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Pet Peeves

leekohler said:
Stupidity
Fingernails on a chalk board
People who discuss deeply personal things loudly on their cell phones in public
People who crack their gum
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You'd hate me, I do the last one a lot, my friend just showed me how to do it really loud and now I can't help but do it, it's natural now :p
 
Chewing noises.. Jeez I hate them with a passion! I also hate the numb feeling your arm gets when you're lying on it, and you're too comfortable to move off of it.
 
conch575 said:
Chewing noises.. Jeez I hate them with a passion!
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Old people eating. Oh god it's horrible. They chew at 500 MPH, constantly gasping and breathing heavily through their nose the whole time as if they're being strangled. I can't eat if there's an old person eating in the same room. SLOW DOWN, TAKE A BREATH, AND ENJOY YOUR FOOD. AND DRIVE FASTER.
 
leekohler said:
People who discuss deeply personal things loudly on their cell phones in public
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Oh, I don't know… depends on the person/conversation.

That-Is-Bull said:
Old people eating. Oh god it's horrible. They chew at 500 MPH, constantly gasping and breathing heavily through their nose the whole time as if they're being strangled. I can't eat if there's an old person eating in the same room. SLOW DOWN, TAKE A BREATH, AND ENJOY YOUR FOOD. AND DRIVE FASTER.
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Spoken like a true 17yo… just you wait… just you wait 'til you hit 21…
 
That-Is-Bull said:
Old people eating. Oh god it's horrible. They chew at 500 MPH, constantly gasping and breathing heavily through their nose the whole time as if they're being strangled. I can't eat if there's an old person eating in the same room. SLOW DOWN, TAKE A BREATH, AND ENJOY YOUR FOOD. AND DRIVE FASTER.
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Maybe they're worried they're not going to be able to finish.




I'm adding a pet peeve...

"Nutrition Facts" (those informational bits on the side of food packaging)

Their serving sizes for adults are a joke. Toddlers eat more than their alleged serving sizes. It can be very misleading if you don't look carefully. I find it annoying that you have to suss out each new thing for their sneakiness.
Like, you buy a little bottle of chocolate milk (or whatever) and on the bottle they proudly state "Only 4g fat! Oh drink me, I'm so awesome!" and then you look and that is per serving, and this bottle which appeared to be single serving is actually 4 servings. :rolleyes: Yeah, I'm sure everyone is content with a few sips and to close it up and put it back for 3 more sessions of sips.


And MSG. Why is that nasty artificial rubbish in so many products? It's notoriously unhealthy and causes a lot of people to have various problems. I get migraines if I eat a hearty dose of MSG, for instance, and I am not alone.
I bought something that said All natural, preservative free, blah blah blah and sure enough, it had MSG. Cheeky bastards.

Food industry people can be real twunts.

</tip of the iceberg>
 
Pet peeve?

Ads by huge faceless companies pretending that they "C*A*R*E*…

Who do they think they're kidding?

DirectLine:
*Cue Stephen Fry in patronising voice mode*
"We know things are a bit tough at the moment…"

vomit.gif
 
arkitect said:
Pet peeve?

Ads by huge faceless companies pretending that they "C*A*R*E*…
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This reminded me of a new (wait, long-existing) pet peeve of mine:

Corporate branding on everything, especially sports and music venues. The large concert amphitheater in my city has changed names so often, you can't keep up with it any more. When we were touring San Fran the other day, the guy stated that their baseball stadium had changed names three times in five years. Even on TV shows like "Deadliest Catch", they have the "Duracell Final Catch" or something to that effect. It just drives me insane.
 
My list could probably go in the hundreds but the big ones:

  • Bad drivers
  • A bad shower
  • People who over politics (or anything for that matter) when the opinion of the other person is obviously not going to change
  • Idiots
 
I am a clean freak at home and in my office.

A) at home when my room mate just leaves his shoes or socks in the living room by the couch and hes passed them 4 or 5 times since he taken them off.

B) and when someone uses my desk and computer at work and doesnt clean off the desk or put away there stuff.
 
  1. Dirt cheap PCs. *barf* I'm okay with pricey, pimped-out PCs as long as they are running Windows 7. ;)
  2. The fact that the more a job pays, the more it blows.
  3. When I get friend requests on Facespace from people I don't know. Creepy.
  4. The fact that when I lose something, I always find it in the next-to-the-last place I look. Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong...:D
 
Here is some of mine in no order just what i think of:

Unnecessary lights: Like at school when 2 sides of the classroom have big windows and the teacher still has every light on, also people who turn lights on in the morning when they aren't needed

Mac users: Seriously every time i talk about anything to do with computers it is not because i want a f**king debate over Macs vs Windows. E.G when i say something about how lightroom 2.0 almost makes my windows machine crash when i use it and get a reply "that's coz its a ****** windows and you should buy a mac". I mean for f**ks sake if you had a single core processor and 2gb 667mhz RAM lightroom wouldn't work to good for you either.

Seriously though its just a f**king computer get over it

Flat brimmed hats: And mainly the people who wear them

People who know nothing about computers yet own a computer shop: E.G Last time I went with my dad to take his computer to get fixed I said i was considering a Macbook, which was met by "lol Microsoft own apple now so there is no point buying a mac when they aren't going to be made anymore"

and finally,

Pretty much every employer in my area, 5 applications not one person had the f**king decency to even ring me to say i was unsuccessful.

EDIT: People who think songs that are just synthesized crap and a stupid computer generated bass line and a stupid voice with a gazillion effects over it is music.
 
I said this in another thread but i got to say it in this thread.

I absolutely go crazy when I go on iTunes and see that people put first review in their title and then give the album 1,2,3 stars. It's not how it works anymore and aggravates me that people still think they first reviews when they wrote 8 hours later than when it came out. I bet like hundreds of other people wrote, maybe even thousands wrote it before the 'first review' did.
Dumbnuts.

They put reviews up in groups or updates now--for those idiots information about first review....
 
iMpathetic said:
No. No no no no no. Blasting music is tons of fun, be it rap or anything else.
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Not when you're in the backseat of a car which has 15 speakers in the trunk and the volume is all the way up. :mad: (I don't know exactly what this setup is called, I know nothing about cars.) I'd like to have the ability to hear when I'm 40, thank you.

Alright, my list.

1. People who use "your" when it's supposed to be "you're." I want to punch them in the face.

2. People who say a certain genre of music sucks when they've never even listened to it.

3. Mosquito's. 'Nuff said.

4. Almost everyone who plays games online. They're either morons, jerks, 12 year olds who suck at the game, or all three.

5. People who refuse to even try to see the other side of an argument. In their mind, they're right and nothing else matters.
 
Thought of one more good one...

Rap music, or hip-hop. I usually call it "hip-hop", or just "rap", because the word "music" should never be defiled by putting it anywhere near rap.

;)
 
Cassie said:
Not when you're in the backseat of a car which has 15 speakers in the trunk and the volume is all the way up. :mad: (I don't know exactly what this setup is called, I know nothing about cars.) I'd like to have the ability to hear when I'm 40, thank you.
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I agree with you on that, it is one thing i can't stand is people that get in and insist on having the stereo up loud. How can one concentrate on driving?



Cassie said:
1. People who use "your" when it's supposed to be "you're." I want to punch them in the face.
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LoL
 
.JahJahwarrior. said:
I hate it when people say they can't do something, when in reality, they just don't want to. I hate it even more when they say they "can't help it" when in reality, they just don't care enough to stop doing whatever it is.
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that is my number one...

closely followed by: Can I ride you quad?
why the **** would I let you ride my 13,000$ quad? if something were to happen to it I would probably go to jail for assault

and touching my screen
 
iMpathetic said:
No. No no no no no. Blasting music is tons of fun, be it rap or anything else.
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Just keep the windows up and make sure I am not in it.

I saw the oldest rustiest car with the windows down that had music playing louder than my mom's 9 speaker minivan could get. bet the radio and speakers was the newest thing in that rust bucket. But why would you need speakers louder than my super loud PB in a car? I can hear my PB with the volume all the way up throughout my whole house.

Cassie said:
Not when you're in the backseat of a car which has 15 speakers in the trunk and the volume is all the way up. :mad: (I don't know exactly what this setup is called, I know nothing about cars.) I'd like to have the ability to hear when I'm 40, thank you.
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Why would you put speakers in the trunk? Your supposed to be able to hear them not hide them where your only non inside storage is supposed to be

tjsdaname said:
closely followed by: Can I ride you quad?
why the **** would I let you ride my 13,000$ quad? if something were to happen to it I would probably go to jail for assault
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What is a quad?

Also, Safari on my mom's slugpad (3 GHz? More like 800 MHz) is faster than Safari on my PB. That thing is so slow. To open Internet Exploder it takes 5 min and it is about as fast in that as safari on my PB but when Safari is running instead of Internet Exploder it is faster than my PB on the internet.
 
dmmcintyre3 said:
Why would you put speakers in the trunk? Your supposed to be able to hear them not hide them where your only non inside storage is supposed to be
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There's a reason for it, I'm just not sure what it is. Probably helps the bass or something. Whatever it is, there's no reason to have it cranked up so loud you can't talk with the person sitting next to you without yelling. :rolleyes:
 
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