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When talking about things that drive us crazy, we often use the phrase "like a red rag to a bull", referring to the Spanish bullfights. In fact, of course, it is not the red rag itself that irritates the bull - after all, they do not distinguish colors at all, but its flickering and the noise of the crowded arena. But the phrase has taken root, and now it is most often referred to by people.

And indeed, there are things and situations that, unfortunately, are quite common in our lives, for which literally a moment is enough to turn an ordinary and very satisfied person into, let's say, the Hulk on minimum bid. And there are plenty of such things in the world around us.

There is a popular thread in the Askreddit community where the author of the original post asked the question: "What immediately makes you angry?" As of today, the thread has over 1.5K upvotes and nearly 3.2K comments. What can we say? We had no idea that things that seem so completely harmless at first glance can drive people into a frenzy!

If you're intrigued, it's time to start scrolling through this selection of the most popular, unexpected and really annoying comments that Bored Panda has made especially for you. So, please, feel free to read for your pleasure, mark the submissions you like most of all and be sure to scroll to the very end.

By the way, let's add one more thing that literally makes us mad - the absence or a small number of comments on posts. This is by no means a call to action, but we are so extremely happy when we see your comments - why not please us once more?

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group People hurting animals

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Deborah Harris2
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anyone who hurts animals and children will have a special place set out for them in the bowels of Hell ... and if they don't ... i'll drag them there screaming myself!

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group People abusing children is number one on my list.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This should be at the top. Why have kids if you hate them enough to hurt them? Don't have kids if you can't handle stress or frustration.

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group People who let their kids run wild in Supermarkets.

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group People who are rude to fast food workers and store clerks. Like, they're doing you a service, why be rude? It ain't the cashiers fault the McRib ain't on the menu.

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group Calling a gigantic corporation knowing full well I will speak to a robot for the first 5 minutes, on hold for the next 30, to explain my situation to 3 different people, of which none will help me.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whenever I call a place that has an automated call system like that, I just say "close my account" or "cancel my service". In most cases that will get you routed to their customer retention department and you get a live person right away. Those are also the best agents to ask about getting a discount or promotion, because they typically have access to the best/largest discounts.

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group Waking up before your alarm thinking you still have a couple of hours to sleep. Then you check your phone and realize you only have a few minutes.

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group People

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think my lack of love for crowds of people has got worse as i've got older, when younger I went to many festivals and concerts it never bothered me. Now it's like where the hell did all these people come from .... go away!!!🥺

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group People not using turn signals properly.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Indeed! Turn signals aren't just to alert other drivers of your intended actions but also help to prevent accidents. If you don't use your turn signals, you're not just a dumbass, you're a threat to the safety of others.

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group People who are never on time. When I say I’ll be there at 5pm I expect you to be ready and walking out the door when I pull up.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love my SO. He is a wonderful man, but his tendency to dawdle, especially when we are about to leave to go somewhere, makes me want to rearrange his face.

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TheOtherWeirdo
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here's my sort of mantra for this kind of thing: Early is on time, on time is late, and late is never, which means you might as well not go. Idk, it helps me be on time better for me, might help a few people out.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don’t know, as someone with chronic fatigue among other things if someone is more than 5 mins early arriving at my house, it throws me out. I have a friend who can be up to half an hour early, and I’ll still be in my pjs needing a shower.

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Hill Branda
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hate this as well. People who are constantly late are constantly rude. Everyone will be late once in awhile due to unforeseen circumstances, but to be late all the time is the sign of a narcissist. They only think of themselves, so other's people time is irrelevant. If someone is always late to meet you, it means they don't give a rat's butt about you.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That can be true of people who are egregiously late all the time, but some people struggle with time. I have ADHD and timekeeping can be a significant issue. I work hard to be non-disruptive, but even when I am on time, I am rushing.

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Laura Lett
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know people whom, would ALWAYS be 1 hour late to EVERYTHING. Finally stopped inviting them over. So annoying. And wouldn't check phone/ email but every 3 days.

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Jeff Gabrisl
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As someone with multiple chronic health issues, I hate this mentality. I always give myself plenty of time to get ready, but I can't control when my IBS is going to have me on the toilet multiple times. I also can't control traffic, and I'm not leaving my house an hour before my workday starts just to make sure that I get to work on time when it should be a 40 minute drive. Work won't let me clock in early or pay me for that time, so they aren't getting it. Also, I'm sure all of you who are complaining are the type of people who deduct money from a server or deliver driver tip if food doesn't come out fast enough...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You said it all. I have such things plus Behavioral Health conditions on top. I am tired of being judged for being late. At this point I generally just never make any plans with anyone intolerant. Yes, that's exactly what thus is, despite how "right" people want to be. And on top of that, most of the interesting people I have known are easily distracted because they are always noticing little interesting things..... Rather have this than be on time. Won't be trading sniffing flowers for regimentation anytime soon, especially since growing up around those intolerant control freak clock worshippers fueled the bejesus out of my same Behavioral Health conditions....

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Everyone's time is precious. You can never get time back, so always be early

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When people are constantly late, and know they are, I always want to ask why they don't give themselves more time to get there, but then others call me the rude one like I wasn't waiting.

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Laura Lett
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I despise those who are always late. No matter what always late. I know people who will be late to their own funerals.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm the person standing outside waiting when you pull up

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Whitefox
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oy, this! If you ask me to be at your place at 5pm. I promise I will be at the door at 4:55pm and probably have sat in the driveway for 10 mins before that! lol

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Everyone needs a personal assistant frog to alert them of upcoming appointments.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This annoys me too. 5 min is ok, but like 15? Nah. My dad will know we have to be somewhere at 3 so he'll jump in the shower at 2:55. It's very annoying and my mom gets anxiety about being late so it doesn't help her at all

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know enough to tell those people to meet me forty five minutes early so they are actually on time

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Justme
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I won’t bend to late people. Meeting starts at 8am no matter who is in the room or not. Same goes for family dinners, etc. Most people respond to this. No one is late to my meetings.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a friend who's a full on Christian - I mean worked as a missionary in a foreign country level of commitment. And she was always chronically late, every time, to everything. I think the only true argument we ever had was when I tried to explain to her why I felt this was wrong or "a sin" in her parlance. She could not seem to grasp that it affected other people in negative ways. And yet when the hairdresser cancelled her appointment because she was so late, she was furious!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A frog eh? A snail or a tiny tortoise would make more sense lol

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Agree. Even 15 minutes means a lot to me. I can be with my dog, water my plant, have a more relaxing s**t instead of wasting it on waiting.

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group People not picking up after their dogs.

Not sure if it makes me angry, but maybe close. Especially since when I'm walking my dog, I don't want people to think it's me who is the culprit.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What makes me even more disgusted with some of my dog-walking neighbors is the fact that 3 of them bag their pup's poo only to drop the bag on my property. Why bother bagging it if you're just going to leave it? Oh, that's right. You people are making life easier for me because I can just pick the bags up and put them in the trash. NO! BRING THE BAG OF POO HOME WITH YOU AND THROW IT OUT YOURSELF.

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group Slow walking people in the middle of the pavement lol

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, that really upsets me. And they are not only slow walking, they even stop suddenly every few steps.

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group When people fake diseases and disorders for attention. No Sarah, you aren’t autistic and dreamsexual. It’s personality you lack, not chromosomes

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those people are making it worse for those with actual diseases and disorders.

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group When I'm Cut off in a Conversation.

When People Talk down to me.

And when people dont listen to me.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When people shout down the other person in a disagreement—-and are also dead wrong most of the time. Shouting someone down doesn’t mean you won the argument. It just means you loudly proclaimed that you are an a*****e.

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group Someone assuming my opinion or intentions before asking me directly.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And especially when they misunderstand what I mean or said but refuse to let me explain and instead throw a screaming fit.

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group People who break the rules of the road at others expense (cutting people off, not using turn signal, using the shoulder to skip traffic, ect.) Even when it doesn't inconvenience me directly

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group People who cut ahead of you on the road only to go slow.

If you're in such a hurry to risk my life and yours then push your foot down on the pedal a bit more.

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group Loud eaters are the worst.

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group People cursing at their children, child neglect.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And then when the child grows up-the parents wonder why their child disrespects and neglects them!

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group People that can't pay attention to movies and spend most of the time on their phones, especially if its a movie that I specifically wanted to show them. Then they ask questions that were already answered and don't get what it was about. Drives me absolutely insane

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same if we are home watching something on tv. If you're not going to pay attention, I am not going to catch you up.

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group some folks seem to have an utter lack of situational awareness, and as a result are constantly getting in the way of themselves and others

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group When I see someone consciously, maliciously abusing any being unable to defend itself.

Accidental abuse is more understandable *if* the severity of the abuse isn't high, and *if* it stops when the abuser is made aware of it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Accidental abuse does not exist. Being kind,courteous, and thoughtful toward others are basic human traits- that everyone should practice

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group When someone is the only person to hear my idea and then immediately repeats it and passes it off as their own. Makes me feel like Maury in Big Mouth: Rage, rage, f*****g RAGE!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had this done to me so many times, that in the end I stopped being the incentive one

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group People who drive slow in the right lane but speed up as soon as you try to pass them in the left lane.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People who hold up traffic (especially going under the speed limit in the left lane/driving the same as person in the right lane) Then speed up through the yellow light leaving you and everyone else hanging. NO. I hate you.

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group Repeating something after I already said it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or having the same discussion over and over again yet never resolving anything.

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group Being lied to/ignored.

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Dorey Bell
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Moral character is not a grey area. You either have integrity, or you don't.

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When i’ve just finished cleaning and someone makes a huge mess

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes! And I have 3 small kids so.... it happens a lot. And so I get to practice patience and to control my anger/annoyance quite a bit. *yay*/s

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group Arrogance.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm right, Your wrong, end of story. Unless I decide I'm mistaken and then your still wrong.

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30 Things That Immediately Make People Angry Because They Are So Annoying, As Shared In This Online Group People with no self awareness

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This so much. The lack of common sense and self awareness these days is truly scary.

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