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Pet Peeves

people using my bathroom, then it smells really bad :mad:
people who treat me without any respect because i'm a "kid".
people who think they know everything but don't/think they are the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Jersey shore d-bags (look it up jimmy fallon did a funny skit on it)
people who send screen shots in halo... who cares you killed me big whoop.
people who update there facebook/twitter status every hour.
People who don't get out of the way.

those are the major ones. Sorry if you made the list :D;)
 
Oh I just realised I have another...

12) When people who write news articles go to the trouble of using a capital in Apple's product names, but still get it wrong, like Itunes and Iphone.
I wouldn't care if they just wrote itunes, or iphone etc., but if your going to use a capital, can't you make it the right one?
 
redwarrior said:
I live in the South too, and I'm waiting on someone to say that they have a problem with "fixin to" cause I say it all the time.
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When I was in college, one of my major professors was German, and had a wicked sense of humor. One of my best friends in the program had a major drawl, and tended to use fixin to quite often. Our prof would look at him and say "why, is it broken?". That actually stopped me from using that phrase. :)

12) When people who write news articles go to the trouble of using a capital in Apple's product names, but still get it wrong, like Itunes and Iphone. I wouldn't care if they just wrote itunes, or iphone etc., but if your going to use a capital, can't you make it the right one?
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This bugs me as well. To be fair, though, this is often the result of an over-zealous spellchecker. It's not too bad on most Mac software, but MS Word is notorious for trying to force that leading letter to be caps.
 
1. Rednecks. Sorry, iMpathetic. I've lived in the middle of Oklahoma all my life and I still hate them.

2. People whose first language is English, but they don't know the difference between "their," "there," and "they're." Such as my high school BIOLOGY TEACHER.

3. People who use too many exclamation marks everywhere. The ones that put six of them after every sentence as if they're screaming everything they say at the top of their lungs. Such as my high school ENGLISH TEACHER.

4. People who use "u" and "r" everywhere when it takes about a quarter of a millisecond to type the extra two letters and not look like a moron.

5. Grammar nazis.

6. People who think that going to any website means you're "logging on" to that website.

7. Commercials that are twice as loud as anything else on TV. They think they're getting my attention by blowing up my speakers, but as soon as I hear one I just mute the TV and ignore it. YOU'RE LOSING MONEY BY MAKING YOUR COMMERCIALS SO FACKING LOUD.

8. BILLY MAYS! HE'S CONSTANTLY YELLING! HE DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO TALK NORMALLY, HE'S LIKE THOSE ANNOYING PEOPLE WHO USE SIX EXCLAMATION MARKS AFTER EVERYTHING!!!!!!

9. The fact that Billy Mays is getting his own TV show.

10. People who think arguments against Macs from about 1996 are still valid. "LOL MACS ONLY HAVE ONE CLICK LOL MACS R GAY"
 
1. Use your f.....g blinker!!!
2. People who criticize my spelling and grammar on the net.
3.You
4.Its my phone, dont touch it.....
5.Im fat and i ride bmx and have a mohawk. stop staring and go back to your carrots.
 
That-Is-Bull said:
7. Commercials that are twice as loud as anything else on TV. They think they're getting my attention by blowing up my speakers, but as soon as I hear one I just mute the TV and ignore it. YOU'RE LOSING MONEY BY MAKING YOUR COMMERCIALS SO FACKING LOUD.
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I'm with you on that one. Annoys the crap out of me.
 
Threads mysteriously disappearing completely if they're a valid complaint against eBay from a few of us Brits who are just plain sick of being screwed on postage rules, paypal payment clearing, their worthless email maze of a customer service policy and anything else we could think of and won't ever disagree on.

Maybe someone on here either works for eBay or they advertise through google ad words so anything negative is removed from the site?

Is that the reason maybe?

I think it probably is isn't it?

I was pretty annoyed when a perfectly valid thread wasn't even in the waste land, just GONE when there's a minefield of irrational hilarity in the wasteland you can read through all day just for giggles.

7. Commercials that are twice as loud as anything else on TV. They think they're getting my attention by blowing up my speakers, but as soon as I hear one I just mute the TV and ignore it. YOU'RE LOSING MONEY BY MAKING YOUR COMMERCIALS SO FACKING LOUD.
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I'm with you on that one. The squawking side show attraction cow with a 200dB, abrasive essex accent that runs the cafe below my flat used to wake me up at 6am listening to a local radio station with constant adverts every 5 minutes. I stopped paying her any electric money till she shut up once and it worked, for a while... then she eventually stopped it entirely when she got a mysterious visit from the TV Licence people. I can't think why that would have happened.
 
That-Is-Bull said:
2. People whose first language is English, but they don't know the difference between "their," "there," and "they're." Such as my high school BIOLOGY TEACHER.

3. People who use too many exclamation marks everywhere. The ones that put six of them after every sentence as if they're screaming everything they say at the top of their lungs. Such as my high school ENGLISH TEACHER.

4. People who use "u" and "r" everywhere when it takes about a quarter of a millisecond to type the extra two letters and not look like a moron.

5. Grammar nazis.
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You realize, of course, that the first three statements make you a grammar nazi. :D

I can't say anything. I am a grammar nazi and I freely admit it.
 
People who use the word addicting when addictive is the correct word to use. Which is virtually every time they use 'addicting'.

I've only really seen it on this forum, but I see it a lot. And a little piece of me dies every time, it really does.

Oh, and customers who think they know more than staff, when it's bloody obvious they don't. Because sometimes - most of the time - the staff are fairly knowledgeable. And the customer generally isn't.
 
11. Websites like YouTube that make videos automatically start when you go to the page. I have a horrible ISP (nothing good is available at my house) so it takes awhile for videos to load. This means that every time I open a video, I have to wait for the video to load a little bit so it can start playing so I can pause it before it hits the end of the loaded part. If I don't pause the video before it plays too far and starts loading again, I have to wait for it to load a little bit more and then try to pause it again. It's a mess when I'm trying to load more than one video. Who the hell actually benefits from auto-play videos anyway? And why isn't there an option to disable it? Pisses me off.
12. Places that keep it really hot inside when it's really cold outside. I dress in layers so I don't freeze while I'm outside, then when I go inside a 90º building I'm sweating because of all the stuff I have on.
13. Carlos Mencia.
14. Teenagers who smoke to be cool, and call anybody who doesn't smoke a p****. I've never done a drug in my life, but I don't have anything against people who do, as long as they do them to feel good and not to look cool. Really, it's anybody who does anything just to look cool that I hate.
15. People who try to be different by hating everything that's popular and liking everything that's unpopular regardless of how much it sucks.
16. Music that's repeated on the radio 24/7. Most of it's good music, BUT JESUS HITLER CHRIST, I'VE HEARD IT A BILLION TIMES, PLAY SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
17. People who think that all electronic music is trance and is just "DO, DO, DO, DO, DO, DO, DO," and the ones that say "dude omg ur gay" because I listen to good music like Shpongle, Amon Tobin and Boards of Canada.
18. The current "metrosexual" fad where everybody looks and acts as gay as possible. I have nothing against gay people, but I hate seeing everybody in tight jeans, a pink shirt, and long blonde hair and not being able to tell their gender. It's so confusing!
19. The mall. I hate it. It's where all the worst stereotypes of every group walk around yelling and buying stupid sh*t all day. And it has Abercrombie, which displays giant pictures of naked men everywhere. DO NOT WANT.
20. Internet Exploder. Know what would be ridiculously awesome? If Konficker only affected Windows users with Internet Explorer as their default browser, and when it decides to do something, it'll install a real browser on their computers so I don't have to waste so much time trying to design for IE.

steve2112 said:
You realize, of course, that the first three statements make you a grammar nazi. :D
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I know, it was a joke :D
 
That-Is-Bull said:
20. Internet Exploder. Know what would be ridiculously awesome? If Konficker only affected Windows users with Internet Explorer as their default browser, and when it decides to do something, it'll install a real browser on their computers so I don't have to waste so much time trying to design for IE.
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YES! Web design/development would be soo much easier if IE disappeared, or was at least consistently wrong, instead of being wrong a little different with every version.
 
instaxgirl said:
It makes me feel like someone's trying to catch me out, which bugs me.
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I was still being asked for ID to buy cigarettes when I was 23. I quit at 25 but it was still embarrassing.

I was also refused service in a pub right next to where I'd worked for over a year by some ponce of a bar manager who had that totally sad metro-sexual bum fluff beard and high lights look some 17 year old lad who's trying too hard to look older than he is would have.

We were 27 or 28 at the time and the girls we were with were 19 and 23 but decided to order coke when they went to the bar. We deliberately went back mid week with an overwhelming amount of ID just to prove a point.

I was asked for ID for buying a 6 pack of lager in Morrisons when I was 30. when I laughed and said I was 30, the woman said she could tell I was over 18 straight away from my smile after that. (my eye wrinkles gave it away).

When I was 31 I'd being wandering around town for well over an hour, I was drenched through from the rain and wind and rushed into a pub to use the toilets, when I went to the bar afterwards and ordered a pint, the girl behind the bar refused to serve me saying I wasn't 18. I agreed saying I haven't being 18 for a long time and don't carry ID because I'm 31. The girl then said she gets ID'd all the time and she's still not serving me.

It sounded like someone was getting a bit of payback for being refused service herself so I just laughed, said she barely looks 20 herself and left without going to the point of buying a soft-drink instead.
 
What's funny is over the years, my pet peeve list grows smaller. With age, for me, comes tolerance. I used to be so ADD on things and lacked patience but these days, I work on long term projects and find the slow progress very rewarding.

I can almost guess the age of some of the posters based on their pet peeve lists. Those are similar to what I would have had from age 13 to age 21.

Instant gratification (which is a guarantee for a long pet peeve list) is no longer my key trait as it was when I was a teen, and more sage like patience has allowed me to finish college in my late-20s, get through all four operas of The Ring, and actually start to play some jazz guitar (which is an exercise in slow frustration). If anything, the fast moving blockbuster movies and video games I used to love are what I find more annoying these days. :)
 
barkmonster said:
I was still being asked for ID to buy cigarettes when I was 23. I quit at 25 but it was still embarrassing.


When I was 31 I'd being wandering around town for well over an hour, I was drenched through from the rain and wind and rushed into a pub to use the toilets, when I went to the bar afterwards and ordered a pint, the girl behind the bar refused to serve me saying I wasn't 18. I agreed saying I haven't being 18 for a long time and don't carry ID because I'm 31. The girl then said she gets ID'd all the time and she's still not serving me.

It sounded like someone was getting a bit of payback for being refused service herself so I just laughed, said she barely looks 20 herself and left without going to the point of buying a soft-drink instead.
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When I was about 28 or so, I was dating a girl who was about 24. She was very young looking, and very short, barely reaching 5 feet tall if she poofed her hair up. I had pretty much gotten used to it until one day we went to an R rated movie. I noticed the ticket taker was looking at me a bit funny. She got carded to get get into the movie. The clerks thought she was under 17, which really explained the weird looks. I was cracking up throughout the movie, until she pointed out that basically I looked like some pervert near 30 year old dating a 17 year old. Then I felt like a dirty old man. :)
 
That-Is-Bull said:


4. People who use "u" and "r" everywhere when it takes about a quarter of a millisecond to type the extra two letters and not look like a moron.

10. People who think arguments against Macs from about 1996 are still valid. "LOL MACS ONLY HAVE ONE CLICK LOL MACS R GAY"
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lol
 
Chics that smack/crackle/pop their GUM!!! UGH!! You know the types...all loud and clickity clackity like...
Makes me wanna punch 'em in their ovaries...:mad:
 
Sorry, I had to accidentally drop my pet peeve out the car window in a burlap sack when it kept eating my shoes ... and pissing on the bathroom mat.
 
63dot said:
What's funny is over the years, my pet peeve list grows smaller. With age, for me, comes tolerance. I used to be so ADD on things and lacked patience but these days, I work on long term projects and find the slow progress very rewarding.

I can almost guess the age of some of the posters based on their pet peeve lists. Those are similar to what I would have had from age 13 to age 21.
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Oddly enough, my list has grown longer as I have gotten older. I am slowly turning into a grouchy old man. I figure in a few years, I will be yelling at kids to get off my lawn. When talking to younger people, I have had to stop myself from saying something along the lines of "Back in MY day..." a couple of times.
 
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