You may just be loud or obnoxious, or some other way causing them to have the headache.

And I had no idea that I was one of those obnoxious people you occasionally see weaving in and out of traffic, because it was just that smooth.

It can stifle public debate. That danger underlies the view, still operative in the US, that opinions, however obnoxious, should be freely expressible, so that they can be opposed by counter arguments.

This is for real. And what they do is, up until that time period when they can't strike, they become really obnoxious and awful, and they strike everything in sight it doesn't matter who or what.

That may be true of the war against Al Qaeda it is less obviously correct with regard to the Taliban. Obnoxious as their rule over Afghanistan was, the Taliban did not attack America, and Bush s war against it was not a war of last resort.