Annoying things people make their whole personality

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Anonymous wrote:Religion.

Atheists. Can’t be bothered to find and post that “I’m an atheist—debate me” meme. You sound like my atheist BIL, pp.

My friend’s husband made Atheist his whole persona for a few years. He wasn’t like that when they got married so it was… a lot. Books, groups, bumper stickers, coffee mugs. It was nuts. She knew he didn’t believe in God and neither did she, but she never expected him to become so religious about being an atheist.

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Anonymous wrote:Religion.

Atheists. Can’t be bothered to find and post that “I’m an atheist—debate me” meme. You sound like my atheist BIL, pp.

My friend’s husband made Atheist his whole persona for a few years. He wasn’t like that when they got married so it was… a lot. Books, groups, bumper stickers, coffee mugs. It was nuts. She knew he didn’t believe in God and neither did she, but she never expected him to become so religious about being an atheist.

Being an atheist is so crazy, because you’re putting an equal amount of faith into the idea that there is NO God as religious people put into the idea that there is a God.

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Homeschooling moms.

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Anonymous wrote:Disney adults.....

Omg! Yes! Once you get past age 10, you are too old for Disney unless you are taking kids there.

Aknow right!

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their dogs.

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Anonymous wrote:I think sometimes it is other people making something your whole identity. I definitely found this to be true before I had kids. I was the yoga person for awhile—everyone talked to me about yoga and introduced me by saying I was into yoga etc. I didn’t do anything to encourage it! I think people think they are being nice, paying attention to what you’re interested in, but it’s weird.

DP here. I get it, I think that sometimes people want to make it a a "thing" when it is really the other person who has a problem with you having that "thing".

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Anonymous wrote:Religion.

Atheists. Can’t be bothered to find and post that “I’m an atheist—debate me” meme. You sound like my atheist BIL, pp.

My friend’s husband made Atheist his whole persona for a few years. He wasn’t like that when they got married so it was… a lot. Books, groups, bumper stickers, coffee mugs. It was nuts. She knew he didn’t believe in God and neither did she, but she never expected him to become so religious about being an atheist.

Being an atheist is so crazy, because you’re putting an equal amount of faith into the idea that there is NO God as religious people put into the idea that there is a God.

+1

LOL. Nailed it.

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Anonymous wrote:Their kids or grandkids
Their husbands salary
Getting drunk (I knew a lot of millennials who lived for the weekend)
Triathlon, Ironman people

Yup, I was going to say:

Running
Wine

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Anonymous wrote:- I'm so cool because I live in Brooklyn, Austin, Denver or Seattle people
- Super skinny guys who live in Brooklyn and speak in that annoying pseudo artsy/gay affectation (my sister dated one)
- people who drive giant, black SUVs
- mega triathlon people who are into the whole push yourself mindset
- insular people who live in my Midwest city that is really a "large, small town"
- cycling people who wear those stupid outfits. Shorts and a T-shirt are fine
- rednecks with right wing shirts

This one is weird because people can't help where they are born and raised. Of all the places I have lived, the DC area people are the most sensitive about this subject. DC is not the be all and end all for some people, and that is fine - it does not affect you.

I do find that DC area people are easily impressed, which might be the whole premise of this thread.

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Furries

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Anonymous wrote:Their kids or grandkids
Their husbands salary
Getting drunk (I knew a lot of millennials who lived for the weekend)
Triathlon, Ironman people

Yup, I was going to say:

Running
Wine

I love when people are bananas about their grandkids - but only if they mention all of them, equally, and in good light. Not if the do the favoritism thing - because in either case, you know they were a good or bad parent, accordingly.

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Anonymous wrote:Dog people. So annoying. Stop comparing your dog to someone's baby.

As a dog mom, I look forward to your well wishes on Mother’s Day.

Stay mad. 😁😁

I’m a dog mom too!
What did you get your baby for Christmas?

With dog people, as with parents, there's this spectrum of annoyance. The more poorly behaved the dog/child is, cross-checked against how responsive the parent/owner is regarding and behavioral problems, dictates how charming or annoying I find their obsession with their child or dog.

So calling yourself a dog mom is either cute or heinous, but we can't know until we've spent 30 minutes with you and your dog.

This is actually really accurate. There does seem to be an inverse correlation between being a good parent and bragging.

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Anonymous wrote:Introverts

How and why are they annoying? I am not an introvert, but I like most of them.

I know introverts that make this their whole personality and everything they do can be explained/justified etc by proclaiming their introversion. It’s a thing and annoying to me. YMMV.

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Anonymous wrote:Religion.

Atheists. Can’t be bothered to find and post that “I’m an atheist—debate me” meme. You sound like my atheist BIL, pp.

I used one word and I sound like your BIL? That’s…odd.

But I don’t disagree that making either atheism or religion your entire personality are both equally obnoxious and unattractive. Most atheists I meet don’t talk about religion at all though- I meet a lot more Christian women who have to talk about their need for faith-based everything.

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Anonymous wrote:Religion.

Atheists. Can’t be bothered to find and post that “I’m an atheist—debate me” meme. You sound like my atheist BIL, pp.

I used one word and I sound like your BIL? That’s…odd.

But I don’t disagree that making either atheism or religion your entire personality are both equally obnoxious and unattractive. Most atheists I meet don’t talk about religion at all though- I meet a lot more Christian women who have to talk about their need for faith-based everything.

Most of the atheists I know almost never talk about it unless the topic of religion/theism comes up and they are asked what they believe. Or they might mention it in passing to explain something, like "well no, I'm an atheist so I don't celebrate Christmas" or "oh my parents are atheists so I never went to church growing up."

I've only known a couple atheists who were aggressive about it and they were both also libertarians who were aggressive about everything. Their atheism was not the reason they were obnoxious, though certainly they were obnoxious about their atheism.