Pet Peeves v. u mad?

[PoppyTart]

People who shit roses and rainbows on my Facebook page. Every. Fucking. Day. Bitch we get it, you're blessed and you never have a bad day. You have the, dawww most specialist, fantastical "hubby" in the world You're kids are perfect angels because you squeezed them out of your magical vagina. I call bullshit on anyone who's that damn happy all the time.

 

[gr33n3y3z]

When me and everyone else is sitting in traffic for like an hour, and here comes this asshole motorcyclist just zooming by passing everyone.Like really? Sometime I just want to open my door when they come by...but I like my car. Its so fucking rude.

 

[ebola?]

There's nothing like the smug sense of self-satisfaction you get when doing this on your bicycle though.

ebola

 

[Max Power]

People who I see regularly (or have the opportunity to see regularly) that call me with no purpose. I don't like talking on the phone, you're lucky I answered to begin with. Call me if you want to hang out, ask a favor, if its an emergency.

"So what are you doing..."
"Um, laying around next to my dog."
"Cool."
"Uh-huh"
*awkward 4 second silence before I rush to make something, anything up*
"Yep... My dog is here. Just uh, drank some water and is taking a nap."
"Awesome. Awesome."

No, it's not. What is the purpose of this phone call.

 

[alasdairm]

^ phatic conversation has a number of purposes. generally speaking, the content is less important than the function: bonding; definition of the scope of a relationship; etc.

alasdair

 

[Illyria99]

People who shit roses and rainbows on my Facebook page. Every. Fucking. Day. Bitch we get it, you're blessed and you never have a bad day. You have the, dawww most specialist, fantastical "hubby" in the world You're kids are perfect angels because you squeezed them out of your magical vagina. I call bullshit on anyone who's that damn happy all the time.

And those others who continually write really bad poetry about death and depression...and use vampires as their profile pictures; I really hate those types. For example, stuff like "I want to swallow your heart as it pumps, and drink the bile that is your soul. Glorious death is our wine..."

8)

 

[ebola?]

"So what are you doing..."
"Um, laying around next to my dog."
"Cool."
"Uh-huh"
*awkward 4 second silence before I rush to make something, anything up*
"Yep... My dog is here. Just uh, drank some water and is taking a nap."
"Awesome. Awesome."

Do you reply with stuff like, "So...ummm....er...what are you calling about?" People usually get the hint.

ebola

 

[L2R]

People who I see regularly (or have the opportunity to see regularly) that call me with no purpose. I don't like talking on the phone, you're lucky I answered to begin with. Call me if you want to hang out, ask a favor, if its an emergency.

"So what are you doing..."
"Um, laying around next to my dog."
"Cool."
"Uh-huh"
*awkward 4 second silence before I rush to make something, anything up*
"Yep... My dog is here. Just uh, drank some water and is taking a nap."
"Awesome. Awesome."

No, it's not. What is the purpose of this phone call.

same here. i don't like being on the phone. socialising on the phone comes after both face to face interactions and even the interwebs.

 

[PoppyTart]

And those others who continually write really bad poetry about death and depression...and use vampires as their profile pictures; I really hate those types. For example, stuff like "I want to swallow your heart as it pumps, and drink the bile that is your soul. Glorious death is our wine..."

8)

.

Holy shit, we have waaaay different people on our Facebook I mostly have family who are religious, hence the over happy posts, or various 12 year old nieces, cousins, etc that fill my news feed with middle school drama or encoded text speak. That's annoying too. I know this makes me old, but if your post is a series of letters/symbols/numbers, then kindly post that shit elsewhere. Every time I read it I think youre having a seizure on your keypad and I become concerned. The friends I do have on there are perverts and inappropriate, and of course they're the only reason I havent deleted my account yet. Mixing them in with the family always amuses me.

 

[MikeOekiM]

^ phatic conversation has a number of purposes. generally speaking, the content is less important than the function: bonding; definition of the scope of a relationship; etc.

alasdair

do you do that alasdair?

 

[gr33n3y3z]

When someone keeps talking to you about something, that you simply don't care about. But they keep rambling on anyways. I'm typing this as someone is rambling in my ear right now! Err I don't think she get the point that I could give two shits. Can she even tell I'm not even listen let alone responding?

 

[Max Power]

^ phatic conversation has a number of purposes. generally speaking, the content is less important than the function: bonding; definition of the scope of a relationship; etc.

alasdair

Perhaps it's a generational thing, but I prefer texting and like L2R, online messaging as methods of establishing rapport if you will. Of course, face-to-face trumps all.

Do you reply with stuff like, "So...ummm....er...what are you calling about?" People usually get the hint.

ebola

I just let my awkwardness speak for itself.

Also, it's Guy Incognito.

 

[alasdairm]

do you do that alasdair?

do i engage in phatic conversation? sure.

When someone keeps talking to you about something, that you simply don't care about. But they keep rambling on anyways. I'm typing this as someone is rambling in my ear right now! Err I don't think she get the point that I could give two shits. Can she even tell I'm not even listen let alone responding?

is it that hard to say "i'm sorry. i need to focus right now. would you mind not talking?"

alasdair

 

[_a_A_C_c_]

i agree with l2r and max that i do not enjoy making small talk over the phone. i don't mind texting about whatever, chatting online or talking in person. i am just not a fan of talking on the phone

 

[gr33n3y3z]

do i engage in phatic conversation? sure.
is it that hard to say "i'm sorry. i need to focus right now. would you mind not talking?"

alasdair

True I could have said that. End of rant.

 

[quiet roar]

i agree with l2r and max that i do not enjoy making small talk over the phone. i don't mind texting about whatever, chatting online or talking in person. i am just not a fan of talking on the phone

Me too. Really don't like the phone. I'm hoping that my next job will not require a phone. Maybe even no computer.

 

[ebola?]

I don't like people referring to countries as if they are actors that can accomplish particular acts or worse yet, hold certain views. Nations are abstract symbols that people wield, and states are constellations of institutions. No concrete actor can legitimately claim to be metonymous for the nation or state. I think that anthropomorphizing countries in this way abstracts from the concrete reality of any given political situation and does a disservice to whatever dissent is present in that country, concealing the latter's very existence.

ebola

 

[Fjones]

When me and everyone else is sitting in traffic for like an hour, and here comes this asshole motorcyclist just zooming by passing everyone.Like really? Sometime I just want to open my door when they come by...but I like my car. Its so fucking rude.

I always wondered - if a car suddenly changes lanes (as cars sometimes do in slow moving traffic to get into a relatively faster moving lane) just as a motorcycle goes zooming in between lanes of cars, and the motorcycle gets pancaked, would the driver of the car be blamed at all? I would assume the motorcyclist would be at fault, but I don't know.

I know this is going after the low hanging fruit, but the post office really peeves me.

You can buy insurance on an item you ship. Most of you know that. What you might not know is that ap0parently to make a claim, you need to show a receipt or some other proof of the existence and value of the item lost, if they do lose the package.

Huh? There are multiple things wrong with this.

1. I can just get any receipt lying around my apartment and claim that item was in the lost package.

But more important,

2. That is not how postal insurance should work!!! They are charging a rate based on the percentage of mail that gets lost such that they take in more money from insurance purchased than they pay out for ALL lost items. So, they make money selling insurance even if they just pay out every claim. That is the whole point. The post office probably loses less than 1 out of 200 packages, yet they charge $1.50 to insure a package for $50.00. SO, out of 200 packages mailed and insured for $50.00, they collect $300.00 ($1.50 per package times 200 packages), lose one package and pay out $50.00 on the claim, and profit the $250.00 difference.

What relevance is it whether the item actually was in the package or not? No one can possibly make money by mailing empty boxes and insuring them and hoping the post office loses so many of them that a profit results. In fact, the post office should be ENCOURAGING people to mail empty boxes insured for $50.00. The post office would make a fortune, even after paying out the claims.

 

[Illyria99]

I don't like people referring to countries as if they are actors that can accomplish particular acts or worse yet, hold certain views. Nations are abstract symbols that people wield, and states are constellations of institutions. No concrete actor can legitimately claim to be metonymous for the nation or state. I think that anthropomorphizing countries in this way abstracts from the concrete reality of any given political situation and does a disservice to whatever dissent is present in that country, concealing the latter's very existence.

ebola

I have absolutely no idea what this means.

 

[alasdairm]

True I could have said that. End of rant.

i didn't mean to single you out, or make you feel that you had to defend your peeve. in a sense, pet peeves are often indefensible. it was just an observation.

it's often the case, i find, that people would rather have a problem and be annoyed about it than take a simple action to solve the thing which is causing them frustration which makes the psychology of the whole thing very interesting to me. further, i find a lot of pet peeves are based on ignorance. (not suggesting fo one second that any of this applies to you )

alasdair