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People who pay over $1,000 for a new TV and it becomes their favorite subject to discuss... how great it is..... than they get jealous(maybe?) because I have a '20 inch TV I paid $100 for and I am pleased with it.

Same can be said about people who own expensive, top of the line automobiles, cell phones, golf clubs, etc.
 
People who intentionally miss the point of a statement or argument. This drives me absolutely insane. If someone is too stupid to comprehend a point, so be it, I have no beef with that person. But sometimes intelligent people intentionally miss the point--usually because they have no good counter to the statement or argument, so they pick out some minute and irrelevant detail and focus on that.

The most common example of this is writing. I believe in the importance of grammar and proper writing technique. I don't need to go into the many reasons why. Suffice to say, I think it matters.

But, I am really bad at typing. I am prone to typing errors, and though I catch and fix most of them, occasionally one slips through.

It is really annoying to me that I can write a three paragraph essay on the importance of coherent writing, good grammar, and proper spelling and word usage, only to have someone look at the last line of my post and say, "Hey jackass, who are you to lecture about writing when you cannot even spell "could" properly?"

I used that as an example because when I type "could" or "would," for some reason I tend to type the D before the L, resulting in "coudl" and "woudl." I don't always catch it.

But, come on, why the fuck is that important? I obviously know how to spell the word. It is an obvious typing error. And it has nothing to do with the topic of proper writing and grammar, and it certainly has nothing do with the INTENTIONAL misspelling of words that for some reason has become very popular.

If someone disagrees with me on the importance of grammar and spelling, so be it, but please don't pick out the one typing error I had in my post as though it has any meaning or relevance.
 
I absolutely hate trying to conduct any kind of business on the phone these days. It is almost impossible to speak to a human, then when you do, the human is an incompetent moron who has to transfer you to another incompetent moron, and then .... etc.

I had a screw-up with my credit record because two credit card companies incorrectly assumed that my ex-girlfriend and I had gotten married, so they added her accounts and addresses to my credit report.

To fix this, we had to do some three way calling, which included a 10 minute period where we were BOTH on hold at the same time, and to make matters worse, she and I are estranged and only recently even began speaking again. That's just a bit awkward. Fortunately the awful background music was so loud we could not hear each other anyway, so we both had an excuse to just sit there awkwardly holding our phones to our ears saying nothing wondering how long we were going to be on mutual hold.

Then the moron who is trying to help us ask for my name. This is always excruciating, because I need to spell it 5 times for people. Why do people ASK for the spelling of my name, and then immediately STOP LISTENING!???????

Are you fucking kidding me? PAY ATTENTION! I JUST SPELLED IT OUT FOR YOU painfully slowly and you STILL couldn't get it!?

Then I gave her my last name, which is a word that is impossible to misspell. People still get confused though, so I gave her a reference point, like for example, if my last name were "ham" I said, "Ham, as in, ham and eggs." and she still had to ask me to spell it again.
 
My biggest peeve on the phone involved trying to transfer my cell phone account from under my father's name to under my name. During the week (the only time you can call) we're both pretty busy people so we scheduled to get this worked out on the phone during our lunch hour. So we're on 3-way calling on the phone with this lady (I don't think she knows what she's doing). She consistently leaves us hanging for a good 3 or 4 minutes or so at a time. We have no clue what she's doing most of the time. Every few minutes she'll ask a question which should be done at the very beginning like "what is your social security number?". I'll be honest, neither my dad or myself are very patient people but we went into this call knowing it might take some time. After about 40 minutes of mostly sitting in silence on the phone I ask the woman "how much longer is this going to take?" She replies "oh, probably about 45 more minutes..." I'm like WTF I have class I can't sit here for another 45 minutes. My dad also had a meeting in 15 minutes. So we essentially wasted 45 minutes and got no where. Why the hell didn't she preface us with the fact that this was going to take over an hour??? Most people I know don't have endless hours to waste on a phone. Ughhhh.
 
I hate waiting for someone! It drives me nuts! Not to mention being late. . cleanliness is up there as well. I really don't know all my pet peeves anymore for I have learned to just deal with it or fix it myself.
 
1. The automated phone systems where you have to SPEAK your responses. They never know what I am saying. Never get it right. Please stop hassling me with robots and give me a human!

2. Drug dealers who never answer their phones.

3. How my probation officer can be a half hour late for our appointment and couldn't care less about the fact my mom is taking me on her lunch hour and needs to get back to work, yet if I were even 15 minutes late, he could violate me.

4. Being nauseated.
 
Hey xxkcxx! I Didn't see you there for a few days. It's Good to see you back.
Those speaking voice menus are indeed a terrible idea. The worst part is that some of them repeat what you just said, very slowly.

Robot voice -- "I think you just said 3 ... 5 ... 1 ... 7 ... etc. is that correct? Press 1 if yes. Press 2 if no"

Ugh.
 
AmorRoark said:
My biggest peeve on the phone involved trying to transfer my cell phone account from under my father's name to under my name. During the week (the only time you can call) we're both pretty busy people so we scheduled to get this worked out on the phone during our lunch hour........................Most people I know don't have endless hours to waste on a phone. Ughhhh.
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This happens between my cousin and I- and we have a 5 hour time difference between us! me not having a job makes it easier though lol (I totally have endless hours to waste on the phone)


Idk why but I absolutely abhor when girls dye only the two front pieces of hair-ESPECIALLY when its dyed white! It looks like a witch costume-gross
 
Ahhh yes, I know what you mean.
On the contrary, I actually saw a lady (about 40-ish?) with maroon/purple hair and the two white bits at the front, and she actually rocked it pretty well!
But the vast majority just look witchy-poo :)
 
R.I.P. English Language. b. ??? d. 2009

This is probably a repost, but I am going to do it anyway. The deliberate butchering of the English Language is a pet peeve of mine, and one that I just do not comprehend in the slightest.

When I see "I has ..." in a situation where I KNOW the person realizes the correct phrase is "I have," I just scratch my head in bewilderment.

I have a hard time seeing things from other people's point of view, but I am willing to try. Can someone help me out on this one? Why it is becoming cool and popular to say "I has," or worse, "I can has?" Why do people write "Hai?" Are we really this bored that we need to alter the spelling of a two letter greeting as some sort of lame attempt at creativity? Is it just cool to be "different?" Should I be prepared for spelling to be completely disregarded in the near future, as everyone decides to just spell words however they please, with no rhyme or reason?

Perhaps someone can help me see the other point of view by filling in the blank in this statement: "I choose to write 'I has ...' because __________________"
 
This has been happening to me constantly recently...

I call my friend's cell phone only to find another friend of his or his sister are borrowing it. Both are mad at me right now for something they believe is my fault but isn't, and so they are always rude when they answer. Well, the friend was rude even before this recent event because he's just an asshole, but the sister being rude is new.

IMO, I am not calling these people's phones. I am calling the phone of my friend. Why should I assume anyone but he has it? Why are you acting like I am purposely bothering you? Believe me, I don't want to talk to you anymore than you want to tak to me, but I can be an adult and leave it at "Is ____ there? No? Ok, just have him call me if you can. Thanks. Bye."

I DON'T need to get "Well, I'm on the other line so he's gonna have to call you back" stated in the snottiest tone possible. She could even say that same exact sentence without the tone, and everything would have been cordial.
 
people who think that because i'm reading a book/listening to an iPod i;m lonely and want to talk to them and persist despite obvious hints that i don;t want to talk to them
my iPod/book is far more interesting than your average person's small talk
also not being able to type on this damn keyboard (eeePC, i am used to a desktop)
 
Fjones said:
I had a screw-up with my credit record because two credit card companies incorrectly assumed that my ex-girlfriend and I had gotten married, so they added her accounts and addresses to my credit report.

To fix this, we had to do some three way calling, which included a 10 minute period where we were BOTH on hold at the same time, and to make matters worse, she and I are estranged and only recently even began speaking again. That's just a bit awkward. Fortunately the awful background music was so loud we could not hear each other anyway, so we both had an excuse to just sit there awkwardly holding our phones to our ears saying nothing wondering how long we were going to be on mutual hold.
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This is absolutely epic.
 
Fjones said:
This is probably a repost, but I am going to do it anyway. The deliberate butchering of the English Language is a pet peeve of mine, and one that I just do not comprehend in the slightest.

When I see "I has ..." in a situation where I KNOW the person realizes the correct phrase is "I have," I just scratch my head in bewilderment.

I have a hard time seeing things from other people's point of view, but I am willing to try. Can someone help me out on this one? Why it is becoming cool and popular to say "I has," or worse, "I can has?" Why do people write "Hai?" Are we really this bored that we need to alter the spelling of a two letter greeting as some sort of lame attempt at creativity? Is it just cool to be "different?" Should I be prepared for spelling to be completely disregarded in the near future, as everyone decides to just spell words however they please, with no rhyme or reason?

Perhaps someone can help me see the other point of view by filling in the blank in this statement: "I choose to write 'I has ...' because __________________"
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I has some benzos. Would you like to share them with me?

Again, I am on your side, so I do not want to "sigh," but instead actually hear an answer from someone in the "in crowd."

I think I looked into possibilities a few pages back. But I lately, I've found myself believing that it all stems down to this:

"I can has cheezburger" was the original statement. It was fitted with a weird-looking cat.

Then the whole 'lol cats' thing took off.

Most of the pictures were cute cats intentionally butchering the language.

So two things happen...

First, a bunch of people subscribe to the belief that talking like the lol cats will make others "see them" as cuter than in the standard case. It adds emotions to people's lives, because when X BLer says "I has ______", then we all instantly think about the lol cats and feel all warm and fuzzy, and hopefully in turn either liken X to the cuteness of a cat directly, or thank X for generating the cute images for us.

That was the complicated explaination. The simple explaination is that just like a girl can say "meow" and men will like it, if someone says "I can has ____" or "I has _____" it should be cute, because cats do it and cats are cute.

Second, everyone jumps on the bandwagon, because it's now the cool thing to do.
 
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