What's one (1) thing that really irritates you?

One (1) thing that drives me fucking nuts is when someone spells out a number in writing, then follows it by putting the number itself in parentheses. Do they think I can't fucking read? If I couldn't, then the number in the parentheses wouldn't MEAN anything to me, would it, since I couldn't relate it to the text? This may not actually be my number one (1) irritant, but it's definitely in the top ten (10), or maybe in the top five (5) or three (3).

If I only see this one (1) time a week, it's bad enough. But there have been times when I have read it seven (7) days in a row, which is about six (6) more than I need to get annoyed.

I hope I get at least thirty (30) responses to this post. Fifty (50) would be even better.

Redstone

sometimes, in legal proceedings, it's almost a given.

Just saying, and giving my two (2) cents worth.

appreciated, but I wonder if anyone (NE1) knows where the habit started, and why.

Redstone

It started because I think overstatement of the obvious, and the restatement of things plainly set forth becomes an integral part of the legal process.

It always comes down to one (1) thing: Squeezing every dollar ($) possible out of the clients.

Redstone

"typo" issues.... you meant to type $120 dollars, but you type $150 dollars or $210 or $1200 - so you WRITE IT OUT to ensure that the correct number is in the contract!

edit typo!!! :grr:

don't read the main post, just the header, before posting, and then wank on about something that has little to do with the title... eg."Why one thing? Why not many *giggle* I'm so clever" although this is kind of acceptable in the lounge since we're all looners, in GD it sucks. SUCKS. The rest of my life isn't annoying in the slightest, I'm pleased to say... no really I don't get irritated at all!
(I'm not sure if you're out there, but if you are, a big thankyou to random fluctations in the quantum continuum.)

HL: Need book on HIV
Post: Know the social history, need more details about the virology - the science and medicine.

I got about 6 posts suggesting that I should read "The Band Played On".

thanks for the help, but READ THE WHOLE OP, PEOPLE

One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
Two can be as bad as one, its the loneliest number since the number one
No is the saddest experience you'll ever know
Yes is the saddest experience you'll ever know
cause one is the loneliest number that you'll ever know
one is the loneliest number even worst then two
yeah
its just no good anymore since you went away
now I spend my time just making up rhymes of yesterday
one is the loneliest number
one is the loneliest number
one is the loneliest number
since you went away
since you went away
(one is the loneliest number since you've gone away)
one is the loneliest number
one is the loneliest number
one is the loneliest number
since you've gone away
Its just no good anymore since you went away
now I spend my time just making up rhymes of yesterday
one is the loneliest number
one is the loneliest number
one is the loneliest number
since you went away
since you went away

they bug me!

JUST KIDDING (I agree with you!)

How to describe this... I guess I should say "uninformed and don't care" people. That infuriates me, and maybe it shouldn't. But I seriously know people who don't know that Hawaii's not in the Caribbean....that a Senator is in the Congress....who the Beatles are.

I kind of feel that, as an adult, there's a certain level of pop/political/current event knowledge one should have. And I don't set the bar high by any means, you can't know everything--but there are a number of people who are almost criminally clueless. And don't feel bad about it! :grr:

(Tell me you didn't expect that, I dare you.)

Redstone

I don't have a good comeback for it, either. :toast:

hard to disagree with that sentiment

:shrug:

:evilgrin:


(Or just a random picture from the internet)


Surprise, Stephan Dales from the Univerity of Hawaii, You've Been DU'ed!

The fact that I can't visit many of my good friends on a regular basis, because they live in places like Virginia and Kansas and Canada, which are not near me!! I suppose that's more frustrating than irritating.

Oooh, irritating: the people who live next door won't pick up their fucking garbage in their backyard, and their beer bottles keep winding up smashed in our driveway. :grr:

a twisted rag. Three (3): Light the wick afire. Four (4): Hurl the flaming assemblage through one of their windows.

(Don't do this if even one (1) person is watching.)

Redstone

Good plan, except they have kiddos... I'd feel bad about that.

Sigh.

Fucking midterm preparation.

Sigh.

:hi:

about their house. They'll get the message.

Redstone

That or I can call the city on them, now that we have a "blight ordinance"... Oy. I want to believe that people are good people, mostly, but when you leave your garbage all over your lawn and scream profanity at your (young) children in multiple languages across the street so the whole neighborhood can hear, I have a really hard time doing it.

edit: thought has a 't' on the end, dammit

Redstone

but it will likely be at least one(1) week, maybe two(2) months before I get tired of doing the one(1) thing that really irritates you.

I dare you to tell me you didn't see that comin! ;)

The Way Of The Lounge, yes?

Redstone

Man, did you get me good!!

(For real, I'm chuckling as I type!) :D

tremendous turd is still in the toilet all stuck sideways = not cool x(

Redstone

:rofl: :hi:

question.
















:hi: Just kidding!

Item one (1) was the question, and item two (2) was the rant.

Redstone

People who (1) correct me and with (2) numbers in parentheses.

"People who one (1) correct me and with two (2) numbers in parentheses."

See how annoying I can be if I really put my mind to it?

Redstone

Teeheehee

try so hard, ya know.


:rofl:

When someboby asks, 'What's the one (1) thing that really irritates you?' And I gotta think of just one? LOTS of things irritate me!!! I'm series! Its a HUGH problem!!!1!!11!
:evilgrin: :popcorn::rofl:

are neighbors who constantly park in the street even though they have a driveway of their own.

Last place we lived, every house had a driveway, but some people parked on the street anyway. and not because the kids were playing basketball in the driveway at the time; they did it every day.

I can't understand why. I'd NEVER want to leave my car in the street where it could get run into instead of tucking it away in the driveway.

Redstone

about it that their are about 5 houses on our street, including mine, that don't have driveways and all have cars. Add to that during the evening, some of the parking on the street is used by people who dine at the Japanese restaurant down the street (which doesn't bother me). What kills me is that these people had one of their cars clipped by a drunk driver about 10-15 years ago.

sign stands for. It means that if you go ramming through my waterway, you will put the manatees in danger of getting hit by your stupid boat and you will probably knock over most of the dishes on the shelf of my liveaboard boat. And I will be forced to shoot you. OK, so I'm enjoying that part too much.

Edited to say that I have no idea who shot the last three tourists here in Community Harbor, Florida Keys.

If I wanted strangers hearing me take a piss or flushing a toilet I would just dial numbers at random before I got on with my business. Nothing irks me more than some stranger signalling to me to be quiet so I don't interrupt his precious conversation. Heaven forbid I should embarrass some etiquette impaired moron who decides to make a call from an inappropriate place.

actually do that.

Sigh...I suppose there CAN be people like that. And are.

Redstone

And when I encounter one, I make as much noise as I can.

:hurts: }(

If only it were. And the worst part is I can't bring myself to tell any of them to stuff it. I work for a major corporation and I have no way of knowing if the guys doing it are higher than me in the corporate food chain. When more than a thousand people work in your building it's best to play it safe, keep your mouth shut, and be silently aggravated. I have never seen this happen anywhere else other than at the company where I work.

:grr:

:mad:

:banghead:

Hey, it's not like you've got 80,000 pounds to keep track of or anything. Plus, they always merge into your safety cushion....

Back in my full time tech days I wanted to write an essay and call it "My life from the right seat." You know that one--bolted in place, no adjustments hell in a lot of trucks you can't even roll your own window down.

I did get to see a bunch though.

But the jump seat is air ride now. Ain't tech wonderful?

One of my friends (the guy who drove the T-600) enjoyed locking the controls for my window and then farting. Had me right where he wanted me!

Oh yes, in my outfit it wasn't separated into "techs" and "drivers" mot people were (and were expected to be) both. My eyeight isn't good enough to get the DOT Health Card, but I know Hazardous Waste, so I was still plenty useful. And plenty used!

:hi:

I seriously get pissed when I pass cars that still have Dumbass / Devil Incarnate '04 bumper stickers on the backs of their cars.

than to tear down other people. This little town is full of people who spend much of their time gossiping, poking their nose in other peoples' business, and speading it as fast as they can. Of course, they avoid anything positive, and focus only on someone's faults, failures, or misery. Many of these are older people, retired, who have nothing to do with their lives. I wish to hell they'd get off their asses and devote their gossip time to do something positive for other people.

This kind of behavior, sadly, is often seen here on DU, too. :(

It happens ten thousand(10,000) times (x) a day.

:popcorn:

....I'm usually not a grammar nazi but I see this more now (than) anytime previously in my life...I wish it didn't irritate me but it does. x(

because they think I am a poor helpless widder woman

Where a woman died because her meds said to take it once per day. Once is that one time, or if she only speaks spanish, 11.

Seriously - you'd be irritated too!

I don't know where this tendency came from, but to me this "Best. Show. Ever." / "Worst. Band. Ever." shit is unbelievably annoying, even if I agree with the premise involved. This is the lamest, most unimaginative method of emphasis I can think of, and strikes me as the writing style of losers who didn't get to hang with the cool kids in school.

Flame away, but I still fucking hate it.

:evilgrin:

Probably litterbugs. I get so annoyed when I see people just drop their crap on the ground, often within spitting distance of a trash can. :grr:

A woman I know at work did that just the other day - pulled the cellophane off her cigarette pack and dropped it on the ground roughly two (2) feet from a trash can. I said, "HEY!!!! PICK THAT UP!!!!" and she did, explaining as she did so that she "never throws big stuff on the ground but that was just a little thing." :wtf:

So I got up and pointed to the receipts littering the ground and the cigarette butts and the bottle caps and all the other crap and said, "Yeah, and THERE'S a little thing, and THERE'S a little thing and THERE'S a little thing..." and as she walked away, I hollered, "AND DON'T THROW YOUR CIGARETTE BUTT DOWN EITHER!!!"

I think she's afraid of me now. O8)

Yeah...they really bother me.

...by putting ketchup on them. :puke:

Oh, and people who spell ketchup "catsup".

"Fahrenheit nine-one-one." What IS that?! You can't distinguish 9/11 the date and historic event from 9-1-1 the emergency phone number?
:grr:
lol

And never ever EVER getting an answer from anyone at DU as to how to make it STOP?!!??!!

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

well, ANYtime, frankly, is annoying.

Lately, their methods have gotten even trickier.

We've got caller-ID and pretty much screen all of our calls. If a call comes through with an "UNKNOWN NUMBER" on the led screen, chances are it's a telemarketer and we let the machine get it. If a call comes through marked "PRIVATE NUMBER", it's usually a friend and/or family member and we'll pick up.

Well, twice recently I've picked up a call thinking it's a family member, and it's been a telemarketer. Somehow they've managed to have their calls be disguised as a "PRIVATE NUMBER", so that it fakes us out and increases their chances of actually getting through to people.

:grr:

I know these people are just doing their jobs, but I still find them really annoying.