NationStates Jolt Archive

Mine is driving. :headbang: People who get to the end of a merge lane and stop, people who tailgate, people who drift from side to side in the lane (makes me seasick to watch!), people who don't use turn signals, people who cut you off and then BRAKE of all stupid things... I could go on and on. Nowhere else do I get so frustrated as on the highway.

OK, your turn. Fess up. What's your pet peeve?

People that ask me what my pet peeve is.

none disabled people who use disabled persons parking spaces

Neighbours that don't keep their noise down.

Fess up. What's your pet peeve?
Mine change from time to time. Currently my pet peeve is people who have some cosmic rationale to explain everything and who refuse to even consider other points of view. :headbang:

loud eating. makes me kill.

that and my job

loud eating. makes me kill.

LOL! Yeah, that one's annoying.

Poor grammar (especially double negatives :mad:). Whiny, bratty children. There are a lot of other things actually, but those are the two main ones. I'm sure the rest will come to me; no doubt I shall encounter some of them at some point. Murphy's Law dictates it.

I have a few right now:

1. People that use an obscure definition of a word, then get upset when the definition you use for that word is different from theirs, and start flaming you over it.

2. People who live in apartments above other people, but stomp around until 2 or 3 AM and play loud movies with subwoofers all the time with NO concern for the people who can hear every move they make underneath them.

3. People who expect you to thrive in conditions completely opposite what you're used to (such as people who, having lived in a city that's all hills for their entire lives, expect a former plains-dweller to keep up on a kilometre-long walk up and down slippery, steep hills.)

LOL! Yeah, that one's annoying.
my dad does it a lot... it makes mealtimes fun :headbang:

people from Iowa, i think they force feed them brain relaxents, that make them retarded.

i dont know, most probably wont understand unless you live on a bordering state of Iowa

People who don't use correct grammar, especially commas. You see, the following:

none disabled people who use disabled persons parking spaces

Could be interpreted as, "None. Disabled people who use disabled persons' parking spaces".

I have a list of about 90, too many things annoy me.

The order of what annoys me most seems to shift a lot though, this week's top 5 (well, since it's monday, last week's top 5)

1 people who don't use crosswalks
2 people who don't do their job
3 police officers that don't use their blinker when changing lanes
4 other people's kids
5 when my candy bar gets stuck in the vending machine

People who talk so fast that you can't understand them, especially when you ask them what they said, and then they get mad at you for not listening to them. They make me just wanna :headbang:

People who don't use correct grammar, especially commas. You see, the following:

Could be interpreted as, "None. Disabled people who use disabled persons' parking spaces".
That that is is that that is not is not.

That that is is that that is not is not.
Arrggggggghhhh!!

*head explodes*

Super Bowl threads and polls

Yelling, ugh I hate yelling.

ATM Machine.

PIN Number.

Poor grammar (especially double negatives :mad:). Whiny, bratty children. There are a lot of other things actually, but those are the two main ones. I'm sure the rest will come to me; no doubt I shall encounter some of them at some point. Murphy's Law dictates it.

You don't know nothin'! :p

These forums and the people on them.

Oh hi everyone

As I was saying, most things basically lol.

Arrggggggghhhh!!

*head explodes*
LOL!

Just to take you off the hook: "That that is, is. That that is not, is not." :D

5 when my candy bar gets stuck in the vending machine

that happens to me everytime im havin a super bad day and just need a quick choc fix....grrr :mad:

LOL!

Just to take you off the hook: "That that is, is. That that is not, is not." :D
Dammit, that's even more confusing!

*rest of body explodes*

Small children, people who judge the music you listen too and refuse to accept your opinion, and politicians directing the generals wars, that last one really ticks me off.

Stupidity. I would be more specific, but I'm not sure how to explain the type of stupidity I mean. However, I can tell you that it is very prevalent.

You don't know nothin'! :pRevasser :sniper:

You scumbag :D

Violent drunks.

It's one thing to get drunk and pass out. Or make a fool out of yourself. Or to get talkative and annoying. Or emotional and depressed.

But if you get violent when you drink, Stop Getting Drunk!!!:mad: :headbang:

Drivers that don't give the pedestrian the right of way.

ATM Machine.

PIN Number.

People who take too long at ATM machines. I swear the person in front of me used about 5 different cards to get money out.

LOL!

Just to take you off the hook: "That that is, is. That that is not, is not." :D

Thank goodness for that. I tried to figure it out, but my eyes kept just unfocusing...

It's almost more than a simple pet peeve for me, I can't help despising people who use bad grammar, incomplete sentences, no puntiuation and dreadful spelling. No problem with typos, and I'll excuse everybody who's first language isn't English. But honestly, people... how much effort are capitals and now and then some punctuation??? And if you don't know how to spell something, look it up. I do.

Thank goodness for that. I tried to figure it out, but my eyes kept just unfocusing...

It's almost more than a simple pet peeve for me, I can't help despising people who use bad grammar, incomplete sentences, no puntiuation and dreadful spelling. No problem with typos, and I'll excuse everybody who's first language isn't English. But honestly, people... how much effort are capitals and now and then some punctuation??? And if you don't know how to spell something, look it up. I do.
capitals are soooo much effort! i mean, i have to press the shift key and everything ;) :D

yeah, i'm lazy. sorry to be a peeve ;)

capitals are soooo much effort! i mean, i have to press the shift key and everything ;) :D

yeah, i'm lazy. sorry to be a peeve ;)

Ah, well... I'll forgive you for today, considering the cute pics you posted ;)

To be honest, capitals are not nearly as important as punctuation

...no puntiuation and dreadful spelling. ...and I'll excuse everybody who's first language isn't English. ...how much effort are capitals and now and then some punctuation???

Punctuation, you did spell it correctly later on.

And I'll excuse anybody who doesn't have English as their first language (who's is not a word and never will be).

How much effort are capitals and some punctuation now and then?


hehehe... *feels evil*'


Oh yeah, uhm... pet peeves... uhm... I dislike people who just keep on telling old jokes (so boring, so annoying).

As far as driving goes, I agree with the first poster (and I do claim guilty to doing some of those things very rarely, but I am still learning!). I also hate people who use a mobilephone while driving. I was almost run down by one once (had I been walking, I wouldn't said run over, but I was driving a moped)... because he forgot to turn fully out of the roundabout and was on half of my lane, ARGH!. I also think all drivers should always have their lights turned on (it really helps).

I think that's it for now.

that happens to me everytime im havin a super bad day and just need a quick choc fix....grrr :mad:
it always seems to happen to me on bad days too:eek: that and for some reason everytime I wear a certain shirt my soda explodes on it :(

Ah, well... I'll forgive you for today, considering the cute pics you posted ;)

To be honest, capitals are not nearly as important as punctuation
lol! yes :D
*uses his looks to sleaze his way out of yet another sticky situation... ;)* :p


though i agree. lack of punctuation is a real no-no on the net

Punctuation, you did spell it correctly later on.

And I'll excuse anybody who doesn't have English as their first language (who's is not a word and never will be).

How much effort are capitals and some punctuation now and then?


hehehe... *feels evil*

:headbang:
Wasn't that just bound to happen? I'm shooting my mouth of about typos, and make mistakes myself in the same post. And what's worse, I don't even realise them soon enough to edit them....

Right, it's NOT my first language...

*hides in the corner in shame

:headbang:
Wasn't that just bound to happen? I'm shooting my mouth of about typos, and make mistakes myself in the same post. And what's worse, I don't even realise them soon enough to edit them....

Right, it's NOT my first language...

*hides in the corner in shame

Don't worry, it's not my first language either. I have this problem that I have a mid-atlantic accent... all the Brits think that I am American and all the Americans think that I am British. Only the Irish know better...

:headbang:
Wasn't that just bound to happen? I'm shooting my mouth of about typos, and make mistakes myself in the same post. And what's worse, I don't even realise them soon enough to edit them....

Right, it's NOT my first language...

*hides in the corner in shame
ha i did that the other day: wrote "grammer" in a post bitching about people's bad grammar. at least i wasn't talking about people's bad speeling... :P ;)

ha i did that the other day: wrote "grammer" in a post bitching about people's bad grammar. at least i wasn't talking about people's bad speeling... :P ;)

:p
Yeah, go ahead, all of you, pick on the German girl....

*sniff

:p
Yeah, go ahead, all of you, pick on the German girl....

*sniff
lol you make it too much fun ;) :fluffle:

I have two: adultism and capitalism.

I have two: adultism and capitalism.

What is Adultism?

How long do we have to impart our dislikes?

However, I may as well commence:

-poor spelling
-limited vocabulary
-colloqialisms
-Essex, London, Brummie, Scouse and Indian accents
-Chav culture
-Rap, R n' B and Hip Hop music
-The Labour party
-Left wing politics
-Positive Discrimination
-Bush
-a lack of ambition in any person
-open border immigration
-free healthcare

I've only just got started people:mad:

This goddamned mother ing filter the library has on it's computers.
I can't talk about ual orientation, homophobia, mention that I sleep in the buff, or even say how much it es me off without it blanking put half the conversation. If you put an "e" on hat, it blanks it out. NO . NO . I wouldn't be surprised if it censored the words "rock and roll."

I spilled my coffee 6 times today... same cup too. Thats my pet peeve; my coffee seems to just dive out of the cup.

How long do we have to impart our dislikes?

However, I may as well commence:


London accents
-Left wing politics


Please die for those comments :) . Says the one that is anti EU and for kicking immigrants out. Ah well.

Anyway, I must agree on the Chavs. People that point out spelling mistakes that are CLEARLY typos. And more that I'm too lazy to type. :)

What is Adultism?
Try wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adultism). I'm 14 so it really applies to me...

being called a pedophile over family pictures More of me and my family http://groups.msn.com/Wolfden2/shoebox.msnw?Page=1

and

http://www.piczo.com/WildWolfden?g=3568916&cr=3

:mad: when clearly I am not

People who insist on starting tired, old threads asking about people's pet peeves.

People who don't think of the hurt they cause over the net

On that line of thought.. People that do realize the hurt they cause over the net, and get off on it.

People who use the phrase "Love the sinner, hate the sin." It's a crock of horseshit, frankly. It is impossible to love the sinner if all you can do is hate the sin. At best you patronize the sinner and make them hate you, and thus, their hatred begets your hatred for them, which in turn, is tied back to the original sin, whether or not it is a sin.

Also, the tying together of evolution and Genesis/"intelligent design." The two theories explain different phenomena, thank you very much. Evolution, in some forms, can be proven, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with intelligent design or the origin of Earth/the Universe.

1. People who just love to cuss. Sorry, but you sound dumber if every-other word you say is the f-bomb, not smarter. It makes you sound very immature and childish. That's probably why me and my older brother dislike eachother greatly. He views me as an unpopular idiot who "doesn't get it". I view him as a self-centered immature brat who never really grew up(even though he's, by law, an adult) and misses the big picture(and almost all of the details) completely.

2. rap and today's rock. Yeah, I can think of twenty words that whyme with ho too. I can also think of ways of shooting people too. Where's my legions of fans? I can scream and call Bush every negative word in the book too. Why aren't girls fainting in my presence? Is it because I think that old-school rock has soul and meaning while newer rock is just a big heap of soulless, corporate(minus the corporation) dung that feeds on pop-culture and very few of the people who sing it actually mean it?

3. Partisan politics. Sorry if I just insulted those who's mind is mostly controlled by a power-hungry group of soulless jerks whose ONLY beef with Bush is his party preference. I prefer to make up my mind. Some call it waffling(I am a devout Christian, but I am willing to listen to others). I call it smart. I like Bush, but I was hoping for Gore's(Kerry waffles too much. I don't because I pick my preferences) victory. I'm like Teddy Roosevelt(sp). He was a conservative Republican who made many social and political changes. He was an avid hunter who's work greatly benefited conservation.

4. "environmental" groups. So far, they've just been one big oxymoron.

5. anti-environmental groups. We need the environment. Where do you think our fresh supply of oxygen comes from? The ground is part of the environment. Where do you think our food comes from?

6. Las Vegas drivers aka local drivers. Never have I seen so many people who don't know the concept of safe driving. Well, I've noticed that California drivers tend to be worse.

7. Mentally challenged people who aren't truly mentally challenged. If you're not retarded, please don't act like it.

8. People who insist that they should be able to smoke within six inches of my face. I get enough choking and coughing from changing the cat litter. I don't need to die early.

9. Fat pride. I don't care if trashing your health makes you happy. I don't wanna hear about it. I could feel my arteries clogging just hearing about it.

10. People who use racism to excuse racism. Calling me a cracker(in a mean-spirited, bigot way) is not the way you end racism. Calling me a slave-owning, black-shooting, red-necked klansman is not the best way to get on my good side.

ATM Machine.

PIN Number.People who take too long at ATM machines. [...]If you weren't being deliberately ironic[1], you ought to know that the 'M' in ATM is "machine". One of my pet peaves includes that (though not so much because in this part of the UK we generally say "cash machine"/"hole-in-the-wall" anyway) but mainly concentrates on "PIN Number" as the example I most commonly encounter of needless repetition.

But mis-use of apostrophe's[2] is my main peave. I can allow people getting "its"/"it's" wrong, because it took a while for me to find a reliable menomic mechanism that I didn't get the wrong way round.[3], but using them in pluralisation of acronyms ("PIN's") or even more inexplicably with numbers ("1000's of bargains!!!!") blights my brain whenever I see them[5]...

Some people don't like the way I use footnotes.[6]


[1] It is a pet peeve of a friend that the song "Isn't it ironic" is ironicly wrong about what irony is.
[2] Yes, that's a deliberate mis-use, to forestall the comments.
[3] The two occasions where apostrophes are legitimately used[4], contraction and possession, both suggest that "belonging to it" and contracted "it is" should be "it's", but the possessives "his", "hers", "theirs", "ours", etc, do not, so "its" follows from that. Until that was pointed out to me I was probably wrong half of the time.
[4] Not including 'single quotes', of course.
[5] Makes me stop and look at advertisements, but I tend to try to make myself proportionaly less attracted to the advertised products, and it tends (on average) to balance itself out or even negate the whole retail message.
[6] Like these, but I felt that it would be even more unwieldy in this case to not use footnotes/feetnote/footnete and put all these comments within the main text.

OK, your turn. Fess up. What's your pet peeve?

Cell phones. Well, not the phones themselves, but the way people use them. Does it ever occur to anyone using a cell phone that the rest of the world has no desire to hear your inane remarks? It's bad enough that whoever you're talking to has to listen to you.

If you weren't being deliberately ironic[1], you ought to know that the 'M' in ATM is "machine". One of my pet peaves includes that (though not so much because in this part of the UK we generally say "cash machine"/"hole-in-the-wall" anyway) but mainly concentrates on "PIN Number" as the example I most commonly encounter of needless repetition.

But mis-use of apostrophe's[2] is my main peave. I can allow people getting "its"/"it's" wrong, because it took a while for me to find a reliable menomic mechanism that I didn't get the wrong way round.[3], but using them in pluralisation of acronyms ("PIN's") or even more inexplicably with numbers ("1000's of bargains!!!!") blights my brain whenever I see them[5]...

Some people don't like the way I use footnotes.[6]


[1] It is a pet peeve of a friend that the song "Isn't it ironic" is ironicly wrong about what irony is.
[2] Yes, that's a deliberate mis-use, to forestall the comments.
[3] The two occasions where apostrophes are legitimately used[4], contraction and possession, both suggest that "belonging to it" and contracted "it is" should be "it's", but the possessives "his", "hers", "theirs", "ours", etc, do not, so "its" follows from that. Until that was pointed out to me I was probably wrong half of the time.
[4] Not including 'single quotes', of course.
[5] Makes me stop and look at advertisements, but I tend to try to make myself proportionaly less attracted to the advertised products, and it tends (on average) to balance itself out or even negate the whole retail message.
[6] Like these, but I felt that it would be even more unwieldy in this case to not use footnotes/feetnote/footnete and put all these comments within the main text.


I like the footnotes, it makes things less confusing, I might steal that idea (since my posts end up with things in parenthesis all the darn time) <---- oops

I like the footnotes, it makes things less confusing, I might steal that idea (since my posts end up with things in parenthesis all the darn time) <---- oopsYou're welcome to adopt it. It's a practice I've take, in turn, from alt.fan.pratchett (where I am a sometime contributor), but there are risks (as unintentionally shown above) that your footnotes end up longer than your 'basic' message.

And some people don't like being 'forced' to jump up and down the text, which is why I left some stuff in ()s in these two posts. Use your own judgement. In this message I've decided not to footnote, as the only side comment I have is going to be the closing one below, anyway, which I can enbracket to give the right degree of sotto voce. ;)

(BTW, our messages may become unreadable on this forum if ever the [TAG]-translation system in the forum maintenance system decides to convert "[<number>]"s to something retroactively. Possible, but I'll take the risk.)

Cell phones. Well, not the phones themselves, but the way people use them. Does it ever occur to anyone using a cell phone that the rest of the world has no desire to hear your inane remarks? It's bad enough that whoever you're talking to has to listen to you.

Amen! Amen!! Amen!!! The "cell yell" sucks! :cool:

Please die for those comments :) . Says the one that is anti EU and for kicking immigrants out. Ah well.

Anyway, I must agree on the Chavs. People that point out spelling mistakes that are CLEARLY typos. And more that I'm too lazy to type. :)

I would rather not thankyou, the loss would be cataclysmic. :p

If you weren't being deliberately ironic[1], you ought to know that the 'M' in ATM is "machine". One of my pet peaves includes that (though not so much because in this part of the UK we generally say "cash machine"/"hole-in-the-wall" anyway) but mainly concentrates on "PIN Number" as the example I most commonly encounter of needless repetition.



Thanks... for quite possibly being the only person to 'get it'...

1. drivers on cel-phones. They manage to drive worse than drunks.
2. people who act like experts on stuff they obviously don't know shit about.
3. good shows that evolve into cookie-cutter programs. Example: Rugrats. The original episodes are classics. They have a certain vibe to them. Then Dill came along and introduced the dreaded "annoying character" cliche. Then Kimi came in as Chuckie's sister. Then, the whole "all grown up" mess happened and now the show went from one in a million to one OF a million.
4. People who refuse to get to the point. I want an explanation, not a novel.