Seeing people spitting or vomiting really gets to me. It makes me feel like vomiting, myself. Even if it's not in public, but like in a movie or something. This makes me feel bad for people who are similar to me in this aspect when I've lost my lunch in a public place. I have a very sensitive gag reflex and almost *never* make it to a toilet or private area though I try valiantly. And, as said, even spit... there's an episode of The Simpsons where people spit in a a grave and it gathers so much that people have to suck it out so more people can spit in the open grave. It's a joke, meant to be funny, and it is, but it's almost impossible for me to watch.
Something that gets to me online are things on sites and forums for specific things that seem *enormously* out of place. Places like here are casual and people who love to fandom and nerd-out over one thing are going to happily nerd out over other things. People posting characters from videogames that the DGN doesn't cover as their avatar - fine. People putting Dr. Who quotes in their sigs - also peachy-keen. It's when SRS BIZNUZ stuff leaks in that I feel a bit weirded out. I mean, I scroll through a topic about Link x Zelda and suddenly, someone's sparkly animated "Jesus!" sig is in my face, or someone's sig saying "click here to see why I'm offended by the existence of religion." I mean, tinderboxing the Timeline on this forum is one thing, but bringing in stuff that's so charged it makes or breaks a person's human worth in a lot of eyes to a place that's supposed to be about entertainment stuff... I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with it, people are going to be proud of who they are and where they stand, it's just... it weirds me out a little. Maybe it strikes me as an "aggressive tribal display" thing when if I were to go the same routed, I'd just aggressively display my love of Twilight Princess.
This brings me to another I've realized I just don't like seeing *authors* doing in writing. I was reading the Unfortunate Implications wick on TV Tropes yesterday for a book series I have yet to read but have had some interest in and... I was reminded again of why I've been avoiding it. Some of what was said in that Unfortunate Implications wick (right or wrong, I haven't read those particular books yet to judge for myself) reminded me of books I *have* read and have since become very frustrated and annoyed over. A general annoyance with me. An author may have a message - a strong message, lots of opinions about things, and of course "the cream naturally rises to the top and the scum settles to the bottom" is common and natural human thinking that gaurantees we will never have a world in which we all get along, but when the abstract thing the author wants you to agree with/and or hate has *absolutely no one* on the other side painted with sympathy, that gets bothersome for me. I don't like the idea of "there's no room for the honest mistake." Black and white morality is one thing, but even it can be done without black and white insanity. For me, this even applies to very deeply-fantasy things. While I loved The Lord of the Rings, I was *always* annoyed at Tolkien's treatment of the Orcs as "Just bad, born bad/made bad, naturally bad." It makes it easy to cheer for the protagonists killing them in droves, but that's exactly why it bothers me. It gets about ten times worse when your "always bad people" thing has a connection to Reality. I was particularly trigged into remembering the "Left Behind" series which I read a few books of years ago and how the only dilienation between "good" and "evil", "sympathetic" and "unsympathetic" hinged upon the authors' theology and just how unconvincing and frankly frightening it was - if the authors really think of people like that. Even with the "fantasy chaotic evil races" thing, something as basic as The Legend of Zelda has a few "good" monsters now and again.
