Shit that annoys you

[The AD]

I took a walk last night through my neighborhood and was impressed with the amount of tacky Halloween shit people have out.

[pfluffenmeister]

I took a walk last night through my neighborhood and was impressed with the amount of tacky Halloween shit people have out.

Don't you mean still have out?

HD says it's Christmas season Bro.

[The AD]

Don't you mean still have out?

HD says it's Christmas season Bro.

I guess they bought the Halloween shit last month to make sure they had it before the HD switchover. To be honest I was amazed people had Halloween decorations up a full three weeks before Halloween. Remember the good old days when a couple jack-o-lanterns was sufficient?

[Meadow Skipper]

Remember the good old days when a couple jack-o-lanterns was sufficient?

Like back when Halloween was only for kids?

[muted reborn]

Like back when Halloween was only for kids?

That started in the 50's and ruined the holiday IMO. Can we take it back hundreds of years to the Samhain celebration and make it for pagan adults again? I want big Samghnagan bonfires with friends, cattle sacrificed, chats with dead grandparents, pies left on windowsills for the dead, death sentences for anyone committing a crime during the festival, some heavy drinking and lotsa feasts. I want to feast! Let's welcome the darker half of the year aka ski season with gluttony and alcoholism like our relatives did.

[rideit]

My birthday is Halloween, and I have always had mixed feelings about it. I appreciate the festivity, and general good will among neighbors. But the commercialism is gross.
I don’t love putting up and taking the crap down, but we do it as a family.
I will say, I have seen some epic concerts on my birthday!

[halliday]

That started in the 50's and ruined the holiday IMO. Can we take it back hundreds of years to the Samhain celebration and make it for pagan adults again? I want big Samghnagan bonfires with friends, cattle sacrificed, chats with dead grandparents, pies left on windowsills for the dead, death sentences for anyone committing a crime during the festival, some heavy drinking and lotsa feasts. I want to feast! Let's welcome the darker half of the year aka ski season with gluttony and alcoholism like our relatives did.

That sounds like a lot of fun. I'll supply the cattle and pies.

[gravitylover]

My birthday is Halloween, and I have always had mixed feelings about it. I appreciate the festivity, and general good will among neighbors. But the commercialism is gross.
I don’t love putting up and taking the crap down, but we do it as a family.
I will say, I have seen some epic concerts on my birthday!

10/31/86 at the Kaiser was a top 10 for me.

It's annoying when the house gets down to 60° and you go to kick the heat on and the furnace won't fire.

[skaredshtles]

My dad keeps sending me Medium articles even though I don't subscribe and can't read them (which I've told him). Today I reminded him I couldn't read an article he sent and he screenshotted it (on his phone) and texted it to me as a series of like a dozen screenshots. Trying to think of a nice way to say that I _could_ read it that way but I really don't want to.

https://archive.ph/

[skaredshtles]

https://archive.ph/

Tell *him* to stick the URL in and send you the archive.ph link.

At a minimum it will keep him busy for awhile trying to figure it out.

[The AD]

My birthday is Halloween, and I have always had mixed feelings about it. I appreciate the festivity, and general good will among neighbors. But the commercialism is gross.
I don’t love putting up and taking the crap down, but we do it as a family.
I will say, I have seen some epic concerts on my birthday!

Agreed. The family fun is cool. The partying is cool. Eight foot inflatables spiders on your front lawn? A bit over the top.

[heckacali]

Why would home Depot carry so much of it if we're not supposed to buy it and put it up?!?!?

[TStriker]

Halloween: the day kids put on masks, and adults take theirs off.

[old goat]

My wife took boxes of Halloween crap to the thrift last week. Bless her heart.
She can keep the uber-tacky Xmas stuff tho, because it pisses off the asshole neighbors. People in our neighborhood are very big on tasteful. We're not.

[zion zig zag]

My Halloween annoyance is when people hang dummies up swinging from a noose. I’m a relatively well adjusted individual but that shit triggers me, I hesitate to call it PTSD, but I have some type of response to it. I can’t imagine someone putting a dummy in a chair with its head blown off and a pistol in its lap, or mommy laying in the driveway with an empty bottle of pills next to her, it just seems weird to me. Have fun and decorate however you want but understand it’s not the most awesome thing to see for a lot of people.

[zion zig zag]

Ok, but real talk, cluster flies annoy me. I’ve spent hours caulking every crack I can find and applying poison inside and out, but those little fuckers still find their way in. At least they all die quickly now, but this time of year I vacuum up a pile of them every afternoon at the bottom of a few of my windows.

[gravitylover]

I forgot this annoying episode. During that really active northern light show Thursday night I went up to the top of the hill I live on to where it's an open north view. I wasn't the only one, there were 10 or more cars and people walking around. I guess this bothered people and the houses we were looking over started turning on all their lights then started flashing them fukkers

[old goat]

I forgot this annoying episode. During that really active northern light show Thursday night I went up to the top of the hill I live on to where it's an open north view. I wasn't the only one, there were 10 or more cars and people walking around. I guess this bothered people and the houses we were looking over started turning on all their lights then started flashing them fukkers

Time to aim high beams in their front windows.,

[Buzzworthy]

I forgot this annoying episode. During that really active northern light show Thursday night I went up to the top of the hill I live on to where it's an open north view. I wasn't the only one, there were 10 or more cars and people walking around. I guess this bothered people and the houses we were looking over started turning on all their lights then started flashing them fukkers

For some this was a bucket list kind of a night and then they go and do this? I’m really not of fan of people lately.

[gravitylover]

I’m really not of fan of people lately.

My wife and I say something similar at least once a day.

[ötzi]

The blisterpack on Energizer CR3022 batteries. JFC. It's a wonder I'm not bleeding right now.

[jackstraw]

The blisterpack on Energizer CR3022 batteries. JFC. It's a wonder I'm not bleeding right now.

And if I was bleeding opening the damn band-aid package whilst bleeding always annoys me...but I know it just my stupidity.

[skaredshtles]

Getting back from a five day backpacking trip in the Grand Canyon and wife tests + for the 'VID.

At least she didn't come down with it just before...

[PB]

Very Important Disease syndrome?????
That's not good; hoping you mean something more specific? Like the 'vid?

[old goat]

I think he meant VD