2004 Pet Peeve Thread

[eSDee]

We haven't had one of these in a while so here goes. What gets on your nerves?

Lately I have been noticing a lot more smokers on the road tossing their cigarette butts out the window. That pisses me off. Don't screw up the planet just because you don't give a crap about your lungs buddy! :mad: :bandit:

Oh and people who drive in the fast lane going slower than the rest of traffic have always been a pain in the rear, as well as people who drive carelessly while talking on their cell phones. Well how about people who drive in the fast lane going way too slow while driving carelessly and talking on their cell phones?!!? THose people should be run off the road! :mad2: :bigmouth:

Ah that's better :) Anyone else got any pet peeves, new or old that you would like to share?

[nickel]

i'm am with you on the butt flingers eSDee. i was driving behind a guy in a jeep with the top off and he just flung his cigbutt back at me. ARRRGGGGHHH!

in NYS it is against the law to drive and talk on your cell...

but then there are people that pull out in front of you and then don't get up to speed. accelerate or stay back i say.
and God Bless those senior drivers, but some of them need to park it permanently.

[Yossarian]

people who say that with out the US in WW2, canada would have stepped up and single handedly beat the axis

[redcolours]

when people knock at your door at 10pm and tell you the TV is too loud, and at 2AM you hear them playing their PS2 hootin and hollerin.

another is when people dont call back after you called them twice and left a message, when it was THEY that asked you to call them to begin with.

i love my friends to death, but one attitude that really disgusts me is their tendecy to have a blind singular fanatical devotion to one thing, disregarding everything else. reason only suffices if it serves them, and nothing else is correct. and they resort to name-calling if you said something that isnt in their favor.

also when people take up 2 parking spaces, when they could have just easily maneuvered to fit between the lines. i wanna just come over there and key their car, or run a sharp rock across the nice paint job.

when parents let their kids run around the department stores, pulling everything off the shelves and throwing them off the floor. can anyone say slip/trip hazard?

[ray]

I hate all the goddamn Lakers fans who only blame the officiating for them getting spanked in the NBA Finals. LOL

[whitak24]

in general, smokers piss me off with their tendency to throw their butts wherever. listen, this world is not your ashtray. no one wants to see your butt laying on the sidewalk or in the gutter. take care of it, you slob!

my current (and ongoing) pet peeve is damn kids with their f*cking scooters tooling down the sidewalk at approximately 5 feet per minute. they weave all over the place, never watch where they're going, and generally create a huge hazard and traffic tieup. yet their stupid, moronic parents seem to think it's such a good idea to have the kid on the scooter. just make the little bastard walk. you're not gaining anything in speed or convenience with the scooter.

[zenbooty]

Everything on Long Island east of Queens bothers the Hell out of me. There's a lot out there, with diverse and varied environments and characteristics throughout it. And each and every one annoys me in its own unique and individual way.


Oh, and the fact that neither the drivers throughout the Fire or Police departments, nor the ambulance drivers, seem to have learned that the street I live on is narrow, one way, empties out onto an Avenue that is either backed up or running fast, and is itself backed up for most of the block at various times of the day totalling about 30% of daylight hours (and of course when I'm catching up on weekend sleep). They have not learned that they really should choose another block when there's an emergency, because there are many that run parallel to mine that are far less congested.

[whitak24]

:heh: i never stray far enough away from the city to experience the culture known as long island. don't really plan to either....most of the kids i know from there are snobbish pricks.

[Apex]

People who use the off topic forum as a dumping grounds for their threads.

[Yossarian]

:heh: i never stray far enough away from the city to experience the culture known as long island. don't really plan to either....most of the kids i know from there are snobbish pricks.

next summer i'll probably be heading out to LI to meet some family, i'll take ya out on the beach for a week

[baggio248]

My boss and my new neighbors. They are my pet peeves, their very exsistance .

[Kevster]

:heh: i never stray far enough away from the city to experience the culture known as long island. don't really plan to either....most of the kids i know from there are snobbish pricks.

The comedian Bobby Slayton has stated that jewish women from Long Island are the leading cause of homosexuality in America.

[kimchicowboy]

freakin super girly korean guys, with their long hair, pale faces, and makeup.

i'm also with the cigbutt throwers.

[whitak24]

The comedian Bobby Slayton has stated that jewish women from Long Island are the leading cause of homosexuality in America.
well, i didn't want to get into that....but it does seem that there is far too great a concentration of j.a.p.s in LI

[Freelance Superhero]

for some unknown reason, i go into a blind rage when people mess up my order at the drive-thru. and i seriously mean a murderous, irrational, break windows and punch holes in walls, blind rage.

[Kenas]

People on the subway escalator ...
REMINDER disclaimer for them:
stand on the right, pass on the left. If you like to stand leisurely and relax on the escalator, move to the right ... but if you already walking (on the left of course), please don't suddenly stop 5 feet before you get off ....

[brainsmile]

tardiness... people interrupting my sleep

[ufcrusher]

Stupidity.....
When things go against logic.....
Failure to follow the rules and thereby endangering others......
People who judge others and try to control their actions because they disagree with them*



*such as all of the rules about smoking that have suddenly been passed in the last 7 years. As an ex-smoker, it doesnt effect me anymore, but still irks me as a violation of peoples rights.

[Lolita]

People on the subway escalator ...
REMINDER disclaimer for them:
stand on the right, pass on the left. If you like to stand leisurely and relax on the escalator, move to the right ... but if you already walking (on the left of course), please don't suddenly stop 5 feet before you get off ....

:stupid: x10
I missed many a train because of them

It's funny, so many things bother me and at the moment I can't recall any...

[creampuff]

i once heard a smoker justifiy his claim for flinging his cig butts around. he said that if it weren't for him littering, then the convicts or mentally disabled people who walk around picking up trash wouldn't have jobs. so he's doing society a favor. jerk.

i hate it when people take up 2 parking spots on the street.

[cheapie]

when people say "supposubly" or "i could care less".

i don't get pissed off very easily. i guess when i can't get through to customer service at the airline or computer company. that pisses me off.

[Freelance Superhero]

when people say "supposubly" or "i could care less".DUDE! i am SO with you on that one!

[cheapie]

when people say "supposubly" or "i could care less".[QOUTE][QUOTE]DUDE! i am SO with you on that one!


or when people **** up their quotes. that really irks me! :heh:

[Showtime]

I hate bandwagonqueers and so does everyone else. Disloyal people suck. People who don't stand for something will fall for anything. :kiss:

-jel:halo:

[GraingerGuy]

Stupid drivers piss me off. Really....really....piss me off.

Students who are INSANELY disrespectful....or anyone who is disrespectful.

[Freelance Superhero]

or when people **** up their quotes. that really irks me! :heh:
DOH! :blush:

[sizemic1]

Cig. butt flingers piss me off too.
As well as, people who sign quotes with their fingers in the air.
Oh and my neighbor's kid playing his drums and their stupid dog barking at all hours of the night, or and their stupid cats stalking our birds. I guess in general, I just hate my neighbor.

One more thing..I CAN'T STAND those Enzyte "male enhancement" commercials!

[Grubbie]

People on the subway escalator ...
REMINDER disclaimer for them:
stand on the right, pass on the left. If you like to stand leisurely and relax on the escalator, move to the right ... but if you already walking (on the left of course), please don't suddenly stop 5 feet before you get off ....

it happens all the time, drives me INSANE. One ******* always stays on the left and backs it all up. Atleast when i went to spain/italy they knew to move over to the right.

[OC]

Software engineers with PhD's that need help installing a mouse in XP. Morons. :mad:

[donnar]

people who stop in the middle of the store isle or when they get a cart and they have to do right in front of the door

[ShawnLee]

I think you guys have put up a fairly good list up here, but for me? Too many to list. I think I'll just note categories where I have Pet Peeves:

~Driving
~Computers
~Politics
~Religion
~Entertainment
~Education
~Food
~Economics
~Hot chicks
~Pretension
~Everything else I forgot to include

[whitak24]

I think you guys have put up a fairly good list up here, but for me? Too many to list. I think I'll just note categories where I have Pet Peeves:

~Driving
~Computers
~Politics
~Religion
~Entertainment
~Education
~Food
~Economics
~Hot chicks
~Pretension
~Everything else I forgot to include
could we just be more efficient and summarize your list with the word "life"? :P

[ShawnLee]

could we just be more efficient and summarize your list with the word "life"? :PNah, I like life. It's just the people that iinhabit life that annoy. :P

[oblongmelon]

spam email regarding penis enlargments viagra and the like..
people who sit behind me before mass when I'm trying to get a rosary said who INSIST ON TALKING OUTLOUD about stupid sh|t they could talk about outside.
women with tattoos. UGH!
neighbors who never clean their cat boxes from their 11 cats, or whom ever clean up the dogcrap in their yard from their 3 enormous rotweilers..their stink floats out the windows and into my yard/ and house if my windows are open and it is sickening. They are dirty pigs.
the Other NEIGHBORS who 1) the girl is 23,pregnant, not married and refuses to get a job-saying she is "disabled"-she has a sore back. probably from sitting 24/7...and wont marry her fiance with whom she lives because she will loose her benefits. Her fiance who only works part time, and bitches because they have no money for food-but they get wick and foodstamps and cig money. His dirty sister-also pregnant for a 3rd time-oldest girl is mulatto and her dad is a drug dealer under a peace warrant, and the son -well his father is non existant...now this third kid-by her puerto rican 19 year old formerly divorced ex-marine (awol/brig) whom she met on the internet..they also are on the dole. It makes me crazy when they all just sit outside their front yard all day letting their garbage and crap blow over the fence..last week I went nuts and told them I was calling code enforcement on their asses when they started souping up a riding mower just to have as a ride..my old neighbors were so nice-i cant believe they sold out to white trash. ugh.

[Apex]

Impressive rant.

[Showtime]

I don't like when people drown their rice/food in soy sauce. I don't know why it bothers me. Something about the appreciation of the way the food was meant to eaten maybe. I hate it when people go places/other countries and immediately look for familar foods like McDonalds or a restaurant of their ethnicity. It's like your in a different place and you waste an opportunity to experience something new.

-jel

[kei2]

People who don't clean up after their pets, people who smoke in public, and the jello is jigglin.

[Jeffbx]

People who obsess over computer problems...

Support guy: "I fixed your slowness problem by re-installing the service pack. Everything should be OK now"

Obsessive user: "Oh thanks. What caused the problem?"

Support: "Probably a corrupt or overwritten DLL file. The service pack re-writes all the important ones, so it probably replaced a bad one".

Obsessive: "But what causes that?"

Support: "Geez, could be any number of things - software glitch, DLL contention, bad sector on your drive... But anyway it's working now."

Obsessive: "Well, I need to know what caused it so it won't happen again."

Support: "Well, finding the exact cause could take days. Besides it's working again..."

Obsessive: "You may not care about your job, but I care about mine. If there's a chance this error will happen again, I need to know about it so you can take steps to prevent it. I'm talking to your boss about this."

Support: :splat:


And:

Obsessive: "I've got a major spam problem here, and it's affecting my productivity. You guys need to get on the ball and take care of it."

Support: "Well, we have a pretty good filter in place here, so I'm surprised you're getting so much... about how many unsolicited messages have you gotten?"

Obsessive: "Two last week, and three so far this week! I never used to get this much!"

Support: "Three spam messages are affecting your productivity?"

Obsessive: "Yes! Can't you go through my mail and remove them all before you send the mail on to me?"

Support: :neartears

[OC]

Obsessive: "But what causes that?"
ooooooh, I absolutely HATE IT when people ask me that. :mad:

[guiseppewv]

I have to agree with the cig flingers. That irritates me. I also cannot stand people who drive to slow in the fast lane or who stand still on theleft hand side of the moving sidewalks and escalators. I also cannot stand smokers who think they have the right to pollute the air that everyone uses. I do like the fact that smoking is being to be banned in ALL public places around the country. Sorry I could not b!tch w/o saying at least one positive thing. :)

[slaus]

I don't like when people drown their rice/food in soy sauce. I don't know why it bothers me. Something about the appreciation of the way the food was meant to eaten maybe. I hate it when people go places/other countries and immediately look for familar foods like McDonalds or a restaurant of their ethnicity. It's like your in a different place and you waste an opportunity to experience something new.

-jel

Thats so true and it bothers me.

I hate people who fling their cigarette butts out the window. I wonder if they ever thought they might be starting a fire.

[guiseppewv]

I just thought of another one....I hate when someone calls me and then they end up talking to the people that they are with more than they talk to you. If you are going to call me then talk to me if not do not call me. Just irritates me. :throw:

[ShawnLee]

I just thought of another one....I hate when someone calls me and then they end up talking to the people that they are with more than they talk to you. If you are going to call me then talk to me if not do not call me. Just irritates me. :throw:Better yet. They call you and put you on hold. Unless it's going to be, "Please hold for the President of the United States," DON'T CALL ME AND PUT ME ON HOLD!!!!!

[Hopper1]

Cig Butts flying out of car windows is now a 1025 ticket if you get caught in washington st.
http://access.wa.gov/news/2003/Jul/n2003630_0216.aspx

I hate when coworkers ask you to do the work they should have taken care of months before, and want it done in right then.

[Lolita]

I just thought of another one....I hate when someone calls me and then they end up talking to the people that they are with more than they talk to you. If you are going to call me then talk to me if not do not call me. Just irritates me. :throw:

Oh man I hate that so much - and there are times when you can't tell if they're talking to you or the person that's with them, if you're gonna do that at least say "excuse me a second" :mad:

[oogeooge]

people who drive Rice Rockets

[RoniMan]

Students who are INSANELY disrespectful....or anyone who is disrespectful.
:stupid:

i get very irked when people forget simple things like thank you or please...

[slaus]

I hate it when people type out "u" instead of "you"

[guiseppewv]

Better yet. They call you and put you on hold. Unless it's going to be, "Please hold for the President of the United States," DON'T CALL ME AND PUT ME ON HOLD!!!!!

I agree. I might hold for the pres but I do really hate to be put on hold and I hate having to put people on hold which I rarely do unless I absolutely must.


Oh man I hate that so much - and there are times when you can't tell if they're talking to you or the person that's with them, if you're gonna do that at least say "excuse me a second" :mad:

Exactly. Are you talkin' to me? Or did you call me to talk to someone else, who is standing right next to you. :mad:

[Kim]

Doctors that take Fridays off.

[gwilks98]

I can't stand the infestation of marketing on the internet. I'm talking pop ups, embedded flash ads, spyware, pop unders, spam email someone else signed me up for, etc.

I absolutely can't stand rush hour traffic, especially when side road lights are timed exactly wrong so you stop at every friggin one of them.

I despise people like me who complain about EVERYTHING. (At least I'll admit to it.)

One more: People who are total assh0les when they think nobody's going to see or figure out who they are. This happens usually when they're either behind the wheel and/or drunk. A good example is a line-cutter. Please don't let me carry a firearm cause I hate this habit the most.

Edit: Kim, I'm totally on board with you. People who offer emergency services gotta keep weekend hrs too. Doctors, dentists, repairmen...

[sizemic1]

Oh I got another one.

I hate it when you call someone you KNOW for a fact has call waiting and they don't pick up your call! Ever! WTF is the point of CW if you don't use it?

[sizemic1]

Cig Butts flying out of car windows is now a 1025 ticket if you get caught in washington st.
http://access.wa.gov/news/2003/Jul/n2003630_0216.aspx



How about a $20,000 fine in California (http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/8809329p-9736168c.html)

[whitak24]

Oh I got another one.

I hate it when you call someone you KNOW for a fact has call waiting and they don't pick up your call! Ever! WTF is the point of CW if you don't use it?
maybe they had just called someone and didn't want to be one of those asses who say "hold on just a second, i'm getting another call."

[molecularfire]

My pet peeves:

1) Idiots who cut in line when you're at a freeway interchange or an offramp.

2) People who bump other cars when they're parallel parking. It's basically just having your greed outweigh your skills and making someone else pay the difference.

3) Women in labor who did cocaine the night before. Seriously, why isn't this a jailable crime?

[DarkFury]

Oh I got another one.

I hate it when you call someone you KNOW for a fact has call waiting and they don't pick up your call! Ever! WTF is the point of CW if you don't use it?
Maybe they had "Enhanced Caller ID" (which works with call waiting...) saw it was you... and refused to click over.

Just a thought. :hmm:

[ShawnLee]

2) People who bump other cars when they're parallel parking. It's basically just having your greed outweigh your skills and making someone else pay the difference.Seriously. This is the most brilliant line in this thread. Congrats to you on this one MF.

[eSDee]

People who double-click links in a web browser. When I watch people do this from over there shoulder I can't help but ball up my fists :mad3:

[cheapie]

People who double-click links in a web browser. When I watch people do this from over there shoulder I can't help but ball up my fists :mad3:


you too? i think i was the only one that felt like going ape**** when my co-workers do it.



how about this one. i a buddy of mine wants to go to a specific url, he types that url in yahoo, and then clicks on the link that yahoo returns. WTF???? i said, why don't you just type the url into the address bar? that's just the way i'm used to he said, and then procedeeded to double-click the link. and then i beat the **** out of him. ok, everything's true except the last sentence. grrr....

[guiseppewv]

People who double-click links in a web browser. When I watch people do this from over there shoulder I can't help but ball up my fists :mad3:

I am glad I am not the only one who gets irritated by this. :)



how about this one. i a buddy of mine wants to go to a specific url, he types that url in yahoo, and then clicks on the link that yahoo returns. WTF???? i said, why don't you just type the url into the address bar? that's just the way i'm used to he said, and then procedeeded to double-click the link. and then i beat the **** out of him. ok, everything's true except the last sentence. grrr....

I have seen people do this before and I am always like WTF? :throw:

[nickel]

the about:blank search page hijack :dead:

people who don't answer emails

my mother dating yet another guy off the internet

people who mock you out because you aren't as computer literate as they are

nights that are too short

shall i go on?

[cheapie]

she ever get the money for her truck?


and tell her my webcam is out so we'll have to cyber some other time. hehe

[nickel]

she ever get the money for her truck?


and tell her my webcam is out so we'll have to cyber some other time. hehe
she got it back and the money, due to some strong arming.


um....yeh....right....

[cheapchinese]

teacher leaving the class during class hour.. and come back on the last 45 mins.. rushing through the chapter crazy....
wth... can't you just teach it regularly like all the rest of the teacher does

[PrObLy]

how about this one. i a buddy of mine wants to go to a specific url, he types that url in yahoo, and then clicks on the link that yahoo returns. WTF???? i said, why don't you just type the url into the address bar? that's just the way i'm used to he said, and then procedeeded to double-click the link. and then i beat the **** out of him. ok, everything's true except the last sentence. grrr....


a friend of mine always goes to File->Open and then types in the URL of the website into that and then presses "ok" to load it.
This irritates me beyond belief. He doesn't even use the shortcut keys to get there...he takes the mouse all the way up to file, then to open, then instead of pressing enter to proceed to the website, he uses the mouse to press the "ok" button.

He's an engineer too and he still does this, that's the worst part. :disa:

[ShawnLee]

People who double-click links in a web browser. When I watch people do this from over there shoulder I can't help but ball up my fists :mad3:It amazes me that this bothers y'all. Mainly because it bothers me too, but I always figured I was just anal-retentive. It's good to know I'm in good company.

[cheapie]

you too? i think i was the only one that felt like going ape**** when my co-workers do it.



how about this one. i a buddy of mine wants to go to a specific url, he types that url in yahoo, and then clicks on the link that yahoo returns. WTF???? i said, why don't you just type the url into the address bar? that's just the way i'm used to he said, and then procedeeded to double-click the link. and then i beat the **** out of him. ok, everything's true except the last sentence. grrr....


ok. you wanna know what else he did that made me wanna :throw: ? to view an image in an email he would save it somewhere, search for it, and then right-click on it and make it his desktop. that's his effing way of viewing pics. i was like, wtf mate, why don't you just double-click the sumb$tch and let the default viewer open it. "that's just the way that i am used to." :censored: :censored:

[nickel]

oh that's just http://img46.photobucket.com/albums/v140/******************

[whitak24]

cheapie and company....you have some weird f*cking friends :P i have NEVER seen people double click links or do any of the other things you are describing. it's a good thing, too, because i would probably just go off on them and ask them if they enjoyed being inefficient or if they were just stupid.