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Pet Peeves v. 5.0

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silentangst said:
People who are so used to typing 'lol' with everything they say that they do it even after typing 'haha'.

ie. Saw some of the pics haha lol
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Yes. I Would like to add to this peeve by mentioning the people who are so accustomed to typing "LOL" that they do it after any sentence, regardless of how unfunny the situation is:

"looks like I got ebola. LOL"

"Yeah, I also hate when it rains on my picnic. LOL"

"I would have played but I sprained my ankle last week. LOL"

and so on.


I think the culprit is lazy writing. People don't really know how to write very well these days, and they don't want to be misunderstood. "I know," they think, "I'll just add LOL to everything I write, that way no one will mistakenly think I am angry or unhappy with them."

I'd like to introduce a new abbreviation that expresses my hatred and contempt for humankind: SWFYPMD. I will use this abbreviation at the end of every sentence so there is no confusion about the abject failure of humankind.

The abbreviation means
Silently Wishing For Your Painful and Miserable Death.

And to anyone who refers to "SWFYPMD" as an acronym, the only thing I have to say is, you fail. SWFYPMD.
 
Fjones said:
Awesome. As soon as someone explains to me WHAT these "benefits" are (since Safeway sure didn't), I'll start shopping there more often.
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they may not seem - or even be - benefits to you but they may be to the person in line in front of you.

i'm just trying to suggest that, if you gain a little perspective on why they're doing it, you may see that it's not a pointless waste of time and it may help to reduce the amount of anger you feel when you see it happening.

a little empathy can go a long way :)

alasdair
 
alasdairm said:
they may not seem - or even be - benefits to you but they may be to the person in line in front of you.

i'm just trying to suggest that, if you gain a little perspective on why they're doing it, you may see that it's not a pointless waste of time and it may help to reduce the amount of anger you feel when you see it happening.

a little empathy can go a long way :)

alasdair
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I stand by my original complaint. You have shed zero light on the situation whatsoever.
 
Wordswords said:
people driving in multiple lanes but all going the same speed.
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This irritates me to no end. These "moving roadblocks" should be pulled over for obstructing traffic flow.

Also, why aren't people using the slow lane any more? On a typical three-lane highway, cars are clogging the left and middle lane while the right lane remains nearly empty. Do people just not want to own up to being slow drivers? Do they think they save face by clogging the middle lane for no good reason?
 
that abbreviation is far too long

lol ( ? )

sometimes I think that the lol is just there to act as an analog to a true verbal exchange

:D


Oh, why oh why was I able to pass a yellow Porsche Carerra in the right lane while doing the speed limit sometime yesterday?

...better have been getting great stick.
 
Drivers stacking up in the same lane (4 lane road)......
maybe 10% or less will be making a turn:\

Or drivers hanging out next to you when you wanna get over to make a turn etc.
 
Fjones said:
1) Supermarket clerks who ask for the customer's savings card for a one-item purchase that isn't even on sale, and the idiot customers who indulge this pointless exercise in time-wasting by getting the card out.

What the fuck!???? The screen puts up a "CS" prompt if anything is on sale. Why would you ask the person if he wants to use his savings card for his $1.59 iced tea when it won't DO anything!????? And why would the customer get it out?? What’s with people anyway? Don’t people have somewhere to be by a certain time???????
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idk about where you were, but in on of the places i shop i get point for every purchase regardless of sale that i can then turn around and do fuck all with

no but seriosuly, i get cash back after so many points, etc

RedLeader said:
Okay, so how about self-scan lanes which time you. #items/#seconds. If you score well, then you will get rebates. If you score poorly, then like any gamble, you give additional money to the house (grocier). Make money off of people's stupidity (stupidity profits distrubited across grocier and skilled shoppers).

I'm sure that payment type and ability to process it quickly/slowly could be weighed out in this effort as well.
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my only problem is that now i'm going to start losing money because i have to pick up and put down a light bulb for 15 minutes before the damn machine realizes that i did, in fact, put it in the bag

and my own contribution: i hate it when a child misbehaves constantly, then cries about it when she gets yelled at and the (grand, in this case) mother worries that she may have hurt the little girl's feelings. the little brat needs a smack on the ass, not to be yelled at and then apologized to for it. spare the rod and spoil the child
 
I have to confess that my alt n3ophy7e is pretty cool. I like to bicker and flirt with my alts on the board for some psycho-pathological reason. ;)
 
^=D

I hate when people ascribe to me ideologies completely antithetical to my actual worldview because they are incapable of seeing the merit in discussing both sides of an issue, even if the moral quandary presented is serious and should therefore be all the more considered and discussed.

FUCKIN PRICKS!!! Don't know what a goddamn DIlemma is...
 
Kinda late on the sticky tip here but I've always liked Goof Off. You can also find citrus based adhesive removers which I imagine would be pretty harmless for most materials.

Fawkes said:
it super annoys me when people post replies that essentially say exactly the same thing someone already posted. if you have something to add but agree with something the person before you said, recognize what was already posted by saying, "i agree" and then add your extra tidbits!
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cletus said:
it super annoys me when people post replies that ...
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HAR HAR HAR ;) I agree with this for the most part but sometimes it is nice to see a consensus being built in a thread. It sucks to ask something like "What is the best way to. . . " and then get 20 different answers.
 
various pet peeves

Each of these occur frequently and peeve me very much; thus, this post constitutes several pet peeves and is not a rant.


1) What is with restaurants and butter these days? Every time I Ask for butter I am given a few pieces or a slab of butter that is ice cold and hard as a rock. I want to SPREAD the butter on my FOOD. COME ON!!!!!!!

2) What is with salespeople who "hover" over you while you are entering personal information? This guy at Verizon asked me to log in to their computer system to activate my phone. The combination of his hovering and the lousy touch screen resulted in my password being entered incorrectly. I said to him, "this isn't working." What I wanted to say was "Get the fuck out of my personal area here, I am trying to enter a secure password."

Not content yet with his meddlesome interference, he then says, "You can give me your password and I'll enter it. Don't worry, I never remember people's passwords."

............... Are you fucking serious? I am not giving you my password. Why would you even ask? How about you give me your bank account numbers and social security number? AAAAAARGH!!

3) New Jersey is a major pet peeve. They should just rename this worthless stretch of land the "New York expressway" because all this state is good for is providing access to NYC from Maryland Pennsylvania and Delaware. Why the hell do I have to pay someone to pump my gas, causing me to have to wait several extra minutes??Then he drips gas on the side of my car, and doesn't even screw the gas tank cover on properly. This just takes stupidity and nonsense to an entirely new level.

4) Comcast. Comcast is, of course, one of the all-time leaders in inducing pet peeves. After a lengthy service outage, I called to ask what can be done, and I am told I can have a callback when it is my turn in the queue. The voice system spends two mites explaining how the callback works. It's not rocket science! Just let me enter my number so I can hang up and stop wasting precious daytime minutes. When I did eventually get the callback, the first thing it says is "Please hold." AAAAAAAAAAARgh!!!!

5) Pool. Is it really that difficult for people to LEARN THE FUCKING RULES?? The worst part is, these people who have OBVIOUSLY never picked up a rule book are SO CERTAIN they are right! I actually have a rule book in my car; perhaps I should actually bring it inside the pool hall.

6) Pointless red left turn arrows. Why the hell is this a red arrow? It should just be a solid green, which means I would have to yield to oncoming traffic, if any. Instead, I sit here at this intersection for 90 seconds while no cars go anywhere.

pointlessredarrow.jpg


Oh, wait, I know, the red arrow is there in case a car suddenly jumps out from behind that lamppost. :!:!
 
Fjones said:
5) Pool. Is it really that difficult for people to LEARN THE FUCKING RULES?? The worst part is, these people who have OBVIOUSLY never picked up a rule book are SO CERTAIN they are right! I actually have a rule book in my car; perhaps I should actually bring it inside the pool hall.
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Who exactly wrote this "Pool rule book" because I can tell you that across the blue globe there is a thing call "Local rules" that exists in any bar and as a visitor you need to determine these before you challenge the current winner on the table (some local rules require the coin on the table before you can challenge).

2 shots on a foul, one shot on the black, no shooting backwards from the D, foul on the black means a loss, foul shot anywhere along the line if there is no D....... there is no such thing as a official rule book unless you are playing snooker. If you are lucky you might have them printed on the bar wall but if you want to argue the fact you will soon be extracting your paper back from your arse.
 
Car in winter peeve. Scraping snow / ice off it every morning and night - driving to work in the dark and coming home in the dark :|

Too much dark, too much cold and the sun n' light have disappeared and they're probably due to appear next March :!

Dark long Scottish winters are more than a peeve they're a damn "*ucker* :( I need daylight or I get SAD :(
 
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