Pet Peeves ver. Fjones vs Redleader

[RedLeader]

I don't know if this one has been said before, but.....

When a store clerk hands me my receipt along with my change. NO! Either put it in the bags with my goods, or give it to me separately. I don't want to have to deal with removing it from the bills right there on the spot, so as to peeve the people in line behind me for having to wait. But I also don't want that madness in my hand as I try to grab my bags and move away.

 

[RedLeader]

When people say the line "I am (100 + x)% sure," where x>0. 100% sure means that you are absolultely certain, without a doubt, that you are sure of something. I am 100% sure that all unmarried men are bachelors, for example. I am 99% sure that BL won't crash on me in the next minute. But I am NOT 150% sure that Megan wants to have sex with you, based on that text message. Neither are you or anybody.

Edit: It's just one of those nights....

 

[**hAyzzZZ**]

Wow redleader's going off in here lol

My 'peeve' (I will say, i fucking hate the phrase pet peeve!!! ) That *I* a student, attending what I assumed is a professional school has to outsmart them in order to graduate, because they are the biggest bunch of fuckwit dumbass moronic fucking idiots I have ever ever ever ever ever encountered, and after 3 months of constantly upsetting me, fucking me around time and time again, timetable errors, forgetting numerous things to tell me which are important, etc the list goes on... I am truly sick and tired of them and I am writing a letter to the minister of education when I finish in June, about all their fuck ups.

How they are still granted government funding is fucking BEYOND me. Truly beyond me!!

They are utterly hopeless. *PALMFACE*

 

[Fjones]

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!

I jsut went into the downstairs half bathroom, urgently needing to drop a deuce.

Too late, I realize there is no toilet paper anywhere in here and I needed soem really bad. No worries, There is a box of facial tissues on the toilet tank. Oops, wait, it's an EMPTY FUCKING box! WHAT THE FUCK!!! Who the fuck leaves the box there after taking the last one?

I don't even want to explain how I got out of this jam at the risk of grossing out anyone who isn't already.

 

[n3ophy7e]

All of this antibacterial crap is what is causing problems in the first place. Everything is antibacterial now, even though it isn't necessaryandn ever was, so we kill off the weak stains and generate superbacteria that we cannot fight off.

Or something to that effect. I am nto a scientist. Don't quote me.

GPs are also to blame for over/mis-prescribing antibiotics for VIRAL infections e.g. the common cold. This shits me no end!

If you have a cold or even a flu virus, stay at home (to prevent infecting anyone else), get plenty of bed-rest, have lots of fresh fruit and vegies, take some extra vitamins, and hey presto, you'll be all better soon!

 

[Dave]

I hate to say it, but people overusing antibiotics are the reason why I have a job. Or rather, why I have the particular job that I do.

But anyone who takes (or prescribes) antibiotics for a viral infection deserves what they get. That's just ignorant, plain and simple.

 

[justsomeguy]

My ex-girlfriend stands out She's an artist by trade, has been for several years now, and she totally does this.

........

It's not famous modern artists I am necessarily attacking (Jackson Pollock IS one, though. Don't even get me started...). It's more the ones who are trying to make it, but don't have the research ability to really unite their work with a strong and well-expressed message. I see it a lot in local art shows/festivals - an artist puts up a bunch of "visual jibberish," has a bunch of wine and cheese at a small-time function where such work is displayed, and then rips ideas off from intellectual/academic types that talk at said show.
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one of my pet peeves is when people conflate modern art with 'contemporary' art, or art that's being created now.

modern art isn't made anymore!

 

[Jamshyd]

Empty plastic bottles.

Not only are they noisy as fuck, but they also keep falling and flying and rolling around all the wrong places, like under your elbow so they can crackle the fuck out of you when you lean.

UGH.

 

[RedLeader]

one of my pet peeves is when people conflate modern art with 'contemporary' art, or art that's being created now.

modern art isn't made anymore!

Okay, I do apologise for that. I was using common parlance; haha if I knew anything at all about the chronology of art, I would have used 'contemporary' or 'post-modern' or whatever. Still though, with the replacement of terminology, I stand by everything I've said.

 

[RedLeader]

I don't like when bowling alleys try to also act as nightclubs. Forgive me, but I should never find myself wanting to drop a pill at a bowling alley. However, disko lights, bars, women in revealing clothing, neon bowling balls, pumping music, etc. and I just get confused.

I grew up next to a bowling alley - one of the ones where you could go, spent no more than $10 and get shoes, a drink and unlimited bowling for an hour or two. Regular lighting, just you, a ball, a lane and ten pins.

I live outside a city of over 1 million people. A few of us decided to go bowling the other weekend. It was a friday night. We went onto google maps and printed out a list of alleys, and decided to start going to them based on proximity. Having similar experiences in our youth, all we wanted was a fun night of bowling, but a simple one. If we wanted to go clubbed we would have, but we wanted to go bowling. Bowling, not clubbing.

Bowing alley #1: Looks perfect. Normal lighting. Leages until midnight?!?! AHHHHHH!

Bowling alley #2: Most nightclubs didn't have the effects that this place did. I swear people were wearing glowsticks. $30 a person for two games and shoes? Umm, no.

Bowing alley #3: Same as #2, only with a 30 minute wait!

Bowling alley #4: Okay now we're down in a ghetto. The police were actually arresting someone in the parking lot of the place as we parked. But we were going bowling, or die trying... It was a diskotek inside, yes, but they gave us affordable lanes at the moment ,so we compromised.

Okay, so there's a projector of 50 cent videos that is sort of hanging above our lane, but only about 1/3 across on the right. Wow, that's great for our sense of direction! It's so dark, I can barely see. I don't know if the lights are going to get in my eyes as I go to bowl...They even had about tweleve red lights right at the edge of the lane, which were flashing haphazardly....no pattern at all!!

I couldn't even do it. Typically I am a good bowler, but I sucked. Again, for people who take bowling seriously, there should be other options. No, I am not going to join a league because I don't want to go every week. No, we can't go during the day because people have jobs!

Am I the only one who wants to go out and bowl on a Friday night, and actually go to a bowling alley, not a nightclub that also has bowling???

 

[Fjones]

I agree with you. The bowling alleys I have been to lately have just been very high on the FAIL meter for various reasons, all of which you alluded to.

 

[Noodle]

All of this antibacterial crap is what is causing problems in the first place. Everything is antibacterial now, even though it isn't necessary and never was, so we kill off the weak stains and generate superbacteria that we cannot fight off.

Or something to that effect. I am nto a scientist. Don't quote me.

Don't forget the overuse of antibiotics. My mother--a nurse of 30 plus years--is adamant that antibiotics should not be used every time one has a bad cold, etc.

I think I used them twice to stave off an infection that may have penetrated my healing bones a few years back.

In my mind, there is definitely something unhealthy about obsessing over germs and other microbes that are a part of the natural world.

Not that clean freaks bother me. Everyone has their obsessions. I sometimes wish I could channel my anxieties into more productive activities!

:D

 

[Fjones]

So, I am starting this day wanting to commit numerous violent felonies. I won't, of course, because I am a pacifist and I believe violence is wrong, but I am absolutely fucking FURIOUS.

I have a 160 mile drive tosay. I have trouble staying awake behind the wheel if I am tired.

I just was awakened after 2 hours of sleep. I am goign to leave my rommmates a note that says, "When I die behind the wheel of the car tonight, please thank our beighbor for RUNNING HIS FUCKING EDGE TRIMMER FOR 45 FUCKING MINUTES at 9 AM!!!!!!!!!!!!


Seriously, WHAT THE FUCK? ARE YOU FUCKING OUT OF YOUR MIND!????

Have soem respect for people who might sleep an hour or two later thasn you do. If I were trygin to sleep at 3 PM or some greatly unusual time, I could see being awakened by somethign like this. but NINE AM!??? Really? NINE FUCKING AM IN THE MORNING you are making that godawful racket?????????


FUCK YOU, YOU GODDAMM INCONSIDERATE PIECE OF SHIT FUCKWAD! If my car does crash tonight I hope yours is right in my path! Jesus fucking Christ! Maybe I'll run my lawnmower at 3 AM tonight!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!



I had about 120 of these but apparently the limit is 25.

 

[mariacallas]

Want some coffee fjones? It might help you stay awake and alert on the road....

 

[AmorRoark]

Wow. fjones, I'm sorry but you can't blame him for running on the same time as the rest of the world. 9am is past acceptable to me TBH. I'd guess 80-90% of people who work (majority of people) are expected to be at their jobs, acting productively by then. How is he suppose to know that you went to bed at 7am?

There is a SHIT TON of construction going on behind my apartment (and by behind I mean 20 feet away) and they start up at 7am on the regular. They've woken me up before but I don't blame them for wanting to utilize the sun/cooler mornings.

 

[spork]

I used to be woken up at 5 or 6am every day by my neighbors honking their car horns and playing extremely annoying loud music. Now I live in an area known to be a loud neighborhood, but get a lot better sleep.

 

[Fjones]

Wow. fjones, I'm sorry but you can't blame him for running on the same time as the rest of the world. 9am is past acceptable to me TBH. I'd guess 80-90% of people who work (majority of people) are expected to be at their jobs, acting productively by then. How is he suppose to know that you went to bed at 7am?

There is a SHIT TON of construction going on behind my apartment (and by behind I mean 20 feet away) and they start up at 7am on the regular. They've woken me up before but I don't blame them for wanting to utilize the sun/cooler mornings.

So, anyone who sleeps past 9 AM deserves to be awaked by a terrible racket? With all due respect can be agree to disagree on this one so as to avoid an argument? Actually, no, wait, I want to argue about this.

So, what about HIS neighbor, who wakes up at 7 AM? Is it okay for him to do it? What about 6 AM? Where do you draw the line? I have an idea. How about allowing a WINDOW to allow for plus or minus a couple hours of difference from the "norm?" Lots of important members of society work slightly later hours and therefore sleep a little later. Should they just be awakened at 9 AM every morning because that is "the norm?" Why is it so important that he do his noisy chores at 9 AM?

My friend is a second shift cop. I guess I should go tell him to deal with having his sleep interrupted because "normal" people are awake at 9 AM.

Why not just do chores like that in the evening, when everyone is awake?

ok. End rant.

 

[Fjones]

9am is past acceptable to me TBH. I'd guess 80-90% of people who work (majority of people) are expected to be at their jobs, acting productively by then. How is he suppose to know that you went to bed at 7am?

This really bugs me. He is not supposed to know I went to bed at 7 AM. Note that I did NOT complain about not being able to get 7 or 8 hours of sleep. I was merely trygni to get FIVE and sleep until noon. I understand that as a second shift worker, I have to sacrifice sleep sometimes.

But what is this crap about 80 to 90 % of people being awake "and productive" by 9 AM? People are productive at all times of the day. Do you ever go to a store after 5 PM? Utilize public services after 5 PM? You and almost everyone else wants the people who works past 5 PM to be at their jobs so they can serve you, yet you then ridicule the notion of someone wanting to sleep past 9 AM and imply that it is the person's fault for being awakened because he should already be awake and productive?

Huh!??

Seriously, let's see what happens if everyone who DOESN'T work 9 to 5 just STAYS HOME tomorrow and doesn't go to work. I don't think any of us will be happy with the results.

 

[Fjones]

Want some coffee fjones? It might help you stay awake and alert on the road....

I hate coffee. Caffeine has unpleasant effects for me. No, I'll test out the wonder drug provigil today and see what happens. It it ten dollars per pill so I use them sparingly, but my last two times using it I did stay awake.

 

[Fjones]

Wow. fjones, I'm sorry but you can't blame him for running on the same time as the rest of the world. 9am is past acceptable to me TBH. I'd guess 80-90% of people who work (majority of people) are expected to be at their jobs, acting productively by then. How is he suppose to know that you went to bed at 7am?

There is a SHIT TON of construction going on behind my apartment (and by behind I mean 20 feet away) and they start up at 7am on the regular. They've woken me up before but I don't blame them for wanting to utilize the sun/cooler mornings.

I am almost certain that if I blasted Music at 7 AM and woke people up, I would be cited for a noice violation. I think it is outrageous that they would do this.