What makes you annoying?
 

I see a lot of posts around here discussing things that commonly annoy posters. What I’ve become curious about lately are the things that repeatedly make YOU annoying to other people. I suggest we list them.

You must be aware of these habits in order for them to qualify. They must be habitual enough so that you often don’t stop even when you realize the other person is annoyed. These must NOT be things you do to intentionally annoy people. Instead, they must be destructive to your social life to some degree.

You may be hoping to stop such behavior. You may have accepted it non-apologetically, knowing you will probably always be this way.

Mine:

1.) I correct arbitrary incorrect grammar. The closer you are to me -- and the more people who are standing around listening -- the more I do it. I correct things such as well vs. good, fewer vs. less-than. In emails, I point out excessive punctuation (you must be so excited!!!) and the difference between its and it’s. When I’m leaving a family function and someone says “drive safe,” that’s my wheelhouse. I cannot help myself.

2.) When people are in a conversation where they’re all in general agreement about a subject I don’t really care about, I often take the other side just for the sake of argument. Instead of allowing them to enjoy their personal conversation, I derail it so they are instead arguing with me. I do this for sport, and genuinely respect those who out-argue me. I’m guessing they don’t have the same respect for me, especially those find this habit intimidating (a few) or tiresome (most).

3.) I interrupt people. During a conversation, if a particularly good point strikes me, I don’t wait for the other person to finish their point. I just blurt it out. I hate it when people do this to me, but I continually do it to other people. Often I achieve this by talking 2-3 times louder than anyone else so they can’t help but hear me.

These habits happen more often when I’m drunk, which leads to a great amount of guilt the next morning when I think back to the conversations I had the night before. Acting this way is something I don’t like about myself, and am trying to hold back. But I also think it’s a part of who I am to some degree. I think it could even be endearing if I kept it at Level 5 instead of 105.

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I really hope I never hear someone correct "drive safe," as that is reallllly annoying.

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I see a lot of posts around here discussing things that commonly annoy posters. What I’ve become curious about lately are the things that repeatedly make YOU annoying to other people. I suggest we list them.

You must be aware of these habits in order for them to qualify. They must be habitual enough so that you often don’t stop even when you realize the other person is annoyed. These must NOT be things you do to intentionally annoy people. Instead, they must be destructive to your social life to some degree.

You may be hoping to stop such behavior. You may have accepted it non-apologetically, knowing you will probably always be this way.

Mine:

1.) I correct arbitrary incorrect grammar. The closer you are to me -- and the more people who are standing around listening -- the more I do it. I correct things such as well vs. good, fewer vs. less-than. In emails, I point out excessive punctuation (you must be so excited!!!) and the difference between its and it’s. When I’m leaving a family function and someone says “drive safe,” that’s my wheelhouse. I cannot help myself.

2.) When people are in a conversation where they’re all in general agreement about a subject I don’t really care about, I often take the other side just for the sake of argument. Instead of allowing them to enjoy their personal conversation, I derail it so they are instead arguing with me. I do this for sport, and genuinely respect those who out-argue me. I’m guessing they don’t have the same respect for me, especially those find this habit intimidating (a few) or tiresome (most).

3.) I interrupt people. During a conversation, if a particularly good point strikes me, I don’t wait for the other person to finish their point. I just blurt it out. I hate it when people do this to me, but I continually do it to other people. Often I achieve this by talking 2-3 times louder than anyone else so they can’t help but hear me.

These habits happen more often when I’m drunk, which leads to a great amount of guilt the next morning when I think back to the conversations I had the night before. Acting this way is something I don’t like about myself, and am trying to hold back. But I also think it’s a part of who I am to some degree. I think it could even be endearing if I kept it at Level 5 instead of 105.

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You're right. I could see how that would be annoying.

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I punch people in the vagina when they correct my grammar or interrupt me.

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First!

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My constant paranoia of anything that seems to be out of the ordinary and the preaching/theories that accompany it.


Conspire

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According to BBV4L, this:

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I think my passive-aggressive switching on/off of the hallway lights in my dorm would be it for me. One of the lights is right above my door, so even with the door shut a lot of light gets in.

In my defense, I only do this during night quiet hours and no one in the dorm seems to prefer hanging out in the halls--we all just leave the doors open when we want to be social.

I can only really recall one switch battle, which was last week. The guys in the three rooms to my right were filming a movie at one in the morning, which involved running and thumping past my room and yelling "Where's my calculator??" in the kitchen, twenty feet away. They got the point after I switched it off the third time.

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My signing my name to all my posts, when the forum has signatures disabled, for the good and obvious reason that signatures are useless clutter.

Conspire

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FYP

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According to BBV4L, this:

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Yeah, clicky pictures are usually an indicator of suck.

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Yeah, clicky pictures are usually an indicator of suck.

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Conspire just learned me how not to make clicky pictures.

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I endlessly bash people who (ffs? why) insist on signing their name on the bottom of everything they post. Even when the gd post is 2 sentences long. What is wrong with you people?!

...I also whine a lot.

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Chicks really hate my back hair. However I'm not sure if that would be considered annoying.

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Where to start? I'm a cleptomaniac, alcoholic, I always think I'm right and try to act like I'm right even if I've just been proven horribly, horribly wrong, I think women are mostly for sex, occasionally for sleeping next to, and seldom, if ever, useful for talking to. I try to find ways to blame others for my own problems. I'm simultaneously very gullible, yet easily annoyed by gullible people. I'm occasionally a control freak, have slight OCD, am a snob in general, even though I'm relatively poor.

I love to rant, love to whine, etc. I enjoy a good soap box lecture (of my own doing), as a matter of fact, I would be more annoying, I bet, if people knew how constantly I went on soapbox rants in my head. Thank god I'm usually too tired or forgetful to say/type them all. Ah, I'm also pretty ball-less, when it comes down to it, so I probably wouldn't rant aloud in most cases.

I assume other people know what I'm thinking and are following the conversation in my head, even though, yet again, I get upset when others do the same thing.

I can be terribly selfish (if you hadn't already guessed that). I'll sometimes do little annoying things (for instance, pick at a girlfriend's fingernails) and forget that I'm doing it, and continue to do so until someone stops me (sometimes updwards of a half hour or more).

I flake out on friends constantly, I'm always at least 20 minutes late to everything, and I'm amazing when it comes to giving up on something. (this is why I can say 'cookie' in spanish, but not much else.. Also, I know how to ask where the bank is in French)

Oh yes, and at work, I hum/sing constantly and take my shoes off whenever I sit down for longer than 5 minutes. (Not saying my feet smell, I wash them regularly, but they might, and I could just be used to it, so it's hard to say.)

That's all I can think of that would make me annoying. Now, if this were a 'what makes you a bad person' thread, I'd need a few more pages.

But at least I don't point out grammatical mistakes.

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I.. wait, what?

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...I also whine a lot.

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But come on, I have the best offense (see: most points scored) in my fantasy football league, but a losing record (5-6). That is complete and utter [censored]!

And in my fantasy hockey league (which is scored manually), some jabroni started three centers one week as his forwards and got away w/ it. And then the following week I lost by 3 points (27-24) b/c some luckbox's goalie put up 21 on me that week. WTF is that?!?!?

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Sometimes my perfection annoys others, because it reminds them of their imperfection.

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gobias,

fantasy hockey? sounds miserable.

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2.) When people are in a conversation where they’re all in general agreement about a subject I don’t really care about, I often take the other side just for the sake of argument. Instead of allowing them to enjoy their personal conversation, I derail it so they are instead arguing with me. I do this for sport, and genuinely respect those who out-argue me. I’m guessing they don’t have the same respect for me, especially those find this habit intimidating (a few) or tiresome (most).

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This is what I do with a large portion of my life.

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1.) I correct, arbitrarily, incorrect grammar.

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I changed this on the assumption that you were not meaning to say such a thing as "arbitrary faulty grammar" exists, since that would make absolutely no sense. (That is, incorrect grammar which also possesses the attribute of being arbitrary does not exist. Grammar is either correct or incorrect.)

That being the case, the sentence would flow better if a phrase similar to "I correct incorrect grammar arbitrarily" was used; however, "incorrect" should be replaced with a similarly descriptive adjective which is phonetically distinct, as "correct incorrect" sounds terrible with the two similar words next to one another.

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I crack my knuckles all the time.
I whistle when I have a song stuck in my head, and I'll do this at the bank or the post office or the poker table or in line at Quiznos.
I post too much.
I snore.

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2.) When people are in a conversation where they’re all in general agreement about a subject I don’t really care about, I often take the other side just for the sake of argument. Instead of allowing them to enjoy their personal conversation, I derail it so they are instead arguing with me. I do this for sport, and genuinely respect those who out-argue me. I’m guessing they don’t have the same respect for me, especially those find this habit intimidating (a few) or tiresome (most).

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This is what I do with a large portion of my life.

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people who do this always strike me as very very lame. i dont know if that makes me annoying or not

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1.) I correct, arbitrarily, incorrect grammar.

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I changed this on the assumption that you were not meaning to say such a thing as "arbitrary faulty grammar" exists, since that would make absolutely no sense. (That is, incorrect grammar which also possesses the attribute of being arbitrary does not exist. Grammar is either correct or incorrect.)

That being the case, the sentence would flow better if a phrase similar to "I correct incorrect grammar arbitrarily" was used; however, "incorrect" should be replaced with a similarly descriptive adjective which is phonetically distinct, as "correct incorrect" sounds terrible with the two similar words next to one another.

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Well played, sir. I do have a counter argument, of course, but will save it because it will spark a long-winded exchange that amuses nobody but you and I -- much like most threads in Poker Legislation.

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I'm pretty arrogant

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Well played, sir. I do have a counter argument, of course, but will save it because it will spark a long-winded exchange that amuses nobody but you and me -- much like most threads in Poker Legislation.

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Sorry, couldn't resist.

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Well played, sir. I do have a counter argument, of course, but will save it because it will spark a long-winded exchange that amuses nobody but you and me -- much like most threads in Poker Legislation.

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Sorry, couldn't resist.

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Damn. That is annoying.

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I'm always right.

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Where to start? I'm a cleptomaniac, alcoholic, I always think I'm right and try to act like I'm right even if I've just been proven horribly, horribly wrong, I think women are mostly for sex, occasionally for sleeping next to, and seldom, if ever, useful for talking to. I try to find ways to blame others for my own problems. I'm simultaneously very gullible, yet easily annoyed by gullible people. I'm occasionally a control freak, have slight OCD, am a snob in general, even though I'm relatively poor.

I love to rant, love to whine, etc. I enjoy a good soap box lecture (of my own doing), as a matter of fact, I would be more annoying, I bet, if people knew how constantly I went on soapbox rants in my head. Thank god I'm usually too tired or forgetful to say/type them all. Ah, I'm also pretty ball-less, when it comes down to it, so I probably wouldn't rant aloud in most cases.

I assume other people know what I'm thinking and are following the conversation in my head, even though, yet again, I get upset when others do the same thing.

I can be terribly selfish (if you hadn't already guessed that). I'll sometimes do little annoying things (for instance, pick at a girlfriend's fingernails) and forget that I'm doing it, and continue to do so until someone stops me (sometimes updwards of a half hour or more).

I flake out on friends constantly, I'm always at least 20 minutes late to everything, and I'm amazing when it comes to giving up on something. (this is why I can say 'cookie' in spanish, but not much else.. Also, I know how to ask where the bank is in French)

Oh yes, and at work, I hum/sing constantly and take my shoes off whenever I sit down for longer than 5 minutes. (Not saying my feet smell, I wash them regularly, but they might, and I could just be used to it, so it's hard to say.)

That's all I can think of that would make me annoying. Now, if this were a 'what makes you a bad person' thread, I'd need a few more pages.

But at least I don't point out grammatical mistakes.

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Cleptomania is bad, mmkay

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2.) When people are in a conversation where they’re all in general agreement about a subject I don’t really care about, I often take the other side just for the sake of argument. Instead of allowing them to enjoy their personal conversation, I derail it so they are instead arguing with me. I do this for sport, and genuinely respect those who out-argue me. I’m guessing they don’t have the same respect for me, especially those find this habit intimidating (a few) or tiresome (most).

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This is what I do with a large portion of my life.

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people who do this always strike me as very very lame. i dont know if that makes me annoying or not

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I don't know if* that makes you annoying or not either, but I am very very lame, so at least you're right this time.

*:someone arbitrarily correct this from 'if' to 'whether' pls

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So OP is a nit and argues for sport. He interrupts people while talking 3 times louder than acceptable.

Damn, you need to work on this man. I've met people like this and it's hard not to get into a physical altercation with them.

What I do that is annoying is I rarely call people back, and I'm bad about checking my voice messages. Also, when leaving a get-together, I hate small-talk and goodbyes, so I try to just duck out and be on my way. It's no disrespect meant, I just hate small-talk. My boss probably finds me annoying because I won't kiss his ass.

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alcohol

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I don't know if* that makes you annoying or not either, but I am very very lame, so at least you're right this time.

*:someone arbitrarily correct this from 'if' to 'whether' pls

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Because you brought it up, when you use "whether," you don't need to follow with "or not." It's redundant. Either you are or you aren't. So you can just say: "I don't know whether that makes you annoying ..."

See, I can't help myself. The last thing I wanted this to turn into was a grammar conversation, because my grammar is far from perfect as many have pointed out. I get that this habit is annoying and stupid and lame. It's the habit I most want to kick.

For the record, I do it almost exclusively to close friends and family, kind of like a game where I try to catch them in a grammar mistake. But the only one having fun in the game is me, and it took a long time to realize that. It's more of an OCD thing now. It's small and pretentious and demeaning and exposes my inner weakling. I get it.

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So OP is a nit and argues for sport. He interrupts people while talking 3 times louder than acceptable.

Damn, you need to work on this man. I've met people like this and it's hard not to get into a physical altercation with them.

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You're an expert in observation. Congratulations. I bet you're good at pointing out drunks at an AA meeting.

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What I do that is annoying is I rarely call people back, and I'm bad about checking my voice messages. Also, when leaving a get-together, I hate small-talk and goodbyes, so I try to just duck out and be on my way. It's no disrespect meant, I just hate small-talk. My boss probably finds me annoying because I won't kiss his ass.

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So you're an inconsiderate friend who can't take five minutes to thank a host or say hello. You can't be bothered with casual conversation, and justify this by calling anyone who can make small talk an ass kisser.

You really need to work on this, man. I have friends like this who wonder why nobody has called them in five years.

See how that works, asshat?





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I also get defensive when complete strangers point out issues I brought up in the first place.

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1. I eat food off my wife's plate before she's done

2. Like another poster, I am horrible at getting back to people, returning emails, etc. Serious flaw for me and I've been working on it and much better now than I used to be.

3. I care much less about birthdays (both my own and other people's) than the average person. Unless the person in question is a young child, i don't make a big thing about them.

4. unless the person behind me is super tall over 6'4", I put my seat back in planes.

5. If someone is telling me a story that I perceive to be boring and long-winded, I do not hide the fact that I want him to wrap it up as soon as possible.

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1. I fart alot

2. My farts are unbelievably rancid.

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my current wife

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delusions of grandeur and I'm slightly schizophrenic.

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2.) When people are in a conversation where they’re all in general agreement about a subject I don’t really care about, I often take the other side just for the sake of argument. Instead of allowing them to enjoy their personal conversation, I derail it so they are instead arguing with me. I do this for sport, and genuinely respect those who out-argue me. I’m guessing they don’t have the same respect for me, especially those find this habit intimidating (a few) or tiresome (most).

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This is what I do with a large portion of my life.

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Beat: paragraph of meaningless ramblings could've been replaced by "I like to play devil's advocate."

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3. I care much less about birthdays (both my own and other people's) than the average person. Unless the person in question is a young child, i don't make a big thing about them.

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I know your pain. I once forgot my own birthday. This was before I drank, mind you. Woohoo, I made it 365 days without killing myself! Big 'Who Cares?'!

On that note, for holidays and b-days, my presents either really rock and are totally inspired, or.. well.. Let's just say one year for Christmas I bought my dad a shaving cream warmer thinger. (Hot Lather something or rather) Yeah, I got my mom this totally sweet, expensive, amazing coffee machine, better than the one she'd been wanting. But my poor dad, no, his present sucked. I made up for it on his next b-day with something pretty good though.