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Avatar, thanks for saying what we all feel. I hate people. They're more than a pet peeve though, really.

Also coworkers who call me now that I have an elevated position to ask me stupid questions: "Yes, you can blow your nose on the job. Leave me alone."

I really hate people paying more attention to their cellphone than the people they are with. Even if I see it happening to someone else, it makes me mad.

When people put a roll of toilet paper on backwards.

backs who are wearing Scrum-Caps... it's called a scrum cap for a reason, and you don't do it!!!

Also, backs who knock the ball on.... This is doubly so if it's due to their hair in some way.


Ignorant Americans who see me wearing my All Blacks cap and think that somehow, even though I'm white as freshly fallen snow, I'm somehow a gangster or thug with some kind of Black Panther group...

People at work who "demand" that I do work that I am no longer authorized, or is otherwise impossible for me to do (Im in a medical retirement process, therefore there's a bunch that Im not supposed to, nor can do)


Also, I agree with most of the gym related ones... especially in regards to racking the weights.

Ohh, since we're on gyms now.... d-bags who are CURLING IN THE SQUAT RACK!!!

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:
backs who are wearing Scrum-Caps... it's called a scrum cap for a reason, and you don't do it!!!

Also, backs who knock the ball on.... This is doubly so if it's due to their hair in some way.

Is this English?

- People who are incapable of making decisions. If you have survived to adulthood, and you are presented with a few options I expect that you are able to identify the one that best suits your needs

- People who cannot ever get to the point. If every interaction I have with you constantly meanders from story to story without ever getting to the actual initial purpose for the conversation please do not be surprised if you have lost my attention. Brevity is good.

- People who think that a team is there to cover for them doing nothing

- Sudden changes of plan that are actually worse than the initial plan


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 pretre wrote:

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:
backs who are wearing Scrum-Caps... it's called a scrum cap for a reason, and you don't do it!!!

Also, backs who knock the ball on.... This is doubly so if it's due to their hair in some way.

Is this English?

Rugby speak

A few of mine have already been listed, so I'll just mention a minor one that bugs me...

People who sign their name at the end of a forum post on the internet.

I mean, why? You want us to know who made the post? All we have to do is glance to the left a little. Your name is right there, directly above your avatar. We have no trouble seeing who wrote your message. You might say that the system was designed with that purpose in mind.

So why do you guys insist on "signing" your posts? You aren't writing a letter to the editor; you are posting on the internet. Spelling and grammar are optional here. And at any rate, your "signature" is pointless, since the only purpose for its existence is nullified by the fact that your user name is already attached to every post you make.

Just... please, guys... stop doing it. Please.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

backs who are wearing Scrum-Caps... it's called a scrum cap for a reason, and you don't do it!!!

Since I can't block for them, I want my Fly and Centres to have as much protection as possible.

Double points if those guys will assist on a ruck.

Oh, and since we're talking about rugby: players that can't seem to learn that the techniques required to be good at American football are not the same as those required to be good at rugby.

Oh, and people who are contrary for the sake of being contrary

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
Oh, and people who are contrary for the sake of being contrary

You're wrong!

What are we talking about?

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
Oh, and people who are contrary for the sake of being contrary

Yeah, those guys are donkey-caves.

dogma wrote:People that don't wipe down exercise equipment after using it, and people that cough into their hands rather than their shoulder (or don't cover their cough at all).

Oh, and people that don't re-rack weight, or re-rack them in the wrong order.

Meh, the commercial gym I go to hasn't had its weights racked properly since opening day. It's a complete lost cause at this point for anyone to bother. Gotta love walking around half the gym because 2.5 lb plates are apparently mythical relics. Also concerning the gym, people who curl in the squat rack, especially when there is only one good power rack, 4 flat benches, and several other straight bars available to use.

Easy E wrote:I really hate people paying more attention to their cellphone than the people they are with. Even if I see it happening to someone else, it makes me mad.

It really hacks me off when I see kids out eating with their parents and every single one of them over the age of 3 is glued to an electronic device.

And people who keep stuffing trash into an already overflowing receptacle. Janitors are people too, show them some modicum of respect at least.
People who honk the very second a light changes from red to green. I'm sorry not everyone has your elite COD reflexes, please take a chill pill.
People who order pizza delivered and take five minutes to come to the door.

 Blacksails wrote:
People who walk slowly and/or take up space in the worst possible place in a high traffic area, like at the bottom of stairs or in front of a door.

I don't think there's much that can infuriate me so quickly as that.

Lose my mind.

This.

This so much.

Especially when they are looking at their phones or are just ambling. Especially when with a group of friends to form a line across this particular space. "Quick, fellow idiots, deploy the donkey-cave formation, no-one shall pass!"

 trexmeyer wrote:

Meh, the commercial gym I go to hasn't had its weights racked properly since opening day. It's a complete lost cause at this point for anyone to bother. Gotta love walking around half the gym because 2.5 lb plates are apparently mythical relics.

They like to hide between 45s and 25s or, if you're really luck, between 35s.

Anyway, I used to manage a gym, and failing to re-rack weights properly is like dropping a pair of jeans on a t-shirt display; but worse. You not only make life harder on the staff, but inconvenience your fellow members.

 Tigurius wrote:

 Blacksails wrote:
People who walk slowly and/or take up space in the worst possible place in a high traffic area, like at the bottom of stairs or in front of a door.

I don't think there's much that can infuriate me so quickly as that.

Lose my mind.

This.

This so much.

Especially when they are looking at their phones or are just ambling. Especially when with a group of friends to form a line across this particular space. "Quick, fellow idiots, deploy the donkey-cave formation, no-one shall pass!"

What's even worse is when they are walking the opposite direction and don't move to let you by.

Plow through! Lower your shoulder.

I generally just swing my messenger bag at them.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

Also, I agree with most of the gym related ones... especially in regards to racking the weights.

Ohh, since we're on gyms now.... d-bags who are CURLING IN THE SQUAT RACK!!!

Holy feth, this. I don't understand how hard is can be to put weights back there they belong, in proper order. Apparently it's pretty fething difficult. I've never encountered the curling issue (yet), but that's also pretty silly. I'm also getting tired of people trying to get me to join a CrossFit gym. I DON'T WANT TO DO IT.

 mega_bassist wrote:
I'm also getting tired of people trying to get me to join a CrossFit gym. I DON'T WANT TO DO IT.

You don't want to be a member of a gym which uses the same rhetorical techniques as L. Ron Hubbard?

Eat less, exercise more!

People making out in public.

 Easy E wrote:
I really hate people paying more attention to their cellphone than the people they are with. Even if I see it happening to someone else, it makes me mad.

1) Ask one of these phone addicts a question

2) Wait for an eternity for them to stop checking their phone to realise that the world around them still exists

3) Repeat the question because they've forgotten it (or most of it) or never heard anything more than being addressed

4) Get half the answer before the phone buzzes/beeps/twitches and they go back to staring at it

5) Ask them AGAIN only to have them complain that they heard you the first time and stop repeating the question (they will then return to the phone rather than answer the question)

6) Giving up and getting the marmalade yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5y0ZDD-pk4

People reading the book i'm reading over my shoulder.

 kronk wrote:
Eat less, exercise more!

But only how, and when, we tell you to. Ignore the fact that we're not qualified in anything other than the methodology we're pushing, that's unimportant.

Actually, I'm going to add "branded exercise regimes" to my list of pet peeves.

Drivers who do not understand that indicators are there to show what way you are turning. I've been known to pull alongside a lady on the motorway and hurl abuse at her for pulling out in front of me 3 times -.-

I went on a date with this really cute girl during college. On our first date we met up with her friends who she called "N***A". It drove my crazy almost instantly for so many different reasons. In my area it became a word all ethnicity's started using as a greeting to sound "cool".

Also the phrase "a butt load"

None of us are perfect but at least try to sound like a human being. I never understood the "gangsta" mentality.

I say "butt load" and "metric ass ton" all of the time!

Butt loads, even!

Also, Feth-ton.

I find those words useful if you're really trying to exaggerate the size of something.


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 Rotary wrote:
I went on a date with this really cute girl during college. On our first date we met up with her friends who she called "N***A". It drove my crazy almost instantly for so many different reasons. In my area it became a word all ethnicity's started using as a greeting to sound "cool".

Also the phrase "a butt load"

None of us are perfect but at least try to sound like a human being. I never understood the "gangsta" mentality.

Sometimes being able to say taboo words relieves tension as it allows you not to worry about offending someone as much, allows you access to a wider vocab, it allows you to be more honest about you feelings, etc.

 kronk wrote:
Plow through! Lower your shoulder.

I've done this actually...


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 dogma wrote:

 mega_bassist wrote:
I'm also getting tired of people trying to get me to join a CrossFit gym. I DON'T WANT TO DO IT.

You don't want to be a member of a gym which uses the same rhetorical techniques as L. Ron Hubbard?

please clarify. er what? Mind you my only knowledge of cross fit is switching up between rum and whiskey.

I thought CrossFit was a RuPaul workout.

Yes. That was a RuPaul reference, ladies and gentlemen.

You're welcome!