who can't seem to grasp the notion of treating the public toilets with respect.

Disloyal & cowardly people really rub me the wrong way.

People who type with numbers instead of letters to seem "cool."

People with no sense of respect.

People completely immature for their age.

People who think their opinion is fact.

People who act cool arund you then become total a'holes when their "group" is around.


Lots of things... too much to list.

Being put on hold for 15 minutes so they can look up the price of a game on ebay and say they no longer have it or it was misplaced... and then later on in the day see the very same game on ebay for 4 times the price.

Aside from what Lexicon said?

People who can't put video game discs away and have them scratched up. It takes two seconds to put it away and saves you a world of misery.

Nosy people who can't mind their own business.

People who are out to screw you over.

ESPN's Northeastern/Big market team bias. There are other teams than New York and Boston you know. :/

Yes, and it drives me absolutely bonkers when people do that.

People who are so anti racist that they are in fact actually racist. Like the people who think that only white people can be racist or use the word "reverse-racism" for racism against white people, like they invented the whole concept of racism or something and are suppressing all other races.

Self entitled pricks that feel the world should be handed to them but want to sit around and do nothing but expect to live a comfortable life. Like the whole "occupy" movement in north America was in reality just a bunch of self entitled kids who figure that they should be able to get money for nothing and apparently the 1% of America that pays 50% of all the taxes isn't enough. (I mean the original concept of the occupy movement wasn't terrible, Corporations getting bought out by the government is sort of the antithesis of capitalism, but the reality behind what it became was completely different then the original vision behind it and it just turned into a hippy jam fest.)

All the TV commercials now a days that have a man and woman couple, and the man is a complete idiot that seemingly cant do basic functions and the woman is some super smart expert in everything that if she wasn't there, the man would be dead by now. I mean one of these commercials every now and then wouldn't be bad, but it seems almost every commercial has taken on this ideal to seemingly satisfy all the hardcoe feminists out there or something.

People who seriously refer to themselves as 'unbiased'. [censored]. Nobody is unbiased, everybody has biases of some sort.

95% of the beatles songs that play on the radio.

When a radio station plays a song on the radio 10 times a day because it's new and popular by some well known band, but in reality the song svcks balls and within a year, you never hear the song again.

Emos. The bands, the way the people look and their whiney attitude. Oh my god! my life is so bad because I didn't get my allowance today! Time to cut and feel sorry for myself. (honestly, how do these guys get women?)

People who go to university/college for some bogus degree (usually some form of liberal art) and then act superior because they got a 'degree', but then know nothing of how the world runs and somehow think that they deserve over a 100 grand a year because they got a degree in philosophy even though nobody anywhere is hiring a philosopher now a days, and if they are, there's a huge pool of people to choose from.

Almost all University professors with Tenure. Tenure is something they achieve when they are a professor for so long, and what it means is that they can never get fired, no matter what babble they spout out or what they do (unless its some hard criminal thing like being a pedophile or something). These are usually people that have gone to school for 50 years of their life and never actually worked out in the real world, but somehow they know everything about the real world and brainwash kids with their nonsensical opinions.

Flat coke and other soft drinks.

When people sing the wrong words for a song.

People who move into a new place and live there for over a year, and when they move out, they fully expect to get their damage deposit back. Seriously, ive never heard of anyone getting their damage deposit back unless they lived there for like 3 months or less, but there's lots of na?ve people out there. A year of wear and tear on carpets and stuff usually costs a lot more then a damage deposit to fix too, and in most cases the homeowner has to fork out more cash for renovations between tenants.

The people who work at a job and figure they're the best person at their job and without them, the whole place would crash around their heads. When I worked in the restaurant industry, there were lots of cook friends of mine that talked like they were king [censored] at their job, but in reality they were actually terrible at their job.

Government funded Heroin shootup clinics (like the ones in Vancouver) that give heroin addicts free heroin to shoot into their veins. Then people try to defend these, saying that everyone deserves a chance of rehabilitation. Then I'll mention how there's more Drunk drivers out there then heroin addicts, so if everyone deserves a chance, should we have designated Drunk Driver lanes built everywhere?

I could probably go on forever, but I'm going to end it here for now. Lots of stuff drives me nuts, but usually not that bad that I can mostly ignore it, though it still doesn't mean I have to like it.

This happens to me all the time. Not only when watching TV or using the internet, but in real life. I passed some guys on the way to the surplus store (really [censored] location for a surplus store) the other day, and they asked me what the **** I was doing in the hood, then proceeded to call me a cracker. I couldn't think of anything smart alecy to say because I was caught so off guard, so I rolled up the window and drove away. Also, that one lawyer who is trying to tell us that 'Cracker' isn't an insult needs to go fall in a well.

Really, this annoys the piss out of me. The worst is when you call people out for being racist for saying things like that, and all of a sudden you're the bad guy. Screw those buttmunches.

LOL I like this one and agree with it 100%

Nothing really annoys me that much besides the occasional differing viewpoint.

Oh, and Ohio State fans.

Nothing annoys me more than the Fox News Network

Any Big 10 fan really. The Big 10 in general actually. Only fans more delusional are Florida State fans.

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Nah, only Michigan and Ohio State are bad.

The only two worse would be Alabama and Auburn, but I don't live there so it doesn't affect me.

As an SEC fan, I couldn't agree more on Bama. Their fans claim they have 15 championships or however many they think they have. I'd replace Auburn with Georgia and Tennessee fans though.

Without elaborating, I really dislike -not hate- dogmatic people.

You'd have to have first hand experience to really understand the Alabama rivalry, at least that is what my parents say.

Living there for two years as an infant doesn't really count.

I think I'd consider myself "dogmatic" a bit. At least when what is considered "free thought" these days flys in the face of morals and beliefs I've always held to be true. Just because a bunch of people think something to be right doesn't mean I should

It goes both ways. I've met irrational people of faith and irrational Atheists. It comes with the territory of faith, there are good people and crazy people. It's just one of those things really.

I edited out the free thought part. I should have acknowledged that both theists and nontheists alike can be dogmatic. My bad.

People who act like playground children and feel the need to inject their political opinion in everything