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Pet Peeves v. u mad?

Max Power said:
Note to self when I run into you at a random fashion show. Maybe Givenchy. Maybe not.
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never really thought of you as a professional contact, Max.

drives me crazy when older individuals ask for a favor by offering an opportunity to "earn a little extra cash." like everyone in their 20s needs every penny they can get.
 
whoever decided that there needs to be some shitty rom com playing in the room while i get waxed. i spend most of the awkward half nakedness on my phone. i don't care about cameron diaz while there is a stranger ripping hair out of my cunt.
 
^^ Yep. It's probably a result of not having to drive to work every day but nowadays, whenever I am in traffic, all I can think about is how stupid it is, and how I need to move away from the city.
 
traffic is annoying but, consider that, if you are sitting in your car (especially alone), complaining about traffic, you're as much a part of the problem as the guy in front of you.

alasdair
 
I've noticed that when you take a step back, traffic isn't usually worth the annoyance people put into it. People often get quite worked up over what ends up being a ten minute delay.

ebola
 
Creaky Girl. It's also known as "Vocal Fry." New names for an epidemic vocal affectation that plagues American college aged females. It"s the "Valley Girl" sound of the 2010s. To my disgust, it has spread to Europe and to some males. It fills me with rage whenever I hear it. At work down the hall from me, there is a male who does this, in French, and I want to murder him every time he talks.

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I heard it again!!!!! Some twit tourist was doing it!!! Google 'vocal fry' and listen to some recordings if you don't know what it is.
Just like those animal hats with cat ears, you might think it's vaguely cutesy for the first 1/2 second you hear it, but then you realize that it is only appropriate for 1 year olds and adults with Down's Syndrome.

What makes me even madder is that you can't even criticize it without being called 'sexist.' Fans of this annoying speech pattern jump on anybody who complains and say they hate women and can't stand the fact that women are allowed to express themselves in modern society. Where were these defenders of teenaged voice patterns in the late 1990s when "Burned Out Stoner Voice" was popular among college aged males?

Whether it's a boy or a girl doing it, it grates across my nerves and causes me physical pain. It makes me want to kill. It sounds both childish (like an 11 year old trying to sound like an adult) and extremely irritating. It's an obnoxious fad. Apparently Britney Spears or the Kardassian scum of Reality TV started it.

Some morons wrote articles about it claiming that 11 year old girls started it. They further claim that common suburban 11 year old girls are linguistic visionaries and trend setters and that in 1/2 a generation, we all will be speaking in 'Vocal Fry.'

Valley Girl Speak started in the 1970s and has never stopped sounding stupid. Teenie-bopper injection of the word 'like' every other word hasn't stopped sounding stupid. Vocal Fry/Creaky Gril Voice will always sound stupid too. I wish these people could hear how they sound and could experience the pain they inflict on anybody who hears them.
 
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People who take pictures all the time. For decades, it was only Japanese tourists who were guilty of this, but with the advent of phone-cameras, everybody is doing it. This phenomenon is really bad at restaurants. They get a plate of food that is nicely presented then sit there taking pictures of it. It's even more obnoxious when it is a dark, fancy restaurant and they use the FLASH.
 
When people fucking clap when the applauding is for them.
When people clap in a movie theater.
When you cant control your kid, or choose not to.
 
Yeah the worst is when a kid is being a little terror and the parents don't do anything at all, or even acknowledge it, or even if they do but they don't take the child away and just let the disruption continue as if it's everyone's problem.
 
Pharmacy Tourists. It's so stupid it's hard to believe, and you have to wonder WTF is the matter with these idiots. I'm not talking about people going around trying to get narcotics illicitly either. My neighborhood pharmacy has become an international tourist attraction. There are always at least 3 or 4 monster touring buses parked along the street near the pharmacy all day every day just for that one pharmacy (rue Monge pharmacy). These buses bring foreign tourists (always Chinese or Korean) who crapflood into my neighborhood pharmacy by the busload. At any given time, and I've walked by dozens of times, the store is so crowded you cannot walk 5 feet down any aisle without having to push people. Every aisle is packed with people.

Even stranger, this activity is highly organized. Often, some old lady from the bus usually stands at the front door handing each tourist a list and a shopping basket as they enter the store. Chinese people, some single, others couples, others entire families from grandpa to the screaming babies in strollers, camp in front of every section, product type, and display while they puzzle over the foreign letters and French words trying to find what is on their list. If you want something they are blocking, you can forget it if you are shy, because they will not move.

Even to get in there, you have to shoulder through the mob of tourists (by mob, I mean several hundred people crammed into something only a little bigger than an average American house) who are stuffing their baskets with cosmetics and soaps and shampoo. I don't go there any more. Not many locals do any more.

What is really ridiculous is that there is nothing special at all about the store. You can find the same stuff anywhere for similar prices. When they get to their hotel, they fill their luggage with all this crap and drag it all back to China and Korea. Why would any sane person spend one of their days on a once in a life time trip buying generic soap? And why would they waste their luggage space by filling it with soap when there are some truly unique things that one can find only in Paris? (This soap is not unique.) Maybe it's a 'nouveau riche' phenomenon? Illiterate peasants survive the famines of the Great Leap Forward and eventually they have money and this is what they do with it.
 
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drives me nuts when people show up at quiet venues (exams, work, cinema, etc.) with a nasty dry cough or coke nose. grab some fix from the pharmacy before showing up ffs.
 
Chewing food with your mouth open.

Smacking gum and popping bubbles.

People who know they have a cough/cold but refuse to use Kleenex and cough drops.

Just general lack of consideration. It's rampant in the world today!
 
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