Things That Irritate You in Life

Maguari said:
But my point is that the little plastic cuboid with the bumps isn't called 'a Lego'! That just isn't its name, and so a plural shouldn't exist. It's a brick, and always has been. The plural of brick is well-established as 'bricks'. The product as a whole is called Lego, the bits that make it up are not 'Legos'. Lego are actually encouraging the use of a less copyrightable word..!
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So it'd be Lego bricks?
 
Discussions about Covid-related policies - and not being able to resist reading and/or participating in them.
 
Adults who try to find the education in everything:

As a kid, I hated being asked moronic questions like “What did you learn in school today?” Or “Can you spell...?” by my friend’s parents.

I was at the zoo once with one of my sons, having a laugh as we do, and there was a dad there asking his kid to count the animals in each exhibit. By the third exhibit, the kid looked ready to explode.

I’ve seen adults do it sometimes to avoid praising kids. My son got an award last week for coming top of his class in maths. Rather than glossing over it by asking him to multiply X by Y, I told him how great he was.
 
Another thing that really irritates me to the point of losing my temper.

When people are too nice and give their power away, letting others walk all over them. Adding to that, people being spineless, feckless and cowardly. Cowardice really gets my blood boiling. Also adding to that, people letting others off the hook, essentially rewarding their bad behavior. Another thing that really irritates me is that when people have tremendous leverage, but allow themselves to be pushed around and signal that they will shut up take it. In those situations, when people just lay down and take it, it is beyond depressing and angering! I have had people in my life like that, and it ended up effecting my life and causing unecessary troubles. If people try pulling that crap with me, they won't like what's coming to them! I will not give my power away or be walked all over under any circumstances, period! You have to be firm, stand your ground, and have boundaries! If I had kids, that is a major thing I would want to teach them.
 
Loxodonta Cobra said:
. Parents who don't enforce enough discipline on their children
. Couples who kiss right in front of you
. People who actively go out of their way to annoy others including yourself
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I totally agree with the first one. Adding to that, it really irritates me seeing children ordering around adults. As much as I strongly support and encourage questioning authority, at the same time, I think it is important that children learn to have respect for authority. I do think being loving and nurturing, yet being firm and setting boundaries is key to good parenting. Pardon my tangent, but I will say that you don't want to be too strict or have too high of standards otherwise you will create an overly stressful life for them, make them feel like nothing they ever do or say is good enough, and set them up for failure. You also don't want to be too lenient where they have little to no concept of boundaries or self discipline and let them walk all over you or others. Being a helicopter parent or a lawnmower parent is very problematic and a big no! Again, pardon my further tangent, but here are two relevant videos and one relevant article. I wholeheartedly agree with everything in these videos and that articles.



The Fragile Generation

Here is a link to a great organization, pertaining to the content posted above;

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Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
Mediocrity in institutions across the board is a constant source of irritation.

The prevalence of conformity , group-think and mobbing type behaviour , is one of the things that irritate / depress / disappoint / disgust and anger me most about the human condition. I think it breeds a toxic moral / ethical cowardice and I hate that this goes encouraged by some organizational cultures and the subsequent damage that it inflicts on individuals, institutions and on projects.

Jair Bolsonaro and his supporters , enough said...

Malls / shopping centres etc. I just find them to be ugly hellish cretinous neon lit citadels of mindless zombified consumerism and I'd rather have a tooth extracted than be inside one.

Hollow platitudes.

Brown nosing machiavellian asskissers , they should grow a pair and maybe a spine while they are at it too.

Moral cowardice.

The recent rise of fascism.

Consumerism / overconsumption / commercial advertising. I believe this is the source of most of our ecological and societal woes ,enough said really.

Every US president and political administration of the past half a century and more with the exception of Jimmy Carter.

The current uninspired state of conservation biology , corruption / nepotism within it too.

People who don't give a damn about the natural world or who heap scorn on conservationists with a total gleeful pig headed ignorance born from either indifference or a deluded notion of being elevated above nature.

Most animal rights activists and particularly those who are not capable of listening or changing their minds, enough said...

The slavish adherence to the paradigms of our current neoliberal economic system.

Social media like facebook , twitter etc.

The academic system and how thoroughly corrupt and morally bankrupt it is despite all the platitudes.

Biodiversity loss , enough said.

Extinctions, enough said.

Climate change , enough said.

Quite frankly , vegans who feel the need to impose their worldview on you.

A statistically significant percentage of PhD students I have met and their academic advisors too, w*****s.

This bull**** trend of "wokeness" in the left, I feel that this is ultimately just fuelling the rise of the far right and as someone centre left on the political spectrum this seriously concerns me.

Twitter "conservationists"

The association / prejudice that a good many people have of biologists / conservation biologists all being long haired tie dye t shirt wearing hippie pot smokers singing cumbuyah around a fire. That is definitely not appreciated , isn't even close to being accurate and certainly doesn't describe me.
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Everything, literally everything you listed really irritates the hell out of me! Thank you for sharing this list with us!
 
Here is another thing that really irritates me and gets on my nerves.

Unfounded optimism and unfounded hope. I will be honest and say that often I do have the tendency to be quite pessimistic (tending to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen) and snarky (sharply critical, cutting, snide, cranky, and irritable).

I have to say, I often do make my share of snide (derogatory or mocking in an indirect way) comments... I try not to do that here on the forum, but you should see/hear me in real life in certain situations...

Often, my thinking is perpetually glass half empty. I was talking to a friend and former co-worker a while back and she was saying that as uncomfortable and burdensome as this mindset is for us and perhaps others around us, it is not necessarily a bad thing being that we have a realistic understanding of the world, but it can be overwhelming when it is constant, and it sure as is! We were also saying that sometimes we just need a break from ourselves...

I will say however, that studies show that pessimistic people are more grounded in reality than people are that are optimistic. Being the former, It is uncomfortable to be on edge like this all the time, and it effects my quality of life and makes me feel like I am just existing rather than living... As the old saying goes, reality bites.

A relevant article that resonates with me and those tendencies is titled "The Dangerous Fantasy of Hope rooted in Self-Delusion", written by Pulitzer prize winning American journalist Chris Hedges, and as hard as that information in the article is to hear, I think it is definitely worth reading. As stated in that article, optimism and hope at the expense of truth will ultimately doom us and also said, those who face reality, however bitter, are better able to endure and rise above it. One thing I will say is that what keeps me going and keeps me afloat is knowing what is possible, however likely or feasible it may be... Again, just knowing what is possible...
 
When you’re an adult:

You’re at a conference chilling with the coworkers you’re friends with and the CEO comes on stage and tells you to get up and go and sit next to somebody you’ve never met before.

I mean you can go and find another friend and ‘introduce’ yourselves but they’re invariably Grade C friends, when before you were with Grade A friends.

vs.

When you’re a kid/teen:

The teacher makes sure as hell you’re not in a group with one of your best friends because that could lead to you having fun while learning.
 
What irritates me are mainly the many and long ads on youtube (on TV they irritate me less) and even harder the (Belgian) politics (I'm not going to explain why because it's way too hard and long to understand for even Belgians, i cannot think how hard it must be for people from other countries).
What used to irritate me at school was homework, school itself wasn't too bad, but the homework I think is a bridge too far and contains things they should actually do at school (school=work for school, home=not work for school, it's as simple as that).
For the rest, pessimistic people or people who think they can do everything better than the rest and therefore complain about everything or criticize everything irritate me.
 
Tiger said:
What used to irritate me at school was homework, school itself wasn't too bad, but the homework I think is a bridge too far and contains things they should actually do at school (school=work for school, home=not work for school, it's as simple as that).
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Adding onto this, I have a lot of issues with the content taught at schools, which obviously hasn't been changed for a long time. A lot of content kids learn now is pointless. For example, why are we teaching kids how to do complex maths equations (e.g. quadratic equation) when:
1. Most students will never use this once in their life.
2. If they need to do it, web browsers exist.
I don't like the idea that we should never teach these, but it should be optional. There's no point in making it mandatory if most people won't use it in their lives a considerable amount.
 
OstrichMania said:
Adding onto this, I have a lot of issues with the content taught at schools, which obviously hasn't been changed for a long time. A lot of content kids learn now is pointless. For example, why are we teaching kids how to do complex maths equations (e.g. quadratic equation) when:
1. Most students will never use this once in their life.
2. If they need to do it, web browsers exist.
I don't like the idea that we should never teach these, but it should be optional. There's no point in making it mandatory if most people won't use it in their lives a considerable amount.
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Totally agree. Maybe in the past these things were more useful than they are now, but now these very difficult subjects have no use. They should be taught to students, but to repeat this several times and do tests of this has more disadvantages than advantages. They bring stress and waste of time, which you could easily invest in things like relaxation, your friends, etc. (in short: more useful things, in my opinion). Also, they should let kids in high school do more that have to do with their elective, since kids who want to work mostly with their hands (I don't, but I'm speaking on their behalf) probably won't need these difficult math subjects like squares, square roots, and more (though they should learn to measure and mirror things).
 
So this is a very specific thing that irritates/annoys me. Like mildly infuriating or like that.

Imagine you're in a metro/subway stuffed with people. You cross the platform to enter another metro line with equally much people. (Imagine Tokyo's rail, HK is as crowd as them). So the train doors shuts, the train goes to the next stop, everything's fine, right? Wrong. Just when you're stuck and you want to train to go, the train doors opened again. It's probably someone on the first car that stick her bag a little bit. OK. She put it closer and the door shuts. Then it opened again. And shut again. And opened again. And shut again before finally going to the next stops. And it happen again at the next stop.

This wasnt too bad in term of time (30 seconds or sth.) But please, either you 1)Ensure nothing of you is blocking the closure of the train doors or 2)wait for the next train. Like come on in peak hours there's metro train every minute or two! Just dont squeeze in and take your bag inside then realize you cant and go out again!
 
aardvark250 said:
So this is a very specific thing that irritates/annoys me. Like mildly infuriating or like that.

Imagine you're in a metro/subway stuffed with people. You cross the platform to enter another metro line with equally much people. (Imagine Tokyo's rail, HK is as crowd as them). So the train doors shuts, the train goes to the next stop, everything's fine, right? Wrong. Just when you're stuck and you want to train to go, the train doors opened again. It's probably someone on the first car that stick her bag a little bit. OK. She put it closer and the door shuts. Then it opened again. And shut again. And opened again. And shut again before finally going to the next stops. And it happen again at the next stop.

This wasnt too bad in term of time (30 seconds or sth.) But please, either you 1)Ensure nothing of you is blocking the closure of the train doors or 2)wait for the next train. Like come on in peak hours there's metro train every minute or two! Just dont squeeze in and take your bag inside then realize you cant and go out again!
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Are there any 'passenger pushers' in the HK subway?
 
If you mean staff then no. In fact there are staffs that told people to stop going in if it's too crowded. But people who are in a rush tends to not follow other rules.
 
Parents

Stupid kids at school. There’s this one girl who is very aggressive and mean in my school. I was walking in the hallway fairly recently, just trying to get to class and I stopped behind her because she was blabbing with her friends in the middle of the hallway. She turns around and then yells in my face. :mad: I didn’t say anything. There’s a kid in my drama class who has called me annoying. I find that strange because he is the one that goes around bothering everybody. I called him out on that once, and my teacher was like “Yeah!!!” I feel kinda bad for her because she has to deal with kids like him all day.

The fact that so many people don’t care about mental disorders and illnesses.
 
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