The what-pisses-you-off heuristic

By Andrew · April 7, 2009 11:30 pm

This post by Robin, in which he is annoyed that an organization of interior designers has persuaded state legislatures to license their profession (such as it is), and which he is also annoyed that his fellow economists don’t make more of a fuss about such regulations, reminds me of a principle that I heard once (I don’t remember where) that you can really understand someone’s deeper ideology by looking at what pisses him or her off.

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Ways to be Annoying

Ways to be Annoying: "Little things that piss people off.
From Lifes's Little Destruction Book By Charles Sherwood Dane

* Take the hotel towel
* Pay tolls with $100 bills
* Practice the art of limp handshakes
* Tell the ending of movies
* Give little kids clothes for their birthdays
* Leave the toilet seat up
* Take more than 10 items to the express checkout lane
* Turn on your brights for oncoming traffic
* Finish other people's crossword puzzles
* Use the last square of toilet paper
* Tailgate the elderly
* Drum your fingers during other people's presentations
* Blow out other people's birthday candles
* Don't leave a message at the beep
* Leave your supermarket cart on the street or in the middle of the parking lot
* Block the entrances of elevators, buses, and subways
* Eat produce at the market; don't buy it"

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