[Closed] What do you do to annoy people?

post on this forum. 😀

Sit in the aisle seat on trains, even if the window seat is empty. I won't put my bag on the empty seat as I'm not a moron but when you have legs as long as mine the aisle is the only option. This apparently annoys people as they have to ask me to move.

I like to wind people up with my anti cycling bigotry, but i think I may be losing friends because of it

Why would you deliberately annoy other people?

In my office I would say breathe 😆

Obliviousness. The thing about obliviousness is, non-oblivious people find it really hard to believe. So, frinstance, when I walk past the wheelie bin I think "better not walk into that whatsit" but I never think "better bring that in, it's empty". It's not that I'm lazy, if I thought of it, I'd do it. But apparently that's no defence when you get called out for having walked past the bin and not brought it in, [i]again.[/i]

I quite like remaining calm and logical when confronted with an angry argumentative opponent. Don't manage it much but when I do I enjoy it. Or I would if said opponent wasn't normally my wife who I don't really want to annoy.

Why would you deliberately annoy other people

I was wondering about this the other day. Not being a hippy, but I always think if everyone was just cool and polite, then life would be be easier for everyone, and a far more enjoyable experience. But there do seem to be those who revel in just making life difficult for others, whether through pettiness/aggression etc, and I was trying to understand the mindset of why that path would be preferable. I failed, so OP and others, why be an arse?

Read emails.

Hand people's litter back to them.

Also not using a plastic divider when at the checkouts.

Breathe according to my wife

Just riding my bike on the road seems to annoy a fair few people 🙁

On trains and planes when people try to invade my seat space I like to lean on them. this is even more fun when the resist and push back.

I like to see how far I I can push someone before they say something 🙂 ( they mostly don't say anything )

don't invade my space and we won't have a problem. knobbers

Crack my knuckles, fingers, toes, wrists, knees, back and neck.

I have tried to stop but just seem do it unconsciously, much to the annoyance of Mrs breadcrumb.

Be myself.

Use the centre urinal.

Why would you deliberately annoy other people?

My children tell me that I'll be talking about something and then leave the room while still talking. I believe they may actually be right, they find this rather irritating.
I think it's something that comes from my mum, however it manifests itself in her in starting conversations halfway through.

I don't generally attempt to annoy or enjoy annoying people. However, when I have a tailgater, it's surprising how slowly I can drive whilst maintaining forward motion.

Why would you deliberately annoy other people?

For my part it's mainly because I like to see how annoyed people get in the absence of a plastic shopping divider when it's just as easy to say 'that is/isn't mine'. I, however, entirely take your point and recognise this fault in my character. It's the same trait that lead me to teach my Son how to do a 'wet willy' and has to grin and bear it now that he's better at them than me.

Remind them of their responsibilities and try to hold them to my standards. Not everyone likes this.

Shit in their shoes.

Park next to cars that have obviously been parked in a spot/way so no one will park next to them

Shit in their shoes

You know they've been pissing in your Bovril, right?

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Double posting - that's annoying, right?

In a queue (typically at a till) I leave plenty of space between me and the person in front and don't move immediately forward when the queue does, fun to see how close the impatient person behind you can get

I don't eat meat, this seems to irritate meat eaters, but I also manage to irritate the more hardcore vegetarians as my reasons for this are nothing to do with animal rights; I do it for health reasons.

I like to cover both camps.

You know they've been pissing in your Bovril, right?

Harder to spot than a wee jobbie.

I like to see how annoyed people get in the absence of a plastic shopping divider when it's just as easy to say 'that is/isn't mine'

Some men just want to watch the world burn. 😆 🙄

Park next to cars that have obviously been parked in a spot/way so no one will park next to them

Yup. Done that a few times when I had a work van or an old car. I once parked EXACTLY in the middle of a space where a Range Rover was over the line. I doubt I was more than an inch away from it. On the drivers side...! There was no way they could have even got their hand on the door handle, never mind open it. It was gone when I got back some hours later, they must have had to crawl in from the passenger side.

Other than that, my shocking wind seems to get to people. 🙂

In a queue (typically at a till) I leave plenty of space between me and the person in front and don't move immediately forward when the queue does, fun to see how close the impatient person behind you can get

Also, what really annoys people and is really funny is not finish the

[s]Use[/s]Miss the centre urinal.

I like to see how annoyed people get in the absence of a plastic shopping divider when it's just as easy to say 'that is/isn't mine'

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Significant social change is only possible through direct action.

on and on!! ( contains rude words)

Unloading the shopping onto the conveyor belt rather than meekly waiting for the owner of the abandoned trolley/basket to return to the queue - use of the phrase you snooze you loose increases the annoyance factor somewhat too

Drive slowly.

I don't eat meat, this seems to irritate meat eaters

Yeah, I have this too. Really wound up a friend's alpha male mate from oop north several years back. Apparently he's the size of a shed now, so maybe he has the gift of foresight and resented me for not being so set-up for the same fate.

Almost forgot, we have rotating security cylinders at work to gain access to the main building. I like to fart in those.

Correct my daughter when she says, "we was".

Force feeding someone pudding

Obviously something, else she wouldn't be in a foul mood all (long) weekend.

To the extent that I would have it as my Groundhog Weekend, just to think of new ways to dispose of the body.

Have a tattoo or two.

When people abandon their shopping trolley in the middle on an isle, i like to give it a punt with my trolley ( if I'm using one ) or walk it up and away from them ( freaks them out when they've left their bag in it )

If shopping. Move your ****ing trolley you useless ****s.

Unloading the shopping onto the conveyor belt rather than meekly waiting for the owner of the abandoned trolley/basket to return to the queue - use of the phrase you snooze you loose increases the annoyance factor somewhat too

I also misspell lose on purpose to annoy pedants.

I've always enjoyed forgetting to use the plastic divider at the supermarket check out that seperates your shopping from those ahead and behind. Combining this with pushing my produce up the belt, really close to the bloke in front makes my day

You do realise that these are to assist the checkout worker, so you are actually just purposely making their job harder just for the sake of it. Which is nice of you......... 🙄

Leaving cupboards/drawers open - normally temporarily, but occasionally I forget to close them.
It drive my Wife mad, but I see no problem...and her insistence on shutting doors/drawers drives me mad (so we're probably even).e.g:

To unlock the front door, I'll go to the drawer we keep the keys in (I'm not telling you which one), open it, take the keys out & walk over to the door. The drawer might as well stay open for the <10 seconds it will take me to unlock the door & return the key to the drawer. But, if my Wife comes in during the unlocking procedure, she will close the drawer. WHY?! DID YOU DO THAT.....!? I now have to open it again to put the key back, just to close it again. GAH!

I also stare at her boobs.....

i obey speed limits, sometimes going a bit slower if conditions suggest*.

it's great fun!

(*fr'example: the local high street is a 30 limit, i honestly reckon that's a silly speed for a road with blind spots, side streets, kids, shoppers, bus stops, speed bumps, etc. etc.)

sneakyg4
I don't eat meat, this seems to irritate meat eaters, but I also manage to irritate the more hardcore vegetarians as my reasons for this are nothing to do with animal rights; I do it for health reasons.

There's nothing annoying about people not eating meat. It's the utterly predictable and seemingly interminable bleating about it that's annoying. See above 🙂

When people abandon their shopping trolley in the middle on an isle, i like to give it a punt with my trolley ( if I'm using one ) or walk it up and away from them ( freaks them out when they've left their bag in it )

When I was a student, living in a scabby part of Nottingham, I got in the habit of stealing other peoples shopping trollies in supermarkets. I'd have a quick look, to see if it had roughly the right amount & sort of stuff I wanted, and then just walk off with it to the check-outs.

Oh what a whacky wee lad I was

speak the truth on here......

There's nothing annoying about people not eating meat. It's the utterly predictable and seemingly interminable bleating about it that's annoying. See above

Aye I will take that on the chin.

Of course the other side of it is people bleating on about bacon. 🙂

You do realise that these are to assist the checkout worker, so you are actually just purposely making their job harder just for the sake of it. Which is nice of you.........

Yes I do also realise this.

None specifically to annoy people but it seems to happen anyway.

Ride a bike on the road.
Park on the road not the pavement.
Stick to or below the speed limit.
Breathe ("your doing that breathing thing" my wife)
Talk too much (my kids)
Talk too little ( friends)
Ask direct questions ( chancers)

Drive according to the highway code.

I'll walk across people, stop suddenly, reach across them in shops, talk across them, bump into them in busy pubs etc, apologise and then continue the act that necessitated the apology thus rendering it useless. Guaranteed piss boiler.

When I was a student, living in a scabby part of Nottingham, I got in the habit of stealing other peoples shopping trollies in supermarkets. I'd have a quick look, to see if it had roughly the right amount & sort of stuff I wanted, and then just walk off with it to the check-outs.

😆

This has tickled me.

I ride a bike which I purchased in Halfords.

It has mudguards.....and reflectors.

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I purposefully swap the knives and spoons around in the cutlery drawer, then step back and watch the madness take over Mrs Beagleboy. Such an innocent little thing, but it completely sends her over the edge. 😈

lunge - Member
Sit in the aisle seat on trains, even if the window seat is empty. I won't put my bag on the empty seat as I'm not a moron but when you have legs as long as mine the aisle is the only option. This apparently annoys people as they have to ask me to move.

Ride my bike to work. Seems to really get to some bastards. Good.

I don't generally attempt to annoy or enjoy annoying people. However, when I have a tailgater, it's surprising how slowly I can drive whilst maintaining forward motion.

This.

What do you do to annoy people?

A lot of examples on this thread aren't really about deliberately annoying people to be fair. I think anyone who deliberately tries to annoy people for no other reason than to get a reaction is either the end of a very large bell or suffering from some kind of attention deficit problem.
'Tit for Tat' is acceptable on occasion though.

On trains I'd sit in the middle seat of 3 (not aisle, not window) then make eye contact with everyone who got on. Always amazing how long it took the other 2 seats to fill up.

Discover my joy anytime anywhere.

A bit like slowing down with tailgaters, only in queues.
People get right up behind you in queues, right in your personal space sometimes touching..
I just leave a larger space in front of me, and let it grow.
It surprises them when you kind of look like your going to take a step forward by say picking up your bag and either not move or move back slightly, into them.
I find it often happens in the co-op and especially on Easyjet flight queues.

You can almost sense the frustration building, why! it's a queue your turn will come...

Voting, it always annoys somebody I didn't vote for.

That and posting bollox on the internet.

Not inching forward when queuing in traffic seems to anger some drivers. I always wait until there's a big enough gap that moving forward is actually worthwhile. Also love driving really slowly when somebody is tailgating. I'll occasionally even wave at them in the rearview or suddenly brake to test them.

Also love winding up the missus by pretending I'm dead. It sends her in to a rage, but is worth it. It's a long con, one day I won't be pretending 😀

Putting stuff away at work seems to annoy some people. I tend to put it away where I think is right.
For a member of staff that frequently abandoned their work vehicle in the middle of the yard, on one occasion it was tidied away to 1/2 mile up the track. Also took them ages to find the keys as I put them back on the board.

Asking why roadies are such miserable sods. 😈

arresting people tends to get their back up a bit. Sadly I don't get much opportunity these days.

I take a really immature pleasure from getting alongside another driver whose on the phone, holding the stupidly loud horn on that my works van has and matching their speed. Really good fun on the way into London on the M4/A4. Most effective with soft top cars.

At the Little Stoke roundabout in Bristol, heading towards Bradley Stoke Its 2 lanes as you come off the roundabout. Theres a pedestrian crossing about 2 car lengths in. Often when I'm waiting at the lights some idiot will drive up by the side of me, knowing full well theres only about 20 meters left of the lane that they are in. If they try and boot it to overtake me, I will do the same 😈 I made some idiot in a 335 regret this not so long ago 😆

I like winding up STWers, they're such whinymiddleclasscockbags.

Not move forward in queues but leave a bit of a gap in front, seems to annoy the hell out of people behind even though moving closer into my personal space isn't going to get you served quicker. They get even more annoyed when I suddenly turn round with my elbow stuck out to look at something towards the back of the shop.
I take great delight in this behaviour.

The obeying the speed limit thing really winds people up. Just today I was going down the A48(M) through the 50mph section. Traffic in the left lane doing 45, solid nose-to-tail as there's been a speed camera van there all BH weekend so everyone's behaving. I'm pottering along at 50 in the right hand lane with an Audi Q-something about a foot off my rear - had the bike rack on the back too. Pretty sure I saw his windscreen turn red as he exploded in rage 😆

Shopping games: putting inappropriate stuff in trolleys. Think along the lines of female student - incontinence pants, old granny - violent computer game etc.

Oh and top of the list is riding my bike according to my boss 😕

Not organising it advance, just turning up at the airport and telling the armed cop you have a firearm, he takes you to the front of the checkin then holds it for you while you fanny about with the paperwork. Then, once you're at the gate, just stare at anyone who looks like they might want to sit next to you. Especially easyjetting back from Belfast.
Almost worth taking a gun and adding the £15 special handling charge

Clipping the heels of those pushy commuters who push past me at Victoria or Waterloo whilst I'm trundling the Brompton through.

Oh, and contributing to the Tragic Jeremy thread... 😀

Beagleboy - Member

I purposefully swap the knives and spoons around in the cutlery drawer, then step back and watch the madness take over Mrs Beagleboy. Such an innocent little thing, but it completely sends her over the edge.

Me too!

Mrs Jay is a creature of habit, and a slave to to her habits, in my opinion (and this opinion is limited to just me) she makes poor decisions, or rather doesn't make any at all - when presents with something, she will invariably do the exact same thing she always did even if it's completely illogical.

She is also incredibly quick to form them, do something twice, and that's it - set for life.

So I mix up the spoons... which is annoying to her, and other things which are even more annoying to break habits, I do realise that's the failing is mine, not hers, there's not much wrong with doing the same thing over and over - a pre defined answer to a question you've answered many times before is called 'experience' even if you do it without considering the details or new information gained since last time... Grrrr (It's Me, not Her).

I'm also incredibly impatient, I tried one of those on-line ADD tests once, I melted the test I think. I'm usually okay at home, but sometimes 'work head' doesn't turn off on the way home, or I get ambushed with by one of the kids as I'm coming through the door of an evening and it stick with me - I'm not easy to live with when I think everyone I love most it just a barrier to me ha ha.