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People who complain that the world is getting hotter/colder and blame it on humanity. There has been four major ice ages, who do you blame those on?
 
As a member in good standing I apologize to my colleagues for the strikingly non-specific nature of this year's vexations, but as mentioned above, I feel compelled to vent them.
Accordingly, I will pinpoint specific vexations in relation to said politics:
  • Political ads. (Period.)
  • The fact that whomever I vote for won’t win anyway.
  • Voting machines that have fallen victim to unintelligent design.
And, once the political season is over (is it ever?), these general vexations will complement the rest of the year:
  • Smokers who insist on blowing the smoke far away from themselves while in public, thus contaminating even more of the general populace with second-hand smoke. And making my nose itch.
  • The idiot in the very back of the theater who laughs like hell at everything and just so happens to have the deepest and most obnoxious laugh imaginable.
  • Men who have trouble finding the watery part of the toilet and pee on the seat instead.
 
People who complain that the world is getting hotter/colder and blame it on humanity. There has been four major ice ages, who do you blame those on?
The Welsh.
 
Men who have trouble finding the watery part of the toilet and pee on the seat instead.

You know that little gap in the seats of public toilets? That's vexing. What is it for? Is it so when you piss the last few drips don't land on the seat? Is it for guys with unitus maximus, to make sure that there junk doesn't get compressed by the seat? Or maybe it has a more practical reason, like saving material and money. The pennies would add up after all those seats.
 
The fact that police have a regulation for the word "reckless" instead of recognizing that it's definition has to do with what the person was thinking at the time and the choices he/she made.

I can't really explain it any better.
 
Current vexations:

-No toilet paper in urinal stalls. At what point was it decided that my $12 boxers are a more practical solution to catching stray drops than a half-cent's worth of recycled paper?

-Job postings that are listed as "entry level", yet require 5-7 years of directly-related industry experience.

-Companies that choose your resume from thousands that are posted, spend over $1000 to fly you across the country, put you in a hotel for 2 nights, and rent you a car, then hire someone else because they cost less to relocate.

-People who work in customer service, but act genuinely bothered when they have to actually interact with customers.

-People who throw their voice into a sneeze, just so everyone within 3/4 of a mile will say "Bless you".

-Comcast has decided to move the TV Guide Channel to their Digital Cable package. Therefore, you now have to spend $50/month and buy 100 more channels to verify that nothing is on.

-The government of Canada has placed a condescending "Think Metric" sign waiting for U.S. citizens at their border, yet Canadians routinely drive 40 mph on U.S. Interstates.

-A 15 year-old boy lying about his age to download porn is a "perjurer", but a 60 year-old man lying about everything else is a "congressman".
 
  • Florida.
  • That itch you get in your ear when you have something sticky on your hands.
  • Piss off, the world is too awful to come up with a third vexation.
 
  • People who can't figure out the dome light in thier new car.
    There's 3 positions: On, off, and door. Guess what they mean!
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  • Televised poker.
    It's like watching other people eat.
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  • Anne Geddes.
    Dressing up children to look like mutants since 1983.
 
TV stations who broadcast the news on half way through a movie and I don't mean thoes 30 second updates.

People that smash bus shelters, what is the point.

David Hasselhoff.
 
TV stations who broadcast the news on half way through a movie and I don't mean thoes 30 second updates.


This is annoying.

For those of you across the pond, what happens is; an evening film will start at 9pm, everyone will sit down to watch it, then at 10pm there will be a news bulletin that lasts for FOURTY MINUTES!!!! The film resumes after the news.

How bloody annoying.


I hope no one has vexations about people using semicolons incorrectly. :nervous: I think I used it right!
 
Yeah, you shoulda used a colon instead. ;)

Anyway, we have those news bulletins here too, but I imagine not as often – it only happens for major events, like when Reagan died.
 
It's regular one channel here, they for some reason decide to start a movie an hour to an hor and a half before they start the news. They just stop the film play the news then contiune the film after, it can be 45 mins sometimes before the film continues which is really annoying especially if it's a film you haven't seen before.
 
Feeling the need for "Red Means Stop - Enforcement Area" signs. Shouldn't that be the case at all times, everywhere?

Why is every city, or at least 74% of those I've been to recently, in Minnesota a Star City? It would have been immensely more fiscally responsible to either say they all are, do nothing about it in the first place or put up signs labeling those that aren't.

Why does one of the local radio stations insist on playing the same song every 2 hours? Do they think we forgot we had just heard it? On one occasion, during a 17 hour work day, we heard the same song 9 times. The only reason we kept listening is because we were all dumbfounded by this. The station hasn't been on in the office since.

Why does it take 3 weeks to get a doctors appointment but I can walk in off the street and get a flu shot in 10 minutes?

The nurse that gave me the flu shot that had a laugh that rivaled Fran Drescher's and would make baby seals turn around and say "Mother? Is that you?"

The fact that, while watching "The Prestige", I found myself waiting to see claws come out of Jackman's hands, Bale to strap on a utility belt, Serkis to start yelling "My precious" and Bowie to break into song. While this is a personal issue, and Fatmouse couldn't give the south end of a north bound donkey, it is still vexing.

Anyone at the Gym that insists on grunting like a caveman that just took down a mastodon while doing curls. We don't care. We never cared. We will never care.

A $260 Logitech remote that doesn't work as well as a $20 One For All.

The fashion industry with the "That is so last year, you loser" attitude. You took a $40 pair of jeans, added some holes to make them wear out faster and charge $120. Congratulations.
 
The Welsh.
Another. People who consider their come backs 'witty' even though they use the same reply repeatedly. E.g. 'Your mother'. If I was to repeat the same words repeatedly would I be considered intelligent, I doubt it.
 
  • Televised poker.
    It's like watching other people eat.

I get all pissy when…
  • people ridicule an activity they don’t enjoy and/or understand. “How can you enjoy motor racing? It’s just cars going around in circles.” Sure, I’d like to see you step into a Formula Ford car, go fast and not bin it.
  • people state opinions as facts. People who do that are morons.
  • I come from High School where grading is completely consistant, and all the requirements are spelled out in a clear and consice manner, then I go to TAFE where grading is completely inconsistant, and requirements are fuzzy at best. I won’t even go into the fact that a “full time” course has somehow turned into a course where I only need to go for 8 hours a week.
 
I get all pissy when…
  • people ridicule an activity they don’t enjoy and/or understand. “How can you enjoy motor racing? It’s just cars going around in circles.” Sure, I’d like to see you step into a Formula Ford car, go fast and not bin it.

Ah..I knew that's one I was missing.

People tell me NASCAR takes more skill than Formula One racing. NASCAR is not nearly as difficult as ANY form of open-wheel racing (sans go-karts). You can flaunt your soccer-mom-in-an-SUV skills in a closed-wheel car, but if you pull that in open-wheel, you'll find yourself flying through the air into a tire wall at high speeds.
 
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Why does one of the local radio stations insist on playing the same song every 2 hours? Do they think we forgot we had just heard it? On one occasion, during a 17 hour work day, we heard the same song 9 times. The only reason we kept listening is because we were all dumbfounded by this. The station hasn't been on in the office since.

How about how the commercials can be timed where I can flip through ALL SIX presets on my radio and EVERY SINGLE ONE is playing COMMERCIALS.

I really hate radio sometimes.
 
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Ah..I knew that's one I was missing.

People tell me NASCAR takes more skill than Formula One racing. NASCAR is not nearly as difficult as ANY form of open-wheel racing (sans go-karts). You can flaunt your soccer-mom-in-an-SUV skills in a closed-wheel car, but if you pull that in open-wheel, you'll find yourself flying through the air into a tire wall at high speeds.

People who think NASCAR requires little skill what so ever. I'd like to see them on the track.
 
Sorry, I thought it was implied a bit there though.

All forms of motorsport take skill. Some more-so than others.

I just can't see where anyone gets the idea that any form of closed-wheel racing is easier than open-wheel racing (There is nothing else in the world like the start of a Formula One race).
 
It's skill being focused in different ways though, for example rally driving in many ways will take far more skill than F1 racing which in turn in many ways will take up far more skill than NASCAR but then in other ways NASCAR will take more skill than rally driving. You could expand that loop and include almost any type of motorsport you can think of. People that over simplify things like A takes more skill than B when A and B are really quite different annoys me, how exactley are they measuring the ammount of skill one would need to do both A and B.

Another. People who consider their come backs 'witty' even though they use the same reply repeatedly. E.g. 'Your mother'. If I was to repeat the same words repeatedly would I be considered intelligent, I doubt it.
:ouch:👍 good job I don't use it often then eh ;).
 
People who REFUSe to use their turn signals.

People who, when using revolving doors at the same time you are, decide to rely on your muscle power to turn the door and let them pass through, rather than contributing to the workload of revolving that heavy sonofabitch themselves.

CEO fatcats who get massages in the concourse levels of these financial buildings downtown, while I walk by toting at least 50 lbs. of stuff. Yeah, you go ahead and get your back looked at, Mr. Executive; it probably really hurts from all those stressful Mercedes rides into work and those stressful golf games with your equally worthless friends.

So do I get to join the club or what? PM me because I don't come on all that regularly...
 
Yeah, you go ahead and get your back looked at, Mr. Executive; it probably really hurts from all those stressful Mercedes rides into work
Be fair; some Ferraris don't have fully-adjustable seats.

New vexation:

-People who wait 10 minutes for a bus, then get off at a stop that would have been a 5 minute walk in the first place.
 
My vexations have a japanese 'theme'!

-people who go up the stairs at the train station on the 'down' side of the stairwell, and vice versa.
There are huge electronic arrows above the stairs, as well as arrows painted on every step indicating the direction you should be going.

-real estate companies who charge you a 'fee' for renting you an apartment.
No, it's not the damage deposit, you pay that in advance (2 months worth) and get it back. It's just a fee, that you pay, (1 months worth) and don't get back. It originates from the late 40's when the country was mostly destroyed and finding a place to live was tough, so you bribed someone.

-The japanese citizenry who is too spineless to protest the aforementioned real-estate fee, saying things like 'But that's the way it is, we have to pay it'.
...Even though the government has questioned the legality of it.

-people in positions of power or import (politicians, doctors, teachers, lawyers, professors, lawmakers) being caught soliciting, paying for, engaging in sex with minors.
This happens far too often in this country.

-drunk driving and the inept system trying to stop it The police in this country decided that a crackdown on drunk driving was needed, so they set up road-blocks one weekend... ...and issued more than 1,000 tickets for drunk-driving. Since this crackdown, we have had a member of the Self Defense Forces, a politician, and a police officer arrested for drunk driving, among others. This problem is only aided by the drunk-driving laws in this country. There is a loop-hole in the system. If you refuse to take a breathalizer test, you can only be fined 50,000 yen.
 
Family friends who ask me to set them up with a "powerful computer" for their kid, expect it to last them at least 5 years, and cost them under $700... and then yell at me when I say it's only possible to deliver on 2 of the 3 options - and even those, just half assed.
 
Family friends who ask me to set them up with a "powerful computer" for their kid, expect it to last them at least 5 years, and cost them under $700... and then yell at me when I say it's only possible to deliver on 2 of the 3 options - and even those, just half assed.

There are still people that are not mindful of technology?
 
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