Is there something consistently irritating about you?

[Aliantha]

Well if you think that's bad, try leaving the keyboard to stop some arsehole from hanging someone else in the bathroom!

[Ibby]

Why, I've even left midpost to hang myself in the bathroom!
wait...

[DanaC]

lol ibby :P

[TheMercenary]

Well for me, according to my wife, I am to abrupt with my opinons in conversation. Yea, little ole me, go figure, none of you would have believed that. If it is a hot topic that pisses me off I am even worse. I don't mean to hurt peoples feelings but it just comes out. Sometimes I step on my dick when I do it and when I realize it I am truely embarssed. The problem is most of the time I don't realize it or I just don't care what other people think about my comment. I am really a compasionate person and will give most people the benifit of the doubt, to a fault. But if someone asks me an opinion about something I tell them what I think. I use to get high marks for it when I was on Active Duty and people respected me for it. Now that I don't have to be so PC, not that I really was while on AD, anymore I don't . It could be I am over compensating for times when I really wanted to say something that would not go over well and couldn't. I don't know. Often I use sarcasm and most people don't get it or think I am being serious when in fact I mean just the opposit of what I said. I do it on-line as in real life. When people don't get it, I drop it and leave them hanging, never telling them if I am serious or not.

For my wife, she likes to repeat herself. Tell me the same story she just told me yesterday, with all the detail, instead of just referring back to it without the detail. I still love her and just put up with it.

[Shawnee123]

Last night on How I Met Your Mother (might have been a rerun but I haven't seen it before) it was an ep about each of them pointing out what was annoying about the others, with a soundtrack of glass breaking when the others would realize it was true. Lily sounded like she was eating rocks, Ted always corrects people, Robin used the word "literally" all the time even when she meant figuratively...etc.

Eeek, the annoying things about me are so over the top annoying that to point them out would either be redundant or a lesson in futility: if you can't see them you might have a mental deficiency and I will leave you with delusions of my grandeur, thanks very much.

[LabRat]

This is one of those threads I dreaded when asking Red to join the cellar .

I laugh too loud and have to argue or question everything. Well, pretty much everything. Although, in my defense, I think this second trait makes me a good scientist.

I'll point this out to him and see if he agrees.

[Flint]

This is your blind spot, blind spot.
It should be obvious, but it's not.
-Thom Yorke, "Black Swan" The Eraser

[Razzmatazz13]

I'm not sure what my annoying habits are to outsiders, but I know the most annoying thing about BEING me is that I'm invisible. Really.

This isn't something I can really explain to anyone until they see it for themselves, but I'll try. My voice is rather naturally soft and quiet...I may speak at the same volume as everyone else around me, but for some reason I blend perfectly with whatever white noise is around. Whether it's a room full of other people talking, soft music playing on the radio, or just the wind outside...if I'm with two or more people, there's a good chance I turn invisible.

What exactly does that mean? Well it means everyone I'm with, suddenly, for whatever reason, no longer notices/sees/hears me. I could yell or scream at this point, anything short of running up and HITTING the person I'm trying to talk to won't get their attention. Worst part is that it happens All The Time. Teachers, Parents, Boyfriends, Friends, Boss at work, you name it, I've been stuck this way around them. I hate it so much...but like I said, it's one of those things you really have to see yourself to figure out how bad it is...and sometimes when it happens, there's one person in the group who realizes what's going on...they can still see me, and they typically end up laughing their asses off while they watch it, until I ask them to get whoever I'm trying to talk to's attention for me.

(Understand at that point I've probably been jumping up and down, yelling, screaming that person's name, talking about wierd/dirty/strange things with the person who can hear me while nobody else pays attention, possibly even talking about the person who isn't listening...and this could be in a car, or standing in line next to whomever isn't hearing me...it's not a distance thing at all either.)

Now, whoever can actually see me that I've asked to get the attention of the other person for me usually goes "Hey, (whatever their name) Razz is talking to you." in a nice calm, quiet, regular voice. Really. Ahh...it pisses me off so much sometimes. Usually I just give up unless it's important.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by LabRat

This is one of those threads I dreaded when asking Red to join the cellar .

I laugh too loud and have to argue or question everything. Well, pretty much everything. Although, in my defense, I think this second trait makes me a good scientist.

I'll point this out to him and see if he agrees.

I laugh loud too (esp after a couple beers.) I always thought a good hearty laugh was a good trait but I know it irritates people sometimes, which is embarrassing because I'm fairly quiet in every other way.

Let's just say a good hearty laugh is a desirable trait and leave it at that, eh? :p

[Undertoad]

I think if you're turning invisible, you should just start saying really inappropriate things until people notice. Just throw it in there. "Did you ever notice that monkeys walk like they have a dick up their ass?" "Hey I won first prize in a rochambeau contest yesterday. Yeah I kicked that guy in the nuts so hard he threw up."

[glatt]

A hearty laugh is cool. There's a woman I work with who has an extremely loud cackle. That's annoying.

[Razzmatazz13]

UT - Been done, last time I was out on a double date the other girl and I had a very long conversation about our boobs and the guy's penises. No response from either male...they were trying to figure out if the head on the wall was a moose or an elk...or something.

Often times if nobody at all can hear me I have conversations like this (as I drift into invisibility mid-sentence):

"Well I think if we head over here we should find the entrance (to the fair, actual conversation I've had) since the sign is pointing over...you guys can't hear me anymore can you? No...definitely not. I suppose I should be used to this by now. I'm not. I guess I ought to get a dog or something to carry around and talk to, since talking to walls is just getting boring. So, hi wall. How was your day? Oh really? That's cool. These guys totally don't hear a word I'm saying. At all....oh...hi guys, you're back?"

Other people: "Whu....wait, what'd you say?...Were you talking?"

(Entirely legitimate questions, with no sarcasm, and legit amounts of surprise....then much begging and pleading with me to forgive them once they realize.)

[TheMercenary]

Razz, that would be funny.

[DanaC]

Razz, there was a character in a comedy sketch show over here, a woman who would come up with great ideas in conversations and nobody would hear her, then one of the guys would say the same idea and everybody would take it on. Her catch phrase was " Umm....can anybody actually see me?" :P

[lumberjim]

dana, *cop* to the *asterisks* thing already.