Pet Peeves v. 5.0

[n3ophy7e]

I find that hard to believe hun. There's no way an 'American' service would say 'parcel'. No, but seriously, they wouldn't. I don't think most Americans know what that means.

It was quoted off the top of my head
Do you guys say "package" then?

 

[RedLeader]

Okay, in TV/movies when two (properly) bilingual characters are having a conversation ONLY BETWEEN THEMSELVES and they speak about 50/50 English and another language. I guess this is done to kind of let the English-speaking-only audiance in to a degree and kind of feel intrigued by the other language. But my point is that no properly bilingual speakers do this in real life. You either speak fully in one language or fully in the other. This always looks so fake/staged in otherwise realistic cinema.

I am using "proper" to mean it's not the case that one person is learning the language from the other - practicing. I mean they both are completely fluent in each.

 

[Fjones]

Idiots who don't belong in casinos. Learn the goddamn rules

These are the people I make the most money off; in poker at least.

But if you are talking about the idiots who don't know how blackjack works and then curse you out because you made a correct play that they think is incorrect... yes, that is annoying.

 

[Fjones]

PARKING FUCKING LOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMFGGGG I RAGEEEEE harder there than almost anywhere else in the world. Holy shit, I cannot fathom what happens to people when they are in a parking lot. All people, the drivers, the fucking MEANDERING pedestrians, the cart guys, THE CARS SITTING IN FRONT OF THE STORE. Someone should SERIOUSLY consider doing a study about this... because SOMETHING causes the vast majority of the population to revert back to 4th grade (at best) when they get in a magical parking lot.

There are ENDLESS number of types of complete idiocy in these lost:

1. The Oblivious: I 'guess' they're driving sorta normal IF THERE WERE NO CARS WITHIN THE ENTIRE PARKING LOT. These are the ones who drive through the 'empty' lanes and are CONFUSED when a person who is driving down the lane is hesitant to keep going. JUST STAY IN THE LINES!!! NOT HARD. These are also the people who are fucking with the kids in the back, eating pretzels, I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW, but they're doing something else and assume everything will be ok just aimlessly wandering through the parking lot. 8(8(8(

2. The Idiot Backer Uppers: Cousin to the oblivious these are the people who start backing up without thinking OH SHIT MAYBE MY TINY ASS CAR CAN'T BE SEEN BY MY COUSIN THE OBLIVIOUS. Nevermind someone with a cart. Then, when they do see someone MASS CONFUSION. Oh WHO GOES??!?! This of course spurs the insufferable stop and go between vehicles and people. cart person barely moves, car backs up, brakes slam, more of cart, oh god thinking about this RAAAAAGEEEE. UGgghhhh this could be avoided!!!

3. The Wandering Children: I'm not actually talking about children because they're MORE responsible than these people. The people with a cart who walk in the WORST possible path for traffic. They seriously either 1. don't think or 2., and worse, think 'OH THOSE CARS, THEY'LL STOP'. Be a normal human being. Follow the rules of traffic, NO I MEAN COMMON SENSE!!!

4. The Idiot 'Waiters': The cars who park on the 'side' of the MAIN road of the parking lot because the other person with them will be 'in and out' (we all know this isn't true). Are you that lazy you can't park and go in with the other person???? The answer is clearly YES. That's pathetic and REALLY annoying.

Ok, the list goes on but I just HATE parking lots. I always feel I've got a 95% chance of getting hit by one of the above or endless other unimaginable IDIOTS.

Great list

But you forgot,

5. The four-way Stop sign hesitaters. GODDAMNIT, ONE OF YOU ASSHOLES HAS TO FUCKING GO!

But no. They all sit there confused. Finally, I, being the last person to arrive at the 4-way, decide to go, and now I get dirty looks. Hey, I didn't budget time in my busy schedule for "Sitting around for an indefinite period of time at a parking lot stop sign"

The other day I pulled up to one and there was just ONE car there, immediately to my left. He was there well ahead of me. He doesn't go. I sit there, refusing to go. If I do and then he hits me, it could be construed as my fault.

Finally he goes... AND MAKES A RIGHT TURN! AAAAAAAAARGh! Even if I did get there first, there is no action I could take that would prevent him from just making a right turn anyway simultaneous with whatever action I took!

Also, what's with people who approach an intersection with a straight ahead and a veering turn to the right that doesn't actually use the traffic light? When we all get the green, IF YOU ARE MAKING THE VEER TO THE RIGHT, JUST FUCKING GO! Why are you braking and coming to a near stop? Yes, I realize there is a YIELD sign, but it says YIELD, not STOP. Who are you yielding to? Cross traffic has a RED LIGHT! It isn't possible for a car to be there to have to yield to. GOOOOOOOOO.

 

[silentangst]

These are the people I make the most money off; in poker at least.

But if you are talking about the idiots who don't know how blackjack works and then curse you out because you made a correct play that they think is incorrect... yes, that is annoying.

Blackjack strikes me as a game that would have even more idiots that's what I'm learning next too

I only deal roulette so I don't know about the rest of the idiots yet. But so many people are just so stupid, it's so irritating. The good thing is I can provoke them and then have security kick them out haha.

 

[rachamim]

N3 and Amor: UPS after all has "parcel" in its name and I have always used it in the US without issue though come to think of it, people don't understand half of what I say hahahaha.

Voice Recognition was a great invention in the theoretical sense, and financially of course for the sharp tool(s) who invented it but I loathe it, especially when I am in a bind time wise.

To elaborate just a tad bit...In the US, before leaving the last time, I used TMobile as my cellular carrier. Their voice prompts are some of the most aggravating I have ever come across but then it is par for the course with that outfit.

The "extra" peeve then: The system asks, for your phone number, and then your pin. Then after the nauseating muzak comes a live op who will ask you the same exact information!

The worst part though is the universal script they read off of the teleprompter. I can imagine the wanker from Iowa who conceived it, as Apu/Bernie tells me for the 6th time that day, "Oooooh, I am very sorry Mr.Rashameeem, I can understand that not having internet must be very troublesome to you...." The fake sympathy uggggggh.

 

[Fawkes]

Voice Recognition was a great invention in the theoretical sense, and financially of course for the sharp tool(s) who invented it but I loathe it, especially when I am in a bind time wise.

this is why i always say, "REPRESENTATIVE!" at the first opportunity. i can't handle talking to the phone robots.

also, if you're having difficulty understanding the representative's dialect, i've found you can actually ask for someone within your region. for instance, i had an issue with my student loan once and called Sallie Mae. there was a definite language barrier; i could hardly understand him, and since he could hardly understand me, he was giving me the wrong information. frustrated, i finally said, "i can't understand you and you're not giving me the right information. i'd like to speak to someone that speaks english as their first language." he then said something to the effect of, "i'm transferring you to our United States branch now." and sure enough the next person i was connected to was ms. apple pie suzie-q. i felt bad, but sheesh!

 

[michael]

But my point is that no properly bilingual speakers do this in real life. You either speak fully in one language or fully in the other. This always looks so fake/staged in otherwise realistic cinema.

i hear people do this all the time, both people that i know and people that are strangers. the people i know will do it when they want to discuss something private so they don't have to leave the room (which i find somewhat annoying), and i can only assume the strangers i hear doing it are doing the same thing.

 

[RedLeader]

the people i know will do it when they want to discuss something private so they don't have to leave the room (which i find somewhat annoying), and i can only assume the strangers i hear doing it are doing the same thing.

Sorry, I should have been made more clear with my peeve.

Okay, in TV/movies when two (properly) bilingual characters are having a conversation ONLY BETWEEN THEMSELVES and they speak about 50/50 English and another language.

I should have said "are having a conversation only between themselves in an isolated enviornment."

What sprung on this at the time was a scene from an episode of Without A Trace where two bilingual women were in an office together, completely isolated from anyone and everyone, and were speaking 50/50 English/Spanish, hence giving the audiance "only so much info." So I guess that the audiance are the strangers and it's being done to discuss private stuff from the audiance. But we don't have a television audiance in real life, so again TV which attempts to depict real life is falling short. I'd rather it just be edited otherwise than to stage this bilingual chat.

 

[n3ophy7e]

this is why i always say, "REPRESENTATIVE!" at the first opportunity. i can't handle talking to the phone robots.

I had to call UPS in the US again today and in order to avoid having to speak to the machine again, I effectively did ^^that

 

[rant*N*rave]

^I just yell "fuck you" into the phone until I hear "I'm sorry, I can't understand you. Please wait on the line for the next available representative." :D Definitely one of my huge pet peeves.

I will second people driving slow in the left lane. Lots of highways are only 2 lanes here, and I always seem to get stuck behind two cars, one in the left lane, one in the right, both going the same fucking speed. ARGH! And then inevitably you get the assholes tailgating you and switching lanes constantly as if that's going to fix anything or make traffic move faster. IDIOTS!

I also hate when guys assume that strippers magically make hundreds and hundreds of dollars every night just by sitting on their asses and doing nothing. I guess they must not have noticed the RAGING FUCKING RECESSION. It's even worse when said guys don't spend any money while telling said strippers about how much money they make. I also hate when they assume that stripping is some sort of super easy job. Go try your 10 hour shift in 8 inch heels, asshole, and do it while everyone around you is drunkenly pissing you off, insulting the way you look, interrupting what you're doing at every turn, and trying to get you to fuck them. If you showed up at work and your boss asked you to work 10 hours for 50 bucks (and then pay 30 of it back to him), you'd tell him to fuck off too, you obstreperous fuckwad.

 

[Fjones]

.... and I always seem to get stuck behind two cars, one in the left lane, one in the right, both going the same fucking speed. .....

I call this a "moving roadblock," and it should be illegal. If a car in the left lane wants to go the same speed as a car in the right lane, there is no reason he should take up a lane to do it. This should be a ticketable offense.

Also, any car that fails to attain highway speed by the time the entrance ramp merges with the highway should also be given a ticket.

The morons who fail to attain even half the highway speed should be jailed for reckless driving and have their license revoked. Not suspended... REVOKED. If you want to go 30 MPH get a bicycle and get off the fucking interstate!

 

[Fjones]

On the subject of these automated voice menus - I actually was CALLED by one the other day. No joke. I answered my phone and after a long pause, an automated voice says "Please hold. Someone will be with your shortly."

I was then on hold for 5 minutes.

WTF !????????????????

 

[Fjones]

If I find the person who designed Microsoft word 2007, I will temporarily suspend all my libertarian beliefs and act on my raw animal instincts. And not a jury in the world will convict me.

 

[AmorRoark]

this is why i always say, "REPRESENTATIVE!" at the first opportunity. i can't handle talking to the phone robots.

Works every time!

 

[captainbackfire]

musicians who think it's cool to smash a perfectly good guitar...just their little way of helping in case you forget how rich they are.

donate to charity, auction it off, give it to some little kid who'd love to play it but can't afford it...that "ill buy a new one!" indulgence is just kinda sickening to me.

 

[n3ophy7e]

^^ I didn't know people still did that!
I feel exactly the same way

I remember seeing someone smash a guitar for the first time on some video recording of a concert and I was like "Noooooooooo! Why? Why?!"

 

[avrolling]

Worst peeve is when my dog lay's under my feet! I always end up stepping on him or kicking him on accident! Then I feel bad! Grrrr

And Fly's...... I hate fly's!

 

[avrolling]

If I find the person who designed Microsoft word 2007, I will temporarily suspend all my libertarian beliefs and act on my raw animal instincts. And not a jury in the world will convict me.

SO true!!!!!

 

[silentangst]

musicians who think it's cool to smash a perfectly good guitar...just their little way of helping in case you forget how rich they are.

It kills me inside when I see that, knowing I could have had it and it would have been about a billion times better than what I have now.

The best show I've been to was when the band actually threw their two guitars and bass out into the crowd. That really made my day, it seemed so selfless even though, again, it probably meant nothing to them.