Random things that annoy me

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People who try to make turns around a circle, when there's a sign that says No Turns. Usually a Mercedes driver. Duh! Learn to read, learn to drive.

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people who don't pull forward to the next parking spot, they just zip in and take the middle one.

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Anonymous wrote:"no worries" You're not Australian! Shut up

even worse, "no worries, no worries"

How about signing the email: "Cheers!" when you're not British? I'm a wanker, I know.

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Anonymous wrote:Are you a recent arrival from India, by chance? We have several IT acquaintances who moved to No. Calif. directly from India in the past 10 years and they speak the Queen's textbook English like this.

Random annoying thing -- people who pretend not to understand how to merge when a lane will disappear on the highway, etc. They attempt to cut in at the last moment.

This made me laugh, I understand the way it to work is to use the lane until the lane ends. I get annoyed at the people who insist on merging in a half a mile before the lane ends.

I was trying not to respond to any of these until I saw this. No, no, no. The point of a merge lane, complete with warnings that the lane will end, is to allow the driver to drive the speed of the lane to be merged into, and make the merge without slowing down traffic in either lane. If you wait until the merge lane ends, you will invariably be forced to slow or stop at the end of the merge lane to wait for an opening (unless you just go ahead and merge in and make the other line of traffic slow or stop), and once you're stopped, you need a much longer opening, because you no longer have any lane left for acceleration. Then, everyone behind you has to stop, and now they have no speed to make the merge. Voila -- the cause of the "accordion effect." This is a related problem to the thing that really annoys me, which is people who drive all the way to the end of the on ramp, and then stop and have to wait for an opening in traffic that is big enough for them to accelerate into from a standing stop. If you must stop, do so away from the end of the ramp, which will give yourself some room to accelerate up to speed and slip into a much smaller gap in the traffic. It also really annoys me that people here that are behind you honk at you if you do this properly. Don't honk, I may have stopped 20 yards behind where you think I should have, but I'm going to get on the highway faster than the idiot that stops at the end of the ramp, I promise.

Early merging is not always the best answer. In many circumstances, late merging is better for everyone.

http://www.dot.state.mn.us/trafficeng/workzone/doc/When-latemerge-zipper.pdf

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_localdtw/20101112/ts_yblog_localdtw/study-shows-that-merging-late-speeds-traffic

Actually, the article says that late merging is only better when traffic is already slow and congested. In other words, it's already so messed up that even late merging can't make it worse.

Isn't that the merging situation around here? If there is no traffic then everyone can drive the same speed and you wouldn't necessarily notice an early or late merger.

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"Random Things that Annoy Me" should be its own forum on DCUM.

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Anonymous wrote:Women (always women for some reason, men don't do this) who don't remove the tacking stitch from the vent in their coat.

Drives me nuts.

Is this bad? Does it make the coat look bad?

It messes with the line of the coat. The coat moves much better if you remove the stitch. It will also make your butt look cuter.

[Anonymous]

Apologies if this has been covered (although it's probably just my own irrational annoyance) - people who post obscenities but somehow can't bring themselves to to type the whole word, or the actual word. It's like they feel ill-mannered if they type, "Fuck you, bitch," but have no qualms about typing "F-ck you, beotch." Are you kidding me? What the hell is the difference? If you're going to curse, own it. If you're so demure that you feel bad about cursing, does replacing a letter with a dash really move you into the real of propriety.

That felt good. Thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:Apologies if this has been covered (although it's probably just my own irrational annoyance) - people who post obscenities but somehow can't bring themselves to to type the whole word, or the actual word. It's like they feel ill-mannered if they type, "Fuck you, bitch," but have no qualms about typing "F-ck you, beotch." Are you kidding me? What the hell is the difference? If you're going to curse, own it. If you're so demure that you feel bad about cursing, does replacing a letter with a dash really move you into the real of propriety.

That felt good. Thanks.

this is a good one, ITA

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I've posted before, but I've come up with more (I'm kind of easily annoyed).

When people purposefully mispronounce someone's name because they think's it's funny. A popular one was "M. Night Shamalamadingdong" etc. for M. Night Shyamalan.

Long toenails. BARF.

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About typing f-ck, instead of fuck: I wonder if it's a holdover from the early days of the internet, when lots of sites had censor programs that wouldn't let you use profanity.

But I completely agree. If you're going to swear, just do it. Leaving a letter out makes you look worse, not better.

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People referring to themselves as "mommy". Mommy's day! Mommyhood! Mommy group, anyone?

Other people referring to me as "mommy" - only my daughter gets a pass on that one.

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Anonymous wrote:People referring to themselves as "mommy". Mommy's day! Mommyhood! Mommy group, anyone?

Other people referring to me as "mommy" - only my daughter gets a pass on that one.

Pediatricians do this a lot. You have my name right on the file! I don't care if you use my first name, but do NOT address me as mommy!

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When someone decides to take the bathroom stall right next to me, when there are tons of other stalls available.

That's creepy.

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Anonymous wrote:When someone decides to take the bathroom stall right next to me, when there are tons of other stalls available.

This. A thousand times this.

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Anonymous wrote:"no worries" You're not Australian! Shut up

even worse, "no worries, no worries"

How about signing the email: "Cheers!" when you're not British? I'm a wanker, I know.

Yes! and Caio!

oddly, Gesundheit doesn't bother me go figure