MetaFilter posts tagged with annoying

Causing false public alarm

tkolar — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:53:11 -0800

As those of you on the wrong email lists can probably guess, Snopes is overflowing with gang initiation rumors. What you may not know is that the New Jersey police recently arrested someone spreading those stories for "causing false public alarm." On one hand, I'm having a hard time equating this directly with yelling fire in a crowded theater. On the other hand, I'm not sure I would miss Aunt Betsy if she was deprived of her email privileges.

Annoying Software : A Rogue's Gallery.

Afroblanco — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:17:11 -0800

Annoying Software : A Rogue's Gallery. (single-page version). Software that makes us hate the internet and wish it had never been invented. High on their list : Adobe Reader, Java, RealPlayer, and Flash. #1 - Adobe Reader #2 - Apple #3 - Windows Update #4 - RealPlayer #5 - Java #6 - Yahoo #7 - Norton Antivirus #8 - Preinstalled software bundles #9 - Outlook/Exchange #10 - Flash

Told You So

bwg — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:00:32 -0800

The World's Hardest Game Move the red square into the green zone. Avoid the blue balls or you'll die. And die you shall. A lot.

To help me ease the regret I'm having about attending one of these schools.

Esoquo — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:04:32 -0800

Gawker's Poll for Most Annoying Liberal Arts College.

High Culture vs. Low Culture

fleetmouse — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:01:27 -0800

High Culture vs. Low Culture. Oh, so you guys make techno? via

Mama's got a squeezebox, Daddy never sleeps at night

mr_crash_davis — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:08:51 -0800

Today begins National Accordion Awareness Month. Check out some fun accordion facts, and make sure to polka! polka! polka!. (It was big in Sheboygan).

Getting down with the kids

humblepigeon — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:12:15 -0800

C h i l d p r o d i g i e s. (Just in case you were starting to feeling content with your middle-aged achievements.) [Warning: YouTube-heavy posting] [Warning: Chopin-heavy posting]

Teenager Repellant

fet — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:00:29 -0800

Teenager Repellant. Teenager Repellant. Kids loitering outside of your store? A Welsh inventor has created a device that emits a noise particularly irritating to those under 20 years of age (and no, it's not classical music.)

Coworkers keeping you from the 'filter?

FlamingBore — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:59:22 -0800

The Unspoken Language of the Office. Not to be confused with the BBC or NBC television programs. How to get back to reading MetaFilter as quickly as possible. [via lifehacker]

Annoying Mousequito

alms — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:46:10 -0800

ugh, get away

New Yorkers who suck

vito90 — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 13:08:20 -0800

The New York Press lists the 50 most loathsome New Yorkers. Time to get your hate on! Here's a sample to get you started:#18 Moby Musician IT WAS BAD enough when Moby started singing; now he's singing and talking at the same time. When not crooning school-girl poetry (see "We Are All Made of Stars") or desecrating classic punk songs between hissy fits on stage, the techno prophet cum vegan ethicist of the early 90s is schooling credulous fans on a wide range of contemporary issues. Between lessons in Nicaraguan history and tales of Rummy's early-80s holidays in Baghdad, Moby pontificates in prose that would make even DJ Spooky cringe ("We're so inherently locked into our temporal and corporeal selves that we're irrevocably locked into subjectivity") and Michael Stipe wince ("cos at the end of the day peace is better than war, right?"). We're thankful for "Go" and the car commercial songs on Play, but mister, please put your space helmet back on, get in your space ship and don't stop till you hit Pluto.

catatonic — Sat, 27 Apr 2002 23:46:51 -0800

Am I Annoying or Not? I realize that the whole 'Am I X or Not' is so 1999, but this is actually pretty entertaining. The amount of research is astounding if you consider the massive index that they maintain. As a side note, Jack Osbourne is sitting at 100% annoying.

Su — Tue, 06 Nov 2001 19:58:53 -0800

Now that you've spanked your monkey sore, try tracing the bunny.