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Pet Peeves

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Hai, moar, secks, thar, "has" with "I", etc.

Imitating the "lol cats" and such.

That stuff. It's a different type of intentional misspelling than "u," "b4" and that madness.

It's just a part of internet culture that I don't really get. And I can't use being old as an excuse, because I'm not!

And no, Max, I don't intend my grammatical/spelling errors :)
 
I'm guilty of participating in such tomfoolery!

Time and a place for everything though. I'm not as bad as some, just the occasional "moar" here and there.
 
You know wat I hate. Is people that hate me because I do heroin and think it makes me dirty and a piece of shit. Like the ones that really honest to god look the fuck down on me becuz of the drug that i am addicted to and couldnt see me no worse like i am less than the dogshit stuck in the treads of their shoe.:(
 
MSN. This is the ultimate Pet Peeve. It logs me off constantly for no reason. Often, it doesn't give any indication that I have been logged off though--it just keeps my screen open saying I am logged in. Meanwhile, to the person I was talking to, it appears that I logged off mid conversation.
 
Fjones said:
MSN. This is the ultimate Pet Peeve. It logs me off constantly for no reason. Often, it doesn't give any indication that I have been logged off though--it just keeps my screen open saying I am logged in. Meanwhile, to the person I was talking to, it appears that I logged off mid conversation.
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Ya, it does like to overcomplicate things. It's a necessary evil for the world set difference North America, though. I use meebo, often if only just for MSN, and it seems to work better than the real deal.
 
I never have any problems with msn, and I've been using it for years.

Dunno what you guys are doing wrong..... 8)

;) :D
 
Fjones said:
I know there are lots more. I haven't mentioned any of them yet because I figured no one cares and I would get flamed for being pedantic.
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I care. Your peeves are the only reason I even keep checking this thread. We have a lot of them in common.
 
This is my favorite thread. I always wanted to write a list of my pet peeves (I am not sure for what purpose though). Now, this thread gives me that outlet and makes me feel better to know that at least some others feel the same way.

Speaking of which, I have a new one--

When something (phone call or something similar) happens that requires the volume of the TV or Stereo to be turned way down, and when finished, the person turns the TV or stereo to a volume that is far lower than what it was originally.

Do they think I just won't notice?

If the volume was too loud, turn it down or ask me to turn it down; don't use an interruption as a passive-aggressive way of silently dealing with it and pretend as though nothing happened.
 
Fjones said:
When something (phone call or something similar) happens that requires the volume of the TV or Stereo to be turned way down, and when finished, the person turns the TV or stereo to a volume that is far lower than what it was originally.

Do they think I just won't notice?
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That is quite the nuisance. A spin on that (I say that a lot in this thread, and it's slowly becoming a peeve of its own): People who refuse to turn the volume down in the car when either making or receiving a phone call. I didn't call you to check up on what music you're listening to, and if you're calling me, you are the one placing this burden of having to talk to you upon me, so at least make it easier by letting me hear what the fuck you're saying.

It even annoys me when I'm in the car with someone who does this, simply because I know how the person on the other end of the line must feel. Usually I just end up turning the volume down for the asshole-in-question.

That being said, another peeve: The same as above, but when the person who is in violation of the low-volume rule actually gets mad at me for turning the volume down and proceeds to turn it back up! WTF mate?

Another: When you're on the phone with someone else and they are talking to you AND someone who is there with them in person. Drug dealers (ones I've dealt with) are notorious for this. Don't fucking call me if you are just going to talk to someone else the whole time, and if it was me that called you, just get the conversation with me over with since I don't stay on the phone for more than 2 minutes, or just tell me to call back in a few. It's simple!

Yet another: People who just talk on and on about nothing while on the phone, even though you've made it very obvious you hate talking on the phone. Like, if you had something important to tell me that took a long time to tell it, I'd listen, but if you're just going to tell me about how you ate the best piece of chicken on the face of the Earth earlier or that you ran 1.5 miles on the treadmill instead of 1, then save it. I don't want to hear it. At least not on the phone. It's easier to ignore you in person, so tell me next time I see you.
 
Are you sure we weren't separated at birth? Everything you just wrote is so true.

My friends know I HATE talking on the phone. There are few things that tilt me more than unnecessary phone conversations. Yet some of them insist on using the phone instead of E-mail or AIM or text, and some of them waste my time "chatting." I do not want to chat. End of story. I cannot fathom how people find chatting on the phone to be a worthwhile activity.

I was actually silly enough to try a distance relationship (an hour and a half of distance). That was a disaster. She wanted to chat on the phone not just every day, but multiple times a day! whenever SHE was bored, she wanted to talk on the phone, at which point I had to interrupt whatever I was doing to talk about nothing!
 
Fjones said:
When something (phone call or something similar) happens that requires the volume of the TV or Stereo to be turned way down, and when finished, the person turns the TV or stereo to a volume that is far lower than what it was originally.

Do they think I just won't notice?
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lol my partner does this when we're watching TV :)

It's pretty endearing though, because I know he's not doing it as a passive-aggressive stance against how loud it was. But rather in this kind of situation:

He'll think of something to tell me, in the middle of the program or during the ads, and he'll turn the volume WAY down, tell me his thoughts, we'll dicuss it for a while then when the program comes back on he'll sit there still pondering his thought....meanwhile we (I hehe) can't hear the program.
I just kinda have to look at him a bit funny and he turns it back up though. It's almost like he forgot we were watching TV? Very cute :D
 
This is probably why you are in a relationship and I am single.

This would slowly eat away at me until I eventually just lost it altogether.

Another petp eeve-- you are watching somethign and the other person wants to see something briefly on another channel, but misjudges the length of the commercial break and you miss part of the original program you were watching.

You get ONE try at that. Screw it up, and the channel stays and we watch commercials.
 
Fjones said:
You get ONE try at that. Screw it up, and the channel stays and we watch commercials.
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lol visualizing you/someone actually saying "Dammit. That was it. You had your chance. Now we watch commercials" actually made me lol irl.

And yeah, I'm thinking there is a high probability we are either clones or brothers or something of the sort, at least, based off of the things that drive us insane.
 
TV in general. I don't watch a lot of it, and lately it seems like the overall quality has just gone to shit in the last couple of seasons. I won't even mention how horrid 99.99999% of the commercials are.

Tivo, torrents and TV on DVD rentals are pretty well all I do now. Except for the occasional cooking show, but I rarely have the time to watch those when any decent ones are on.
 
I hate talking on the phone. I get embarassed by my own background noise, and annoyed by the background noise of others.

If someone can see that I am on a phone, and they still try and ask me a question which is of lower importance than "I am on fire, do you think you could put me out?" I get annoyed/offended. I just see it as impolite. Carry around a pad and pencil and write all questions of lower importance out and hand them to me to read.

The other thing I HATE is when someone will scream into your year "I'M ON THE PHONE" to the third-party at their location. This happened all the time in high school, with parents, but adults still do it!

If not person-to-person, I like written-based communication - email, IM, etc. It removes all of the background noise/madness from the conversation, and I see that as a nice positive. I don't see it as dehumanizing, because you cannot actually hear a voice, or it's not as impromptive.

Maybe it's just that most people find humanizing what I find annoying. If that's so, maybe I need to call a theropist. Er wait...
 
I'm definitely a phone person, sorry guys.

But let me tell you, I have converted almost all of my friends. I get people who hate talking on the phone to stay on with me for hours.
 
mrs_mia_wallace said:
Non-resealable food packages that are big and obviously IMPOSSIBLE to eat in one sitting.

Why? Why?
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Good one.

Also, food packages that require you to tear off a foil cover, but the foil just keeps ripping into little strips every time you try to do it.

Also what is up with the deli people who give you your sliced American cheese with every piece stacked perfectly on the one underneath it, so when you try to take one, it keeps tearing into little pieces!???

Some of the clerks at the supermarket drop the fruits and vegetables into the bags with a THUNK. What the fuck!???

Then they decide that the fruits and vegetables bag is a good place for the 20 ounce cans of chili. THUNK.

And then they forget one of the produce codes. I can just hear their thought process. "Should I ask a manager? A fellow employee? No they'll think I am stupid. Should I look it up? No, the customer will think I am stupid. I know! I 'll just put on a confused facial expression and keep entering the same incorrect code, and maybe it will work. If it doesn't, a manager will eventually come and we can pretend the scanner was malfunctioning"

AAAAAAAAAARGh

And then if you give them $21 because the bill is $10.59, oh man, you just ruined their day.

I once saw a cashier get out a CALCULATOR because she had to do 6 X $1.00 and couldn't do it in her head????

I am not exaggerating. She literally entered 6 X 1.00 in the calculator. Not 0.99. 1.00.


Sometimes the line is 6 carts deep but they do not open another register, they just stand there not giving a shit.
 
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