People I hate

[Dreamstalker]

Canvassers (I'm looking at you Greenpeace) who will try anything to get someone's attention after they've made it clear they're Not Interested. I've had them follow me down the block (complete with lame-ass pickup lines), even try to grab me once or twice (do NOT touch me uninvited unless you want to lose an appendage).

My standard out "I lost my job and am having trouble even making my rent now", was challenged once by a smooth-talker pointing out my iced coffee ("You could help us for the cost of coffee for a week" with undertones of "you just said you didn't have any money, why do you have that then?")...even if I did agree with all of your viewpoints/tactics, I have NO MONEY TO SPARE you twit! I'm not giving my credit card number out on the street in any event.

[Greenday]

Figured I'd add to this thread since this just happened.

People who go around work, looking for donations from other employees. I'm a civilian employee at a local military base. We just had some woman from the security office downstairs walking around, asking everyone for donations to some fund to help families of soldiers to support them. One of her selling points was that it will go towards helping the soldiers kids go through school such as college. You know, if I wasn't already about $10,000 in debt from college with one more year left of undergrad and possibly grad school (though everyone I've talked to in grad school for chem said not to so I dunno), I might donate. But I just can't afford to donate lots of money like full-time employees. And don't give me a dirty look because I won't donate.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Yeah, but is it a slur if it's not used as a slur? Lots of words have more than one meaning, depending on how it's used....bitch, bastard, ass, hell what if I happened to own a pet monkey that lived on my porch, would he be a racial slur too?

It's not a word respectable people use. I don't care if what color they are, it's not a word anyone should be throwing around. It's offensive when white people use it. It's offensive when black people use it.

I have black friends, too. They don't use the word either. I woudn't hang out with the type of people who think it's okay to casually throw around something that is so offensive to so many people.

Yes, a lot of words...the ones you cited, for example...have dual meanings. The word we are discussing does not. It only means one thing.

I understand where you are coming from....you're right when you say either it's offensive or it isn't. I dont' buy that business where it's okay for some folks to say it but not others. It's a low-rent word no matter who is saying it.

[PepperElf]

another one... not so much that some people try to invite me to go to church with them, but they do so after I've already said that I have one, thanks.

[AFPheonix]

If people start telling you that you have to follow some special diet to lose weight, just whip this out and watch their eyes cross.

[Giggle Goose]

I was ready to start a whole thread about this, but I figured I'd just add to this lovely list we have goin' on:

I can't stand people who always have to preach about health issues, no matter what it is. In particular, people who automatically turn into registered dieticians when you tell them you're simply trying to "watch what you eat."

Whether it's your co-worker, friend, acquitance, hairdresser, store clerk, random janitor (in my case, at least); it seems EVERYONE had to tell you that what you're doing is wrong and that their cousin's neighbor's girlfriend's aunt lost 50+ pounds eating only cabbage soup or some crap. Then have to nerve to tell me that what I'm doing probably "isn't good for me."

Right, because it's not like I talked to my doctor about it or anything

[Rapscallion]

Probably worthy of a thread of its very own. Possibly has been done as such.

Rapscallion

[DrFaroohk]

Yeah, but is it a slur if it's not used as a slur? Lots of words have more than one meaning, depending on how it's used....bitch, bastard, ass, hell what if I happened to own a pet monkey that lived on my porch, would he be a racial slur too?

[PepperElf]

ahhhh! you hate me!
#10 along with Evil Dead 1 & 2.

"Don't let him live rent-free in your head."

i like that quote.


and for people i ... well i don't really hate them just really dislike...

- People who assume there's something wrong with me for not watching TV. ... sorry but um, most of the shows I find boring, get over it.

- People (in the US) who can't take left hand turns without cutting into the oncoming traffic lane & then glare as if I'm at fault for being in their way. Hello? Learn how to fucking drive!

- People who call me stupid or decide I'm not worthy because I follow a different political opinion. Get over yourself, you're not THAT special.

that's all for now.

Oh and people who hate me cos I like Army of Darkness... (just kidding, Dr!)

People who get on me for sometimes saying the N word.

personally, I'm against all racial slurs, even if the person using them is of the race in question.

[DesignFox]

New rant from today.

*I HATE people who drive slowly in the left lane! For the love of all the gods- get to the fucking right if you don't want to pass!

*I also HATE people who instantly turn douchebag when it rains. It's RAINING. I know it's scary, but just put your foot on the gas, point the car straight, and keep some distance between you and the guy in front of you. There is NO REASON for you to slam on the brakes. None. Zero. If you are uncomfortable stay to the goddamn right! or if you need to slow down, do so gradually! How fucking hard is that? No one should be slamming on the brakes unless there is about to be a serious accident. And if there isn't, you're going to cause one pulling that shit, so knock it off!

/rant

[tropicsgoddess]

I hate....

Guys who tell women what they like to hear to get in their pants and then dump them.

Pot stirrers and hate mongers

People who call you out on your flaws and everyone else's but will put themselves out like they're so perfect.

People who call up for advice but keep cutting you off when you try to explain something to them and act like they're the experts. If you claim to know more about this than me, then why the fuck are you wasting my time and calling me for this shit then, hmm?!!!

Spoiled kids and irresponsible parents. YOUR child, YOUR problem, end of story.

Guys that honk at me and/or make cat calls while I'm on the road. I'm not a piece of meat ya know and I'm not a dog either! Learn how to approach a woman the PROPER way!

Lazy people

People that pull the race/disease/children etc. card(s) to get their way.

Dumb people..nuff said.

Religious extremists. I don't want to be a part of your crowd and you can cram it if you think it's horrible that I want no part of your beliefs. Religion is about enriching and enlightening your life and accepting others, not bashing them because they're not like you assholes.

People who take/touch/mess with my stuff without asking me.

[DrFaroohk]

Ha! Next you're gonna try telling me that the Earth is ROUND...sheesh.

[Slytovhand]

The 30 year old guy who claims he fought in Vietnam, or the gigantic out of shape guy who claims to be a master Ninja warrior and was the inspiration for "The Last Samurai".

What's the problem? By now, it's quite possible those souls have reincarnated to the people you were speaking too....

[DrFaroohk]

More...

People who take the "my house, my rules" thing too far and are extremely hypocritical in there rules. Take, for example, a guy who demands you take your shoes off before you come in, yet he stomps around the house in muddy clam boots. Sure, its his house and he can do what he wants, and it's my brain and I can identify him as a douchebag if I want.

Women who think it's perfectly acceptable to "forget" their birth control.

People who get on me for sometimes saying the N word. I say it with no racial connotations in mind, it is a term of endearment for some of my friends. It just happens that I'm a white guy, but the color of my skin has no more effect on the definition of the word than it does for a black guy. Either the word is offensive, or it isn't.

People who get way into the whole gay rights issue. Seriously, how many of you people have nothing better to do than to argue over who's getting married? You don't have to agree with it, hell I think it's gross to, but it's really none of my business either and neither is it yours.

People who love to correct you ALL THE TIME. It's perfectly acceptable to say "Uh hey buddy, if you're trying to get to the theater, you want to make a LEFT on Main St, not a right..." but then there's the dumb people who are like "Uh, excuse me Bill, but this happened ELEVEN minutes ago, not TEN minutes ago. Jeez...."

Extremely confrontation people, you know the ones who are like "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU LOOKING AT PUNK!??!?!?!?!?!"

People who act like revenge is worthless - I saw the only people with this attitude are the ones who aren't any good at it.

Same people who say that arguing is stupid - again for the same reason. Arguing is fun!

[guywithashovel]

17. Interrupters. I know a guy who will ask you how you are doing, and before you've even taken a breath to answer him he's cut you off and talking about something you don't care about.

I sometimes come across people like this, too. I usually just assume that they simply enjoy listening to the sounds of their own voices. Here's how the conversation usually goes.

HIM: Hey, there, what's going on?
ME: Not much, I'm just ...
HIM: So, what do you think of this weather?
ME: It's pretty nice. It's nice to see the sun for the first time in ...
HIM: Hey, did you see that car accident on Main Street?
ME: Um, no I didn't. Was it ...
HIM: Hey, do you know what time it is?

I've also come across people who will ask me a conversation-starting question, and then when I start to answer it, they'll turn and start talking to someone else.

EDIT:

I thought of another type of person I can rant about.

It's those people who have to make a politically correct issue out of EVERYTHING. For example, if I'm talking about a cashier at the grocery store who gave me incorrect change, and I happen to mention that the cashier was black, they'll look at me pointedly and say, "Okay, I get that she gave you the wrong change, but what does her race have to do with it?"

Then I'll explain that it was simply a description of the person I was talking about.

To which this person will probably say something like, "That still doesn't explain how it's relevant. If she had been white, would you have called her 'that white cashier who gave me the wrong change?'"

"Well, maybe, if she were a white cashier in a place where most of the people were of another ethnicity."

Chances are, the conversation would drag on, with the person persisting on making me look like a KKK member who just slit the throats of a bunch of non-white people and dumped them into a pond.

If anyone on this board is a person who would do this, please get it through your head that merely describing a person by his or her ethnicity or national origin is not an admission of racism. Thank you.