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I made a similar thread, years ago!

I know exactly the type! I think they genuinely "don't get it" and are so insecure, that hurting others isn't even a problem for them, long as their insufficient needs are met.

Some people you can appeal to. I've told people that they've hurt my feelings, or that their actions affected me negatively. I've had mixed success with that, but I do it on principal. They need to be held to account, and if they're hostile and defensive, that just shows they know they're in the wrong. It's the indifferent and truly clueless that leave me going "huh?"

For me, you're done if you steal or lie. Automatic out.

Also, disloyalty is a big no-no. I've been good to you, you've acted like a friend, I've trusted you, you thrust a knife in my back, or throw me under the bus: we're done. I don't even give second chances for that, because I've learned, in my sometimes oh so long life, it never changes. They are emotional abusers, and without a real effort, and therapy, they are incapable of change. They're as bad as wife beaters. I'm not kidding!

At the moment, the type of person that irritates me the most is the one who complains about everything and asks me to do their work for them, and then try to make me feel guilty when I tell them no.

I don't like that, either. If I think you're skiving off, and using me to boot, I get annoyed.

My favorite, right now, small irritation, really, we have this wireless printer, but it still needs to be turned on. My husband always says, "babe, could you turn on the printer?" and I jump up and turn it on. He just realized the other day, I have to get up! He still says it though, and I give him the look. biggrin

haha, that's funny. I think it must be a "husband" thing. They want us to take care of them. I don't mind, really, he does all the heavy lifting, I ought to turn on the printer, now and then. blaugh

It does seem stupid, doesn't it? It draws energy, and we use it infrequently, so we keep it off to save hydro.

My last two computers have been Mac. I had a MacBook, and now I have a MacBook Pro. I adore my Mac.

Well, speaking up to Windows OS around 2005 (likely an unfair comparison), I prefer Mac OS-X+ (I have 10.6.7), here are a few things:

I haven't had virus protection software running in my background since I got my first Macbook.
I like that I can preview files without opening them, sizable icons that actually show the contents of a file, and the ability to color code files, and folders.
I like the native software, especially iPhoto, which has a location feature that integrates with my iPhone, and a function called "Faces" that allows me to search my photos by a person's facial features, and automatically suggests more photos to add to each person's folder.
I never have had a crash on my Macbook Pro. On my first Macbook, I had 2 crashes, one was a fatal failure of the harddrive (at around the time you'd expect a laptop HD to crap out).
I have never used startup software to install a device driver. Mac sniffs it out, and says something like, "I smell a wireless mouse, wanna use it?" and then I click yes, and there it is. The same mouse, had a 13 page booklet and installation software, both of which I never used, as it was the Windows component of the package.
Instant multilingualism. I don't have to set up some complicated thing for my toolbar, as I did for Windows, it just already has it, and I click a flag.
Spotlight > Windows search to the power of 10.
OSX is fully featured, you don't have multiple versions depending on the amount you paid for your Win based hardware: the pro version is the home version.
Software install has much fewer steps than Windows.

Also, all my little peripherals, like my phone, MP3 players, are Apple Products, so it all integrates pretty nicely. My non apple products, like my camera and my Garmin merged seamlessly with my OS - never did I feel the familiar, "Good God, what the heck?" moments that I frequently experienced under a Win OS.

I was above average as a Win user, and got my first computer under the DOS/Win 3.0 configuration, and went through every upgrade until Win XP (which hilariously is an appropriate emoticon if you're Bill Gates inflicting this system with it's attendant 8 million updates), so I think I have a good handle on most Windows related operations. smile

I hope you didn't find my answer too tedious/fangirly, but I love my Mac!