Pet Peeves

[Mathilda]

I'm going to have to add another one.
In movies and television programs when people just come and shout somethng at someone and the storm out, without stoppng to listen to the perfectly obvious explanation why they'd got the wrong end of the stick.

 

[GenMarshall]

Hmm, do you posters want a short list or a long list?

Ill go with the short list

• Idiodic People (Its like talking to a freeking wall)
• Trolls
• Drivers flying past a stop sign
• Grandma and/or Grandpa driving in front of me (They go 45 mph on a 55/65 mph strech of highway)

 

[sourboy]

I have a couple more too:

Movies (seems to include DVDs now) that have endless trailers (from the word "trail" meaning to follow) at the start of the films. I don't mind a couple - but 20 minutes of previews pisses me off - especially when it's for a television show.

Also, any TV show or movie where the person's number starts out "555" (I understand, but c'mon there's other ways around it - what happened to creativity?), and where they finish the conversation without saying "good-bye" - bad guys I can let slide, but a mother to a child?

The stereotypical date too, while were at it. I kiss if I want to kiss - I don't count dates....can't standardize my love.

 

[Jawz II]

Bad spelling and punctuation on the internet. Just because it's the internet there's no excuse for making yourself look like an idiot. The "where/were/wear" and "there/their/they're" stuff really pisses me off.

That's why I love the somethingawful.com forums, the admins there actively support berating people for bad grammar and the like. We even have an :english101: smiley.

ah man i hate that, nothing worse than a spelling nazi, i mean its a bit anal, no?

if you dont like how someone writes, just dont read anything he writes, ok?

easy as that

 

[nonconformist]

Another thing I don't like is when you're in the London Underground, there is the unwritten "walk on the left, people stanid to the right of the escalators, those walking to the left" rule,and someone comes along and messes it up!

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

When I am walking down a hallway at school, and there is a large group of people talking to each other either not moving or moving very slowling and blocking the hall. I usually walk fast, and this really annoys me.

 

[Yuri2356]

When I am walking down a hallway at school, and there is a large group of people talking to each other either not moving or moving very slowling and blocking the hall. I usually walk fast, and this really annoys me.

Realy? I have the same problem. It's even worse when they know that you're trying to get around them, so they go out of their way to cut you off.

 

[Rhymes]

I've got one : STUPID CALIFORNIANS AND OREGONS THAT MAKE YOU WEAR CHAINS ON YOUR !?%"$/! TIRES EVEN IF THE ROAD CONDITIONS ARE WAY BETTER THEN IN MONTREAL WHERE CHAINS JUST DONT EXIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For god's sake these guys even have check points to enforce the use of chains, its driving me insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go buy some winter tires for crying out loud

 

[Perfection]

People who still have thier holiday avatars

 

[Fetus4188]

I've got one : STUPID CALIFORNIANS AND OREGONS THAT MAKE YOU WEAR CHAINS ON YOUR !?%"$/! TIRES EVEN IF THE ROAD CONDITIONS ARE WAY BETTER THEN IN MONTREAL WHERE CHAINS JUST DONT EXIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For god's sake these guys even have check points to enforce the use of chains, its driving me insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go buy some winter tires for crying out loud

You would have to be insane to buy winter tires on the west coast.

 

[Rhymes]

You would have to be insane to buy winter tires on the west coast.

I guess so, but at least dont force the people that have them to put chains on them.

 

[Keirador]

Dumb girls who specifically pursue and are attracted to *jerks, then complain and despair that all guys are *jerks.

*Jerk guys who specifically pursue and are attracted to dumb girls, then complain and despair that all girls are dumb.

Probably the most irritating thing to me is when unattractive people complain about attractive people being too shallow. The idea conveyed is that the attractive people should disregard appearance and date these unattractive "uggos". What irritates me is that the uggos in question rarely pursue other uggos; they themselves only want attractive people, even if the attractive people are out of their league. The uggos are just as shallow as anyone else, but because they're ugly and can't attract mates, they just bitterly whine and complain about everyone else, rather than recognize that THEY have the problem, not the rest of the world. Its an infuriating double standard. I'm incredibly sick of ugly girls thinking I'm shallow because I can do better than them, and ugly guys masking jealousy by adopting a holier-than-thou attitude.

*EDIT: I forgot I can't be sweary here. I'll change my original sweary term to "jerk".

 

[Keirador]

Hmm, do you posters want a short list or a long list?

Ill go with the short list

• Idiodic People (Its like talking to a freeking wall)
• Trolls
• Drivers flying past a stop sign
• Grandma and/or Grandpa driving in front of me (They go 45 mph on a 55/65 mph strech of highway)

Now normally I try to resist my pedantic tendancies, but I couldn't resist the temptation of someone misspelling the word "idiotic", and then misspelling another word right after calling other people stupid, and having yet two more errors in a rather small sample of writing.
If irony were strawberries, we'd be swimming in smoothies.

That's another pet peeve of mine; hypocrisy.

 

[viper275]

Here's one: Misuse of the car horn. You mean it's made to say hello to people and express your anger? I don't think so. I even have a neighbor that invites all of his friends over and try to get their car horns louder then see whose is the loudest. They could be doing worse things, but it's very annoying to listen to.

When someone honks the horn, your natural instinct is to look around and see if something's gone wrong, but then you see it's just someone stuck in traffic and annoyed, or somebody saying hi to a friend. Eventually, you come to ignore the thing and it makes me always wonder what would happen if you really did need to use it; would anyone pay attention?

 

[hbdragon88]

Movies (seems to include DVDs now) that have endless trailers (from the word "trail" meaning to follow) at the start of the films. I don't mind a couple - but 20 minutes of previews pisses me off - especially when it's for a television show.

Also, any TV show or movie where the person's number starts out "555" (I understand, but c'mon there's other ways around it - what happened to creativity?), and where they finish the conversation without saying "good-bye" - bad guys I can let slide, but a mother to a child?

1 - I agree totally, I hate trailers. We just escaped those stupid ads in VHS tapes! And now they're putting them back on DVDs at the start, and even disabling fast-forward? ARRRGGHH!

2 - Look, what do you want...? Another 867-5309? Jim Carrey's "Bruce Almighty" had a real phone number - guess what, stupid people were calling and asking if God could help them. People can't just be trusted with a real phone number; that's why 555 has be to be used.

 

[sourboy]

People can't just be trusted with a real phone number; that's why 555 has be to be used.

They don't have to actually give a phone number - they can do something as simple as jotting it on a piece of paper or something. I have seen plenty of movies where a phone number was asked for - and they easily side-stepped it without listing any number at all. That's all I'm saying - show some creativity.

 

[A'AbarachAmadan]

Short list
People who ask stupid questions - "here's your sign"
People who bemone their station in life instead of changing it.
People who are fat because they eat to much and then complain about it.
People who are still paid to work, but have basically quit.

 

[A'AbarachAmadan]

Dumb girls who specifically pursue and are attracted to *jerks, then complain and despair that all guys are *jerks.

*Jerk guys who specifically pursue and are attracted to dumb girls, then complain and despair that all girls are dumb.

Probably the most irritating thing to me is when unattractive people complain about attractive people being too shallow. The idea conveyed is that the attractive people should disregard appearance and date these unattractive "uggos". What irritates me is that the uggos in question rarely pursue other uggos; they themselves only want attractive people, even if the attractive people are out of their league. The uggos are just as shallow as anyone else, but because they're ugly and can't attract mates, they just bitterly whine and complain about everyone else, rather than recognize that THEY have the problem, not the rest of the world. Its an infuriating double standard. I'm incredibly sick of ugly girls thinking I'm shallow because I can do better than them, and ugly guys masking jealousy by adopting a holier-than-thou attitude.

*EDIT: I forgot I can't be sweary here. I'll change my original sweary term to "jerk".

This is absolutely hilarious. I once had a roommate in college who thought I shouldn't try to pick up girls that entered our room during hall parties because I was already 'more experienced' than him. Of course, he wasn't willing to change his grooming standards, clothing, or even consider exercise. Needless to say I didn't live with him beyond that semester.

 

[Keirador]

Yeah, I've never understood that mindset. "Instead of making MYSELF more competitive in the sex department, I will make my competition feel bad and drop out!" NEWSFLASH: Even if you were the ONLY AVAILABLE OPTION, you would still be extremely unattractive to the opposite sex!

 

[Tiberc]

When I am walking down a hallway at school, and there is a large group of people talking to each other either not moving or moving very slowling and blocking the hall. I usually walk fast, and this really annoys me.

Same here, except most of the time, it's large groups of girls clogging the halls by hugging ..

It's like "Oh my god! The last time I saw you was 50 minutes ago!"