fun ways to annoy people

try one today!

- sing along at the opera.

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

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

- declare your house/flat/room an independent nation, and sue your neighbours upstairs for "violating your airspace."

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

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

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

- 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.

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

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

- 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."

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

- ask people what gender they are.

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

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