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This is similar to the rant thread. The rules are simple: list your Top 10 Pet Peeves of the Moment. Themes are cool.
10. Drivers who wait and then pull out in front of you at the last possible moment.
9. Drivers who pull in front of you, and then slow down.
8. Drivers who turn their radio up at the intersection in order to share their musical tastes with everyone else.
7. Drivers in queue behind you at the traffic light who blast their horn when you don't immediately accelerate at the green light.
6. Drivers who take an extra-special-long time to accelerate at the traffic light.
5. Drivers who drive under the limit in front of you, then speed up at the last second in order to beat the light--if they had just driven the speed limit the whole time, we both could have gotten through the light safely.
4. Drivers who sit at a busy intersection, where there's no traffic light, and wait until there are absolutely no oncoming cars, then pull out as slowly as possible.
3. Drivers who spin their tires at intersections, peppering my windshield with rocks.
2. Drivers who pull up beside you at an intersection and block your view of oncoming traffic...and creep forward when you pull out to see around them.
and the Number One Pet Peeve of the Moment....[drumroll aaaannnnddd rimshot!]
1. Drivers who go five or ten under the speed limit, don't use their signals, drift across the lanes, randomly speed up and slow down, brake at every traffic light, whether it's green or not, suddenly brake even when there's no-one behind them, turn on their signal after they parked in the turn lane... all while talking on a cellphone.
Been driving lately?
Oh yeah. And don't ever come to China. You'll thank me (if you knew what you were missing).
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Here's my current list, not all of which is driving related:
10. People who don’t rinse their plates off before putting them in the dish washer.
9. People who don’t get their food out of the microwave as soon as it stops, even if there is a line of people waiting to use said microwave.
8. People who don’t clean up after their pets.
7. People who allow their children to run around like lunatics in public.
6. Rude people.
5. People in line ahead of you who take a ridiculously long time to order something or complete a transaction.
4. People who walk on the wrong side of the hiking/biking trail in the park. It’s just like a street damn you. Keep to the right of the direction you're traveling in!!!!
3. People who don’t know how to properly merge into traffic.
2. People who cut across the parking spaces of an empty parking lot.
1. People who drive slow in the passing lane.
7. People who allow their children to run around like lunatics in public.2. People who cut across the parking spaces of an empty parking lot.
Me?
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10. People who damage other people's property as a cowardly form of vengeance for some perceived slight (slash tires, keying cars, etc).
9. People who feel the need to one-up you in every conversation.
example:
"I just got out of the hospital after my appendix burst, gawd that was a horrible experience."
"Oh, that's nothing, let me tell you what happened to me."
8. Cheaters. Most especially people who cheat when there is nothing truly at stake.
7. Pushy salespeople who feign deafness whenever I say, "no, thanks" 300 times.
6. Snide, sarcastic people who believe that winning an argument or debate is determined by coming up with the best insult.
5. People with high-maintenance personalities - who always have to have things their way, are short-tempered, easily offended, and unwilling to compromise.
4. People who are too set in their ways to ever try anything new.
3. The smell of burned microwave popcorn.
2. The fact that the average person in the U.S. refuses to take personal responsibility for anything.
1. Repeating information in my class lectures, referring to said information by page number in the textbook, reminding the class during the next three lectures and then having a student raise his or her hand and say, "I didn't know..." ARRGGHH! DIE DIE DIE!
Well that's just disturbing. Found at least one in every group I'm guilty of...
10. People who damage other people's property as a cowardly form of vengeance for some perceived slight (slash tires, keying cars, etc).
9. People who feel the need to one-up you in every conversation.
example:
"I just got out of the hospital after my appendix burst, gawd that was a horrible experience."
"Oh, that's nothing, let me tell you what happened to me."
We call that the "Dude that's nothing..." game. I've seen some olympic quality players, believe you me.
8. Drivers who turn their radio up at the intersection in order to share their musical tastes with everyone else.
Sorry, I just can't resist...though usually I only do that if the other person at the intersection is doing the same thing and I happen to be listening to something obnoxious and/or loud.
10. People who don't understand that having one half of the bed in a hotel room does not mean they can sprawl out and leave me with 1/10 of the bed to sleep on.
9. Friends of siblings who come over to your house, insist upon using your computer and then insist upon sleeping in your bed.
8. Online job application forms with trick questions with only one real answer.
7. Online job application forms that cut out in the middle of being filled out, thus rendering all previous work unnecessary.
6. Having to take three tries to correctly spell unnecessary.
5. Younger brothers who are more blessed than you in the field of muscle-to-fat ratio but who still claim to be too overweight.
4. Teachers deducting points on a project based on a detail of the project that wasn't mentioned anywhere in the project guidelines.
3. Fourteen-hour car rides in which the portable DVD player doesn't work, your iPod goes dead, and you don't arrive home until nearly 5 in the morning.
2. People who act like they're cool and who everyone treats like they're cool, but in reality is hated by all the people who treat them like they're cool when they're around. (For God's sakes people, let's tell him that we think he's an attention-grabbing loser instead of pretending we're his friends when he comes near!)
1. Driving with my mother.
10) Fake Healer
9) The Hulk
8) Kruelaid.
7) Mike Mcarter.
6) Aberzombie.
5) The damn Pigeons.
4) Wally Wabbit.
3) Wuvvy.
2) Heathy
1) Sharoth
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10. People who, during a rainstorm, act like the stuff is 2M hydrochloric acid. "ZOMG!!!!!!!!1 NOES! IT BURNS MY SKINZ!" I walk as slowly as possible when it's raining just to spite them.
9. People who think all skinheads are neo-Nazis. E.G. the YouTube comment boards.
8. People who ask dumb questions. We've been over this one before ("Hot, innit?").
7. People at restaurants that order enough food for five people, then proceed to eat a tiny little bit from each one, then LEAVE.
6. People who don't read signs. "No smoking? I thought it said 'ON smoking..."
5. People (usually either tech support or store clerks) that act like you're being unreasonable when you ask them to do their job.
4. Incompetent people who try to help trained professionals with their jobs. Come on. When someone does this to me, I feel insulted.
3. FOX News.
2. People who drive mondo-huge-motherf~#!ing-SUVs, yet complain about gas prices. Here's an idea: why not TRADE IN your mondo-huge-motherf+*#ing SUV, then get a car with better gas mileage.
1. People who judge others based on age/race/gender/physical appearance. I get this one a lot. "Oh, he's a big scary guy with buzzed hair, combat boots, and a punk rock T-shirt. He must be an ex-con/neo-Nazi/criminal/skater punk idiot." "Oh, he doesn't have a steady job/car. He must be a complete loser." Etc.
10) Fake Healer
9) The Hulk
8) Kruelaid.
7) Mike Mcarter.
6) Aberzombie.
5) The damn Pigeons.
4) Wally Wabbit.
3) Wuvvy.
2) Heathy
1) Sharoth
Awwwwwwwwwwww!!! Is the CUTE LITTLE SMRF LOVER upset at me? ~starts to strum my violin~ Poooooooorrrrrrrrr thing!
~starts to strum my violin~Wouldn't that be a bit difficult?
Pluck? Is that better, oh Shiny Critic? ~grins~
Pluck? Is that better, oh Shiny Critic? ~grins~
I believe the term you seek is "pizzicato."
2. People who drive mondo-huge-motherf*&~ing-SUVs, yet complain about gas prices. Here's an idea: why not TRADE IN your mondo-huge-motherf*&~ing SUV, then get a car with better gas mileage.
To be fair, trading in the SUV to buy a better car might cost them more than the gas does, since the prices of used SUVs are really terrible right now, since nobody wants to buy an SUV with gas at $4 a gallon and rising.
That said, it is still astonishing that these people didn't see it coming.
Pluck? Is that better, oh Shiny Critic? ~grins~~starts to strum my violin~Wouldn't that be a bit difficult?
Awww...Shawwoth is pwaying wit his widdle viowin! How cute! *Pats on head* Now go back and play with your Barbie™ dolls!
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Cell phone talkers that pull out in front of you and almost kill everybody.
Cell phone talkers in the left lane going 45.
Cell phone talkers that ask you for directions, or something, and continue with their cell phone conversation, expecting you to stand by for their innane prattling ass.
People who call me, on my cellphone, trying to sell me stuff.
People who call me on my cellphone looking for Richard Cole.
Debt collectors (who I marginally consider people) who call me on my cellphone. Looking for Richard Cole.
The debt collector who has been paging my work pager for two years, and who I periodically call to scream at.
People in the 20 items or less line at Wal-Mart who apparently can't seem to count to twenty until they're comparing and contrasting the price of a pound of bananas in the Wal-Mart newspaper flyer vs. the registers' computed price.
People in the middle of the aisle that you can't get past who aren't doing anything but talking on their cellphone.
The stupid lady that stopped in the middle of I-30 to take a picture of Reunion Tower in Dallas during rush hour, who....not 3 minutes earlier cut me off to get in front of me in my lane.
3-day waiting periods.
People always talking about "multitasking," and how they love multitasking.
Picking up toys behind multitaskers.
1. Repeating of catch-phrases ad nauseum. Like at work for a while, everyone responded to every observation with "It is what it is!" as if that were some form of sage wisdom. Like I notice that the news cannot say "soldiers" without also adding "in harm's way," as if there's a legal injunction against not including it. And like more recently, NO ONE on Paizo seems capable of mentioning shield use without finding a way to call it "sword and board," which was just oh-so-cutesy the first time, and now just makes me want to find a new thread. Once is OK, mind you, but by the 5th time in a sentence, it's time to consider rephrasing.
2. People who yell "Do what?!" when they mean "pardon me."
3. People who will actually go out of their way in order to be more inconsiderate to others, like it's very important to them to stamp out any vestiges of courtesy in the world. This actually encompasses most of the driving and checkout peeves that people have already posted.
4. People who omit all capitalization and spaces in their emails or posts, and spell everything wrong anyway, using at least 4 incorrect homonyms, out of sheer laziness, and then expect you to wade through that crap and decipher it. One person taking 5 minutes to email in English saves a hundred readers 5 hours trying to make sense out of it!
5. People who refuse to spell-check their resume, don't format it, and list things like "my mom makes me clean my room and it sxs, dude" as "relevant experience," and then wonder why they don't get hired to do technical writing.
5. People who refuse to spell-check their resume, don't format it, and list things like "my mom makes me clean my room and it sxs, dude" as "relevant experience," and then wonder why they don't get hired to do technical writing.
Please tell me that is made up.
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-People who talk during movies.
-When people substitute the word nosh for eat.
-People who buy groceries with a check and make the rest of us behind them wait while they slowly fill it out.
-People who argue over whether a grocery item was 10 cents cheaper than what they ended up paying.
-Unisex baby names or the attempt by some people to make any name just that.
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10) Fake Healer
9) The Hulk
8) Kruelaid.
7) Mike Mcarter.
6) Aberzombie.
5) The damn Pigeons.
4) Wally Wabbit.
3) Wuvvy.
2) Heathy
1) Sharoth
Damn, I'm only on there twice. I'll have to work on that.
Oh yeah, another one for me:
People who think Che Guevara was a decent human being worthy of being emulated and having his mug plastered all over t-shirts, posters, etc.
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2. People who drive mondo-huge-motherf*&~ing-SUVs, yet complain about gas prices. Here's an idea: why not TRADE IN your mondo-huge-motherf*&~ing SUV, then get a car with better gas mileage.To be fair, trading in the SUV to buy a better car might cost them more than the gas does, since the prices of used SUVs are really terrible right now, since nobody wants to buy an SUV with gas at $4 a gallon and rising.
That said, it is still astonishing that these people didn't see it coming.
I'm in this sinking boat...hindsight...
9. People who think all skinheads are neo-Nazis. E.G. the YouTube comment boards.
As well as my mother. :P
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I had to learn this factoid...
It doesn't help when Gainesville, Fl gets overrun one night in July 1990 with neo-nazis recruiting EVERYWHERE you go, and you can't say anything because there's 10 bald guys with doc's and god knows what else asking you if you're down with white power, and you have a girl with you.
But, yeah...
Until people started off with the Neo-Nazi stuff, this was my number one pet peeve. ~sighs~ I guess it will just have to be moved to number 2.
2. Friends borrowing my stuff and treating it as if it were theirs instead of mine. Or never returning what they borrow. Or saying that they will replace what they borrow and loose, but never do.
The fact that the average person in the U.S. refuses to take personal responsibility for anything.
That isn't my responsibility. ;P
ok...not sure I'll get to 10, but:
1. People who toss cigarette butts out of car windows
2. Teachers using poor grammar
3. Speeding in residential areas
4. Car stereos that are so loud that they rattle my windows
5. Irregardless
6. DRM
I reserve the right to add more later. :)
10) Fake Healer
9) The Hulk
8) Kruelaid.
7) Mike Mcarter.
6) Aberzombie.
5) The damn Pigeons.
4) Wally Wabbit.
3) Wuvvy.
2) Heathy
1) Sharoth
Must have calmed down since the "Pretend to be a Time-Traveller" thread, else I'd be there around number 9 or so. Surprised that KC isn't upset with a certain person responsible for turning him into a blue 3-apple-tall critter.
Here's my peeve:
Students that think they deserve a better grade for no reason. "But I need a B", they whine. Then study harder and show up to lab once in a while! "I think I deserve a C-". Not if you don't realize the prof doesn't give out a + or - and can't find your way to lab either! Grrr.
And one more that just came to me:
People debating over the lines on a map when you need to get your team in the field to start surveying 'cause you've only got 5 weeks before the PI has to return overseas. JUST LET US START SURVEYING THE PLOTS, YOU INCOMPETENT PENCIL-PUSHING FOOLS!
2. People who yell "Do what?!" when they mean "pardon me."WTF? Seriously?
Yeah, I hear it a lot in Texas and South Carolina. Instead of asking you to repeat yourself, or cupping their ear, or a simple "sorry?", they yell "DO WHAT?!" It's incredibly annoying to me for some reason. Worse than "my bad" (which always seemed to be lacking a noun, somehow).
P.S. I exaggerated the "prior experience" on the resume... slightly. Although I've seen "stock boy" as "relevant experience" for a geology position. Simply amazing. And then there's my favorite: the only contact information -- I swear I am not making this up -- was something like "RedHotTangerine69@AOL." I might have the number wrong, but not by much. We set a time to conduct a phone interview, just to see if it was a (900) number or something, but she didn't bother to answer. How do you leave a message for someone like that?
Cell phone talkers that pull out in front of you and almost kill everybody. Cell phone talkers in the left lane going 45. Cell phone talkers that ask you for directions, or something, and continue with their cell phone conversation, expecting you to stand by for their innane prattling ass. People who call me, on my cellphone, trying to sell me stuff. People who call me on my cellphone looking for Richard Cole. Debt collectors (who I marginally consider people) who call me on my cellphone...
6. Cell phones.
Jurassic Park (man I was toastd')
In Part 3 or 4, my buddy (wasted) yelled "Show Us Your Tits" during the suspenseful part with the lady being quiet trying not to get eaten by dinosaurs. If I did that, I'd be expelled from the theatre. He got cheers and applause. Go figure.
10. People who can’t hit the bowl / urinal with a stream of urine.
9. People who leave water / blood / misc. fluids all over the counters.
8. Public restroom graffiti artists.
7. People who don’t flush after using the toilet.
6. People who attempt to flush non-flushable objects.
5. People who stop up the toilet and then run away.
4. People who talk in restrooms.
3. People who go out of their way to make eye contact in restrooms.
2. Lack of infant changing facilities in men’s restrooms.
1. People who don’t wash their hands after using the restroom.