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Pet Peeves ver. Fjones vs Redleader

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stoned griping ahead.

Auto experts. People who are experts at everything. Anyone has the potential to briefly become an auto-expert.

Auto experts are people who are getting into a new hobby, music style, or virtually any area of interest, and know everything about the subject a day after applying the title of "___ist" to themselves. Maybe these people have devoted their past 48 hours learning about that interest. Maybe they know every damn thing there is to know about this hobby. But they fail to realize that all that knowledge is worthless without a solid foundation of dedicated experience.

Auto experts often feel the need to point out what they think others are doing wrong, and what they think should be done to solve the imaginary 'problem'. It doesn't matter that this person has been participating in this activity for years and years, or that this person knows all the tricks and 'by the book' techniques of the trade, as well as having applied their own methods learned from by personal experience.

Kindly accepting the advice of an auto expert is not enough. No. The well versed and experienced auto expert will go so far as to correct the problem their self, without first notifying their wisened counterpart.

For example. Lets say I've been setting up and maintaining aquariums for 10 years. And after being into aquariums for the past 3 months, my room mate develops this compulsive little niche in his mind that I'm just not feeding my fish enough. He read this, and that. He knows so and so and talks to blah blah blah. So one morning roommate decides to start feeding what he feels is the correct amount of food. After a few weeks of this, my prize lion fish is found floating upside down.

Yeaaaa. Thanks man. You rock. While you're at it, take a peak at my sketch book and please make change as you see fit. In fact, don't be shy at all, barge in my room while I'm fucking my girfriend and tell me what I'm doing wrong. Go ahead and take over! Thanks. I really appreciate that! No not really. get the fuck away. kick rocks. bye.

I find auto experts have a hard time remaining attached to anything for long. They hopelessly jump from distraction too distraction, and after realizing the effort required to put in for any results is not worth it. They do this for the rest of their lives, and then blame everyone else in the world for their inabilities.






People who only call you when they need to bitch about current events in their lives. They immediately ask you a question, feining some interst in your life. You reply, "Oh wow, haven't heard from you in a while, yea i've been blahblah....." They might even ask you if you missed them! How pleasant. Then they cut you off, or immediately start a new conversation. "fucking mother fuckers that did this and that. i can't believe she said this and he did that and blah blah blah dramarama." Oh cool, nice to here from ya. so what's GOOD. in your life. Dont get me wrong, I like listening to people, and being there for them. But if these are the only times you're gonna contact me, I don't really give a fuck about your petty workplace political struggles.
It's pretty much what I'm doing now, only that is the purpose of this thread.haha.

These people are notorious for ignoring your attempts to contact them, but conveniently dropping by when they need you to watch over their dog for the weekend, or need a hookup. They also have the mysteriously telepathic ability to contact you while you're sleeping.


ahhh now that was a good rant. that really made my high take a uturn. enough negativity for now. :)
 
umm. He killed your fish. He needs to compensate you. being an "auto-expert" (I hyphenated it to distinguish from someone who is good with cars) is fine, as long as no on gets hurt. But he had no right to touch your property, especially without telling you.

If someone did that to me there would be hell to pay.
 
I am peeved on his behalf. I am being peeved vicariously through him.

Ok, my own pet peeves --

Similar to what Redleader said a few days ago, you are trying to make a left turn not at a light. But now some jackass is also entering this road near you such that he has right of way when he does. It is FINALLY clear for me to go, but this fucking jerkoff needs to look each way 14 times and then "Accelerate" at approximately 5 microns per second, such that by the time I am go, more traffic is coming.

Also, sometimes I am the first car at a green light. I am Itching to go, ready to let the clutch out and proceed. Traffic coming toward me in the other direction starts moving, but we still have a red!? Why? It is not a busy intersection, and there is no reason for opposing left-turning cars to ever have an arrow, yet they do, and it is one of those 30 second ones, so we just sit here while these imaginary fucking cars are turning left with their fucking pointless green arrow. AAAAAAARGH!

sometimes you are really looking forward to a certain food out. It is a favorite. Then, they fuck it up for some reason and it is terrible. TERRIBLE!

my favorite fries tonight were just awful. Should I have said something? I didn't, but I should have. They probably would have given me new ones or a coupon or something.
 
^ Manual driving, that's the real stuff.

I agree: useless green arrows for the other side piss me off. Now another car pet peeves: people you're following who make an unexpected left turn to a parking lot or anything that is NOT an intersection and don't even signal it beforehand, which means you're stuck right behind this jackass -- who by the way almost made you wreck his ass when he stopped -- waiting that the cars in the other direction pass, looking in the lane to your right where, of course, all the cars go, meaning you can't go there yourself, until that dude can finally make his fucking turn.

In fact, people who do not use their blinker tend to make me really angry.
 
^^^ here is a related one that makes me want to go insane. Everything as you said, except the traffic in the adjacent right lane FINALLY stops and you can go around the left-turning jackass, BUT, just as you do, the guy BEHIND you in your lane suddenly swoops out to make the pass himself, nearly causing an accident! This is guaranteed to happen at least half the time.
 
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^ Manual driving, that's the real stuff.

I agree: useless green arrows for the other side piss me off. Now another car pet peeves: people you're following who make an unexpected left turn to a parking lot or anything that is NOT an intersection and don't even signal it beforehand, which means you're stuck right behind this jackass -- who by the way almost made you wreck his ass when he stopped -- waiting that the cars in the other direction pass, looking in the lane to your right where, of course, all the cars go, meaning you can't go there yourself, until that dude can finally make his fucking turn.

In fact, people who do not use their blinker tend to make me really angry.

I want to hit motherfuckers who do this.

In regards to the turning left issue-- when you're trying to turn left but its no arrow so you're waiting; you've been waiting a long ass time and finally it looks like you can turn, until some asshole sees this and SPEEDS UP as much as he can to make sure you CAN'T turn. :!

I swear, people freak out when you just might get a little bit ahead of them...
 
^^^ here is a related one that makes me want to go insane. Everything as you said, except the traffic in the adjacent right lane FINALLY stops and you can go around the left-turning jackass, BUT, just as you do, the guy BEHIND you in your lane suddenly swoops out to make the pass himself, nearly causing an accident! This is guaranteed to happen at least half the time.

Hahaha yeah these are the worse human beings. I only want to chase them with my car, with half my body out the window, raising a crowbar while screaming insults, until I can catch up with the asshole, pull him out of his car and let my anger express itself ;)

I want to hit motherfuckers who do this.

In regards to the turning left issue-- when you're trying to turn left but its no arrow so you're waiting; you've been waiting a long ass time and finally it looks like you can turn, until some asshole sees this and SPEEDS UP as much as he can to make sure you CAN'T turn. :!

I swear, people freak out when you just might get a little bit ahead of them...

Absolutely. I only hope one time one of them will actually crash the left-turning car, get trough their windshield and become paraplegic, meaning they wouldn't be able to drive anymore. Of course, the left-turning caracther of this story would have to remain unharmed.
 
People who think they're soooo smart when they're really just average. Why does everyone think they're a genius? 8(

I know, what the hell? People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of who do!

Sorry, I know that was lame. I couldn't resist. I hadn't met my hackneyed recycled self-aggrandizing quip quota for the day.
 
Ok, Very funny you guys. I am on to you. I know what you did. You got together and said, "I know, let's play a prank on FJones. Let's collaborate with our cars to do a live enactment of his driving pet peeves.

Excellent job!

I am driving home from my second consecutive food disappointment (They misheard my order), and I am in the right lane. A big ugly Lexus SUV is trying to enter the road. Faced with two rows of cars coming at him, he does what anyone would do... INCH OUT into the road so fucking slowly that I have to come to a complete stop. I must have missed the yield sign that this guy thought I had.

Now we are both close together, picking up speed, when suddenly he slams on his brakes, forcing me to do so as well. Seems the moron in front of him decided to STOP at a Green light abruptly to let a passenger out.

This should be grounds for an immediate loss of license, as well as the discharging of small arms fire into the car by anyone who possesses said firearms.

How the fuck are you going to slam on your brakes at a green light so you can let someone out?

SO now I am sitting here behind the stopped cars, and, yeah, you know what's coming next... someone behind me does the old rear-swoop just as I am about to pass the stopped cars myself.
 
People who think they're soooo smart when they're really just average. Why does everyone think they're a genius? 8(

Related to this is people whose egos are overly inflated by the one thing they have a great skill in/talent for.

An old friend put it best ( referring to my ex whose a wizard at a lot of things except human decency, for it's own sake ) "He's soo smart he is stupid."

That is a real fucking drag.



When I worked at the bookstore there were two kinds of annoying customers:

The dumb and the stupid.

Most of the stupid people were avid readers, but carried an elitist attitude that I sometimes was happy to quash with a single word.


Yes, I can be an asshole if you push me. So don't go there geek!







:D
 
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Ok, Very funny you guys. I am on to you. I know what you did. You got together and said, "I know, let's play a prank on FJones. Let's collaborate with our cars to do a live enactment of his driving pet peeves.

Excellent job!

I am driving home from my second consecutive food disappointment (They misheard my order), and I am in the right lane. A big ugly Lexus SUV is trying to enter the road. Faced with two rows of cars coming at him, he does what anyone would do... INCH OUT into the road so fucking slowly that I have to come to a complete stop. I must have missed the yield sign that this guy thought I had.

Now we are both close together, picking up speed, when suddenly he slams on his brakes, forcing me to do so as well. Seems the moron in front of him decided to STOP at a Green light abruptly to let a passenger out.

This should be grounds for an immediate loss of license, as well as the discharging of small arms fire into the car by anyone who possesses said firearms.

How the fuck are you going to slam on your brakes at a green light so you can let someone out?

SO now I am sitting here behind the stopped cars, and, yeah, you know what's coming next... someone behind me does the old rear-swoop just as I am about to pass the stopped cars myself.

The rear-swoop gets me everytime. I especially love it when you've been read-swooped four time and so you fuck it and start moving out yourself. Some assholes sees this, far behind you, and decides to speed up and honk at you in anger like YOU'RE doing something wrong!

Seriously, why do people SPEED UP so they can get angry and almost cause an accident? If someone is moving out, LET THEM GO! DON'T SPEED UP! What the fuck is wrong with you? Why are you trying to cause an accident and be a complete fucking asshole? ( i don't know who I'm addressing this to)

Ah, this pisses me off to no extent. Way way way too much driving lately.

Also, drivers who fuck up BIG TIME and don't apologize. My car is having problems lately so I pulled over on a freeway in the designated shoulder lane and put my emergency lights on. After about five minutes I check the lanes, move out. 45 seconds later a car flies in front of me; not in the sense he decided to merge with my lane, but does some swoop thing and his side passenger door is in front of the FRONT OF MY CAR. I nearly had a heart attack. Somehow our cars do not collide and he gets out of his car and starts yelling obscenitities at me. What the fuck? In what universe could you POSSIBLELY have been in the right???
 
That is self-absorption, plain and simple.

People very often do not see the wood through the trees.

It's just one of the negative facets of the human condition.
 
I find it hilarious watching people drive and get frustrated because there's only one lane due to construction coming up (which is clearly marked) and these people move over to the lane soon to be closed in hopes to get ahead of traffic only to get even further behind because no one will let them in when the lane finally does close off.

Hey, I have to amuse myself somehow as a pedestrian! :D
 
This isn't really a peeve as much as something that straight up does not make sense. Why do people clap at the end of films in a theater??? I can guarantee you the actors/directors/anyone and everyone involved in the film is not watching it in a random theater in the middle of the midwest. It just seems so silly. I facepalm'd after Star Trek because of it tonight.
 
^That's something I've always kind of wondered as well. I've never felt the urge to clap after a movie no matter how good it is.
 
^Whenever I see a movie I really liked, I cup my hands to my mouth and shout, "ENCORE!!!".....nah not really, cause i'm not a jackass. but the jackass population is prevalent.


Irresponsible pet owners.
Pick up your dog shit. I really enjoy stepping in it, it brings great joy to my life. I very much appreciate the fact that you let your dog 'escape' every single day so you don't have to pick up its mess. You're smart. Let someone else deal with it, I say! Fantastic ethics.
How about when somebody has a party at their house, and they don't clean up the 50 little piles of crap scattered throughout the backyard. Awesome, we can all huddle on the little cement foundation for the next hours. I might be stumbling blindly out there too puke later ya know.

If you can't keep even a rat, or a lizard alive. Stop buying animals. Just stop. It pains me to go to your house and observe cages of animals without food, or water, wading in their own filth. And yea, you're house smells like toxic fecal matter. You're wasting your money, and life.


Boat Owners.
Keep your fucking boat where it belongs, in the water, at the dock. I like the view from my front porch, do not park that shit in front of my house.
 
An exchange of "yes"s and affirmatives on a television show after scientists just make some type of claim.

Scientist 1: "This here :: points to computer screen :: shows that the hair samples are not from the same animal."
Scientist 2: "So we can rule out the case where it was a bear."
Scientist 1: "Ya"
Scientist 2: "Mmm yes"
Scientist 1: "Umhmm"
Scientist 2: "Ya"


People who chew on their pencils and/or pencaps, and then expect you to share such instruments. Okay, unless it's some type of erotic teasing, that's just gross. I don't want the pen sitting next to my computer, which is understood to be used by others freely if they need quick access (computer near home phone) to have random bite marks from oral removal of the cap by gross people!

People who try and use pens as little teleprompters with their computer screens, but actually TOUCH THE MONITOR. God, not only could that really mess your screen up, but it's just like nails on a chalkboard. If you're that close already, just use your finger!!
 
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