People and things that infuriate you way more than they should

[El Diablo]

All,

Retards in the Maggie Q tribute thread.

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and "venti" isn't a made up word; apparently it means "twenty" in italian-- and the venti-size drinks are 20 oz.

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This is America dude. Learn the rules.

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Dude. Don't mess with Italians.

[bmxicle]

When there is a song playing on the Radio, and someone is trying to sing it but doesn't quite know the words so they drift in and out. Pisses me off so much.

[nyc999]

In heavy traffic, people who use the exit lane to move up like ten cars ahead of them, causing traffic to slow even more.

[sonneti]

People driving in the fast lane at 20mph under the speed limit.
Idiots that don't know how to indicate on a roundabout.
Anytime my girlfriend gets sick it.
Anti-drug ad's on uk TV. (talktofrank.com)
People that talk about something they obviously have no clue about.
People that interupt a conversation im having.

[Los Feliz Slim]

I could spend a week listing the things that bother me way more then they should even if I just stayed in the driving/traffic category.

- Failure to use turn signals.
- Failure to make a right on red when it's clearly easy to do so.
- Stopping like 3 car lengths behind the car in front of you when you're at a stoplight.
- Women applying makeup while driving. Men shaving.
- Driving at or near the speed limit in the carpool lane on the highway.
- Moseying along in the left lane of the freeway, oblivious to the line of cars behind you.
- Pedestrians that cross streets illegally with like 100 feet of an actual crosswalk.
- Pedestrians that walk ultra slow while you're waiting for them to cross, extra points if they're on a cell phone and/or are some slacker teenager with baggy pants.

[southerndog]

When Sklansky or someone else posts a cool hypothetical, and someone points out some tiny detail of why the hypothetical wouldn't happen, totally missing the point, all the while, trying to look smart.

[southerndog]

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In heavy traffic, people who use the exit lane to move up like ten cars ahead of them, causing traffic to slow even more.

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You know, I saw someone mention it here, that those people actually speed traffic along, not for the ones they are cutting in front of ,, but for traffic in general. After living here in Thailand for a year, and seeing people do whatever they want, it actually seems like a better model for moving cars along. Its pretty much a free-for-all here, but large volumes of traffic certainly move through small areas. In the states, it would take 3 times as long to get through some of the jams that pretty much move right along here.

[AnActualGirl]

My favorite is driving in heavy traffic when you have the right of way, and people get pissed at you for not stopping and letting them in. The people who get pissed are usually the ones who have just used the exit lane or turn-only lane to jump ahead 10 cars in the line and are now trying to merge back in.

When I was in high school, my mom was driving through downtown on our main street in a line of slow moving traffic. A woman on a side street is waiting to turn on to the main street, and suddnely just plows into the side of our van - HARD...not the front, like she just missed an opening, but the middle of the sliding door in the center of the car. This woman gets out of her car all pissed off and goes "Well you were SUPPOSED to let me in!!!!" WTF???

[samsonite2100]

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for some reason the baby crying thing never gets to me much. I always just feel bad for the 'rents cuz they're all embarrassed and just trying to have a nice night and this baby runs their lives.

At the saw movie is ridic though.

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I don't feel bad for them. They are winners at the big game of "pass your genetic material on." I am, as yet, a loser at that game--my consolation prize should be getting to go out and not have their infant screaming in my ear.

NB--I'm talking mostly about bringing out babies in the 0-1 year range. The age at which they'll cry absolutely uncontrollably and nothing whatsoever can be done about it.