People who use their turn signal AS THEY'RE TURNING. You asshole! You're supposed to do it a bit before you turn to let people know your intent. There's no point in signaling as you're turning because I CAN SEE YOU TURNING! Fuck!
And usually all the cars around them had to wait six years because they weren’t aware of the upcoming turn (busy intersections).
So generally I use turn signals correctly. But there are a few times I don't for particular reasons.
If I am sitting at the rightmost lane at a busy intersection and intend to turn right, I honestly tend to not turn on my right turn signal. The ambiguity of whether or not I'm turning or going straight helps keep assholes behind me from honking at me. I've found that an unfortunately large amount of people get impatient when someone in front of them is turning right on red onto a busy road. They honk and act like assholes because they want you to dangerously jump into traffic and not wait for a clearing so they can go sooner.
I know I could turn on my turn signal and just let an an asshole lay on their horn, but honestly I really truly prefer to avoid that.
Audio messages, I hate them with a passion. Sometimes I just refuse to listen to them. Can't search them for info, and why tf do you assume I can just stop my day to listen to this shit I don't have my goddamn headphones connected all the time, and I'm not about to put the phone to my ear for a full 5 minutes and no talk looking like a goddamn weirdo.
I just ignore them completely. They don’t exist for me. Depending who it is, I can say “I didn’t have time to listen to it but next time if you text/message I can probably get back to it faster.”
Someone does this in a group chat I'm in, it drives me crazy.
It's so inconsiderate too. If you want to use your voice then use voice-to-text and send a text message.
I'm not a hater but I understand the sentiment. I only exchange audio with very few people I feel comfortable with we both want to listen to our shit for that long, and I never expect a quick reply.
Randoms or new acquaintances sending audios without asking permission first usually annoy me.
put the phone to my ear
Clearly you would look more normal if you blast it on the speaker while holding the phone in front of you, like everyone else. /s
People who get offended by a behaviour that doesn't affect them at all
Better not lock eyes with Mr. Birthday Celebrations in this thread
buildings with upward-facing spotlights, especially single-family homes with façade lights. it's like nobody cares about light pollution.
I've been considering reporting streetlights that don't point straight down because they technically violate city codes.
Oh shit I've always liked the way those looked. I thought they made the house look fancy but I never considered the light pollution.
Biweekly and bimonthly each also meaning their respective reciprocals.
(Every two periods, or twice a period.)
If a technical term such as a frequency specifier has multiple incompatible meanings then it has no value and needs to stop being used entirely. Or one of the meanings chosen as correct and the others rejected forcefully (good luck with that)
Fortnightly is every two weeks, bimonthly in every two months. Biannual is twice a year, and biennial is every two yeara.
Fortnightly is fine, so is biennial.
All of the other bi-timeperiod words are worthless because they mean both twice each time and every two times.
It's funny that there are two unambiguous alternatives to bimonthly, but they both mean 2x/month: fortnightly and semimonthly.
Both German and Dutch distinguish their equivalent words with clear prefixes meaning half- and two-. The English word was unclear after 1066 since the French word bimensuel would have been used by the new bosses. And that means 2x/month. English used bimensual for a while before developing a new, worse word with the Latin origin bi- and the Germanic origin -monthly. And it seems to have been ambiguous from the start. So this has probably been messed up for almost 1050 years.
Maybe we should resurrect the Old English prefix twi- to make a new(old) 1x/2months word twimonthly or more intuitively, twomonthly that we can use in opposition with halfmonthly.
I hate people who wear cold weather gear in warm/heated places
Schizophrenic people are very likely to do this. I work in mental health and this was mentioned in our training. At my location maybe 1/3-1/2 of folks wore one or more puffy jackets all summer long.
That’s really interesting. Is it known why? Do they not feel overheated or something?
I used to work in an email heavy industry, so people who don’t use email or more specifically what I call “threading” right.
Changing the topic (so that the discussion no longer relates to the subject line), replying to add someone in without reattaching the relevant attached files, not using redirect email functionality, including screenshots that either lack relevant information due to poor cropping or forces the recipient into retyping its contents by hand all make email super annoying to deal with. And what’s with being expected to confirm you received each and every email? Ever heard of read receipts?
Also, people who don’t read error messages. As a web developer (or more broadly “computer person”) I cannot count how many times someone has sent me a picture of an error asking me what to do. 90% of the time the error itself tells you exactly what to do. Why do I need to read it for you?
Birthday celebrations
Birthdays make me so uncomfortable. Even when they’re mentioned in work chat and it’s flooded with gifs/“happy birthday!”s, I just don’t get it.
Same. I still don't know the social script in these scenarios. Do I individually thank everyone for their birthday wishes? Do I thank everyone with one message after it seems like everyone's done? How long do I wait? What if someone jumps in after I do that with a belated happy birthday?
the way yoga instructors speak, for some reason. I don't hate Yoga itself, just that fake calm voice makes me pretty mad. I could relax much better if the instructor just shouted like a drill sergeant all the time
The concernedly rising sightings of "could of" and "should of". And it's always the native English speakers. It irks me every time I see it. Why are you making such an obvious mistake? The sentence doesn't even sound coherent. How about you speak the sentence aloud and see how wrong it sounds?
But spoken it's fine. It's could've.
It's when that gets written as "could of" that it becomes an abomination...
People that leave trash in my car, usually the same people that exclaim “your car is so clean” when they first get in and see that it’s completely empty save for a few things in the glovebox.
Double spaces in text
Please call me if you encounter these issues
Hate to be that guy again, but you forgot the period at the end of your sentence.
Aaaaand that's a Level 3 misdemeanor for attempting to correct an officer of the law.
I'm guilty of making that typo but sometimes mobile keyboard adds extra spaces
I'm fine with it on social media, but on websites, articles, research papers etc I see it as a lack of quality control. It's very easy to fix too, just hit ctrl+F and type space twice to find any.
The smell of coffee. I don't know what's wrong with me (or alternatively the vast majority of people) but it smells as disgusting to me as a steaming pile of dog poop. I learned to ignore it to some extend but I still hate it in all its variations: The powder, freshly roasted beans, freshly brewed coffee, cold coffee, coffee breath, ...
I learned to ignore it to some extend
That must not have been an easy thing to do, and I feel for you knowing how omnipresent coffee is. Heck, I had my first coffee I was not 9 year-old. I remember it vividly, it was a large and thick cup (to my kid eyes at least) half filled with black coffee (not the tinted water many people erroneously call 'coffee'), without milk but with sugar, way too many. I liked it, probably because of the too many sugar in it, and I never quit drinking coffee for 50 years or so, up until very recently and only because my doctor told me so.
As for the smell, obviously I would not compare it to poop like you did but I reckon there is one thing they may both remotely share, very remotely though, a kind of 'earthy' smell?
Newspapers who use the word "ouster" but as a noun, not a verb.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ouster
"With Torres conspicuously absent from City Council and committee meetings and events in District 3, the mood quickly changed from offering Torres due process to calling for his ouster as many residents and organizations felt Torres was in no position to effectively represent his constituents."
—Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
"Niccol’s surprise hiring in August — announced alongside Narasimhan’s ouster — was greeted with widespread praise from the Club and Wall Street, with Starbucks market capitalization soaring by $21 billion in a single day, to nearly $109 billion."
—Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2024
"The news of Hinton’s award comes weeks away from the first anniversary of Altman’s brief, stunning and ultimately unsuccessful ouster—as well as the second anniversary of the launch of ChatGPT at the end of November 2022."
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024
"That experience was in the back of my mind when reading about the struggles at CVS Health, which owns Aetna, and the ouster of CEO Karen Lynch last week."
—Diane Brady, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
As opposed to:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oust
Ouster - One who ousts.
Yeah, I also can't stand it when words are used to convey meanings they've had for roughly five hundred years.
Ah, clearly the world is your ouster.
That’s ugly
I can go on for quite a while. Millenial disillusionment is real.
Got misophonia, the sound of dog licking triggers me
licks his dog, loudly
The use of "alumni" in the singular. A person is an alumnus or an alumna, the alumni are always a group. Seems to be a very American usage, and I don't know why it feels aggravating where other Americanisms like positive anymore don't.
Greeting people or goodbye's. Please don't touch me, unless you are my child or pet. I was hoping the new covid habits of not shaking hands or hugging would become permanent, but it's back again. And i still have this reflex of shaking hands, instead of keeping my hands in my pocket.
The habit of people to skip any or all nuance in assessing a situation because it's "more palatable".
A good example of this is familial relations. Family is more than just "parent", "child", "sibling", "friend", and/or "spouse", you could have grey areas where something would come off as not quite one thing or another thing. Age-gap siblings can develop into having an aunt or uncle who is younger than you, or you might be older than your step-parent, or you might manifest a relationship in a way that contains some aspects of a friendship, etc. But there are people who don't want to hear any of the buts about it, they just want a one word answer.
I hate when people use my shoulder as support, as I'm showing them something. Simply... don't, okay?
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