[Rant] Peeves of the pet nature

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Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

This I guess could be thought of as a spin-off to the "Whine like a baby" thread. Its where we talk about the little annoyances that bother us in our every day lives.

Being interupted. I hate being interputed, and I feel like people just do it to me and no-one else.
 
Emrys

Emrys

I'm going to peeve about my pets.
Doomweasels, the Hallowe'en candy is not for you! Stop levitating to the top of the shelf and stealing it! And give me back my shoes, my car keys, my favourite bra, and my little bag that I keep all my extra cables in!
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

When someone types "should of," as in "I should of done something."

Spoken aloud, fine. In writing though?
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

The fact that Americans don't understand the word "otaku." First of all, the word just means "obsessed fan" so you should call yourself just a fan boy/girl/species of indeterminable gender. Second of all, your saying it wrong. People think if you call yourself an otaku it means you are a fan of Japanese animation. However, the right term is either "anime otaku" or "manga otaku." Really the term is just for anyone who has an obsession with anything. There are Train otakus, military otakus, hell even freakin' Jellyfish otaku! Just bugs me is all.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

The argument can be made that Otaku as a co-opted english word can have a different meaning than the explicit translation.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

Bowielee said:
The argument can be made that Otaku as a co-opted english word can have a different meaning than the explicit translation.
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True, but it still bugs me all the same. Also a pet peeve of mine is how we as a culture created the slang-term "anime" for Japanese animation. This bugs me mostly because in Japan when they think of American cartoons they call it "American anime". Anime is just their word for animation and animated series, yet we feel the need to just specify their animation just because of their style. Not me, I'll just call them cartoons or animated series(the more accurate term in the modern age). Incredibly nitpicky you say? Yes. But hey das jus me.
 
Frank

Frank

Wet mouths. Sloppy gross ass wet mouths. If I can hear your gross ass mouth when you talk.

Yeah, I know it's pretty unreasonable but it's something I focus on and can't help it.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

I have the usual grammar nazi pet peeves, like double negatives, but one specific internet thing that annoys me is the intentional misspelling of words like boi or kewl. Like. Nails. On. A. Chalk. Board.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

I got one similar to that Frank , people who keep their mouths open when their not talking. It just looks wrong to me. What are they trying to catch flies or something? CLOSE YOUR DAMN MOUTH!
 
Dei

Dei

People who make me run late for things. I can't stand it. If I'm not 10 minutes early for something, I feel like I'm late. Trying to not show up early to a party and be a creeper is so hard for me.
 
Gared

Gared

bhamv3 said:
When someone types "should of," as in "I should of done something."

Spoken aloud, fine. In writing though?
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What really gets me about this one, is when someone calls them on it, and they try to defend it. "It's a colloquialism in my part of the world, so that makes it correct." Bitch, you can use colloquialism in a sentence correctly, but you don't know that should've is pronounced should of but is a contraction of should and have?!
 
David

David

You - u. I have unfriended people on Facebook over this.

"Myself" used improperly while trying to sound overly proper. "Jim and myself worked on it over the weekend..." just makes you sound retarded.

Complaining of non-specific "chemicals" in food. There is literally no food in existence which does not contain chemicals. That pure, filtered water you're drinking? Totally full of H2O. 100% of people who consume this chemical die!

People who go out of their way to tell me they're never going to talk to me again. What the hell? Just stop talking to me then. Do I look like I give half a shit? They usually end up talking to me again a few days later anyway.

People who ask for criticism then act defensively when I give it. You asked for a critique, not an empty pat on the back and "good job". Grow a thicker skin or don't waste my time asking me for help you don't actually want. I see this far too often from graphic design and art students.
 
strawman

strawman

GasBandit said:
Being interrupted is also a pet p...
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Oh yeah me too I also hate it when people won't shut up about something and repeat themselves over and over again it seems like those two things go together - interrupting and not shutting up, two things which I just can't stand but I suppose its my own fault for not telling them to shut up once in awhile you know it's like talking to a fish that can't remember more than two words previously but you know I can remember the whole conversation over the last half hour so why are they going on and on about how annoying it is to be interrupted and incessantly talking about the same thing over and over again I'm not a fish...
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Said it before, but I'll repeat myself.
Misleading comparisons. "Twice as small" when you really mean "half as big," that sort of thing.
Accordingly, misleading ad copy/marketing. "10 for $10" instead of "$1 ea," or "Buy A, get B absolutely free!" B is not absolutely free, or else I wouldn't have to buy A to get it. What you really mean is "Buy A and get B at no additional cost!"

This is what I resent about marketing. It is the science of crafting language and sentences such that your brain slots the words into what it wants to hear rather than what is literally being said. "Close enough," your brain says, "now get out that wallet!"

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Oh yeah me too
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Is this what you do with your Idle time?

--Patrick
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

People who turn in a lane and don't use their damn turn-signal. For fuck's sake, there are other people on the damn road! Also people who don't fucking yield to oncoming traffic. If I crash into y'all, your paying for my car/friend's car(as the case may be).
 
Gared

Gared

Most of my pet peeves have been covered here already, but I do have one work pet peeve; when I'm sending a report to a distribution list of 20 or more people, half of whom are managers of different departments, and all of whom want different information on the report, but none of whom have managed to communicate with each other and nail down an acceptable standard, so I spend half my time prepping and sending the report and the other half reconfiguring and/or defending the current configuration. Seriously people, there's a reason that we're doing this report this way. I promise I didn't just randomly pick a set of criteria and then decide how frequently I'd analyze them and report on them - I'm running this report as I've been asked to, by your manager. Lets try to pay a little attention before lashing out at the messenger. It's not my fault your numbers look bad.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Gared said:
Most of my pet peeves have been covered here already, but I do have one work pet peeve; when I'm sending a report to a distribution list of 20 or more people, half of whom are managers of different departments, and all of whom want different information on the report, but none of whom have managed to communicate with each other and nail down an acceptable standard, so I spend half my time prepping and sending the report and the other half reconfiguring and/or defending the current configuration. Seriously people, there's a reason that we're doing this report this way. I promise I didn't just randomly pick a set of criteria and then decide how frequently I'd analyze them and report on them - I'm running this report as I've been asked to, by your manager. Lets try to pay a little attention before lashing out at the messenger. It's not my fault your numbers look bad.
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Oooh that reminds me of another one. Meddling upper management that insists on getting involved in/micromanaging menial tasks via e-mail and insisting that every reply be "reply to all" of 10 different people.
 
Adam

Adam

I've found that the people who hate being interrupted are usually the worst offenders for interrupting others and appear completely oblivious to it.

I have a coworker who types like she's POUNDING AT THE KEYBOARDS. But that's only part of the pet peeve, the biggest pet peeve is how she capitalizes words.

A normal person begins a sentence with a capital letter, created by holding down the shift button, hitting the letter you want to capitalize, and then letting go of the shift button. This coworker capitalizes by turning on Caps Lock, entering the letter and then turning the Caps Lock off. I just...
 
Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

Adam said:
A normal person begins a sentence with a capital letter, created by holding down the shift button, hitting the letter you want to capitalize, and then letting go of the shift button. This coworker capitalizes by turning on Caps Lock, entering the letter and then turning the Caps Lock off. I just...
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:rofl:
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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People who use the mouse wheel to scroll rapidly down more than 5 rolls of the roller. Just use the scroll bar, dude.
 
Shakey

Shakey

I love noisy keyboards, even though everyone hates. CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK. "LOOK HOW FAST I'M TYPING!" CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

Self-clicking laptop cursor pads. It gets even MORE annoying when I'm watching an HD video, and then I have to wait for the whole fucking thing to load again because of this stupid pad.

School cafeteria pizza. Don't need to explain. You all know why.
 
Gared

Gared

Yoshimickster said:
Self-clicking laptop cursor pads. It gets even MORE annoying when I'm watching an HD video, and then I have to wait for the whole fucking thing to load again because of this stupid pad.

School cafeteria pizza. Don't need to explain. You all know why.
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But... school cafeteria pizza was my favorite pizza... I've even found ways to replicate that oh so delicate balance of greasiness from the diced pepperoni (Boar's Head sells natural casing pepperoni in log form that can be diced) and cheesiness from the right amount of shredded mozz (not so little that it doesn't cover the pizza, but not so much that it becomes a dense cake of cheese), with a lightly flavored sauce and a chewy crust.
 
Adam

Adam

Azurephoenix said:
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This coworker also puts her entire message into the subject line to make sure I get it.[DOUBLEPOST=1351800975][/DOUBLEPOST]
Shakey said:
I love noisy keyboards, even though everyone hates. CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK. "LOOK HOW FAST I'M TYPING!" CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK.
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I type pretty damn fast and even on the noisiest keyboards, it's not CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK. More of tactactactatcatctatatatac*BACKBACKBACKBACK*tactactactactatctactactatcactac.
 
Gared

Gared

Ooh, I remembered another one. When someone doesn't specify their relation to a deceased account holder, even if they share the same last name, when they're contacting us for assistance. I can't just assume that you're the person's relative, and if you are, I can't just automatically know what relation you are; so instead of a more personal "I'm very sorry to learn of your husband's death" or "I'm very sorry, but we won't be able to assist you with your husband's account," I wind up talk in the's and them's.
 
Shakey

Shakey

Adam said:
I type pretty damn fast and even on the noisiest keyboards, it's not CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK. More of tactactactatcatctatatatac*BACKBACKBACKBACK*tactactactactatctactactatcactac.
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I take my aggression out on it. That keyboard is going to pay.
 
Tress

Tress

I should not hear you eat. End of story.

Okay, if it's just the two of us in a quiet room with no other sounds, fine. Sometimes that's unavoidable.

But if you're scarfing food down, smacking your fucking lips and making loud noises, you need to knock it off. Act like an adult, not a damn savage. It's disgusting, rude, and annoying. The same goes for making sucking noises between your teeth, unusually loud gulping noises while drinking, and so on. Food/mouth noises make me want to bludgeon people with a hammer.
 
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