Pet Peeves

[CovenantJr]

...and people who push in front of 70 year old women at the check out line, should be beaten with canes.

What about seventy year old women who push in? That seems to happen to me a lot. Not "Excuse me, do you mind if I just pop in front of you here?" but ignorantly just striding in front of the queue. Grrr.

To a lesser degree, people who crack wise when I bust out the bigger or less common words (except Fist ), especially when they ask what I mean and say, 'Well, you should've said that the first time.'

Heh. Yeah, I get that too, from time to time. My response is usually either stoney silence or something to the effect of "You should have understood me the first time". In fact, not so long ago I had a mild argument with a friend when I said I was melancholy. She demanded to know why I didn't just say I was sad, and she didn't understand when I tried to explain that I wasn't sad, I was melancholy.

Yes, that's a pet hate of mine: treating words that have related meanings as though they're actually the same word.

[I'm Murrin]

> Seeing the Watch's overall postcount go up by one, and not being able to find the new post because it was in a hidden forum.

[MsMary]

Guns:
Smokers throwing butts to the ground, out car windows, etc.

That one bothers me, too. I was especially peeved when a friend of mine threw her cigarette butt in my garden on the way out of my house. I thought it was so rude.

Posters on message boards who press enter when they get to
the edge of the text entry field instead of letting it wrap
automatically, thus making the post display with shorter
lines than the rest of the page--just as I have done, as an
example, in this post.

Wow, that seems like more trouble than it's worth. Why would someone actually bother to do that?

[MsMary]

Same for when I answer the phone, 'This is he.'

The current habit seems to be to say, "This is" with no he, she, or it.

Caller: "Hello, is Susie there?"
Person answering phone: "This is."

It always strikes me a little funny. This is what? Maybe this isn't.

[Ur Dead]

/Enters
/lurks
/saids something.

Sumpthang!!

/lurks some more.
/exits.

[MsMary]

Was that lurk for my benefit, Ur Dead?

[Ki]

my biggest pet peeve is when people forward emails to me that are clearly hoaxes. i used to send it back to them telling them it was a hoax, but it hurt their feelings.

[bloodguard bob]

my biggest pet peeve is when people forward emails to me that are clearly hoaxes. i used to send it back to them telling them it was a hoax, but it hurt their feelings.

Yes, my mom sent me the one about the eye of god in the sky that only appears every guzillion years but it's simply the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293).

Hey bgb. It looks - from you selection of peeves - as if you need a serious talk about house rules with your contubernal

Indeed, I had a good long talk with Moose this morning about the sponge issue.

[iQuestor]

> Seeing the Watch's overall postcount go up by one, and not being able to find the new post because it was in a hidden forum.

Murrin -- you definately need to get out more.

[MsMary]

my biggest pet peeve is when people forward emails to me that are clearly hoaxes. i used to send it back to them telling them it was a hoax, but it hurt their feelings.

When I get emails like that, I always check them out on Snopes and then send the link back to the person who sent me the forward. No one has ever been offended by my doing that.

[thefirst]

What about seventy year old women who push in? That seems to happen to me a lot. Not "Excuse me, do you mind if I just pop in front of you here?" but ignorantly just striding in front of the queue. Grrr.

I suppose I could broaden that peeve, to include most forms of rudeness. But I have actually seen someone shove an 80 lb. woman, walking with a cane, who must have been old enough to be his grandmother, out of the way, so he could check out and presumably, start chugging that six pack of beer in his hand as though his life depended on it. I know making generalizations is a dangerous business in itself, but, I don't think that there is anyone who can't afford a few extra moments to show a simple courtesy. To quote my daughter "If you try to save your manners for later, you will forget you have them"

[Prebe]

Hey bgb. It looks - from you selection of peeves - as if you need a serious talk about house rules with your contubernal

Indeed, I had a good long talk with Moose this morning about the sponge issue.

*Utters a resounding "Heh!"*

[sgt.null]

people who say they will listen to any type of music. no you will not. just tell me some stuff you like and i will take it from there. you don't want to hear that noise stuff that i have. you do not want to the shut up kitty comp.

Sarge, just for clarification what does "

you do not want to the shut up kitty comp

" mean?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shut_Up_Kitty


industrial album of bands covering pop songs.

[Infelice]

The spelling of the singular "woman".... a lot of people spell it as "women".

The bought/brought thing erks me too.

Or does it irk you?

Nope, it makes me go "erk".... so it erks me

[sgt.null]

people who may a factual mistake and when you provide proof of the correct answer just dismiss you.

[aliantha]

Back when I lived in WV (I know it's a stereotype and we're all supposed to avoid them, but *man*, this place was a gold mine for pet peeve provocations), I used to hear ads from furniture stores that were selling bedroom suits and living room suits. They're suites, folks. Clothing and cards come in suits; furniture comes in suites.

Oooooh, e-mail hoaxes! I've got a cousin who is famous for sending them to everybody in her bloody address book. I used to check them out on Snopes every time; then I sent her the link to Snopes so she could check 'em out herself (not that she ever does...). Same person continually sends me stupid jokes and every "I love you, forward this to everybody you know, and if you don't send it back to me, you're a poopyhead and a piano will fall on you" e-mail known to humankind. Oh, and the churchy-parable ones, too. I've asked her not to send me anything but stuff she's actually written herself, but she sends me all the junk anyhow. Arrgh.

dw: I'd never heard "I could give a lesser s*it" before! That's awesome, I'll have to start using it!

[sgt.null]

have a nice day. you don't mean it and i don't want it.

[Wyldewode]

To quote my daughter "If you try to save your manners for later, you will forget you have them"

I'm impressed! You are doing a fine job with your daughter!

My pet peeve, or at least the first one that comes to mind, is the word "irregardless." That word is meaningless, and in my experience is only used by people trying to impress others.

edited for spelling. . .

[sgt.null]

people who dismiss rap music without trying any of it. try some PM Dawn, De La Soul, Digable Planets. you may like it.

[Gil galad]

people who may a factual mistake and when you provide proof of the correct answer just dismiss you.

I HATE it when people do that, it makes me want to give them the slap!