Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

with or without moustache?

Argh! I hate him so much. Is this a common thing? Do reasonable people hate Russell Brand?

I also deeply hate Robin Williams.

I dont get Russell Brand at all...he's so twitchy and coked-out seeming and sweaty looking and he just talks and talks and talks... definite IA

and dont get me started on wtf Arthur with no booze well then its not fucking arthur then innit aaaaghhhhhh

Yeah I hate the guy and I'm not really sure why. The remake of Arthur looks so horrible. I dunno, maybe it's just the way he does everything in such an "ain't I cute?" sort of way, the fact that he's married to one of the most obnoxious women pop singers ever, the fact that he plays up his accent, I dunno. The thread on him here had like 1000 comments so I'm assuming it's not just you.

Yeh, I'm not quite sure why I hate him. He was pretty funny in the one movie I saw him in (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), but he just pisses me off.

Yeah I'm the same...thought he was great in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and then it was like he became this spreading bacteria and he was everywhere I looked.

I think part of it is how he tries to look like a rock star.

and he just seems very leering, or lecherous...or I dunno, just creepy. Like if he sat next to me at a bar I'd find a way to move away as soon as possible.

you don't like him because he speaks in a highly affected, almost hysterical, british accent usually reserved as a comedic tool for those playing little old women in their lounge or at the local caff but, at the same time, he is rock n rollish attractive and the obvious juxtaposition is trying to rewire the neural pathways associated with your personal and cultural like-dislike spectrum but it hurts your brain so instead the response your conscious mind receives is 'i dont like this person and i dont know why'.

he does have an Are You Being Served air about him

It's not the accent that does it for me.

whole general (waves hands) thing

The posters for Arthur make me IA.

co sign

I've never seen the original Arthur, but the clips I have seen also make me IA.

also Hop

Also: Dudley Moore, Billy Crystal, and Meg Ryan's faces all bug the hit out of me. And Dustin Hoffman's too. Also, the movie Alfie.

*shit, not hit, obviously.

wotsitallabowwwt, Alfeeeeeeeeee

that fucking I Said What About Breakfast At Tiffanys song

aghhhhh shut up

(on in my dentist office right now, killing me)

you mean this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ClCpfeIELw

I join you in the Brand loathing. And also whoever upthread loathes Sandra Bullock, I'm with them on that, too.

I don't like him because in interviews he tries way too hard to be intellectual about the art of comedy.

xxpost yes Dan. That one. JERK

Oh god I thought I was the only one who hated Russell Brand! I told a male friend of mine I found him violently unattractive and my friend was all 0_o "how can you say that hes so hot". WTF.

He was great when he hosted BBBM in the '00s. Rubbish outside that microcosm though

Your male friend is straight, right?

As far as I know yeah, but he visualcrushes on ppl like Stipe and Brand for some reason.

STIPE

Oh god.

I wonder who straight guys think is hot. Someone should look into this.

there needs to be a poll

o_O

or not

and dont get me started on wtf Arthur with no booze well then its not fucking arthur then innit aaaaghhhhhh

nu-arthur does have booze though?

http://pbskids.org/arthur/friends/images/rollovers/arthur_home.gif

he's just a child you sickos

but he's not a drunk, it's not a movie about a drunk anymore

but he is though! he swigs rakishly from a flask and goes to AA and everything!

itt: trying not to admit you saw nu-arthur on opening weekend

huh. I am misinformed, lol! But I don't think I could bring myself to ever watch it all the same

Saw posters for that at the weekend, thought "no way, that can't be Russell Brand, no way"

sadly, tis way

Lately I cannot stand the tendency in some people to over-explain their ailments. Instead of "ugh I think I'm getting a cold" they're all "my nose is really dry? But I have all this mucus in the back of my throat that I just can't get rid of? and I haven't been sleeping well, I think it's allergies or something, I don't know it's just ugh, and I can't get rid of this cough....blah blah" like some kind of medical advice call-inshow. Want to just say Gross. Thanks for sharing." Usually I don't say anything...I mean, what am I , a doctor?

Some guy on the train today was... I dont know what he was doing, it sort of sounded like he was checking voice mail on his phone ON SPEAKER PHONE. But then the thing was making weird beepbeep noises, like a SW/walkie radio? He had it to his ear but you could clearly hear the noise coming out - an endlessly droning annoying american male voice with beeps intersperesed. NFI what the cock was doing but it irritated the SHIT out of me for some reason.

Ugh I hate those walkie talkie phones....they were everywhere at Disneyworld when I was there years ago, all thiss BOOOP SHSHSDGK WHERE ARE YOU BOOP IM AT THE CAFETERIA BOOP WHERE BOOP CAFETERIA BOOP TAKE THE BLUE ONE BOOP SHSHSHSHSHSHK

Ugh I hate those walkie talkie phones....they were everywhere at Disneyworld when I was there years ago, all thiss BOOOP SHSHSDGK WHERE ARE YOU BOOP IM AT THE CAFETERIA BOOP WHERE BOOP CAFETERIA BOOP TAKE THE BLUE ONE BOOP SHSHSHSHSHSHK

;_;

Is that what it was? GAH. It was horrible, and loud and everyone on the train was too polite but clearly annoyed.

Ohmigod those Nextel phones are the WORST. And there's some stupid name for calling a person on them, this was before twitter so I forget, but it was tweet or twerp or CHIRP, IT WAS CHIRP, like "Chirp me when you get there" or some shit. The worst.

I used to live on a street corner where tons of people hung out and right above a 24 hr deli, so you know that corner was full of people just getting malt liquor, getting some lucies, yelling at the fathers or mother of their children, CHIRPING all the fucking time. Those phones need to die.