Things that harsh your buzz.

[LivingInSpin]

^^^ Speaking of rude people, walked into a public restroom that had 2 overflowing crappers and three undivided urinals.

The guy who entered the restroom at the same time as me, but right in front of me, walks directly to the center urinal and proceeds to use it. No one else in the restroom but us.

I guess some folks haven't heard of restroom etiquette.

 

[Vicki]

^^^ Speaking of rude people, I was vaked out of my gourd the other day and walked into a public restroom that had 2 overflowing crappers and three undivided urinals.

The guy who entered the restroom at the same time as me, but right in front of me, walks directly to the center urinal and proceeds to use it. No one else in the restroom but us.

I guess some folks haven't heard of restroom etiquette.

A lot of people only think about themselves.

 

[hereatlast]

-Drivers that are not considerate of cyclists and don't realize its the law to share the road or simply don't care.
-Flat tires.
-Not having healthy snacks around when the munchies hit hard. This might be an actual physiological buzz-kill but junk-food is a major no-no for me when I can help it.
-The laundry buzzer.
-Bank-account alerts.
-(already mentioned) Unexpected guests. Especially living in an apartment, a knock on the door usually has me scrambling and wondering who the hell is in my building and/or what another resident needs (as I act as a liaison to the property-owner).
-Inconsiderate (read: loud) neighbors.

Those top my list. Luckily I'm often able to fend off most of them. Running out of material is a big one that I haven't let happen to me in quite some time.

 

[SmokingElectricity]

people in general
cops
my girls folks
my folks
PSN being down for 2 weeks [anyone else notice this happened on 4/20?]
long lines at the supermarket
christmas shopping
lag while watching streaming porn.

 

[LivingInSpin]

-Drivers that are not considerate of cyclists and don't realize its the law to share the road or simply don't care.

This is a killer for me. Both on the bike and in the passenger seat of the offending car. This can kill a buzz.

 

[colly]

Especially if they drive hybrids. I almost shit myself once, prius zoomed up past me and I didn't hear a thing except the 'WOOSH!'. Uncomfortably close, too.

 

[Carbon]

people in general
PSN being down for 2 weeks [anyone else notice this happened on 4/20?]

They had some hacking issues and shut down the network to work on it IIRC.

 

[colly]

Yeah PSN has been harshing my buzz for about a week and a half!! trying to play Portal 2 co-op and the damn network has been down for 2 weeks!

 

[wilf789]

To be fair cyclists can be just as annoying to pedestrians as the cyclists find cars. Especially if you live in a city with huge amounts of them. For example when cyclists seem to think that road laws don't apply to them (i.e. not stopping at a red light when pedestrians are crossing, then ringing their gay little bell when they almost crash into us) or when they use the pavement/sidewalk instead, forcing us to move out of the way.

Relates to harshing your buzz most obviously in Amsterdam - possibly the most dangerous city to cross a street in in the world! Trams, cars, and cyclists galore - all traversing pathways that aren't easily identifiable as either sidewalks or streets, and all when you're wandering about more spaced out than Neil Armstrong ever was...

Don't get me wrong I like cycling, but sometimes it seems as if cyclists take our their frustration with drivers on us poor pedestrians!

 

[djonkoman]

as a cyclist I find the race-cyclists annoying, they always expect you to go out of their way while they make no room whatsoever and if you make them only go a little out of their way while you just went a lot out of yours they ring their bell and look at you as of you're doing something wrong

but traffic fir bikes is pretty well organised here, here in the netherlands almost everyone rides a bike so we have seperate bicycle lanes along most roads and a lot of seperate bicycle paths, and traffic lights specfic for cyclists
last time I've been in amsterdam is a long time ago so I wouldn't really know about the traffic there but I can imagine that it is kind of organised, but you probably didn't knew what what lane was?
trams go just over the street in their rail, for pedestrians there's the sidewalk and for bikes a brown lane, sometimes red, a red bicycle lane on a crossroad means bicycles have priority over cars there

last week I was in rome and there the traffic os also busy, but still very easy to cross, since italians seem to ignore all traffic rues so you just don't look and cross the street, the cars are used to that and will stop for you
the difficulty in amsterdam is maybe that we dutch are more used to keeping to traffic rules? so when it's busy that means no one will stop unless they have to for a traffic light for example

 

[Purpl3_Haz3]

people in general
PSN being down for 2 weeks [anyone else notice this happened on 4/20?]

They had some hacking issues and shut down the network to work on it IIRC.

Yeah, this isn't a huge one for me, as i don't do much psn related stuff, except Netflix. But it works without the psn, just means i have to try to sign in unsuccessfully three or four times before Netflix loads....

Another thing that harshes my buzz is receiving 'mass text messages'. The ones that people type and send to everyone in the phone book. I had to shut my phone off last night, because everyone i know, felt like I needed to know that bin laden died. Which i saw on tv, and online....

 

[pakalolo]

It seems we're diverging from harshing your buzz to things that piss you off in general.

Here's a real buzz harsher: finding your Extreme whip on the floor, elbow cracked in two pieces, half of the elbow locked tight to the cyclone bowl, and cyclone bowl locked tight to the heater cover.

At first I thought the heater cover had shattered, but when I took the Extreme apart the cover is still intact. I have no idea why this happened. I turned it off and left it last night the same way I always have. I've separated the heater cover and the cyclone but I think the remains of the elbow will never let go of the cyclone.

 

[Stu]

Damn..... that sucks pakalolo. How the hell did that happen?

 

[Gunky]

I get a splendid buzz going. The guitar is in great tune, I am beginning to really get going and am surprising myself with some cool stuff I'm laying down, and then somebody interrupts and there's no way to continue. I know, you have to go with it but.

 

[charliedontsurf]

Cyclists, in my experience, are often far more inconsiderate than motorists. They have 3 feet of bike lane, but ride all the way over on the left. They don't think red lights or stop signs apply to them. They go FLYING through crosswalks and give you dirty looks when you slam violently on your brakes, possibly being rear ended, coming within inches of ending their miserable, idiotic lives. Maybe I'm bitter? This has happened multiple times to me, since my daily commutes go by many popular biking trails. Cyclists can be incredibly rude and marvelously stupid - it's as if they WANTED you to hit them.

When I was a kid (teenager, rather) on a bike, I always yielded to cars, always rode all the way over to the right, and did my best not to die. Even if it was my hypothetical right to ride in the fast line in a 50 MPH road while I can only go 25 MPH, it still isn't terribly conducive to living to procreational age. I stayed the F out of the street just because I wanted to live, and it was safer.

I know there are probably 9 responsible cyclists for every irresonsible one, I'm just bitter about something else right now.. What is harshing my buzz really is false advertising and misleading statements, not by a company, but by an individual I thought I had nothing to fear from.

 

[Ostara]

-Drivers that are not considerate of cyclists and don't realize its the law to share the road or simply don't care.

-Not having healthy snacks around when the munchies hit hard. This might be an actual physiological buzz-kill but junk-food is a major no-no for me when I can help it.

I loathe inconsiderate drivers.

I always ALWAYS have a bag of Cuties on me when I have the munchies.

~My sister-in-law
~My mother calling me (which she happened to do as I'm typing this.)
~My husband being a jerk
~When it's too hot to be outside admiring mother nature
~Solicitors, religious or otherwise

 

[pakalolo]

Damn..... that sucks pakalolo. How the hell did that happen?

I wish I knew so I could make sure it doesn't happen again. I tried to separate the cyclone and elbow remains this morning. Bottom line: I'm down a cyclone bowl, an elbow, and associated screens, plus a half-cashed load. Fortunately I had backups on hand, but now I'm out of backups.

 

[Deadhead101]

I get a splendid buzz going. The guitar is in great tune, I am beginning to really get going and am surprising myself with some cool stuff I'm laying down, and then somebody interrupts and there's no way to continue. I know, you have to go with it but.

I can't stand when that happens. I get properly medicated and ready to jam out, and all of the sudden someone ruins the session.

Bees also harsh my buzz. I'll be outside soaking up some rays with the headphones on and then bees have to come and piss me off. I try to ignore them but they just make me so uncomfortable. I swear there must be multiple nests all around my house.

 

[WatTyler]

^ man bees are cool. I love 'em. Little critters are crucial for something like 35% of our global food production. We'd be truly fckd without them.

And they make honey, and I eat honey.

Wasps though. I dunno if you get the same ones elsewhere in the world, but everything bad about the bee (a sting), with a worse temper (multiple stings, for looking the wrong way), and a greater affinity for sugar (the fuckers can try and get in your mouth if your eating something sweet) and greater tenacity (they won't give up), but none of the wider benefits of bees. Aggressive and bring little demonstrably good to the world. And their color is that bit brighter and more alarming than a bee, especially if stoned. They certainly harsh my buzz.

In fact, add all animals that eat me to that list. The very concept of being fed upon can really freak me out- mosquitos and leeches are the main two that can send me mental. It's even worse if I'm stoned, and the presence of one of these 'people predators' can leave my skin feeling like it's crawling with diners.

 

[Deadhead101]

^Good point about the bees. I'll try to remember how much we benefit from them the next time theyre buzzin around. Wasps do appear worse. I've never been stung by either so I think that makes me more scared by 'em.

Due to mosquitoes and bugs I always carry around some pure deet with me. It's very effective but not so good for the skin. I wonder if deet deters ticks, cause they've been annoying me lately.
EDIT

 

[LivingInSpin]

Damn I hate wasps. They will sting several times very quickly. Always when you least expect it.

They do work that is beneficial though. Some wasps eat other bugs.

 

[djonkoman]

I've never been stung by a bee, and love bees
but indeed wasps are a different story, I truly hate them, have been stung multiple times by wasps as a child

one time a wasp that flew into my shirt itself and then gets pissed because it can't get out
bees die after one sting so they won't sting fast, only if their hive is threatened

 

[pakalolo]

Due to misquotes and bugs I always carry around some pure feet with me. It's very effective but not so good for the skin. I wonder if deet deters ticks, cause they've been annoying me lately.

I didn't understand that first sentence until I read the rest of the paragraph, then it cracked me up. For the record, a) the above is not a misquote, and b) my feet might not always be pure but I never go anywhere without them.

Concerning bees: if you encounter the African variant, commonly called by our sober rational media the "KILLER bee", your chances of being stung are pretty good. The more common native bee, on the other hand, is a non-threatening hard worker, and almost never stings unless aggravated. In my experience, you can even swat a honeybee (but don't) and it won't retaliate. Remain calm around native bees and you are safe, even if it lands on you. How can you tell the African bees? Well, they'd be the ones chasing and stinging you.

 

[djonkoman]

luckily I don't think we have african bees here, haven't heard much about them at least, the only things I've heard about them was from america

 

[jimbo]

Running out of butane for my torch kind of harshed my buzz today, I was really
looking forward to using the SV today....