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Login/Join to ParticipateHOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Ok, now we've all run into strangers who are irritating by their actions.
But have you ever just been in someone's presence and, not due to anything they actually do or did...find them supremely irritating?
There was a guy on the subway today who irritated the hell out of me...and he was just seated across from me on the subway. There wasn't anything remarkable about him, although I disapproved of his fashion sense (don't wear a mesh T-shirt unless you have the body to pull it off). But other than that, by no fault of his own (that I could discern), he irritated the hell out of me and I wanted him to get off the train.
Just him! Not the passengers to either side, or down the train or anywhere else. Just this gentleman.
Anyone have this sort of thing happen from time to time?
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Pooh-Bah
1,848 posts
Location: Adelaide, SA, Australia
nope, not really...
i don't like people that sit next to or accross from me on the train just cuz they're squashing me... but that's not their fault, that's the sh!tty design of the trains...
and people that stand too close behind me in queues... but that's about all...
"i am exotic, and must keep my arms down" - Rougie
"i don't understand what penises have to do with getting married" - Foxie
1,627 posts
Location: In your head. (Tasmania, Australia)
hhmm.....theres only one person who i have met thats like that.....im not really even sure why they irritated me....but they did!!!
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Draco Iracundia
784 posts
Location: Adelaide, Australia
yeah, i get like that about certain people. It can be really annoying at times, because everyone else loves them.
Do we sleep when we die?
899 posts
Location: playing with traffic
I annoy the hell outta me all the time!
Pull my pin out, roll me in to a room and see what happens 
addict
449 posts
Location: Australia
I get really irritated at random cars sometimes. Not really sure why. Often it's because they're your typical aggressive, tailgating commodore driver or the city shmuck who thinks its cool to drive a 4WD in town. Sometimes though, random cars just piss me off for no apparant reason at all.
Corporate Circus Arts Entertainer
3,989 posts
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Is this about the people who are the focus for this irritation, or more about where the irritation comes from...
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fluffy mess
197 posts
Location: Brighton, United Kingdom
hmmm.. I think it is one of lifes unsolved mysteries.
I get it too, and I'm someone who always sees the good in people. Sometimes, just as I've met someone,I find an instantant illogical incling, to dislike them,I'm normally wrong and end up thinking they are great.
But that irritation thing happens every now and again too. I get it a lot when out shopping. I walk fast, I'm quick and I like to get things over and done with soon (a trator to my species I know) and its normally then that for no reason at all I become irritated with some people, not the ones that walk slow, because I'm fine with them and I'm good at darting in and out to get through people, but its then than I notice it mostly.
Maybe is residual emotion from past lives or sub-consious resemblances, or maybe that just be some bad juju.
"I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence.." - Oriah Mountain Dreamer
in a beautiful daze....
134 posts
Location: Liverpool, England
the only strangers that irritate me really apart from people smoking in really crowded places, are the ones who come and stand next to you at the urinals even though there are so many more free that they could choose from!!!!!
Whatever happened to my green and pleasant land?
899 posts
Location: playing with traffic
Written by: Aryth
the only strangers that irritate me really apart from people smoking in really crowded places, are the ones who come and stand next to you at the urinals even though there are so many more free that they could choose from!!!!!
Especially if you catch them having a sneaky peek
Pull my pin out, roll me in to a room and see what happens
Clique Infiltrator, Cunning Linguist and Master Debator
4,219 posts
Location: Edinburgh burgh burrrrrr, United Kingdom
I've heard of this, it's called insensatus iritus syndrome, or irrational irritability syndrome (IIS)
Its more of a 6th sense really, telling you to watch your back.
Ok the IIS stuff I made up, but I went to the trouble of finding a latin translation, so gimme some credit eh?
By the way, I'm an irritating person, so I'm told. Well, not literally, but the F£*& off's i get usually means the same thing.
Ok I'll shut up now
Always use "so's your face" and "only on Tuesdays" in as many conversations possible
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
*tries not to look acid at tinklepants*
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Pooh-Bah
1,848 posts
Location: Adelaide, SA, Australia
Written by: PsyRush
I get really irritated at random cars sometimes. Not really sure why. Often it's because they're your typical aggressive, tailgating commodore driver or the city shmuck who thinks its cool to drive a 4WD in town. Sometimes though, random cars just piss me off for no apparant reason at all.
Dude, that's just Adelaide, people can't drive here.
"i am exotic, and must keep my arms down" - Rougie
"i don't understand what penises have to do with getting married" - Foxie
Clique Infiltrator, Cunning Linguist and Master Debator
4,219 posts
Location: Edinburgh burgh burrrrrr, United Kingdom
Written by: Doc Lightning
*tries not to look acid at tinklepants*
IT BURNS! IT BURNS! AAARRRRGH
Always use "so's your face" and "only on Tuesdays" in as many conversations possible
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Use a condom next time...
(OMG...did I just type that out loud?
) 
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Clique Infiltrator, Cunning Linguist and Master Debator
4,219 posts
Location: Edinburgh burgh burrrrrr, United Kingdom
Plastic Bag is just as good
Always use "so's your face" and "only on Tuesdays" in as many conversations possible
899 posts
Location: playing with traffic
Or cling film and a lacky band!
Pull my pin out, roll me in to a room and see what happens
Clique Infiltrator, Cunning Linguist and Master Debator
4,219 posts
Location: Edinburgh burgh burrrrrr, United Kingdom
why not just use a balloon
Always use "so's your face" and "only on Tuesdays" in as many conversations possible
899 posts
Location: playing with traffic
I'm scared of balloons
Pull my pin out, roll me in to a room and see what happens
Clique Infiltrator, Cunning Linguist and Master Debator
4,219 posts
Location: Edinburgh burgh burrrrrr, United Kingdom
I'm scared of my reflection. it irritates me!
It's creepy, it follows me about, whenever i go out and i see it it stares back with a creepy look on its face
Always use "so's your face" and "only on Tuesdays" in as many conversations possible
Carpal \'Tunnel
4,172 posts
Location: Hastings, United Kingdom
Written by: Doc Lightning
Use a condom next time...
(OMG...did I just type that out loud?
Mike!!
Carpal \'Tunnel
6,942 posts
Location: London, UK
i wouldnt say random strangers irritate me but some people even as they speak their first sentance (ever) to me annoy the hell outta me
should get like that and its not often but it does get to me
oh that and blokes who wear pink shirts in a bad way (you know the ones the blokes trying too hard to be metrosexual who wear bright pink polo shirts with black jeans or something - ive only ever seen this pulled off once)
back
2,865 posts
Location: Lake District UK
words that people say like 'mint' and 'bangin' annoy me alot!!
Remember.........YOU LOSE!!!
Clique Infiltrator, Cunning Linguist and Master Debator
4,219 posts
Location: Edinburgh burgh burrrrrr, United Kingdom
innit, pukka and ya know what i mean (i was the worst offender)
Always use "so's your face" and "only on Tuesdays" in as many conversations possible
6,650 posts
Jupp - feel extremely irritated by certain ppl/ "also" girls.
Some make me so clumsy I refuse to drink from a glass because of potential spillage.
Some irritate me even without being pretty at all.
Some ppl have an "energy" (if you want to call it) that just rubs off or create this effect in me.
Some ppl give me the sensation of a stiff neck
Breathing helps...
too. the best smiles are the ones you lead to 
journeyman
84 posts
Location: USA
There is this guy that I know... good kid, doesn't really have any friends, and he irritates the [censored] [censored] out of me. When he messages me online its like Im running nails on a chalkboard when I read his message.
Dunno why, but he bothers me!
Watching the Sky
453 posts
Location: Cambridge(ish)/Bath Spa Uni, United Kingdom
This guy nudged me in the street the other day and told me to smile!
I jumped into the river, what did i see?
Black-eyed angels swam with me.
fluffy mess
197 posts
Location: Brighton, United Kingdom
Written by: SunnySam
This guy nudged me in the street the other day and told me to smile!
Grrr! I get that sometimes too. If I wanted to smile I would...I do actually smile a lot. Being told to smile though makes me want to push something off a cliff!
"I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence.." - Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Watching the Sky
453 posts
Location: Cambridge(ish)/Bath Spa Uni, United Kingdom
Written by: blu_valleyWritten by: SunnySam
This guy nudged me in the street the other day and told me to smile!
Grrr! I get that sometimes too. If I wanted to smile I would...I do actually smile a lot. Being told to smile though makes me want to push something off a cliff!
im known ans one of the most smiley peeps around! hence the name sunnysammy. then some idiot comes and tells me how its done! and then that makes me quite depressed! i couldnt stop thinking about it
I jumped into the river, what did i see?
Black-eyed angels swam with me.
fluffy mess
197 posts
Location: Brighton, United Kingdom
Written by: herr_mathematik
"I'll smile when I stop having AIDS" then coughing on them usually does the trick
Thats brilliant!!! "I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence.." - Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Watching the Sky
453 posts
Location: Cambridge(ish)/Bath Spa Uni, United Kingdom
Written by: herr_mathematikWritten by: blu_valley
thank you, thank you. I'm here all week.
*puts mic back on stand, bows, exits stage left*
*Stands Up*
I jumped into the river, what did i see?
Black-eyed angels swam with me.
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