Pet Peeves ver. Fjones vs Redleader

[AmorRoark]

I hate that some major highways are not lit up at night. It is almost impossible to see, let alone see a deer in the middle of the road. The only thing that reflects off of a deer are its eyes.

This. Totally.

Not having lit highways + the deer population in this part of the country being OUT OF CONTROL = awfulness. Literally the last 3/4x I've driven at night from the local college town to my town I've either a) seen live deer trotting near the side of the road, b) seen a car 3-4 cars up from me hit a deer and have to pull to the side of the road with their hood basically demolished or c) had to veer myself with pure horror to avoid hitting the deer (I know it's not the 'right' move but we were able to slow down enough to do it). All three of these scare the SHIT out of me.

Actually, I'm nervous any time I have to drive at night on the highway because it's SO DAMNED DARK. I'd seriously be fine with raising taxes if it meant I could have a lit highway without having a panic attack nearly every time I decide to drive at night. I'm not 82, I want to drive at night.

 

[harley89]

The logic behind people using their brakes when nothings in front of them is pretty simple--I'm guessing they feel they are traveling at unsafe speeds or they think they are driving too fast and don't want to get pulled over, as well as plenty of other outside factors....I do it all the time...maybe they should ignore all of that and start catering to drivers behind them just becuase8)

I fucking hate this to, i very rarely use my brake pedal whilst driving on a normal road with nothing out of the ordinary in the way. At least once a day I'm driving behind some fuck who put their foot on the brake, even if the car in front has not even braked?? It put's you on alert mode, for nothing seeing them big flashing lights. If you want to slow down drop your car down a gear or two, always works for me. Infact i was behind someone today, who was driving at 20 miles an hour and kept on braking? I mean why? What ever drugs they were on i want some lol

 

[harley89]

Not when driving on a decline.
Sometimes simply just letting off of the pedal does not give what's needed...instant reduction of speed.
Nobody is right or wrong here, i'm just not an aggressive driver....leave me alone!:D

It hardly slows the car down even on the flat believe me, I'm a fast driver lol

 

[Fjones]

Sometimes just random failures can be really irritating. For example, Delivering mail is not a difficult job, right? Well, I guess the mail Carrier was in a real hurry or just didn't feel like doing much work today. Here is how the mail was "delivered."

What is this shit? It's a disorganized pile below the mailboxes. My mail was mixed in, but I went inside to unload my packages and then I forgot. Later, I returned to the pile to find it had been thrown out in the dumpster outside.

 

[aanallein]

^ wow..

 

[SHHMCJOOAPOYS]

^^ what a douche bag... complain to whoever and get that issue resolved

 

[Fjones]

If I complain to the mailman, the next batch of mail will probably just bypass the disorganized pile and go straight into the trash dumpster.

 

[amanda_eats_pandas]

People who think its appropriate to chew gum loudly behind you in a quiet lecture hall or during a test.
And also extremely audible breathing.

 

[n3ophy7e]

That is ATROCIOUS!!!! I cannot believe that
A complaint needs to be lodged about that arsehole.

And also extremely audible breathing.

YES!!! But more-so, extremely audiable breathing ON THE PHONE!! Like, when a customer service person has their microphone way too close to their mouth, and you can hear them breathing and even SWALLOWING or licking their lips etc, over the phone *vomits*

 

[Fjones]

That is ATROCIOUS!!!! I cannot believe that
A complaint needs to be lodged about that arsehole.



YES!!! But more-so, extremely audiable breathing ON THE PHONE!! Like, when a customer service person has their microphone way too close to their mouth, and you can hear them breathing and even SWALLOWING or licking their lips etc, over the phone *vomits*

They should move away from the phone when they breathe in or lick their lips.

 

[n3ophy7e]

They should move away from the phone when they breathe in or lick their lips.

They should but they don't!! It's most upsetting to me. I want to vomit on their headsets.

 

[Dave]

They should move away from the phone when they breathe in or lick their lips.

I see what you did there.

 

[MazDan]

I see what you did there.

WTF??

I dont get it.

Jeez it peeves me when peeps come in here and post in bloody code and nobody knows WTF theys ona bout.

My brain hurts dave and im blamining you.

 

[kcfaerydust]

on the lip smacking thing - when people chew their food with their mouths open and gums flapping.
also, people who are completely clueless about general manners and respect and presentation around others. people who are so self absorbed that they dont realize what a repulsive jackass they are in public.

it is not cool to act like you were raised in a barn

 

[Schmacky]

teeth on forks! ugh...how hard is it to take a bite...and NOT scrape your fork against your teeth? seriously

 

[n3ophy7e]

^^ Ohhhh YES! It grates on my eardrums!!

 

[Fjones]

OK, I know this was recently discussed, but FUCK WORD 2007. I have had enough. I defy someone to look at this and explain the logic behind this shit. I am doing a screen shot and posting it here, so it is perfectly clear the frustration this program causes. Following the screen shot, I will paste that exact text into the BL post.

There should not be a paragraph space after this line.
There should not be a paragraph space after this line.
There should not be a paragraph space after this line.
There should not be a paragraph space after this line.
There should not be a paragraph space after this line.
There should not be a paragraph space after this line.
There should not be a paragraph space after this line.
There should not be a paragraph space after this line.

On my screen, in this Word document, the above appears double spaced. But if I copy and paste it to a BL document, it will NOT have any line spaces, because for some insane reason, the ABOVE sentences are actually SINGLE spaced. Does that look Single spaced to anyone? I didn’t have this problem with earlier versions of word. I shouldn’t need to leave a huge blank space (like the one between the paragraph and the repeated sentences above) just to get ONE line space in between paragraphs.
But wait, WHAT THE FUCK? In the above (and current) paragraph, it DOES now appear as single spaced. I am completely perplexed. Can someone please explain this nonsense to me? AGAIN, to clarify, the above paragraph is in single space mode, and actually looks single spaced. The repeated lines above it are ALSO single spaced. Yet they appear double spaced. But they are NOT. If I put my cursor to the left of one of the “There …” sentences and I hit backspace, it brings it back immediately after the “after this line….” of the preceding line. But if I paste the entire thing into a BL post, the repeated lines will appear single spaced, like this:

 

[Fjones]

OMG. What the fuck is wrong with this shit. Now do people understand why Word 2007 is so annoying? What the fuck is it doing? It just smushed everything together with no line spaces, even though on the document there appear to be line spaces.

This is mystifying to me.

I have written LONG pieces in word, then when I paste it on BL, it removes all the paragraph breaks, which I have to go through manually to fix.

 

[_a_A_C_c_]

^maybe its because of how word codes stuff? like if you copy stuff from word to notepad it will look different.

 

[RedLeader]

I am peeved by how long it took this to reach 1000 posts. Fjones, if you want to name the new Pet Peeves Thread (err, umm...), I'll give you 12 hours