We all know someone with the uncanny ability to get on our nerves with their irritating behaviors. Maybe it’s your coworker who makes a habit of talking loudly on their phone in public spaces, or perhaps it’s your neighbor who likes to leave their car parked where they’re not supposed to. It could even be someone in your own family — someone who just doesn’t seem to get how hard it is to live with them. When you’re at your wits’ end with the people around you, you can’t help but wonder, “What are they thinking? Why do they do things that annoy other people so much? And why does it seem like there are more and more exasperating people every day?”
Well, maybe it’s because there are really tons of them everywhere. We know this because we read through a thread on Reddit where users were sharing their stories of being annoyed by stupid things people do. And while some of these stories may make us laugh, they also trigger our pet peeves and make us wonder why some people just can’t seem to get it together.
As we venture through this entertaining list of things people can’t stand, you’ll find yourself nodding in agreement, chuckling at the absurdity, and maybe even discovering some new annoying things you never knew bothered you. Without further ado, let’s jump into this thread packed with the ire of thousands. Feel free to upvote the irritating situations that resonate with you the most to see them rank higher on our list!
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AmAcC67 said:
"How you can go to jail for life for weed but only a few years for murder."
Connect_Stay_391 replied:
"And get no time at all for ra*e."
Reagan's advisor once said something like this: "We knew we can't criminalize being anti-war or being Black. So we started to associate hippies with marijuana and Black people with heroin, then started to heavily criminalize drugs. Did we know we're lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
"Gender reveals."
For those who don't know: the woman who came up w/ this concept condemns it. She went through a lot of miscarriages and when she finally had a baby who survived long enough to be able to have their gender determined, she threw a celebration. And she heavily disagrees with the trend it sparked.
blacksheep_onfire said:
"Celebrity worship is the f**kin worst."
naugasnake replied:
"Politicians' worship is worse in my book. They are public servants, not gods."
"Kids/teenagers are being allowed to get away with s**t cause there underage. I don't mean underage drinking I mean basically hurting people, destroying houses or windows, or even stuff we pay tax for!! Honestly grinds my gears."
ketzcm said:
"Shooting animals for no reason other than a selfie. Let me shoot that tiger. Yeah, I'm going to eat it."
BOSH09 replied:
"Hunting for sport is lame. Eat what you shoot."
reperoni said:
"Tipping is a valid way to pay workers. And even more stupid? People who defend the system."
Porter1823 replied:
"People who argue for it are either the employers who benefit or the few employees that make bank on tips."
cherubim22 said:
"War."
ramilehti replied:
"What is it good for?"
abtseventynine replied:
"Profit for the people in power, who are not fighting it?"
Politicians hide themselves away, they only started the war. Why should they go out to fight, they leave that all to the poor." War Pigs, Black Sabbath
SquidleyStudios said:
"Having to pay for mental health care. I'm suicidal but the hospital saddles me with a ton of bills while trying to manage my depression, do they want me to live or not?"
javalove1 replied:
"They want you to live as long as you pay your bills... once you can't afford to pay them they don't care if you do not live."
mauore11 said:
"Thinking that an opinion is just as valid as actual evidence."
Zorro-the-witcher replied:
"Your opinion, although valid, is irrelevant."
Gmony5100 replied:
"I love this phrase, and it is REALLY hard to get some people to understand this. Yes, whatever you feel, however much I disagree, is valid. No, that does not mean we need to act on it in any way or change literally anything because of it.
It’s simple enough when it’s a conversation between two people over silly stuff. “I want the fridge here and you aren’t taking my opinion into account” “Your feelings are valid, but the fridge needs to be next to the outlet and there’s no outlet there”. Harmless conversation but possibly annoying for person 2.
But in real-life stuff, it genuinely gets dangerous when people believe their opinion holds anywhere near as much weight as the facts. “Not vaccinating your children is extremely dangerous and will cause them to be at extreme risk” “But I believe vaccines are scary and scary is bad, so I won’t vaccinate my kids”. No longer harmless."
And let's face it, not all opinions are equally valid. Science or human rights of minority groups aren't something you can have "opinion" about.
sq234reddit said:
"Caring about some rich dude slapping another rich dude whilst the whole world goes to s**t."
jennaveeve22 replied:
"I was going to say award shows in general. It’s bad enough to watch a bunch of rich people congratulate other rich people, but now everything has gotten so political and it draws so much more attention to the fact that these people are so out of touch with the average American."
Tbh, I thought it was blown way out of proportion. Both Will Smith and Chris Rock are great guys but none are perfect.
mauore11 said:
"Religions... all of them."
Crip87 replied:
"Took me so damn long to get to this. Religion is the single stupidest invention of all time. Idiots."
Unpopular opinion: religious fundamentalists and hardcore atheists (those who actively hate all religions and snicker at people for believing in "magical sky daddy") are both equally horrible and equally obnoxious when they try to force their beliefs on someone. I'm neither religious or atheist, which makes me impartial.
chefdanzig said:
"The ease that misinformation is spread."
theonetheycalljason replied:
"People's willingness to believe it."
Amy-Paradise said:
"People who do lottery scratchers at the counter of the gas station while there is a line of people behind them."
ImpulseCombustion replied:
"50% chance they are also buying a 24oz can of ice beer."
MUIGUR said:
"Having to go to an office to do a job that you 100% can do in your house."
castrator21 replied:
"I think this every day when my alarm goes off at 6:40 when it used to go off at 7:50 during covid. President even had a company meeting about how great everyone did while working from home... then forced us all back into the stupid office afterward."
I thought this while I was wfh, until the novelty wore off. I guess it depends on the job. Call centre work can easily be done at home. But I do admit there is a breech of privacy risk. My home was my sanctuary. My peaceful place where I could forget about nasty words and not feel hostility or being controlled in my own home. Once I worked from home I was still a tenant working around maintenance issues, my daughter come and going, being monitored on my washroom time and breaks. I got especially defensive with abusive people since I'm in my own home. I got paranoid that the routed lines we used would crash and my home phone would get revealed to people, or that one of my neighbours would be eavesdropping, or the caretakers coming by for maintenance while I was working would judge me. A couple times they were trying to talk to me while I was on call with someone. When I was done for the day, I didn't feel "off work". It took about 30 minutes more to realize I needed to start on supper.
Who_Gives_A_ said:
"The fact that people care way too much about anything social media."
ShyneSpark replied:
"I deleted my Facebook, but I guarantee if I ever went back on and looked at any of my posts from 12-15 years ago when I frequently got into political arguments with random people, I would cringe myself into an early grave."
Worgenator said:
"Giving celebrities, i.e. rich people, discounts for being famous."
Beanzear replied:
"Rich people don’t pay for anything."
mathendes replied:
"They’re not getting discounts, it’s like here’s a gift for marketing for us. They def cover it up as a “discount” though."
I love how play-by-play announcers talk about broken bats or shattered hockey sticks. These players haven't paid for sticks or bats since they were in little league.
bustersquash1 said:
"The hiring process ok give us a resume, ok now make an account, ok now answer all these questions that are the exact same thing on the resume you gave us. Also unrealistic expectations for what they want the job is entry-level 10+ years experience, advanced degree, 5 years experience with a program that came out last year, etc."
P3rzival1 replied:
"This. I f**king can’t believe how stupid this is. Just last week, I went to an entry-level position and the description stated that they want people without experience too. I get there and the guy is almost furious that I had the courage to go to the interview."
It's more like: Job ad "Apply here". Redirects to website. "Apply for job position available here". "Please log in. If you are new, make an account.". Fills out personal information to make an account. Gets back to job page. "Apply for job position available here". Click on job. "Fill out personal information to get started. (I just did that to make the account.) Add job experiences. Add skills. Add other details. Upload resume. Upload cover letter (optional). Am I damned if I do, damned if I don't? (Contacts a job search coaching program). This is why it takes all day, sometimes 2, to apply for 1 job.
Reddit user said:
"The fact that my life-preserving insulin is outrageously priced for profit. My life is owned by the pharmaceutical industry. If they want me to die, they can make it happen. What the f**k."
Tullerusken replied:
"Fun fact: the guys who discovered insulin and how it could be used to treat diabetes sold the patent for 1$.
Today, three insulin producers dominate more than 90% of the global insulin market. Pharmaceutical companies make use of loopholes in the patent system to keep out competition and they can legally pay other companies not to produce insulin."
It's ridiculous and everywhere else in the world where it is cheap as or even free it is so abundant. In Australia it is $6.70 per month. My mum uses 2 types, a rapid release x3 per day and a slow 24hr release 1x per day. So $13 approx per month right? No, she gets so much in each script it takes closer to 3 months for each supply. We have over a years worth refrigerated. Also, various health concerns have had her In and out of hospital at least 6 x In the last 2 years. She gets another supply of about 3 months worth and all equipment every time she is discharged. Insulin is not a rationed commodity, it is literally over flowing in the supply chain. The US prices are criminal in the extreme. I wish I could legally and safely ship some to those in need over there. The fact it needs to be refrigerated is also a hurdle but I would so love to help.
"A S T R O L O G Y.
I try my best to let people like things but god DAMNIT YOUR PERSONALITY IS NOT INFLUENCED IN ANY F**KING WAY BY THE STARS.
when I'm on dates and someone is like, "omg I'm such a Leo" let it be known that at that moment I'm thinking of all the ways to immediately leave and ghost you forever
/not sorry."
I dislike how people get confused between astrology and astronomy and act as if they’re the same thing
No-Dish7093 said:
"Tiny plastic water bottles. They make my blood boil."
there-goes-bill replied:
"And then they cost like $6 at a festival."
I'm surprised these are not on the ban list yet, but plastic bags and straws are. Apparently Canada banned single use plastics. Technically plastic bottles are. Don't think they'll go back to glass for safety reasons. Wonder what they'll come up with. I've already come across paper coffee cup lids at Tim Hortons not long ago. But they mostly still use plastic.
Lorf30 said:
"Balloon releases."
SexySadieMaeGlutz replied:
"When I was in high school way back in 1990, I remember there was an assembly held for Earth Day. In the end, they released what was probably over 100 white balloons for absolutely no reason."
"Smoking cigarettes."
New hire at my job smokes CONSTANTLY. He smokes when he gets to the office. Then he has to smoke before leaving for the field. Then he has to smoke when he gets to the job site. Then he has to smoke while in the field, which means stopping work because you can't be near the equipment, then he has to smoke before leaving to go back to the office. Its just a constant cloud of smoke making me gag.
"Hipsters that buy $400+ "work boots" and $350 "raw denim" jeans LOOK like they do hard work.
It's cosplaying as blue collar and it's not just f**king stupid, it's f**king insulting."
I saw a pair of jeans with paint splattered all over them for a couple $100 and thought to myself what poser would actually buy these? Maybe I could find my retirement by selling my work clothes online so these idiots can look like they actually have a job.
ChasmClunge said:
"US healthcare."
jayval90 replied:
"US Health Insurance.
"Yeah I'm going to pay for this thing, and if you ask the hospital directly they're going to quote you a price 5 times higher than they actually pay us, then we're going to claim that we 'saved you money' from that non-existent retail price. Oh, we'll charge you basically however much we think you'll pay and then negotiate prices with hospitals for things that we won't revisit for decades because you keep paying us and we keep making boatloads of money.
Oh and if you don't buy our service, that's illegal.""
And if you don't have Healthcare you get crippling debt if you ever need to go to a hospital. It's really disgusting that sometimes I hope I'm in an accident caused by someone else so that I can go to a dr; only way I'd be able to afford it since someone will be covering it.
0sculum3stm0rtis said:
"Reality TV."
duffman13jws replied:
"It's cheaper to film than scripted with professional actors."
"Cost of wedding."
Went to a wedding where it was mandatory potluck (you had to cook for 50), with no music (not even a radio), so we all sat on chairs in an undecorated room waiting for something to happen. All the nonfamilial guests thought they'd crashed a family reunion and ended up leaving early. I'm not saying a wedding should cost a lot, but some thought and money should go into it.
Terrible-Turn-5292 said:
"Anything being sold as “gluten-free” can’t be guaranteed it’s entirely gluten-free. What’s the point? People who require that guarantee, can’t eat it, so the only people who can eat it, are the people who don’t need it."
bbzarr replied:
"Omg thissss."
I'm celiac and it drives me nuts!! "Here, have some food with a bit of poison sprinkled on it. It's only a bit so it should be ok right?""
That's not everywhere though. In Australia the food is tested to a much higher standard. I did the testing on a popular gluten free breakfast product (every batch tested). If we said gluten free, it was gluten free
"People having to sacrifice their life savings for medical treatment that might not even be certain to work."
godgoo said:
"Gambling, especially slot machines."
BlatantlyThrownAway replied:
"Where I live it's betting on sports on your phone. TV ads play constantly, game coverage always has a bit with an expert from a betting company giving the odds, teams have betting company sponsors splashed across their jerseys, and even naming rights to stadiums have been sold to betting companies. You cannot escape it.
Look, if people wanna bet that's their business, but I'm sick of the companies spamming us everywhere, and I work too damn hard for my money to blow it so frivolously. I don't get it."
Reddit user said:
"The golden powder put on steaks in expensive restaurants."
Zealousideal_Talk479 replied:
"It's called gold."
"Cancel culture."
Especially when it's about things that happened many years ago and the person was young, stupid and basically following accepted social norms of that time. People learn, evolve, change and become wiser. Society evolves along with them over time. We want the changes for the better but even those that have potentially changed get taken down because of their ignorance back when they didn't know any better.
the_nimble_36 said:
"How people treat politics like it is a sport."
punky67 replied:
"Politicians should be treated like uncool, boring, middle-aged bastards, which is what the majority of them are (at least in the UK). I think the biggest problem of treating politics like sports is that it encourages everyone to only be on one side of any issue."
Yes! People here in Alabama treat politics like it was football. They don't understand or care much about policy, because it's not about that. It's about a sense of identity and pulling for your team, no matter what they're doing. If we started taxing the rich and giving everyone health care and a living wage tomorrow, people would be delighted. Heck, half of the MAGA people whose groceries I ring up at work pay with food-stamps. If it was about policy, they'd have to be doing some pretty twisty mental gymnastics on that one. But it's not about policy. It's about identity. And exploiting racism and homophobia to get poor people to identify with a party that's actively working against their interests has got to be the greatest grift of all time.
"Using your birthplace as a reason to be a "gangster."
Like... what do you being born in Mississippi got to do with us fighting?"
"TikTok dances."
This will die off one day. When all those tiktokkers have kids it will be considered lame to them.
"Worrying about things you can't control or don't affect you."
3DarkWingGeese said:
"I can appreciate the aesthetic of slightly ripped jeans. What I think is absolutely moronic is jeans that are completely ripped open all the way from the pockets down to the cuff. I don't understand why some people like the style if you can even call it one."
Alligad0orp3ar replied:
"Just wear shorts at this point."
I would only wear ripped jeans that had been ripped in a legitimate way, like falling while working/playing outside.
Jimp0 said:
"NFTs."
whalezark replied:
"This and the “x and y things also have carbon footprints” argument. yes, John, cars are also bad for the environment but they don't produce years' worth of waste all at once like crypto transactions."
I used to think of trying out NFTs to get my art out there. Glad I stalled on it and gave it a second thought.
Reddit user said:
"The 40-hour work week."
Sejaw replied:
"Couldn’t agree more dude. Past few years I’ve done 7 11hr days on, and 7 days off as my schedule. Literally half the year off. You can take 7 days off and you actually get 21 days off. There are guys with enough annual holidays to disappear for 4 months every year.
At first, I thought the schedule would be rough but I’ll never work a standard 5&2 job again."
Reddit user said:
"Playing the dating game. If you’re ever seen kaguya-sama love is war, it’s literally that.
This game is where you have to text an hour later so you don’t come off as the beggar to the chooser. You have to go out with her whilst keeping your options open for another girl. It’s all so tedious and confusing.
Lemme just take you out & if we feel good about it, we keep going."
LearTiberius replied:
"Or you could just be yourself and say "screw it, cards on the table. Like the hand then play it, don't then there's the door." Your relationship status isn't your entire world, don't make it so."
azarbi said:
"Closing down nuclear power plants for "environmental purposes", and replacing them with gas and coal power plants."
kickit08 replied:
"Closing down clean energy plants is a step in the wrong direction. I would take natural gas plants any day over coal, and nuclear energy is better than everything else. The main reason plants are being shut down, and not being built is that they cost more on the front end but are a lot cheaper for the future. Half the reason they aren’t being built is because of misinformation. Most of the major disasters that nuclear energy has caused were because by major f**k-ups. And if you take into account Chornobyl and other massive nuclear disasters it’s still the safest nonrenewable form of energy."
ChrisNEPhilly said:
"I dated a girl who called orangutans "orange utans" because they're orange."
annajoo1 replied:
"Reminds me of a girl I went to high school with who GENUINELY thought Alzheimer’s was called “old timers”."
Greedy_Evening953 said:
"How complicated humans make things for themselves. Like, let's just chill and be nice to each other. Idfk."
shamefullybald replied:
"Humans make a big deal about everything. You don't see squirrels throwing baby showers, birthday parties, graduation parties, retirement parties, or dressing up in uncomfortable black clothes to hold funerals for one another. And if squirrels did start throwing parties, we'd be all annoyed when we didn't get invited. Chill out, humans!"
watermelonnmermaids said:
"Mini cupcakes. Cupcakes are already mini versions of cake they don't need to be more mini."
shamefullybald replied:
"That's an astute observation. A lot of people give mini cupcakes a pass, but it's time we took a stand."
My mom has a banana muffin recipe, once made it in a mini muffin tin and NEVER looked back. They come out perfectly moist and fluffy and amazing every time now. Before, it was a gamble to see if they were burnt, or raw on the inside, or decent, but never perfect.
Reddit user said:
"People who religiously follow streamers."
Weeaboo3177 replied:
"I value their existence because they farm clips and put them on Youtube for us non-weirdos to selectively watch."
I worked as a YouTube chat mod for 2 years. This streaming addiction is just that. An addiction. It's not healthy and a waste of time in a fake environment. I left permanently before I completely lost my damn mind. People shut the electronics down, turn it all off and go outside. Enjoy the outdoors and meet people in reality. Have dinner with real friends. Visit your family. Play with the kids instead of handing them a tablet.
snoopyeeebee said:
"Closing cost of the mortgage."
sarayewo replied:
"Well, realtor fees are more than that... I'm ok if people choose to use a professional to deal with advertising, showings, etc, but to basically be forced to pay 5-6% of the selling price to a monopoly is ridiculous. In this day and age where I don't need them to access the market, they're just glorified door openers.
And they directly discourage people from dealing with FSBO listings bc "something must be shady"."
Yeah, there were even advertisements for a realtor company spoofing independent sellers. What's up with that? Realtors are also so disrespectful to tenants living in properties being sold. They're the shady ones.
Super long finger nails. I'm not talking like a little length. But those 5 inch nails that the owners clack on purpose while their talking, and tap constantly. Not everyone likes to hear that kind of ASMR. I've had acrylic nails before, not that long but long enough. My real nails were damaged. The take off was painful. Much of the damage was done by careless cheap "nail salons" and constant pressure on the nail bed when scratching an itch, working and doing anything.
Super long finger nails. I'm not talking like a little length. But those 5 inch nails that the owners clack on purpose while their talking, and tap constantly. Not everyone likes to hear that kind of ASMR. I've had acrylic nails before, not that long but long enough. My real nails were damaged. The take off was painful. Much of the damage was done by careless cheap "nail salons" and constant pressure on the nail bed when scratching an itch, working and doing anything.
