Pet Peeves

What are your pet peeves?



Me, I can't stand people asking questions about the obvious, that drives me up the walls.

I find different things obvious to different people...

As an example, if I were to be standing in front of Big Ben and someone asked me the time, I would kick them in the face.

My pet peeves is when my pet pees. I hate it when my dog pees on my futon.

Fetus4188 said:

As an example, if I were to be standing in front of Big Ben and someone asked me the time, I would kick them in the face.

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What if they were blind?

I would kick them, then feel bad later.

I've always wanted to get a dog, and name him Peeve. Then I can walk him and introduce him to people as 'My Pet Peeve.'

Stupid drivers would be mine. Nothing pisses me off more than a stupid driver.

Turner_727 said:

I've always wanted to get a dog, and name him Peeve. Then I can walk him and introduce him to people as 'My Pet Peeve.'

Stupid drivers would be mine. Nothing pisses me off more than a stupid driver.

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You must do a lot of pissing then.

Mine is... actually you're onto something. My pet peeve is the expression of the face of some stupid driver that looks at you <-- kind of like that mixed in with . It's like they are totally taken aback at your stare as they nearly collide with you out of the blue. Not to discriminate but I mostly see women doing this.

Fetus4188 said:

As an example, if I were to be standing in front of Big Ben and someone asked me the time, I would kick them in the face.

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My Pet Peeve is when someone refers to the famous clock tower at Westminster as "Big Ben" ... since that name properly applies only to the bell, IIRC ...

Hey Fetus, is that really your name?

My pet peeve...sigh...I usually hate avid Firefox fanboys who always shout, "Get Firefox!" when someone specifically asks about an IE problem only. Or people that hate Opera simply because it has a banner ad. Or Firefox fanboys that, again, act like as if FF is the only alternative to IE (Opera, K-Melon, etc. are also browsers).

I also have a pet peeve with Internet Explorer - the absolute worse supporter of web standards. I hate having to "hack" my pages so it looks OK in IE. Even if IE upgraded tomorrow totally up-to-date - we'd still be stuck. 95, 98, and ME users couldn't upgrade and thus everyone would have to wait until they ditched their old computers and get XP and the latest browser.

Browsers other than Firefox exist? j/k

What really annoys me is when people pretend to know a lot about a subject that they really know little about. Of course, if they fake it well enough then it isn't noticeable, but that usually requires some knowledge of the subject.

I have to with Cal on this one, I HATE when people ask stupid questions, even if their are family. I also dislike groupthink and mass hysteria. I have a kneejerk reaction and go angianst the flow.

My pet peeve is rude people.

My pet peeve is moral lecturing.
Especially when I know the "altruist's" real motivation is to fill their great ego to even greater proportions by proving how they are so "sophisticated" as to consider the fragile feelings of everyone.

I fail to understand why people should not be allowed to opine, no matter how ugly anyone thinks it may be.

My pet peeve is the incredibly stupid. For example I am just sitting there in Astronomy class and some girls says "you mean that other planets have moons too?" Argghh!

My pet peeve is whiney young westerners of middle class extraction who feel that the world owes them an easy life and that their opinions are really important and well founded even though they have little to no real life experience with real problems. Believe it or not I am not actually talking about the posters here (although perhaps I could be, I just don't know most of you all well enough, those I do know fall into both camps).

Most of the people who work for me are from the poorer parts of Latin America and have experienced real actual problems in life - like eating bugs or iguanas so that they don't starve to death, being shot at and/or having to shoot back, seeing their relatives suffer through bad medical care or poor education because of poverty, etc. My problem is with the gringo hipster kids who work on the other side of my restaurant and complain about the suffering they experience from actually having to work and do difficult things to get a paycheck. My crew works hard and takes care of business without complaint, the primadonna, skilless greenhorns on the other side actually have the gall to complain about their much easier jobs and the fact that they make less money than an immigrant who works like a dog and sometimes may have the nerve to call them lazy and weak for their complaining. I am sorry but being born in the west shouldn't automatically give you a right to an easy life when so many others aren't born with it and actually have to create it on their own.

Sheesh, they are turning me into Archie Bunker, which generally I ain't.

I can't stand intellectual snobbery. It comes in many forms, but particularly when one believes that they are "enlightened" for thinking one way while all others are "uninformed", "illeducated", or "ignorant" (all short for 'stupid') when they think differently.

My biggest pet peeve is when My Empire is defeated by "superior forces," such as Yuri2356's.

Fetus4188 said:

As an example, if I were to be standing in front of Big Ben and someone asked me the time, I would kick them in the face.

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My pet peeve is when I am in London, my contact lenses have fallen out and I ask some bloke what the time is .... than he kicks me in the face.

My pet peeve would probably be prejudice; applying a judgement (or motives) to a group of people instead of individuals. Probably the most annoying thing I've heard recently is Ann Coulter saying "There are some bad Republicans; there are no good Democrats." It wouldn't matter if it were Michael Moore saying the opposite, such a generalization is just maddening to me.