Pet Peeves ver. Fjones vs Redleader

[cheah]

ugh fuck people who put their dishes in the sink and never clean them. we have a dishwasher, fucking use it. it takes an extra 4 seconds to open it up and put your dishes in there.

I hate burning my tongue on something and having everything taste weird for 3 days after

 

[KStoner6tb]

I hate burning my tongue on something and having everything taste weird for 3 days after

Or when you burn the roof of your mouth, and it dosen't get better cuz everytime you eat something that's not even that hot, it keeps it raw.

 

[michael]

Who knows...maybe somebody close to him/her died.

no, it's because he's an asshole. and if someone close to him died, he'll get exactly the compassion from me that he's shown me in the past.

 

[n3ophy7e]

I hate burning my tongue on something and having everything taste weird for 3 days after

Ughh me too!!! It totally ruins not only the actual meal you were eating at the time, but all the other yummy food to come. Booooo

 

[eon_blue]

People who can't type out a proper sms to save their life.

What the fuck is the point of a message so abbreviated they only type out 3 letters for every word, making it impossible to read and I have to try and translate it from their retard abbreviation language. What the fuck is so hard about typing out a word..................................?! If your going to message me with some half arsed message, don't message me at all.

I agree completely.

When I send a text, I always spell out every word as it was meant to be spelled (with the exception of "lol"). I never use "u" for you or "msg" for message, "2nite" for tonight....and it annoys me to no end when people send me messages like that. Makes me feel like I'm communicating with a kindergartner.

If what you have to say is so long that you can't be bothered to spell out everything properly, then just call me

 

[michael]

it doesn't annoy me when people who don't have a full keyboard abbreviate stuff.

if you do, and still use txtspk, i hope you die of leprosy.

 

[Fjones]

I just moved into a new place and I have internet access again. I have way too many pet peeves saved up to list, and I have forgotten most of them. But here are a couple.

1) Folding fitted bed sheets. I think if someone told me to fold 20 of these and do a good job of it, I would rather get a root canal.

2) Cable installers, or specifically, the one who came today. (note -- if any of you are cable installers, please stop reading, as you will probably be offended).

Today the cable guy comes. Right away I am pissed off because he marches right in wearing his dirty work boots. Umm, hi, This is my home and I do not wear shoes inside. If you take a quick look around, you will notice that I have a near-OCD attention to cleanliness. I know you have those covers for shoes, so why not just put them on?
Upon noticing that there is only one wall jack, he points out the problem we will have installing two cable boxes and a cable modem in various places in the apartment. I said, “Let’s just find a place to drill a hole.”

“No, sorry, it says here, no holes allowed. It’s private property, you need permission in writing from the people in charge.”

So I call the assistant manager, whom I am friendly with, and she said, “I’ll give written consent right now.”

I tell this to the cable guy and he says some nonsense about “I can’t drill a hole, it says ‘no holes’ on the work order.”

What!?.................. You just changed the reason why you cannot drill a hole! You said I needed written consent and I got it. Obviously you just don’t want to do much work.

So I argue with him and tell him that the work order says “no holes” because it is an apartment complex and that is their rule, and that I got the assistant manager to override the rule.

Realizing he is screwed, he now shifts to, “I am not drilling a hole. There’s no place for the cable to come in from outside anyway. It has to be through this one jack (which will require running cable all the hell over the place).”

What the fuck!?? Now he cannot drill a hole at all? Why didn’t he just say that in the first place?
So now he starts hooking up the television cable. But I have the cable running through my VCR/DVD recorder so I can record television. This is not unusual. Any cable guy should be familiar with this. I also have an 8-bit Nintendo coaxial-type plug hooked into the TV coaxial. This does not matter, because the cable box us running through the VCR/DVD unit and thus need NOT be connected to the coax in the back of the TV.

He looks at the setup and starts undoing my arrangement. I stop him and tell him I just need the cable from the wall to hook to the cable box, and the rest will work.

He tells me it will NOT WORK. He argues with me and says he would be willing to bet money.

Look. My man. You seem to think the reason I do not have your job is that I cannot do it. That is FALSE. I do not have your job because I do not WANT it. I could do your job easily. SO please stop telling me I do not know how to hook electronics up and make them work, because I have been setting things up this way for a long time. And if you are going to argue with a customer about this, YOU BETTER BE CORRECT, which you certainly are not.
I have to argue with him some more, eventually saying, “Just do it! It will work.” Still shaking his head, he does it. When it came on and worked, he says NOTHING.

Now he has to run the cable for the internet. He says I need to pull the bookcases out because he doesn’t have enough tacks to go up and over them.

………………

Are you fucking serious? The cable needs to be run along the ceiling to get to that point anyway, so all we have to do is LEAVE it along the ceiling and not deal with the bookcases at all.

It took me 4 tries to explain this to him.

Why argue so much with a customer? I mean, you get good money to install cable, something anyone can do. There is no need to adopt a presumptuous air of superiority when it comes to how to do the task.
I just hate Comcast. They are annoying and their service is not all that good.

Also, U-haul. This is a very frustrating company. They just always end up getting you on something, somehow, for extra fees and such.

Anyway, that is all I can remember. I love the new place so I am not as angry as I was before and thus have fewer pet peeves.

 

[RedLeader]

^ I think you get that with certain types of people who go to tech school to learn a specific trade. They come across types such as yourself, who may come off as being more "academically minded," and they get kind of headstrong, wanting to prove that their "training" is comparable/superior to your "learning." And for some reason, 98.32353% of such people tend to be those fixing either your computer or your home entertainment setup.

And then the ones that get paid by the hour to do your repairs, but then come in and pet your cat for 5 minute intervals at a time. I mean not to sound mean but.....stop petting the cat, or stop the stopwatch if you do break to play with my cat! Same goes for when you spend 15 minutes cleaning your bowels in my bathroom!

Maybe I'll do that. Get a job where I do home repairs and get paid by the hour, but drink a gallon of milk before work being lactose-intolerant.

--

Sometimes I get annoyed when I sense a person doing something that can only be described through examples, not given a direct title (or maybe I just am not creative enough). But basically when people brag/boast about working toward a goal, when their progress is not constant. For example:

Redleader: Hey, how's the weight loss coming along?
Friend: Great, I'm down 6 pounds since New Year's Day.

::3 months passes::

Redleader: Hey, how's the weight loss coming along?
Friend: Great, I'm down 6 1/2 pounds since New Year's Day.

Okay, so you lost 6 pounds in 6 months, and then a half a pound in the successive 3. Obviously it's not still going great. It was going great, but your weight-loss is not consistent (linear for us nerds).

Okay, so...

Friend: Redleader, how's the heroin use going?
Redleader: Great, I've only used 5 times since New Year's Day.
Friend: Oh, wow that's..
Redleader: Ya, the past 5 days!

The description of how you are doing concerning your progress toward a goal should be about how you are staying consistent, not about twisting the facts so as to make it "sound good."

 

[aanallein]

man don't even get me started on cable/internet people...

I just got direct tv with att dsl because i was getting sick of comcast charging out the ass and basically coercing you into bundling their services together when you don't want 80% of the shit they are offering but somehow its cheaper to get it all rather than just get the 20% you want. wtf anyway..

so i order direct tv first (first gripe is that you have to place your direct tv order first, then they link you with ATT and you have to make that order which approximately triples the number of idiots i have to communicate with on the order and doubles the amount of bills i'm going to receive for essentially a single service).

Gripe A: don't offer me promotional rates that will go up in cost x months later. that's a stupid gimmick and the customer doesn't appreciate that shit. its a scam.

Gripe B: don't offer me Showtime for free for 3 months when i know you're just hoping i will forget I have it and then you'll charge me 30 bucks a month or something for it after that. Showtime sucks cock. There is nothing good on showtime EVER. You know the best part about it though? I told them to just remove it now rather than having me call later to remove and they said that would cost 10 dollars. Excuse me? It COSTS 10 dollars to remove a FREE feature from my account? W T F? I was at a loss for words on that one.

anyway continuing on. the bundles person (intermediatary between direct tv and att) tells me it will take 48 hrs to setup my internet since i already had the equipment (all I need is a dsl signal and i'm good). i come to find out it will be 10 days before i have dsl signal to my house. how does 2 turn into 10? i don't even fucking know. so i call up direct tv. they transfer me to bundles. they tell me to call att. i call att. they tell me to call att california. i call att california. they tell me to call att u-verse. who transfers me BACK to direct tv. I am not making this up. they then transfer me BACK to bundles. at this point i'm pretty goddamn unhappy. spending 1 hour playing chose your own adventure with recordings and psuedohumans (customer service personnel) trying to find out why its going to take 10 fucking days for a dsl signal to be sent to my house (how fucking hard is that to do). anyway i finally reach this chick who obviously doesn't know english very well or has some kind of learning disability. i ask her why it will be 10 days til i have dsl signal and she responds "sir you will recieve signal to your home in 10 days. you will then click on internet explorder and.." "I know that. why will it take 10 when i was told 2? And why does it take 10? why can't it be done today when I have the equipment?" "sir you will have signal in 10 days and then you can..." "I know this. Look can I just talk to your manager?" "i am the manager sir. you will have signal in 10 days..." "jesus woman just let me talk to somebody else then, you're useless" "sir there is nobody else to talk to. in 10 days..."

what a waste of time. the really stupid part was that i didn't even particularly care if i had internet but my stupid roommate uses it for online classes and was bitching and whining about it when her f'ing sister lives around the corner and has internet she could use. ARGGGGGGGGGGGG.

 

[Khadijah]

Friend: Redleader, how's the heroin use going?
Redleader: Great, I've only used 5 times since New Year's Day.
Friend: Oh, wow that's..
Redleader: Ya, the past 5 days!

The description of how you are doing concerning your progress toward a goal should be about how you are staying consistent, not about twisting the facts so as to make it "sound good."

LULZ

*guilty*

I have only used like 3 times since i got out of detox (the three days directly after detox, and this is the fourth day, and i only didnt use today cuz i didnt cop yet) hahahaha

(I aint actually been to detox sice december, but thats just a lil example of how i used to do it. I am the master of this) Its funny that u used heroin as a example since i am pretty sure u dont use, but damn u got a laugh outta me.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Making beds pisses me off. There is no reason for me to cover my bed properly when no one will be in my room and it will only get messed up later that night. Pointless task is pointless.

 

[eon_blue]

Making beds pisses me off. There is no reason for me to cover my bed properly when no one will be in my room and it will only get messed up later that night. Pointless task is pointless.

+1

Although, I hate getting into a messy bed so I'll usually tidy it up right before I go to sleep, lol. I can't stand making beds and I can't stand going to bed when it's messy from the night before.

I should just sleep on a couch.

 

[Dave]

No no no. A hammock. Far better than a couch.

 

[LivingInTheMoment]

I still can't work the saying "You are dead right" . You can't be right when you are dead!
I guess it means YOU are spot on!

 

[Fjones]

man don't even get me started on cable/internet people...

I just got direct tv with att dsl because i was getting sick of comcast charging out the ass and basically coercing you into bundling their services together when you don't want 80% of the shit they are offering but somehow its cheaper to get it all rather than just get the 20% you want. wtf anyway..

so i order direct tv first (first gripe is that you have to place your direct tv order first, then they link you with ATT and you have to make that order which approximately triples the number of idiots i have to communicate with on the order and doubles the amount of bills i'm going to receive for essentially a single service).

Gripe A: don't offer me promotional rates that will go up in cost x months later. that's a stupid gimmick and the customer doesn't appreciate that shit. its a scam.

Gripe B: don't offer me Showtime for free for 3 months when i know you're just hoping i will forget I have it and then you'll charge me 30 bucks a month or something for it after that. Showtime sucks cock. There is nothing good on showtime EVER. You know the best part about it though? I told them to just remove it now rather than having me call later to remove and they said that would cost 10 dollars. Excuse me? It COSTS 10 dollars to remove a FREE feature from my account? W T F? I was at a loss for words on that one.

anyway continuing on. the bundles person (intermediatary between direct tv and att) tells me it will take 48 hrs to setup my internet since i already had the equipment (all I need is a dsl signal and i'm good). i come to find out it will be 10 days before i have dsl signal to my house. how does 2 turn into 10? i don't even fucking know. so i call up direct tv. they transfer me to bundles. they tell me to call att. i call att. they tell me to call att california. i call att california. they tell me to call att u-verse. who transfers me BACK to direct tv. I am not making this up. they then transfer me BACK to bundles. at this point i'm pretty goddamn unhappy. spending 1 hour playing chose your own adventure with recordings and psuedohumans (customer service personnel) trying to find out why its going to take 10 fucking days for a dsl signal to be sent to my house (how fucking hard is that to do). anyway i finally reach this chick who obviously doesn't know english very well or has some kind of learning disability. i ask her why it will be 10 days til i have dsl signal and she responds "sir you will recieve signal to your home in 10 days. you will then click on internet explorder and.." "I know that. why will it take 10 when i was told 2? And why does it take 10? why can't it be done today when I have the equipment?" "sir you will have signal in 10 days and then you can..." "I know this. Look can I just talk to your manager?" "i am the manager sir. you will have signal in 10 days..." "jesus woman just let me talk to somebody else then, you're useless" "sir there is nobody else to talk to. in 10 days..."

what a waste of time. the really stupid part was that i didn't even particularly care if i had internet but my stupid roommate uses it for online classes and was bitching and whining about it when her f'ing sister lives around the corner and has internet she could use. ARGGGGGGGGGGGG.

This was absoluely hilarious. WHen I got to the part where the lady says, "I am the manager..." I started laughing pretty hard.

 

[Fjones]

Okay, so...

Friend: Redleader, how's the heroin use going?
Redleader: Great, I've only used 5 times since New Year's Day.
Friend: Oh, wow that's..
Redleader: Ya, the past 5 days!

ha ha ha ha ha ha. This is fucking hilarious. I love how you (in this invented conversation) interrupt the guy as he is congratulatig you. Priceless.

 

[mrs_mia_wallace]

Guys who try to find interactive ways of tipping. Last night someone guy tried to tip me a DOLLAR by shoving it up my crotch. I punched the motherfucker in the face (first time I've had to do that). Another guy (also a dollar!) tipped me by shoving his dollar down my hose and ripped the bow off the side of it. I didn't realize until I got home or I would have punched him in the fucking face too ($11 hose vs 1 dollar tip???)

The cat in this house. She is obsessed with me and my food and water. She won't leave me alone for five minutes and she drinks water out of my cup, even if she HAS water in her bowl.

People who smoke weed five times a day but claim they're not a drug addict and lecture me about being one.

People who think stripper = prostitute and lecture me about working as a dancer.

Girls who treat me like a drug store/taxi service. I don't care if you give me $ for the ride home, I want to GO HOME at 5:30, not have to go 15 minutes out of my way to drive you ass home. And just because I have my shit together does not mean I want to lend you q-tips, deordorent, body spray, cigarettes, or ANY make up products, that shit is not sanitary.

Girls who talk shit about you and steal your shit and your customers and then make friends with you, comforting you when you're upset and helping you look for your wallet that's in their purse. If you want to be a dirty shady bitch, but come to work, make your $ and go home. Don't try and make friends with me while you're trying to fuck me over, save the act for the customers.

"Friends' of the owner and pretty much any guy who comes in to sit and watch and doesn't buy a dance or tip. This is not the zoo, I am not being paid to entertain you unless you offer up some cash. You just want to 'talk'? Fine, but tip me for my time then because I could be hustling other guys that actually want dances and making money.

Guys who complain "strippers are such money hungry bitches." Really? Well, how about this-- give me the place you work and your supervisor's name. I'll go tell him that x just REALLY loves his job and has decided to work for free this week because he's just having SO much fun and wants to give back to the community. This is a strip club, not the lonely men charity club. And if you don't want to have to pay for company, go to a club where YOU can work your ass off trying to hustle girls (and see how well you do).

I've never gotten this one before, but I went up to talk to a guy last night and told me "look, I really don't like it when girls are all over me, touching me and whatever." WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING IN A STRIP CLUB???

The fact that my club refuses to play rap.

 

[RedLeader]

^ wow, mia, I hope you're getting paid well, becuase it seems like your new job is driving you absolutely insane with the annoyances!

--

I was watching the Magic/Lakers game two nights ago, and I remember the commentator for ABC saying something to extent of "The Lakers did not lose this game. The Magic won it." He was trying to imply that both teams played very well, but the magic played slightly better. But seriously, the Lakers didn't lose? They may not have lost their ability to play good basketball, but they did lose the game!

--

This kind of combines two peeves into one.

Peeve 1: When people hide behind a "I don't like to talk about religion and politics" open pledge, but subtly make references to such. But then will call you out the minute you respond to them on breaking the agreement.
Peeve 2: When random (stupid, idiotic, annoying, should-have-been aborted, etc) people blatently interrupt private conversations at bars, such as on the smoking patio. Furthermore, people nobody in the private conversation knows.

I was at a pub last night with a friend, and we were having a typical nerdy conversation. I was teaching her something about logic. Philosophy101 stuff, to help her in writing a paper. We were on the smoking patio and had our own table, however there was little background noise, so conversations could easily be overheard.

Drunk middle-aged man: Hey sorry to interrupt, but I overheard the world logic and it stood out amongst random bar chatter. Had me captivated. Mind if I just listen in?

Redleader: ::exchanges a look with friend:: Sure, you're fine.

Friend: So you use necessary when you mean that...

Drunk: Sorry to interrupt (literally, TEN SECONDS IN), but like....I like how you're talking about logic. I always say "no!" to conversations about politics or religion while drinking. Great rule in life. But logic, that's something to toast to!

Redleader: sure

Friend: agreed

Drunk: So like, it's funny how...(he makes an attept at saying something about the odds of life happening by chance are minimal, so therefore it must have been intelligent design). Logic people, now that's had them stumped for centuries!

Redleader: That's one way to look at it.

Drunk: There only is one way! No like, what do the teachers say back to that? Nothing! Day one, they should just announce that logic loses to impossible odds. Leave class, go get drunk and have fun!

At this point, I don't even know how to respond to this madness. I ended up having to reach into my pocket and try to remember which order of buttons to push on my phone in order to call my friend, and pull the whole phone call, we gotta go trick. This caused us to miss last call, and therefore get even more angry. I don't know, maybe God sent this man to my table at the pub to prevent me from having that last call binge, which then would have led to me plowing my car throgh a Waffle House. THAT'S ONE WAY TO LOOK AT IT!!

 

[RedLeader]

Phone Books

I love them, I really do. I have great memories from childhood, of always looking for my last name in phone books when I went on vacations. One day, I hope to be physically fit enough to rip one in half. And you can always easily obtain them by the masses, in case you want to do something that would require a lot of phone books. Such as having a lot of people rip them in half simultaneously.

Now to the peeves...

Okay, when people tear pages out public yellow/white page phone books. I mean, that's just sooo inconsiderate! And it's always the popular pages, too. The one that we often need, such as the list of towing companies or local pizza shops.

Furthermore, the lack there-of of phonebooks in places these days. Ya, sure, maybe I am aged and should spend $100+ on a new phone that can look all of that stuff up on the internet, but I don't want to. I like having a simple phone (and I know i'd lose it). I asked a bartender the other day if I could see their yellow pages, and he looked me like I was from an 80s sitcom. "Umm, I don't even think we have one." This is not the first time a place did not have a yellow pages that I thought would have. I mean what about if you thought you left your $5000 superphone at your friend's place, and you know that the number is in the white pages. You stop at a payphone, but the page has been ripped out. So you walk into a bar, and ask to use their phone and they say "sure", since you conveninetly don't have a spare quarter, but they don't have a white pages. What then? Or maybe your fancy little phone cannot get internet access based on your location? I don't know if *there's an app for that!* (another pet peeve, that phrase) that does not require the internet, such as downloading an electronic phone book to your phone, but again....my phone cannot even take a photo, and I am not wealthy!

Sure, I could carry a personal phone book with me in my car, but what If I am not using my car during such a situation?

(I can see people flaming me for this one. It has holes, yes. I know it's kind of stetching it...)

 

[RedLeader]

Book Indicies

When you look at the index of a book to find a word/name/topic, and it says "see _____", where the blank is a reference to another word in the index. Okay, I get it, the author is pushing me to use the latter instead of the former as part of my education from the book, but why not just list the page there as well? Why make me waste time finding another word? I think when I actually do get to the page(s) and read it/them, I'll have figured out that the author prefers using the referred-to word from the index.

Honestly, if there actually is a rational explaination for this, please someone PM it to me (don't want to derail thread).