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Imparcticle
Mar22-04, 09:08 PM
What are your pet peeves?

mine:

1.) Nuclear is NOT pronounced New-q-lar! My english teacher pronounces it this way all the time. [o)]

2.) I find my self refelexively correcting people when they say "you and me" or "me and you" instead of "you and I". [:))]

3.) I despise disorder...outside of my room![g)]

4.) When someone says "Guess what?" and you say "What?" and that person says "CHICKEN BUTT!" [o)] [g)] [!:)] [8)] My friends do this persistently. drives me nutz.[6)]

Ivan Seeking
Mar22-04, 09:27 PM
1). Soggy tacos in Mexican take out

2). Pot holes in the road that I don't see in time

3). Loud TV commercials

4). Slow links

5). Public restrooms

6). Soft 0.5mm leads that break a lot

7). The customer support for nearly any technical product

8). Pushy sales persons

9). Cowardly politicians

10. Any Bush named George.

Janitor
Mar22-04, 10:07 PM
1. Loud gum chewers.

2. People who lick their fingers when handling implements at the salad bar.

3. Chicken butts.

Dagenais
Mar22-04, 11:25 PM
YOU KNOW WHAT DRIVES ME NUTS!?!?!?!? PEOPLE WHO WRITE IN ALL CAPS!!! THEY ALSO PUT MULTIPLE PUNCTUATION MARKS...

THANK GOODNESS PF DOESN'T HAVE ANY OF THOSE PEOPLE!!!

[;)]

cragwolf
Mar23-04, 04:48 AM
1. People who are physically or emotionally violent.

2. People who don't give a damn about how their actions may adversely affect other people.

3. People who are competitive in everything they do, even in social interactions with other people.

4. People who follow the leader, engage in sheep-like behaviour, and follow fashions slavishly.

5. People who are intelligent, yet still persist in the above 4 behaviours.

Phobos
Mar23-04, 01:07 PM
1. light pollution

2. littering (especially cigarette butts tossed out of car windows)

3. misuse of "your" vs. "you're" (or they're/their/there)

4. young-Earth creationism

olde drunk
Mar23-04, 01:34 PM
TELEPHONE ANSWERING SERVICES AT ANY MAJOR COMPANY !!!! menu items 1-9 and none for a human.

and number 2 is/are the ones that have a menu and none of the choices fit my problem. hmmmm, maybe that's #1?

peace,

Ivan Seeking
Mar23-04, 02:14 PM
...and voicemail systems that make the caller listen to every option before saying "to send this message now...".

Dimitri Terryn
Mar23-04, 02:32 PM
People in the tram clogging up entrances when there is plenty of room.

People pretending to understand science for their personal gain.

People who take themselves too seriously.

People in accounting/marketing/advertising, basically anyone who thinks form is everything and value is nothing.

People who believe they hold all the answers.

And a bunch of other things [:D]

mikehuntsloose
Mar23-04, 02:53 PM
People who leave dirty dishes outside of the kitchen.

People who drive under the speed limit.

That person at the store who cuts in front of you at the checkout with a cartload of crap when all you have is 2 items.

The person in the movie theatre who laughs at jokes that arent funny.

motai
Mar23-04, 03:47 PM
"31337" P30p13z \/\/h0 71nkz 7H3y 4r3 d3 h4x0rz.

People humping eachother repeatedly in public (or incredibly loud smooching, ive seen it happen).

People that whine about being forced to walk a lap around the track.

People who ask me a question but dont listen to my response. Infuriating.

The_Professional
Mar23-04, 03:48 PM
Is this the 'I hate people' thread? [:D]

jimmy p
Mar24-04, 01:30 PM
They are the main pet peeve.

Just jerks and idiots in general annoy me...

especially people like this


www.chavscum.co.uk

do you have people like this in your respective countries?

olde drunk
Mar24-04, 02:40 PM
how bout that idiot that pulls onto a 4 lane hyway from a side road, chooses your lane, and decides to only do 25 mph. the real bummer is that you're in the outside speed lane.

i am going to retro fit my sun roof with an old US Army tank 50 cal. machine gun!

beware - KEEP RIGHT EXCEPT TO PASS - bang!

pax,

megashawn
Mar24-04, 05:47 PM
heh, I actually know a guy named mike hunt.

His poor kid, got picked on so much, Mike Hunt Jr.

uhm, nothing bothers me at all.

Janus
Mar24-04, 06:15 PM
Text written in alternating upper and lower case.

'no one' being written as if it were one word. (noone)

Drivers who, instead of merging over immediately when they are told of a upcoming lane closure, drive up ahead and then try and cut in at the last possble moment. Therefore causing the back up that everyone else is stuck in.

The drivers who let the above drivers cut in at the last moment. (if they would quit letting them in, the above drivers would quit trying to cut ahead of everyone, and the traffic would flow more smoothly.)

Evo
Mar24-04, 06:52 PM
misspelled words

poor grammar

Southern accents, I don't mean to offend anyone, but for me, listening to someone with a southern drawl is like listening to someone scratching their fingernails across a black board. It is not "awl", it's "oil", it is not "fav", it's "five".

zoobyshoe
Mar24-04, 07:04 PM
Goodness, Evo. You can't correct a regional accent. It is, in fact, "awl" and "fav" if you're from there. I grew up where we pahked ah cahs. People who "parked" their "cars" were funny and somewhat affected-sounding.

Janitor
Mar24-04, 07:13 PM
Are you from the Boston area?

A neighbor of mine hasn't lived in New Jersey since he was a kid, but he still says he's having trouble adjusting his cawbawaitah.

zoobyshoe
Mar24-04, 07:33 PM
Originally posted by Janitor
Are you from the Boston area?
Close. New Hampshuh. R's don't exist from Boston all the way up to Canada.
A neighbor of mine hasn't lived in New Jersey since he was a kid, but he still says he's having trouble adjusting his cawbawaitah.
Does he hunt wabbits, too?

Evo
Mar24-04, 07:36 PM
Originally posted by zoobyshoe
Goodness, Evo. You can't correct a regional accent. I guess southern accents bother me because I was born and raised in Houston, TX, but I do not have a southern drawl. My mother was French, but I do not have a French accent (she left France because she hated the French mentality). And accents "can" be corrected with speech lessons.

I "love" all other accents, southern ones just make me cringe. [o)]

Ok, I admit I am a shallow person. [:((]

zoobyshoe
Mar24-04, 07:51 PM
Originally posted by Evo
And accents "can" be corrected with speech lessons.
Nay, you can't "correct" them, because they're not wrong. It's perfectly acceptable to find them irritating, though.

(Many accents, incidently, which should be corrected [i.e. foreign accents] don't improve with speech lessons. The current governor of California has apparently been through several courses of speech lessons.)

photon
Mar24-04, 08:43 PM
Something that really gets on my nerves is when people say I have an English/British accent.
I'll forever deny having one. I was born in the US and the only other country I've been to is Canada.

zoobyshoe
Mar25-04, 10:19 AM
One little pet peeve:

People whose user names can't be pronounced as a word like:

56Tbh90

0r

dggTYiwooo

I have been assuming that Fz+ is pronounced Fizz plus, but who knows? Likewise I thought Chroot was pronounced as written (rhymes with Coot). Someone told me it stands for Change Root, and is, therefore pronounced Cheroot, like the cinnamon cigarette.

Njorl
Mar25-04, 12:41 PM
I hate those timestream wiggles where time alternates between forward and backward for a few loops. You linear time streamers have no idea how lucky you are that your memory gets unwritten during them. I had to sit through Ishtar eleven times ... forwards and backwards! Ugh!

Njorl

Chi Meson
Mar25-04, 12:53 PM
I get a tiny bit annoyed with those posters on this forum who, after reading a book, have single-handedly decided that they are smarter than Einstein,
and Bohr,
and Heisenburg, and Maxwell, and Oppenheimer & Curie & Born & Feynman & Meitner & Plank & Pauli & De Broglie & Gell-Mann & ... (continue the list as you like)


spelling edits

Njorl
Mar25-04, 01:36 PM
Originally posted by Chi Meson
I get a tiny bit annoyed with those posters on this forum who, after reading a book, have single-handedly decided that they are smarter than Einstein,
and Bohr,
and Heisenburg, and Maxwell, and Oppenheimer & Curie & Born & Feynman & Meitner & Plank & Pauli & De Broglie & Gell-Mann & ... (continue the list as you like)


spelling edits

Actually, nobody ever posts "Gell-Mann got it all wrong!" It's usually Einstein, with a few appearances by Heisenberg and Plank and the occasional cameo appearance by the others. I guess Gell-Mann just hasn't hit the bigtime yet.

Schwinger is safe. Nobody will ever understand what the hell he's trying to say, so they can't say he's wrong.

Njorl

Imparcticle
Mar25-04, 06:46 PM
My goodness!! Doesn't anyone just hate it when your friend (your own friend!!) lets his dog loose when he knows you're terrified of dogs!! he pretends to let him loose but today he actually did! yikes!!

Janitor
Mar25-04, 08:23 PM
I get a tiny bit annoyed with those posters on this forum who, after reading a book, have single-handedly decided that they are smarter than Einstein, and Bohr, and Heisenburg, and Maxwell, and Oppenheimer & Curie & Born & Feynman & Meitner & Plank & Pauli & De Broglie & Gell-Mann & Janitor & ... - Chi Meson

Chi Meson
Mar26-04, 07:34 AM
- Chi Meson


HEY! I've been Framed!

plus
Mar28-04, 11:59 AM
Noise when I am trying to get to sleep.
Not being able to remember the name of something in a foreign language which I have been told.

Robert Zaleski
Mar29-04, 04:08 PM
SOB's that tailgate me, when I want to drive slow.
SOB's driving slow ahead of me, when I want to speed.

angelical_kitten
Apr1-04, 11:47 PM
I really dislike:
a) when my bro's dog leaves slobber rings around the knees of my newly-washed pants
b) when my roomie blasts eminem
c) when i get prank calls at three in the morning
d) waking up too late to have my coffee before class
e) when i make a witty or funny comment and people take it all wrong
f) when someone asks me, repeatedly, the same questions. especially, "where do you life? are you sure? so you live ___?"
g) screen names i can't pronounce
h) the fact that i have so many pet peeves