I love annoying my sister, girlfriend and some friends irl.
Online I tend not to, but in one subtle way I love to.
Censoring a word before posting on Lemmy. Oh how I love watching people tweak bc the u in fuck is lightly cut off. Its so funny to me how big a deal it is to so many people.
What do you do knowing it’ll annoy people? Online or not?
I dont know what your thinking, pouring chai tea on an uninflammable atm machine is literally the worst thing ever, even on accident.
I annoy sibling by reminding them of their chores weekly, apparently.
Cats are people, and I annoy cats with my scary love! Which is normal love and kisses, but they’re cats.
I learn current slang just to use it wrong. Nahmean, cringe?
I guess driving at the speed limit annoys some people (especially Audi and BMW drivers). They think they are very important and always need to drive faster than is allowed, tailgating others if they can’t overtake.
I’m not specifically doing it to annoy them but I take pleasure knowing they are annoyed.
I like to slow down slightly if I’m being tailgated at the speed limit. Maybe go 5km/h slower.
I didn’t think I had one, but when I read yours I remembered mine.
If I see someone parked carelessly all the way over in the side of the space, I’ll park nice and neatly right in the middle of the space next to them, not allowing any extra space for their selfishness. I’m OK with squeezing in and out, and my car is much older and less valuable than any of theirs if they damage it, so I feel like I’m doing society a small service by making my weird passive-aggressive point this way.
Ironically vote for Ron Paul every presidential election
Idk who that is but probably better than whatever the alternate is
Whenever I’m talking to someone in person or over voice chat/on the phone that I know has a strong opinion on the pronunciation of GNOME or GIF, I pronounce it with an initial glottal stop or a sort of “zh” sound (like Zsa Zsa Gabor’s name) and insist that’s how I always pronounce it and it’s the natural pronunciation of it.
This is hilarious
I once annoyed one of my friends in high school while he was trying to write a story/book (I don’t remember if he was actually trying to write his own book or if it was just a story). One day, I saw that he was typing a sentence that said something about one of the characters “whipping out his cellphone” and I said “oh, is that what we’re calling it now”. I would then occasionally look back at his story without actually reading anything and laugh a little. At first he thought it was funny but at some point he started getting annoyed and kept telling me to stop.
Oh you’re me. Where have you been?
I hate giving up my seat on the bus. So I will pretend not to notice someone standing there until I absolutely have to, and then feign ignorance. Fuck off, I wanna sit down.
Not annoying anyone. You’re good, done nothing wrong
I state my opinions on the internet without adherence to any particular side or filter for pacifying and self-censoring what I genuinely believe or facts that I know with certainty and back it up with reason, logic and evidence.
IRL this seldom annoys anyone unless I’m overly impolite but I try to be polite generally.
Submit incredibly niche questions to poll blogs on Tumblr
The only person I purposely annoy is my sister, and by just being extremely facetious if there is any ambiguity in the words she chose when telling me something.
Her: “So I made mash potatoes today…”
Me: “You made mobile army surgical hospital potatoes? That sounds unpleasant.”
I burp in my sisters face and run away.
when someone tailgates me, I slow down.
I don’t even notice tailgaters very often. I’m too busy singing along with whatever is playing on the radio.
this is a good option because it makes it easier and safer for the person behind you to overtake.
i often have cars in front of me when i’m on my motorcycle. they speed up which makes it impossible to safely overtake on curvy roads. just slow down a little and i will be out of your hair in seconds.
Gotta reduce speed so their tailgating distance is the appropriate gap
This is the way.
Anyone can stop their vehicle in a single meter if we’re both going slow enough.
The car behind chooses a following distance. The car in front can choose an appropriate speed to help things stay safe.
Plus, it helps them overtake safely to go have their inevitable future accident somewhere far from me.
I swear I’m the single calmest and least petty person on the road it feels.
This is one of the many reasons I love my manual transmission
I miss driving a manual car. How does it help with tailgating? Was I missing out?!
I can down shift and slow down without activating my brakelights.
Ohhhhh I forgot about that!
Oh, you mean you like getting bumped in the rear then?
The question was how to annoy people, a car slowing down while being tailgated without brake lights annoys people.
Wow I should have know my answer would be taken.
simply existing, oh do those anti-woke peeps hate it while they don’t even know me!
I’d just like to thank you for writing “how big a deal” instead of the now ubiquitous “how big of a deal”. That would have really annoyed me.
Exactly how big’ve deal is it?
But the ‘of’ is grammatically correct
You can find many discussions about that online, and it’s basically a BE / AE thing. In BE, it’s not correct, hence I’m annoyed a lot of the time.
It’s accepted usage, but it’s kind of illogical and doesn’t add anything. If you take the ‘of’ out of the phrases they still make perfect sense.
(I use the ‘of’ myself, out of habit, as I learned to speak that way.)
That no reason remove words from semtences.
Maybe its a trick to convince people to leave out ‘of’ to annoy people in the future
Of the ofs that I could leave out, the ofs that I have left out in the past, and the ofs that I typically include, the ofs that I typically include are the only ofs that get noticed, but the ofs I exclude might be the most impactful ofs. Hard to say for sure.
Brb just gotta go edit the post
I just realised I only annoy women irl. Idk what this says about me.
You must’ve noticed the same thing in OP that I did:
my sister, girlfriend and some friends irl
Assuming there are both women and men around you that you could be annoying, its worth thinking about why these little assertions of dominance only target a certain group.
You could experiment with intentionally annoying men… And dont just pick men who are somehow subordinate to you.
I do 💜
Well don’t keep if a secret now. Share it with the class
