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Hey Pandas, What Are The Selfish Things People Do That Annoy You Beyond Belief? (Closed)
They want to show you a picture of something on their phone, but they have to scroll through a thousand pics while you wait. They often cherry-pick a pic to show and tell the story that goes along with the pic, which you never asked for.
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#1
When you are in obviously deep conversation with someone, and someone else comes over and interrupts because their thought is way more important than what you were saying, And, it is even worse when the person you are talking to lets the interloper do it, and drops you out. My response is to get up and leave.
Final score:
21points
Jeya Mackelle 10 months ago
Are you me? No, seriously. Are you? My mother does this anytime one of my brothers interrupts me, and NEVER ever gets back to me. But if I interrupt one of them, which I rarely do, I'm immediately corrected. I think I'll just do what you do and see what happens.
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#2
Using a speaker phone on the bus/train.
Playing loud music on the bus/train.
Have some common curtesy nobody wants to hear about your fungal infection.
Final score:
19points
#3
When people upvote their own comments on BoredPanda. If you have an opinion or statement you're willing to post publicly online, let it stand on its own merit. Upvoting one's own comments is pretty selfishly narcissistic.
Final score:
10points
#4
Sit down on the bus, put their bag in the seat next to them and then stare out the window pretending not to notice the buss is filling up with people wanting to sit. Boils my blood.
Final score:
10points
cerinamroth 10 months ago
I sat on a man‘s sports bag once when I was pregnant and mega chonky after he pretended to ignore me.
#5
When people don't get outta my way/move aside in the aisles of a store. I always say "excuse me", I'm polite. They just STAND there!? Look, I don't have time for you to discuss the 800 boxes of cereal while they're on their phones or has loads of unruly kids running around. I need to get in....and get out!
Final score:
10points
#6
Publishing articles on social media in the present tense, when they're actually 5 YEARS OLD! Please do better, BP.
Final score:
9points
#7
Not living up to plans and promises. Dropping out when planning stuff with people and not even informing. You might have your reasons but it doesn't include hurting those who care. People have emotions and limit. While it may not be too selfish for some, some feel drained with this attitude.
Final score:
8points
#8
While driving, they make a dead stop in the lane to decide whether or not to turn while a line of cars behind get anxious and are now held hostage.
Final score:
7points
BeesEelsAndPups 10 months ago
I'm a city guy, so I don't drive that much. But similarly, when getting off the subway, some idiot stops at the top of the escalator to figure out which way they want to go, and everybody behind them has to physically push them, or fall down the escalator.
#9
They stop to chat while you are on your way to some appointment and ignore when you tell them you have to leave and they keep taking. Where does it end?
Final score:
7points
cerinamroth 10 months ago
When you say, "Right, I'm off - have a lovely day!" and start walking in the other direction.
#10
this is very specific probably doesn't affect most people but here's my pet peeve: as a disabled person with mobility issues, shopping can be very taxing. it's not that i can't walk but long distances and/or extended time on my feet affect me negatively in the long run. the motorized carts that are provided for people such as myself tend to be left by a previous user and not plugged back in. it takes a moment to plug the damn thing in! nothing is more annoying that to have a cart die in the middle of the store and you have a basket full of items. it's why i intentionally try to get to a store early in the day in order to have access to a charged cart. i know - as i said - not something that is universally a problem but for those of us who are still trying to live an independent life with the help of supportive assistance it truly is a pain in the butt.
Final score:
7points
#11
Our neighbours encourage their kids to go out and play, usually with screaming and shouting - at 7am on a Saturday morning. Our gardens are long, but not that wide (40ft or so) so it's easier to hear them.
Final score:
6points
#12
Treating my neighborhood's stop signs as mere suggestions. We have kids playing here, or walking across the street to get to the playground. One 6 year old was hit by a car while getting off the school bus because the driver didn't feel like the school bus' stop sign applied to her. She even had the audacity to get out of her SUV (because of course it was) to yell at the boy for not getting across the street fast enough. These people fly down the road and blow through the stop signs, and because it's a working class black and latino neighborhood the cops don't care. FYI, the cops did nothing about the little boy who was hit, until somebody went to the local news and the story hit the TV. Three weeks later, the cops were interested in investigating the incident.
Final score:
5points
#13
When people expect to receive a generous tip for doing a basic job! (Obviously I am not including waiters and waitresses, it servers in general, who have the most ridiculously low base wage humanly possible!). I don't mind the tip jar at some places like my local Chinese restaurant. Using the jar lets you choose whether you want to, or can afford to, contribute! And for those who will object, of I need to buy a prepared meal, which is not often at all, the sad reality is that if another person chooses to work where they are not properly paid, it should not be included as a line item in MY budget! Employers need to do better!
Final score:
4points
Laura Osborne 10 months ago
Yes - employers should pay a decent wage so that servers are not having to live off tips. I'm happy to pay when I get good service but don't think servers should have to rely on the guests paying their wages.
#14
People who don't remember or care about turning on their directional signal until after the traffic light turns green or they are in the middle of their turn.
Final score:
3points
StrangeOne 10 months ago
It's reckless to just turn and not use your turning lights. Especially when people are crossing.
#15
Throwing trash in nature, from huge dumps to cigarette buts and cans. The butts are eaten by birds and the cans are chewed on by foxes.
Making plans that involve you and require effort on your part, then cansel at last minute because they found something better to do.
Making plans that envolve you and require your effort, and not give you enough heads-up in advance, so that you can concerve energy to have it to spare.
Not walking their dogs in the morning, afternoon or evening (they suck!!)
Not apologizing for their stupidity when its is obvious they have caused you pain.
People interruoting you to tell you about their imagined pain, when the only reason pain is on the "menu" is because you obviously are in it.
People conserned about correcting grammatical errors, without reading enough of the content to realize it is not appropriate, necessary or even remotely relevant.
People pushing their gossip in a site that obviously are not wanting it or being better for it. Wont name names, because i have named the name before :p
-people who brags about being wastefull, as if it isnt a sign of utter stupidity.
Final score:
2points
LakotaWolf (she/her) 10 months ago
How do YOU know if someone's pain is real or "imagined"? Assuming that YOU know that someone's pain is "imaginary" seems pretty selfish in and of itself.
Karina (Submission author) 10 months ago
hahaha, you assuming is more than me. I was, suprise suprise, refering to an incident that happend to me, where a christian idiot wanted to be the one in PAIN and SUFFERING because his mission holds that in high regard. We started talking avbout pain because I reffered to my father and nightmares. He took over the conversation with a hypothetic situation where it Could have been a lot of PAIN and SUFFERINg if he were not allowed to beat his children... sooo, was i wrong???!
Load More Replies... LakotaWolf (she/her) 10 months ago
You... might want to actually be specific if you are going to mention an incident like that, rather than reduce it to a very easily-misinterpreted generalization like "it's selfish when people interrupt you to tell you about their imagined pain" - since the only way I can interpret that is that you are decreeing that another person's pain is "imagined". I have zero references. I don't know your life or what situations you've experienced, so I have to take your words at literal face value.
Karina (Submission author) 10 months ago
Thank you for this reflection. You are absolutely right.
Danish Susanne 10 months ago
I considered downvoting you. You talk about peoples imagined pain, but how can you tell if the other persons pain is real or imagined?
Mattie 10 months ago
whether it's imagined or not, why interrupt the other person?
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Karina (Submission author) 10 months ago
thank you, that was my main point, because there should be room for both. But then people wantet to judge my ability to comprehend my own conversations :P
Karina (Submission author) 10 months ago (edited)
because they where talking abour a riddicolous hypithetical, while i was talking about a real situation.eta. Thank you for asking the question tho. Its easy to downvote, it is better to get the context behind first. And i see i didnt fraze it very symphatetical
alaina66 10 months ago
You don't know how to spell. You are causing me pain by this. Now I have to take Tylenol, because of you...thanks. ;)
Karina (Submission author) 10 months ago
hehe, sorry _p I havnt had an english lesson in more than 23 years, but its my mania right now that dosnt care about spell checks. Normally OI do quite well, despite dyslexia, but now my brain is fifteen miles away on its own stress ride, and thats the time it dosnt look back to check how it comes put. I do apologize to you, since you were nice about it. I owe you a tylenol :p
Alexia 10 months ago
"Imagined pain"? How do you assess that it is imagined? Also, "not apologizing" is pretty normal for men in patriarchal communities, especially if the wronged one is a woman. To apologize is seen as a sign of weakness. Only women are expected to do that - and not just apologize but beg for forgiveness if any masculine ego feels offended.
Andrew Keir 10 months ago
"To apologise is seen as a sign of weakness" - there's the key point An apology includes at least two acceptances - that you did something wrong, and that you're sorry. Both these include accepting the other person as an equal, with rights (and duties). Anyone who sees that as weakness has problems hard-wired into themselves, although I'd suggest that it's not limited to a few males... - although I'm cautious about assuming that I can always understand another person's thinking and feelings well enough to judge them on it. Default setting is assume they know themselves better than I do, but be cautious of professional victims.
Apatheist Account2 10 months ago (edited)
Sorry, but *cancel :) Correcting errors stops them propagating (hopefully). People tend to copy what they see; it's not selfish at all, it's helping to slow the dumbing down of society, one hopes, and maybe encourages people to double check things - much money would not have been wasted if someone had double-checked whether the measurements on a space probe were in metric or imperial, for example.
Karina (Submission author) 10 months ago
To a certain degree, but i have seen enough comments where people poor their hearts out and then you find a comment that says you're under it.. Those are the ones i ment. It is also true that there are many foreigners on the net, and some of them even have dyslexia..
Load More Replies... Deborah 10 months ago
You're going to hate me, but the word you needed to use was "pour," not "poor." Words make a difference. As does punctuation.
Karina (Submission author) 10 months ago
I appriciate you saying sorry. I read your first comment with a smile, because i could sence your sympathi and you even gave me the right words (wich I knew) but its better than many does. And your sorry here is also more than many does, and i think it is good for everyone to see that we all can be sorry, because non of us are perfect. I wish you a wonderful day, week and future, Deborah <3
Karina (Submission author) 10 months ago
I love you ringt now <3 and often other times too, when i laugh at you funny, sweet or fine comments <3
Karina (Submission author) 10 months ago
I actually know that. But Sometimes, sadly, the brain is preoccupied with things that isnt even remotely relevant to spelling. Sometimes community makes MORE of a difference
Karina (Submission author) 10 months ago
It is a valid pount The ability to understand the words is a prerequisite for understanding and therefore communication. But I belive there needs to be more movements on your side of the scale. Becsause you brain, as used to, in love with and preoccupied with words as I am sure you are, being a writer, has stil a higher ability, posibility and maybee even passion for learning - too understand others even when they are flawed, than the flawed person has to fix them self to suite others <3 I know there are hundreds of thousand people, even maybee millions, who has thing to say. Important things, valuable things, things that can save another life. But they also have anxiety, dosnt know all the english words or even to write with correct punctuation. THose important perople, who are the same as you and me, dare not give us their wisdom, because punctuation and grammar has somehow eclipsed the value of communication and community... That is just pure and simple wrong <3
Karina (Submission author) 10 months ago
corrwcting small insignificant errors that people make in vain, in error, in ignorance or in a rush is not relevant. You are not my teacher <3 but you may stop others who dont have the ego strength that I have, and you wouldnt want that on your consience, for the sake of being "right", ssuperior or more clever. Because through internet, we fail to be clever if we are ignorant to all the disadvantages some people have compared to you, me or others. And we should never be so "smart" that we exclude people for the sake of correcting irrelevant, more and more obsolete and elitist thinking. And its aldo a bit ableist. Love from a Dyslexic.
#16
When they demand something be delivered to them because they won't stand up and get it themselves like real human beings
Final score:
2points
#17
Police officers who drive like maniacs even when they are just on their way to the donut shot.
Final score:
2points
StrangeOne 10 months ago
I hate it when they decide they don't want to wait at a red light so they flash their lights until they get past the intersection.
#18
this one isn't as bad as the other ones, but it annoys me when people don't dress out for gym class, then act upset when they are docked points for not dressing out. like, come on, why did you wear those skinny jeans with the fake diamonds on them when we have to run the mile today??
Final score:
1point
Apatheist Account2 10 months ago
What does "dressing out" mean? I've heard of dressing up, dressing down, and even dressing gown, but never dressing out.
#19
People who drive like they are the most important people and put others at risk. Also, those that forget to put blinker fluid in the car, so the blinker signal works.
Final score:
1point
What do you think ?
StrangeOne 10 months ago
People who smoke too close to doors, and right at the bus stop, or just having 0 consideration for everyone else. That's your habit. Keep it to yourself.
Little Bit 10 months ago
People who don't turn up when they promised, and even worse don't have the basic courtesy to let you know they're running late/not coming. People who block the entire shelf in the supermarket and spend a hundred years picking over everything on the shelf deciding which one to buy.
marianne eliza 10 months ago
Almost as bad as being selfish and doing things intentionally, is the oblivious person. They think they are the only people on earth. Forgot your turn was coming up? swerve across 3 lanes of traffic to make it. Stop your cart in the grocery store wherever. No one else could possibly need to get by.
StrangeOne 10 months ago
People who smoke too close to doors, and right at the bus stop, or just having 0 consideration for everyone else. That's your habit. Keep it to yourself.
Little Bit 10 months ago
People who don't turn up when they promised, and even worse don't have the basic courtesy to let you know they're running late/not coming. People who block the entire shelf in the supermarket and spend a hundred years picking over everything on the shelf deciding which one to buy.
marianne eliza 10 months ago
Almost as bad as being selfish and doing things intentionally, is the oblivious person. They think they are the only people on earth. Forgot your turn was coming up? swerve across 3 lanes of traffic to make it. Stop your cart in the grocery store wherever. No one else could possibly need to get by.
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