What are some of the things you really cant stand and get on your nerves? There are so many to mention, but one that is on my mind right now is Public Service Announcements. What a complete waste of time and money these things are. I see different ones all the time, from telling you to wipe your kids ass, to reminding you to buckle up while on an airplane because of the dangers involved with airplane turbulence. What a crock of shit. Whens the last time you've heard of someone getting hurt because of airplane turbulence that could have been prevented by wearing their seatbelt?

seriously

commercials - that new ricolah one or whatever those throat things are called pisses me off to high hell. how do you keep walking around after someone drops a tv one your head? how?

people who pronounce nuclear as nucular

I don't like people who close the window. If there's a storm or it's actually cold, it's okay to close the window. Otherwise, it makes no sense to close the window.

I have nothing against closed windows. It's just the people who close the window. They are babies.

I also don't like umbrellas. It is okay to use an umbrella. Go ahead.

The problem is when people with umbrellas also walk under awnings and force you, the one without the umbrella, to walk under that line of water where the awning ends. That drip is worse than any kind of rain. Rain is not so bad. It is not so bad to get wet in a distributed fashion. But the awning drip will hit you hard on the nose or slow down the back.

Most kinds of rain are okay. If you stand in it for half a minute you will not get so wet. It is disturbing when people with umbrellas refuse to touch any raindrops. They will stand in the threshold of a door to close their umbrella so that there is a completely dry transition. While they struggle to close their poorly made umbrellas people line up behind them waiting in the rain.

Why do quality running shoes come with 5 foot shoe laces? This peeves me. I don’t need enough lace to hang myself or lasso a trash bin while I’m running. Who needs all this lace?

Who?

Presets or demos of anything remotely connected to guitars.

There seems to be some bizarre sub-genre of music that might be called 'demo-set instro-rock' or something (I dunno) which NO FUCKER would ever dream of listening to outside of the realm of factory presets and manufacturers online demos.

Want to hear how a new guitar amp sounds online?

Here; have a 5 minute 'demo-set instro-rock' piece which starts with a clean chorused guitar, then maybe hits the most un-funky funk chops ever to travel through air and probably finishes with some hideous processed soloing and power-chording.

Because that's the kind've sound you'd be making if you bought the amp, right?

Want to check-out a multi-effects unit?

Hmmm.

What kind've sound might you use on a day-to-to basis?

Oh; Jet-Flanging with tasteful slap-back delay!

Of-fucking-course!

Want some chunk?

Here!

Have some chunk with added reverb, chorus and pitch-shifting!

There! Ideal for swiftly checking the unit out.

Really.

The phrase "pet peeve". And, generally, the people who use it.

LAD wrote:Why do quality running shoes come with 5 foot shoe laces? This peeves me. I don’t need enough lace to hang myself or lasso a trash bin while I’m running. Who needs all this lace?

Who?

I too have found this to be a real pain in the ass. What I do is in the next to last hole lace them through twice before being into the last hole. You really need to loosen the laces to get them off but this prevents you from accidently walking on your laces and untying them.

1. Wafer thin ham

(a) It seems that nearly any packet of sliced sandwich ham you buy is called "wafer thin", whether it is wafer thin or not.

(b) For some reason the people who manufacture wafer thin ham feel the need to artfully fold all the ham together so as to make it fucking impossible to remove a single slice without tearing it. Ridiculous, unecessary, infuriating.

2. Fake Quitters

Don't say "I quit" and then a few weeks later change your mind. This is simply too annoying. If you're gonna quit, quit. This is more pertinent to people saying they are "quitting music" or "quitting the band" rather than, say, giving up smoking. People who try and fail to give up smoking do not annoy me. Drama queens who announce to the world they will never pick up their guitar again only to be back a few weeks later playing more of their self-concious art wankery as if they'd never been away - they annoy me.

3. Radio djs who talk over the song. Yes it's an old "chestnut" but my good lord, it makes me want to cry tears of furious piss. JUST. DON'T. FUCKING. DO IT. You're driving along, and Crazy In Love comes on the radio. Cool, you can dig this for a few minutes. Then the fucking sidechaining uber-dweeb's side-fucking-chaining grinning dickhead ego comes twatting into your car, and it's like having a plate of warm, smug, charmless humanity at it's worst tipped all down your front.

4. People saying The Beatles are crap. (Also deliberate, overly contrived "controversial" opinions in general: make you look like what is sometimes referred to as a try-hard.)

5. Charles Manson t-shrts being worn by people.

6. Anyone, ever, telling me to "chill out". I don't want to chill out. I am not a laid back guy. I am tense and twitchy and agitated. I mean, has this little phrase ever had its intended effect, ever? Isn't this usually the last thing you hear before the noise of glass being smashed and muffled grunts of pain from grown men?

7. Anyone, ever, telling me that "that's your opinion, and you're entitled to it." I mean, why stop there? Why not continue down this path of reducing any conversation with any hint of a disagreement to a dim-witted commentary of the bleeding fucking obvious? "You are a human being." "You are using language." "You are on the earth."

It's my opinion, and I'm entitled to it? I know, and I know.

8. People fussing over their soundchecks for three hours who then go on to play a set so dull, so pedestrian, and so uninspiring that you could just fart your own life out.

9. Fake laid back people. Just because you are talking in a quiet, measured manner does not mean I cannot detect the rage blasting through your very being. I can see the whites of your knuckles, for fuck's sake. (Note: these people are often the same ones who tell you to "chill out.")

10. Julien Temple. A bit of an easy target, but as the worst filmmaker from these shores (which is really saying something), he's always worth a mention. As long as people keep giving him money to make his arch, inconsequential little travesties, I will continue to be annoyed by him.

11. Documentaries. I watch some of them. I like some of them. But they uniformly irritate me.

12. People taking an inordinately long time to eat a small bag of crisps.

13. Places that play music too loud for no good reason, be it a pub, club, or shop. It does not make me think your establishment is more hip, or more happening. It just makes it harder for me to talk. I want to leave now. Goodbye.

Right, that's it. I'm quitting this forum. This is the last ever post from run joe, run. It's been fun. But that's it from me. Over and fucking out. Have a nice life, guys.

Well, I decided to carry on after all. Do I get a welcome back hug?