[UncoveringTruths]

Why do people smack, slurp, crunch chips loudly, eat with their mouth open, and pop sunflower seeds when eating? I was taught as youngster that it was impolite to do these things and to eat in a dignified manner. It seems not many people practice good manners at the table anymore.

Oh and cleaning your teeth by sucking through them.

It bothers me so much I usually have to leave the room if someone is engaging their food in this manner.

Mine as well be slopping the hogs!

[I_Like_Plants]

All that politeness shit went right out the window about 30 years ago. Today it's all about speed, effeciency, 60+ hour workweeks, and eating what you can, when you can.

Chewing with the mouth open, yeah, I'll agree - gross. I also was not only taught not to do it but learned why our parents taught us not to - in the midst of a hard-won 10-minute meal you've had to stand in line a half hour for, and have to "eat against the clock", an open mouth can allow some to escape, when you fight as hard as the average working-class person does for each bite, you learn to keep those chops closed.

Swishing and sucking through the teeth - well, I'd rather see a person do that than the same person a few years later with rotten teeth due to poor hygiene. The US economy is getting bad enough for most of us that you're getting people who literally can't afford a toothbrush, toothpaste, or the time to use them. Swish away! I drink my coffee/tea with no sugar and after eating, I indulge in a bit of hopefully discreet swishing. I sure don't want to go around with food bits in my teeth.

Other stuff - scratching, well, of course we were all taught not to scratch in public, but one time I broke that rule to scratch the top of my head and a spider hopped off and walked away - it had been biting me. Nothing wrong with a little scratching, anyway.

[UncoveringTruths]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', '
')Swishing and sucking through the teeth - well, I'd rather see a person do that than the same person a few years later with rotten teeth due to poor hygiene. The US economy is getting bad enough for most of us that you're getting people who literally can't afford a toothbrush, toothpaste, or the time to use them. Swish away! I drink my coffee/tea with no sugar and after eating, I indulge in a bit of hopefully discreet swishing. I sure don't want to go around with food bits in my teeth.

[Lore]

People that keep asking me, "whats wrong with you"!

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('UncoveringTruths', '
')Mine as well be slopping the hogs!

[Zentric]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lore', 'P')eople that keep asking me, "whats wrong with you"!

[NEOPO]

People that screw the real issues and sweat the small stuff

People who call me a stupid stoner

Old people nearing the end of their life that do not care about much of anything...

American's who are too dumb to realize or too apathetic to care that their thirst for oil is killing people.

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('UncoveringTruths', '
')Mine as well be slopping the hogs!

[NEOPO]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('UncoveringTruths', '
')Mine as well be slopping the hogs!

[basil_hayden]

What doesn't would be a shorter list.

[I_Like_Plants]

Toothpicks are not as prevelant as they used to be - I always associated them with snap-brim fedoras and flannel suits, until I realized how handy they are - I have one place food always get jammed....

But I don't use the thing in sight of anyone, I hope! I use it outside the restaurant where there's no one looking, get the job done then chuck the toothpick into the weeds.

[Prince]

First off, I don't have minor irritations. I have 100s of things that morbidly and obsessively anger me. Here are just a few.

-People who use "your" as a substitute for the contraction "you're".
-Fat people on airplanes who take up the entire armrest when "your" stuck in the middle seat.
-Actually, pretty much all fat people piss me off.
-Anyone whose entire conversation revolves around their stupid fucking kids.
-Anyone who buys $4 Starbucks drinks 5 times a day, then bitches about filling up their overpriced SUV with gasoline.
-Single mothers who think they deserve a second chance in life.
-People who are obsessed with organic foods.
-People that can't pick up or properly discard of their trash in public venues.
-Any asshole who blares his iPod to max volume with shitty $3 headphones so that the entire world can hear his poor taste in music.
-People who say or write "you got some 'splainin to do". Fuck you. You got some dying to do.
-Any middle-class or well-off white guy who goes out of his way to dress and act black.
-Women with derivatives of male names such as "Kris", "Joey", "Michal", or "Toni".
-Women with two last names.
-Neurotic first-time parents who think their kid is God's gift to the world.
-People with crooked, discolored, missing, or otherwise significantly altered teeth.
-People with a lazy eye.
-People who don't wash their hands after leaving the restroom.
-People who can't spel propperly. In the day and age of real-time electronic word processing, there is simply no excuse for pour spelling or grammer. Typos happen and are understood. However, continually misrepresenting "teh" and "independant" 150 times in a 300-word essay is uncalled for.
-People who are chronically late.
-Women who are bad in bed.
-People who boast about their cooking skills, invite you over for dinner, then fix you a grotesque meal that I would be embarrassed to feed my dog.
-Speaking of food, Rachael Ray. Enough said.
-Any woman that expects you to buy her a drink at the bar.
-Any assholes (read: most religious nuts) that act like pompous, judgmental, arrogant pricks 6 days a week, then think they can wash away their behavior by going to church on Sunday. This is behavior is somewhat condoned. What really irks me is when these nutjobs push their agenda on me and then go out of their way to say I'm a bad person for not going to church every week.
-People who don't park evenly between the painted parking lines.
-People who talk extra loud on their cell phone in public so they can let the world know about their personal problems. Look lady, I don't care that your husband has cancer of the scrotum and that your daughter was raped by the family's pet kangaroo. Keep your conversations to yourself.
-People in line at the security checkpoints at the airport. I was behind some idiot a few weeks ago who "flies all the time", and yet forgot to take off his shoes, forgot to discard his lighter, forgot to get rid of his 20-oz bottle of water, and forgot to keep his personal lubrication jelly in a size less than 3.4 oz.
-Fat fucks on a diet who eat at McDonald's, order a Big Mac, large fries, apple pie, fudge sundae... oh, and add a *DIET* Coke for good measure. "Hey I'm on a diet after all."

[I_Like_Plants]

Why lazy eyes? I've tried to train mine, and it seems hopeless. Good for seeing at night though.

[Lore]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zentric', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lore', 'P')eople that keep asking me, "whats wrong with you"!

[kochevnik]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Prince', 'F')irst off, I don't have minor irritations. I have 100s of things that morbidly and obsessively anger me. Here are just a few.

-People who use "your" as a substitute for the contraction "you're".
-Fat people on airplanes who take up the entire armrest when "your" stuck in the middle seat.
-Actually, pretty much all fat people piss me off.
-Anyone whose entire conversation revolves around their stupid fucking kids.
-Anyone who buys $4 Starbucks drinks 5 times a day, then bitches about filling up their overpriced SUV with gasoline.
-Single mothers who think they deserve a second chance in life.
-People who are obsessed with organic foods.
-People that can't pick up or properly discard of their trash in public venues.
-Any asshole who blares his iPod to max volume with shitty $3 headphones so that the entire world can hear his poor taste in music.
-People who say or write "you got some 'splainin to do". Fuck you. You got some dying to do.
-Any middle-class or well-off white guy who goes out of his way to dress and act black.
-Women with derivatives of male names such as "Kris", "Joey", "Michal", or "Toni".
-Women with two last names.
-Neurotic first-time parents who think their kid is God's gift to the world.
-People with crooked, discolored, missing, or otherwise significantly altered teeth.
-People with a lazy eye.
-People who don't wash their hands after leaving the restroom.
-People who can't spel propperly. In the day and age of real-time electronic word processing, there is simply no excuse for pour spelling or grammer. Typos happen and are understood. However, continually misrepresenting "teh" and "independant" 150 times in a 300-word essay is uncalled for.
-People who are chronically late.
-Women who are bad in bed.
-People who boast about their cooking skills, invite you over for dinner, then fix you a grotesque meal that I would be embarrassed to feed my dog.
-Speaking of food, Rachael Ray. Enough said.
-Any woman that expects you to buy her a drink at the bar.
-Any assholes (read: most religious nuts) that act like pompous, judgmental, arrogant pricks 6 days a week, then think they can wash away their behavior by going to church on Sunday. This is behavior is somewhat condoned. What really irks me is when these nutjobs push their agenda on me and then go out of their way to say I'm a bad person for not going to church every week.
-People who don't park evenly between the painted parking lines.
-People who talk extra loud on their cell phone in public so they can let the world know about their personal problems. Look lady, I don't care that your husband has cancer of the scrotum and that your daughter was raped by the family's pet kangaroo. Keep your conversations to yourself.
-People in line at the security checkpoints at the airport. I was behind some idiot a few weeks ago who "flies all the time", and yet forgot to take off his shoes, forgot to discard his lighter, forgot to get rid of his 20-oz bottle of water, and forgot to keep his personal lubrication jelly in a size less than 3.4 oz.
-Fat fucks on a diet who eat at McDonald's, order a Big Mac, large fries, apple pie, fudge sundae... oh, and add a *DIET* Coke for good measure. "Hey I'm on a diet after all."

[eastbay]

Irritating people irritate me when they post irritating things on irritating threads like this irritating thread on irritating things.


People who ignite a quick anger fascinate me. Anger is so meaningless yet they persevere in this strange hightened state of agitation thinking it will resolve a conflict of opinion. Very strange. Fascinating, but not irritating unless it leads to war.

[mmasters]

[I_Like_Plants]

I'll say one thing, I thought my wallet had done a disappearing job, thought I may have lost it in the bank, then decided I'd better check at home first, sure enough, it was at home in my other shorts - whew!!

That's irritating.