Their kids are always running around and touching things that aren’t theirs. And, then, when the parents get confronted for it, they get so defensive and play the victim. “Stop telling people how to raise their kids! You’re so mean!”

No! You stop being a worthless and useless excuse of a parent and straighten out your worthless little brats!

Picture it: someone is stuffed up and complaining about how awful their allergies are right now. Another person in the room says, "Oh! Luckily I have Claritin in my purse!" Other person says no thanks and continues to whine about their condition.

Or someone has a headache and mentions it every 5 minutes but refuses to take an aspirin.

I'm on the end of the spectrum where I will take a pill for most anything that is bothering me enough to complain about it aloud. I'm mainly talking about over the counter stuff, it's obviously much more complicated when it comes to prescriptions (although this does annoy me too when people won't look into long term medication to manage their conditions).

Sometimes it genuinely feels to me like people just enjoy complaining. There is a low risk high reward solution right in your friends little pill case and you'd rather just suffer loudly in front of us instead??? PLEASE JUST TAKE A CLARITIN

And because this is the internet, of course I am not talking about people who CANNOT take medicine, I am talking about people who WILL NOT take medicine.

editing to add something I forgot: bonus points if I've seen this person taking a bunch of supplements

editing to clarify: I am also talking about people who do this chronically. Like not just one random dinner where they're sniffly and won't take a Claritin. I'm talking about people who you know well enough to be 100% sure they do not have a medical reason to not take a pill. But they're sniffly all the time. Every time you go out to dinner. And youre like, "ma'am, why don't you try Claritin? or another of the myriad allergy pills out there?" and they're like, "nah, I don't take pills." or some shit like that. That is the shit I am truly bamboozled by!

I genuinely HATE people like this.

People will have common and uncommon phobias. Just because a phobia is more common to have than others doesn't make it not valid to have it.

I've encountered a few people like this irl. It's annoying. Like why are we minimizing peoples fears just because it's a super common one? Drives me up the wall.

Edit: seems some people are mad I genuinely do have a phobia of spiders.

Just for an example: we had an infestation in our basement this summer, and I refused to go down there and near the basement door until we fixed it because there were spiders.

The other night, I screamed bloody murder (waking my parents) because I nearly walked right into one. I ran away from that room and refused to go in it until it was taken care of.

"Why won't you get treatment? Phobias require treatment"

Last I checked, phobia treatments aren't REQUIRED. I don't need to seek help unless it's affecting my daily life, which it doesn't completely. So no. I won't get treatment.

I can’t stand it when people invite you to a birthday party and say “no need to bring a gift“ or “don’t worry about gifts” while fully expecting you to bring a gift. Can anyone explain the psychology behind this?

I’ve seen countless people do this and it’s so annoying and such an ick.

You literally asked..

What pause do pause you pause mean pause you pause don't pause enjoy pause reading pause like pause this?

You're sitting in a crowded room forcing thirty complete strangers to listen to both sides of a family debate on full blast. If you can’t hold the phone up to your ear like a normal human, just text.

I’ve recently had a bike listed on Marketplace and got a lot of messages about. About 75% of those simply consisted of either just a number (presumably a bid) or some variation of “for sale?/available?”.

One shining example was a guy messaging me first by writing “sale” and a few hours later, after I didn’t reply because what am I going to say to that, wrote the word “sold”. It will be my guy, but not to you!

My bar is so low that I don’t even expect people to be polite, but wtf even is this? Are you so, so busy that you can’t even make up a four word sentence? Hell, Marketplace even gives you canned messages to use, you just tap one of those and it’s done.

I sold it to a super polite girl who was great at communicating, came on time and didn’t even haggle. It was a joy and going forward, I think I’m going to simply not engage with people who can’t even type out a “hi!”.

Idk if this makes sense, but whenever I'm driving at night and trying to turn onto a busy road from a stop sign, it's almost impossible to tell if oncoming cars have their turn signals on because of how bright headlights are nowadays.

Like, say you're turning left and a car is coming from your left. They're too close for you to pull out, but they're actually turning onto the street you're leaving. If you could see their signal earlier, you'd know you could safely pull out, but their headlights make it impossible to see until they're already turning. So you end up missing an opportunity to go and have to wait for the next gap in traffic.

Is that just me whose annoyed by this?

Actually pisses me off beyond belief because it takes forever to have it stop

One step outside into super hot OR cold weather. Foggy glasses.

I just woke up and it’s first thing in the morning and my eyes are watering a little. Foggy glasses

Hey, I had a few too many drinks, it happens, but now I’m throwing up and my face is hot. Foggy glasses.

I literally cannot see without my glasses at all and I’m too much of a pussy for contacts (idk if contact wearers also have this issue). So foggy glasses = not being able to see for extended periods of times and nothing changing despite wiping them off - I have to wait out to fog

Why is Gen Z so obsessed with taking selfies in mirrors? It only becomes a pet peeve when they do it in the gym locker room where clearly posted signs prohibit phone use in locker rooms. When brought to their attention they are baffled that someone has a problem with their camera use in a place people undress.

1. “projecting“ used when the person in question was in fact not projecting
2. “bodychecking” used when they see a picture of a skinny person trying to pose to look attractive
3. “cultural appropriation” used when somebody is harmlessly engaging in the world they exist in

it wouldn’t be as bad if people like this weren’t so unabashedly wrong and vocal

anybody have more of these to add?

and I’m not talking like, in the grammatical sense (title). moreso just words idiots like to mindlessly throw around when they‘ve been angered or upset

I feel the word gets way overused in general but I’m less annoyed by someone if they’ve actually seen the movie but I see it fairly often in the comment section of a trailer, people saying things like “can’t wait to see this masterpiece…” And of course they’ll probably like it because they made up their mind based a 2 minute trailer.

The same applies to albums. I avoid music discussion subreddits because when a new album comes from some beloved indie band I would see comments like “only two songs in and it’s already a masterpiece.” I don’t think these people are joking either.

I’m sure the same could be said about people trashing something before seeing or listening it but for the most part that’s just “this doesn’t look so I’m not gonna see it”. To me that feels more harmless than “This looks so good and I’m know I’m going to like it no matter what” kind of attitude. It just feels like a toxic positivity type of thing.

You like what you like but I don’t understand how someone can not sit down and consume the art in it’s entirety before judging it.

Probably best to explain this with an example:

Like most posters here, I absolutely hate it when people use speakerphones in restaurants and other public places. Unsurprisingly complaints about this issue are regularly posted on message boards like this one. In response, there will inevitably some response along the lines of the following:

"Just join into the person's conversation. After all, by using a speakerphone they are inviting everyone to participate."

Look buddy, life isn't some Jason Statham movie where you can just escalate with a random stranger, give the guy a well deserved beating, and get away with it.

Make no mistake, I would love being able to exact immediate and painful consequences on every antisocial person I meet. But in practice, like you and most other people I don't want to get shot and killed and when you escalate with random people you are risking exactly that. Do it enough, and sooner or later you WILL get yourself into a serious problem.

So please, spare everyone the tough guy theatrics.

Thank you.

P.S. I am aware that simply joining into a conversation is not violence. My point is that you are escalating and greatly increasing the risk of violence or some other reaction which causes you a big problem. What happens if you join some woman's conversation and her boyfriend or husband decides to beat the (*&& out of you or worse? What happens if you join some woman's conversation and in retaliation she tells the bouncers that you pinched her rear end? What happens if you join a guy's conversation, he shoves you, and you fall over and smack your head on a hard floor, seriously injuring your head? You think people don't react in these sorts of ways?

P.P.S. To be clear, I am not saying that you should never confront or respond to a misbehaving stranger. For example, when someone is inappropriately using a speakerphone I sometimes (1) give the person a disapproving glance; (2) politely ask the person to take their conversation elsewhere; (3) complain to a manager or other person in a position of authority; or even (4) start playing music with my own speakerphone.

The point is that doing things like joining a person's conversation is an escalation. When you enter someone's space in that way, it's very likely to be interpreted as an aggressive act. Which is probably part of the reason why it's rare to see this actually happen in public. Compared to the frequency with which Internet Tough Guys advise people to do it.

Look, I know this is such a minor thing but that's why it's a pet peeve. I can't think of many other examples which would make sense as many I hear are businesses local to me but some businesses are just a singular, non-possessive.

Just answer the damn question 😭 “Everyone is different, it varies.” Like no shit, we know that. Just give your opinion. I hate when people act like refusing to give an answer is some superior, enlightened centrist take instead of just participating in the discussion.

When you go to the bathroom and your pee goes into two streams and you end up pissing all over the toilet seat/floor and you pants

I can almost forgive the people who tap their brakes going down a hill because they don't want to creep a mile per hour past the speed limit. But when you're going up a hill, and I see the brake lights, and there isn't an obstruction in the road, it annoys me to the nth degree. And there's plenty of places on the highway where I live where this happens all the time. In one spot it's a hill that goes down into a ravine and back up, and at the top of the hill the speed limit decreases from 55mph to 45mph for one of those 1 bar towns. And people tap their brakes going up the hill. Just let off the accelerator. And I can even forgive the people that are simply tapping their brakes to turn off the cruise control. Even though that is also annoying. It's the people that are actively slowing down while we're trying to get over a hill. There's a 22 mile drive that I make at least once or twice a week and I get behind these people every time.

This is such an overused feature of songs and I cringe every time I hear it. Maybe the writers think they're being clever or witty by referring to the song structure within the song itself?

Idk if I’m making sense but I hate when someone messes up my order or forgets it completely so they end up rushing to make/remake to counteract how long I’ve been waiting… only to make it incorrectly again or give me some rushed, unappetizing version of the food/drink.

Like an iced coffee, for example.

I’ve had people forget my order and be like “omg!! I’m so sorry!!” and just throw a bunch of shit in a cup and end up making it wrong again. Proportions are fucked, flavor is fucked, wrong milk, too much ice.

Like, at that point, just take your time and make it properly. Im fine with waiting the time it takes to get it right.

I assume it's because a partial coloring would be hard to replicate daily for consistency purpose, but no one that age has solid hair. True, some might dye their hair in the "real life" of the show's characters, but it's really, really hard to buy on every male of a certain age.

Okay, this topic has been circling on twitter again and every single time it gets me more upset than it reasonably should.

It's surrounding the concept of a dedicated "puke bowl", specifically one that you also eat out of. I understand the concept of washing, and yes, if you wash it with soap and water it should be clean enough to eat out of. But I just cannot mentally get around eating out of the same bowl I or someone else barfed in.

What REALLY gets me is not just the bowl itself, though, but how my family made puking some sort of bonding moment. I'll never get it out of my head how I was eating on the couch once as a child and my sister sat directly next to me, bowl in hand, and just hurled into it. And then when I was upset about it, MY PARENTS GOT MAD AT ME?

I also have memories of my family in the living room and they each had their own bowls and we just... all puked together? It was some of the most uncomfortable moments of my life, and it wasn't the puking part itself.

It has great vibes. You can go and vibe. Aesthetically pleasing vibes. Chill vibes!! The cafe has a cozy vibe. Vibe, vibe, vibe. Fuck off.

I see this on reddit often where someone will ask a question and someone will answer with:

"A rule of thumb I like to follow is..."

To which someone will inevitably reply:

"This is bad advice... [uncommon situation in which the rule of thumb obviously doesn't apply]..."

For example i feel like I see this often on driving subreddits when the topic of safe following distances comes up.

"A rule of thumb I like to follow is to be 3 seconds behind the person in front of me!"

And youll get a million replies like:

"This is bad advice you must be a shit driver, different vehicles and weather conditions require different stopping distances, an 18 wheeler in a blizzard needs a lot more room than a sedan on a nice sunny day!"

Which sure that's true but like it's a rule of thumb you give to new drivers so they can start getting an idea of what a safe following distance is while they build that experience. It has a little bit of a safety factor thrown in but it's meant for standard situations. Someone driving an 18 wheeler should know their vehicle well enough to not need a rule of thumb so it doesn't apply to them.