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General Ways to Annoy People
there are tons of these on bored.com i forget where they are but have fun searching for them
Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions "to keep them tuned up." Insist that Celine Dion is better than the Beatles. Insist that it was Bobby who shot J.R. Insist that your e-mail address be zena_goddess_of_fire@companyname.com Instead of singing 99 bottles of beer on the wall, sing 999,999,999 bottles of beer on the wall! Invent nonsense computer jargon in conversations, and see if people play along to avoid the appearance of ignorance. Invite lots of people to other people's parties. Keep changing the TV channel every two seconds. Learn "Ice Ice Baby" by heart and recite it endlessly. Learn Morse code, and have conversations with friends in public consisting entirely of "Beeeep Bip Bip Beeeep Bip..." Leave lipstick prints on people's cheeks and foreheads. Leave pages in the copier. Leave someone's printer in compressed-italic-landscape mode. Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 99 copies. Leave the outdoor Christmas decorations up until March or April. Leave the toilet seat up Leave tips in Bolivian currency. Leave your Christmas lights up and lit until September. Leave your Metallica CD in Great Uncle Ed's stereo, with the volume properly adjusted. Leave your pantyhose hanging in the shower. Leave your supermarket cart on the street or in the parking lot. Leave your turn signal on for fifty miles. Let doors slam behind you -- in other people's faces. Lick the filling out of all the Oreos, and place the cookie parts back in the tray. Lie obviously about trivial things such as the time of day. Lie to your therapist. Light road flares on a birthday cake. Listen to 33RPM records at 45RPM speed, and claim the faster speed is necessary because of your "superior mental processing." Look at your hand in amazement and say, "Whoa, I never knew I had this!" Loudly recite people's most embarrassing secrets in restaurants. Make appointments for the 31st of September. Make beeping noises when a large person backs up. Make scary faces at babies. Make up nicknames for all your coworkers and refer to them only by these names. "That's a good point, Sparky." "No I'm sorry I'm going to have to disagree with you there, Chachi." (Hmmm, I guess our President has already co-opted this idea!) Move people's bookmarks ahead three pages when they aren't looking. Mow your carpet. (Or preferably somebody else's) Mow your lawn with scissors. Name your dog "Dog." Never break eye contact. Never make eye contact. Occasionally bark in a high-pitched voice. On a hot summer day, ride up and down the road and drench pedestrians with squirt guns. On a night other than Halloween, get a few friends together and dress like Jason from Friday the 13th. Have each of you stand a mile apart on a highway. On buses, attempt to convince the driver to take a really cool short-cut you know. Barter and haggle for your fare. On the public bus, keep asking the driver nervously, "are we there yet?" only type in lowercase. ONLY TYPE IN UPPERCASE. Open umbrellas in crowded hallways. Order a pizza and ask them if they can "please put the crust on top this time" in an exasperated voice. Order a side of pork rinds with your filet mignon. Outloud say "What?" and then answer "Never mind. It's gone now." Page yourself over an intercom, but don't disguise your voice. Pay for your dinner with pennies. Pay tolls with $100 bills Pee in the swimming pool. Phone McDonald's and try to make a reservation for that evening. Phone random numbers and tell them you are holding their daughter hostage. Pick your ear wax and ask if you could use their sleeve to wipe it off. Pinch all the chocolate candies until you find the one you want. Place your shoes on the table. Play the electric guitar very loudly and badly, then when the neighbors ask you to turn it down, play even louder. When they come round to complain again, say, "Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you asked me to turn it up! Plead with the person next to you for the window seat on the plane, and then get up fifteen or twenty times during the course of the flight complaining that you should have taken two spoonsful of "The Pink Stuff". Poke anyone near you and say, "stop violating my personal space." Pose as a client at a bank or other professional institution, and when you are seated in front of their desk, keep rearranging the items on top into different patterns and tell them you are "just reorganizing things." Practice making fax and modem noises. Practice the art of limp handshakes Press the "power" button on on someone's computer or keyboard when they're almost finished typing up a long essay, story etc. Apologize sincerely, claiming that you thought it was the focus adjustment. Pretend you are invisible. Pretend you have gone completely deaf. Pretend your computers mouse is a CB radio, and talk to it. Pretend your mouse is a CB radio, and talk into it. Pretend you're listening. Produce a rental video consisting entirely of FBI copyright warnings. Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a "croaking" noise. Push all the flat Lego pieces together tightly. Put a title like Senator or Doctor before your name when making dinner and hotel reservations. Put decaf in the coffeemaker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso. Put everyone on speakerphone. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it 'IN'. Race the old woman for the last bus seat. Rain on someone's parade. Read over other people's shoulders on the bus. Rearrange the keys on associates' keyboards to spell unflattering things about their mothers. Recite every song from the Playstation games PaRappa the Rapper and Um Jammer Lammy. Recite Shakespearian poetry to everyone you meet. Recite the first 100 decimal places of Pi. Then ask if people want to hear it in binary, too. Remove single socks from laundry machines at public laundromats. Replace them bright red scarves which are especially prone to bleeding. Repeat everything someone says as a question. Repeat the following conversation a dozen times: "Do you hear that?", "What?", "Never mind, it's gone now." Reply to everything someone says with "that's what YOU think." Ride a unicycle to work. Ride on the shoulder until you pass all the jammed traffic; then cut in. Run around holding your elbows and asking people to please take the straightjacket off you. Run through the halls of your office building or school with your arms outstretched, making airplane noises. Periodically crash into pedestrians and lose a wing. Spiral to a crash and repeat. Sample every flavor of ice cream and tell the clerk what you don't like about each one. Say to people, "Did you wear deodorant today?" Scuff your feet on a dry, shaggy carpet and seek out victims. Secretly learn to play the piano, then go to a friend's house who has a piano. Claim you've never played before then play Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring perfectly the first time. Then say, "I guess I must kinda be a natural." See if you can be the first one off the plane, even if you are sitting by the window. Select the same song on the jukebox fifty times. Send e-mail to the rest of the company to tell them what you're doing. For example: 'If anyone needs me, I'll be in the bathroom." Send e-mail to yourself engaging yourself in an intelligent debate about the direction of one of your agency's programs. Forward the mail to a co-worker and ask her to settle the disagreement. Send emails to listserv when nobody else can Send people annoying chain forwards with outrageous consequences like "If you don't send this to 300 people in 4 seconds you will die instantly" and then insist that it is true and it happened to your uncle. Serve corn on the cob to people with dentures. Serve TV dinners, wine coolers, and Twinkies on Thanksgiving. Set alarms for random times. Shake with your left hand. Sharpen All your pencils to the same size EXACTLY. Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears. Sing along at the opera. Sing the "This is the song that never ends" song from Lampchop's Play-Along. Sing the Batman theme incessantly. Sit in the home bleachers and cheer for the other team. Slap people and tell them to stop grabbing your a**. Smell smoke often and announce it. Snap your gum. Sniffle incessantly. Speak in a strong Welsh accent. Speak so quietly that people always have to get you to repeat it. Specify that your drive-through order is "to go." Spend all day at a fast food restaurant and see how long it takes before you have to pay for your "free" refills. Spend an entire weekend pretending you are R2-D2. Spread fertilizer on half your neighbor's lawn. Squeeze the toothpaste from the top, and while you're at it, leave the cap off. Stand on a busy corner. Gasp, look and point up. See how many people look. Stand over someone's shoulder, mumbling as they read. Staple papers in the middle of the page. Stare at people for about five minutes, making sure they know you're staring at them. Then, slowly sneak up to them while humming the Mission: Impossible theme. Sniff their head, then run away. Repeat. Stare at static on the TV and claim you can see a "magic picture." Start each meal by conspicuously licking all your food, and announce that this is so no one will "swipe your grub." Start to build a Star Destroyer. Build a mock-up out of popsicle sticks. Step on the back of the shoe of the person in front of you. Step on the heels of the person in front of you, and ask them to watch where they're going. Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets. Surprise old friend's by visiting them at 3AM "to discuss old times". Switch your neighbor's lawn furniture with someone else's. Tailgate the elderly. Take more than 10 items to the express checkout lane Take off the eraser to every pencil in your house, or better yet, someone else's house. Take photos of people walking down the street and then run away. Tap someone on the shoulder repeatedly. Tape a blank piece of typing paper to your dorm or office door and leave it up for ages; when someone finally writes on it, yell at them and tell them to please not deface your property. Tape pieces of "Sweating to the Oldies" over climatic parts of rental movies. Tell everyone you are Bill Clinton's cousin. Tell little children the truth about Santa Claus. Tell people that they're "putting on weight nicely." Tell people their accent isn't fooling anyone. Tell people their fly is down when they're wearing sweatpants. Tell people they have bad breath. Tell small children that they don't look very promising. Tell teenagers how things were in your day. Tell the ending of movies Throw an Oh Henry in a public pool. Throw newspapers back at paperboys. Throw stones at people walking past your house. Tie jingle bells to all your clothes. Touch strangers. Try playing the William Tell Overture by tapping on the bottom of your chin. When nearly done, announce "No, wait, I messed it up," and repeat. Try to fit the word "cornucopia" into every sentence you say. Unbend all the paperclips you can find, then replace every eraser you can find with a rubber band. Use the last square of toilet paper and do not change the roll. Vacuum your lawn. (Or preferably somebody else's) Wait until you get to work to shave. Walk around at the casino, looking at people's hands and giving them advice loudly. "Wow, that's a GOOD one!" or "Get rid of the nine; you've got a pair of kings!" Walk into people's houses, go straight to the fridge without saying hello, and help yourself to their food. Walk up to random people and ask them, very seriously, "Do you know the muffin man?" Walk up to random strangers insisting you are family. Walk up to someone eating. Lean over and stare at them intently until they notice. Continue to do so until they ask what you're doing. Reply, "I've been watching you eat for the last 30 seconds.. You're weird!" Leave the restaurant. Walk very slowly, and make sure nobody can get past you, move in front of them when the try. Wander around a restaurant, asking other diners for their parsley. Wash and scrub the trees in your front lawn. Wear a cape that says "Magnificent One." Wear a lotof cologne. Wear a special hip holster for your remote control. Wear alarming combinations of pink and green and comment about everybody else's fashion sense. Wear large hats during the movies. Wear nothing but white and go mud wrestling. Wear odd shoes. Wear your cap backwards and say "Yo, wazzup?" a lot. Wear your pants backwards. When a cop pulls you over, when they step up to your car, drive forward slowly and make them walk. Especially if it's raining. When at an ATM, try to have a conversation with it, or pretend it stole your card. (This works best if there's a line.) When at dinner at a fancy restaurant, keep blowing out the candle in the middle of the table, and blame it on your date. When Christmas caroling, sing "Jingle bells, Batman smells" until physically restrained. When giving directions, leave out a turn or two. When in a chat room, spell everything incorrectly. When in a conversation, look out the window, then say "Wait, start over. I wasn't paying attention." When in an elevator, in different voices, shout out random floors, and then watch as you get there, no one gets off. When in public, pretend you are selling something in an infomercial. When it says, "Reserved Parking", this means you. When people ask you to do things, mutter under your breath, "This won't be neccessary where you are going." When riding up an elevator with a stranger, start singing a song that everyone knows, then expect them to start singing too. If they do not start singing, insist, “Everyone knows that song. Are you stupid?” When standing near a "high-class person," ask them, "Excuse me, but do I have a booger hanging on my nose? I thought I picked it off." When talking to someone, look at a spot about two inches to their right. When walking down a main road, act like a drunk. When walking push an invisible cart and make loud squeaky noises. When walking, talk to yourself constantly. When you're in an argument, no matter what it's about, keep yelling "I don't see your name on it!". Whenever anybody says anything to you. Respond by saying, "I know." Whenever anyone says something, laugh loudly as if they have just told and extremely funny joke. Whenever somebody says something, ask what the simplest word they said means. When they explain, ask what the simplest word in their explanation means. Repeat this for the entire conversation. Whenever someone finishes a sentence say, "And then what happened?" Whenever someone lights a cigarette, tackle the person and yell "Stop, drop, and roll!" While driving if you see a "How am I driving" bumper sticker, call the number and inform the operator that the driver is doing a great job. While going down in an elevator scream, "AAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!! WE'RE GONNA DIE!!!" for no apparent reason. While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a parakeet. While sitting at your desk, soak your fingers in Palmolive and put mosquito netting around your cubicle. While walking make car noises loudly (Such as changing gears). Wire up people's cars so the horn comes on as soon as their car is started. Write "X - BURIED TREASURE" in random spots on all of someone's roadmaps. Write the surprise ending to a novel on its first page.
Raechu · Fri Mar 23, 2007 @ 03:37pm · 1 Comments |
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