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How to be annoying: In lots of easy steps!

  • 05-06-2003 04:43PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 208 ✭✭


    Dont know if this has been posted before...gonna post it anyway!



    How to be annoying:


    - Adjust the tint on your tv so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you "like it that way".

    - Drum on every available surface.

    - Remove every line of someone's .newsrc file except the entry for alt.sex.fetish.hamster.duct-tape.

    - Sing the Batman theme incessantly.

    - Staple papers in the middle of the page.

    - Ask 800 operators for dates.

    - Produce a rental video consisting entirely of dire FBI copy warnings.

    - Sew anti-theft detector strips into people's backpacks.

    - Hide dairy products in inaccessible places.

    - Write the surprise ending to a novel on its first page.

    - Specify that your drive-through order is "to go".

    - Set alarms for random times.

    - Learn Morse code, and have conversations with friends in public consisting entirely of "Beeeep Bip Bip Beeeep Bip..."

    - Buy large quantities of mint dental floss just to lick the flavor off.

    - Order a side of pork rinds with your filet mignon.

    - Instead of Gallo, serve Night Train next Thanksgiving.

    - Leave your Nine Inch Nails tape in Great Uncle Ed's stereo, with the volume properly adjusted.

    - Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a "croaking" noise.

    - Honk and wave to strangers.

    - Dress only in clothes colored Hunter's Orange.

    - Change channels five minutes before the end of every show.

    - Tape pieces of "Sweating to the Oldies" over climactic parts of rental movies.

    - Wear your pants backwards.

    - Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complimentary mints by the cash register.

    - Begin all your sentences with "ooh la la!"

    - Rouse your roommates from slumber each morning with Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music".

    - Leave someone's printer in compressed-italic-cyrillic-landscape mode.

    - Only type in uppercase.

    - only type in lowercase.

    - dont use any punctuation either

    - Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets.

    - Pay for your dinner with pennies.

    - Tie jingle bells to all your clothes.

    - Repeat everything someone says, as a question.

    - Write "X - Buried Treasure" in random spots on all of someone's roadmaps.

    - Inform everyone you meet of your personal Kennedy assasination/UFO/OJ Simpson conspiracy theories.

    - Repeat the following conversation a dozen times: "Do you hear that?" "What?" "Never mind, it's gone now."

    - Light road flares on a birthday cake.

    - Wander around the restaurant, asking other diners for their parsley.

    - Leave tips in Bolivian currency.

    - Demand that everyone address you as "Conquistador".

    - Push all the flat Lego pieces together tightly.

    - At the laundromat, use one dryer for each of your socks.

    - When Christmas carolling, sing "Jingle Bells, Batman smells" until physically restrained.

    - Wear a cape that says "Magnificent One".

    - As much as possible, skip rather than walk.

    - Stand over someone's shoulder, mumbling, as they read.

    - Finish the 99 bottles of beer song.

    - Sing the "This is the song that never ends..." song. (Ya know, Lamb Chops?)

    - Leave your turn signal on for fifty miles.

    - Pretend your mouse is a CB radio, and talk to it.

    - 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.

    - Drive half a block.

    - Name your dog "Dog".

    - Inform others that they exist only in your imagination.

    - Ask people what gender they are.

    - Reply to everything someone says with "that's what YOU think."

    - Lick the filling out of all the Oreos, and place the cookie parts back in the tray.

    - Cultivate a Norwegian accent. If Norwegian, affect a Southern Drawl.

    - Forget the punchline to a long joke, but assure the listener it was a "real hoot".

    - Routinely handcuff yourself to furniture, informing the curious that you don't want to fall off "in case the big one comes".

    - Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they touch with a can of Lysol.

    - Deliberately hum songs that will remain lodged in co-workers' brains, such as "Feliz Navidad", the Archies' "Sugar" or the Mr. Rogers theme song.

    - While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a parakeet.

    - Lie obviously about trivial things such as the time of day.

    - Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.

    - Leave your Christmas lights up and lit until September.

    - Change your name to John Aaaaasmith for the great glory of being first in the phone book. Claim it's a Hawaiian name, and demand that people pronounce each A.

    - Sit in your front yard pointing a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.

    - Chew on pens that you've borrowed.

    - Invent nonsense computer jargon in conversations and see if people play along to avoid the appearance of ignorance.

    - Wear a lot of cologne.

    - Ask to "interface" with someone.

    - Listen to 33rpm records at 45rpm speed, and claim the faster speed is necessary because of your "superior mental processing".

    - Sing along at the opera.

    - Mow your lawn with scissors.

    - At a golf tournament, chant "swing-batatatatatata-suhwing-batter!"

    - Finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance with prophesy".

    - Ask the waitress for an extra seat for your "imaginary friend".

    - Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn't rhyme.

    - Ask your co-workers mysterious questions, and scribble their answers in a notebook. Mutter something about "psychological profiles".

    - Incessantly recite annoying phrases, such as "sticky wicket isn't cricket."

    - Stare at static on the tv and claim you can see a "magic picture".

    - Select the same song on the jukebox fifty times.

    - Scuff your feet on a dry, shaggy carpet and seek out victims.

    - Do not add any inflection to the end of your sentences, producing awkward silences with the impression that you'll be saying more any moment.

    - Never make eye contact.

    - Never break eye contact.

    - Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears.

    - Construct elaborate "crop circles" in your front lawn.

    - Construct your own pretend "tricorder", and "scan" people with it, announcing the results.

    - Give a play-by-play account of a person's every action in a nasal Howard Cossell voice.

    - Holler random numbers while someone is counting.

    - Make appointments for the 31st of September.

    - Invite lots of people to other people's parties.

    - Send fifty copies of this list to everyone you know.

    :D


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,136 ✭✭✭Pugsley


    Been posted a million times before, its a classic list tho, that lego one is so hatefully true :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 228 ✭✭MrB


    - Sew anti-theft detector strips into people's backpacks.

    I always have an attack of paranoia when leaving shops that someone has done this to me!
    Must have a guilty conscience or something
    :ninja:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭Tyrrial


    i'm going to star useing this one,.
    Finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance with prophesy".


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 208 ✭✭TUTS


    Hey Tyrrial,

    I was using that for a few weeks, gets a very good reaction ....
    especially old people ......

    Usual response: eh? .... what? ..... its all the drugs..... who?....true......

    If someone asks ur name, just say its Jesus O' Malley..... im in charge of the Connamara Spanish community. Say this in a south American accent! :D

    I should stop now........ ha ha aha aa haha ..... mixing the meds again..... but the colors are so colorful......

    TuTs.

    :ninja:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25 PacO


    Ammmm. OK.....:ninja:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 208 ✭✭TUTS


    Just to add..... i dont have any (known) mental problems!:rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,322 ✭✭✭Repli


    Sew anti-theft detector strips into people's backpacks.

    LOL we used to do this in Game to random people.. just stick the sticker to their coat or somethin.. it's a great laugh :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭Sauron


    - Drum on every available surface.


    I can't help it I'm a drummer...an obsessive one at that
    :( :ninja:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 292 ✭✭Spenguin


    Hmmm... I think my brother has read this. I've learned the hard way that road flares are not toys.:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭de5p0i1er


    I like, theres always new things to add to this list just can't think of them right now.


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