Things that irk/annoy ya

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Use of vague, exaggerated or untestable claims

• Assertion of scientific claims that are vague rather than precise, and that lack specific measurements
• Failure to make use of operational definitions (i.e. publicly accessible definitions of the variables, terms, or objects of interest so that persons other than the definer can independently measure or test them)
• Failure to make reasonable use of the principle of parsimony, i.e. failing to seek an explanation that requires the fewest possible additional assumptions when multiple viable explanations are possible
• Use of obscurantist language, and use of apparently technical jargon in an effort to give claims the superficial trappings of science
• Lack of boundary conditions: Most well-supported scientific theories possess well-articulated limitations under which the predicted phenomena do and do not apply
• Lack of effective controls, such as placebo and double-blind, in experimental design
• Lack of understanding of basic and established principles of physics and engineering

• Assertions that do not allow the logical possibility that they can be shown to be false by observation or physical experiment
• Assertion of claims that a theory predicts something that it has not been shown to predict
• Assertion that claims which have not been proven false must be true, and vice versa
• Over-reliance on testimonial, anecdotal evidence, or personal experience
• Presentation of data that seems to support its claims while suppressing or refusing to consider data that conflict with its claims
• Reversed burden of proof: In science, the burden of proof rests on those making a claim, not on the critic. "Pseudoscientific" arguments may neglect this principle and demand that skeptics demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that a claim (e.g. an assertion regarding the efficacy of a novel therapeutic technique) is false. It is essentially impossible to prove a universal negative, so this tactic incorrectly places the burden of proof on the skeptic rather than the claimant
• Appeals to holism as opposed to reductionism

• Evasion of peer review before publicizing results (called "science by press conference")
• Some agencies, institutions, and publications that fund scientific research require authors to share data so others can evaluate a paper independently. Failure to provide adequate information for other researchers to reproduce the claims contributes to a lack of openness
• Appealing to the need for secrecy or proprietary knowledge when an independent review of data or methodology is requested

• Failure to progress towards additional evidence of its claims
• Lack of self-correction: scientific research programs make mistakes, but they tend to eliminate these errors over time
• Statistical significance of supporting experimental results does not improve over time and are usually close to the cutoff for statistical significance. Normally, experimental techniques improve or the experiments are repeated, and this gives ever stronger evidence. If statistical significance does not improve, this typically shows the experiments have just been repeated until a success occurs due to chance variations

• Tight social groups and authoritarian personality, suppression of dissent, and groupthink can enhance the adoption of beliefs that have no rational basis. In attempting to confirm their beliefs, the group tends to identify their critics as enemies
• Assertion of claims of a conspiracy on the part of the scientific community to suppress the results
• Attacking the motives or character of anyone who questions the claims

• Creating scientific-sounding terms to add weight to claims and persuade nonexperts to believe statements that may be false or meaningless: For example, a long-standing hoax refers to water by the rarely used formal name "dihydrogen monoxide" and describes it as the main constituent in most poisonous solutions to show how easily the general public can be misled
• Using established terms in idiosyncratic ways, thereby demonstrating unfamiliarity with mainstream work in the discipline

I am annoyed by...

Guys that think they are 'cool and gangsta' by walking around with their pants halfway around their ass. And when they shuffle walk to keep the pants up, they look like they have crapped themselves and are now trying to avoid squishing the pants full of turd. It just seriously looks that bad.

Folks who use the restrooms and don't bother to wipe the toilets if they inadvertently splash/smear something on the seat. I can understand a drop of pee or two as that can be easy to miss, but when a person leave a big brown smear and it's quite obvious, then that person has no excuse.

Folks that heavy kiss in public. They simply look gross, as all I can see is big fleshy lips sliding all over each other and leaving a film of saliva. I can't even look at this in movies.

People that leave filled diapers everywhere after changing their babies. I've seen it too many times, it's just rank.

DearMetalwolf,
So, so true!

Sylkat

People being hypocritical
People procrastinating
Self righteous people
People not cleaning up after themselves
People littering
People who tailgate
People who make a fuss over a misspelled word (ever heard of a typo? You must be perfect and never made one before )
People texting as they drive
People texting while you're talking to them
People who moan about their problems and do nothing about it

People who don't want to work and just want to stay at home and mooch off their families or partner or don't want to do anything with their lives so they stay home and don't work or don't even go to school

Gaming addicts
Drug addicts
People drinking and driving
Special snowflakes
People who leave pee on toilet seats
People who come into the restroom while I am cleaning totally ignoring the sign sitting in front of the door

People online who don't tell me they have to go so instead they say be right back and not ever come back until the next day or few days later. Just say you have to go. Now whenever people say brb, in my mind it translate to gtg since I have lost trust. Now I am skeptical about people needing to be right back.

People wanting to mail you something and say they will do it and never do. Don't tell me then you want to do it if you are not intending to and don't even ask me if I want this or that. I will just say "no" from now on because I am so sick of this game.

Aspies expecting me to be NT. Okay so I am mild, you think my social skills are good, don't be surprised if they suck all of a sudden and get pissed about it. Don't get mad at me for being literal either, etc. I swear they forget because I am close to normal and I seemed normal to them

People expecting parents to be god

Parents who let their kids run around and don't even tell them to stop and also who let them scream and don't even tell them to quiet down or hush

Parents who let their little ones wreck things like forts an older child built just because "they're just a baby." I think them being a baby is just an excuse they use for them being a lazy parent for not bothering to stop their child from getting close to it and not taking responsibility when they knock part of it down

People suing people for things that were their own darn fault and winning
People not reading posts right
My computer acting up
Buses or light rails coming early
Places that close early before closing time

Another irk I have but I try and give them a break for it but they still annoy me, people who have clouded judgments/views due to their past or what happened to them so it effects how they read a post someone writes and they end up taking it out of context because they assume that is what the post is about

The phrase, "One of the only..." If it's the only, then of course it's one!! !! ! How about just "the only" and skip the redudndant "one of" bit. Please...?

-People who think of themselves as so smart, when it's obvious that they're not

-People who try to have a conversation with others who don't want to have a conversation

-Slow computers

-Computers that freeze whenever someone is trying to get something important done

-Most reality TV shows

-Political campaign ads that air in states where the candidate doesn't represent people where the campaign ad airs on TV

Some more...

Cleaning the restrooms at work, and customers not waiting until after I'm done. When I'm in an opposite sex restroom I am mandated to leave until they are done, which makes it take longer. And sometimes they foul the toilets that I've just cleaned.

Introducing yourself on a forum's 'Introduce Yourself' board and no one even saying hi. I did this on a parkour forum since I am interested in doing this, and I didn't even get a response. I was thinking "Nice to welcome someone into doing this. I guess I'll have to start training without the love and hugs."

Customers who open up and start feeding their kids out of packages that they haven't even bought yet. This is soo annoying because it shows that their kids must be that damn spoiled, and that the kid can throw one hell of a tantrum when not given into and the parents are afraid of it. Otherwise why are they doing this? Can't the kid wait?

People who seem to be misinformed.

Clumsy or unsophisticated numerical and scientific expressions, especially in books where you would suppose them to be correctly expressed. Examples:

• cm3 for cubic centimeter, in place of cm³
• Improper mixing of numbers and words, like 100 thousand
• Use of hyphen for minus sign because it is just too short. Compare 8-3 with 8–3 which is as wide as 8+3
• Omission of the degree sign when referring to centigrade, like +100 C in place of +100 °C

People who state opinions as if they are facts.
People staring at me
People trying to small talk
Slow people(As in walking)
Loudnoises/crying kids
Mess

Extremists in any direction.

People who throw cigarette butts on the ground. I mean what the f.

Whistling.

Chewing gum popping.

People who work at places you like to go to asking you personal questions and/or hit on you.

--People talking loudly on their cell phones in an enclosed space (such as a car, bus, etc.)
--Whispering
--Getting ear infections
--Remakes of perfectly good 80s songs

Insufficient bus transportation. Grrr!

Kids that stare at you. I dislike this a lot because instinctively to me it is a threat.

People that disable the muffler on their motorcycles. Often this creates a loud "RRRrrrrrrrrr!" as they drive by, creating an ungodly noise that is intensely painful. As someone who bikes, these are especially annoying.

People who like to pick at themselves in public. I'm not talking about regular picking, but the gross kind where people pick at pimples or scabs and you see too much what they are picking at. Worse are boils or pustules, where the exposed contents can be vomit inducing.