Pet Peeves

[justin]

One thing that annoys me is when someone uses the word literally when they're really speaking figuratively. You know like

"It literally took forever"

Really, so you're still waiting for it to finish then?

It literally has me ripping my hair out

[Candleshoe]

Ooh, yes Jusin: I was watching some TV program yesterday where the words "He literally had a gall bladder operation" were used....as opposed to the figurative operation he could have had, I guess!!

[ambersagoddess]

Okay, this is a touchy subject, and I'm sure I'm going to have a boatload of kittens hate me for life for this one, but I HATE, absolutly HATE it when people who cut flaunt it.

Oh God it pisses me off SO much. My brother does it sometimes. He'll cut up his arm or something and wear short sleeved shirts and if someone doesn't notice or ask him about it within like, three seconds he'll point it out "Dude, look what I did, I was so depressed". UGH! Drives me UP THE DAMN WALL!

I dumped a chick because she did it too. It's not the cutting I hate, it's the flaunting. As someone who struggled with identity issues, I know what it's like to cut, I'm sure a lot of kittens do. It's the whining and showing it off and wanting sympathy and attention that bothers me.

My girlfriend cuts as a way to feel more in control of her life. She's a control freak, and honestly I don't hold it against her. That's just who she is. And even though it bothers me, I understand why she does it, and she's not trying to hurt herself, so it isn't really that big of a deal.

People trying to commit suicide need help, that doesn't bother me. Neither does people who need to feel in control, or people who just get off on it. It's those attention seeking people. DRIVES ME CRAZY!!!

So, I do the one thing that I know pisses them off more than anything, I ignore them. If my brother shows me his cuts I just shrug. I'll say '"Whatever" or not bring it up at all. Fuck them, if they want attention so bad they can find better ways to get it.

Pisses me off!

Rant over.

-Rei

[umgaynow]

I said it in the random moments thread, and then realised it is a pet peeve too, so:

I really, really hate it when people use "impact", "resource" and "presence" as verbs.

As in: "that impacted me greatly" - no, I think you'll find that it had a big impact on you. "Impacted me greatly" means that it packed you firmly together with something...as in an impacted tooth. Unfortunately, this misuse is so widespread that it is now seen to be correct.

Or: "We resource offices around the world" - no, I think you'll find that you provide resources for offices...

And finally, my personal favourite: "Can we ask Bob to presence himself among us?". Argghh - is it so hard to say Can we get Bob in here?

I have actually heard all three of these repeatedly - and complained loudly every time. I like to think I am doing my bit for english grammar, one idiot at a time...

How about "The War on Terror" that makes me nuts! It's TERRORISM! Terror is an emotion...you cannot have a war on an emotional response!!

Also the whole "Impact" as a verb...drives me crazy!

And people who lick their fingers before they turn the page or God forbid count out money to give to you...if I want to share your bodily fluids, it will be in a much more intimate setting and you will definitely know I want to...in the mean time keep them to yourself

People picking food off my plate or asking for a bite of my food...or like my mother who is the most annoyingly indirect person in the world, just saying "Hmmm I wonder what that tastes like..." and you're eating freaking toast!

But the big one these days is people who conduct personal conversations on their cell phones in public...I do not want to hear you gossipping with your friend or fighting with your significant other or talking about some icky health problem you or one of your family members has, OK? Ditto on loudly proclaiming idiotic and ignorant opinions on things or using offensive epithets about members of other races, genders or sexual orientations (unless of course you're making fun of straight people...just kidding) And I definitely don't want to listen to you practically having phone sex either...just when I thought there was nothing worse than people heavily making out in public!

Sandi

[JustSkipIt]

Ok, another one of mine is people who either stop walking in some public place: a park, a sidewalk, a shop or something or worse yet, stop and then back up. There's a whole line of people behind you!

But a funny thought about the finishing sentences thing: I agree that people finishing if you're just taking too long (in their opinion) is rude. But there's this thing in relationships. You start dating someone and it's great and your friends/family ask about her and you say: "she's so perfect for me. We can finish each other's sentences." You're in love and the world is rosy. But a few years go by and you have a hard day and she finishes your sentence and you scream "stop interrupting me! You always interrupt me!"

[Auburn]

When people make plans with you then call at the last minute to cancel but they make up a lie rather than just saying, "I can't be bothered today, maybe some other time?" Even though you know they're lying. I hate that! I'd rather them tell the truth, I would, and often have.

[GayNow]

When people who can't whistle...whistle....loudly...and off key.

[Candleshoe]

People who use their car fog lights when it isn't foggy.

[Candleshoe]

Just me with the anger problem at the moment then?

I hate hecklers. They are just rude.

I paid good money to see Beth Orton tonight, and she was brilliant. Anyone who knows anything about her should be aware that she plays acoustic guitar a lot. You would think the the audience would therefore also be aware that sometimes you have to retune a guitar between songs. So the bloke at the back who kept shouting "Just play us a bloody tune, love" and then coughing the word "Amateur" really annoyed me.

If you don't like the gig, bugger off back to the bingo!

[kisstheviolets]

massive pet peeve: when people put an "s" at the end of the word "anyway" - i'm convinced they do it just to torture me. it's working.

[HalfCamel]

Pet peeve 1: When people wear their jump-drive, or pen-drive or whatever you call it, around their neck. It's a tool people! Not an accessory. I understand if you use it all day and need to use it every two minutes, then fine. But if you have one presentation to use it for and you're still wearing it 30 minutes later, then grrrrrrr. Put it away.

Pet peeve 2: Tyra Banks.

[boomstick79]

Candleshoe people who heckle at gigs tend to get on my nerves as well, though admittedly I have heckled on occasion when the live act has proved inexcusable to the good stuff on an album. Either that or I walk out which pains me as I pay good money to go see bands, but my ears cannot tolerate the music massacre (Blink 182 I have never forgiven for their piss poor show at Brixton last year). But I have seen Beth Orton a few times and every gig she has played has been ace so I probably would have smacked the bloke myself heheh. I'm seeing her next Saturday as well so I have my hopes held high
People who try to get shots on their camera phones at gigs really piss me off as well, particularly one knob jockey who was at a low key Gemma Hayes acoustic gig in Camden a few weeks back and kept putting the phone right in my eye line, trying to get 'action' shots from a piss poor camera phone. He was also irritating everyone in the crowd with his comments, like when she sang 'Easy on the eye' and he said "yes you are love", very loudly while gyrating like a twat. The rage....
People who sing loudly in my ear at gigs tend to irritate me as well. I was at a Vanessa Carlton gig a few years back and two drunk and tuneless girls were wailing along little realising most people had actually come to hear Vanessa Carlton sing live than those bloody two.
Oooo I am seething now remembering the irritation.... I used to be so happy at gigs. Now I just wait for the next berk to irritate me. I must be getting old....

~Lou

[Candleshoe]

Boomstick, I second the camera-phone idiot rage. Why on earth they think they will ever get a decent shot is beyond me. There was a guy even using a flash the other night....Beth was fab, so you should have a good night. She is playing a lot of the stuff off her new album, so you might want to do some homework, if you want to be able to wail along....(on an "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" basis!). Not sure if she is using the same support act with her at every gig, but if they are called Clay Hill and are five guys, one of whom looks a bit like a stoned Oxbridge student until he starts singing, they were absolutely incredible....

And to get back on topic - my pet peeve of today is takeaway restaurant employees who can't speak enough of the local language to understand your order.

[Auburn]

A gathering of saliva goop in the corner of someone's mouth, I can't look at a person when that happens and it peeves me off because it makes me feel ill. It used to happen with my P.E teacher.... bleh!

[Boschi]

When people "graciously" gesture you to go through a four way stop out of turn.

It is a perfectly simple system folks. Works great until somebody buggers it up and then a massive game of "is he or isnt she going to go now" or "after you, no, after you, no..." ensues.

Just pay attention and take your turn when it comes up. Grrrrr.

(Apologies for directing this at you all. In reality the target is a random man in a white truck who pissed me off today.)

- Boschi

[boomstick79]

Slightly OT but Candleshoe Clayhill are a band made up of the former members of a band called Sunhouse who released a brilliant album called Crazy on the Weekend. The Clayhill album isn't bad either so I await with even greater anticipation for the Beth gig
And another pet peeve of mine are ill informed telesales people. Someone rang me up this morning saying that their company had done a survey of the area I live in and were offering a free quote for a conservatory. I can only assume the person who did the survey was pissed because they would have realised I live in a small block of flats. Idiots...

~Lou

[Candleshoe]

I tend to tell anyone (telesales, doorsteppers, the lot) that I am a member of The Church of the Holy Smartie, and ask if they have ever considered chocolate to be a religious experience. They run away quite fast...

[watty]

People who don't let disembarking passengers off the train / subway first. Similarly with for elevators. I mean, it's common sense -- let people vacate that space first before trying to get into it yourself.
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[JustSkipIt]

I completely second Watson's peeve. I work in a building with 5 floors and people are always getting on the elevators before others can get off.

[GayNow]

Let's continue with pet peeves revolving around elevators....

Okay, people...you approach the elevators. There's someone else waiting. The call buttons for the elevators are ALL LIT UP (i.e., someone pushed them and called the elevator to that floor). Pushing the call buttons again and again and again will NOT make the elevator come any faster!!!!!

Oh, and when the light goes off, that means that an elevator is about to open on that floor. YOU DON'T NEED TO PUSH THE BUTTONS AGAIN!!!!

*sigh* I deal with this every day and I just want to smack people.

[watty]

I think there was a Mr Bean joke about that, but I may be wrong.

More elevator peeves. People knowing there are people a few steps behind them, push the Close button as soon as they get in so the doors close smack in the face of the other people.
[br]

[the hero factor]

Example.

Someone else: Blah blah blitty blah blah blah the truck? *expectant look*

Me: I'm sorry, I didn't hear. What?

Someone else: The truck? *more expectant look*

Me: *blank stare* And? The truck what? I need some freakin' context here!

Seriously, what is that? Only repeating the last two words of whatever they were saying. Arguably, if I know the person was talking to me at all, then I probably heard the end part of the sentence, it's the beginning part that I missed. It bugs me.

And word to Boschi's traffic etiquette woes. I'm right there with ya.

[Willow~Rosenberg]

Hmmm, pet peeves? Oh, this could get long.


In no particular order:

- People who don't use turn signals. There is a very good reason why they were put on the vehicle... they let the other driver know what you're planning on doing. I get cut off by people at least once a day.

- People who don't wash their hands after using the bathroom. This drives me insane, and, honestly, grosses me out.

- Schools praising their "prize" athletes more than the students who are on the honor roll. My high school was notorious for this, regardless of the fact that the students brought in over $8 million in scholarship money. But you know what's really important. That guy can hit a homerun every 5.2 at bats. Thinking about it, this is probably one of my more prominent pet peeves.

- When you order something specifically at a restaurant and the kitchen either ignores it, botches it, whatever. I tell the waiter extra well done for my food, and they bring it out medium 45 out of 46 times. Plain sandwich with no toppings and they put cheese on it. Can they read?? Another one of my more prominent pet peeves.

I know I probably have a lot more, but that is enough for now.

[JustSkipIt]

My wife has a habit which I find extremely irritating (ok, more than one). Our computers sit near each other on a desk. She will be working at hers and whenever I start using mine, she looks over my shoulder and comments on whatever I'm doing. Now she realizes that this is nosy and generally says, "I shouldn't be looking. Go on..." but she does it anyway. Well, I'm not particularly worried about my privacy or anything (because I know I have none but that's a different story). Here's the peevy part. So I'll be reading on Kitten board right? (as I do). And she will go: "who is that?" or "what are they doing?" She's talking about some avatar in the top 1/3 of the screen which I'm not looking at and which goes with some post that I'm not reading anyway, not that I'd necessarily know who was in the picture if I was reading the posting. So I end up having to stop reading, look at the avatar, and tell her that I've never seen the picture in my life, I don't know the member, and sorry...

[Jennpurr]

My new pet peeve. My girlfriend has gotten into the habit of saying, "Thanks," pausing, and then, "the management." Grrr! What does she think, I'm one of her employees?

Jen

[Candleshoe]

Yuck Alert...

My pet peeve for today is, in fact, a pet peeve. I don't understand why my old dog's bowel is so time sensitive. The young one is wonderful, and the old one is surprisingly fit and healthy for a 16 year old, but if I am much more than half an hour late home from work it is like she has exploded! And somehow she always looks at me in just the right way to make me feel like it's my fault!

[potential_angel]

Okay, this is a touchy subject, and I'm sure I'm going to have a boatload of kittens hate me for life for this one, but I HATE, absolutly HATE it when people who cut flaunt it.

Oh God it pisses me off SO much. My brother does it sometimes. He'll cut up his arm or something and wear short sleeved shirts and if someone doesn't notice or ask him about it within like, three seconds he'll point it out "Dude, look what I did, I was so depressed". UGH! Drives me UP THE DAMN WALL!

I dumped a chick because she did it too. It's not the cutting I hate, it's the flaunting. As someone who struggled with identity issues, I know what it's like to cut, I'm sure a lot of kittens do. It's the whining and showing it off and wanting sympathy and attention that bothers me.

My girlfriend cuts as a way to feel more in control of her life. She's a control freak, and honestly I don't hold it against her. That's just who she is. And even though it bothers me, I understand why she does it, and she's not trying to hurt herself, so it isn't really that big of a deal.

People trying to commit suicide need help, that doesn't bother me. Neither does people who need to feel in control, or people who just get off on it. It's those attention seeking people. DRIVES ME CRAZY!!!

So, I do the one thing that I know pisses them off more than anything, I ignore them. If my brother shows me his cuts I just shrug. I'll say '"Whatever" or not bring it up at all. Fuck them, if they want attention so bad they can find better ways to get it.

Pisses me off!

Rant over.

-Rei

I totally agree, I hate people who try to get attention from it. Its like this girl who is two years younger than me and she is in love with my best friend and write her letters saying 'Amz! I Love you and I cut to get your attention'. I don't think its right to flaunt it cause its not something you should really show people randomly. Also it makes my friend Amz feel really guilty.

People who ask me questions(which i kindly answer for them) then tell me that I have to be over 18! Why couldnt they tell me before I answered the questions!

People who leave the toilet seat/lid up

People who ask you to buy them a ticket to a concert then say they cant go and won't pay for the ticket.

[LesbianJedi87]

I have one.

People who get me all excited thinking we're gonna go somewhere (like see "date movie" today) and then tell me NO ceause they heard from OTHER people it was stupid.

Yeah I hate people who don't go want to go to the movies cause OTHER people say its stupid. Well who care's about what other people think! Just shut up and see the sodding movie!

[oneyedchicklet]

One of my biggest is people who complain about elected officials and didn't even vote in the election. I went with my sister in law to pick my nephew up from school. One of the mothers who was waiting for her child was complaining about a member recently elected to the school board. Another parent asked her why she voted for him and her response was "oh I can't be bothered in any election to vote". My kids aren't in that school district but yet, my butt was there to vote.

I'm sorry people, if you have the right to vote, than excersise it. If you don't vote, don't complain. Its as simple as that.

Hugs
Barb

[Auburn]

Candleshoe wrote:

Yuck Alert...

My pet peeve for today is, in fact, a pet peeve. I don't understand why my old dog's bowel is so time sensitive. The young one is wonderful, and the old one is surprisingly fit and healthy for a 16 year old, but if I am much more than half an hour late home from work it is like she has exploded! And somehow she always looks at me in just the right way to make me feel like it's my fault!

that's the same with my cat, he's 16 too and has pee'd NEXT to his litter tray before, like he just didn't make it.... poor bugger. When I asked him what the hell happened (like you do) he was so cute I couldn't tell him off (like he'd understand me)

My pet peeve, when you're reversing into a parking space and someone comes out of nowhere and parks there even though they have seen you. It's impolite and damn well bloody rude!