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Customer service reps at call centers in the Philipines, and India tick me off.

I hate it that on this cheap computer of mine the cursor wanders around the page. How annoying. New computer for my birthday.

I hate it that so many magnificent animals are going extinct--like the elephant and the lions, especially the white lions like the one in my avatar. What a beeeeeeautiful animal. He has blue eyes which you can't see, and is lily white.

 

Lots of these ladies live in my neighborhood
They are indifferent to those behind them and are incapable of "thinking ahead".
Must be a female thing. My poor mother would stand until she was told the cost then start pulling crumpled up bills out of her purse and trying to straighten them out and count them. RIP Mom.

 

Reading this old thread and the posts about people who interrupt.

I've wondered if it's a regional thing. When I lived in Kansas (45+ years), people conversed but didn't interrupt. Then I moved to Oklahoma 25 years ago, and one of the first thing I noticed was interrupters. They are everywhere. They run rampant in the streets. I once asked a neighbor why she never lets people finish what they're saying. She said, true, it's because she's smart and knows how to respond before she's heard the full sentence.

Now I have a neighbor that I alternately just keep on talking, softly and in monotone, when she interrupts, or I simply stop and stare ahead, never responding to whatever the hell she's babbling about. On top of that ,she's very loud and her tone is very abrasive. People 3 and 4 doors down can hear her braying. I think she's insecure and thinks she has to loudly interrupt for people to notice her. She's also quite large, so trust me, we noticed her! lol. I often have neighbors sitting on my porch with me, and when she trundles out of her apartment and plops down in one of her porch chairs, my visiting neighbors scatter. It's really very entertaining in a sick kind of way.

 

When people stand too close while talking to you.

There's a guy at work like this, and it pisses everyone off. The boss actually snapped on him one day, yet he keeps doing it. It's weird, he clearly doesn't understand how unacceptable it is to violate personal space, especially as a guy. He's a bit touchy feely too, which makes it even worse. There have been several times where I've had to bite my tongue or physically restrain myself.

 

People who interrupt . . .
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I have a friend who only interrupts on the phone but not in person. I start telling him about a trip and he will suddenly break into my mid sentence with, "Did you get any rain?" I just answer and then he'll tell me how much rain he got. Then I pick up at the place in my story where he interrupted and I continue with my story. That works for both of us
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I have another friend who will be telling me something and I will interrupt with a question because I need to clarify something he said because he has confused me with his wording. He will start laughing and say I interrupted him. I explain my reason for the interrupt but he just laughs some more. One day I was talking to him and he interrupted me and his wife scolded him for interrupting me. I just laughed and said to her, "It's alright, he thinks I'm the only one that interrupts."

 

Another pet peeve -- people who color their hair purple, have a nose ring, their top and bottom clothes don't match, they have a tattoo on their neck, part of their underwear is showing, and their cap is backwards -- yet they get annoyed if you stare at them

 

Sick people who make zero attempt at preventing the spread of their gona-herpa-sypha-clap. Sneeze and cough all over their hands, then touch everything... inconsiderate and gross.

 

People that use fake words and attempt to claim you have no idea what they mean in an attempt to change a subject they know nothing about or got totally destroyed in.

 

Ghetto moms. I mean hardcore WQ's. Like 13 kids to different people. Why? Because I deal with multiple on a daily basis and they are the most disgusting, racist, and vile people on earth.

 

White lions are genetically deformed unless (I've never personally heard of it) it's a lion in an extremely cold climate like Siberia.

They should be allowed to die off without reproduction, it's a bad trait for nature and makes them vulnerable.

 

The word "deformed" means misshapen. Their is nothing misshaped about the white lion. It has a genetic condition called leucism that causes a paler color. It is similar to the genetic condition called melanism that causes the black panther.

I think the black panther should be hunted to absolute extinction before that blackness rubs off onto the white lion and ruins everything.

There is a white leopard that makes its home in the China/Nepalese area--or there used to be.

 

And this genetic condition does what to the survival rate... Come on... Say it..

It's like Albino Alligators, the survival rate plummets when you are albino.

A black panther makes sense, hunting at night and all, it's a good genetic trait. I've already specified the parameters for the white lion to be successful.

 

Internet Explorer. It apparently cannot open about half of the sites on the net.

Yes, yes, I know, I should use another browser. (*)(*)(*)(*) that, I don't want any MORE problems. I just get it somewhere else.

Still, there are times when you just CAN"T get in. I hear the problem isn't being fixed in Windows 10 either.

Oh, and Windows 10 is another one. I was supposed to get it free, but never heard anymore about it and now get referred to another sign in page when I make inquiries.

Bill Gates is on my definite (*)(*)(*)(*) list. (I hear he's heartbroken)

 

People who ride your bumper when you're already going a bit over the speed limit, and they also have the opportunity to pass (almost always a woman in my experience). People who whip out in front of you when they could wait three literal seconds for you to pass... because there's nobody behind you. People who don't understand the concept of the 'four way stop'.

 

Firefox, Chrome, and IE can't open over 90% of the web pages actually on the internet. Tech fact of the day.

TOR > Icedaddy > Masqo > Chrome > Firefox > IE

 

I dare not make any changes on my PC in case I can't change it back again. This is what it'd be - this is me phoning my nephew back after he has told me over the phone what to do about some problem or other:

'It hasn't worked, Mark!'
'Hasn't worked (disbelievingly)? Did you do A?'
'Yes.'
'Did you do B?'
'Yes, I did that.'
'And did you do C afterwards?'
'Yes, I did that exactly the way you said.'
'That's funny (perplexed) - did you do D?'
'No, you didn't tell me to.'
'Bloody hell I thought you know that!!'