Personality Traits You Hate

Originally Posted by MetheGelfling

However, it is annoying when you get some punk who tries to give you the death grip and act all tough. I usually get this from guys who are about 19 for some reason.

Oh my god! I get this all the time too! Don't you usually get a downstare with this as well? I usually get it from that age range too, so I'm starting to think that this is less of a coincidence and more of a fucking strange pattern... :eyebrow:

Originally Posted by Gechmir

A firm handshake is acting tough? Hell, I gauge a fellow on the way he carries himself, the way he works, and also how he shakes a hand. It's a southern thing, in my opinion. A firm handshake shows character. Handshakes are strange customs to many people, oddly enough.

Yeah, I do agree with you. A FIRM handshake is a good character trait. I think what Methe was referring to though, was when you get someone who uses far more force than is required to shake one's hand.

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Also, I tend to hold doors for anyone who's directly behind me. Guy or girl.

HAHA! I hate that shit too! Most of the time I get a courteous "thank you", but there have been times when guys I hold a door open for just give me this horrified look on their face like I tried to jump their bones wearing only a zippered leather mask and holding a 12" black rubber cock in one hand...

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Gechmir

A handshake that makes your hand ache like hell is a firm one in my book =p Common courtesy around here is to squeeze the other person's hand rather hard when shaking. My definition of firm differs I'm afraid ^__^;

True enough. I think it has a lot to do with individual strength too. I know a lot of people who will hurt your hand with a handshake and not know they're doing so. Hey, if that's your handshake and it was firm and sincere in your book then it becomes so for me as well.

What Methe and myself refer to is the people who do it simply to act tough. I don't know how to explain it, but usually the situation lends all the signals for me to know... "OK, this boy wants to act tough. But if he gets out of hand down the line, he's gonna get taken down by a stray fist."

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by AliceNWondrland

...but please don't do it to us women. Our hands are smaller and it really hurts. =/

You've never shaken my mom's hands... She can STILL crush my hand like she was making tortilla mix out of it...

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by AliceNWondrland

(and an Encephalon's mom thing).

What'd you say 'bout my mama? :eyebrow:

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Helloween

If he sees something he doesn't like, he points it out, tells it how he thinks it should be, and then has to endure countless orders to shut up from just about anybody in the room.

Oh my god! I have a friend who does the same shit! It's seriously the most annoying shit and it's sometimes it's rather embarrasing.

For example: Just last week I was at my sister's house working on some price adjustments with my brother-in-law when this guy showed up looking for me. I told him we were almost done and he just hung out with us in the living room in which my sister was also watching Cash Cab. This guy was annoyed that for the "mobile shoutout" portion of the gameshow they were using Cingular Wireless service and his rant went something like this.

Friend: "OF COURSE they're using Cingular. Fucking corporate whores."
Sister: "What's wrong with them using Cingular?"
Friend: "Nothing, but do they HAVE to advertise it?"
Sister: "Well. Sponsors are normal for game shows. Why do you not get mad when they give away a Ford Mustang on Wheel of Fortune?"
Friend: "You're so fucking gullible! Do you really think that this show doesn't make enough money on its own?"
Me: "Shut the fuck up, right now. Don't you ever talk out of line in my sister's house"
Friend: "You guys have no sense of humor! I'm fucking out of here!"
Everyone:

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Helloween

My point is that they've never heard it, so they can't classify it, yet they do anyways.

What the fuck dude? Do you have the same friends as me, or what?

The same friend I mentioned above also does this shit to me ALL the time. For example... A month and a half ago we shot pool at his house (on MY pool table, mind you) and I swear to whatever god you believe in this was our actual conversation.

Me: "Hey, I got this new album by this band called Architecture In Helsinki. Put that on."
Friend: "They suck."
Me: "You've never heard them."
Friend: "Who gives a shit? They suck."
Me: "Why don't you at least give them a spin?"
Friend: "Fuck that, put on Creed again."

Later that week we were in my car listening to the SAME band that sucked and it went like this:

Friend: "Wow! Who's this?"
Me: "Why?"
Friend: "They sound awesome."
Me: "You think so? I thought you said they sucked."
Friend: "I never said that!"
Me: "Dude! You just told me that on Saturday! You wanted to listen to Creed while we were shooting pool!"
Friend: "Well shit! I must have been drunk!"
Me: "Dude... You've been sober since New Year's... "
Friend:

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by PiccoloNamek

There is nothing that I cannot tolerate more than people who are cruel to others, people who hurt others, either physically or emotionally for their own pleasure.

Oh my god... YES! These people are usually the self-absorbed narcissistic pretty boy/girl types who think they're god's gift to the opposite sex (Or same sex, if that's their thing) and treat everyone who they perceive as having "inferior genes" like shit.

I have a few stories about people like this and in one of them a friend of mine nearly disfigured one of these poor saps. Spent 3 days in jail because of it too, but he thought it was worth it, if only to see a broken ego for vindication.

FELIPE NO