What grinds your gears?

[Rainraven]

For those of you not getting the Family Guy reference of the title, I mean pet hates.
What are the little things that really peeve you?
A few of mine:

1. The peel off tops that they now have under the caps of plastic milk bottles. They never used to be there and we all survived fine, why have them now? All they manage to do is flick milk in my face every time I peel them off.

2. People that sit in lectures and sniff. Really, I'd rather be grossed out for 10 seconds while they blow their nose than have to put up with 50 minutes of sniffing.

3. Strapless bras. If it's not going to stay up, then what's the point?!

Right, come on everyone, what grinds your gears?

[Fortis in Arduis]

1. Sniffing is completely gross. Coughing is also rude, actually, but one only notices these things in sanctified environments. The body should be kept clean and the humours reduced to lay the foundations for a culture of peace.

2. Many women are sluts who assume that a man who simply says 'hello' to them at a bus stop wants to f*** them. This is because they feel, think and act like sluts, abusing their feminity for material gain and personal power. Liberal forms of dress and behaviour were first popularised by the free intellectuals in society, as a way to distinguish themselves from the lower orders. As with all such trends some of the lower orders copied them and became very VULGAR. Their bodies are free, but their minds are imprisoned.

3. 'A man should never hit a woman' - instead of enjoying this unwritten rule as a means to soften a man's heart when he feels sad or angry with soothing words and kindness, or to help resolve conflicts between quarreling men, the liberal slut has taken power from it for herself alone and uses it to create conflict and further emnity between men. She has also written countless guidebooks to encourage the entrapment of other women into degradation.

4. Ageism and classism

[Absinthe]

My "mother in law".

Seriously now, she could easily make a buddhist monk fantasize of killing her in an agonizing way.

She is the most rude, indiscrete, cunning and manipulative person I ever had as a "mother in law".

[RoyBatty]

2. Many women are sluts who assume that a man who simply says 'hello' to them at a bus stop wants to f*** them. This is because they feel, think and act like sluts, abusing their feminity for material gain and personal power.

I've had the occasional similar experience where out of the blue (certain) girls would start acting all weird and "offended" like I was trying something on with them when it wasn't the case.

Once I ran into a girl I knew from school at a pub, we caught up a bit on stuff and around leaving time I said I'd give her a lift home. For months afterwards I was hearing via mutual acquaintances how upset she was that I was expecting to get laid blah blah blah....

Another freaky one was a 1/2 Italian ex-housemate who would "entertain" me with endless mindless banter while I'd be trying to make supper in the kitchen and forget about another mindless day at work. She'd sometimes turn up unexpectedly in my room wasted and would talk talk talk talk......

One evening I was messing around with my camera downstairs while she was having a shower upstairs. For whatever reason she came down the stairs wearing a towel, saw me with the camera, mumbled some question, I made some kind of reply (nothing rude or interesting, can't remember the details).....she went back upstairs.

The next day I was told that I "apparently" made some crazy comments to her (which I knew nothing about and even stranger, she couldn't remember the words herself "but it was improper"?????) and she acted all strange and "terrified" for weeks afterwards whenever I was around. That was weird......

3. 'A man should never hit a woman' - instead of enjoying this unwritten rule as a means to soften a man's heart when he feels sad or angry with soothing words and kindness, or to help resolve conflicts between quarreling men, the liberal slut has taken power from it for herself alone and uses it to create conflict and further emnity between men. She has also written countless guidebooks to encourage the entrapment of other women into degradation.

Friends and myself were watching a game at a pub. Two Neanderthals in the pub (each with their respective fanclubs) took a dislike to one another and little skirmishes kept on breaking out between them. At one point when it kicked off again a female friend of one of the apes went mental, aggravating the situation. My friend tried to calm her down at which point she hit him so hard that the proverbial red handprint got embossed on his face.

In the interests of our (and particularly his) survival I had to restrain him for much of the rest of the afternoon from getting even with the feisty hussy.

[Thorum]

1) Not putting things away after you use them.

2) Conspiracy theorists - Although they can be amusing.

3) Muslims - Need an explanation?

[RoyBatty]

My "mother in law".

Seriously now, she could easily make a buddhist monk fantasize of killing her in an agonizing way.

She is the most rude, indiscrete, cunning and manipulative person I ever had as a "mother in law".

BA, do you think that this could be a reflection on the quality and "addictiveness factor" of soap operas on Greek TV? Perhaps they're just not good enough to keep her mind occupied?

[Absinthe]

BA, do you think that this could be a reflection on the quality and "addictiveness factor" of soap operas on Greek TV? Perhaps they're just not good enough to keep her mind occupied?

Apparently so, as her favorite soap opera is her son's private life with me...

[Maelstrom]

1) A conflict of interests. Pretty self-explanatory.

2) People who ask me why I'm vegetarian.

3) Shy people.

4) People who do not realise how insignificant they are.

5) Sluts.

6) "Full-blown faggots." It's one thing to be gay, another thing completely to assume the stereotype i.e. Voice and flamboyancy.

7) Arranged meetings with acquaintances as opposed to friends. I never know whether or not I should attend. Also goes hand in hand with number 1.

[Gooding]

1: People of European descent who hate their own people.
2: People who insist that all the word nigger means is "ignorant" and then get all uptight when you show them the meaning of the word as it appears in the dictionary.
3:Watchdogs and thought police who try to tell me what to say, think, do, feel and believe.I generally tell them to go to hell because if I leave them alone, they'd better extend the same courtesy to me.
4:Mixed race couples that involve a white person.
5:75 year old mamacitas in traffic.They simply can't drive.
6: The swelling hordes of Latin Americans who seem intent on displacing us.
7:Blacks who blast their rap music in traffic, thereby provoking me to blare my country music back at them.

[RoyBatty]

7:Blacks who blast their rap music in traffic, thereby provoking me to blare my country music back at them.

If you haven't seen it already, watch the opening scene in the movie "Office Space" involving one of the characters named "Michael Bolton" driving to work.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/

At another house-share I used to live in one of my housemates was of the "gayer" pursuasion and regularly blasted songs from a horrific Irish boyband called Westlife. After retaliating with White Zombie and Manson he got the message.