lisarea

1. Very close to every televised news broadcast I've seen, and many I haven't.
2. Dumbass shortsighted economists.
3. The band Chicago.
4. Money and power-grubbing religions, and those who endorse them.
5. People who think terms like liberal and conservative actually mean anything.
6. Mindless ideologues.
7. Willful ignorance.
8. People who think 'intellectual' is an insult, and are PROUD of not understanding things..
9. Styrofoam.
10. Las Vegas.
11. Pointy shoes, and pointy feet.
12. People who make stuff up rather than admitting they don't know something.
13. Weirdassed provincial words like blouse, slacks, and profanity.
14. That wasp crawling around INSIDE my window screen.
15. The whiny, idle classes and their stupid Oprah shows.
16. People who vote when they don't understand the issues.
17. People who think the term 'decadent' is a really cool way to refer to chocolate.
18. People who think their emotional reactions constitute reasoned opinions deserving of consideration.
19. That nasty midwestern twang.
20. People who call you a 'conspiracy theorist' for reading legislation and following politics in general.

OK. There's a nice round number, but I'll probably be back.

MzNeko

People that make mistakes in spelling or grammar, and then get angry when they are corrected. I can't speak for any other nit-pickers out there, but when I do it, I'm trying to help, dammit!

Animal cruelty.

Bullying.

Sexism, either direction.

People who claim that noting broad general differences between the sexes is sexism. For example: "In general, men tend to be larger and have more muscle mass than women." I've encountered people who would actually take that as a sexist remark. It's not. Implying that this somehow made men superior to women would be.

Emotional manipulation.

Anyone who actually makes me angry enough to be rude or raise my voice.

People who only use the word "liberal" as a pejorative.

Customer service people who are rude to customers.

Customers who are rude to customer service people. (Courtesy goes both ways, folks... just because someone makes minimum wage, it does NOT give you the right to treat them like dirt.)

Pretty much anyone I share the road with these days.

Oh yeah, and dead batteries in the vibrator, that really is irritating.

Edited to add...
Clothes-dryers that stop working in the middle of laundry day, leaving you with a big bag of wet clothes and looking forward to a trip to the laundromat!

Smilin

okay.. since hazy brought up dead vibrators..

I feel I must complain about 'leaky' blow up women dolls...

Smilin

one of OUR personal creeds... LEAVE YOUR MARK!!!

Birdsmgp

... to supplement a few more:

... Impatient Speeders on the Road. ( I care to drive safely. )

... People that use the word: "Lust" as pejorative. To make sex and passions seem bad. The focus should be the actions one does upon another and not how a person gets in a frame of mind and mood about things. What's personal is personal. What imposses on another should be the issue.

... Not being able to get up early in the Morning Hours. And having to stay up late at night time hours.

... Again this Sacramento, CA. clouds will not shade the Sun for me. (To the Obsessed clear and sunny People: Lets be fair about this. You already get 90% of what you want anyway ... Or else help me with the moving strategies I need. Thank You! ... .)

philechat

Here it goes...

People who blasted the radio in workspaces, usually craps like top-40 hits or pop music. It sends me up the wall right away.

Bad music of any kind

People who think art should not be supported, who want the entire country to be under the dominion of suburban grass lawns with white houses and frisbee playing during the weekends.

Any type of conservative Protestantism (for some reason conservative Catholicism wasn't as bad).

People who actively discourage interracial and interfaith marriages.

hallmark verse of any types...preferably with babies on the front cover and 15 mentions of the word "love" in 20 lines.

Identity politics, as if we must behave according to our labels simply because someone else had labeled us "Asians" or whatnot.

Moral superiority and art censorship of all types.

Anti-intellectualism treated as "cool".

Women who played dumb to attract men.

People who bitched about "inequality" while they belonged to the top half of the nation's income level.

Any left-behind series and conspiracy theories.

Stephen Maturin

It's also worth pointing out that dead batteries are every bit as maddening when squirreled away inside the battery compartment of a Fellate-O-Matic Turbo 2000(TM).

A few others:

- Folks who seem to believe that owning a vehicle with a good crash safety rating excuses them of the obligation to learn how to drive the goddamned thing.

- Quote miners.

- Corporate welfare proponents masquerading as capitalists.

- Armchair __________. (Fill in blank as appropriate)

- The dipshit down the street who keeps a lawn jockey in his front yard.

lisarea

Ah, had a shower and made a new pot of coffee, and I'm raring to go again!

- The Tragedy of the Commons phenomenon in its myriad forms, including the new mega-church down the street watering its new sod every afternoon in the middle of a drought, and those bright yellow Coroplast Make Money Fast and We'll Buy Your House signs on telephone poles and street signs everwhere. (Yeah, I narced on the church, and I rip down the signs at least once a week.)

- Those who make sweeping generalizations based on unrelated demographic information and trivial knowledge. "You're a gal, so I'll bet you like to shop!" "You're an atheist, so I'll bet you'd sue the TV station if they showed people going to church." (I couldn't make this shit up.)

- People who get dogs and just leave them outside crying all the time.

- Men who make a little 'O' of their thumb and first finger, then poke the first finger of the other hand through the aforementioned 'O' and gesture toward the shoulder of the road, as though that might actually work some day.

- Unsolicited psychoanalyses and fashion advice.

- Covenant controlled communities.

- Those who erroneously believe they are freaking out the normals by wearing mass-produced 'punk rock' attire.

- Promiscuous invocation of Nazism.

- People who think that dirty and ill-mannered children are cute.

- How everybody thinks they personally invented pronouncing Target as Tar-jhay.

- That globberassed bitch down the street who keeps turning in my neighbor for parking his semi in front of his house, because she think it don't look claaassy. I'm gonna start turning her in for being a big dumb globberassed bitch, because I think it's starting to affect my property values.

- The person who gifted me with the comically oversized souvenir mug, and all those who've chosen to fill it with half a fucking pot of coffee, then drink like a third of that and leave it sitting in some out of the way place so I find it a week later.

- Flourescent lights.

Godless Dave

Just a few more:

*People who assume that because I'm male, I know who won the most recent football/baseball/basketball/hockey game, as well as the home team's record and names and personal records of the prominent players.

*People who don't use turn signals. WTF. How hard can it be? And no, not having a free hand because you're talking on your phone is not a valid reason for not signalling.

*Women who flirt with me in bars when their boyfriends are sitting ten feet away.

*Coworkers who cannot handle even the tiniest change in procedure. Of course that would be less of a problem if it weren't for:

*Programmers who can't be bothered to learn our company's standards, and then ask me to do all kinds of crazy things to get their printed output delivered to the right place ("OK, for this one the last two characters of the jobname will stand for the division it goes to." "Why don't you just put that division's bin number on the banner page like everybody else?" "What's their bin number? And how do I code it?" "Oh, I'm sorry, I thought YOU were the programmer and I was the lowly print operator. That's OK, I'll just do your job for you....")

lisarea

- People who think FIVE is 'a couple.'

Aw, hell, I give up. Who could stay mad at you?