Things that I find mildly irritating v.2

[Chino]

It's a boy!!

[cramx3]

inspirational motherhood posts are my least favorite thing about social media after echo chambers

You just can't relate.  You are not a woman and you haven't birthed a kid.  I just scroll on by.

Honestly, the inspirational stuff is annoying, but what I find to be more annoying are the insane amounts of baby pictures.  And it sucks to say this about my own nieces, but posting pictures of your babies all day everyday is just so annoying.  I'm around that age where pretty much all the people I know have kids so it's effectively all over my social media.  It doesn't bother me that people post their kids, but it's the handful of people, my sister included, who post multiple pictures every single day.

It's a boy!!

I hope there is a fail for this one 

[Chino]

Ditto on the baby photos. My oldest friend had a daughter 18 months ago. His father watches her 3-4 days a week, and he posts 3-10 pictures of her every day that he has her. That 18 month old already has more pictures on Facebook than I do.

[Stadler]

There is a special place in hell for the person who made gender reveal a thing.

Also, the "thanks for the invite" people are the worst.  Ya know, when someone posts a pic from something fun they did or are doing and someone dipshit posts, "thanks for the invite," which then gets the OP to scramble and give some nice reason as to why they didn't invite them, instead of saying, "I would have invited you if I wanted you there, you self-centered piece of cow anus!"

Oooh, I didn't know about that.  I've never seen it (I avoid SM as much as I can with five people in my immediate family between 18 and 25) but it would definitely be on my list. 

[gmillerdrake]

There is a special place in hell for the person who made gender reveal a thing.

Yeah. Our boys have asked...."howd' you do it for us?"  We're like....ummmm...well.....we just told people. Our first son we stayed surprised.....the other two we found out and just told people
 
This 'gender reveal' party stuff is relatively new. Our youngest is 8 (9 in June) and it wasn't a thing then. It's gotten out of hand.

[jingle.boy]

There is a special place in hell for the person who made gender reveal a thing.

Also, the "thanks for the invite" people are the worst.  Ya know, when someone posts a pic from something fun they did or are doing and someone dipshit posts, "thanks for the invite," which then gets the OP to scramble and give some nice reason as to why they didn't invite them, instead of saying, "I would have invited you if I wanted you there, you self-centered piece of cow anus!"

I'd simply respond with a just-as-sarcastic, "Your welcome", then wait for their mental seizure to calm down enough for them to point out my (intentional) misuse of "your"

But you tie into another point... people who get bitchy and whiny that you don't keep in touch with them.  Well Warren, if I heard from you at all in the last 18 months, after the last 9 times we got together before that were because I called/emailed you, maybe I might think you actually give a fuck.

[King Postwhore]

Chad, that happens so much with family.  it drives me nuts.

[Cool Chris]

I absolute hate attending them. Lump birthdays for a kid under 3 into that category as well.

Those are actually the best kind of kid parties, if you do it right. Because it's not about the kid. They don't have friends to invite, or any expectations of what their party should be like. You invite people over because they are your friends, not because they are parents of the kids your kid is pals with, you have a BBQ and treat it like an adult gathering, where a kid is just happening to be having a birthday on the same day.

[KevShmev]

There is a special place in hell for the person who made gender reveal a thing.

Also, the "thanks for the invite" people are the worst.  Ya know, when someone posts a pic from something fun they did or are doing and someone dipshit posts, "thanks for the invite," which then gets the OP to scramble and give some nice reason as to why they didn't invite them, instead of saying, "I would have invited you if I wanted you there, you self-centered piece of cow anus!"

I'd simply respond with a just-as-sarcastic, "Your welcome", then wait for their mental seizure to calm down enough for them to point out my (intentional) misuse of "your"

But you tie into another point... people who get bitchy and whiny that you don't keep in touch with them.  Well Warren, if I heard from you at all in the last 18 months, after the last 9 times we got together before that were because I called/emailed you, maybe I might think you actually give a fuck.

Cut Warren some slack...he was probably distracted looking for his baseball.

[The Walrus]

He was masturbating!! 

[cramx3]

I absolute hate attending them. Lump birthdays for a kid under 3 into that category as well.

Those are actually the best kind of kid parties, if you do it right. Because it's not about the kid. They don't have friends to invite, or any expectations of what their party should be like. You invite people over because they are your friends, not because they are parents of the kids your kid is pals with, you have a BBQ and treat it like an adult gathering, where a kid is just happening to be having a birthday on the same day.

Yea I dont know, I'm more with Chino even though what you said it true, but the party still ends up being super tame and boring.  My friend had a keg for his kid's first birthday, sounded like it would be a ton of fun... and it wasn't, at all.  I'm sure some can manage to make these fun though, I'm just yet to experience it personally.

[TAC]

There is a special place in hell for the person who made gender reveal a thing.

Also, the "thanks for the invite" people are the worst.  Ya know, when someone posts a pic from something fun they did or are doing and someone dipshit posts, "thanks for the invite," which then gets the OP to scramble and give some nice reason as to why they didn't invite them, instead of saying, "I would have invited you if I wanted you there, you self-centered piece of cow anus!"

I'd simply respond with a just-as-sarcastic, "Your welcome", then wait for their mental seizure to calm down enough for them to point out my (intentional) misuse of "your"

Chad, that happens so much with family.  it drives me nuts.

Oh to be Facebook free..

[King Postwhore]

Not Facebook.   Here is an example.   My niece has a baby boy. Every year they have a birthday party we were going to Rosfest.   We asked if we could come over before or after. Never get a response so we mail out a present.

This year we did not go to Rosfest and were not invited.

Get over yourself. We reached out, you're being a Petty bitch so I just won't bother with you anymore.   

[bosk1]

you're being a Petty bitch   

She's that into NASCAR?

[King Postwhore]

She hates Richard.  I'm not sure why it capitalized.

[Adami]

Maybe she's a big fan of The Heartbreakers.

[King Postwhore]

Never wanted to go with me when I saw him twice.  Why did I even marry her?

[Adami]

Never wanted to go with me when I saw him twice.  Why did I even marry her?

You married your niece?

[TAC]

 

[King Postwhore]

You perv.

[Stadler]

She hates Richard.  I'm not sure why it capitalized.

What about Kyle Petty, Son Of Richard? 

(Anyone get that?  Chirp, chirp?)

[King Postwhore]

 

[Phoenix87x]

Audiobooks that are abridged (or even better, when you don't realize they are abridged until afterward  )

[MirrorMask]

When I read "thanks for invite", I thought it was referring to people thanking you for adding them on FB or being accepted into a group that accepts everyone who submits in the first place 

Kinda like those who take personally every invite at every event without realizing they're just being sent to every contact in the organizer's list.

"I'm sorry Random dude from the other side of the ocean that I added on FB because we knew each other from a forum, I can't come to your first gig with your local band, I'm in Europe and I can't take a plane in June for working reasons".

[KevShmev]

Group pages dedicated to specific musicians on FB can fit into this topic, or should I say the moderators of them who insist that topics can only be about the band or related to the band.  Imagine coming to this forum and the mods saying, "Only topics about Dream Theater are allowed!"  That would get boring fast, as do the FB group pages, which essentially become boring praise fests while little to no actual discussion.

[IDontNotDoThings]

When people in my university class casually assert that being trans in a mental disorder and that trans people just stupid for saying their gender identities are real.

The worst part is, I can't argue with them about it because I'm still hiding the fact that I'm trans and I don't want to risk giving that away when it's clearly not safe to do so.

[a51502112]

Group pages dedicated to specific musicians on FB can fit into this topic, or should I say the moderators of them who insist that topics can only be about the band or related to the band.  Imagine coming to this forum and the mods saying, "Only topics about Dream Theater are allowed!"  That would get boring fast, as do the FB group pages, which essentially become boring praise fests while little to no actual discussion.

...or an artists forum that bans talk of their former band. Ahem...

[JayOctavarium]

When people in my university class casually assert that being trans in a mental disorder and that trans people just stupid for saying their gender identities are real.

The worst part is, I can't argue with them about it because I'm still hiding the fact that I'm trans and I don't want to risk giving that away when it's clearly not safe to do so.

This is one of the many reasons why I hate most people.

[cramx3]

When people in my university class casually assert that being trans in a mental disorder and that trans people just stupid for saying their gender identities are real.

The worst part is, I can't argue with them about it because I'm still hiding the fact that I'm trans and I don't want to risk giving that away when it's clearly not safe to do so.

What sucks a lot about this too, besides the personal part which I cant even imagine how difficult that is, is that in a classroom setting it's supposed to be open to discussion and learning and your experience seems to be the opposite.

[Stadler]

I get asked about my "availability" a lot for calls, since that's the nature of my job.   EASILY half the time, I will say "I'm wide open except between 1:00 and 2:00pm eastern."  and I will get a meeting notice for "1:00 pm eastern".    Just an hour ago, I was asked about tomorrow, and I said "I'm wide open tomorrow morning, up to noon, perhaps 1:00 pm eastern."    Just a moment ago, I got a meeting invite for 1:00 pm eastern.   

This is from a very smart, and very literate, attentive lawyer serving as my outside counsel.   I'll keep the appointment because there are others on the call, but I can still vent here. 

Note:  I am reluctant to start calling specific times - "I am available at 10:00 am eastern - because I am usually not the only one on the call, the organizer is usually my internal "customer", and I want to be as flexible as I can be. 

[chknptpie]

"I'm wide open tomorrow morning, up to noon, perhaps 1:00 pm eastern."    Just a moment ago, I got a meeting invite for 1:00 pm eastern.   

This reads to me like you are proposing 1pm eastern. You're busy until noon presumably for lunch and then propose 1pm.

[Chino]

I have some testing to do for a big change we just pushed through, it's about 3 days worth of heads down testing. We needed this testing done by 5/29. Naturally, I've hardly tested anything yet and my project manager emails me this morning and says "IT changed the timeline, can you have your testing done by EOD?". I was livid.

[King Postwhore]

Chep pallet asking me to delete BOL's that I haven't assigned to trailers yet.  That means I physically can;t delete them and they have to but they keep telling me I have to.


I know their board better than they do. 

[Cool Chris]

It seems like every other time I open YouTube it asks me if I want to try their Free Trial and I have to click the NO option to make it go away. You remember everything else about me, can't you remember I've said no like 206 times?

[King Postwhore]

Phone bots. The creator of this needs to die by my hands.