What is Your Temper Trigger?

i just hate question marks. they think they're so hot, with the curve and the dot.

smug bastards.

William Haskins said:

i just hate question marks. they think they're so hot, with the curve and the dot.

smug bastards.

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joe, please upload your avatar. i need that pic to engage you in conversation. thanks.

Without a doubt, the thing that is almost guaranteed to send me into a rage is when someone questions my integrity. It doesn't even matter how important the issue at hand is, either. It's almost like they're challenging my right to exist, or at least that's how my brain interprets the action. Weird.

Aww, gee, I'll take a chance on this one Badgering in lieu of honest debating would be mine. There is a difference.

And then questions your very right to either exist or to hold an opinion.

pfft

William Haskins said:

joe, please upload your avatar. i need that pic to engage you in conversation. thanks.

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Better?

thank you, joe.

is it? can't see

Do I have to pick just one??? (hehe)

My pet peeve is hateful posts when there doesn't seem to be any reasoning for it.

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Without a doubt, the thing that is almost guaranteed to send me into a rage is when someone questions my integrity. It doesn't even matter how important the issue at hand is, either.

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Both of these set me off, basically because they both seem unfair, and I HATE unfariness.

Yah, yah, I know. Nobody said life was fair, but it should be dammit!

Jean Marie said:

is it? can't see

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quit yer badgering, jean marie.

William Haskins said:

quit yer badgering, jean marie.

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Oh, lemme take my sunglasses off...nope, not helping

One thing that really irritates me is people who ask for my honest opinion and then argue with me about it to try and get me to change my mind.

I hate it when people don't agree with me. I mean, I'm ALWAYS right

DamaNegra said:

I hate it when people don't agree with me. I mean, I'm ALWAYS right

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Then you and I must agree on everything because I'm always right, too.

Ten percent of people disagree with everything I say. Ten percent of people are idiots. Coincidence? I think not.

Fern said:

What triggers your ire enough to make a "short" reply?

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I wonder whether the sample you took included any posts of mine. Sometimes I post in a hurry and give a brief answer to a question or make a minimal comment. Such posts are short in the literal sense and may be perceived as "short" the other way, too. I tend to keep to facts without the candy coating that socially smooth people apply so well – the demurrals such as "in my humble opinion," the hedges such as "you might consider that possibly...," and all that. Maybe that's why new people think I'm a man.

Some things do trigger my ire, but I try not to reveal it in posts. I end up holding private ire. What are these things? It irritates me when people cite a religious source as an authority on a secular issue; when they ask questions they could have answered for themselves, as you mentioned (hey, folks, get a dictionary and use it); when they give the wrong answer to a question about grammar; when I give the right answer or someone else does and they insist that the wrong way is right; when they say everyone makes grammatical and spelling errors (no, don't assume everyone is like you); when they quote a ten-paragraph post in its entirety, only to reply "I agree."

This is a partial list. I may be back later with more.

reph said:

It irritates me when people cite a religious source as an authority on a secular issue.

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I couldn't agree more! Thank God you said it.

Small mammals that eat the eggs.

I've searched and searched--I just don't have a temper.

Fern said:

My problem is that I have to fight the need to jump in and "smooth" things over. . .even when it isn't remotely any of my business. Sorry, but its a character flaw I have.

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People who butt into a fight and try to smooth things over.